v0.0.9854a

This update changes and adds a wide variety of things. As well as improving performance.

New Additions

• Players can now interact with phonographs in The Hotel to stop or play music.

• Dumpsters can now be opened. And are affected by sanity level.

• Support for ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio has been added to the Graphics Settings menu.

• Battery and resource auto-reloading can now be disabled in the System > Gameplay menu.

• A crouch toggle option has been added to the System > Controls menu, and the crouch key can now be rebound.

• The System > Audio menu now allows individual volume adjustment for Music, Voice, and Sound Effects.

• Initial volume options for music and sound effects have been added to the Title Screen.

• Bathroom doors now open in hotel rooms.

• A new entity variant will now inhabit some of the exterior entrances to The Hotel.

• Many new sound effects and voice lines have been added.

• Numerous new objects and environmental assets have been placed throughout various levels.

• Upper cabinets above countertops can now be opened.

• A statistics screen will now be displayed before the credits roll.

Tweaks & Fixes

• Saved games will now correctly load players back into The Hotel if the game was saved there.

• Phones will still ring when entities are disabled, but they will no longer receive calls from entities.

• An issue preventing the Phase Emitter from being unequipped has been resolved.

• Ceiling Tails no longer spawn when entities are disabled.

• Hotel hall generation has been reworked and optimized for performance and reliability.

• Volume settings for Music, Voice, and SFX now properly save and load between sessions.

• Menu shortcut keys will now open their respective menus from any screen, or resume the game if already open.

• The menu mask has been realigned to prevent UI cutoffs at certain standard resolutions.

• Audio spawning logic has been improved to prevent one-off sources from triggering when the player is out of listening range.

• Level intro voice lines can now be interrupted by other voice lines.

• Generator volume has been further reduced to improve ambient sound balance.

• The frequency of the moving doors insanity effect has been reduced.

• Player start positions in alternate versions of Level 0 have been adjusted to prevent spawning beneath the floor.

• Ceilings in one version of Level 0 that were being disabled incorrectly due to validation issues have been fixed.

• Legacy physics triggers and colliders used for outdated validations in Level 0 have been removed.

• Legacy insanity wall insect effects have been replaced with a newer version.

• Reflection map intensity has been reduced in the Pipes level.

• Material properties in the Pipes level have been corrected.

• The rotation script has been made time-dependent rather than frame-dependent.

• Fixed an issue where the Heart Of Electrics Gateway console was not clearing its screen properly.

• The background color on the Pools title screen has been corrected.

• Reduced the flashlight's battery threshold required for automatic reloading upon collecting batteries.

• Added LOD Optimization to some assets that didn’t have them

• More on-screen item pop-ups are skippable

• Corrected some procedural logic that limited the rotation options of some world blocks.

• Reduced amount of filing cabinets that spawn in records rooms.

More soon,

_-=[ ComAdore ]=-_