We’ve made a ton of changes and fixes to the game over the past week or so! And we’re confident there’s more bugs to find. If you’ve got time over the next few days we’d love your help. Play the game, fill out a survey, and get a free copy of the game! It’s our only way to compensate for your playtesting time. :)
Playtesting will officially close on 10/31 at 4pm (PT) Here’s a list of changes and fixes that were made. (Possible spoilers ahead):
- players could move at 10x speed after skipping the end of cutscene.
- players were unable to control other character's minds until dying at least once
- players would lose access to learned codenames after interacting with the doctor's door.
- added the ability to leave mind after viewing it without having to walk away.
- fixed 4 typos and removed an issue that would cause "else" from if/else statements to appear in dialogue
- players were unable to progress past the doctor's desk due to a dialogue bug during transition to the facility at night.
- when reading mind and selecting open dialogue, the game would not freeze properly and would allow you to move while inside dialogue ui
-** added a main menu button**
- game would freeze after restarting if you opened the pause menu and pressed enter after dying.
- allowed pause menu to show up in more scenes (press ESC) to pause any time
- made the kitchen doorway opaque (considering simply removing the wall)
- fixed various odd, ui/button mechanics
- added a close button to readable items (you can also just walk out of them any time)
- added a final 20s countdown as you near psychosis
- extended the amount of time you have in each mind, as well as the penalty as mind fortitude increases (to balance increased time)
- fixed some weird, spammy stuff going on with the 40min survey pop up
- overhauled portrait buttons! Hover over them to see the time remaining until psychosis. They’ll also scale up and shake and show time remaining every time your mental condition decreases.
- enhanced a few dialogues to give better hints regarding who might open up to who.
- talking to Linda as Avery will now trigger a different response so she doesn’t gossip about him to his face (fixed a few of these for different characters too)
- character portraits will hide temporarily when you see a characters thoughts and available actions
- psychotic break would continue going off through several different scenes when it wasn’t supposed to.
- fixed lots of typos
- updated collision on all objects for less snagging and awkward navigation overall
- fixed a couple of visual bugs causing assets to show over the character
- pause menu didn’t fully pause while in the mind control game
- update the door security system: door panels now say which character is needed to access, otherwise you just need the security level.
- fixed a handful of dialogue system bugs causing crashes or displaying parts of if else statements
- tracking of mind stability in and out of the server center is now stable and reliable (hopefully)
I think that’s all of it! Thanks again to everyone who found these. I know it was rough at times. You should be able to play through at least the first half of the game (I really hope) almost completely bug free. lol.