The Drifter News

Another bunch of fixes. You keep findin' em, I'll keep patchin' em!

• Fixed walk-to point for cutlery drawer with gamepad.
  
• Fixed potential soft-lock in hospital after Hara knocked out.
  
• No longer have to leave and return to find something behind the generator.
  
• Changed "carotid" back to "cartoid" to match colloquial way Mick says it.
  
• Fixed Butcher sprite being flipped.
  
• Removed drop-shadow under Mick on winch.
  
• Fixed "0" topic notification.
  
• Fixed potential soft-lock walking back into the Vent at start of Ch8.
  
• Stopped you being able to walk with keyboard while dialogue GUI is active.
  
• Fixed mouth alignment for Detective and Annie in some poses.
  
• Typo fix for Geiger counter description.
  
• Fixed a dead character still being able to talk in Ch6.
  
• Geiger counter sound and animation fixes.
  
• Geiger counter no longer reads low when should be high in one instance.
  
• Fixed missing German localisation descriptions of doors in Ch7.
  
• Stopped player from walking to the right in the corridor with Sophia in Ch9.
  
• Music volume no longer plays full volume in the lab when it's turned down in settings.
  
• Fix for hard-lock in Ch7 on bridge if using inventory together while Alec is talking to you. Hopefully fixes some other super-rare soft-lock issues with background sequences too.
  
• Fix for flamethrower sound effect potentially never ending.
  

I'm getting through most of the issues people have been reporting. Most of the remaining ones are super-rare now afaik. But if anyone has hit a soft-lock somewhere and needs a save game to get past it, email me on the support email on the steam page and I can hook you up.

Thanks everyone for playing, it's been amazing to get such a great reception to the game!

- Dave

Working through a bunch more bugs, don't mind me...

• Some potential fixes for Mac display issues (Set to native retina display on first launch) to see if it helps with some reported issues there.
  
• Fixed text alignment under topics gui when using a controller.
  
• Fix for rare softlock at end of Ch8 When opening hatch in the pool.
  
• Also a sprite alignment fix in the same place.
  
• Fix for inventory not being hidden correctly in a Ch8 flashback.
  
• Fix for controller ring being placed incorrectly being visible in the same place.
  
• Mick's head flop in Ch8 now works with controller.
  
• Fixed some unclickable hotspots that showed up on hotspot highlighter.
  
• Fix for being able to get dressed over and over in the hospital.
  
• Tweaked walk-to position when offering a hot beverage to Alec.
  
• Fix for being able to walk all over the screen after restoring game in Ch3 collapsed Crypt.
  
• Walkable area fix out the front of the newspaper office.
  
• Added sprite and hotspot in Ch5 for soldier in underground corridor when he's knocked out.
  
• Fixed my own name in the credits lol.
  
• Mick can no longer say the caretaker's inside the office when he's not.
  
• Swapping answering machine tapes in a certain way no longer causes the description to be wrong.
  

- Dave

A few more quick fixes- mainly for rare soft-locks some people hit.

• Fix for soft-lock in Chapter 7 Roth being in his room when he shouldn't be
• Fix for walking through cemetery gate in chapter 4.
  
• Combine items button prompt no longer persists when it shouldn't.
  
• Text position fix when attacked at the newspaper office.
  

- Dave

It's been an awesome launch, thanks everyone for your support! I finally got some sleep and now I've fixed a few issues that some folks ran into-

• Fix for potential softlock where player could get stuck and couldn't move in Chapter 3 cemetery.
  
• Fix for potential softlock in Chapter 6, waiting for a timed event.
  
• Music/Sfx/Dialogue sliders now save/restore correctly.
  
• Fix for dialog option not working with Sarah in Chapter 4.
  
• Typo fix "bill" -> "Bill"
  

Thanks for those reporting bugs in the forums, and especially for going out of their way to help with sending save games for diagnosing the trickier ones.

- Dave

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