Hello everyone, I have a major update to Rent's Due: The Game today to not only revert the Christmas update changes but also add new exciting features. With that said I know that is going on 5 months since the Christmas update but I have taken my time to get this update ready.
New Features:
Added Support for Ray Traced Reflections, Shadows and Ambient Occlusion (RTX Cards Only)
Added DLSS 3.1 Support (RTX Cards Only)
Added Full Controller Support with a New Menu and Pause System.
Added Auto Save and Manual Save
Changes
Removed Permadeath Mode from the game.
Removed Troll Mode from the game
Updated the tree models for Level 30 to proper palm trees and added more vegetation in general
Not a big list I know but some very welcome additions in my opinion. Other smaller bugs have been fixed that don't need to into the patch notes since they are so minimal. I hope everyone enjoys the new update and the new ray traced additions to the game. I am going to be working full time on Fall Into Insanity from here on out and I look forward to showing you more of that when it is ready.
Rent's Due: The Game Update 2.0 & Christmas Update 2024 Is Here!
Hello everyone here are the patch notes for Update 2.0, let's start.
New Features
Levels 27-30 have been added to the game
The game now features cutscenes on a couple of levels
Foliage is now fully interactable on most levels barring level 30
Added New Achievements and Collectibles to the game
Changed Tesha's hair's colour and improved her clothing in terms of detail
New Songs Made by Gearmodez has been added to Levels 28-30
Updated the games Credits
Quality of Life Changes
Added the option to quit the game from the pause menu without having to exit to the main menu. This will now bring up a confirmation screen asking if you are sure you want to quit instead of just closing abruptly.
Improved the way the game streams in levels so that the game will hopefully avoid any shader compilation stutters
Improved the lighting and skybox on Levels 11 & 12
Made Laser Levels 13 & 14 a lot easier on Normal Mode.
Levels 15-19 are now more in line with how the environment of Level 20 looks
Fixes
Fixed Tesha respawning for an infinite amount of times on rare occasions on Level 23
Removed several achievements that would not trigger properly
Addressed several issues with performance on Level 1
That will be all for the patch notes for the 2.0 update. I hope everyone enjoys collecting the presents and enjoy the new levels that I had fun making. Once the Christmas update is over, i will be release a hotfix that will revert the Christmas changes back to money. Hope everyone has a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Rent's Due: The Game Update 2.0 Launches December 6th 2024
Hello, everyone. I have an update today on the next update for the game. It will Launch on December 6th, 2024, bringing with it Four New levels, New Achievements, New QoL Features, Revised Levels, and more.
The big update is the four new levels. These will be larger-than-normal maps with more exploration opportunities than the previous levels. With these new maps, the game's file size will be around 5-6GB. This is about a 3GB update or so compared to the base game. Since the update is so close to Christmas, I will be including the Christmas update with Update 2.0.
New Features Level 27-30(Normal Mode & Permadeath Mode) New Achievements Revised Snow Levels(15-19) To Be More In Line With Level 20 New Foliage Types For Certain Levels New Textures For Certain Levels
And more to discover for yourselves!
Changes & Fixes Fixed the Subtitles staying on screen for longer than necessary and changed the font to something more in line with other games.
Changed the way the Level Selection UI works. It will now be all on one page and be easier to choose which level you want to play.
Fixed issues with bush SFX sound cues randomly playing on Level 21 when you haven't walked through a bush.
Changed lighting of several levels to be more cinematic and pretty.
Tesha the main character will now have a new hair colour.
While I still have stuff to share, I will let you all figure that out for yourselves.
I truly hope everyone has a great rest of the year and I hope to continue making games I am proud of for many years to come.
Thank you everyone!
Rent's Due: The Game Major Update Announcement
Hello everyone, I have some exciting things to announce today relating to Rent's Due: The Game. Hopefully, this update will help bring some new players to the game and bring returning players back to play the new content. Let's get into it.
New Levels
Rent's Due: The Game is finally getting new levels, four new levels to be exact, bringing the level count to a solid 30! So far these levels are shaping out well, Level 27 is inspired by the planet Mars, with my own unique twist for level design purposes. Level 27 brings with it some nice small details. One is interactive foliage that reacts to Tesha to name one.
