A bit of housekeeping for you, Doctors.

• Improved chain exploding for multiple barrels/objects with the 'combustible' tag
  
• Added a giblet spawn check system to help prevent corpse giblets from spawning outside the game world
  
• Huntsman Beastform Detect Life effect now fades away when using the inventory or journal
  
• Adjusted sell pricing for serums to better match the per dose value
  
• Added falling death and impact sounds for Goatman
  
• Improved force direction for Goatman slash attacks
  
• Goatman horns are now usable in Goatman serums
  
• Adjusted colors and brightness normal and Blood Moon weather settings to maintain the appearance of night
  
• Added captions for Beastform Huntsman mutterings
  
• Added Detect Life effect to Edward and Oliver
  
• Removed Detect Life effect from Grezzo
  
• Added note that Huntsman Beastform can use the Doctor's arsenal in journal
  
• Added a weather quality setting to 'Video' settings
  
  
  
• Improved entity collision and surface detection of projectiles
  
• Various minor improvements to memory and performance handling
  
• Console Command 'Beastform [form]' can now be used without a duration parameter for permanent beastform
  
• Console Command 'Beastform [form] 0' can be used to cancel beastform
  
• Console Command 'Set Inventory Size (x,y)' will now work with inventory upgrades (the largest values will be used)
  
• Console Command 'Infinite Ammo [value]' now works correctly after enabling 'Cheats 1'
  

• Huntsmen will now verbally acknowledge the Doctor while in Huntsman Form
  
  
  
• Huntsmen now have lines to inform each other when they've discovered the Doctor's true identity while in Huntsman Form
  
• AI will now become hostile if they witness Beastform Doctor attack an ally or create combat sounds unless already in combat
  
• Tweaks to AI target sorting to allow more situations where Beastform Doctor can join allied enemies in fighting other enemies
  

• Small and medium physics objects, like food, can now be placed onto the trap as bait while in carry mode
  
  
  
• Traps now become consumed after 2 uses on standard enemies and 1 use on large enemies
  
• Traps now visually attach to leg of target creature when triggered
  
  
  
• Fixed issue where ballistic projectiles would not trigger the bear trap
  
• Added break sound when trap becomes used up
  
• Broken trap debris now fades away after a time
  
• Improved save state loading and handling
  

• Fixed Goatman sometimes becoming permanently lit on fire from the attacking Huntsmen
  
• Increased Goatman's burn duration and vulnerability to that of its Tavern counterpart
  
• Increased Goatman defense multiplier against AI targets
  
• Fixed issue where the ambient Goatman sounds and music would persist after its death
  
• Standard Fishery music now resumes when returning to the Fishery after the Goatman encounter
  
• Fixed issue where Goatman could get stuck pathing the accounting office
  
• Fixed issue where safe 451 code dealt more player damage than intended
  

• The power switch for the Hive now defaults to 'Powered'
  
• Fixed issue where the power generator states would not save or load correctly
  
• Fixed Hive music not playing when entering via the Pump Station turbine route
  

• Fixed 'Brain Sample' research jar having incorrect entity ids
  
• Fixed some fire sources not being affected by the 'choke' tag (from Choke Bomb and Choke Bolts)
  
• Fixed some projectiles not always delivering their stim tag effects
  
• Fixed issue where projectiles could sometimes richochet off AI contact hitboxes
  
• Fixed AI entities not always flinching when attacked while unaware
  
• Fixed captioning source for AI after they were gibbed
  
• Fixed some instances where AI could not hit each other while in close proximity
  
• Fixed save/load issue with patrolling or leashing AI not always returning to their last task
  
• Fixed Crowman and Crowking vomit attack dealing more damage than intended
  
• Fixed Huntsman hats converting into the wrong item type
  
• Fixed texture skin issues with Beastform viewmodels
  
• Fixed Beastform sounds and properties not properly loading between saves and area transitions
  
• Fixed Crowman Beastform lifesteal effect applying to some entities without the 'meat' tag
  
• Fixed issue with swapping multiple items between melee slots
  
• Fixed picking up the Handlantern sometimes holstering the active weapon
  
• Fixed Bonesaw not correctly negating incoming damage when guarding
  
• Fixed Harpoons igniting entities with the 'combustible' tag
  
• Fixed Harpoons sometimes not spawning the pickup variant when hitting a valid surface type
  
