Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo news & patch notes

Hello players! today we're excited to announce that our latest patch for Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo is out!

Art & VFX

• Addition of visual effects in certain parts of the game where they weren't executed properly
• Changes in the lighting in certain cinematics to balance the overall quality and merge the results with conversations
• Overall performance improvements : Changes on the resolution of far objects to make the scenes less demanding.

Animation

• Rework of some lip-sync animations
• Fixing of lip-sync issues
• Fixing of multiple clipping issues all around the game
• Improvements in the vehicules animations
• Polish in characters animations
• Improvements in the conversations animations
• Adjustments in the cameras during conversations
• Hypnosis poses issues fixed.
• Hair Dynamics improvements, particularly on Faye.

Hello dear players, We wish you the best year yet for 2022! Last week a patch arrived for Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo, here are the changes that have been made: - Script and subtitles fixes - Audio & volume balancing - Correction applied to the blackscreen issue, causing an infinite loading on some configurations - Deluxe filters are now available for the owners via an In-game option (on the Main Menu and Pause menus) - General animation improvements - General Illumination improvements - VFX Improvements - SFX Fixes - Voices & Lipsync Fixes - Multiple bug fixing

Microids is pleased to reveal today Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo’s second developer’s diary as we get closer to the release. Pendulo Studios (Runaway, Yesterday Origins, Blacksad: Under the Skin…) new game is expected for December 16, 2021, on PC. This dev diary goes into details about the creative process of the musical theme and the original soundtrack of the narrative game Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo, freely inspired by Hitchcock’s masterpiece. Juan Miguel Martin, composer who has worked on previous Pendulo Studios productions such as Runaway (2003) The Next Big Thing (2011), Yesterday (2012), Yesterday Origins (2016) and more recently Blacksad: Under the Skin in 2019, will sign his sixth musical work, with the precious help of twelve talented musicians with whom he has surrounded himself. Through this new narrative experience, the melodies players will discover will be familiar and an attentive ear will recognize the work of Bernard Herrmann, from whom the game team drew inspiration. A composer who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on eight of his most famous films, including "Vertigo" (1956), "North by Northwest" (1957), "Psycho" (1960) and "The Birds" (1963), as well as other films by renowned directors such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). Synopsis : Ed Miller, a writer, came out unscathed from his car crash down into Brody Canyon, California. Even though no one was found inside the car wreckage, Ed insists that he was traveling with his wife and daughter. Traumatized by the event, he begins to suffer from severe vertigo. As he starts therapy, he will try to uncover what really happened on that tragic day. Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo is being developed by Pendulo Studios (Runaway, Yesterday Origins, Blacksad: Under the Skin…) and will launch December 16th, 2021, on PC. The game will come out in 2022 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One consoles and Nintendo Switch. Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo is an invitation to discover more about this dizzy spell and its origins. The game is a true introspective experience that will challenge the players’ own sense of sanity. Prepare yourself for a disturbing investigation inside the human mind: the truth is sometimes worse than madness… Stay safe everybody, Microids Team

Hi to all Vertigo players! We're excited to announce that Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo has just released ːsteamhappyː!!!

How to get your deluxe bonuses

- Go to your Steam library - Right click on Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo - Go to properties - Select Browse local files - From there, you should be able to access the game folders, and find a folder named "Deluxe Bonus"

What about the soundtrack

We're sorry to announce that there'll be a little delay to get the soundtrack here, we're doing our best to make sure players who bought it will get it asap! We will update you in the next 24 hours! Edit: the Soundtrack should be released and working fine! we're on the lookout for any problem that might be related to it.

Discover the new story trailer for Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo, the game, revealing in-game footage for the first time! This new story trailer introduces the writer Ed Miller, a car accident survivor suffering from intense vertigo. Convinced he just lost his wife and daughter in the crash, Ed starts therapy and reluctantly begins confiding in with a psychiatrist: doctor Julia Lomas. Julia will have to fight against Ed’s reluctance to dive deep into his memory and find out the hidden truth. Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo is being developed by Pendulo Studios (Runaway, Yesterday Origins, Blacksad: Under the Skin…) and will launch December 16th 2021. Game features

• An exclusive, original story about obsession, memory, manipulation, and madness, freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo
• Live a powerful narrative experience paying tribute to the visual and storytelling techniques of Hitchcock
• Investigate through the vision of three characters: everyone has a different story to tell
• Explore several timelines to cross-check the events and separate reality from deceptive memories

Digital Deluxe Edition content The Digital Deluxe Edition is available to preorder! Included: On top of this, Faye and Petronius the cat avatars will be offered as pre-order bonuses. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40674021/066e97cbf022d7419eb612f213ad3ccf84378b7c.png

Listen to Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo's narrative designer giving some first insight on the game! Wishlist our game to get updates and news!