--New Additions--
Molly The Seal now has an icon on the HUD indicating how many of her copies are remaining on any given map and will decrease as the player encounters her.
There is now a retry box that appears after being caught by Wally or Mrs. Wally. Players can now choose to retry the current level immediately or return to the main menu like before.
There is now a VSync toggle in the options menus. Having this setting on may reduce screen tearing when playing the game in full screen.
The quit game confirmation box now appears when using the quit game button from the in-game pause menu.
The text displayed under the Salmon Radar UI has been changed to specify that the ping sound is emitted from the nearest flower relative to the player.
--Bug Fixes--
All the glow effects on text in the main menu and glowsticks have been reduced. This is to help for general visual clarity and for lower-end monitors.
Nightmare Wally's death animation can no longer cause a game crash.
Fixed an issue where the game quality button was not applying its current setting properly under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue where some option menu buttons did not have a sound effect when clicked.
Fixed various spelling errors.
--Adjusted the game balance--
+Increased the players' walk and sprint speed. (walk 500 -> walk 520) / (sprint 2000 -> sprint 2100)
+Increased the players' stamina regeneration rate for level 1 & 2 stamina. LVL 1 (4.0 -> 4.5) / LVL 2 (7.0 -> 7.5)
+Reduced the amount of neglect Mrs. Wally generates while not looking at her. Normal Difficulty (60 -> 45) / Hard Difficulty (80 -> 60)
+Increased Mrs. Wally's heartbeat sound radius. (outer inner radius 4000/400 -> outer inner radius 5500/600)
+Nightmare Wally's nightmare gauge will now increase by 50 or 40 instead of 60 or 40 on his gauge intervals.
--Dev Notes--
Happy 2026! To start the new year, I'm releasing the first minor sized patch for Wally the Seal 2. This patch seeks to fix some long standing issues and further improve the overall balance the game. I've wanted to do this update for a while now but am currently being sandwiched between two other major game projects. I am fairly content with the state of Wally the Seal 2 and most likely will not update it again unless someone requests some sort of critical bug fix that needs to be addressed, but I'm always open to other adjustments as well, such as balance. I'm working really hard on my other game projects and will definitely be getting one of them out soon. Please enjoy this new update, and as always, thank you for your continued support!