Dear players,
we want to thank you for your amazing patience with us. We hope you are all enjoying BLACKHOLE. The following are brief upcoming news. It's been a month since the BLACKHOLE release and we've been trying to collect all your feedback. Please, continue to send us your awesome thoughts and ideas.

For a better gameplay experience, we made these changes in this very critical update:

1.0.4 CHANGE LOG

MAIN ISSUES

• Improved engine processing by 400% (less FPS drops)
• Configurable key bindings option
• Fixed STEAM CLOUD functionality
• Featured Spanish language pack
• Player's profiles are more visible now
  

RESOLVED ISSUES

• (INF) Windows XP is no longer supported
• (NEW) You can turn off controller's vibrations now
• (NEW) Particles & GPU optimalization
• (FIX) Fixed bug causing sticking in the Sacred Library elevator
• (FIX) Fixed minor graphics glitches
• (FIX) Fixed random bugs with "duplicating" the player or platforms during the fast respawn
• (FIX) Fixed bug caused by obj_bug in the jungle
• (FIX) Fixed ingame menu that could not appear on lower fps when pressing escape button
• (FIX) Fixed ingame statistics
• (FIX) Synchronized subtitles with actual voiceover
• (FIX) Switched XBOX360 controller button (X) for confirm to (A) button
• (FIX) Added font support for more languages
• (FIX) Fixed sound volume issues
• (FIX) Fixed crashing the game in the lava run and crazy avalanche levels
• (FIX) Fixed Cpt. Jetsen rescue mission
• (FIX) Fixed un-achievable achievements
• (FIX) Fixed a bunch of critical bugs, causing crashes on some machines
  

KNOWN ISSUES
We are working hard to fix these reported issues as soon as possible:

• Adding support for even more controllers
• Option to play the game in "Adventure mode" with less dialogues
• Adding more languages (Russian, Polish, German, Italian, French)
  

Big thanks to Emilio J. Grao Benedí who is behind the SPANISH version of the game. He helped us with translation of the game - so, everyone who speaks SPANISH can enjoy the game even more!

In the meantime we are working hard to bring you another exciting news! Of course, releasing this update resolves many issues, but we are talking also about the future.

DLC: Testing Laboratory

On the 30th of April, you will experience a new chapter from the story! DLC: Testing Laboratory tells the story back on the Earth. Test Lab is kind of a flashback chapter, or a prequel if you want. Our hero just signed up for the Endera's suicide mission, but he wants to be captain of the mission. What really happens and why he ended up as the coffee-guy? Try to uncover this secret!

This DLC will be available for all owners of Collector's Edition for free! If you don't want to miss this chapter, you have the option to upgrade your game to the Collector's Edition. Or you can buy this DLC separately.

DLC: Testing Laboratory
Approx. game time: +1 hour of gameplay
Release date: 30th April
Price: Free (Collector's Edition) or 1,99 USD/€

Free story update: Secret of the Entity

And even more exciting news! If you don't want to go deep into DLC stories, we are preparing a big content update for all players for free! With version 1.0.5 you will get access to experience "Secret of the Entity". More levels and more story incoming!

UPDATE: Secret of the Entity
Approx. game time: 5+ hours of gameplay
Release date: May 2015
Price: Free for all users


On the other hand, we want to greatly apologize to all players with Windows XP, before this update Windows XP was functional, but we have updated our code to a new engine version which also means that Windows XP is no longer supported (in fact it has never been, but we want to be honest and say this).

Also, we want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum !

Enjoy the game,
FiolaSoft Studio

[ 2015-04-07 17:28:59 CET ] [Original Post]