Hey all, we have a quick hotfix ready for you! This hotfix addresses a couple of issues we have seen since we released Update 11:
Fix the scoreboard (tab menu) not updating kills/score/etc consistently
Fix Ghost cosmetics being reset to the default selections
Thanks for the reports on these issues, and please let us know over on our Discord if you run into anything else!
Hope to see you on the hunt soon! - Team MGH
UPDATE 11: 2ND HUNTER GADGET SLOT, MAIN MENU UI OVERHAUL, AND MORE!
Season’s greetings, Ghosts and Hunters!
As the holiday season blankets the world in warmth and cheer, our ghostly game is no exception to the festive magic. 'Tis the season for festive spirits, so grab your gear and get ready for a hauntingly delightful Christmas hunt!
❄️2ND HUNTER GADGET SLOT ❄️
Previously, Hunters had only one gadget slot that would force a player to pick either a tracking gadget or something else. Internally, we’ve experimented with adding a second gadget slot to Hunters that gave lesser-used gadgets a time to shine without needing to give up the ability to track Ghosts. The results were promising, so we are rolling this change out in this update!
Hunters now have the choice of a weapon, a regular gadget, a utility gadget, and a perk. We have currently split the gadgets in a way that we think makes the most sense to prevent a solo Hunter from being overly strong, but please note this is experimental, and we would love to hear your feedback!
The “regular” gadgets are Radar, Vacuum, Camcorder, Spectrophone, Pathfinder, and Trap. While the “utility” gadget options are Defibrillator, Medic Kit, Grenade, Grappling Hook, and C4.
Our goal with this change is to allow the Hunters to use more of the niche gadgets while still retaining a tracking gadget. We can’t wait to see what new crazy builds you come up with!
In an attempt to balance out this change, we have decreased Hunter movement speed by about 10% to compensate for the extra power that Hunters gain to hopefully prevent a major swing in balance. We will be keeping a close eye on the analytics and your feedback, and we will adjust as needed!
💻 MAIN MENU UI OVERHAUL💻
The first thing you will notice when booting up Update 11 will be the newly overhauled main menu! This new main menu allows for easier navigation through the various menus, brings the style up to date, and adds a widely-requested new feature: you can now toggle between Ghost and Hunter skins for your party in the main menu!
💃 SEPARATE EMOTES & VICTORY POSES FOR HUNTERS & GHOSTS💃
You may also spot a new feature in the new main menu, separate emote and victory pose selections for Hunters and Ghosts! You know you have always wanted to Praise the Duck as a Hunter and do the Forbidden Gesture as a Ghost, right? RIGHT? Well, now you can!
🎄SEASONAL DECORATIONS 🎄
What would the holiday season be without some seasonal decorations? We’ve once again covered all the maps and the van with decorations galore. You might even find Santa or his elves across the maps as well 👀
To celebrate our eleventh Early Access update, we’re also celebrating with a discount. If you haven’t had a try at hunting and haunting quite yet, now is a perfect time to do so! MGH is 66% off right now for the Steam Winter Sale! Gather your crew and hop on in. The sale runs until January 4th!
🤑DOUBLE GHOST SHARDS🤑
We’ll also be granting double the normal amount of Ghost Shards throughout this whole week to celebrate the Holiday season!
👀AND MORE… 👀
This update also includes:
Prevent full-screen “Logging into your Epic Account” popup from happening mid-match
Fix weapon projectiles sometimes stopping and instantly breaking flinging props
Many smaller bug fixes as well
That’s all for now, Ghosts and Hunters! We wish you a great holiday season, and a wonderful start to your New Year! As always, thanks for your unwavering support and we can’t wait to see you back on the h(a)unt soon! 😊
👻 -Team MGH
Early Access Patch 0.4.1
Hey all, we have a patch ready for you today! This patch is mostly focused on some balance changes based on the feedback we heard from you all since our last update.
Health Orbs will now spawn again at Midnight, but at a slower pace and capped out at 4 active at once. (One per Ghost player). The intention is to keep the health scarcity, but provide Ghosts an option to search for healing if the Hunters are effective at weakening them.
Moving and taunting as a Ghost are now ~15% more effective. We found that it was too difficult to keep your ectoplasm down without putting yourself at major risk.
These are small "nudges" in the balance, as we do not want to overcorrect. We will continue to observe the feedback and adjust accordingly. We appreciate the feedback as always, and thanks for playing!
