Update to v1.0.0.9. - LIVE VERSION

Hello everyone!

The Public Stage branch version is updated to the live version and it brings these changes and fixes along.

Please note that the scarecrows, if encountered, have no functionality anymore as the Halloween event has passed. For now they only have a cosmetic purpose.

Added

- New dialogue sounds (together 10 new voice colors): including Farewell, first time greeting, Greeting, Vendor
- Break slots for Hunters in Hunting Lodge
- Sorting buttons for people demands control tab in management
- New home activities for NPCs

Fixed

- Compass working incorrectly when mounted
- Torch not usable while holding a sickle
- Interaction UI not updating correctly when opening chests while holding interaction key
- Calf sounds
- If item is about to spoil in this season, then only the last stack of it will get spoiled
- Possibility to have an unlimited tool when unassigning item from quickslot during holstering animation
- Animals not keeping their name after growing up
- No input on a gamepad for building rotation
- If game settings save file is corrupted then all settings are set to lowest value instead of default
- Unassigning notification if NPCs is unassigned from nothing.
- When road is blocked by no permission, the icon is not darker
- Inventory selected item changes when consumed item adds another item to inventory
- During crafting empty bottles are not returned to inventory.
- The quality of the player's character mesh sometimes changes in camera view
- Doubled penalty to reputation for stealing items
- Problem with boiling sounds too long. When the player wanted to stop cauldron animations in random time the sounds of boiling didn’t stop and were playing longer.
- Horse turn animations are now properly transitioning between themselves when changing speed/stopping and turning at the same time
- Mount couldn’t use running/sprinting speed when the player starts moving during the mounting animation.
- Issue with NPCs when they appear on the screen, causing them to shift strangely and slowly adjusting to the ground.
- Mislabeled cow shed roof.
- Sometimes, when a player blocks an NPC (at a workbench or a break point), the NPC starts interacting at the point where he is standing.
- Sometimes animal breeders enter the animal housing when they are working with the animals.
- Log Fence doesn't remove grass.
- Dialogues - problem with panning on right headphone.
- Light flash when trying to equip torch underwater.
- Player not being able to close quick slot menu using left or right mouse button while mounted
- Strange head movement sometimes appearing when stopping or finishing crafting
- Stopping animations not applying correctly
- No torch shadows
- Player was able to loot items while skinning
- Milk in a bucket - while milking a cow - looks strange
- Signboard in the Sewing building has sometimes been duplicated
- Sometimes player wouldn't enter the aiming animation if a spear was holstered while holding right click
- Hands attack animation was much slower
- Player getting stuck in mount after dismounting in some cases

Updated

- Save and Load optimizations
- Rendering optimizations
- Memory optimizations
- Notification sound for shooting in archer target.
- Improvements to the effect of snow on the ground
- Adjusted speed of young and small husbandry animals
- Adjusted walking speed of adult/teenager NPCs to better match their animation
- When the bandits move too far from their camp, they return to their camp running
- Ida now gives Domagoj's crossbow in the correct moment
- Equipped items condition is now displayed in the same way in both inventory and quick slot menu
- Transfer, drop, sell, and buy slider now have clickable buttons for increasing or decreasing amount
- Sorting items now no longer changes selected item to first on the list
- Shop management is now sorted in order (Intensity above 0->Is item present in storage->rest)
- Dismounting animation for donkey and horse
- German updated

Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View Patch 1.0.0.2 is now live!

Hey all,

We just updated Conway with patch 1.0.0.2!

This was created from your feedback on the forums so thank you everyone for engaging with the game and letting us know the issues you encountered.

The patch notes are as follow:

Large fixes

- Fixed a crash issue in Doerr Manor Servant's Quarters
- Fixed an issue with click and hold prompt staying around on screen when hold and drag wasn't enabled
- Key rebinds now save upon reloading
- Fixed an Inventory lock out bug if you press screenlock immediately after leaving an item
- Fixed an issue with cursor disappearing on gamepad in certain instances

Quality of life fixes

- Added an additional Closed Caption option so that subtitles can be displayed without closed captions

Spoiler fixes

- Fixed potential hard lock caused by leaving Tony Morgan lockpick
- Shirley Downes' office scene save's state correctly on loading level
- Snooker QTE has additional accessibility setting enabled
- McKee tram ticket brightened to stand out in scene more
- The car door now attaches correctly to Catherine's hand upon re-loading the scene

Minor fixes

- The dumbwaiter puzzle now lets you open the doors once you’ve got the lift to the correct place if you’ve tried a few different variations first
- Inventory prompts now re-appear when returning from pause menu to inventory whilst inspecting a pickup
- Some Spanish localisation fixes
- Some Chinese localisation fixes
- Area names can now extend past background

As always, please do let us know of any issues you experience and we'll continue to monitor and fix.

