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0.8.1.0 is a minor content update released on 27 February 2023.[1] The update includes new difficulties and a further rework to custom difficulties, a new "Challenge Mode", a new Monkey Paw cursed possession, and an improved equipment store interface.

Additions[]

Difficulty[]

  • New "Insanity" difficulty (differences from Nightmare listed):
    • Ghost will hide two types of evidence
    • No cursed possession
    • Ghost room changes more often
    • Long hunt duration and kill increase duration
    • Sanity pills restore much less sanity
    • 75% starting sanity
    • 6x multiplier
  • Maximum reward multiplier possible is now ~15x
    • Reduced the reward multiplier addition for several options
    • Adjusted Apocalypse Challenge multiplier requirements:
      • Bronze: 6x+
      • Silver: 10x+
      • Gold: 15x
  • Added rules to reduce rewards when certain combinations of options are turned on
    • Will show a yellow warning icon beside the option
  • 'Evidence given' option set to 2 or 3 will now soft cap the multiplier
  • Removed 6s 'Grace Period' option
  • Removed 'Sprint Duration' and 'Sprint Recharge' options, now defaults to 3s sprint/5s cooldown
  • Changed 'Sprint' options to On/Off/Infinite
  • New "rotational difficulty": Challenge Mode
    • 26 difficulty modes, each available twice a year
    • Completing the challenge 3 times on a specified map provides rewards
    • Free equipment; no equipment loss
    • Playable in solo or multiplayer

Equipment[]

Monkey Paw
  • Grants the player wishes
    • Wishes can be found in Sunny Meadows
      • Wishes do not have to be found for the player to use them
    • Exact mechanics will be revealed 2 weeks after release
Crucifix
  • New visuals, audials, and textures
Tarot Cards
  • “The Tower” card will now additionally double all ghost activity for 20s

Other[]

  • New riddle event consisting of runes in lobby
  • Improved UV visuals
  • Improved weather particle lighting
  • New visual and audial weather effects on all windows when raining
  • Several foliage objects will now be affected by windy weather outside
  • You will now receive an in-game message when a new game update is available to download
  • Fuse Box sparks now bounce off objects instead of clipping through them

Changes[]

Equipment[]

Crucifix
  • Increased hunt cooldown from 5 seconds to 25 seconds (20 for Demon)
Haunted Mirror
  • Favourite room will no longer be visible if used at 0% sanity
Summoning Circle
  • Lighting a candle with no sanity will now extinguish it instantly
    • Lighting the 5th candle with no sanity will cause an instant hunt

Gameplay[]

  • Saying "goodbye" on the Ouija Board no longer counts toward challenges
  • Renamed the High School bathrooms to make it clearer where they are
  • The night vision camera effect will now adjust brightness when entering and exiting foggy areas

UI[]

Equipment Store
  • Shop and storage reformatted to act similar to an online shopping cart
    • Items will be added with + icons, then player chooses to Buy, Sell, Add or Remove
    • Clear list with trash icon
  • New icon to show number of items added to lobby
  • New auto-add button for loadouts
    • Will auto-add whenever player has enough equipment, else equipment must be bought first
  • New All items loadout
  • Several icons have been improved

Other[]

  • Reduced the range and resolution of several environmental lights slightly
    • Will decrease the chance of shadows becoming overly pixelated when having lots of lights turned on in a location, and decreasing the chance of an object hitting the “maximum lights” limit (e.g. resulting in black floors or DOTS casting no light)
  • Ghost Orbs can no longer go through walls into a different room
  • Fog quality settings have been changed for better visual clarity across all settings
    • Low – Downsampling at 2, no shadows
    • Medium – No downsampling, no shadows
    • High – No downsampling, receive shadows
    • Removed blur effect
  • Renamed Daily and Weekly Challenges to Daily and Weekly Tasks to avoid confusion with the new Challenge Mode difficulty
  • Improved and fixed the visuals of light sources on the PC monitors in Prison
  • Improved the visuals of the collectible cabinets in the warehouse lobby
  • Failing to join a room with a password now gives a more descriptive error

Bug fixes[]

  • Ghosts can no longer interact with windows on the floor below them, in both Farmhouse locations
  • Voice recognition will now work for all players if other players loaded in slowly
  • Removed several safe spots in Prison, Maple Lodge Campsite, and School
  • Several shaders and materials will now render correctly
  • The Voodoo Doll can no longer stop hunts
  • Using the Voodoo Doll, Tarot Cards, Music Box and the Summoning Circle will now count towards the “use Cursed Possessions” task
  • Items will no longer teleport in the SM Courtyard when thrown in specific spots
  • Patched up some holes in the Sunny Meadows Courtyard floor
  • Removed an invisible wall upstairs in Edgefield
  • Improved Anisotropic textures for radiators, rugs, outside ground, SM flooring
  • Ghosts can now kill you on the blue beds in house maps
  • Ghosts can now detect active electronic equipment if they were grabbed when active
  • Voice recognition will no longer work if you have the ‘text’ voice recognition option enabled
  • The Apocalypse stickers will now show in Singleplayer instead of Multiplayer
  • A book in the Sunny Meadows Courtyard is no longer only a shadow
  • Removed several shadow rendering issues in Sunny Meadows and Tanglewood
  • Thaye will now have the correct interaction rate before aging
  • Window knocks now count as an interaction for stats
  • Tasks featuring “Asylum” will now display “Sunny Meadows”
  • You can no longer sprint or move while in the death room
  • Setting a preset for a custom difficulty and changing a cursed possession, will no longer apply that change to the actual preset difficulty, instead of just the Custom game you are editing
  • Standing in DOTS light will no longer stop sanity drain
  • You can now see your hands on your monitor when in VR and smooth camera is enabled
  • Ghost orbs can no longer be seen with a photo camera
  • The ball in the upstairs Ridgeview closet will no longer glitch when the hiding spot is blocked
  • Ghost orbs in the outside "rooms" in Camp Woodwind will no longer be very high above the ground
  • Video cameras will now receive the ghost glitch effects
  • The “Sky Light” will now turn on and off accurately with your settings
  • Lighter flame is now being considered for the Onryo hunt ability when blown out
  • An Onryo will now have a higher chance to blow out a flame, the more players that are dead, instead of a lower chance
  • Hunts will now end if all players are outside
  • The haunted mirror will now drain a minimum of 20 sanity per use instead of 27

References[]

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