Backrooms: Escape Together news & patch notes

Hi guys! We've been hard at work making improvements to the game every hour. We sincerely thank you all for putting BET at #21 in the Steam Global best seller rankings!!! Our mission is to create the best co-op game on Steam for you all, and while we have a long way to go, we appreciate the support. Lots more fixes coming this week, posting bugs in our Discord is super super helpful, we will fix them as fast as we can.

https://discord.gg/backrooms

Level 232 (Infinite Grocery Store)

• Shop Prices Now Scale Up Further When Playing With More Players

• Fire Sale Now Lasts 30 Seconds (Up From 15)

• Grocery Items and Grabbables Are Now Picked Up With a Press Interact Instead of a Hold

• Updated Exit to Tease New Level

• Fixed the Black Coffee Cup

• Fix Frame Drop When Day First Starts

Mobility Scooter

• Each Scooter Now Spawns in a Random Color

• You Can Now Look Back Further While Riding

• Fixed Arms Bending Incorrectly While Riding

• Fixed Scooter Audio Sometimes Cutting Out

• Blocked Dropping Items While in a Scooter, Patching a Duplication Glitch

• Added a User-Bindable Exit Vehicle Keybind

Facelings

• Tuned the Walkie Talkie Cues So It's Clearer When a Faceling Has Heard or Seen You

Multiplayer

• Fixed In-Game Changes to Lobby Size and Public/Private Not Applying to the Live Session

• New Lobbies Now Default to Private

• Hardened Lobby Join/Create So a Disconnect Can No Longer Leave the Buttons Stuck or Dead

• Improved Reliability of Lobby Joining and Error Handling

• Further Fixes for Clients Getting Stuck on the Loading Screen, Especially Across Regions and on Larger Levels

• Fixed Level-Completion Achievements Not Unlocking for Non-Host Players

Reviving

• You No Longer Need Bandages to Revive a Teammate

• Using a Bandage Now Speeds Up the Revive

• Fixed the Revive Fragment Not Applying Correctly

Voice Chat

• Fixed the Mic Level Percentage Not Updating in the Lobby

• Added a Voice Transcription Opt-Out

Rich Presence & Discord

• Steam and Discord Presence Now Always Show the Correct Level You're In, and Clear Back to "In Lobby" When You Leave

• Added Discord Rich Presence With Per-Level Art and Join-From-Discord Support

• Added Ability to Invite Players Directly through a Discord widget

UI & Settings

• Fixed the Exit Menu Back Button Not Working

• Fixed Lobby Selection not Working on Controller

• Fixed Emote/Radial Wheel Mouse Selection

• "Return to Hub" Is Now Hidden on Level 232 Until You've Completed It

• Fixed a Save-Slot Cap Issue Caused by Non-Journey Saves Counting Toward the Limit

Localization

• Added Missing and Updated Translations Across the Game

• Fixed Incorrect Font Fallback for Some Languages

Stability & Crashes

• Fixed a Host Crash When Starting a Lobby With No Journey Selected

• Fixed a Startup Crash on Some Intel Core Ultra (NPU) Systems

• Fixed Crash When Leaving 232

Hi Everyone! We've been working all hours of the day since the update to adjust the difficulty of the new Level 232 and fix any bugs introduced in the update. This hotfix is the culmination of almost all major things we've seen you all report. Thanks for helping development and we hope you enjoy the new level!

Level 232 (Infinite Grocery Store)

• Reworked Item Pricing Curve (Scales down smoother with more players)

• Increased Item Count and Item Prices

• Randomized Fire Sale Multiplier Instead of Being a Flat 2x

• Changed Warehouse Doors to Open Per Store After Key Card Insertion

• Removed Bandages from the Shop in Single-Player

• Blocked Camcorder Use While in a Shopping Cart

• Fixed Collision on Shelves Where Items Were Hard to Grab

• Small Fixes to the Shop Displays and Checkout Lanes

• Fixed Bug that Would Sometimes Migrate Early Saves to Level 232

Facelings

• Facelings Now Give a Grace Period on Spotting you Shop Lifting Before Chasing. If Line of Sight is Broken, They Go Back to Patrolling

• Reduced Sight Range and View Angle

• Shortened Search Time from 10s to 7s

• Fixed Facelings Teleporting Infront of Downed Players

Vehicles

• Fixed Controller Look Stick Not Working While Driving

• Removed the Guaranteed Mobility Scooter Spawn at Start

• Fixed a Crash During Vehicle Teardown

Multiplayer

• Fixed Unjoinable (Due to Version) Public Lobbies from Showing in Search Results