• Fixed Harpoongun clipping in the inventory
  
• Fixed issue where jumping off a slope would cause the player to inherit slide velocity
  
• Fixed jump height modifier not working correctly when sliding
  
• Fixed shop items sometimes disappearing when loading a save
  
• Fixed being able to pickup and select non-slotted weapons without having the luggage case
  
• Fixed being able to pick up items through the drawer of a dresser object type
  
• Fixed oxygen values not loading correctly on area transition
  
• Fixed issue when loading the offhand handlantern in some rare situations
  
• Fixed player being able to physically push around AI or NPCs
  
• Fixed some incorrect room portal values causing sound propagation issues
  
• Fixed some roof windows not correctly allowing AI entities to fall to their death when shattered
  
• Fixed scorch decals not correctly showing up after explosions
  
• Fixed some Crowman giblet pieces having the wrong physics collision layer
  
• Fixed issue where damaged door collision would prevent projectiles through gaps
  
• AI thrown axes and hatchets should now correctly penetrate through windows
  
• Fixed weather types not correctly showing up in the Coastal Cave area
  

Now that all that's out of the way - we can focus exclusively on the Hightowne district.

Here's your first look...

The Constables await.

Well would you look at that Doctor!

Two Gloomwood updates in two months?

I'd say you're on a roll!

The Huntsmen.

But that's not all!

• [p]Crowman research will now give you a permanent holstered speed boost[/p]
• [p]Bat Barber research will give you a permanent jump height boost[/p]
• [p]Goatman research will give you a permanent damage reduction[/p]

And don't forget that Goatman serum... you're going to want it...

• [p]Research is now available sooner[/p]
• [p]Huntsman research added (detect life ability)[/p]
• [p]Multiple dose serums added[/p]
• [p]Journal improvements[/p]
• [p]Passive research bonuses added (even headshots!)[/p]
• [p]New labels for monster part jars[/p]
• [p]New ammo type added[/p]
• [p]New voice lines added[/p]
• [p]New encounters, music and weather (when you return to old areas)[/p]
• [p]You can now turn the power off to the Hive (it spooky)[/p]

• [p]Full Patch Notes[/p]

• Improved cache handling of shader variants to reduce shader compilation stuttering
  
• Improved memory handling causing performance and stuttering issues over longer play sessions
  
• Creatures will now attack the Doctor if repeatedly attacked even while in an allied Beastform
  
• Creatures will now attack each other after repeatedly receiving friendly fire by other allies
  
• Replaced static medicine and alcohol bottles throughout the game world with interactive pickups
  
• Improved the visual FX of claw and blade trails for most creature attacks
  
• Added bundle variants for flaregun bolts and harpoons
  

• Added Beastform Doctor corpse carry viewmodels
  
• Added Beastform Doctor swim animations
  
• Fixed shortcut slots not being cleared correctly and causing slotted weapons to change
  
• Fixed Canesword and Bonesaw guarding not always blocking attacks from very close enemies
  
• Fixed Bonesaw guarding not always playing the guard fx
  
• Fixed Bonesaw draw not being correctly flagged as a one-handed action
  
• Fixed fall damage not being correctly calculated while in a non-Batbeast form
  
• Fixed issue where repeatedly mantling/jumping in Batbeast Form could prevent attacking
  
• Fixed Crowman Beastform light gem not reading lighting data correctly
  
• Fixed Goatman Beastform getting stuck when exiting transformation while in a low ceiling area
  
• Fixed force physics when gibbing enemies while in Beastform
  
• Fixed weapon redraw not working when exiting Beastform in some scenarios
  
• Fixed some viewmodel lighting having incorrect light anchors
  
• Fixed handlantern viewmodel not having a correct animated motion configuration
  
• Fixed issue where Journal rendering when multiple inputs were pressed
  

• Increased the size of the cabin chimney
  
• Added handles to many of the interactive slanted window types
  
• Locked off the vent room beneath the cargo room... for now
  

• Fixed wooden barricade being breakable by the Canesword and Bonesaw
  

• Increased the size of the Lighthouse chimney
  
• Fixed 'Research Diagram' not correctly spawning when the laboratory opens
  
• Fixed laboratory bookshelf not correctly flagged as platform for its books
  
• Fixed roombrush in laboratory causing some dropped items to be silent
  

• Huntsman corpses can now be carried or gibbed for body parts
  
• Fixed Goatman being able to jump through the attic door and elevator shaft if blocked
  

