NEW CONTENT - THE PERSONOID QUARTERS
Dear Passengers, Residents and Personoids alike,
Thank you for enjoying yourselves and socialising aboard the Alithea.
Once more the entire Invisibles Walls crew are excited to release a new update containing an entirely new level, new features, objectives and items. All of this of course on top of a ton of tweaks and bug fixes that should make your stay more enjoyable.
Every member on the team exclaimed “Holy heck!?” when they opened the patch notes to add their bullets because yes, it is that long.
So buckle up passengers! The personoids are here to show you their inner facilities, the Maintenance.
The Personoid Quarters is under normal conditions strictly off-limits for all residents. However, desperate times calls for desperate measures and sometimes, the Personoid Quarters is simply the fastest way to C.A.I.N.
This is the place where the Personoids come via the new and improved shortcut tube system to recharge, be repaired or even decommissioned if they are beyond repair. Filled with equipment to maintain and sustain the Alithea the Personoid Quarters offers many hiding places for residents and personoids alike.
Make sure to utilize the onboard forklifts to give your friends (or enemies) an advantage!
(Forklift Truck Certificate optional)
Having been hidden among residents all along, we are excited to finally be able to reveal the personoid 1.0. The design of model 1.0 have been influenced heavily by you, our amazing community, and we thank you on behalf of SIIC and the entire IW crew for your assistance. Alithea is better for it!
For now, personoid players will see themselves in their true form at the beginning of the game. In the future however, we expect this form will be more integrated into the actual gameplay throughout the sessions.
While we do like finding the occasional keycard now and then we figured it would be nice to spice things up a little bit. For this reason we are introducing two new objectives that we hope will give a new dynamic to the social interaction.
In order to progress through the Personoid Quarters, Residents need to repair aset of objects to bring the industrial elevator back to life in order to reach C.A.I.N.
[h3]Computers[/h3]
Computers are numerous and can be easily fixed by by Residents but just as easily shutdown again by Personoids.
[h3]Generators[/h3]
Electric generators on the other hand is more sparse and once fixed, they stay fixed. We strongly advise you to work together on these!
Hopefully these new objectives is a step in a direction where we are able to add more dynamic gameplay to each session and with time make each session unique and defined by the players.
[h3]Magnetic Boots[/h3]
How many times have you longed for a chance to get revenge on the person who "failed" the skillcheck on the flush while laughing maniacally? We feel you. Deep down in the Personoid Quarters the onboard-personals Magnetic Boots have been located and distributed across the Alithea. Finding and equipping these will keep you in the flush. Best part of it? No one has to know you have them.
[h3]Personoid Shortcut Keys[/h3]
Another item that has surfaced with the opening of the Personoid Quarters is the Personoid Shortcut Key. Normally restricted to Personoids and Onboard-Personal, these can now be picked up by Residents and enable them to ride in the onboard tube system. Yes, you read that right. The Alithea is interconnected as never before, revealing a brand new pneumatic tube system to replace the old ill-optimized and limited hallways.
And of course, no update without some new additions to the wardrobe. Earn you right to step into the shoes of our onboard engineers and scientists.
Enough of us wrambling! It's time for you to deduce, deceive and explore! The entire changelist can be found below.
As always, thank you for taking part in this journey with us!
Sincerely,
The entire Invisible Walls team
- New level: Personoid Quarters
The place where Personoids go to recharge, repair and... die. - New visual upgrade: The Personoid
Now you get to see yourself transform from a Personoid to a human if you start the game as a Personoid. - New spectator event: Vruumba Race
Race for the best time in our new Vruumba Minigame! Get the golden clover as you speed boost and barrel roll your way through glowing rings, and hear the crowd cheer you on as you beat the high score. - New Core level objective: Repair Computers to progress
Residents repair Computers to progress to the next level. Personoids can play along or sabotage the repaired Computers to stall progress. - New Core level objective: Repair generators to progress
3 Generators are placed in the maintenance area which has to be repaired in order to power the elevator. - New Pickup: Magnetic Boots - Survive being put into the airlock flush. Now you are stuck in the airlock, but that gotta be better than being dead.
- New Pickup: Personoid Shortcut Key - Built in Personoid tool that allows them to use the Personoid Shortcut system. Now the Residents can pick up a key to use it too.
- New Mechanic: Forklift - Currently only moves the forks vertically. Help your fellow residents get to hard to reach locations.
New Achievement: - It’s Time for your Medicine achievement:
As a single Personoid, kill 4 residents using the overdose syringe.
New Customization: - New Engineer outfit - unlocked by completing the achievement “It’s a Machine!.
- New Lab Coat outfit - unlocked by completing the achievement “It's time for your Medicine”.
Miscellaneous new features: - Unreal Engine upgraded to 4.26 - maybe you will notice - probably not.
- First iteration of the Karma system - not visible for the user - yet.
- Added mouth movements when registering voice chat.
- Changed the bartender in the main menu to be more suspicious.
- Added a Voice Chat diagnostics display for players
- Added Portugese translation.
- Added cameras and a surveillance room to the mall.
- The Personoids can now pretend to coop kill together - however they can still not carry it out and it will let go when a person would otherwise die.
- Moved more player settings to the cloud to prevent people from losing progress and customization in the future - the drawback is that unregistered players may lose their existing progression. We have to do this as we are slowly progressing towards a full release.
- Added a highlight to the players you are targeting.
- Added the color coded names to items and events that need it.
- Reformatted some punctuation in the passenger logs.
- Expended equipped items now linger in your mouse slots, but greyed out.
- It now accurately tells you “Full Inventory” when you try to open a container with an oxygen container inside and you have a full inventory.