• Fixed Infinite Loading Screen for Clients Loading into Levels (Especially on 232)

• Fixed In-game Configuration of Multiplayer Settings Not Working

• Fixed Rich Presence So Friends See the Correct Level You're In on Steam

• Fixed Hats not Showing on Other Players

Voice Chat

• Fixed Spectators Not Being Able to Hear Alive Players

• Fixed Choppy (Or fully broken) Mic Audio on Certain Microphones

• Improved Voice Channel Joining Reliability

UI

• Numerous Fixes for Controller Bugs in Menus

• Fixed the Quit Menu Not Hiding UI Behind it

• Tentative Fix to Reduce Ghosting In Lobby on Non-Nvidia GPUs

Hi Everyone, super excited to bring you all 3 exciting things in today's latest update (including our most detailed level yet)!

Backrooms Movie Event

In collaboration with A24 for the Backrooms Movie, we are releasing the "Blue Tape Event".

Click here to view the full event.

BET is Releasing to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on June 18th, 2026

Prepare to Journey Through the Backrooms on Console!

We are super excited to announce that Backrooms: Escape Together is officially coming to

console on the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, releasing globally June 18th, 2026. The team

here at Triiodide has poured in countless hours of work and effort to bring BET over to console,

and we can’t wait to deliver the full Backrooms: Escape Together to a brand new player base and

to all of our console players out there!

Cross-Platform Play:

Backrooms: Escape Together on console fully supports cross-platform play, enabling you to

traverse through the Backrooms alongside your friends whether you’re on Xbox, PlayStation, or

Steam on PC. Full proximity chat is supported as well, allowing players to communicate

seamlessly in game regardless of which platform you play on.

All 11 Levels, All the Same Features:

The console version includes all 11 procedurally generated levels (including the brand new Level

232) and the exact same features as BET on Steam. We also pushed to the absolute limit on

performance and graphics to deliver a fully immersive and authentic Backrooms experience on

console.

Preorders & Wishlist:

Preorders of Backrooms: Escape Together are available to purchase on Xbox Series X|S starting

today, May 28th, for $19.99 USD with the game launching and open to play on June 18th, 2026.

For PlayStation 5, the official Backrooms: Escape Together Game Hub will also go live today in

the PlayStation store, where it’s available to wishlist. You can find the Backrooms: Escape

Together game store page and game hub on both the official PlayStation Store and Xbox Store,

either on console or web.

Wishlist on PS5

Pre-order on Xbox

Watch the official Backrooms: Escape Together Console Trailer Here

New Level Out NOW: The Infinite Super Market

Lambda researchers has discovered Level 232, the "Infinite Super Market", a sprawling series of aisles and warehouses.

Researchers found this area to be very hostile. A group of new entities has been found on the level. However, it makes for a good source of supplies. Grab what you can while you can, and make it out before the store closes.

232 marks our most detailed level yet with the most unique assets out of any level. We would love to hear your feedback on it.

How to Access:

Level 232, the Infinite Super Market. Level 232 is entered by going down the slide at the end of Level FUN, if you have already completed Level FUN, Level 232 will be unlocked and auto selected in your Journey selection screen.

Thank you to everyone for the amazing support and enthusiasm over the years, we couldn’t have

made it this far without you. We hope to see you in the Backrooms on console June 18th!

A24 Backrooms Movie Event

Hey everyone! We've collaborated with A24 to celebrate the release of the Backrooms movie on May 29, 2026, and we've put together a special limited time in-game event.

A new anomaly has appeared in Level 0, designated "The Blue Tape Threshold." Cross through the blue tape wall and you'll find yourself in a living room with a functional television inside. Scattered throughout Level 0, you'll also find a new item: the VHS cassette. Pick it up, bring it back to the living room, and pop it into the TV to watch an exclusive clip from the upcoming A24 film.

This event will run until Friday June 12th!

The VHS cassette is yours to keep after the event ends, so make sure you grab one while it's available.

Get your tickets to see the film!

Visit backrooms.mov to grab your ticket to the film! This limited time in-game event is part of an authorized collaboration with A24 in connection with the Backrooms film. Backrooms: Escape Together is developed and published independently by Triiodide Studios. A24 and related marks are trademarks of A24 Films LLC, used with permission.

Triiodide Studios is an independent studio and is not otherwise affiliated with or owned by A24.

