Withering Rooms News

Withering Rooms 1.03

Based on community feedback about the controls changes in v1.02, further changes have been made:

- The change to combine run/dodge/roll has been undone. Run and dodge/roll are separate buttons again.
- Changes to the radial item shortcut menu:
- For keyboard players, only bound to R now, not the middle mouse button
- There is a Hold vs. Toggle option in the Input Options in case holding down the button while selecting items is uncomfortable
- Keyboard hotkeys are back: you can now press the 1-8 keys to instantly save and recall shortcuts.

New Features

You can now display up to 5 of your favorite photos in Nowhere in the floating gallery.



A new area, Anne's Respite, has been added to the hedge maze in Chapter 1/2. Look for the entrance with stone surrounding it.

A new area, Bryn Bach Abbey Outskirts, has been added on the road to the arena in Chapter 3/4.

Polish

- The postprocess chain has been rewritten to be much faster - this will particularly help high resolutions such as native 4k where framerates may increase by as much as 40% depending on the graphics card
- Volumetrics have been boosted in many areas, particularly in Chapter 1
- Merry Band flags have been added to areas the Merry Band controls

Balance Changes

- Gentleman's Outfit has a much lower curse tolerance penalty
- More First Aid Kits are distributed as random loot in Chapter 1

Bug Fixes

- Fix the options.json and saves_options.json saving to the wrong place in some circumstances after v1.00. You may need to reconfigure graphics/input/etc. options. Please reach out to support if you have any issues.
- Fix clicking on an item at the edge of the Inventory menu making it scroll, making it difficult to double click to equip.
- Fix machine gun bullets not drawing.
- Fix the Options menu not being useable with a controller during Chapter 0 and the initial tutorial.
- Fix using Pocket Nowhere or Starting a New Night from a boss fight being possible(which can lead to odd behavior).
- Fix several areas where Pocket Nowhere could be used when it shouldn't.
- Fix map letters being cut off or displaying strangely for particularly small rooms.
- Fix some controls such as Use Left Hand Item mapped to the space bar activating upon dismissing a new item/lore.
- Fix the piano in the Seance puzzle becoming unusable upon an incorrect guess.
- Fix Goat's Fashion Record being re-awarded in NG+.

Note: After April 24th, you can obtain this outfit from Tomos in Chapter 2/3/4.

The controls have changed - thanks to everyone who has given feedback on controls over the course of Early Access!



- Hotkeys have been eliminated in favor of an 8-way radial quick select menu that pauses the action. Hold Middle Click (Mouse), R (Keyboard) or R1/RB to bring it up.
- Dodging and running have been combined into a single button, mapped to Left Shift (Keyboard) or Circle/B (Gamepad). Tap while still to dodge, tap while moving forward to roll, and hold to run.
- Reloading is no longer a button. Guns must be aimed to fire, otherwise they will reload.
- Minimap toggle on Gamepad is now L1/LB.
- The D-Pad now always works the same for movement as the Left Analog Stick, so you can use either.

Please try the new scheme before modifying the keybindings, and definitely give feedback via bug reports(press / in-game), e-mail or Discord if there's something you don't like!

Other Changes in 1.02

- Fix an issue introduced in 1.01 where keybindings did not save
- Fix some untranslated quest text in the Night Mother Quest series
- Rogue Ring has been buffed: does 40% extra damage and works with either regular or heavy attacks
- Added the Vampire Locket, an amulet which adds vampirism to your melee weapon - random loot in Chapter 3/4
- Fix some strange IK moments when aiming the gun while not looking at any enemies
- Fix a crash on some GPUs in some seeds on Chapter 4

A new area, the Cholera Clinic, has been added to game in v1.01. You can access it by defeating the optional boss on the Mostyn House roof starting in Chapter 3.



The Cholera Clinic contains:
- A new boss with associated achievement
- 3 new monsters
- 2 new NPCs
- Corpse Hand - left hand item that slows enemies
- Cholera Patient Head - reusable projectile that deals poison damage
- Necrotic Ring - 75% necrosis resistance
- Unlucky Outfit
- New puzzles

Other Changes in v1.01

A new item - the Coin Purse - has been distributed throughout each chapter and is infinitely purchasable in New Game+. These are permanent upgrades that allow you to keep an additional 10 coins upon dying each.

- Added 3 Expedition Note lore entries to the Byzantine Labyrinth
- Pottery shards do scaling projectile damage now
- Fix a hard lock when talking to Margaret after rescuing Felix
- Fix a crash on some GPUs in Chapter 3 on some seeds
- Fix a missing Bestiary entry for a pair of enemies in Chapter 4
- Fix some treasure not awarding on interacting with the furniture
- Fix music and ambient tracks always playing from the beginning, and sometimes not properly looping

Thanks for your patience over the last month as this update has been developed. Regular weekly bug fix and polish updates will now resume. Please keep reporting bugs and making balance suggestions by pressing / while playing - they really help!

New Features

- A new Advanced Lab Manual can be found in the Organ Processing room in Chapter 2(or bought from Tomos in Chapter 3)

• Curse Jar - Empty Jar + Spectral Remains
  
• Elixir Jar - Empty Jar + Medicine Leaf + 2x Ancient Blood

- A new Grease Lab Manual can be found in the church

• Flaming Grease, Cutting Grease and Poison Grease which enhance melee weapon damage
  

- Added the Rakesh Diary to New Game +, which unlocks additional laboratory crafting recipies

Balance Changes

- Gun and projectile damage have been tuned to make jars continue to be useful in Chapter 3 & 4
- Fashion Records are now more gradually introduced throughout Chapter 1 & 2 rather than being all available for purchase at once - any that were missed can be purchased by Tomos in Chapter 3
- Randomly generated rings now generate in a more balanced fashion, so no ring can generate with all low or all high stats
- Nail and Paralysis traps no longer count as projectiles(and do not scale with projectile damage) - can now be found in the Tools section of your inventory
- Floor traps can no longer be placed on top of each other
- Only up to 3 floor traps of each type can be crafted and carried at a time
- Certain valuable items, like the Shotgun Shell, Webley Bullet, and Grenade, now no longer spawn when already possessed in large quantities

Polish

- Optimized volumetric fog in reported situations where it would previously be very slow at high resolutions or high MSAA - you can help identify areas that are still slow by pressing / to report a bug
- Randomly generated rings now each have a custom appearance

Bug Fixes

- Fix an issue where the New Game + boss could not be challenged again after leaving the boss area
- A few item effects were doing a different amount of damage than they displayed in the inventory menu, which has been fixed
- Fix the player being able to visit the Silent Study in Chapter 2 in New Game + (note: existing playthroughs will still be able to access it, but subsequent ones will not)