Hotfix Update — Multiplayer, UI & Settings Improvements

🛠️ Hotfix Update

Thank you for all the feedback you've shared during Steam Next Fest.

This hotfix focuses on quality-of-life improvements, settings usability, multiplayer stability, voice chat fixes, and general polish across the demo experience.

🎮 Settings & User Experience

• Fixed an issue where Brightness settings would not properly revert after selecting Discard.

• Added live Field of View and Brightness controls at the top of the Graphics Effects section.

• Settings now correctly warn about unapplied changes when leaving menus, including ESC and back navigation.

🌐 Multiplayer & Social

• Improved lobby creation flow. Failed room creation now displays an error message and keeps players in the lobby instead of returning them to the main menu.

• Added retry and fallback behavior for room creation across regions.

• Improved Steam Friends integration with profile avatars and clearer friend room indicators.

• Fixed voice chat behavior so disabling voice chat now correctly mutes incoming voice as well.

🧟 Gameplay Fixes

• Improved dead body carrying and throwing behavior.

• Improved ragdoll stability.

• Fixed fall damage initialization issues that could occur in certain scene loading situations.

🎨 UI & Localization

• Added a Credits screen accessible from the Main Menu and after the Demo Wishlist Portal.

• Improved UI readability and visual consistency.

• Improved button text contrast.

• Improved font consistency.

• Updated multiple Turkish and English localization strings.

🔧 Stability & Technical Improvements

• Added fixes to improve Discord Rich Presence reliability in IL2CPP builds.

• General bug fixes and stability improvements.

Thank you for helping us improve The 4 Masked. We’ll continue monitoring feedback and releasing updates throughout Steam Next Fest.