Change List

• Fixed Bugs with Level -1's TV Ritual Sequence (Some users wouldn't be teleported)
• Added New Objective to Level -1, Instructing to Find a TV
• Increased Number of TVs on -1
• Optimized Level -1's Generation Speed
• Entities Now Spawn Again in the First Sector of -1
• Fixed Blank Hints Showing on Levels without Hints
• Level 2 Now Shows Completes the Avoid the Blind Entity Objective Once At the Elevator
• Updated Pool Rooms Puzzle Color to Green to Make it Easier to See
• Small Fixes to Clutter on Various Levels
• Various Bug Fixes for the Journey Screen
• Fixed Being Able to be Stuck in Level 0's Elevator Shaft by Clipping with a Ledge
• Fixed Small Chance to Spawn in the Floor in Level 37's Checkpoint
• Updated Translations
• Crash Fixes

Hi guys! The team has been hard at work on new levels (targeting a late May release), but until then, we wanted to give you some new features and improvements we have implemented since December. One of the biggest features we've been working on is dedicated modding support! It will be starting off in a closed alpha initially, so please apply in ⁠our Discord if you have experience modding and are interested. We are using Luau, the same language that Roblox uses for our exposed API.

Change List:

• Brand new Journey Screen - See entities, items, and level exits

• v0.1 of Dedicated Mod Support (Closed alpha, apply in our Discord for access!)

• Level 6 Improvements - Added a new puzzle to the first section and streamlined the second sector puzzle

• Level 37 Improvements - Replaced the ending puzzle with a brand new larger puzzle

• Level -1 Improvements - New Mini Ritual Sequence Added

• Added New Emote Wheel + Thumbs Up Emote - G is the default keybind

• Added Ability to Rotate Items in your Inventory- Great for optimizing space

• Removed Christmas Event

• Lowered RAM Usage

• Reduced Negative 1 Size by 10% for Solo, Scaling Linearly to 15% for 6 Players

• Overhauled Level 3 Fuse Boxes

• Nerfed Clump's Speed and Lowered Grab Range

• Improved Voice Chat Connection Code (A large overhaul is coming soon that will fix login and voice chat issue for players, mainly if in the Russian region)

• Added Sprint Buffering - Makes sprinting after landing less time sensitive

• Added Smooth Pitch Limiting to Controller Look

• Improved Inventory Selection/Drag Code for a More Responsive Feel

• Updated Translations

• Improved Shader Compilation Speed

• Reduced Bandwidth In Multiplayer - Improving Performance With a Bad Connection

• Improve Entity Grabs During Bad Network Conditions

• Added New Objective Popups to Various Levels

• Minor Performance Improvements

• Adjusted Level 3 Loot Spawn Rates

• Added Additional Partygoer Ambient Sounds

• Adjusted Volume of Clump Sounds

• Improved Interaction Selection

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Level 6 Entity Being Invisible for Clients

• Fixed Entities Not Hearing Players Sometimes

• Fixed Camera Glitch When Out of Stamina on Controller

• Fixed Numerous Instances of Clipping/Peaking Audio Distortion

• Fixed Bug that Caused Audio Popping During Low FPS

• Fixed Bug that Allowed you to Interact with a Wire on Level 3 Without any Tape

• Numerous Crash Fixes

• Fixed Ability to Miss the Level Fun Teleporter

• Fixed Anti Aliasing Not Working if DLSS is Off and you are on a New Nvidia Driver

• Fixed Edge Cases Were the Interact Text Wasn't Updated

• Fixed Camera Showing Drop Icon (Or any other undroppable item)

Happy New Year's Eve everyone! This release comes with a new upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.7, which bring graphics improvements, performance improvements, multiplayer improvements and better stability!

Change List:

• Upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.7

• Improved Graphics Quality Most Notably Improved Visual Clarity and Less Ghosting from Walls or Players

• Potential Fix for Login Issues Experienced by Some

• Improved CPU and GPU Performance, Most Notably on Low, Medium and High Settings

• Improved Multiplayer Performance, Reducing CPU and Memory

• Fixed Persistent Crash During Game Load if On an Affected 13th/14th Gen Intel CPU

• Improved Level Load Times

• Improved Engine Stability and Micro Hitches from 5.7 Upgrade

• Improved Shader Compilation Times on First Boot

• Improved Santa Hat and Christmas Tree Models, Santa Hat Now has a Physics Sim!

• Allow Level 0 Elevator to Operate if Some Players are in the Sub Level Instead of Requiring all Alive Players

• Improved Elevator Crash in Level 0 When Viewed Externally

• Added Pickup Haptics for PS5 Controller

• Added Hanging Play Obstacles to Level Fun's Minigame Playplace

• Small Bug Fixes and Various Improvements

Happy Holidays Everyone! The team and I are excited to bring you BET's first ever Christmas Event! Collect presents across all of the levels and bring them to the hub for a special surprise. The team has been growing and heads down on brining awesome content to BET and we are very excited for 2026.

