• Another attempt to fix the dialogue softlock thing. If you still hit it, please let me know.
  
• Plugged some holes in railroad station.
  
• Made leaves normal.

• You will now go straight into a slide if you land with your slide button held.
  
• You can now jump from crouch.
  
• If you killed NPCs, they have been resurrected. They should not be able to permadie for the next few days. In the near future, I will readd permadeath for NPCs, but you will get more of a warning to prevent it happening accidentally.
  
• Changes made to dialogue system to address softlock some players hit during branching dialogue trees. If you continue to get this problem, please post a screenshot in the forums.
  
• If you pick up a weapon, replace it with another picked-up weapon, and then exfil, you should now be able to pick that weapon up again on a subsequent run.
  
• Cleaned up lighting on Cherry Tree and Railroad Station, particularly in dark and oily places.
  
• Improved the lightmaps on Benj's Trophy.
  
• Plugged holes in the ground outside the station terminal.
  
• Fixed disappearing music in the railroad station.
  
• Fixed the vault door's unlocking animation.
  
• Lowered the water level in the heart of the Heart of the City to prevent accidental drowning.
  
• Tidied some load zones underneath the chillout room.

Hey everyone,

Just pushed a patch that should improve performance and latency for many of you. People using DLSS will see the most improvement, but everyone will hopefully see better responsiveness.

This should also fix the rectangular flame particles some of you were seeing in the Exposition. Please let me know if you're still getting those.

I'm going to prioritize fixing the dialogue softlock bug—thank you all for being patient with that. If any of you have information about that, please share in the forums. That will go in a patch with a number of other QOL things and small changes people have brought to my attention. Once all the little fires are out, I'm going to target performance again, specifically to address the slowdown people are seeing on the Railroad Station level.

As ever, thanks for the feedback you've been giving in the forums, it's been very helpful.

Hey, everyone. I uploaded a patch a little while ago. Here are some of the bigger things it changes:

• Made some changes targeting the input lag that some players get. If you were getting input lag before, it'd be great for me to hear if it feels at all different to you on this patch. I have some more things I plan to do tomorrow but wanted to get this patch out tonight.

• Hopefully fixed the softlock some players were getting when they had multiple choices in a dialogue. If you had this problem, please let me know if this fixed it for you or not.

• The Deago's accuracy and reload speed have been improved.

• Made the slide less volatile and more easy to control, especially on slopes.

• Motion blur toggle added.

• Reduced Stargazer Robe's floating effect.

• Tweaked collision on the crossbow's bolts.

• Added "Gary's health potions" to the Pan-American Exposition overworld. These are normal health potions that my friend Gary needed me to add.

I have another patch that should go up tomorrow with some more balance changes and tweaks. I'll also share a bit of a roadmap in the next few days. Thanks for all the feedback, and very glad to see you enjoying the game.

• Lumen is now disabled by default.
  
• Physics objects in the Baltimore & Potomac level have been changed to reduce CPU load in the level.
  
• Husband now responds correctly to receiving his diary.
  
• You can now perform a high jump out of a slide.
  
• Geo in Heart of the City has been tweaked to resolve some navigation problems.
  
• Shimrod is now a little clearer about where his knitting needles went.
  
• Virginia is a little better-lit.
  
• Items that prevent bonking should actually prevent bonking now.

• Improved gunplay. I've made some changes to how shooting works to make it a little more reliable and consistent. If you're aiming at a guy that you're close to, that bullet is hitting him. It will fry him. I hope this will reward players for having wonderful aim.
  
  
• Added headshots. Shooting an enemy in the head will deal more damage and allow you to go even faster. It will make a distinctive sound and probably destroy them.
  
  
• Enabled loadout changing in-game. You can now change your loadout from both the in-game pause menu and the end-of-run wrap-up screen. You no longer have to back out to the circular president-stretching devices to change your loadout. I hope this is nice. You still CANNOT change your loadout without restarting the level because that is NOT how this game works.

• Updated gear system. I have filled the world with items. Find them and put them on your heads and legs. Smear them on your body. They will make you better and worse at things, and sometimes have other stranger effects.
  
  
• Use gear to break seals. I have added a new way to break seals for players that do not care to earn medals. Now you can progress by exploring, discovering things, using those things they discovered. I wanted to support players that prefer going slow to going fast. If you still prefer going fast, don't worry. You're still all set up.
  
  
• Strangers with desires. I've added more complex people to the world. Some of them have things they'd like you to do. If you help them, things will change. Maybe you'll have long and beautiful friendships with them. I can't speak more on it.
  
  
• Accessibility features. The big one is more granular settings for FoV stuff for people who struggle with motion sickness. Also added an option to keep the timer permanently hidden for people who don't need that looking over their shoulder. More of this kind of stuff coming with EA.
  
  
• Weapon swapping. Now you can hold two weapons. And swap.
  
  
• New areas. :)