Hey everyone!
Yesterday, we announced that Dark Hours will be released on October 24th, 2024. To keep the good news coming, we're excited to share an update on the Prologue!
This update add 5 new missions objectives, the brand new full heist night game loop, giving you an overview at some of the content that will be available at the Early Access launch.
We also have focus this update on fixing bugs, and add new gameplay features.
Feel free to share your feedback on the Steam forums. There's also a Discord server available if you're looking to connect with other players or want to report any feedback, bugs, or suggestions! We hope you will enjoy this update!
This update focuses on:
- 🎯Add new heist objectives
- 🎁New gameplay items & in-game elements
- 🐛 Fixed bugs
- 💻 UI Improvement
- 🎨Color customization
- 🌎New languages (Indonesian / Thai / Ukrainian / Italian / Portuguese (EU) / Spanish (LATAM)
You can find the full patchnote below this news or on the Steam forum.
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Patch note #6 for Dark Hours Prologue (v0.5.12281P) - 11/10/2024
Gameplay:
- New: You can get a preview of what is the 'heist night', the game loop for chaining different missions consecutively.
- New: You can now select your contract from different mission
- New: We have added 2 objectives types, "Find and steal" & "Destroy the evidences", to the existing "Steal the vault"
- New: We have added 5 new missions and their objects to steal
- New: New playable items: some items are a preview of what could be useful for the next monsters of the Early Access
- New: One new cryogenic trap in the level, that can replace the previous gaz trap.
- New: You can push your friend when he is frozen. (Small tip: The hairdryer should keep your friends warm)
- New: A frozen player can break if hit too many times the walls: be careful to not break your friend!
- New: Customization is coming! You'll be able to change the colors of your thieves and see what customizations will be unlockable in Early Access.
- Change: The camera transitions from TPS to FPS should be smoother.
- Change: You can now trigger push buttons by shooting tranquilizer darts
- Fix: A fixed physics bug could occur, trapping players in walls or the floor.
- Fix: Dropping the crown in the van is no longer considered as not having the crown in the objectives.
- Fix: Players would sometimes get stuck in a ragdoll position after a KO; this is no longer the case.
- Fix: When holding a gate and another player presses the button to raise the door, is no longer killing the player holding the door.
- Fix: The grabbing of key items, especially the exit key, was difficult, so we made them easier to grab.
- Fix: Fixed post-process effect for the push action.
- Fix: Fixed flash post-process effect.
- Fix: The ability to trigger the hacking device minigame alone while playing in multiplayer.
- Fix: The arrows minigame UI would sometimes remain displayed while no more in the minigame action.
- Fix: Flipping the cutout right before the “cut the power” event occurs will no more cancel the event.
Monsters:
- New: You can now break the “Statue” monster.
- Fix: Monsters would sometimes get stuck (especially the statue at the entrance of the doors), which led to players being trapped in the room without being able to do anything.
Interface:
- New: An error code is displayed if the lobby is unreachable because of a network error
- Change: Removed the blur when inventory is open.
- Change: The van cinematic can only be skipped once all players have requested it.
- Change: The items have new icons
- Fix: The lobby password field is now properly displayed as not modifiable
General
- New languages available: Ukrainian, Thai, Indonesian, Italian, LATAM Spanish, and Portuguese (Portugal)
Known bugs
- Early players reports of objectives not always updated even when the objective items are put in the teambag
- Some physics bugs can still occur
- Some physics objects need to be tweaked
- Some UI buttons are not clickable if the resolution of the game does not match the desktop resolution