Thank you all for your time and input in our work, it's hugely appreciated.

Happy investigating!

- The White Paper Team

Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View Patch 1.0.0.3 is now live!

Hey all,

We just updated Conway with Patch 1.0.0.3!

Moving into week 2 since launch, it's great to see everyone enjoying and feeding back to us on their experience in Dahlia View!

We've put together a set of patch notes found below but as ever, please do message us if you spot anything you'd like us to take a look at:

Large fixes

- Removed the need to go back to the mallet in the McKee's level if player has already started the conversation when coming from a load which caused a blocker

Quality of life

- A saving progress message now communicates to the player when the game is saving
- Added refinement to Conway movement when bumping into things + his turn speed to help player accessibility
- Can now enable 'Alternate Gamepad Prompt Textures' in the 'gameplay menu' to display alternative prompt icons

Saving

- We now save on completion of evidence review so you don't have to reply if quitting out before the next scene starts
- 'Use Mouse Interaction' option now saves correctly

Minor fixes

- Hidden Annabelle's cigarette in the Opening after it detaches so it isn't left floating by the step after she leaves
- Fixed an issue when loading back into Downes' pub, where the character is invisible
- Fixed issue where you could click on invisible wheelchair box when Tony is sat in it
- Fixed an issue where the player could teleport on top of desk in the pub
- Fixed issue where under certain instances, you were able to advance into the barrel room in Downes level before the player has unlocked the padlock on the door.
- Update issue in Downes' level where player can interrupt dialogue mid conversation when interacting with other objects in the office
- Fixed an issue where the jumper cables in Levy's Garage could be broken

Thank you all for playing our latest work and please do consider reviewing the game on Steam as this is the number 1 way to help get our work out to more players. The word of mouth is everything!

- The White Paper Team

Update 1.0.11.845

A small hotfix of They Always Run for yesterday's update

List of changes:

- Fixed an issue causing checkpoints to work incorrectly on Angel's Heart

You can check the current version of the game in the right bottom corner of the main menu.

If you have any questions or issues with the game – you are welcome on our Discord server:
https://discord.gg/Ws4EMCS2P9

v3.0.4 patch

A few bug fixes. Thank you for the reports. :)

Glad to see everybody enjoying the new expansion!

Changelog

- Fixed bug: you could place Jetty and Bridge tanks over bridges.
- Fixed bug: Tanks not being visited under certain conditions.
- Balance: In Full Unlock mode in Sandbox, objective difficulty is tied to your rank even though you have access to everything.

Update 0.7.27

- fixed saving in world map desolation leading to broken save game
- disable dialogue action of NPCs in combat (e.g. accidentally talking to blind man)
- don't make companion interrupt player dialogue or scene interaction when companion is in combat
- fixed combat behavior of bots in mine level
- co-op: fixed mouse cursor position when playing as mouse player on second screen
- co-op: disable second screen toggle if second screen was activated; added info that deactivation needs a game restart
- fixed some UI issues due to dynamic text lengths
- fixed issues with metal gate colliders
- fixed walk cursor display having wrong pixel offset
- fixed some minor issues with some scene assets
- added code to handle explored state of an area in save games on entering a resized area (for future content changes)
- additional small bug fixes and framework improvements

This week we fixed more bugs reported by players and also solved a few technical problems.
Behind the scenes we continued to work on future content. I made progress on the world map and painted a new sub world map for a certain area of the game.

I keep being hopeful to being able to focus more on the actual game in the coming weeks.

- Stephan

Patch 1.0.5.f

This patch fixes the following issues:

- Fixed a bug which could lead to the game crashing upon level change. The reason was a lingering reference on the old helicopter object of the previous level.
- Fixed a bug where a mix up of interaction bubbles could lead to a crash under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug where a not-yet created interaction bubble is spawned if it does not exist yet.
- Fixed a bug where during saving process only part of the weapon status would be stored.
- Fixed a bug where the assisting player was loaded in the wrong x position after loading a save game.
- Fixed a bug where a dreamer was not properly put into the "stumbling backwards" state when loaded from a save game.
- Mitigated a crash that would occur when the dreamer target of a player was destroyed during the save process. This does not fully solve the whole issue, but instead of hard crashing, it leads now only to a temporary animation glitch.

