- You can now invite friends via the Steam UI & friends can also join your lobby via the Steam UI
- logs should now be synced properly for everyone, as some events weren't syncing their event type to clients so you could scan what may have been an extra object, but would only scan as an object move
- Classic entities should now work correctly and not spawn almost instantly one after the other
- Okay i fixed so many bugs that i kinda forgot to document them all, but there was a plethora of classic bugs and new system bugs
- There's a LOT of new stuff on the back-end that sets the game up for the next content patch! Y'all will get to see those goodies in the future

Hey, everyone! Super sorry about the journal being a bit janky, i've re-written the entire thing and it should now work correctly everytime. I've tested it 100+ times and it was spot on each time!

Sorry everyone!

Thank you

Hey everyone! I've been excited to write these notes for awhile now!

(Headphone warning on one of the clips!)
New Things

• Amazing new DeathWatchers key art, created by (Guilherme Holz - https://www.gholz.art/)
  
• You can now T-Bag your friends. Sorry, crouch. You can now crouch!
  
• Completely new events system
  
  • Events are now moved and placed completely randomly within each room, so events witnessed in rounds will no longer get repetitive after a few play-throughs!
    
  • Events will get placed, rotated and scaled randomly on most surfaces within a room
    
  • Also works in Classic, but the new system is limited to just the two new maps for now! The others will be updated in the future!
• 666 Fall Lane (New Map)
  
• Cell Block H (New Map)
  
• The lobby has had a nice revamp & has a fresh spooky vibe!
  
• You can now completely customize your rounds, changing a wide variety of player, entity and location settings
  
• New Stealth System
  
  • The Entity no longer immediately knows where players are when hunting
    
  • During a hunt the entity will now search for players throughout the location and move a lot faster while doing so
    
  • Most interactions within the game (toggling a light, footsteps, dropping an item etc) the entity can now 'hear', some sound effects will cause the entity to immediately search the vicinity around the audio, whereas some will build up the entity's 'hearing aggression' and once that's reached a high enough value it'll immediately search the last heard audio.
    
  • Hunts now last slightly longer
    
  • New entity for the new maps that utilizes the new stealth system - this one also has a new unique ability
• Fog can now be toggled in the settings menu
  
• Screen space reflections have been added and can also be toggled on/off
  
• Anti aliasing options have been added to the settings menu
  
• You can toggle 'crouch toggle' in the 'key bindings' menu within the settings
  
  New Things - Classic
  
• Classic mode now has a text based tutorial on the 'Event Logger' Monitor!
  
• You can now see how many zaps your flashlight has left, displayed on your event logger monitor!

Changes - General

• I've tweaked the way events are generated at the start of the round, you should now get a wider array of events occurring. There's also a new requirement for events. Please give me feedback on this change, if it's too difficult I can tweak some values. But I think it'll be a welcome change!
  
  • Previously it was either (example)'5 or more required' or 'Must not occur'. Now there's also a (example)'5 or less required", this can really spice up rounds, requiring you to more observant.
• Herbs and their generated events are now affected by the current difficulty (Multiplier)
  
  • If you're on hard/nightmare (or the multiplier matches certain criteria), required and not required events
    will have higher amounts of events needed and there will be less to no herbs that require an event type to 'Not Occur'.
    Making the game overall harder and allowing for a wider variety of event types to occur per round!
• Players now have a second local light to light up their equipment while in complete dark
  
• Entity Sightings now leave behind Ectoplasm that can be logged after they've left, but only if they weren't logged. This can only be seen with a thermal_cam
  
• Audio Events now leave behind an audio signature that can be logged after they've occurred, but only if they weren't logged. This can only be seen with a thermal_cam
  
• Orb events now last for a significantly longer time, giving you a much better chance of logging them
  
• 'Sprint' is no longer instantaneous, you take a short moment to ramp up to full speed and subsequently a shorter while to also slow back down
  
• Added player movement dampening back in, so you no longer instantly stop moving when you stop applying movement input
  
• When a tie is met during a twitch poll, it will no longer randomly choose an event type you've deselected!
  
• When you drop an item, it will now automatically equip a new item within your inventory starting from the first slot
  
• Items are now slightly propelled when dropped
  
• When you pick up an item and your currently equipped item is a backpack, it will immediately equip the picked up item
  
• Entity visuals should now be fully disabled when they're invisible, so there shouldn't be any visual hiccups when the entity is invisible
  
• Items now produce audio when dropped
  
• Journal Log is now only automatically updated if your multiplier is 1.6 or less
  
• Hair should look thicker and be less aliased
  
• You'll lose more money per death as your multiplier increases
  
  • (Multiplier < 1.6)-200 per death,
    (Multiplier > 1.6 && Multiplier < 2.5) -350 per death
    (Multiplier > 2.5 && Multiplier < 3.5) -500 per death
    (Multiplier > 3.5) -750 per death
    (if this is too brutal I'll alter it or remove it)
• Dissappearence events no longer return once logged in
  Changes - Classic
  
• Classic multiplier now affects the types of events that can occur, as the multiplier increases you'll get less to none of easier event types
  
• You can now deselect monitors in classic mode with 'E' (interact)
  
• You now scare the entity away slightly differently via the flashlight! Explained in the tutorial.

