Patch Notes (demo build)

version:0.5.35.e71541d.REL

Big update with tons of fixes and improvements, so I encourage everyone to download the latest version for the best demo experience! :)

Features and Improvements

• Restart Level and Restart Room buttons added to the pause menu, to the request of many!

• Level timer now stops immediately when finishing a level

• Added generic gamepad glyph support

• Improved UI support for multiple resolutions

• New mouse tutorial for grapple options in Swamp_326

• Added small grapple buffer to allow flipping direction without cancelling

• Reduced intro animation from 3.5s to 3s for faster control at level start

• Upgraded save system, possible fix for loading screen crashes/infinite loading screen issue

Balancing

• Reduced medals required to unlock 1-3 from 7 to 4

  Gold medal time adjustments: 1-1: 1:55 → 2:00 1-2: 2:20 → 2:30 1-6: 1:15 → 1:30

• AdjustedSwamp_361adjusted death vine wall near secret coin and widened vertical corridor

• Swamp_363: moved death vine column slightly to the right

• AddedSwamp_355added directional arrow for better readability and speedrunning clarity
• AdjustedSwamp_326adjusted bushes, spacing, and added death vines to prevent exploits
• RemovedSwamp_380removed death ceiling in central corridor and added solid ground
• RemovedSwamp_Challenge011removed ground and death vines in front of first cannon

Bug Fixes + optimizations

• Fixed Beaver boss soft lock

• Faster Beaver phase 2 start and restart

• Fixed Beaver playing wrong anticipation in some cases during phase 2

• Fixed cannonball explosion SFX not always playing

• Fixed invisible input conflicts when rebinding to RB and LB

• Fixed a small respawn stutter that could reset player speed

• Small optimization for SwampChallenge_013

• Fixed out of bounds blocks in Swamp_306

• Stopped unintended tongue behaviour in Swamp_326

• VinePlatform prefab alignment improved

If you encountered a bug not listed and would like to share it with us, I welcome you to share it with us on our Discord.

Visual

• Notification icon added to new playable levels in the Overworld

• Updated Overworld textures and UI sprites

• New exit flag sprite

• New Beaver vulnerable animations

Localization

Now fully supported in:

• Spanish, Español

• Portuguese, Português

• German, Deutsch

• Italian, Italiano

• Traditional Chinese, 繁體中文

• Simplified Chinese, 简体中文

• Japanese, 日本語

• Korean, 한국어

• Russian, Русский

• Polish, Polski

• Turkish, Türkçe

Thank you to everyone who contributed with bug-finding and suggestions! We are so thankful to the community for your feedbacks in helping us improve Croak! ♡

Cheers from the Croak dev team!