Level 28 is inspired by the planet Venus. This is a unique terrain as well, bringing with it interactive snow trails since it will be a snow-populated planet.
These new levels will offer unique terrains that are being created using real heightmap data, this allows me to create landscapes and make them very unique compared to designing every landscape just from my imagination.
Small Changes
Now some levels that used weather ended up being very loud, level 25 is a good example of this thanks to the thunder and lightning. Well the volume of the weather effects going forward have been reduced from 100% to 20%. Hopefully this will be a welcome change.
I have also updated several particle systems including money pickups, blocks that disappear and more. The money pickup had a really aggressive white flash before the paper ripping particle effect would play, I am happy to say that the white flash has been removed from this and other particle systems that were affected.
Now for the blocks that like to break and pop out of existence when Tesha steps on them, they have received a new particle effect depending on what block type it is. This basically means that the ice blocks would look different to a metal block when breaking.
Other small changes are not final yet but I will keep everyone informed in the patch notes for the update.
Now when will this update release? Well I don't have an exact date as I am working on this solo but It will be near the end of November if everything goes to plan.
April 2024 Patch Release
April 2024 Patch Notes
Fixed Level 20 Ocean blinking and flashing by adding a new and improved ocean material. This change also affects Level 20 Permadeath Mode.
Changed Tesha's and the dog's animation in the main menu scene
Added more detail to the menu scene, making it look better.
changed the colour of text to make it easier to see throughout the game
Small Upcoming Bug Fix Update
Hello everyone. Just a short announcement to say the game will be receiving a small update soon to fix a bug with the Ocean on level 20 constantly flashing and being a nuisance.
Hotfix December 12th, 2023
Fixed several spelling errors that were introduced in the Definitive Update
Rent's Due: The Game Definitive Update is Out Now!
Here are the Patch Notes for the Definitive Update
Changes
Added New Main Menu, Replacing The Old Static One
Changed the looks of several levels, these levels are:
Redone Several Achievement Images for passing Levels and the 'Horror Legend' Achievement
Adjusted the Music Volume for Level 24. This has been reduced from 100% to 50%
Fixes
Improved Performance on Level 24 Slightly due to the amount of Fire Particles on Screen
Fixed a bug where Tesha could fall through the map of Level 20 on very rare occasions
Fixed a bug where the explosive trap on level 1 would play the explosion sound more than once on rare occasions
This update is the biggest Rent's Due: The Game has ever received. It is also the last update, for real this time. We are shifting our full focus to Fall Into Insanity and other projects. We hope to share more info soon about these upcoming projects.
Enjoy the update everyone.
Rent's Due: The Game Definitive Update Launches Tomorrow!
Hello everyone, the Definitive Update launches tomorrow at 6 PM UK time. This update brings graphic improvements, a new main menu design, and more. As previously stated, the update brings with it new system requirements. The updated requirements are now on the store page.
Rent’s Due: The Game - The Definitive Update
Hello everyone!
We have a surprise update dropping for Rent’s Due:The Game soon. This update will be called the definitive update. This update will give the game a fresh coat of paint, more detail and an improved User Interface.
This update will include a new main menu, new ways to choose which level you want to play and potentially a few new language options however that isn’t confirmed.
Several levels will be getting completely new looks in terms of overall atmosphere and background level design. For example, level 20 has now been changed from a completely frozen level to one that is now made up by a beautiful ocean, with icebergs floating around. You may even see a boat pass by.
The update will update several levels with new lighting and added detail, like improved foliage, improved draw distance and more.
As this update is focused on increasing graphic fidelity, this comes with a performance cost so the system requirements will be raised before the update drops. It shouldn’t be drastic but it will be raised to what we think is best for performance.
This update will release before Christmas, but we don’t have a solid date.
Fall Into Insanity, our other game in active development will have more updates next year.
Thank you for all of the amazing support, we look forward to delivering the Definitive Update for Rent’s Due:The Game
