Grey Block Major Update Part 1

Grey Block Version 2.0.0

Features:

• Overhauled the player camera system

• Improved camera positioning in walk, stealth, targeting positions

• Player/Ally mesh collisions with camera

• Smooth transitions between camera states

• Improved transitions between gameplay and cutscenes

• Updated shaders for all characters

• Refactored opening cinematics

• Improved lighting

• New character shaders provide better detail

• Theo escort scene has been redone to provide additional time to read screen text

• Greatly improved rendered video quality, fewer compression artifacts

• Refactored gameplay cinematics

• Staircase pre-lockpick scene

• Improved lighting

• New animations

• Staircase post-lockpick scene

• Fully reworked, improved and smoothed camera positioning

• Improved scene performance reducing frame-rate drops

• New animations, improved choreography

• Additional dialogue

• Cafeteria Refrigerator scene

• Fully reworked, improved and smoothed camera positioning

• New animations, improved choreography

• Improved lighting

• All other cinematics received lighting improvements

• Improved Listening/Focus mode

• Reduced blurring effect

• Need to be in listening mode for at least 2 seconds to expand listening radius for maximum effect

• Added audio effect

• Resolved bugs listed below

• Improved Player Locomotion

• Improved player movement when jogging/accelerating

• Eliminated strafing during jogging

• Improved blending between animations

• Sneak/Crouch transitions are smoother

• Audio

• Improved game audio mix

• Reverb effects are now present in all game areas

• Doors locked with keypads can now be accessed by interacting with the door, instead of just the keypad

• New timed hint system for some obstacles

• Opening area

• Main fusebox challenge

• Performance tweaks

• Improved LODs in troublesome areas

• Reduced post-processing load in troublesome areas

• Improved rendering pass by optimizing unnecessary shadows

• Resolved damaged light flickering in destroyed CIPR environment

• Reduced walk distance in ending scenes

• Save system update phase 1

• Added save file version field to save files

• Added save file updater to update older save files (hopefully) without corrupting existing ones

• Backend encapsulation improvements

  Fixes:

• Resolved camera collision with player mesh

• Resolved camera collision with ally mesh

• Resolved camera getting stuck in crouch position when colliding with object

• Resolved background music stopping in ending scenes

• Resolved issue where listening mode would show highlighted items after exiting

• Resolved issue where listening mode key could be feathered and show highlighted items

• Resolved bug introduced in V 1.2.1 where non-quittable locks were quittable

• Resolved bug introduced in V 1.2.1 where failing lockpick in 4th floor hallway resulted in strange scenario post-load

• Resolved bug where starting a New Game would not clear player’s inventory

• Resolved bug where starting a New Game would not clear player’s score

• Resolved bug where starting a New Game would not clear player’s objectives

• Resolved fridge sequence bug where Theo wouldn’t be in camera frame if crouching