It's been fun working on Toilet Spiders, and I'm excited to bring the game out of Early Access with the 1.0 Update! Thank you everyone who's played and provided feedback. Here is what's new in Version 1.0:
- Randomized Scripted Scare Moments: The spiders have escaped their toilets... Players have requested more life to the facility in between bathrooms, so as of v1.0, you may now encounter unexpected events during your playthrough. Keep your eyes peeled...
- Along with the controller vibration that was added in the last update, there is now DualShock 4/DualSense controller light support on desktop! If you have a PlayStation controller handy, give it a go.
- "Resource Peek" ability added! I got tired of having to pause the game to check my light bulb/flashbang count when entering a bathroom, so now you can hold R1/Tab at any time to "peek" at what you have in your pockets.
- Super rare spider kill variant, by request (of a five-year-old.) Exactly one out of the 100 spiders present in the facility has now learned karate.
- Commentary Mode! Like all Fullbright games, Toilet Spiders now has a dedicated Commentary Mode. Just toggle it on in the options and a selection of Commentary icons will appear throughout the facility. Activating them will give you a little insight into the inspirations for the game, how it was made, how it works under the hood, and other little bits and bobs! It was fun to make and I hope you'll enjoy learning a little bit more about where the game came from. I mean, Half-Life 2 just did it, why not us? Oh, and there's a new Achievement for finding all the Commentary nodes in one run as well.
Bugfixes and tweaks:
- Fixed a visual gap in the floor in the storage room behind Barracks, a couple of places where the player's view could get inside an occluder volume.
- Fixed one or more instances where controller vibration could continue when it wasn't supposed to.
- Improved a couple instances of frame hitches on interact.
- Improved visual appearance of volumetric lights.
- Fixed issue where vertical look sensitivity was scaled down too much compared to horizontal when using mouse.
- Fixed issue where player couldn't pause or interact while "Volunteers Remaining" text appeared onscreen.
- Ensuring menu flow on backing out of restart confirmation screen works as intended in all cases.
- Fixed an issue where if you died/restarted while standing in the Courtyard, main camera's clear flag would be set improperly.
- Fixed issue where you could hear the audio fade up twice in a row when restarting in certain situations.
OK, from this point forward Toilet Spiders will be in maintenance mode-- so if you run into any major bugs, let me know in the Steam discussion forums. And if any new translation languages come in, I'll add those in an update as well! (If you'd like to do a translation into your language and be credited in the game, take a look in the Steam discussion forum for instructions.)
Alright, thank you Volunteers-- and good luck!