Performance & Smoothness Update live now!

Hey spider gang,

A big performance, stability, and smoothness update is now live! ✨

The main update features:

🏃 The game now runs faster and more consistently on all hardware!

📸 The camera and web-aiming are far smoother!

⛓️ The physics (cables, chains, objects etc.) are rock-solid!

For those of you who want to read up on all the details, you can find the in-depth rundown below!

See you all soon! A Webbing Journey Team 🕷️💫

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Headline improvements

Performance across the board

• Significant framerate improvements in every level, with the biggest gains in the busiest scenes (Kitchen, Living Room) where lots of objects and creatures are active at once.

• More stable, more consistent framerate — fewer dips, less stutter, smoother overall play. Older and lower-end machines benefit the most, and higher-end rigs get extra headroom on top.

• Lower memory usage while playing.

Smoother camera & web-aiming

• The camera is now noticeably smoother, especially while swinging and in mid-air.

• Web-aiming is now perfectly centered and jitter-free — the aiming reticle sits precisely where you're pointing and stays rock-steady, making it much easier to place webs exactly where you want them.

• The camera, spider, and aiming are decoupled from the physics rate, so everything stays fluid even when the framerate fluctuates.

No more jitter

• Fixed airborne jitter on the spider and its legs — jumping and swinging look clean and smooth now.

• Movement and jump/swing feel is now consistent regardless of framerate.

Rock-solid physics

• Fixed a long-standing bug that caused cables and chains to become unstable and thrash around. Cables, hanging lamps, and chains are now calm and stable.

• Movable objects settle and come to rest properly instead of micro-jittering.

Smaller download

• The game is meaningfully smaller to download and install.

More technical details

• Framerate independence: Jumping, swinging, wind zones, the kids-room car-track boosters, balloons/rockets, and creature movement were all reworked so they behave identically no matter the framerate. Previously, some of these were subtly tied to performance.

• Camera rework: The camera and aiming now update on the render loop rather than the physics loop, with proper interpolation. This is what eliminates the swing/mid-air jitter and keeps the reticle centered and steady.

• Cable/chain fix: A scaling bug had been causing cable segments to constantly self-collide, making them unstable and expensive. Fixing it made cables stable and dramatically cheaper to simulate.

• Physics settling: Objects now correctly go to sleep when at rest, removing both the micro-jitter and a constant background performance cost.

• Broad optimization pass: Extensive rendering and draw-call optimization (shader consolidation, material batching, level-wide cleanup) plus reduced per-frame overhead on the spider and cooking systems. Much of this was originally driven by the mobile version, but the PC/Steam build gets all the same gains.