Full Notes:
A maximum of 4 Health Orbs will now slowly spawn at Midnight. As before, all existing Health Orbs will despawn at Midnight
Taunts now lower +15% additional ectoplasm buildup
Ectoplasm reduction increased +15% while moving
Fixed the bug where Radar was tracking corrupted props, this is no longer the case
Halloween decorations have been removed until next year
Double shards have been disabled
Fixed a bug on first time startup that could cause some aspect ratio issues with the new UI
Other small bug fixes
As always, thanks for your continued support, and for your feedback. We heard you loud and clear, and hopefully these changes are a step in the right direction! Please let us know what you think over on our Discord, and if we need to make more changes we will! 👻
As the crisp, cool breeze of autumn fills the air, it can mean only one thing: Halloween season is here! So don your favorite duck costume, and join us in the excitement as we delve into Update 10!
🎃SCARY SEASON DECORATIONS 🎃
What would scary season be without some seasonal decorations? We’ve once again decorated all the maps and the van with ghostly adornments galore. The three Halloween hero props are back once again for you to enjoy!
Chomping Pumpkin - Much like our Mimic Chest friend, this pumpkin will have no problem taking a bite or two out of you
Pumpkin Jack-in-the-box - Is the hammer from our regular Jack-in-the-box too aggressive for you? How about launching pumpkin guts at them instead?
Witch Doll - Who needs a knife when you have a broom? Zoom across the maps and bonk the hunters to your heart’s content
🕸️ ECTOPLASM/RADAR CHANGES 🕸️
With this update we have also made some pretty serious balance changes, and that starts with how Ectoplasm buildup works.
We have heard from the community that Radar detecting Ghosts with 0 Ectoplasm buildup didn’t make much sense, so we changed it! Our intention is for Radar to be much more accurate, while also making Ectoplasm buildup more clear for Ghosts.
0 Ectoplasm buildup now means 0 reading on Radar/Spectrophone
Moving in a small circle as a Ghost will no longer reduce Ectoplasm buildup
Radar will no longer get confused between different floors
Before, Radar could show a high reading if a Ghost with high Ectoplasm buildup was on the floor above you, that is no longer the case
Radar will no longer get confused if you have a low Ectoplasm ghost directly in front of you, and a high Ectoplasm ghost slightly further away
Before, this would cause Radar to show almost no signal, even though you have a high Ectoplasm ghost nearby
Taunting still lowers Ectoplasm buildup, however we have increased the volume to make this more risky in revealing your location
The Ectoplasm buildup bar now will show a shaking Radar icon the higher your Ectoplasm buildup gets to clarify what having high Ectoplasm actually means: High Ectoplasm = High Radar reading
🕷️ MIDNIGHT BALANCE CHANGES🕷️
We’ve focused this update on improving balance and how Midnight plays out during matches. Hunters missing even a single Ghost previously meant that all Ghosts come back at full health, or they could easily heal any damage they took pre-midnight.
This new system is designed to still allow Ghosts to feel powerful at Midnight, while assuring Hunters that the last 5 minutes weren’t for nothing. Destroying 3 out of the 4 ghosts before Midnight will now make a drastic difference to the possible outcome for Hunters at Midnight.
At midnight, all health orbs will despawn, and they will not respawn for the rest of the match
If you die as a Ghost before midnight, you will come back with less health
If you were not vacuumed, you will come back with 60hp
If you were vacuumed, you will come back with 35hp
There are only two ways to heal as a ghost after Midnight
Consuming a Hunter soul will do one of the following:
If you are <100% HP, you will heal some damage
If you are 100% HP, a health orb will spawn at this location for a teammate
Destroying the Generator will drop 2 health orbs, allowing you/your team to heal
UI will indicate how much health you will have when you respawn at Midnight
Ghosts will look less saturated at lower health after Midnight, making it easier to choose which Ghosts to target
We hope that these Midnight changes will reward Hunters for any success they do have before Midnight, while still allowing the Midnight Ghosts to feel powerful. Do give it a shot and let us know what you think over on our Discord!
💻 UI CHANGES💻
Alongside our Midnight balance and Ectoplasm/Radar changes, we have also made some UI changes to add additional clarity:
Health bars are now segmented into ~25HP chunks - this should allow you to roughly determine how much health you have in various props or Hunter perks
The health bar now animates more clearly and with more polish when taking damage or healing
When you are low health, you now have a more intense red outline on the outside of the screen so can more clearly understand you are low health
🥳 DEDICATED SERVER PROPS FIXED 🥳
A major issue that we noticed over the past few months was related to unpossessed props stuttering after a dedicated server had been online for an extended period of time. This was causing lots of other issues as well, such as Hunters teleporting around when getting hit by these specific props, as well as Ghosts being able to occasionally teleport outside of the maps when attempting to possess these props.
