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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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We’re excited to announce that we’ve released a patch for both the Xbox and Epic platforms! The update should be available across both platforms by 7PM PST.

Here’s what made it in:

Patch Notes (relatively spoiler-free)
PC Fixes & Improvements

• Additional input devices will no longer take control from the active controller unless a brand new input is made
• Improved some 3rd party wireless controller compatibility (We’re working on providing additional support for more controllers in future patches.)
• If the game can’t match the language of the user’s Operating System, it will now default to English instead of an invalid language option
• Improved reliability of save system

Overall Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed unintended signalscope behavior in a certain area
• Fixed players getting stuck on geometry on a certain island in Giant’s Deep
• Small tweaks to Ash Twin level design
• Fixed missing line of text in English (“813”)
• Fixed the player ship’s notification console inconsistently reporting damage locations
• Fixed the player ship not updating fragment integrity
• Fixed the player ship not being affected by certain electrical forces
• Fixed a memory leak
• Missable Gabbro ship log entry involving a statue is no longer required for “Archaeologist” achievement
• Additional VFX/lighting for certain objects
• Fixed props not appearing properly in certain ships

If you experience other bugs that you don’t see on this list, please contact:

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Continued Thanks
Thank you all for your continued feedback and support as we work through patching the game. All of the videos, streams, emails, and comments we have been receiving have helped us immensely!

We will be continuing to improve the game based on your constructive feedback and will announce any additional patch updates here!

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Thank You
It’s been wonderful to see all of the praise and support that people are posting on social media. The team has been scouring the internet for feedback and it is heartwarming to see such a positive response to the game. We’re so glad that there are other people out there as crazy about the game as we are, so thank you all for the kind words!

We are already hard at work on improving the game based on your constructive feedback as well, so read on for details.

Known Issues (Minor Spoilers Ahead)
We know there’s a couple bugs some of you are experiencing and we’re doing our best to upload a patch fix as soon as possible! Some of them have temporary workarounds that we will note below:

• Gabbro/Archaeology Achievement uncompletable:
  • There’s one particular case where you won’t be able to get a log entry from Gabbro.
  • Once the patch releases, you should automatically get the achievement upon starting the game, assuming you have all of the other entries! (There is one entry that you get for talking to Hal that doesn’t count for this achievement, so don’t sweat that one.)

 

• Menu buttons don’t respond or get stuck on profile creation
  • Try resetting your OS language to English (or another supported language in the Outer Wilds Options Menu) OR
  • Close the game, unplug all controllers (virtual and physical), restart the game, then fill in Profile Name. After that, you should be able to re-plug your controller. NOTE: If you’re using a 3rd party controller, you may not have the right mapping.

 

• Getting stuck in terrain on Giant’s Deep
  • We’ve modified the terrain so when the patch releases this should be resolved.

 

• Inconsistent Ship Damage Report
  • This was a bug with our notification system, so it will be fixed in the patch as well.

 

• 813
  • If you’ve seen this text (we won’t say how), it’s a localization bug on our end. The english text should show up in our first patch with localization coming in the following patch.

We will have a full set of patch notes for when the patch goes live, we just wanted to pre-emptively let you know about these issues since we’ve been receiving a lot of questions.

If you experience other bugs that you don’t see on this list, please contact support@mobiusdigitalgames.com!

Digital Art Book and Soundtrack
The digital soundtrack is now on Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Music!

We’re putting the finishing touches on one of our backer rewards, The Art of Outer Wilds PDF! We decided to release this at the end of this month since it’s chock full of spoilers (and our art team has been busy fixing bugs). We put a lot of effort into this book so we’re hoping that backers will enjoy it!

Merch Incoming
We’ve had many people asking about Outer Wilds merch. While we don’t have anything for sale yet, keep an eye on the Annapurna Interactive store in the coming months!
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Outer Wilds Has Officially Released!

Outer Wilds has officially launched!

We have sent out keys for those who filled out our backer platform surveys by May 22nd! If you filled out your survey after May 22nd, you will receive your key shortly. We did go through some technical difficulties regarding emails so please disregard any duplicate emails you may receive (although your respective keys should be the same)!

If you don’t receive one and it’s not in your spam folder, or your key isn’t working, please reach out to us at support@mobiusdigitalgames.com.

In the meantime, check out what some of these awesome reviews from Vice and Rock Paper Shotgun - they also uploaded this great review video!

We’d like to thank everyone who has supported us through the crazy ride of the development for Outer Wilds so far. But stay tuned - we are not done yet!

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Hello everyone, we’ve got an early update for you this week!

Trailer & Release Date
Check out our release trailer! We’re happy to announce that our launch date is Thursday, May 30th! It’s been a long, wild ride to get Outer Wilds out the door and we’re very excited to get it into your hands.
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Backer Survey Update

Since we know many of our backers were looking forward to adding the game to their library on Steam, all backers who choose PC as a platform will get both an Epic key upon launch and a Steam key later when we release on those services, respectively.

​We’ve updated our Backer Survey to reflect these options so feel free to go back and edit your responses!

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Hello everyone,

We’re nearing the finish line for Outer Wilds and wanted to share an update of the game.

Outer Wilds will first be released on XBox One and on PC via the Epic Games Store, with additional platforms coming later. Rest assured that we read all of your comments and our goal is to bring the game to your preferred platform as quickly as possible. We will keep you up to date with the latest info here.

Throughout the development of the game, we’ve welcomed helpful partnerships with Annapurna Interactive, XBox, and Epic to support us and keep our small studio running long enough to ship the game at the level of quality that it is today. Each of these partnerships has enabled us to make the game better and more accessible for everyone who will play it.

We greatly appreciate the support that you have given us over the years, even when we weren’t able to share all of the details going on behind the scenes. We’ll share an update on the release date soon. We thank you for sticking with us, and we look forward to seeing you play Outer Wilds!

Check Out Our Gameplay on IGN

Speaking of more updates, check out a 10-minute gameplay video of Outer Wilds! Narrated by our very own creative director, Alex Beachum!

Backer Platform Emails Have Been Sent

We have sent out platform survey emails to all of our backers! If you don’t receive your respective survey after a couple of days, please contact us through the support email below.

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