[ver.0.2.4-demo] 01/03/2025

Comment:

• Hello everyone! :D I hopeyou been having a blast playing my demo during NextFest, heres alist of changes that Ive been working on during this week toaddress issues that I noticed players were having with the game,most notably the games combat difficulty.

New Features:

• 3 extra tutorials added to thegame.
• Tutorials now stay extra timeon screen based on their relative size (amount of information), andif the player is active in combat or not.

Adjustments:

• Improved the conditions forthe gun reload tutorial to appear on screen.
• The players quick turnaction speed has been increased by 50%
  • It was just marginally betterto use quick turn rather than manually turning 180 degrees,considering the necessity of having to press an extra input, itsuse was hardly ever warranted. Now the action shouldfeel much better to use in combat.
• Normal combat difficultyrebalance:
  • Reduced Fleres damage perattack by ~30%.
  • Reduced Fleres totalhealth by 20%.
  • Reduced Fleres movementspeed acceleration by ~15%.
  • Reduced Fleres sightradius by 10%.
  • Reduced the hearing radius ofnoises the main character can produce.
  • Increased the chance oflanding a critical hit on Flere (pistol headshots.) by ~15%.
  • Increased the default numberof handgun bullets per pickup stack from 8 to 10.
  • Reduced the chance for Flereto attempt to dodge an attack by ~5%.
  • Reduced the durability lossof items per action by ~7%.
• Hard difficulty rebalance:
  • Reduced Fleres damage perattack by ~10%.
• Normal puzzle difficultyrebalance:
  • Increased the number ofavailable manual saves.
• Removed the developers harddifficulty recommendation from the description, now it should betterreflect players expectations of what each difficulty entails.

Bug Fixes:

• Thanks to feedback from Steamplayers, I fixed an inconsistent issue with the flashlight needingto be turned on so players could interact with objects that are veryclearly visible on screen. From now on only objects completelymasked in darkness will make use of this feature.
• The player will now beconsidered to be in darkness when outside during the night.
• Input remapping and resettinginputs now trigger a ui sfx appropriately.
• The tutorial queue now resetswhen a game ends, you wont see tutorials that can be betterserved mid-game appear as soon as a new play-through begins.

Crash Fixes:

Known Issues:

• There seems to be an issuewith Linux players crashing at random intervals during the game, itappears to only affect players running the kernel 6.5., all otherwindows versions and Linux kernels are working fine so far.