A week of fixes, most of them straight from playtest reports. Thanks to everyone who sent one in.
"They fixed me. I did not ask to be fixed." - Mr Sock
Stability
- Fixed a crash during dialogue playback, caused by audio timing being read on the wrong thread.
- Fixed the controls dying permanently after opening and closing the pause menu at an awkward moment. If it happens again, the game can now recover instead of needing a restart.
Coins and the ticket
- Coins on the tracks come back after you die, or after Jo sleeps. Previously every death on the tracks destroyed one of the twelve coins for good, and it was possible to run out entirely.
- Picking up a coin no longer empties your inventory. You keep whatever you were already carrying.
- The coin stays in Jo's hand after she lowers it, instead of quietly ceasing to exist.
- Jo now pinches the coin between thumb and index finger, like a person would.
- The ticket machine no longer reads its lines out of order once Jo has the coin.
Mr Sock
- The cigarette now only appears while he is actually smoking it, and it works at the second ashtray in the lab as well as the first. Before this, it could turn up before Jo had agreed to hand it over, and then stay in his mouth for the rest of the game. He was not smoking it. He was just holding it. For hours.
- Restored the timing on 150+ of his gestures, which had drifted out of sync with his own dialogue.
- Fixed his idle animation. The single-frame pose has been given room to breathe, and he holds still during "I'm too late" instead of fidgeting through it.
"Four whole seconds of idle. Luxury." - Mr Sock
The station
- The emergency button and siren now reset the moment Jo dies. The siren used to keep going through the death, through the bedroom, and through the entire walk back.
- Fixed time-reset alarms being dropped instead of waiting their turn.
Chapter select
- Rebuilt all five chapter saves so they load properly. Three of them had quietly stopped working as the game changed. Chapter 3 now resumes with the train arriving.
Menus
- Fixed menu audio and visual effects that worked in the editor but went missing from the packaged game.
Known issues
- The Q-Cat music can arrive later than it should.
- Mr Sock animates during "But the ticket says 1:03" when he should hold still. He is aware. He is not sorry.