• The chimney in the first Manor now connects properly to the outside
  
• Added handles to skylights to the blood altar room
  
• Improved texturing in the blood altar room
  
• Crucified Goatman will now spawn correctly on load and can be gibbed for body parts
  
• Fixed incorrect localization id for Market Waterfowl Tavern key
  
• Fixed elevator to the Emerald Terrace sometimes instantly moving back to its initial position
  

• Fixed issue where using primary fire could trigger the buy action in the shop
  
• Fixed some items would not correctly print out on the Merchant's shop receipt
  

• Fixed blood rain not correctly triggering on Blood Moon
  
• Improved performance of rain in some scenarios
  
• Added weather exclusion zones to some areas that should be blocking rain
  
• Fixed issue where mantling out of the electrified water at Lampfire Power Station would not clear the damage trigger
  

• Fixed Countess dialogue focus volume not being reset if player skips the Seal
  
• Fixed some lightmap issues in the exit saferoom
  

• Fixed New Game and Load Game not working correctly if a incomplete save is found in the save folder
  
• Fixed issue where flaregun projectiles would incorrectly bounce off surfaces or not affect targets
  
• Fixed projectile force not always pushing targets in the correct direction
  
• Fixed windows blocking projectiles even after being destroyed
  
• Fixed an issue where AI could path through a closed door if near a steep incline
  
• Fixed issue where Fishdogs and Rats could not hear player footsteps while sleeping
  
• Fixed Crowbeasts not being immune to acid damage (like from exploding eggs)
  
• Fixed metal doors and pickups not being marked as indestructible
  
• Fixed wooden planks not playing destruction fx
  
• Fixed issue where door crushers could damage entities that aren't the active blocker
  
• Fixed issue where traps could make non-flesh physics objects bleed
  
• Fixed flaregun light beam not correctly disabling when loading or transition levels while holstered
  
• Fixed issue where AreaPortals wouldn't correctly render the fog plane
  
• Fixed issue where air bubbles would not appear underwater in some bodies of water
  
• Fixed issue where sliding on a steep slope wouldn't limit contact momentum
  
• Prevent climbables from being grabbed while in Noclip mode
  

Patch v0.1.305.02

• Fixed an issue where some old saves would not load area transitions with out of date data
  
• Fixed some pickups not setting the correct loaded quantity
  
• Fixed metal crates not being destroyed by door crush triggers
  
• Fixed armor huntsmen missing some innate physical resistance
  

Patch v0.1.304.28

• Research system has been added! Enter the mirror realm and take the passage to the lighthouse laboratory to start concocting
  
• A dark presence grows inside the Doctor, and it yearns to claw free
  
• The journal has received a rework, now having diegetic hand animations and new art and quality-of-life adjustments for each section
  
• The tabs for the journal can now be selected with the 1-6 Weapon Select keys
  
• The area selector for the 'Files' section of the journal can be rotated with the 'Lean Left' and 'Lean Right' keys
  
• The journal health and mind meters will now show 'Excellent' when the player is at max value
  
• The Bonesaw melee weapon has been added, a new melee weapon with heavy damage and the ability to cut up corpses, but lacks the canesword's sneak damage bonus
  
• Enemies now stagger based on an internal poise system instead by random chance. Faster weapon attacks (like canesword swipes) should now consistently
  trigger enemies to stagger when used in rapid succession
  
• Improved entity defense and damage handling to ensure better consistency
  
• The Flashbomb stun time has been increased to 8 seconds (from 6)
  
• Improved the throw animation of the Chokebomb and Flashbomb to sync up with the input
  
• Reworked the art of the default syringe
  
• All enemies now have pickup and item giblet types
  
• Improved hit detection of player melee weapons and attacks
  
• Improved handling of canesword and bonesaw chained attacks
  
• Improved swimming and water transitions
  
• The action log will now inform which item was dropped if not enough space was found
  
• Increased ambient brightness on some key types
  
• Improved Goatman walk animation
  
• Improved effect textures for some melee trails
  
• Added a sound cue that plays when entering a new district for the first time
  
• General performance and art improvements
  

• Added an ingredient stockpile to the Fishery main building
  

• Fixed issue where the waterfalls could clip the player into the cliff wall
  

• The Doctor's Laboratory will now become accessible after visiting the Mirror Realm
  

