Sorry for the delay on full Steam Deck support over the last few days, we had a small hiccup on the Steamworks backend, but all is well and the game now launches 2.1 on Steam Deck!
Take a look below at the patch notes!
Update
- Steam Deck Verified
- Steam Cloud enabled
- Archives updated to contain the Projectionist and descriptions for other characters
- All chapters except Archives unlocked regardless of progress
- Resolved issue with black screen in the Archives
- Unity Upgrade to version 2022.3.62f2
Localisation/Text
- Traditional Chinese added and localisation for all languages reviewed and updated
- Fonts standardised to remove font changes mid-word (temporary measure while fonts are updated/new fonts sourced)
- Resolved issue where some text did not update localisation immediately when language was changed in Settings
- Updated credits for PSH and copyright dates
Audio/Art
- Various fixes for collision and item positions
- Various fixes for static items that were not meant to be static
- Adjusted distance of view fog in Giant Ink Machine room
- Markings on ink tube puzzles now display correctly at all quality levels
- Added SFX to Break Room door in Chapter 1
- Audio of spilling ink does not loop indefinitely when hitting barrels with the plunger
- Swollen Searcher audio no longer triggers multiple times when collecting Thick Ink
Gameplay
- Resolved various softlocks and crashes caused by saving, dying, or becoming stuck while in unintended locations
- Holding the attack button now continuously performs an attack with all weapons
- Weapon ranges increased for Syringe and Plunger
- Improved stability of Seeing Tool, particularly when interrupted by cutscenes
- Minigame camera sensitivity now matches player setting
- Screen no longer flashes when camera control is returned to the player after a scripted transition, e.g. after completing minigames
- Ink Demon spawns more frequently in Chapter 3
- Prevented Ink Demon from catching player while actively entering Little Miracle Station
- Valve for the Archives door in Chapter 4 can be picked up immediately
- Gent Pipe no longer becomes unbreakable when fighting Boris
- Projectionist does not appear on Level 11 after being killed on Level 14
- Prevented Piper from dying before it has jumped out from the poster in Chapter 3
- No longer possible to break the first ink blobs too quickly when the Giant Hand appears in Chapter 5 and prevent it from being able to attack
- Giant Hand no longer clips through the tunnel wall
- Sammy can no longer push the player out of the map in Chapter 5
- Butcher Gang no longer get stuck as easily inside rooms in Administration
- Made it harder to escape the gondola and elevator
- Menu/UI
- Seasonal content last all of October and can be toggled in Options
- UI scaling adjustments for Steam Deck
- Save icon now appears again when doing manual saves
- Brightness setting now applies fully when first changed
- Menu navigation stability improved with controller
- Objective UI improvements: no objective is displayed while in the Archives, UI updates when finding Wally's keys, and tips are not displayed anywhere when disabled in Options
- Resolved issue where controller prompts were always displayed in tutorials with a controller connected but inactive
- Resolved issue where excess resolution options were displayed in Options
- Resolved issue where options menu may be unusable with invalid registry keys
All platforms received a Quality of Life update, check out their patch notes here: Quality of Life Update 2.1.0
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