Hello, good doctors of Gloomwood.
Quite a week it's been, aye?
Since releasing Gloomwood into Early Access, we are thrilled to report that it has become New Blood's fastest selling title EVER. Eclipsing the launches of DUSK, AMID EVIL, and even the mighty ULTRAKILL.
Turns out the immersive sim genre isn't so CURSED after all.
But while we'd love to celebrate, this is no time to rest...
We've been gathering your feedback from everywhere you've spilled it, and we've heard what you want from Gloomwood.
This is Early Access after all, and if you're familiar with the way we do things around here, then you'll know that we're committed to building our games WITH you, the players. Because that's how you make better games. Isn't it?!
You've told us you want MORE CONTENT and MORE DIFFICULTY OPTIONS.
And we're going to give it to you.
Today we're releasing a small update that adds some balance tweaks and other goodies...
GENERAL
- Increased stealth benefit from Lean action as long as body is obscured
- Tweaked AI vertical vision to reduce spotting players directly above
- Increased the size of safes to allow players to hide in them
- Added a certain special Looking Glass-style code for safes
- Adjusted ammunition/supplies on all difficulties
DIFFICULTY: FULL MOON
- Incoming player damage set to 150%
- AI combat movement speed increased to 120%
- AI attack speed increased to 120%
- AI projectile speed increased to 120%
- AI sight angle modifier increased to 110%
- AI sight range modifier increased to 110%
- AI hearing radius modifier increased to 120%
ENEMY: AXE WOODSMAN
- Increased speed of axe windup and recovery
- Receives a significant movement speed boost when in close proximity to their target
ENEMY: RIFLE HUNTSMAN
-Increased maximum rifle shooting distance to 30 meters (from 15)
ENEMY: FISHDOG
- Bite damage increased to 15-18 (up from 10-12)
- Recieves a movement speed boost when in close proximity to the target
- 'Bark' sound can now be heard from further away (including from other Fishdogs)
NEW ENEMY VARIANT: ARMORED HUNTSMAN
- Does not receive backstab damage from the Canesword
- Immune to physical damage in the torso/head region and resistant to physical damage elsewhere
- Resistant to bullet damage in the torso/head region
LEVEL: FISHERY
- Added inventory manual note that documents all special inventory actions
- Added additional secret area
LEVEL: MINES
- Added additional Fishdogs on the higher difficulties
- Added Armored Huntsmen on the higher difficulties
LEVEL: LIGHTHOUSE
- Tweaked tavern exterior and cellar geometry and added note to improve flow and lore
- Tweaked AI patrols to feel a bit more natural
- Added Armored Huntsmen
BUGS
- Fixed Brightness menu slider arrows not working correctly
- Fixed issue where Brightness menu contrast images would not factoring base contrast correctly when first opening
- Fixed issue where AI would fail to load task queue correctly and walk in place on load
- Fixed issue where AI would cancel search unexpectedly
- Fixed save/load issue with AI failing to return to leash
- Fixed issue where AI conversations would not resume correctly when loading a save
- Fixed issue where Fishdog bark/howl teasers would continue to play after they are disabled
- Fixed key for padlock along Lighthouse coastal path not having correct id/description tags
- Fixed issue where tutorial prompts would appear even with tutorials turned off
- Improved handling of broken/corrupt user.ini parsing
- Set default text culture to Invariant Culture to help prevent non-English OS issues
- Fixed various null refs and potential crashes
But that's not all...
You asked for it, so you're gonna get it. And probably sooner than you think.
BLOOD MOON difficulty will feature harder (and more armored) enemies, more alert AI, limited saves and more tweaks to make your experience in the accursed town of Gloomwood... just that.
But we haven't forgotten the people that want more lenient options as well. So SOON we'll also be working on Crescent Moon difficulty and Lunacy (custom) Difficulty which will allow for QUICKSAVING plus easier enemy encounters as well as MORE health and ammo to find.
But tweaking the balance in a stealth game like Gloomwood is understandably hard for a small team like ours, so we're going to need YOUR HELP.
We're going to be opening up a Public Testing Branch for Gloomwood that will allow you to test these difficulty changes before they go live in order to give us feedback and let us know if we're doing it right!
We hope you'll use this opportunity to help us continue to make Gloomwood the best experience it can be for players of ALL skill levels.
We'll see you SOON™ doctors.
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