We received a ton of great feedback and comments, so we immediately jumped on the most pressing bugs and issues.
Check out the changelog for the first batch of fixes - build: 6508
Ladders
The handling of ladders has undergone a major overhaul. Climbing ladders isn’t as insanely fast anymore, making them way easier to navigate, and we’ve also increased the ladders’ collision boxes, giving them a bit of “coyote time,” so it’s much harder to fall off them.
Note for the players: At the end of the ladder, no need to jump. Just go upward and you'll automatically climb up. If you press an extra jump, the player will push off the ladder.
Fall damage
If you did fall... We've fine-tuned the fall damage too, so even if you fall from a ladder (or from any kind of hight) you now have to fall from much greater heights to suffer serious injury or even die.
Charley (Mild Spoilers)
Charley is fixed and tamed now. He no longer can cause a softlock, his quest is updating no matter how you finish him, and some of its values have also been changed. Spoiler-filled details below:
Charley can't go near to the Heal-O-Dome stations, so he can't cause a death-loop there.
Charley's health has been significantly nerfed. WARNING! He's still by far the strongest boss in the game, but now he can be defeated even without performing the secret ritual - as long as you're careful and resourceful.
Charley's attacks are a little more forgiving.
We've also reduced Charley's speed a bit, but his long-range jumps are still dangerous.
In addition, we fixed the bug that prevented Charley's quest from being completed unless it was finished with "the ritual".
Save system
The save system has also been revamped. From now on, the game will always make an auto save in the Janitors' Haven hallway, and we've also added a “Save and Exit” feature to the in-game menu. You can still exit the game without saving if you want, but now you have the option to save whenever you leave the game.
Mutamod UI overlap
There was a nasty UI overlap if you purchased a lot of Mutamod upgrades in Dr. Miriam's Mutamod vending machine. (especially level 2 and level 3 ones) It is fixed now.
New PDA in stasis
We put a PDA (PHCD) in the very first area of the game (Stasis Section), beside the first audio log you encounter. Now you can immediately check your stuff - like the transcripts of the audio logs, objectives, etc.
Luxury code
We fixed the server override code in the Luxury Section. Now if you pair the letters with the numbers in the correct order, you can override the system and no need to brute-force the solution.
Duplicated log
There was a duplicated auido log (History lesson 2), now it can be found only in one place instead of two.
Achievement description fix
One of the achievement descriptions (Warren Wrenchman) was misleading, so we corrected the wording of it.
This was just the first update, expect more in the near future!
We are now working on edge-case softlock issues and a lot of quality of life changes and performance fixes. Please keep the feedback coming, our to-do list grew quite a bit because of your ideas and suggestions. We'll continue to work on further improoving the game.
If you encouner any problems, reach out for us either in the Steam discussions, or on our Discord server. We are really active and checking the messages in an hourly basis.
Keep on groovin', Janitors! - The Team.
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