All the mentioned bugs in the save system had the potential to create a corrupted savegame that would crash upon load.

0.422.3 - Depths of Uranus

As always, demo was updated with all these changes above.

The Synchrotron Controversy
Omaewamou-Shinderu’s most recent entry in the realm of weapons manufacture has earned imports from Uranus and especially its moon Miranda embargoes or bans in most systems on the grounds of safety and environmental concerns. Named after the spear that Odin would carry into battle during Ragnarok, this repurposed small proton collider has been stripped of most safety and measurement equipment. The charge it carries is enormous and takes time to dissipate in the rings, creating a very hazardous environment to mine in. Enceladus Prime has not yet made any regulatory rulings on this device.

New photosensors for reconnaissance drones
In a collaboration between Runasimi and Obonto Micro Engineering, new standards have been agreed upon regarding recon drone photosensors. Anticipating a drop in costs associated with standardized supply, the new photosensors promise better image clarity, with a higher dynamic range and onboard postprocessing.

Superconductor Improvements
Exiting a phase of testing and feedback, safety regulations surrounding this relatively new technology have been lifted. With an established track record of safety, SMES systems are now approved to operate much closer to their theoretical full potential, making them much more useful and reliable in providing a large power reserve for periods of peak usage.

Maintenance Records
- New SPC Gungnir Proton Cannon.
- Game engine upgraded to Godot 3.4, featuring: better stability, performance and native support for M1 processors.
- Improved quality of post-processing light effects.
- Improved collision detection accuracy between ship hulls and small objects.
- Enhanced the game background.
- New DTSS feature to smooth out the gameplay can dynamically adapt your framerate to the CPU power available.
- Superconductive Magnetic Energy Storage systems will now be more reliable.
- Point defence systems can now target drones and unusual hostile ships.
- Racing was not offering another race if you won a couple of times.
- NPC ships were confused by the complex shapes of Ganymedian Anarchy station and The Space Bar and sometimes tried to fly right through them.
- Chanced the way AI handles emotions to behave more like a human would.
- Added tooltips to the controls menu icons.
- The pause menu will not be affected by your camera exposure.
- Adjusted colour balance.
- Crew leave time is now listed in red.
- If you send your crew over to an EI1337 equipped derelict for salvage and it fails, the derelict will not attempt to fly by itself with it’s autopilot.
- Some derelicts were listed as older than their initial production date.
- Position lights on AR1500 Manipulator won’t turn themselves on after you adjust light settings.
- Pirates won’t open fire on you shortly after asking for a truce.
- Added mouse zoom and camera sensitivity sliders in the Controls menu.
- Vilcy patrols will now leave you alone when you do no business with them.
- Big Bad Wolf won’t follow your ship even when you have good standing with the bounty hunters.
- Rebooting your computer will now clear guiding drone, geologist and astrogator displays.
- AR1500 Manipulator will not throw light objects away.
- Marking many items for your guiding drone will not glitch out the drone path overlay.
- Updated translations.

Northgard update version v2.6.15.24012:

- Stockpilling is now available with Mirmirsbrun
- Fixed mini-map displaying during story mode cinematic chapter 3.
- Fixed a crashing issue with Call to Arms (Guardian military tree)
- Fixed special characters not displaying in game
- ctrl+f during a cinematic no longer displays the UI
- The clan of the Kraken can no longer use its wyrd abilities whilst dead.
- Map generation for the clan of the Raven has been improved.
- You can no longer colonise neutral faction tiles.

DYSMANTLE Leaving Early Access on Nov 16th!

Ok, we now have an official launch date for the PC version. This has been a long journey but we're finally there! You probably guessed after the last update that we'd be leaving early access soon since there's now an ending and all.

So, the date is: Nov 16th 2021. The exact time depends on your timezone but here in Finland we'll be pushing the release button so that the game would be available 14:00 EET. This means we'll push the button around 13:50 to account for any delays. This event your're reading is set to trigger 14:00 EET Nov 16th 2021.