Shadows of Doubt News

Calling all Detectives:

The new FREE update to Shadows of Doubt is here! Cheats and Liars is the first major content since the early access release and there’s a good handful of new bits to cover. You can find the full patch notes here and some more information below



The update comes with some great new features in the form of case types, citizen interactions and a new building, the Grand Hotel. You will now have infidelity cases to work on and catch cheating partners along with smaller side cases in the form of “Lost and Found” Where you’ll be searching out lost items that citizens have posted in apartment building lobby board



Along with these new cases, you’ll need to use some new detective techniques to help solve the cases. Cheats and Liars is introducing a means to give items to citizens

The ability to give items to citizens is now available and will be the way to complete Lost and Found cases. Plans for this feature to be expanded upon are being discussed internally. You can also now accuse citizens of murder. They may just acquiesce OR you may anger them and blow your investigative cover, making the arrest harder, so choose wisely.



Finally the Grand Hotel. Sitting high above many of the apartment buildings within the city, This posh building features a beautiful entrance and lobby complete with jukebox music, multiple bars and even a highrise balcony seating area. If you’re looking to post up closer to a case or just need some time away, you can also rent available rooms from the Hotel.

Also, we have fixed the Twitch integration now so you should be able to connect to your Twitch so members of your chat can populate the world!

Please do join us on our early access journey and join our Discord to get involved in the conversation

Hey Detectives!

Our first major update is coming out on September 25th!

Cheats and Liars introduces a brand new case type - investigating an infidelity. As a private detective, you'll be tasked with looking into suspected sordid relations to track down everything that's been going on in an illicit affair. Investigate the couple’s movements, discover clues, seek out evidence and monitor their actions to determine whether the accused has been unfaithful.

You can check out the trailer here:

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Check into a room in the brand new multi-storey hotel and make use of its facilities - as long as you can pay the bill. Relax at the rooftop bar or marvel at the antique crystal chandelier in its majestic lobby - the hotel is yours to explore. Discover brand new NPC interactions and dialogues, including the option to directly accuse your suspect and place them in handcuffs. But be warned, your suspect might not always take kindly to being accused of a crime...



Track down missing items listed on notice boards and return them to their owners for a reward. Discover an improved game experience with a range of quality of life improvements, including bug fixes, localisation improvements and support for NVIDIA DLSS.

A lot of the focus since launch has been on bug fixing and optimisation so it is nice to be able to share new content with you all as well

Please do join us on our early access journey and join our Discord to get involved in the conversation

We have a whole host of fixes this week that we had been testing out on experimental and thank goodness for the experimental system because we managed to catch a few issues that were caused by the changes. Now that it is live on default there should be no new issues from these updates.

• Fixed: Player was unable to interact with keypads on certain doors (appeared in 34.09 on experimental)
  
• Fixed: You can now preview square wall pictures in apartment editing mode properly
  
• Fixed: Bug report form did not detect compressed save game format (only affected 34.08 experimental)
  
• Fixed: Placed items disappearing from player apartments after a long period of time (could still happen in a starting apartment in sandbox mode)
  
• Fixed: Cancelling ‘pass time’ while sitting on certain benches would cause the player to clip through the wall behind the bench
  
• Fixed: Stopped the player from getting stuck between two back-to-back park benches
  
• Fixed: Rare freeze error on city generation
  
• New city data compression: City data is many times smaller and is now included in steam cloud data
  
• New toggle options in the gameplay settings for save game and city data compression
  
• Fixed: Problems loading air vents in ceilings (resulting in a weird hole in the ceiling)
  
• Fixed: Framed jersey wall frame spawned too high and could block air ducts
  
• Fixed: Placed items disappearing from player apartments after a long period of time
  
• Fixed: Objectives could become stuck on game load, resulting in some broken side mission logic
  
• Fixed: Faulty collision mesh for filing cabinet
  
• Fixed: Some cases of side mission items not loading properly (may require a new side mission)
  
• Fixed: The game’s initial loading screen had unlocked fps, causing some long loading issues on some hardware
  
• Fixed: Error that could happen when the game tried to spawn a decal on a null object
  

Hey detectives!

We have another experimental branch update for you all. We didn't push the last experimental branch to the default because of some issues with saves not being submitted with bug reports so we couldn't verify bugs etc found on the previous experimental build. Thanks again for brining these issues to our attention, hopefully this patch helps fix a lot of the issues being reported recently!

• Fixed: Bug report form did not detect compressed save game format (only affected last experimental version)
  
• Fixed: Placed items disappearing from player apartments after a long period of time (could still happen in a starting apartment in sandbox mode)
  
• Fixed: Cancelling ‘pass time’ while sitting on certain benches would cause the player to clip through the wall behind the bench
  
• Fixed: Stopped the player from getting stuck between two back-to-back park benches
  
• Fixed: Rare freeze error on city generation
  

Join our Discord to get involved in the conversation

Hey everyone!

You will be pleased to know that the 20% discount will roll on for the duration of the Tiny Teams event on Steam! So you have until the 10th of August to get the game at 20% off!

The Tiny Teams event is a fantastic initiative that celebrates games made by small teams and we are so honoured that our tiny team behind Shadows of Doubt has been selected as a Tiny Champion!

You can find the event and a host of other fantastic indie games made by tiny teams on Steam here!

Please do join us on our early access journey and join our Discord to get involved in the conversation