Cozier Campfires

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

That’s the End of This Update
Join us for another development update soon! Have a great weekend everyone!

Cheers,

Mobius

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