Jamestown News

Updates to Jamestown have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Fixed a bug where the game was crashing at the beginning of levels for players with certain audio configurations
- Fixed a bug where some users weren’t hearing any music at all
- Fixed a bug where trying to play the game caused some users to hear dark whispers from beyond space and time never meant for mortal ears
- Fixed a crash bug that cropped up sometimes when defeating the Lady of the Lake
- Treason and Ghost DLC ships can now properly target and kill Jack-In-A-Box enemies in New Madrid
- Added a ‘Try Again’ button to Gauntlet Mode for quickly getting back into the action.
- Fixed bug where gauntlet moon extends were not being given
- Blocks in Croatoa are now much less likely to crush you erroneously
- Fixed small timing issues on some sounds
- XBOX 360 triggers now correctly bind again
- Keyboard bindings now persist between rounds again
- Attempted fix for users needing to set CPU affinity to 1
- Restored OpenGL 1.5 provisional support
- Fixed audio skip in one of the tracks on the soundtrack

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• Triggers on 360 controllers can now be bound as buttons
  
• Triggers are no longer 'sticky' for certain controllers
  
• Implemented gauntlet extends
  
• Implemented provisional support for some OpenGL 1.5 video cards
  
• Fixed a crash on machines with alternative "My Documents" directory paths
  
• Fix crash when paging through leaderboards
  
• Fixed a rare crash bug in Dark Sector
  
• Fixed a bug where directional keyboard bindings were not persisting between rounds
  

• Fixed a common crash when killing turrets while going to Game Over screen
  
• Fixed Centurion Card achievement
  
• Mouse no longer moves very slowly for mice with high polling rates
  
• Difficulty curve smoothed out slightly
  
• High score entries now record missing metadata about play sessions
  
• Updated credits
  
• Fixed rare bug where players died on respawn in Croatoa
  

Changes:

• Lives/credits now behave consistently during gauntlet runs
  
• F9 no longer crashes game when attempting to record using FRAPS
  
• Lightning Bug crash fixed on Dark Sector
  
• Leaderboards now correctly save/display selected ships
  
• Final boss music replaced with fully-mastered version
  
• Fullscreen-related crashes should be fixed
  
• Bomber vulcan damage increased by 1.5
  
• Attempted fix for analog/hat input conflict on certain controllers
  
• Challenge level and gauntlet achievements should now award correctly (apologies to our first first 1CC gauntlet players!)
  
• The next time a challenge is completed (win or lose), all missing challenge achievements will be awarded
  
• Enemies that weren’t damage-flashing correctly should now be, with a few minor exceptions
  
• Misc other crash bugs resolved
  

Known Issues:

• Very-high-sensitivity mice move very slowly
  WORKAROUND: Lower mouse sensitivity settings through Windows
  
• Some integrated video cards crash due to lack of proper OpenGL 2.0 support
  
• Audio mixer occasionally enters a state where sounds play incorrectly
  WORKAROUND: Quit and restart the program
  
• Menu music sometimes cuts out after a couple loops