4.008 Exogalactic Wayfinding

(Released March 25th, 2022)

Update Notes v0.88.0

- Added low quality settings
- Stability on low end devices
- Minor bugfixes

The Tenants - Patch 0.8g

General

- Fixed an issue with one of the jobs in the Suburbs.
- Fixed a number of issues with the Earthquake event where Uncle Steve wouldn't always appear to fix the issue.

The Tenants - Patch 0.81

General

- Disabled Research for Pedro.
- Tweaked new archetype events to only affect the happiness of the tenant with whom the interaction took place.
- Fixed an issue with Pedro sometimes disappearing when launching a pre-landlord update save file.
- Fixed a few edge cases related to the cockroach event tutorial section.
- Fixed an issue with the reviewer sometimes not spawning after completing the job.
- Fixed a few issues with tenants getting stuck.
- Fixed an issue with tenants sometimes choosing never to report issues.
- Fixed a few edge cases where tenants would interrupt their action while reporting apartment issues never completing it.
- Fixed an issue with the Heating Damage event not properly recovering its state when reloading the game.
- Fixed the Cactus Hunt minigame looping forever when the player has lost the first match.
- Fixed a few issues with events not ending properly when restarting, forever leaving an unresolved issue marker.
- Fixed an issue with being able to start an Open House while in uncle mode in said property.
- Fixed an issue with the front door not always being selectable in certain events.
- Fixed Buddha statue item type.
- Fixed Vinyl records clipping through one of the tables.

Tweaks

• Controllers can now navigate the loadout menu
• Can now use the back button on the controller to exit the level settings screen in a hub slipgate rather than needing to hit the button on the UI
• C2 U.S.C. key doors now marked with locks
• Minor resource balancing tweaks in various Chapter 2 levels
• Tweaked Puzzle room battles enemy placements on easier difficulties in C2L2
• Tweaked C2L5 Shoot switch puzzle
• Tweaked C2L5 escape encounter
• Changed the triggers for C2L6's bunny line
• Added a touch of cover atop the train in C2L6
• Some extra save beacons in C2L6 and C2L7 after/before particularly brutal encounters
• C2L6's and C2L7's pacing, item, and enemy placements tweaked to make them slightly less relentless
• Shoot switch holding barrel in C2L7 now has a subtle light to it to make it more eye-catching
• The standard enemy type version of Chapter 2's first bosses health nerfed from 7000 to 5000
• Final boss of Chapter 2 was a little too easy so some minor balancing changes have been made to toughen him up just a bit
• Spawnlings, Warhounds, and Drones explosion radius shrunk
• Various explosion visuals now better match explosions size
• Stalker projectiles now have a limited lifetime and will self destruct after a brief period
• Hellbirds movement speed on easier difficulties nerfed
• Enforcer projectile speed nerfed
• Blitzer projectile speed nerfed
• Enemy corpses now subtly flash to indicate you can gib them
• Player can now pass through sacrifices
• Game will now autosave after cutscenes
• Pressing E after dying will almost instantly start the loading process rather than having to wait for the counter
• Tweaked railings to mitigate step height issue

Fixes

• Fixed profile issue where despite having beaten Chapter 1 players were unable to access Chapter 2
• Fixed various save issues tied to the timing of specific triggered events
• Fixed issue with the Chapter 1 boss where if killed whilst doing the AOE attack the summoning circles wouldn't disappear
• Fixed weird selection bug with the push platforms in C2L2
• Fixed a soft lock-in C2L2 caused by a door being unintentionally closable
• Fixed C2L3's Fortune Cookie
• Fixed a soft lock-in C2L4 caused by the switches around the puzzle elevators the base for if you fall down not working
• Fixed a navmesh issue that caused enemies to walk through glass in C2L4
• Fixed the game autosaving in the middle of the first boss fight of Chapter 2
• Fixed platforms in C2L5 breaking after loading a save
• Fixed pillar platforms in C2L5 infinitely looping audio
• Fixed dialogue in C2L5 replaying if using the elevator again upon loading a save
• Fixed saves breaking in the train station segment of C2L5
• Fixed C2L3 and C2L7's secret armor not triggering the secret on pickup
• Fixed bug that caused stun barrels to do way to much damage to the final boss of chapter 2
• Fixed issue where punching the final boss of Chapter 2 whilst he was stunned would cause the player's weapons to vanish
• Fixed bug where push platforms became unusable after loading a save
• Fixed explosions not properly pushing the player like they should
• Fixed bug where some explosions would deal double damage to the player
• Fixed Spawnlings death sound not playing
• Fixed items gravitate component ignoring cracked walls
• Fixed issue where the player was unable to lock onto the first boss
• Fixed bug where if you entered a level without the last weapon you had equipped in your inventory, your weapons wouldn't work properly

0.8.1

Balancing and Weapons:

- updated melee timings, making some weapons a bit faster
- melee weapons have different ranges now
- updated damage of some enemies
- increase damage portion on secondary targets when hitting multiple targets
- compressed player health over later levels
- removed general range randomization on bullets (but kept the indiviual 'scatter' value)
- decreased damage reduction by resistance values
- updated general damage balancing
- make ranged targeting characters take movement of target into account (standard and hard difficulty)
- relaxed difficulty: increased player damage, especially against bosses
- updated energy weapons effect visuals and values
- reduced scatter for some weapons
- reduced recoil pushback for some weapons
- faster attack speed for the knife
- added rocket launcher audio
- updated robot enemy visuals, damage and health
- fixed a few enemy types not being set to aggressive combat behavior

Performance:

- improved loading times
- fixed memory allocation due to exploring area map; fixes some random frame spikes due to garbage collector slowdowns
- fixed a few memory leaks
- improved performance while in stealth mode
- general performance improvements on combat actions
- small per frame performance improvements
- fixed a few per frame memory allocations
- additional small performance improvements for various objects

Fixes and Improvements:

- updated audio plugin: fixes not having audio on some PC configurations
- small content improvements
- fixed not being able to switch weapons (for afterwards) while attacking
- improved action wheel UI
- increased font size of some UI elements
- minor dialogue UI improvements
- fixed and improved lots of small UI issues
- close map on a few input events like weapon scrolling
- make enemies walk instead of run when walking away after killing player
- fixed fade in from black on entering levels sometimes getting cut short
- fixed world map exits in New Delphi not triggering automatically
- fixed character walk from exit on fade out even if blocked by collider
- fixed some enemy salvo shots abruptly ending
- fixed issues with feedback form
- fixed item description when weapon was modified
- fixed player dodging all damage through rolling for some cases it was not intended for
- fixed worms and worm spawner in Flesh Crater boss fight not being clickable
- controller: when picking automatic target by melee without having direction input, prefer enemy characters over destructibles
- controller: apply optional targeting help to using directional abilities, too
- controller: on large UI, use tooltip UI instead of bottom descriptions
- controller: fixed skill modifier missing in character creation
- fixed some potential script errors
- fixed an issue that could make a bullet potentially hit the same target twice
- fixed a few tutorial issues
- fixed a few issues with the debug console
- fixed Agira walking into the house when trying to distance from player character
- fixed an aggro issue when NPCs accidentally hit characters from other faction
- fixed being able to try entering stealth again when at 0 energy for it
- fixed a few issues with new energy weapons
- fixed not being shown Continue button in some cases despite having existing savegames
- simplified main menu
- updated camera scale for some resolutions
- allow <b>bold text</b> usage for localization mods
- added key binding for quest window
- additional bug fixes and small improvements

0.8.1.1

- fixed script error from latest update