📢 Patch Notes - Latest Update - 02.04.2026

📢 Patch Notes - Latest Update - 02.04.2026

This update focuses on fixing several gameplay-breaking issues and improving core systems based on your feedback. Thanks for sticking with me while I worked through these 🙏

✅ Fixed / Improved in this patch:

• FixedCompassFixed issue where compass kept pulsing after collecting all GPS fragments (it now stays fully active as intended)
• FixedCo-opFixed issue where one player was invisible in 3-player sessions (all players now spawn together and are visible)
• FixedCompassFixed rune pulsing not disabling during compass freeze state
• AdjustedShieldAdjusted shield position closer to the player (demon can now properly attack the player, shield interaction works correctly)
• FixedCompassFixed issue where rune pulsing would not work while the player was moving
• AdjustedTutorialUpdated compass tutorial slide to include rune system explanation
• FixedFear SystemFixed Darkness stacks not resetting after collecting the first GPS fragment

🔧 In Progress / Planned:

• Further improvements and tweaking to rune navigation system

• Expanding compass into a haunted music box mechanic (anti camera spam + increased immersion)

• More variations of fear-inducing screamers

• More variations of death screamers

• Reworked blood rune textures on walls (more complex and larger patterns)

• Adjusting shield distance from the player’s flashlight (further polish)

• New first-person hand animations

• Additional mid-pose animations for smoother blending

• Multiplayer lobby improvements

• Trap trigger events (door slamming / opening)

• Return of logic puzzles with updated models (better aligned with Aveline’s story and atmosphere)

• First iteration of Aveline’s story journal system (collecting and generating story fragments during gameplay)

Thanks again for all the feedback - it directly helps shape the game.

More updates coming soon.

See you in the forest 🌲 Mike