• An ingredient stockpile has been added to Dr. Thatherson's Apothecary
  
• The Drunken Waterfowl tavern has been opened
  
• The crucified Goatman can now be gibbed
  

• The 7x5 Inventory Upgrade is now available upon arriving at the Merchant's Shop
  

• An ingredient stockpile has been added to Van Der Meer's warehouse
  
• Fixed an issue where the electrified water in the Power Station would not correctly electrocute enemies
  
• Improved AI pathing to allow non-leaping enemies to reach the basement level of the Power Station
  
• Fixed Gate 3 not correctly getting jammed visually when activating it from the Control Room
  

• A new secret exit has been added
  
• The sideroute from the archeology digsite now has a deployed rope to aid players who skipped the harpoon gun
  
• Fixed issue where corpses would not always break falling damage
  

• Fixed incorrect baked directional lighting
  
• Fixed issue where the player could get stuck in the falling teleport plane
  

• Fixed issue where crowking corpses would spawn crowmen giblets
  
• Fixed issue where carried burning objects would incorrectly clear its instigator
  
• Fixed issue where rats could get stuck in bidirectional rat holes
  
• Fixed issue where thrown projectiles would sometimes not be parried or deflected correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where huntsmen rifles would not sometimes have a pickup round in them
  
• Fixed issue where AI footsteps would not register sound traps (like shattered glass piles) correctly
  
• Fixed issue where the Gold Crank from Van Der Meer could not be carried without an inventory
  
• Fixed issue where the shortcut elevator gate in the Underport canal would not open
  
• Fixed issue where the Goatman would not receive crushing damage from elevators
  
• Fixed issue where crosshair would incorrectly reset when drawing and undrawing a main hand weapon while the handlantern was raised
  
• Fixed various chest opening clipping issues
  
• Fixed some lamps not having a light flare
  

Doctor! The old laboratory at the lighthouse is up and running again.

Time to get to work...

• Winter event has been extended to January 10th
  
• Added Winter attire for watchdogs, infected rats, crowmen, crowkings and crowbabies
  
• Added new Winter ambience for outdoor and indoor spaces
  
• Added Winter icicle props to some statues
  
• Crowkings and crowbabies are no longer marked as spoiler tagged entities
  
• Adjusted various sounds and the AI reaction to them
  
• Added player landing sound for glass shards material
  
• Slightly increased AI sight range on Full and Blood Moon
  
• Slightly increased AI non-alert dark vision range
  
• Adjusted several AI attack states to allow flinch/headshots to interrupt them
  
• Increased brightness of iron key pickups to be more visible in the dark
  
• Increased size of shader variant collection that are prewarmed on startup
  

• Added some pickup bricks to Mr. Croup's office
  
• Added interactive crank recepticle and gate to power generator room
  
• Improved the geometry of the well cavern beneath the cabin
  

• Fixed drawbridge shortcut collider not correctly being set when raised
  
• Fixed some geometry issues with the barnhouse
  
• Fixed fort gate not raising to the correct height
  
• Fixed issue where the padlocks controlling the door to the cannonball storage room would not respond correctly
  
• Fixed some issues with the main city gate collision
  

• Added some decal indicators to show the elevator needs power and some additional guiding lights
  

• Added additional snowball piles to area
  
• Fixed several doors not correctly applying their lock state
  
• Tweak light culling distance for some lights around the barbershop
  

• Added snowball piles to area
  
• Fixed exploration music not triggering when entering the area
  
• Improved geometry and texturing in some areas
  
• Fixed water volume in sewer that was not activating correctly
  
• Added metal crates to crowmen sewer section to aid with the door timer
  
• Improved navigation in power station basement to allow humanoids to enter the flooded area
  
• Removed key in tram station that had no purpose
  

• Fixed the shotgun pickup in the supervisor station locker disappearing on load
  
• Fixed some navigation jump links not being correctly usable by crowmen
  
• Added empty valve recepticle on the other side of the waste treatment gate door
  
• Improved geometry and texture work of engineering area
  
• Added additional signage and hints of goal around engineering area
  
• Oil drums around the finale area now correctly change state on the harder difficulties
  
• Sealed the area beneath the elevator platform more thoroughly for the finale sequence
  
