Maintenance update #2 deployed to beta datastream — The Swapper News

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Survey expedition reporting again. Engineering continues deploying corrective patches. Please note that these changes appear only in the beta2025 branch.

*** CHANGELOG ***
- Audio - more natural sound panning
- Audio - made text log character appear blip slightly louder
- FIX - Audio - player-centric sounds, like footsteps were sometimes panned to the side
- FIX - Audio - text log character appear blip didn't always play
- FIX - Input - cursor stutter due to a thread synchronization issue in cursor latency minimization code

*** PREVIOUS CHANGES (21 MARCH 2025) ***
- HiDPI visual matrix (display system) compatibility
- More future-proof windowing implementation
- Updated Steamworks SDK artefact and Big Picture keyboard overlay
- Added an option for Bump map anti-aliasing (improves stability of specular highlights)
- FIX - Input anomaly - cursor immobilization (cursor cannot be moved)
- FIX - Hidden terminal access causing catastrophic failure
- FIX - Possible instability in the audio subsystem
- FIX - Slight darkening on screen edge (from blur shader)
- FIX - Typo in a subtitle

*** ACCESS PROTOCOL ***
- Restart the Steam client if it's currently running
- Right click on The Swapper in the Steam library. Click properties.
- Select the Betas tab
- Select beta2025 from the Beta Participation dropdown
- Initiate patch sequence and confirm update completion
- Please note that if you switch to this branch, the save will not be backwards compatible. You can back up your save by copying the Documents\Facepalm Games\The Swapper 1000\ directory

*** ADDENDUM ***
- Please relay anomaly and instability reports via designated comment frequency (please include your system information e.g. operating system version). Anticipated public stream integration of patches imminent.

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