Immersion Update

IMMERSION UPDATE is here

This update focuses on immersion, usability, and overall game feel.

A lot has changed — both visually and under the hood 👀

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The entire user interface has been redesigned.

Cleaner visuals. Better readability. More intuitive navigation. A more polished experience overall.

The goal was simple: 👉 make the game easier and more enjoyable to use.

📖 The in-game book has also been improved:

• Regional map now opens first instead of the global map

• POI names now appear when hovering them

• New navigation hints added to help players explore

• Vehicle dashboard warning explanations added

• Hydraulic jack usage hint added

💡 Less confusion, better flow.

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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📻 NEW RADIO SYSTEM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Long drives needed something better...

So the game now includes a functional radio system 🚗🎵

Features:

• Multiple radio stations

• Unique music tracks depending on the selected station

• Easy controls for switching

A more immersive driving atmosphere

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔊 NEW VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Driving should feel mechanical. Reactive. Alive.

So vehicle audio has been rebuilt.

The car now reacts with dynamic sound feedback depending on what’s happening.

Including:

• Engine audio improvements

• Gear shifting sounds

• Brake audio improvements

• Turbo sounds

• Suspension movement audio

• Environmental audio balancing improvements

👉 Driving now feels much more immersive.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ QUALITY OF LIFE & IMPROVEMENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Performance optimizations through improved distance calculations

Smoother weather transitions

Improved first-time player onboarding

New welcome message for new players

Various usability improvements across menus and UI

✨ Small changes that make a big difference.

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Fixed rain sounds playing without visible rain

Fixed hotel staircase collision issue

Fixed notebook UI keeping the previous object name

Fixed incorrect audio in the starting house

Fixed object detection through walls in the starting house

Fixed save loading issue where the save point could not be found

Fixed hotel door translation issue

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧪 WHAT’S NEXT? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

The game keeps evolving.

Upcoming work includes:

More missions

More gameplay systems

More content

More polish

And of course... the upcoming demo improvements 👀

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ SUPPORT THE PROJECT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Dumi’s Adventure: Across Europe is being developed by a solo developer.

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