Major Update - v0.5.0.0

Major Update - v0.5.0.0

This is one of the biggest updates to Severance so far, featuring a complete Ghost Behavior rework, new rebuild and improved Ghost AI, new equipment, major balance changes, difficulty improvements, bug fixes, and overall gameplay polish.

New Content

• Smudge Sticks

• Photo Camera

• Salt

• Motion Sensor

• Lighter

• New Photo Media System

• New Photos tab in the tablet

• Difficulty modes added for Ghost Player

• New eco system / money wipe adjustments

Ghost Behavior Rework

Ghost behaviors have been completely reworked and expanded. This is designed to make identifying ghosts more engaging, especially when combined with lower evidence difficulties.

New difficulty modes:

• Beginner

• Intermediate

• Professional

• Nightmare

• Severed

Severed is the hardest mode and features 0 evidence. This works alongside the new ghost behavior system, giving players a new way to investigate and identify ghosts through testing behavior rather than relying only on evidence.

You can learn the ghost behaviors and view full details here: severance.guide

Balance Changes

• New Ghost LOS speed system

• Ghost Hunt speed now starts at 2.25m/s and increases over 12 seconds to 2.65m/s when the ghost has line of sight on a player (unless altered by ghost behavior)

• The breaker now takes 3 seconds to turn on

• Map size now affects sanity drain

• Both Ghost AI and Ghost Player modes now have difficulty settings

• Investigators now lose 10 sanity when another investigator dies

Improvements

• Complete AI rebuild to make it smarter and better

• Major difficulty mode improvements

• Difficulty changes include adjustments to:

  • Hunt grace period

  • Sanity grace period

  • Rewards

  • Sanity drain in darkness

  • Kill ending hunts

  • Breaker starting state

  • Ghost hunt arm time

  • Evidence amount

  • Sanity screen off

  • Sanity medicine amount

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the greyed out placeable preview doll to knock other equipment over

• Fixed an issue where the interact crosshair could be seen through walls

• Fixed a bug that caused dead players to get blocked by equipment

• Fixed a bug that caused the key to unlock quicker on some doors

• Fixed a bug that caused a non-front door in Hospital to lock on hunt

• Voice chat stability fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused private lobbies to open after returning to lobby after a match

• Fixed a bug that caused players to join lobbies mid-match and become stuck on the loading screen while hearing game sounds

• Fixed a bug that caused equipment and characters to spawn in the lobby when joining a lobby that had already played multiple rounds

• Fixed a bug that sometimes displayed the wrong region players were on

• Lobby stability fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused Laser Grid to activate even after it was picked up

• Fixed a bug that caused the Flashlight to show 2 lights at once

• Fixed a bug that caused the sliding doors in Prison to take longer to unlock