Tweaks

• Player sprint speed is now ever so slightly slower
  
• Player local light has been reduced quite drastically
  
• All equip and unequip animations are significantly faster

Fixes

• Key bindings should now load correctly on game start instead of having to open the settings menu for them to assign
  
• Light emissives were incorrect, now fixed
  
• Classic cameras should no longer flicker or go haywire based on different hairstyles (lol)
  
• Can no longer see some medkit visuals you're not meant to see in first person
  
• Entity should no longer target dead players
  
• Classic 'previous investigation' information should no longer be incorrect
  
• Mics should now work on start without needing to walk in and out of player radius (hopefully, if it occurs please let me know in the discord!)
  
• Player meshes now correctly receive lighting when outside
  
• Hopefully no more hiccups with character data not being set properly on spawn
  
• Should no longer fall through the wall in Enfer Station
  
• Lots of other bugs, just can't remember them all, whoops

Only the two new maps utilize both the new events system and the new stealth system! I'll be updating the original three maps with all of the new stuff in the future!
As well as re-working both Enfer & Umb as I don't like they're current layout, they're too big. I'm going to alter them quite a lot and streamline them, they'll essentially be
almost completely different to how they are now!

• New save system is now implemented, should no longer have any save issues, however this means 'everyone' has had a full save reset, hopefully the last as this new system sets the game up nicely for the halloween content patch
  
• Wide array of classic mode bug fixes
  
• Player arms should no longer get offset after death
  
• Mouse should hopefully no longer get stuck after a classic round
  
• Controller mouse should work correctly with the pause menu now
  
• Various other fixes!

Primary point of this update is to get the game ready for the rather large halloween content update! The new save system allows for on the fly alterations! Should be the last time saves need resetting! (hopefully)

- Twitch Integration
- Buggies as usual, nothing prominent just various fixes!

Mini patch - EA-0.638

Completely re-written the lobby equipment system, so hopefully no more errors with it.
If you banish the entity you can now just leave without having to return anything and you shouldn't lose any gear!
You'll still lose it if you die or forget to bring it back if you've not banished the entity though!
You can now see the room the final ritual item was in if you failed to find it
Keybinds should save now, hopefully!
Emf should work everytime now
A lot of bugs.

Twitch integration will be ready soon

- Full character customization, basically had to re-do how everything related to the player visually works, which is why it took so long!
- Full revamp on character rigs and all character related item stuff, should be a lot cleaner now
- New animations for characters
- When you die in the deathwatchers game mode you now walk around as a ghost and can still use your -journal! Instead of shoulder spectating
-There's now a backpack item! I'm so good to you guys
-Event loggers now use a radial menu!

-Ritual panel now resets properly
-Journal should no longer be 'active' but not visible when returning to lobby
-Ritual spawn locations on UMB office fixed
-Customer services room can now be entered properly again on UMB Office
-Floodlight should now reset to its original rotation on equip, so it'll hopefully no longer be under the -ground
-Can no longer interact with your friends' desk monitors
-Classic entity breathing sound is now louder
-When a gamepad is detected a prompt is now displayed so people don't get confused why their mouse isn't working properly
-Photos should now be in the correct place when taken by a friend
-Player info board in the lobby should now always get player information properly
-Previous investigation info is now updated for classic & other clients receive the info properly
-Ready up should no longer reset
-Hopefully classic shouldn't crash on load anymore, please tell me if it does
-New players now start with 2000 dollars
-Equipment prices have increased slightly
-Can no longer see players head flashlight when they're isolated & everyone now blinks when an isolate hunt is triggered
-Obscene amount of random fixes for each map, especially enfer station
-Will no longer receive a free flashlight from classic mode
-Honestly so many other minor fixes

- Female rigs should no longer be invisible lol
- Enfer station (deathwatchers mode) no longer has the lower area, that area is now classic only
- Classic entity bugs fixed when you fail
- Can now add max items to equipped inventory at once
- Previous level data is now sent at a more appropriate time so everyone should get it properly
- Handprints no longer show footprints values for previous level data
- Not required events hopefully now no longer have the chance to match with a required event
- Can now change reticle size and change its colour
- Can also now invert mouse Y
- Can now change mouse sensitivity
- Audio events now work correctly on UMB_Office
- Setup save data in preparation for new items/equipment
- Should now properly return to lobby in classic mode when you lose
- Locations can now be bought via the buy station, so these will need re-unlocking for people who've - - already unlocked them (this will eventually be tied to XP/Level)
- Should be able to re-bind WASD, just make sure to CLEAR anything that even remotely uses the movement keys you want