I am happy to report that this should be completely fixed now! So go forth and enjoy the nice, stable dedicated servers once more, and if you run into any issues please let us know on our Discord! 🥳
To celebrate our tenth Early Access update, we’re also celebrating with a discount. If you haven’t had a try at hunting and haunting quite yet, now is a perfect time to do so! MGH is 66% off right now on Steam for the Steam Scream Fest! Gather your crew and hop on in. The sale runs until November 2nd!
🤑DOUBLE GHOST SHARDS🤑
Trick or treat! We’ll be granting double the normal amount of Ghost Shards throughout this whole week to celebrate the Halloween season!
🎵SEVERAL NEW GHOST TAUNTS🎵
We also added several new Ghost taunts for you to unlock and enjoy! Taunt the Hunters to your hearts content!
👀AND MORE… 👀
This update also includes:
Activating voice chat should no longer cause FPS drops
Join friends match in progress button from the Social menu should work again
Players from all platforms (Epic/Steam) should now show in the Social menu, regardless of what platform you are playing on
Many smaller bug fixes as well
That’s all for now, Ghosts and Hunters! As always, thanks for your unwavering support and we can’t wait to see you back on the h(a)unt soon! 😊
👻 -Team MGH
Early Access Patch 0.3.2
Hey all, we have a patch ready for you today! This patch addresses the game crash that was occurring when using the region filter in the server browser filter options.
We are aware of the dedicated server issue with props lagging/teleporting around. We are actively looking into this, and hopefully will have more to share on this very soon.
Also, keep an eye out later this month...it's spooky season once again, and we certainly have some spooky stuff coming up soon! 🎃
Thanks as always for your continued support, we really appreciate it! If you haven't already, join us on our Discord and say hi! 👋
See you on the hunt! - Team MGH
UPDATE 9: VAN RIDE ENTERTAINMENT, CONTROLLER SUPPORT, TRADING CARDS, AND MORE!
Hey there, Ghosts and Hunters!
The summer season is over, and we have been hard at work on some of the things we called out in our July blog post. We’ve got a new update for you today, so let’s get into it!
🚗 NEW VAN RIDE ENTERTAINMENT 🚗
One of the suggestions we have heard from a ton of players is that the Hunters seem a little bored and need something to do (other than the spray 😉) while they are heading to their next haunted destination on those van rides.
Hunters will be idle no more! Introducing: the GhostMaster handheld gaming console! You can play “Ghost Invaders” and pass the time on your next ride. You can also customize the handheld with multiple color choices (including transparent purple ✨)!
🎮 FULL CONTROLLER SUPPORT 🎮
Full controller support is another highly anticipated feature. Although we’ve had experimental controller support since our Early Access launch, we’ve been working hard to perfect the experience of playing with a controller. We’re thrilled with the results and can’t wait for you to try it out! Whether you prefer using a mouse and keyboard or a controller, we’re confident that you’ll have a fantastic experience. As always, we welcome your feedback on Discord or Twitter (X) about this new feature!
🎉 STEAM TRADING CARDS 🎉
Introducing Steam Trading Cards for MGH! Now, as you play MGH, you’ll have the chance to collect wicked virtual cards featuring artwork inspired by the MGH universe. Once you’ve collected a full set of cards, you can turn them into game badges and tradable Steam community items. The sooner you collect ‘em all, the sooner you can flex on your friends. 😉
🕹️ QUICKPLAY IMPROVEMENTS 🕹️
After observing the quickplay data, and of course listening to your feedback, we have made more adjustments to the quickplay algorithm that should now result in finding better, faster matches! Specifically, quickplay will look for a “perfect” match, and then fallback to a “good” match faster, which should result in finding a match faster, and ending up in your own match with bots less often. Please give it a shot, and let us know what you think over on our Discord!
To celebrate our ninth Early Access update, we’re also celebrating with a discount. If you haven’t had a try at hunting and haunting quite yet, now is a perfect time to do so! MGH is 66% off right now on Steam! Gather your crew and hop on in. The sale runs until the 26th of September.
