Shadows of Doubt News

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

Another experimental patch going live to hopefully help with some more issues people have been facing!

• 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
  

Join our Discord to get involved in the conversation

A quick hotfix to sort an issue with the latest update:

Fixed: Game was getting stuck on 'Simulating Past Events' on some cities

Hey everyone, the most recent experimental branch has helped a lot of people with some save issues and a bunch of other things and we managed to catch an issue it created with some floating files before pushing it onto the default branch for everyone!

• New button in Settings > Gameplay menu to revert all settings to their defaults
  
• Minor performance improvements
  
• New save game compression: Save game files are many times smaller
  
• New graphics options to adjust light fade distance
  
• Skulls will now spawn less often in apartments (requires new city generation)
  
• Fixed: Selling an item using the room décor edit menu would not always delete that item
  
• Fixed: Devices with an APU (like Steam Deck) would dedicate resources to maintain a high frame rate while first loading the game, resulting in the initial loading process taking a much longer time than was necessary
  
• Fixed: The game could give the player an apartment on loading a save game (even if they didn’t have one)
  
• Fixed: Rainy windows no longer appear indoors
  
• Fixed: Rainy windows now turn on/off with rain detail graphics setting
  
• Fixed: Some issues with flickering area lights
  
• Fixed: Footprints weren’t spawning in as often as they should
  
• Fixed: The sky could be set to the wrong colour in certain cases
  
• Fixed: Using the same city seed to generate other cities of different sizes could cause loading game errors
  

Another new patch live on the experimental branch for you to check out:

• New button in Settings > Gameplay menu to revert all settings to their defaults
  
• Minor performance improvements
  
• New save game compression: Save game files are many times smaller
  
• New graphics options to adjust light fade distance
  
• Skulls will now spawn less often in apartments (requires new city generation)
  
• Fixed: Selling an item using the room décor edit menu would not always delete that item
  
• Fixed: Devices with an APU (like Steam Deck) would dedicate resources to maintain a high frame rate while first loading the game, resulting in the initial loading process taking a much longer time than was necessary
  
• Fixed: The game could give the player an apartment on loading a save game (even if they didn’t have one)
  
• Fixed: Rainy windows no longer appear indoors
  
• Fixed: Rainy windows now turn on/off with rain detail graphics setting
  
• Fixed: Some issues with flickering area lights
  
• Fixed: Footprints weren’t spawning in as often as they should
  
• Fixed: The sky could be set to the wrong colour in certain cases
  
• Fixed: Using the same city seed to generate other cities of different sizes could cause loading game errors