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Steam News19 October 20223y ago

Patch 0.7.2.1 - Puzzle & survival difficulty settings

Another update is out! The goal of this update is to give each player greater customization options for how challenging they want different parts of the game to be.

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What changed

2 fixes3 additions3 changes1 removal
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • UI and audio
  • Performance
  • Fixes
changedGameplay changes
addedEnemy difficulty and survival difficulty has been split into two different settings. You can now set different difficulties on each of those two parts if you prefer either part to be easier or harder.
changedSurvival difficulty has three different settings to choose from and affects stress gain (in the full game), the amount of damage you receive from other sources than enemies, hunger rate, and amount of items dropped on death. For survival difficulty: "Normal" difficulty setting is the previous default values.
addedPuzzle difficulty settings have been added. You can now also choose how challenging you want the puzzles to be. As of now there are three different difficulties,"easy","normal" and "hard". The previous default value for the demo is now the "normal" difficulty setting. This gives you the option to also choose to play with more difficult puzzles than before, or easier, if that is what you prefer.
addedAdded more sounds to the enemies and reworked many of the enemy sounds to make them scarier.
removedOptimized materials loading during runtime to remove some fps drops.

HorrorDriven: A story for the road changes

changedGameplay changes
addedEnemy difficulty and survival difficulty has been split into two different settings. You can now set different difficulties on each of those two parts if you prefer either part to be easier or harder.
changedSurvival difficulty has three different settings to choose from and affects stress gain (in the full game), the amount of damage you receive from other sources than enemies, hunger rate, and amount of items dropped on death. For survival difficulty: "Normal" difficulty setting is the previous default values.
addedPuzzle difficulty settings have been added. You can now also choose how challenging you want the puzzles to be. As of now there are three different difficulties,"easy","normal" and "hard". The previous default value for the demo is now the "normal" difficulty setting. This gives you the option to also choose to play with more difficult puzzles than before, or easier, if that is what you prefer.
addedAdded more sounds to the enemies and reworked many of the enemy sounds to make them scarier.

Another update is out! The goal of this update is to give each player greater customization options for how challenging they want different parts of the game to be.

As always your feedback is very important so please let us know what you think of these changes.

Gameplay changes

Enemy difficulty and survival difficulty has been split into two different settings. You can now set different difficulties on each of those two parts if you prefer either part to be easier or harder.

Survival difficulty has three different settings to choose from and affects stress gain (in the full game), the amount of damage you receive from other sources than enemies, hunger rate, and amount of items dropped on death. For survival difficulty: "Normal" difficulty setting is the previous default values.

Puzzle difficulty settings have been added. You can now also choose how challenging you want the puzzles to be. As of now there are three different difficulties,"easy","normal" and "hard". The previous default value for the demo is now the "normal" difficulty setting. This gives you the option to also choose to play with more difficult puzzles than before, or easier, if that is what you prefer.

Added more sounds to the enemies and reworked many of the enemy sounds to make them scarier.

Optimized materials loading during runtime to remove some fps drops.

Players will now be informed if they have unsaved settings in the settings menus.

Bug fixes

Fixed an animation bug for when an enemy gets caught in the same beartrap twice.

Fixed a bug with the container which holds the players lost items after death not behaving correctly while using quick transfer.

Source

Steam News / 19 October 2022

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