I sat down with Phil Owen recently and had a chat about the game. He wrote a wonderful article about it for Animal, check it out! http://animalnewyork.com/2015/making-spirits-of-xanadu-a-retro-sci-fi-adventure Now on to the update. This update contains a few minor fixes relating to AI, a few performance tweaks, second pass at fixing the sound bugs, and some debug keys to figure out the root cause of a sound issue a few of you have been experiencing. edit: A couple of hours after this update went live, with the help of a few people, I managed to alleviate this bug on their machines. So another patch went out to hopefully address this for those people experiencing sound issues. If the problem still persists for you, please read the rest of this announcement and follow the forum thread. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following keys are only for isolating the source of the problem and are not meant as a fix. Since none of us have hardware that can replicate this bug we're unable to test these, as a result we're reliant on those that have the issue to help us out. Please follow the link below if you're affected by this: http://steamcommunity.com/app/312230/discussions/0/523890681424065082/ Debug instructions (press these when in game, not on the main menu): Hold left shift and press F4 to change the output to mono (may freeze for a second or two). Hold left shift and press F5 to disable sound post-processing on everything but the loud speakers. Hold left shift and press F6 to disable sound post-processing on everything. Hold left shift and press F7 to disable three dimensional sound. WARNING! Make sure you turn the volume down real low for this as you'll hear every sound on the ship. You'll have to reload the game to revert these changes. If any of these have any impact on the crackling/stuttering please let me know. Thanks!