Dear community,

patch 1.2 is finally here and we are bringing you the promised new features. I just want to talk a bit about motivation for that.

Over the last days, we’ve received so much positive feedback from many of you. We would like to thank you so much for your kind words! You can’t understand how much did this help to our tiny three-man team.

There is however one feature that wasn’t accepted too well – the stealth sequences. Watching streams, we’ve found out that some of the players have little to no problem to go through them while others can really struggle. We’ve been thinking about how to improve this and eventually decided to give you all a choice.

Patch 1.2 includes a brand new potion, which is called “Devil’s Pact”. This potion, for the price of losing a little bit of positive karma, cloaks you for 30 minutes from the fog children. Of course, you shouldn’t still try to approach them (they will see through the veil if you come close enough), but if you let them be, they will ignore you and you can make your way through stealth areas very easily. If you want to play these scenes in our original way, simply don’t drink the potion and you will experience our version. It’s entirely up to you and your choice. This feature influences many in-game systems but we’ve been testing days and nights and we hope you will enjoy this quite substantial addition to the game.

Another new feature is a “quality of life” improvement. If you press caps lock, you will toggle a Run lock feature (always run). Please keep in mind, that the game sometimes prevents you from running, so the Run lock is not synchronized to the “caps lock” green LED on your keyboard. Whenever you want to lock running, simply hit the key and you are all set.

Now here is a list of other fixes the patch brings:

Feature: Game now saves at the beginning of the Lea bench scene

Feature: After the bench scene, Lea should wait for Daniel before running deeper into the woods

Feature: Simplification of a tunnel bunker climbing wall

Feature: Devil‘s Pact herbs added to relevant locations

Critical: Potential game-breaking bug after quitting the game in the first bunker just after entering the bottom part.

Critical: Potential game-breaking bug if players don’t lock both latches at the cottage window

Critical: Potential game-breaking bug during the last rockfall if players fell into a trap during the escape scene

Critical: Game no longer hangs if the player enters connected slide from the bottom part

Critical: Fixed armoire movement in the morning after the cottage night

Critical: Fixed rare game-loading bug, which might cause many random issues

Critical: Fixed rare bug by ensuring underground level loading in the chapel

Fix: Lea now waits prior to a bunker before starting the dialogue

Fix: To-Do task correctly appears while searching for Lea

Fix: Lucky Leaf Camp box is now among collectibles

Fix: Completion level meter fixed when assembling a doll

Fix: Fixed karma when handing a doll over

Fix: Lea should not run in circles unless she really wants to

Fix: You can’t enter the Lea scene while calling with Eleanora

Fix: Adjusted walk speed while calling with someone

Fix: Call screen no longer occasionally disappears while being on the phone

Fix: After exiting the cave with Lea, you can no longer re-enter

Fix: Textures should be now readable even with lower settings (we are still investigating the cause)

Audio: Set voice-overs as a stream. Hopefully, it should help with VO cutting.

Audio: Fixed fly-buzzing attenuation

Audio: Fixed volume in the final cave scene with Lea

Audio: Fixed volume in the third bunker scene

Audio: Fixed garden door opening sound

Achievements: Fixed Guitarist achievement

Achievements: Fixed Folklorist achievement

Achievements: Fixed Complete Doll achievement

Achievements: Fixed Broken Doll achievement