Nocto and The Ray of Light – Update 1.1.0
This update brings a major round of quality-of-life improvements, journal fixes, menu polish, control improvements, safer level transitions, and Windows build refinements.
Journal and Level Progress
- Rebuilt the journal’s level-total system for much more reliable progression tracking.
- Levels that have not yet been entered now correctly display progress such as 0 / 300 instead of hiding their totals.
- Fixed active-level journal progress sometimes displaying 0 collected or failing to persist.
- Fixed collected values occasionally being replaced by temporary zero values during level loading.
- Fixed the amount collected so far incorrectly becoming the level’s maximum total and falsely showing 100% completion.
- Level maximums now remain based on the full original level contents rather than the objects currently remaining.
- Journal progress now updates live while playing and while the game is paused.
- Progress can no longer move backwards because of a delayed scene scan or save-state restoration.
- Improved tracking for Relics, Essences, Containers, defeated enemies, and Snappies.
- Relics stored inside Containers are no longer counted twice.
- Large levels with separately loaded areas now include all of their content in the displayed total.
- Improved compatibility with older saves and added automatic recovery from stale journal records.
Menus and UI Polish
- Added smooth animated sparkle particles around the currently selected menu item.
- Added a subtle purple ripple and distortion effect when clicking with the mouse.
Controls and Settings
- Improved control-menu navigation and reliability when entering or leaving submenus.
- Borderless fullscreen is now the default display mode for new settings profiles.
- The default frame-rate target is now 60 FPS.
- Improved graphics-setting initialization and persistence between sessions.
Level Transitions and Nocto
- Fixed a serious issue where returning through a portal could place Nocto inside scenery or at the wrong position.
- Improved return-position validation and safe spawn placement after level transitions.
- Hardened portal and scene-return handling to reduce invalid or obstructed spawn locations.
Windows and Steam Improvements
- Improved startup configuration fallback behaviour for display, save, and progression settings.
- Applied additional stability, performance, and release-build cleanup throughout the game.
Thank You
Thank you to everyone reporting issues and sharing feedback. These reports have been extremely useful in improving Nocto’s menus, controls, progression tracking, and overall reliability.
Please continue to let us know if you encounter anything unusual during your adventure!