• Flagged several nearby stalagtites as non-mantle-able near the finale elevator
  
• Added buttons to the top of the finale elevator to call or lower the elevator
  
• Fixed incorrect sound and weather room configuration in some spots
  
• Fixed some sound emitters not working correctly
  

• Fixed Winter hats not correctly appearing on huntsmen, fishdogs, batbarbers and rats
  
• Fixed issue where snow would appear in several indoor areas
  
• Fixed issue where snowballs would not correctly apply the blind state duration
  
• Fixed issue where chests would collide with world geometry and not open
  
• Fixed active music not loading correctly after saving the game via the save slot menu
  
• Fixed vent doors not being interactive after opening
  
• Fixed AI not updating their search state to new contact detection events
  
• Fixed AI not correctly applying their sense proficiency overrides
  
• Fixed some instances of AI not correctly checking for door states or applying their door block status
  
• Fixed issue where the canesword would not detect the correct body material of dead huntsmen props
  
• Fixed crowking not fleeing when on fire
  
• Fixed fire sources not correctly loading their save state
  
• Fixed physics objects duplicating after parrying a throw projectile
  
• Fixed several issues with chokebomb/chokebolt saving and loading
  
• Fixed issue with ceiling windows not correctly updating navmesh and physics collision after being shattered
  
• Flagged pickup harpoons as not mantle-able to prevent physics issues
  
• Fixed some issues where pickups would have the incorrect stack size on spawn
  
• Fixed various instances where ladders would have the incorrect material sounds
  
• Fixed various issues when multiple valves are linked to a single sliding door
  
• Fixed issues with water flow values not being applied correctly
  
• Fixed issue with 'spawn item' command when spawning unloaded weapons
  
• Fixed some sound portal and propagation issues
  

• Improved player/enemy body collision handling
  
• Improved some data handling to during scene loading
  

• Fixed several AI patrols not initiating correctly
  

• Fixed transition door not correctly locking during the scripted intro event
  
• Fixed guncase shotgun not being able to be picked up after shattering the glass
  
• Fixed issue where goatman could jump through attic door
  

• Fixed several cabinet/padlocks in the gun shop that weren't working correctly
  

• Changed new playthrough inventory upgrade to 7x5 upgrade instead of 8x6 after returning the first seal. 8x6 will still be available later in the game (note: you can still give yourself the 8x6 upgrade early through the console with the command 'give item_luggage_upgrade_8x6`).
  
• Improved shop dialogue handling for luggage case upgrades
  

• Fixed various AI patrols not starting correctly
  
• Fixed issue where Van Der Meer's golden crank would incorrectly transform into a normal crank when dropped out of inventory
  
• Fixed lighting issue near the first bridge sewer segment
  
• Fixed levers for canal bridges not correctly allowing them to be raised or lowered in older saves
  
• Fixed issue where canal bridge would not play sound correctly
  

• Fixed water clipping issue near the egg drop in room
  
• Fixed several geometry issues
  
• Fixed AI event issue during the finale event
  
• Fixed some incorrectly assigned sound portal links
  

• Fixed save/load issues that prevented proper state persistence and transitioning to other levels
  
• Fixed flare rounds for the flaregun duplicated after save/load
  
• Fixed issue where explosive barrels wouldn't properly damage breakable objects
  
• Fixed issue where some elevators wouldn't crush the player
  
• Fixed issue where some metal pipes would make the incorrect footstep sounds
  
• Fixed issue with valve wheel item description
  

Good doctors! We know it has been quite some time since we've updated you on Gloomwood development...

So please sit back as we dig into what we've been up to...

NEW AREAS

NEW FEATURES

WHAT'S BEEN TAKING SO LONG?

After we released the Power Station, we noticed performance and compatibility was becoming an issue for many players. And after some deliberation we decided we wanted to get ahead of these issues before releasing more content.

So... we've been reworking the lighting (again) and several systems in the game which will not only improve performance but allow us to have new lighting features (caustics?) and most importantly for us, shorter light bake times.

Previously, our production light bakes could take up to two days to complete before we could accurately test new content, but now with these new systems our bakes are down to 1-2 hours! A MASSIVE improvement.

These new features are still being tested so bear with us as we get through this challenging part of the game's development that will hopefully be well worth the time we've invested into it.

THE HIVE

Thank you for your patience as always.

Gloomwood is an incredibly complex game to develop and we appreciate your support.