The newest patch is now available for everyone using Windows, MacOS and Linux. This new update is focused on stability and performance issues instead of adding new features. We have revamped a lot of internal systems to create a smoother gameplay experience. It has been a really long and ongoing process over the last whole year (unbelievable).
Besides fixing the smaller bugs, we deactivated uploading your previous progress on Challenge Vault server. From now on you can't upload your older times and you have to achieve them again in order to get them uploaded. The previous solution had been fair until the newcomers started to be affected by ghost-players, who weren't playing BLACKHOLE but just started the game recently. The times for LEVEL 10 and SOE LEVEL 1 are purged for every player as the replays and times unfortunately got corrupted by this update.
We tried to avoid this purge as much as we could, but unfortunately the changes made in our game recently unabled us to solve this in another way.
We hope you all will enjoy our improvements. You can find the changelog below.
1.9 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Fixed more than 300 small bugs
- 2015 profile upload to Challenge Vault server deactivated
- Fixed the blocker when skipping the main menu during the start of the game
- New function in leaderboards - skip on top / bottom
- New "Director's Cut" dialogue lines
- Fixed spacing in subtitles for all languages
- Fixed minor mistakes in all languages
- We removed all "inappropriate language" from the dialogues in respect of rating
- Fixed Challenge Vault functionality for Vanilla Levels
- Xinput & Direct Input Controllers are now supported on MacOS
- Added Direct Input Controllers functionality for DualShock 4 Controller to options menu
RESOLVED ISSUES
- (FIX) Fixed names of achievements
- (FIX) New asynchronous save system
- (FIX) New asynchronous loading system
- (FIX) Fixed players' names in leaderboards
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing that controller's vibration function continues indefinitely
- (FIX) Fixed achievement for "Spilled coffee" which was granted everytime even if the player didn't spill the coffee
- (NEW) Added the information to the profile about the game completion in percantage (%)
- (NEW) Added functionality which will copy your original profile when entering into Easy Mode - that way, you can switch back later without losing your progress
- (NEW) Now instead of text representation, you will see actual icons on selected controller in options menu
KNOWN ISSUES
We are working hard to fix these reported issues as soon as possible:
- There aren't any issues right now. If you know about some bug which affected your gameplay, please tell us here: Discussion forum
What's next?
We finished the console version of BLACKHOLE last week. And since we are waiting for its release, we can finally move to our planned spin-off. We announced BLACKHOLE: Last Mission in the Czech Republic, but very soon we will have more information in English, too. Stay tuned! You can check the website of the game for more information.
We want to thank you for all of your reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you'll like the update on our Steam Discussion forum!
Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve various problems with the game. Feel free to check it out here! :)
Enjoy the game,
FiolaSoft Studio :auriel:
