Nothing at Stake Demo Patch 5/1/2026

DESIGN

• Redesigned pause menu

• Implemented text speed and text hang time options

• It is now possible to enter ladder from above by walking off (may be finnicky)

• Normal ladder move directions are now cam-relative, to match vines

• Added prevention for hanging far off vines on the sides or top

• MASSIVELY increased lantern light range

• Moderately increased fire light range

• Set of player states which allow you to do common interactions like eat, drink, use item, use bottle, push&pull, and read made universal and more permissive

• Jump proc made substantially simpler, in the process removing built in jump delay and effective coyote time

• Substantially sped up climb from hanging on a ledge, now duration-unified with ledge climb from water

• All climbs reworked to vary speed by surface height, resulting in less floaty behavior

• Allow bottle dump and eat states in slide and wallclimb

• Added an animated arrow to dialogue option selection

• Cutting flaming grass puts the fire out

• Added a camera pitch when falling

• Allow nagas to move freely during their swimming on water behavior

• Launch and stagger states force the player to drop two handed pickups

FIXES

• MASSIVELY improved first time boot and reload times

• Some situational performance improvements

• MASSIVELY improved text visibility in all circumstances

• Fixed a pickup bug that allowed you to push yourself through the floor

• Fixed occasional spine weirdness while backflipping during block

• Fixed an animation bug that occasionally made animations transitions jerky

• Fixed some sign text drawing unnecessarily high

• Fixed throw facing direction on release

• Improvements to crate push/pulling over low lips

• Clamber is now substantially easier to proc

• Fixed turtle's spin attack crashing the game

• Fixed tossing liquid from a bottle not blending animations correctly

• Fixed inventory icon scale setting not working

• Fixed weather effects from persisting too long in the death tunnel and opening sequences

• Significantly improved pathfinding

• Fixed closing a door for the first time in a play session from buffering reopening the same door

• Fixed a rare crash with the glass factory elevator

• Fixed sequential dialogue animations not playing correctly

• Fixed land sounds not playing consistently

• Fixed entering crouch out of wallclimb into tight spaces

AESTHETICS

• Tweaks to fog and environment values

• Grass rims for cliff edges

• Better animations for strafing while throwing, inventory-ing, aiming, and blocking

• Added a dust particle effect when pushing crates

• Opening a chest makes the reward pop out

MISC

• Disabled vsync