Hi everyone! As previously posted at our Discord Community, the team is going to take a small break from work starting tomorrow. We should all be back at September 16 (Monday), and to reduce the chances of having serious issues affecting players while we are gone, we decided to focus solely on game stability, optimization and bug fixes. Hence the Cleaning the House update was developed. As usual, items tagged as [COM] were changed based on community feedback.
INFORMATION AND MORE INFORMATION! We already had tooltips explaining items when the player grabbed them for the first time in a match, the shop information and the compendium for items. To cover those situations in which the players would find a brand new item in a room, but couldnt find information about it once the tooltip disappeared, now that tooltip never leaves if the item is unavailable in the matches shop. Pressing D-pad UP or TAB/F also prints information about the item you are holding as well as the players status regarding hunger and fatigue. Those changes should facilitate the act of learning what any given item or appliance does. CHANGES AND ENHANCEMENTS

• [COM] Optimizing the way positions are shared on online games;
• [COM] The game now has an optional overlay that shows the controls for the game during gameplay. This feature was created for PAX, but we figured it might be useful to new players, so we left it there =) Pressing 0 (zero) toggles it on and off;
• [COM] Every appliance now has a small cooldown that reduces the chance of more than one player interacting with them at any given time;
• Once ready in the matchmaking, pressing the back button cancels the ready status instead of getting the player back to the menu;
• Some minor errors that affected performance were fixed;
• [COM] We doubled the network update rate, reducing the issues caused by data bottlenecking when too many things were happening at the same time.

BUG FIXES General

• [COM] Pressing Enter to resume the game with the keyboard no longer opens the pause screen instantly again;
• Refrigerator now shows the proper items inside its model, reacting accordingly with what is currently selected in its interface;
• [COM] Aliens stun counter now stop reducing when the game is paused, as they should;
• [COM] Two players should no longer be able to grab the same item at the same time;
• [COM] Table no longer makes items disappear and swapping items with it should be reliable even on online matches;
• Fixed an audio issue where some effects would play in a never ending loop;
• New events and better syncing on some audio effects to enhance the general experience;
• [COM] Aliens now have a small extra time in which they can be grabbed after leaving the stun phase, what prevents players from grabbing them and getting thrown to the wall immediately after (AKA The Flash bug);
• The Macrowave is no longer intractable when powerless;
• Decorative textures for the Armchair, the Couch and the Bed are now synchronized to look the same to all players of the match;
• Said textures no longer reroll when you disassemble and reassemble the appliance again.

And in case you missed last patch notes released that included new official languages and other bug-fixes and enhancements, here are the links for them: Hotfix: https://steamcommunity.com/games/400080/announcements/detail/1609395170572771653 Patch Notes v0.8.04b2: https://steamcommunity.com/games/400080/announcements/detail/1609395170561052104 If you want to know more or participate testing features before release, please join us on our official Discord Server .

[ 2019-09-03 21:26:05 CET ] [ Original post ]