Gloomwood News

We still don't know the real name of Gloomwood's doctor protagonist, but I'm beginning to suspect it might be 'Jekyll' given what he gets up to in the game's new Research update. This latest addition to New Blood's Thief-inspired immersive sim folds in some game-changing abilities, which you essentially steal from Gloomwood's enemies in the grisliest manner possible...
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Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some old saves would not load area transitions with out of date data
  
• Fixed some pickups not setting the correct loaded quantity
  
• Fixed metal crates not being destroyed by door crush triggers
  
• Fixed armor huntsmen missing some innate physical resistance
  

General

• Research system has been added! Enter the mirror realm and take the passage to the lighthouse laboratory to start concocting
  
• A dark presence grows inside the Doctor, and it yearns to claw free
  
• The journal has received a rework, now having diegetic hand animations and new art and quality-of-life adjustments for each section
  
• The tabs for the journal can now be selected with the 1-6 Weapon Select keys
  
• The area selector for the 'Files' section of the journal can be rotated with the 'Lean Left' and 'Lean Right' keys
  
• The journal health and mind meters will now show 'Excellent' when the player is at max value
  
• The Bonesaw melee weapon has been added, a new melee weapon with heavy damage and the ability to cut up corpses, but lacks the canesword's sneak damage bonus
  
• Enemies now stagger based on an internal poise system instead by random chance. Faster weapon attacks (like canesword swipes) should now consistently
  trigger enemies to stagger when used in rapid succession
  
• Improved entity defense and damage handling to ensure better consistency
  
• The Flashbomb stun time has been increased to 8 seconds (from 6)
  
• Improved the throw animation of the Chokebomb and Flashbomb to sync up with the input
  
• Reworked the art of the default syringe
  
• All enemies now have pickup and item giblet types
  
• Improved hit detection of player melee weapons and attacks
  
• Improved handling of canesword and bonesaw chained attacks
  
• Improved swimming and water transitions
  
• The action log will now inform which item was dropped if not enough space was found
  
• Increased ambient brightness on some key types
  
• Improved Goatman walk animation
  
• Improved effect textures for some melee trails
  
• Added a sound cue that plays when entering a new district for the first time
  
• General performance and art improvements
  

Coast Fishery

• Added an ingredient stockpile to the Fishery main building
  

Coast Cliffside

• Fixed issue where the waterfalls could clip the player into the cliff wall
  

Coast Cliffside

• The Doctor's Laboratory will now become accessible after visiting the Mirror Realm
  

City Market

• An ingredient stockpile has been added to Dr. Thatherson's Apothecary
  
• The Drunken Waterfowl tavern has been opened
  
• The crucified Goatman can now be gibbed
  

City Market Shop

• The 7x5 Inventory Upgrade is now available upon arriving at the Merchant's Shop
  

City Underport

• An ingredient stockpile has been added to Van Der Meer's warehouse
  
• Fixed an issue where the electrified water in the Power Station would not correctly electrocute enemies
  
• Improved AI pathing to allow non-leaping enemies to reach the basement level of the Power Station
  
• Fixed Gate 3 not correctly getting jammed visually when activating it from the Control Room
  

City Underport Hive

• A new secret exit has been added
  
• The sideroute from the archeology digsite now has a deployed rope to aid players who skipped the harpoon gun
  
• Fixed issue where corpses would not always break falling damage
  

Dimension Mirror

• Fixed incorrect baked directional lighting
  
• Fixed issue where the player could get stuck in the falling teleport plane
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where crowking corpses would spawn crowmen giblets
  
• Fixed issue where carried burning objects would incorrectly clear its instigator
  
• Fixed issue where rats could get stuck in bidirectional rat holes
  
• Fixed issue where thrown projectiles would sometimes not be parried or deflected correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where huntsmen rifles would not sometimes have a pickup round in them
  
• Fixed issue where AI footsteps would not register sound traps (like shattered glass piles) correctly
  
• Fixed issue where the Gold Crank from Van Der Meer could not be carried without an inventory
  
• Fixed issue where the shortcut elevator gate in the Underport canal would not open
  
• Fixed issue where the Goatman would not receive crushing damage from elevators
  
• Fixed issue where crosshair would incorrectly reset when drawing and undrawing a main hand weapon while the handlantern was raised
  
• Fixed various chest opening clipping issues
  
• Fixed some lamps not having a light flare
  

[h2]Doctor! The old laboratory at the lighthouse is up and running again.

Time to get to work...[/h2]

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Aye, Gloomwood research is finally here, and with it this accursed town will be changed forever... but so will YOU!

Collect body parts of the foul beasts roaming the city with your new BONESAW and bring them back to the lighthouse for... research.


Once you've done the proper research you'll be able to collect ingredient jars and craft serums that will allow you to TRANSFORM into these monstrosities!