- You can now see the player level at the score screen.
- Removed player profile migration from the main screen. You now have to click accept on terms - however you do not need to set up an account.
- Added a search option to the friends list.
- Added player colors to the text chat.
- Polished the score screen a little bit.
- Added more symbols on the symbol puzzle.
- The lighter animation has a lower priority over other animations.
- Prepared the vruumba for future customization, added some nozzles and an antenna to it.
- Reduced the aggressive pulsating on screen for some on screen messages.
- Added cooldown to the champagne bottle.
- Added some animation to the players on the airlock meeting.
- Reduced the time on the lighter animation.
- Randomize the symbol on the symbol puzzle again if a player leaves the terminal.
- Oxygen stations are now highlighted when low global oxygen is active.
- Added a “swapped” message when swapping unique items.
- Removed the wrench from other players.
- Redid the visuals for the Personoid Shortcut - will replace other shortcuts in a later update.
- Optimized performance in the casino.
- Optimized performance in the mall.
- Redid the model for the gas leak emergency event.
- Removed the ability to grab while jumping.
- Showers in the resort now extinguish a person on fire.
- Made the resort key cards a little harder to get.
- Removed import steam friends from the settings.
- Remade the UI icon for the oxygen outlet.
- Added interaction outline to the keycard handin.
- Tweaked all the animations to look a lot better.
- Remade the toilet sounds.
- Enabled text chat on the score screen.
- Removed the elevator icon when people were teleported to the elevator.
- Added oxygen outlet extenders.
- People who fall through the map teleport back.
- Reduced the attenuation for syringe overdose kill being too far.
- Improved Personoid randomization.
- Increased the penalty for killing other residents as a resident.
- Increased the volume of chat elements.
- Lowered the cooldown on the alcohol cart.
- Redid the mesh of the wheel of fortune.
- Added a bar when using sprint.
- Optimized character footstep audio
- Added some more invisible walls to various levels, to prevent falling into space.
- Smoothed performance during biovision.
- Fixed backfill counter becoming negative
- Fixed crash when drowning
- You can no longer throw champagne bottles while downed.
- Fixed a bug where you couldn’t complete the “It’s time for your medicine” achievement.
- You can no longer swap computers on the symbol puzzle.
- Fixed invite to party from recently played with.
- Fixed the friend system wrongly showing that a person was in your party from the invite list.
- Added further prevention from spam inviting.
- Fixed an error where the passenger log would say sabotaged when you interacted with it as Personoid.
- Fixed that you could get stuck in the C.A.I.N. server room flooring.
- Fixed crouching while drowning being able to reset the meter.
- Fixed the oxygen generator being able to be sabotaged while being fixed allowing it to be repaired twice.
- Fixed some colliders in the resort.
- Fixed the welcome screen voice options being empty.
- Removed the remaining audio cues from vruumbas so they can no longer be heard.
- Fixed some flickering on passenger logs when using bio vision.
- Fixed some rotation of the players when being killed with the overdose syringe.
- Fixed it so the freezer cannot be opened using the wrench.
- Fixed it so the airlock meeting UI is not shown twice for vruumbas.
- Fixed the wrench being able to be used on glass doors.
- Fixed some artistic errors with the loading screen.
- Fixed it so your own name is being shown on the UI in the backfill lobby.
- Fixed the oxygen outlet animation being triggered for two people at the same time.
- Fixed a crash related to scanning the alignment of a player.
- Fixed a bug where you could stumble out of electric fields when drunk.
- Fixed some issues where the host cancelling a search for a match would get them stuck searching.........
- Fixed an issue where 2 or more players were repairing an emergency event and a player leaving - it will now accurately reduce in speed.
- Fixed saving a person from a pool and being able to carry corpses on land.
- Removed some hard to reach camping spots to reduce glitching.
- Fixed electrocuting a dead corpse triggering points.
- Fixed the camera looking inside of the vruumba.
- Fixed it so you are no longer able to turn off the electricity hazard completely.
- Fixed an issue where the mouse had to be clicked on the menu before being active.
- Fixed some background mouse acceleration unable to be turned off.
- Fixed Voice settings Volume sliders able to go out of range.
- Fixed an issue where when you left the party would still show you on the UI for the party leader.
- Tweaked the door interaction so it does not prevent you from picking up dropped items from the floor.
- Fixed a bug where dropped items in the airlock could prevent a person from dying.
- Fixed duplicate messages when picking up keycards.
- Fixed cancel report player removing the mouse cursor.
- Fixed an issue where you could not report a player on the end screen.
- Fixed the clock ticking sound persisting after the airlock meeting is gone.
- Fixed the animation when using the overdose syringe so the player does not float a little bit.
- Fixed a crash relating to UI when changing levels.
- Fixed people lighting your cigarette when it is already lit.
- Fixed several issues related to the keybinding system. Will undergo a larger refactor.
- Fixed Vruumba camera being stuck if player had opened tab menu or emote wheel while dying
- Fixed a crash related to the end screen.
- Fixed some inconsistencies in Hat Tag.
- Progress based achievements might not pop currently so we have deactivated some of them while we investigate. Most likely related to our upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.26. Affected Achievements: IT Specialist, C.A.I.N. is not 1337, Welcome to the Jungle, Volunteer Firefighter & Free Sandwich When You Get Ten. We are working on a fix.
Thanks so much for reading!
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BIO VISION UPGRADE: As Alithea gets more items and objectives to keep track of we felt the personoids needed a small upgrade to ease navigation. The new and improvoed Bio Vision comes with tweaked effects and now shows more objects, including icons. 
