Halloween Update v0.4.0

Changes

• NEW GHOST: The Widow

• NEW MAP: St. Lawrence Hospital

• Halloween theme: Lobby decorations and character skins!

• Localization for the following languages: Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Russian, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese. More to come.

• Zay ability rework. You can now also pickup Cupcake ingame and he can sniff out rooms for Cursed items

• Spirit Phone tool rework. Now it lets you talk to other players not just dead teammates. Toggle it on and talk!

• Ship map rework.

  • Added new map specific mechanics such as flooding and steam pipes.

  • Burner now only rotates on higher difficulties between 3 places, though I'm thinking of reworking this too in a hotfix.

  • Large areas that were annoying to navigate are now switched to double light switches impacting the same lights, or triple if needed.

• Reworked Miasma visuals to not have the smoke anymore. Just red light now.

• Added Chromatic Aberration setting

• You now get refunded the money for items left in the lobby.

• Kick is now indicated in text instead of "connection lost" so there is a difference.

• Ghost speed now balances a lot stronger with difficulty (please give feedback on this)

• Added an alternative insanity feedback type in graphic settings.

• Heavy items now just get automatically dropped on using abilities.

Fixes

• Fixed 2 crashes on launches related to Dolby Atmos and GameAnalytics

• Fixed crash related to exiting and entering the car

• Fixed a few crashes related to voice chat

• Fixed most disconnects related to the connection being overloaded.

• Potential fix for the Hanged Man delay bug, overall made it more reliable

• Some quality fixes for ship map such as glowing materials in the dark

• Fixed a lot of ghost events not working for all players.

• Nyx ability now works for spectators

• Fixed a bug with game not ending if last player leaves.

• Fixed a bug where you can duplicate the default loadout

• Fixed a bug with default load out not showing for new players right after the tutorial

• Fixed output device being empty on launch sometimes

• Some fixes to cupcake so it can reliably follow player better.

• Spirit Phone now has a proper effect on its sounds instead of clear audio.

• Made the backend a lot more reliable

• Improved voice chat stability.

Known issues/Planned features

• Speech recognition overhaul for Mimic and listener

• Character Progression and Perks(Gonna take some more time sadly)

• More localization languages, and localizing the Steam page.

• Adding a Refund chute in the lobby to refund items on demand

• New Lantern tool that can protect from the dark

• Revival dolls character plushies

• Lobby minigames and fun stuffs

• Known bugs we'll hotfix include Zay inventory bug, Stalker stability in hospital, muting not persisting, hotfixing the Widow's humming