Developer comments:
A new update is live in FOREWARNED, including some of the community's top requested quality of life improvements, fixes, and new features. We're also very excited to share that a special in-game collaboration with Labyrinthine is available as a seasonal Halloween event! Read on for full patch notes.
Reports have come in of an unknown entity having breached the Labyrinthine from whence it came and is now haunting the ruins of FOREWARNED. With archaeological progress being slowed, it's up to you to investigate these reports and capture evidence of its existence.
- A new 2026 seasonal Halloween event is now live, featuring a terrifying foe from the world of Labyrinthine you may encounter during your expeditions with a unique challenge.
- Completing this event will unlock a brand new seasonal cosmetic.
- Launching FOREWARNED during this limited-time event will grant two in-game points available for immediate spending in the Points Shop.
- Gold and XP earnings will be doubled during this event.
- The event starts now and lasts until November 14th at midnight. Past events do not need to be completed to experience this one.
- Labyrinthine's side of the crossover launched today as well, so be sure to check it out!
- To avoid confusion for new players learning about evidence, the group must be at least a combined level 15 to experience this entity.
- An encounter counts as reanimation.
The Radar System is significantly reworked to improve its utility and appearance.
- The Radar System's map has received a visual overhaul designed to better distinguish boundaries of rooms, walkable pathways, and areas blocked off by a sealed door or wall.
- The Radar System can now transmit directly onto your journal screen for map access on the go, available with the purchase of the Radar System II upgrade in the Shop.
- Greatly increased the max zoom out capability on the map to see its full layout.
- Moving/zooming on the Radar Map has been improved for easier control.
- Added a hint text to the Radar System's bottom display when no rooms have been mapped.
- Fixed Player arrows not appearing on the map in some cases.
- Fixed an issue in which the coloring of player radar arrows could appear inconsistently among teammates.
- Fixed an issue that caused the map to appear skewed/stretched.
- Fixed an issue with rotation when switching views in the Royal Outskirts.
The Transmitter has received a number of updates to improve responsiveness and accessibility, including a complete overhaul to the voice recognition system.
- Spoken words now immediately appear on the Transmitter's display for real-time visual feedback.
- The UI has been updated to better convey the status of the transmission.
- The backend voice recognition system has been updated to no longer rely on Microsoft Speech Recognition, allowing for platform-independent use of the Transmitter. This also solves several issues that existed with the previous system.
- An accessibility mode has been added to the Settings menu to allow for Transmitter use even without a microphone.
The Divining Rod has received several buffs to make it a much more useful tool throughout the round.
- Levels II through V have been removed, instead consolidated into one powerful tool level.
- Activation cooldowns have been removed, allowing for infinite seek duration.
- Rod rotation speed has been increased for more accurate directional guidance.
- While active, the rod now automatically updates its target if a nearer valuable is detected.
- The rod will no longer point towards a valuable you cannot reach, such as treasure behind a sealed door or wall.
- The rod can now also target canopic jars, red levers, the relic, and the blue lever.
- The color of the symbols on the rod during activation will update to indicate the current target.
New TNT upgrades are now available in the Shop.
- Level II: An upgraded TNT that packs twice the punch. Holds two (2) charges.
- Level III: An upgraded TNT with three (3) charges for triple the fun.
- In general, the beeping of armed TNT will now be heard by Dekan.
New unlockables are available for purchase in the Points Shop.
- Players can now customize their Hard Hat color with full RGB selection.
- New pet: "Hans" the abomination - lends you a hand (or four) at defending yourself in the ruins.
- New pet: "Looty" the monkey - automatically retrieves gold for you within 12 meters.
Several new changes and quality-of-life improvements have also been made.
- Living players can now dance.
- A new item is available to purchase in the Shop - the Lore Folder, dedicated to storing hieroglyphic documents. Adds an additional inventory slot that stacks pages.
- 40 new challenges have been added to the weekly Challenge Board rotations for a more diverse set of challenges each week. This starts October 29th to avoid wiping this current week's progress.
- The last-taken photograph per player during an expedition will now appear in the lobby.
- "Transcribe All" button added to Lore view, which transcribes all non-transcribed collected lore pages.
- PC players will now see when teammates have their journal open during expeditions (already exists for VR).
- Players can now choose to equip their Hard Hat in the lobby using the mirror.
- Ouphris' mimicking ability will now also include players' customization options.
- Network ping is now shown in the lobby next to player names.
- Added a new "Global Voice" sound slider to the Settings menu to control global smart watch volume.
- Improved in-game voice chat quality, reliability, and background noise reduction.
- Players now have the ability to set teammate's voice volume above 100% for quiet mics.
- The yearly Halloween Seasonal event duration has permanently increased from November 2nd to November 14th.
- The 2023 Halloween Event will now always spawn 5 pumpkins per tomb instead of 3-5.
- Current and all future Halloween seasons will reward double gold and XP.
- The Halloween and Challenge Board's end time now reflects more precisely, down to the minute.
- The Challenge Board will now automatically refresh when expiring, instead of needing to start a new round or restarting the game.
- Updated the default journal binding from "L" to "TAB". Players who already rebound this key are unaffected.
- Arachnophobia/Ophidiophobia Modes now hide the corresponding Pet's picture in the Points Shop.
- Added missing footstep sound effects for the Dog and Cat pets.
- Lowered the volume of several overly loud destructions, horror events, and creature attacks.
- Opening the Shop now auto-selects the first item for preview.
- Fixed many cases where certain sounds didn't have an audio slider assigned to them, causing them to play too loudly.
- Fixed an issue where players could erroneously fall out of bounds in the Royal Outskirts map.
- Fixed an issue where players could fall through terrain when loading into a round.
- Fixed an issue where the pet bird would continuously teleport to the player while riding an elevator.
- Fixed the 50th ushabti collection failing to trigger its Steam achievement until game restart.
- Fixed several cases with certain Challenge Board challenge completions not being awarded to all team members.
- Fixed cases where the tomb's lower level entrance archway leading to the ritual fails to glow.
- Fixed an issue where prestige level could get cut off past 2 digits.
- Fixed a case where the "Complete a Round with Medkits Off" would incorrectly trigger as successful.
- Fixed an issue where Ouphris' appearance wouldn't match for all players.
- Fixed Mejai stun effects from TNT not playing for guest players.
- Fixed the pet bird's bonus move speed from not applying for VR players.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the pet bird's bonus move speed from being ignored when Always Sprint is enabled.
- Fixed a sound bug that could occur when using the Divining Rod or Radar Sensor during their activation/movement.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a disturbed sarcophagus to endlessly play the disturbed visual and sound effects.
- Fixed an issue where the Shop's "New Items Available" ping could continue even after seeing all new items/upgrades.
- Fixed an issue where pumpkins could fail to spawn inside the ruins during the 2023 Halloween Event.
- Fixed an issue where the scroll handle wouldn't reset to the top of the list in the Shop.
- Fixed an issue where the Hierolens II purchase requirement was missing from prestige checks.
- Fixed an issue where the displayed XP after dying mismatched the actual amount earned.
- Fixed an issue where players could fall through a gap in the floor of the variation #2 Ritual Room.
Happy Halloween :)
