It was another great year for Methods — the mobile version of the game is now fully released!
And thank you as always to the fanbase for the many, many fan-created works! Your enthusiasm inspires me to keep creating better and better works.
For this anniversary, I wanted to make sure I had some really big exciting news, so for the past several months, I've been working on a secret plan to make this happen, and I'm super excited to announce it here!
File 05 Coming in May!
Keeping this a secret was pretty hard, but I was actually working on File 04 and File 05 simultaneously for the past several months! I'll have more details on how I pulled off this crazy scheme in an upcoming devlog, but for now — just know that File 05 is 95% complete.
We're just finishing up the Chinese translation before launching the beta on Afdian and Patreon. Because I moved up File 05's production, Hangout Four will actually be releasing afterwards, though I made sure to do a bit of work on it too so that it won't take too long for that to be released as well.
This time, Team Tads is going to Montebello — what intriguing mystery will await them there, and how will Tads lead them? Lots of surprises are in store!
Mystery Score Update
Though I didn't have enough time to finish this before the anniversary, an update is in the works for Methods: The Detective Competition as well. For a long time, the biggest remaining regret I've had about the game is how you're forced to replay mysteries to proceed (at least for the first two Stages of the game — from the Third Stage onward it does away with that, fortunately). It can be frustrating, especially when the game is meant to be story-focused and not really trying to challenge the player.
So with this upcoming update, I'm going to be implementing a score screen. You will be able to proceed with the story even if you get a zero-star rating, without having to replay any sections. I think this will really help eliminate some annoyance, and it also makes it more fun to choose random dialog options that you want to see, rather than the answer you think is correct.
I hope you look forward to these big upcoming updates, and if you haven't gotten the game yet — it will be on sale starting now until May 1st at the lowest discount yet — 65% off! Enjoy ;)
Until next time!
— LockedOn & Erabit.