Big Ol' Halloween Update!

Happy Murderversary everyone!

This update was focused on bug fixes, optimizations and quality of life adjustments.

New Halloween Map Varient

Spookyfall

• All words are Halloween themed.

• The map has custom Spirit interactions and increased Spirit gain rate.

• Flickering lights and a deadly fall await you (we mean this literally).

We didn't want to just bring fixes and thought that a variant of the most popular map would be a great addition. We will only have it available for the Halloween event.

The goods

• Snickle Snackle no longer flickers visibility and instead is only visible if they're in your peripheral and if they're not crouched.

• Snickle Snackle no longer propagates with their E, but do gain max health until death if they kill with it.

• Stack gain for them is 4x as fast. ( I may drop their E ability and just make snickle do heavy back stab damage.)

• AGMs now start to take ambient damage once they've initially been triggered, this damage will drop them within 1-6 life but wont fully kill them.

• President no longer has stamina drain on his primary attack

• Fixed some UV issues in Skyfall

• Made Objective Information a toggle instead of a hold

• Lowered Global Spirit Event count to 1 from 5, hoping this incentivizes using spirit abilities and interacting with minor spirit events more often.

• Fixed some Normals in Skyfall

• Staggered from Stamina now resets at half stamina back instead of waiting until fully replenished

• Health Pips now convey 5 health each instead of 10, this will double the amount of pips shown

• Clown music and targeting of clown both trigger at the same time now.

• Double Barreled Shotgun Damage increased by 20%

• Double Barreled Shotgun Recharge Rate Time Reduced to 5 seconds from 10 for a full Charge

• Double Barreled Shotgun Only has 1 shot down from 2.

• Cleaned up host settings sub-menu

• Lined up No Password with Server Name text

• Changed icons for Voting

• Removed news section

• Constructions now start under the pad and move up. This will prevent players from getting stuck under new constructions.

• Constructions and Weapons/Items are now loaded into memory shortly after the round starts

• Devourer Teleport cooldown lowered to 5 from 25 seconds.

• Snickle damage from primary attack lowered to 15 from 25

• Snickle is now visible for 3 seconds after attacking. Killing a player will clear the timer.

• Micromoon Health lowered to 75 from 100

• Killers now have a 30% damage reduction. This is removed when a Showdown starts.

• Runners are now 15% faster than other victim roles

• Adjusted weighting for pirate buff

• Fixed brightness causing your screen to go black.

• Fixed menu buttons causing rain noise to dip.

• Fixed description of AI Killer

• Fixed formatting on the "Auto Crouching" drop down box

• Turned down the volume of the storm in sandbox, Jesus that was loud

• Werewolf no longer drops his "Hands" on transform (Hilarious)

• Replaced word library for the Skyfall password.

• Turkeys no longer see the construction prompts

• Devourers can now periodically sense Killers and Antagonist

• Clown now gets different points based on the prank

• Clown base point goal has changed from 17 per clown + 15 to 20 per clown + 15

• Oxygen Generator can now be pranked

• Oxygen Generator has been optimized

• Freed up a good chunk of memory

• Fixed multiple causes of major framerate drops

• Adjusted candle particles

• Corrected Normals for wood boards in Witchwood

• Corrected Normals for rocks in witchwood

• Upscaled texture for wood boards in Witchwood

• Landscape in Witchwood no longer warps near player

• Axe Murderer now is told they cannot buy weapons from the shop

• OBJ markers no longer appear above your hud.

• Cleaned up HUD a bit

• Fixed a recursive bug with axe murderer axe stacks

• Clown gets extra points for players that slip on bananas sliding into their walls

• Clown is given more information when using prank book

• AGMs can be Pranked now (Maximum Clownitude)

• Noodle Passive now grants stamina drains 20% slower.

• Fixed a bug that caused objective icons to appear above the UI

• Fixed a bug that caused flickering of icons in world space

• OBJ icons are now smaller to help clear up screen space

• Other general UI adjustments that i left unspecific in my notes...

• Blood letter is now back in

• Fixed a pretty significant bug that caused multiple proc's of "Buff Added"

• Changed memory loading to be asynchronous in most instances, which should help resolve menu lag.

• Contagious is now back in

• Snickle no longer insta-kills with their Spirit Reap if the hit player doesn't have max stacks of murder charge.

• Fixed not being able to change 3 settings while in the tutorial.

• Shifted quality settings for Shadows to fix T-Posing on lowest setting.

• Fixed an order of operations issue that was causing buffs with overridden base durations to no properly set a new duration.

• Fixed spots where players could get stuck by the trucks in Route 69

• Took advantage of the above and adjusted layout to create more line of sight breaks in Route 69.

• New art for lockers.

• New art for Crates (I will eventually replace the other repeat searchables art)

• Adjusted some overblown lights in Route 69

• Removed a bed that was thrusted into an unsuspecting dresser in Route 69

• Enabled volumetric fog in Route 69

• Removed fog particles from Route 69 to improve performance

• Added engine rumble to Trucks that are on in Route 69

• Fixed Flashlight brightness not resetting after being used.

• Fixed suicidal snowman

• Reworked the Painting's Copycat code to fix bugs related to it.

• Painting's Copycat teleporting will now make you face where you were looking after the teleport. This will help orient the player.

• Fixed a navigation issue in Outpost 32

• Fixed first person animations freezing occasionally.

• Ultra Damage can no longer spread by contagious

• Defective Clone can no longer spread by contagious

• Escaping the Dream Realm now gives 2 stacks of normal energized instead of the 25 second duration one.

• Replaced all trees in Camp Valentine. Players should get stuck in them much less often.

• Fixed Evil Snow man not chasing if it got stuck in a "paused" state. (Step Frosty)

• Fixed an issue where an antagonist would be assigned regardless of whether the minimum threshold was met, even if the threshold was enabled.

• Fixed an issue that would cause our player base to be bigger than 8 (that was close!)

We've also launched a new game M_rdle that you can check out

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3811290/M_rdle/

If you run into any bugs or surprise features, let us know on the discussion board or in our Discord at Discord.gg/FatBombStudios