You can currently research and turn into Goatmen (to become a walking tank), Bat Barbers (to jump oh so high and fall like a feather) and Crowmen (to move with super speed)

You can also buy the first suitcase upgrade earlier now, and the second one after the Hive. (for all those body parts you'll be lugging around)


Gain their powers, use them to get the upper hand on your foes and reach areas previously inaccessible to a mere man... or even blend in with your new... friends.


And as you may have noticed, the doctor's journal has also gotten a complete overhaul for this update.


Completely diagetic, of course.

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Right now research will unlock when you first get to the mirror dimension, but after the next update it will unlock a bit later as we'll be adding new enemy spawns (more to research, naturally) as well as passive bonuses, and the ability to research and turn into even more beasts both big... and small.

And since this is an immersive sim and you can play it however you want - research is, of course, completely optional.


As always, we hope you appreciate the monumental effort it takes to develop a game like Gloomwood.

There's plenty more to come... SOON™

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! We have an update for all your festive needs (and bug fixes).

General

• Winter event has been extended to January 10th
  
• Added Winter attire for watchdogs, infected rats, crowmen, crowkings and crowbabies
  
• Added new Winter ambience for outdoor and indoor spaces
  
• Added Winter icicle props to some statues
  
• Crowkings and crowbabies are no longer marked as spoiler tagged entities
  
• Adjusted various sounds and the AI reaction to them
  
• Added player landing sound for glass shards material
  
• Slightly increased AI sight range on Full and Blood Moon
  
• Slightly increased AI non-alert dark vision range
  
• Adjusted several AI attack states to allow flinch/headshots to interrupt them
  
• Increased brightness of iron key pickups to be more visible in the dark
  
• Increased size of shader variant collection that are prewarmed on startup
  

Coast Fishery

• Added some pickup bricks to Mr. Croup's office
  
• Added interactive crank recepticle and gate to power generator room
  
• Improved the geometry of the well cavern beneath the cabin
  

Coast Cliffside

• Fixed drawbridge shortcut collider not correctly being set when raised
  
• Fixed some geometry issues with the barnhouse
  
• Fixed fort gate not raising to the correct height
  
• Fixed issue where the padlocks controlling the door to the cannonball storage room would not respond correctly
  
• Fixed some issues with the main city gate collision
  

Coast Tavern

• Added some decal indicators to show the elevator needs power and some additional guiding lights
  

City Market

• Added additional snowball piles to area
  
• Fixed several doors not correctly applying their lock state
  
• Tweak light culling distance for some lights around the barbershop
  

City Underport

• Added snowball piles to area
  
• Fixed exploration music not triggering when entering the area
  
• Improved geometry and texturing in some areas
  
• Fixed water volume in sewer that was not activating correctly
  
• Added metal crates to crowmen sewer section to aid with the door timer
  
• Improved navigation in power station basement to allow humanoids to enter the flooded area
  
• Removed key in tram station that had no purpose
  

City Underport Hive

• Fixed the shotgun pickup in the supervisor station locker disappearing on load
  
• Fixed some navigation jump links not being correctly usable by crowmen
  
• Added empty valve recepticle on the other side of the waste treatment gate door
  
• Improved geometry and texture work of engineering area
  
• Added additional signage and hints of goal around engineering area
  
• Oil drums around the finale area now correctly change state on the harder difficulties
  
• Sealed the area beneath the elevator platform more thoroughly for the finale sequence
  
• Flagged several nearby stalagtites as non-mantle-able near the finale elevator
  
• Added buttons to the top of the finale elevator to call or lower the elevator
  
• Fixed incorrect sound and weather room configuration in some spots
  
• Fixed some sound emitters not working correctly
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Winter hats not correctly appearing on huntsmen, fishdogs, batbarbers and rats
  
• Fixed issue where snow would appear in several indoor areas
  
• Fixed issue where snowballs would not correctly apply the blind state duration
  
• Fixed issue where chests would collide with world geometry and not open
  
• Fixed active music not loading correctly after saving the game via the save slot menu
  
• Fixed vent doors not being interactive after opening
  
• Fixed AI not updating their search state to new contact detection events
  
• Fixed AI not correctly applying their sense proficiency overrides
  
• Fixed some instances of AI not correctly checking for door states or applying their door block status
  
• Fixed issue where the canesword would not detect the correct body material of dead huntsmen props
  
• Fixed crowking not fleeing when on fire
  
• Fixed fire sources not correctly loading their save state
  
• Fixed physics objects duplicating after parrying a throw projectile
  
• Fixed several issues with chokebomb/chokebolt saving and loading
  
• Fixed issue with ceiling windows not correctly updating navmesh and physics collision after being shattered
  
• Flagged pickup harpoons as not mantle-able to prevent physics issues
  
• Fixed some issues where pickups would have the incorrect stack size on spawn
  
• Fixed various instances where ladders would have the incorrect material sounds
  
• Fixed various issues when multiple valves are linked to a single sliding door
  
• Fixed issues with water flow values not being applied correctly
  
• Fixed issue with 'spawn item' command when spawning unloaded weapons
  
• Fixed some sound portal and propagation issues