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• Fixed an issue where some old saves would not load area transitions with out of date data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.

Good luck, doctors...after this things are going to get... darker.

• New area
  
• New enemies
  
• New loot
  
• More story & lore
  
• First person swimming animations!
  
• Rat AI (not made with AI)
  
• All new rain and weather effects and soundscapes
  
• The Crowmen HIVE is our next update
  

Hello again good doctors.

Apologies for the lack of announcements over the last few months, but we've been... rather busy.

And today we bring you a full report on progress of Gloomwood's upcoming Underport District.

The Underport will be the largest and most interconnected district you've yet to explore in Gloomwood.

Featuring not only the looping dungeon design Dillon is so fond of, but new and clever ways to approach getting both in and *out* of it.

Bigger than the market.

Spookier than the Tavern.

More verticality than the caves.

But that's not all.

We've added rain (with accurate indoor/outdoor soundscapes)

And... RAT AI?!

Plus some new routes in The Caves to give the doctor even more options for how to approach his initial escape.

We're getting into the real MEAT of the game now, doctors... come prepared.