Greetings esteemed long term guests of the monastery!
Today we bring some exciting news, in preparation for the launch of The Stone Of Madness, we are also updating the demo to bring it in line with the launch build and the changes that have been made since Steam Nextfest. A big thank you to all of our pris... guests who have helped provide feedback and reports to help us make many of these changes! Some key highlights include:
- Prologue
- Most hard resets during the tutorial have been removed. Being caught or detected during the early stages of the prologue will instantly respawn the character in a safe point instead.
- Guard placement and routes have been reviewed
- Balance Adjustments – Multiple gameplay balance changes have been made to improve the overall experience.
- Controls
- Action cancel – Progressive actions (such as looting, or lockpicking) can now be cancelled using Left Click and Space. Progressive actions can no longer be cancelled using Right Click.
- Keyboard Scheme– Updated the PC keyboard control scheme.
- The Beckon Action has been remapped to Left Control (prev. Left Alt)
- Crouching has been remapped to C. (prev. Left Control)
- Toggle view cone – Left Alt + Left Click on NPCs will activate their view cone. Middle click still works as usual.
- Pushable blocks – Input options for interacting and moving pushable blocks with Eduardo have been reviewed and features several improvements.
- Mouse navigation – Character mouse navigation have been improved
- Left click interaction – Several changes have been made to improve detection of interactable items using left click.
- UI
- Skill change – Added control legend for Skill change on the HUD
- Character selection – Added a new panel showing the deployed characters and their respective control keys on the HUD.
- Deployment Popups – Players are now notified when new guards are deployed.
- Menu navigation with mouse – Mouse actions on menus have been reviewed and updated with several improvements
You can find more information about the Demo itself in our Demo FAQ here.