It’s been a great few weeks for awards at Mobius; this week we were nominated for three awards at The Game Awards, six at The Global Game Awards, and one at The Trophy Room Awards ::).  See below for voting links!

The Game Awards:
Best Direction
Fresh Indie Game
Best Independent Game

https://thegameawards.com/nominees

Global Game Awards:
Best Innovators
Best Original Game
Best Open World
Best Audio
Best Indie
Best Developer

https://www.game-debate.com/awards/2019

The Trophy Room Awards:
Best Indie of 2019

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqoVFniRWAp5bFDYQQwF2pnKQj6Ugu_j1uIiOp-qx8OS-XwQ/viewform   


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Results are in...Outer Wilds won Best Indie Game at the 2019 Golden Joystick Awards!  Thanks to everyone who voted for us!!

Check out our acceptance speech here:
www.twitch.tv/videos/508635964?t=01h33m46s

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Hello everyone!

We have a few updates for you today!  First, we have a patch coming with some bug fixes and a cool little secret!  We will be posting more specifics soon, so stay tuned ::).

Also, we wanted to mention that we are aware of the save data corruption issue in Outer Wilds on PS4 that can occur if the game is terminated while saving.  We are working to get a future patch out as quickly as we can to resolve the issue, and will send out updates as we have more information. Thank you for your patience!

Finally, Outer Wilds is shortlisted for Ultimate Game of the Year at the 2019 Golden Joystick Awards!  Voting closes tomorrow at 5pm GMT, so visit the link below if you’d like to vote!

https://www.gamesradar.com/vote-now-for-your-ultimate-game-of-the-year-in-the-golden-joystick-awards-2019/

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Outer Wilds is now available on PS4 in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan!  Don't forget your space suits ;;).

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Outer Wilds is now available on PS4! We’re excited to welcome our newest members of Outer Wilds Ventures...happy exploring, everyone!
store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP2470-CUSA09929_00-OUTERWILDSSIEA00

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We’re hosting a Reddit AMA to celebrate our launch on PS4!  Tune in to r/PS4 on Tuesday, October 15, from 10-11am Pacific Time with all your burning questions.  We’re excited to see you there!

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Check out our PS4 announcement trailer as well as our Playstation.blog post discussing game design in Outer Wilds.

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We are proud to announce that we're shortlisted for 6 Golden Joystick Awards!

Outer Wilds:
Best Storytelling
Best Visual Design
Best Audio
Best Indie Game
Xbox Game of the Year

Mobius Digital:
Studio of the Year

Visit here to vote for us or learn more!

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Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience - we’ve released a new patch! (And it’s a big one!)

Patch 1.0.3 is out!
Here’s a list of the biggest and most exciting changes:

• Players can now sleep at campfires to fast-forward time. This automatically becomes available after a few loops.

• Updated writing, art, and level design across multiple planets to clarify the solution to the Ash Twin Project mystery:
  • Updated writing (and ship log entries) for the Black Hole Forge, High Energy Lab, White Hole Station, Nomai Mines, and Hollow’s Lantern.
  • Art and design changes for the Black Hole Forge and the area around it, including a different mural.
  • Art and design tweaks for the High Energy Lab, including a new mural, better gravity alignment, and other minor art fixes.
  • Art and design changes on Ash Twin, including a new mural and some architectural tweaks.
• Updated writing for the Sun Station and Interloper to clarify a certain story beat.

• Additional improvements to the key rebinding system.
  • It now registers more keyboard keys and controller axes (as in: more than one axis). New binds work immediately, but aren't saved until you specifically press Save and Exit.

• Support for ultrawide resolutions and other aspect ratios
  • Proper scaling for the HUD, reticle, map labels, and lock-on UI elements.

• Added support for 4k on the XBox One X

• Added support for user-customizable FOV

Continue reading below if you want to know what else made it in!

Design Improvements

• Slightly more speed is retained when traveling through a certain area in Dark Bramble.

• It is no longer possible to activate the "put me outside" feature of a specific Nomai device until it is necessary to do so.

• Player ship less likely to fall into the sun after falling through the black hole.

• Added dialogue to later Gabbro conversations to alleviate Archeologist achievement issues.

• Translator tool is less likely to accidentally skip over unread Nomai text.
• Translator tool now has page numbers.
• A Nomai computer in a certain room stays activated even after the orb moves away.
• Relocated fuel stash on the surface of Brittle Hollow for easier discoverability.
• Removed extraneous gravity crystal path inside a building on Giant's Deep.
• The ship’s eject button no longer allows players to bypass electricity on Giant's Deep.
• Miscellaneous writing tweaks, including tweaks to several Hearthians.