👀 AND MORE… 👀
This update also includes:
Fix Extra Gear not working with Camcorder and bumped default ammo count from 1 to 2
Female skins now have female voice callouts for both Hunter and Ghosts
Deflector can no longer be activated while charging a slingshot
Ghost Health Orb pickup radius increased
Hunters now have a unique running sound instead of a sped-up walking sound
Improvements to Buckler Shield with Ghostsmasher not always blocking hits (even more improvements for this coming soon)
Doppelganger will appear with the other player’s actual gadget/weapon, no longer just Spectral Cannon
Code refactor of most Hunter weapons and gadgets, leading to improved performance mostly with bots and weapon projectiles, such as Frostbite and Project-X
Map exploit fixes (looking at you…Carnival 🎪)
Many other smaller bug fixes as well
Although that’s all the news we have for now, rest assured that our team is hard at work behind the scenes to bring you even more exciting updates! From enhancing performance and fine-tuning bots to improving matchmaking and beyond, we’ve got plenty of tricks up our sleeves. So keep your eyes peeled for future announcements!
That’s all for now, Ghosts and Hunters! We’re grateful for your unwavering support and can’t wait to see you back on the h(a)unt soon! 😊
👻 -Team MGH
Early Access Patch 0.2.4
Hey all, we have another patch ready for you today!
More improvements to host migration
Female Hunter Skins now have Female voice lines when pinging
Fix Hunter jump sound spam
Texture/lighting fixes on some maps
Collision fixes on Graveyard, Theatre, and in the Ghost Tutorial
Fix loadout problem in Hunter Tutorial
Thanks as always for your continued support, we really appreciate it! If you haven't already, join us on our Discord and say hi! 👋
See you on the hunt! - Team MGH
EXCITING MILESTONES AND AN UPDATED ROADMAP, OVER 1 MILLION NEW PLAYERS!
Hey, Ghosts and Hunters!
In our last update, we released Midnight Ghost Hunt with full crossplay compatibility and we were absolutely blown away by the support. We saw over 1 million new players join us on the hunt, a million! This is a remarkable achievement that fills us with gratitude and excitement for what's next. Speaking of what's next...how about an updated roadmap? 😉
Our Q3 (July - September) roadmap lays out our plans for the near future, but here are some key highlights:
🎮 Full Controller Support 🎮
We are planning to improve our overall controller support over the next few months to provide an equally excellent experience for all players, regardless if you are playing on mouse & keyboard or using a controller.
🚗New Van Ride Entertainment 🚗
One of the big suggestions we hear from players is the Hunters need more to do during the van ride, so we are cooking up something special for this...be on the lookout for more info soon.
✨HUD / UI Improvements✨
Over the next few months we will be working on sleeker menus, better tooltips, and enhanced visual cues to hopefully provide more clarity and convenience.
🎉Steam Trading Cards🎉
With the introduction of Steam Trading Cards, you'll have the opportunity to collect, trade, and craft cards featuring stunning artwork inspired by the game's universe.
📅July Vacations📅
Almost all of our dev team is based in Sweden, and July typically marks the start of a few weeks off for vacations in Sweden! What this means for us is a bit of a slowdown in updates during this time, as we will be working as an even smaller team for the month. However once the vacations are over, you can expect everyone to be back at it 100%, and we have some big things planned!
💵Steam Summer Sale💵
If you haven’t joined us on the hunt quite yet, now is a great time to hop in as MGH is 66% off as part of Steam Summer Sale! The sale runs until the 13th of July, so be sure to tell your friends!
While that is all we have to share right now, we are certainly working on other things as well; such as performance improvements, bot improvements, matchmaking improvements, and more, so be sure to keep an eye out for future announcements.
That’s all for this time, Ghosts and Hunters! Thank you again for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing you back on the h(a)unt soon!
👻 -Team MGH
Early Access Patch 0.2.3
Hey all, we have another patch ready for you today! This one is fairly small, but addresses the issue that forced us to take the dedicated servers offline, so in the next hour or so they should be back online!
Fix dedicated server replication problem preventing the use of Radar and Pathfinder
Fix input blocking of "page down" key
Fix some of the common host migration problems we have seen so far
Fix some incorrect textures and a few other small bug fixes
Thanks as always for your continued support, we really appreciate it! If you haven't already, join us on our Discord and say hi! 👋
See you on the hunt! - Team MGH
Early Access Patch 0.2.2
Hey all, we are back today with another update!
This will contain everything in the previous patch that we had to roll back, as well as fixes for the issues that caused us to roll back in the first place.
See the details here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/915810/view/3658659836554640021
We have also re-enabled host migration in this patch. We believe we have fixed the underlying problems with it. In-case we haven't though, we have also added a lot of additional logging to help us track it down if needed. We will be keeping a close eye on it, please let us know if you run into any issues!
This patch doesn't quite have the fix ready for the dedicated servers though, so they will be turned off until we can get a fix out for them. We are hoping tomorrow or Wednesday, but we will let you know!
