Heartworm 1.1 Update

Hey Everyone!

The Heartworm 1.1 Update is here! You can grab it for 15% off right now during the Steam Autumn sale. You can also now purchase the game’s soundtrack - featuring 60 original songs written for the game. As previously mentioned, with this update, there is a new, optional increased difficulty called “Challenge” mode, with a new costume reward upon completion. This will require much stricter management of resources and more careful decision-making in regard to when to fight or flee. (The original, normal difficulty of the game still exists, of course.) There are also a number of other additions and changes, outlined below: Patch Notes

Gameplay:

• Introduced Hard/Challenge mode, selectable at the pre-game menu.

• AdjustedChallenge modeIncreased static enemy HP by 25%.
• AdjustedChallenge modeStatic Enemy slow chance increased to 50% (from 25%).

• Challenge mode: Significantly less health and ammo spawns; the camera bag is not accessible.

• AdjustedChallenge modeThe Deer boss increased HP by x1.75.

• Beating the game on Challenge mode now unlocks baseball skin.

• Introduced Long Exposure(charge) mod in the chess puzzle in the cave behind the waterfall in the Wilderness.

• Increased minimum charge mod damage from 5 to 10.

• Increased max charge mod damage from 40 to 50.

• Added visual particle FX for charge mod attack.

• Added an icon on the camera sprite to signify when the charge mod is equipped.

• Clean up the enemy dog's behaviour

• Reduced The Unchained enemy run speed from 5.72 to 5

• The Unchained enemy fov reduced from 180 to 45

• Fixed the Deer boss not roaring at the start of the fight

• FixedThe Deer bossfixed the footprint spawner not spawning footprints after the cutscene

• Removed the shelf from the yellow Office hall to further avoid traffic jams.

Final Boss Fight Adjustments:

• Gears now come in from the sides, forcing the player into the center, removing the "safe" areas until the sweep attack, when the gears retract.

• TK Slam attack order is now randomized, but a light red warning circle appears to telegraph the location of the attack.

• Increased frequency of falling brick attacks.

• Changed visuals for fireballs.

• Reduced the amount of film given in the final boss fight from 24 to 12.

Localization:

• Credits updates

• Fixed some missing loc

• Added missing dialogue to subtitles in gallery 4 - third and fourth lines were not showing up as subtitles

UI/UX:

• Fixed the incorrect map trigger in the Wilderness clearing

• Fixed menu/bg image offset while in a 4:3 aspect ratio on the pre-game difficulty select menu

• Fixed change tabs (Q/E) not working when opening map from Inventory

• Fixed the map system, changing the area progress of the previous scene area

• Fixed softlock when rebinding keyboard after starting rebind with controller

• Added difficulty to the ranking screen

• Removed inaccessible area from parking map sprite

Additional Bug Fixes:

• Attempt to fix the rare elevator softlock

• Fixed flash lingering (camera to flashlight exploit)

• Attempt to fix the rare aiming stuck bug

• Reworked gallery VOs to use the same VO sequences that are used elsewhere

• Fixed the gallery word puzzle, sometimes acting strangely when solving while the voiceover is active.

• Fixed infinite mod/combining issue when a camera was already modded and combine was used

• Fixed credits camera easing into the first camera - added camera blend to make sure it cuts instead