v0.4.0 - The Fear Update

New Content

TRANSLATIONS TO OTHER LANGUAGES

• Spanish (Castellano).

• French.

• Italian.

• Simplified Chinese.

• German.

• Portuguese (Brazil).

• Japanese.

• Korean.

• Russian.

Visual Effects:

• Added new visual effects.

Enemies:

• Turtle:

  • Added roar sounds (which also trigger a fear effect on the player).

  • Roaring now attracts nearby enemies.

  • Now roars when trapped as well.

• Sonic Monster:

  • Added new animations.

Audio:

• Added new sound effects to almost all enemies, items, and environments.

• Added unique footstep sounds for each surface type (grass, concrete, metal…).

Player:

• Fear: Every player now has a fear meter that increases or decreases depending on their location in the level. High fear levels will cause hallucinations, screen distortion, and make certain enemies more aggressive towards you.

Artifacts:

• Soccer Ball (New).

UI:

• Added new main menu buttons to report bugs or submit feedback.

Changes

Water:

• Non-aquatic enemies can no longer spawn in water.

• Fall damage has been disabled when landing in water.

Warehouse:

• Minor changes to the garage area in preparation for the upcoming map rework.

UI:

• Your screen will now appear progressively more cracked/broken the lower your health is.

Enemies:

• AddedSonic Monster ReworkIt no longer roams the map randomly. It will now seek out dark areas and cling upside down to the ceiling to sleep. If a player passes underneath or makes noise nearby, it will drop down to investigate for a few seconds, entering an alert state and switching to standard behavior. Afterward, it will look for a new spot on the ceiling to go back to sleep.

Balancing

Maps:

• Warehouse:

  • Normal weather conditions are now much more frequent.

  • Reduced the cost for every 5 extra minutes: 150 -> 50.

  • Increased enemy spawn rate (One enemy every 17s-20s -> One enemy every 15s-20s).

• Mansion:

  • Increased the spawn timer for the first enemy (40s -> 60s).

  • Increased the delay between enemy spawns (20s-30s -> 35s-40s).

  • Increased the respawn delay after an enemy is killed (25s-30s -> 45s-60s).

  • Reduced Power Level: 20 -> 18.

  • Reduced Nimbus spawn chance.

  • Normal weather is now more common, while sunny weather is rarer.

  • Increased artifact spawn rates (15-25 -> 17-30).

  • Reduced the cost for every 5 extra minutes: 150 -> 75.

• Laboratory:

  • Reduced the cost for every 5 extra minutes: 750 -> 150.

Enemies:

• Nimbus:

  • Increased the damage area of effect (AoE).

  • Increased damage (1.25 normal / 2 enraged -> 4 normal / 8 enraged).

  • Now detects nets more easily, but will not execute its final attack until it has spotted a few.

  • Now requires 5 full seconds of direct line of sight to detect the player (2.5s if the player is running, 10s if crouching).

• Statue:

  • When dropping aggro and entering cooldown, it will no longer resume chasing you until you look at it again.

  • Increased the stationary duration after it has chased you for a while (10s-20s -> 20s-30s).

  • Reduced the required chase duration in single-player to trigger its cooldown (20s -> 15s).

  • Increased door-opening time (10s -> 15s).

  • Any stun effect will now immobilize this enemy 4 times longer.

Items:

• Explosive Grenade:

  • Reduced damage (150 -> 100).

Gameplay:

• Reduced the initial quota and its scaling over time to give players more breathing room during the early game.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where certain items (flashlights, grenades…) could not be activated.

• Fixed several map collision issues.

• Fixed a bug where trapping an enemy from a long distance would teleport you to them, occasionally causing instant death.

• If you clip through the elevator, you will now safely teleport back inside instead of dying.

• Game crashes now generate automatic reports sent directly to me (no manual submission required).

• Fixed a bug where Nimbus lacked line of sight.

• Fixed multiple misplaced textures.