🛠️ Hotfix Update
Thank you for all the feedback you've shared during Steam Next Fest.
This hotfix focuses on quality-of-life improvements, settings usability, multiplayer stability, voice chat fixes, and general polish across the demo experience.
🎮 Settings & User Experience
Fixed an issue where Brightness settings would not properly revert after selecting Discard.
Added live Field of View and Brightness controls at the top of the Graphics Effects section.
Settings now correctly warn about unapplied changes when leaving menus, including ESC and back navigation.
🌐 Multiplayer & Social
Improved lobby creation flow. Failed room creation now displays an error message and keeps players in the lobby instead of returning them to the main menu.
Added retry and fallback behavior for room creation across regions.
Improved Steam Friends integration with profile avatars and clearer friend room indicators.
Fixed voice chat behavior so disabling voice chat now correctly mutes incoming voice as well.
🧟 Gameplay Fixes
Improved dead body carrying and throwing behavior.
Improved ragdoll stability.
Fixed fall damage initialization issues that could occur in certain scene loading situations.
🎨 UI & Localization
Added a Credits screen accessible from the Main Menu and after the Demo Wishlist Portal.
Improved UI readability and visual consistency.
Improved button text contrast.
Improved font consistency.
Updated multiple Turkish and English localization strings.
🔧 Stability & Technical Improvements
Added fixes to improve Discord Rich Presence reliability in IL2CPP builds.
General bug fixes and stability improvements.
Thank you for helping us improve The 4 Masked. We’ll continue monitoring feedback and releasing updates throughout Steam Next Fest.