Profiles, Saves, and UI

• Deleting a profile from the menu now properly deletes associated files
• New profiles will now only copy over graphic settings, instead of all settings
• Profile Creation window now doesn't respond to Q/E hotkeys for Submit and Default
• Options menu will only save over settings data if something was changed.
• Save data will be created in a temp directory first, and then overwrite the current save file.
• Fixed returning to the settings menu from the key rebinding menu not selecting any menu options
• The "Reset to Defaults" menu option now sets all settings to default, including graphics settings.
• Fixed some UI elements not aligning to scaled text
• The "Discard Changes" button has been renamed to "Discard Changes then Exit Menu"

• Sliders in the options menu have new graphics and display numeric values when adjusting FOV and Gamma
• Gamma will now change as it is adjusted in the settings menu, instead of only when the change is saved.
• Fixed mouse behavior with various menu items (sliders, multiple option settings, etc)
• Updated keyboard button prompt icons and layout to improve visibility of certain prompts
• Fixed sound effect issues on menu elements

Minor Fixes and Adjustments

• Reduced jitter when zooming in with the signalscope
• Signalscope UI element now animates on zoom

• "Mark on HUD" and "Scroll Text" prompts in the ship log are 1.5x larger
• Fixes for the player ship's lights being on or off at the wrong times
• Changed the player ship's altimeter to be more visible in landing camera mode.
• Fixed bugs with the player ship's notification display
• Notifications on the player ship and HUD should update more consistently now
• Fixed foliage in the player ship
• Fixed the player ship’s landing camera view not properly showing warp fog, quantum fog, sand, and clouds.
• Fixed player character popping during certain animations.
• Improvements to keep the traveler's signals in sync.
• Adjusted Brittle Hollow fragments so they would not clip through the eye shrine area in the Hanging City.
• XB1: Fixed a bug involving an Xbox System Resume causing unwanted controller behavior
• The sun's fog should no longer override the Hourglass Twins' fog.
• Fixed occasionally falling off of the gravity crystal trails on Brittle Hollow
• Fixed a bug where default hotkeys were not being applied.
• More memory leak fixes.
• Optimizations on the title screen, Dark Bramble, and player ship
• Adjusted jetpack behavior to reduce jitter in certain situations.

• Fixed warp platforms to allow the scout to warp through them again.

• Fixed several missing arcs of text across the game.
• Fixing geometry and visuals on the Orbital Probe Cannon
• Toned down lights on the Orbital Probe Cannon
• Minor changes to some areas on Giant's Deep to prevent players from getting stuck
• Improved visual interaction of tractor beams and Giants Deep ocean shader
• Adjusted some sandfall visuals in certain places around the Hourglass Twins
• Fixed small art bugs (clipping meshes, seams) on the Hourglass Twins
• Lighting pass on various characters and Nomai objects
• Fixed missing nomai shuttle props
• Fixing collision on certain Nomai objects
• Adjusted art for certain Nomai objects
• Minor art and collision adjustments on BrittleHollow
• Adjusted vine geometry in Dark Bramble.
• Removed extraneous fog light from Dark Bramble
• Disabled certain shadows in dark bramble for low/medium quality settings
• Fixed a seam on the Quantum Moon
• Optimized materials for the player's tools and HUD helmet

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Hello again everyone!

Digital Art Book
Last Friday, we sent out The Art of Outer Wilds PDF to backers! If you backed at a tier that should have gotten one but didn’t receive your email, please email support@mobiusdigitalgames.com.

New Patch Incoming
We’ve been hard at work on improving the game based on all of the feedback we’ve been receiving. While our last patch was more of an emergency fix patch, this one has a bit more in the way of improvements. As before, we will do full patch notes when we release the patch later, but here is a sneak peak of some of the things we’re including:

• New Feature: Sleep to pass time! A lot of players have been requesting a way to skip forward in time. Because physics is simulated in Outer Wilds it isn’t quite as simple as moving a time slider forward (which is why we didn’t already have it in the game), but we’ve found a way to allow you to pass time a bit more quickly by snoozing at campfires.
• Endgame Tweaks: We’ve heard resounding feedback about a certain area of confusion towards the end of the game, and we’ve taken significant steps to improve it. We’ve tweaked level design and clarified writing in several areas to make certain clues more clear, as well as adding an entirely new clue to help players deduce the way forward. 
• FOV Slider in Options Menu: We’re adding adjustable FOV so that players who experience motion sickness can tweak their settings to be more comfortable. 
• HUD Improved Aspect Ratio Support: The in-game HUD now supports arbitrary aspect ratios, so users with 4:3 or double 16:9 monitor setups can have a much more usable interface.
• Bug fixes: We’ve fixed a wide variety of bugs from Ultrawide resolutions not showing up to fixing areas where Brittle Hollow fragments were clipping through areas they shouldn’t and killing players unexpectedly. We will detail out the various bug fixes in our actual patch notes.

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