PATCH 0.0.8 (Alpha) - 40K Matches! Tutorials, Performance and Stability

Thank you to everyone who played the Demo Playtest—your support has been incredible. In just three days:

• 39,900 matches played

• 29,310 deaths

• 32,296 fragments collected

• 22,071 items purchased from Banjo (he’s thrilled!)

Performance & Crash Update

We’re excited to see so many positive reviews and are hard at work addressing your feedback.

One key issue has emerged: crashes and performance drops on certain GPU models and driver versions. We optimise constantly, but this playtest exposed a wider range of hardware than ever before.

To tackle it, we’ve created scripts to parse server logs and pinpoint the problematic hardware/driver combos. Rolling back or updating your GPU drivers has helped some players—please try that as a temporary fix, then test this patch and let us know if performance improves.

Your crash and bug reports via Discord or the in-game form provide vital data points to help us resolve these issues.

🎙️ VOIP Setup Tutorial

We’ve also made a tutorial on how to set up VOIP. You can find it here: VOIP Tutorial

Please continue submitting crash and bug reports via Discord or the in-game report form so we can track and address issues promptly.

Community Shout-Out

Some fantastic content creators have been streaming/recording their playthroughs, and one video in particular from DrDevvi was packed with hilarious moments, Excited to see more!

New Build Live: 1d8f519d5d

🛠 Fixes

• Small fixes to spectator camera

• Fixed collision causing player to get stuck on corners under furniture

• Corrected Crawler kill distance for certain animations

• Improved error handling when joining a mismatched game version

• Video settings menu now scrolls fully when performance options are open

• Fixed session-list localisation display issues

• Loading screen UI corrections

• Auto-detect graphics scalability disabled to reduce crashes

• Regenerated procedural content in missing POIs

• Updated end-of-game weather effects to improve visibility

• Main menu music restored correctly in front end

• Tutorial links added to audio settings

• Sound mix and VOIP audio mixing overhauled and now working

• Fixed crawler kill concurrency and duplicate kill sounds

• Fixed floating feet when crouched

• Footstep SFX aligned to crouch animations

• Additional weather fix at match start to improve performance

• Localisation string tables updated for consistency

🔧 Changes

• Bridges are now visible immediately upon map entry to assist navigation

• Refined shrine-revive prompts

• Revive Shrine is now visible on the map from the start

• Added a collapsible input settings panel for cleaner controls

• Match summary and demo content copy updated

• Improved match start flow to make the start of match cleaner

🚀 Features

• New ambush-pounce and crouch-prone attack animations (WIP)

• Shader-compilation splash screen introduced at startup

• Bug-report button added to the start-game screen

• New in-game video tutorial to assist new players (English & Chinese)

• AdjustedAnimation improvementsretargeted stealth anims with IK, added foot-sync markers, and updated crouch/prone rigs

• New scripts to analyse server logs to identify problematic system hardware and drivers

• New VOIP setup tutorial available: VOIP Tutorial

Enjoying Macabre?

If you’re having fun, please consider leaving us a positive review to help others discover the Rift.

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If you encounter any issues, submit crash reports and feedback via Discord or the in-game Bug Report form so we can keep improving.

Thank you for your support!

Team Weforge <3