Change List:

• Added New Christmas Event!

• Entities can Now Hear In Game Voice Chat (Bumping your mic, keyboard sounds or anything else that's not human voice will not alert them)

• Greatly Reduced Perceived Network Latency for All in Game Actions by Removing the Need for the Host to Tell Clients to Update an Interactable Object's State

• Greatly Reduce Chance for a Network Disconnect

• Add the Option to Retry Login if it is Not Successful for Whatever Reason, Avoiding Forcing You to Restart Your Game on Failed Login

• Add Hints System

• Numerous Environmental Polishes to Level -1

• Reduced Chances of Locked Door Leading to Literally Nothing in Level -1

• Increased Level -1 Sanity Depletion

• Minor Environmental Fixes for Level FUN

• Tweaked Loot Table in Level -1

• Update Entity Spawning Algorithm in Level -1

• Added Per Surface Footstep Haptics, Along with Haptics When Toggling Flashlight and Zooming with the Camera

• Polish Loading Screen UI

• Lower Ambient Audio Sound in Level 6

• Various Small CPU Optimizations

Bug Fixes:

• Fix Chance to be Stuck in a Infinite Loading Screen When Not the Host

• Fixed Chance to be Kicked From the Game when Equipping Items

• Fixed Dying on Purgatory Bringing you to the Last Branching Path Instead of Game Start

• Fixed Chance for Opinion Collector to Spawn without its Housing

• Potential Fix for Robotic Voice When Push to Talk is Enabled

• Fix Brief Moment Where Free Cam was Enabled When Loading into a Level While Having a Bad Network Connection

Special thanks to everyone here on the Triiodide Team who helped make this update possible, and Light Nate from our Discord for graciously providing the Level 0 wallpaper pattern for the Level 0 present!

Hi All! The team and I are back with another update, brining a brand new way of navigating levels to BET. Players can now freely go from Level 0 to -1 and then choose to go back to Level 0 (0.11). The same goes for Level 1. We want branching paths to add to the gameplay and feel that allowing backtracking makes the world feel much larger- less a series of levels and more a journey where you decide what you want to explore. This update also includes a lot of tweaks and improvements to Level -1. We've been collecting a ton of feedback related to the level, so with these changes it should feel much more fun and fair.

General Changes:

• Added Ability to Traverse Back to Level 0 from Levels -1 and 1,

• Updated Level 0 Sub Level to Support Back Tracking,

• Added Work Lights to Level -1 Exit Hallway,

• Small Environmental Tweaks for Level 0,

• Replaced References to "the Entity" in Level 0 Objectives with "An Entity". This Reduces Confusion for New Players and Allows You to Record the Smiler or Bacteria for All Entity Related Objectives.

Level -1 Changes:

Generation

• Overhauled Tutorial Area for an Even Distribution of Rooms, Consistent Size Across All Player Counts, and Hid Objective Until The TV is Interacted with to Reduce Confusion,

• Reduced Map Size By 8% In its Smallest Generation (1 Player) Scaling Linearly for All Player Counts, Topping Out at a 30% Reduction for 6 Players,

• Removed "Employees Only Sign" From Closets to Increase Anticipation When Opening Doors,

• Increased Number of Closets by 30%,

Entity

• Entity Will Now Spawn Within 10-40 Seconds of Loading into the Level, Down from 120-150 Seconds,

• Updated Entity Form and Animations to be More Humanoid,

• Improved Jumpscare Animation and Sound,

• Increased Entity Speed When Chasing,

• Reduced Radius Of Light that Destroys the Entity from 500,

Gameplay

• Completing the Ritual Now Teleports You to a New, Smaller Area Connected to the Ending Room, Reducing Frustration When Trying to Find the Exit After Completing the Objective,

• Players Now Spawn in the TV Room to Reduce Chance of Missing the Graffiti Hint Before Encountering the Entity,

• Updated Graffiti Hint for Better Clarity on Combating the Entity

• Removed "It's Cold" Objective Description to Avoid Confusion,

• Improved Smoothness of Teleports,

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Being Able to Interact with Light Switches Through Closet Walls in -1,

• Fixed Entity Sometimes Screaming Indefinitely in -1,

• Fixed TV Sometimes Not Teleporting Players into the Next Area in -1,

• Numerous Other Small Bug Fixes for -1,

• Fixed Bugs with Non-Hosts When the Lights Flash Red After Tutorial Completion,

• Fixed "Look Deeper" Text Not Being Translated,

• Fixed Chance for a Hallway to Clip Through the Ending Room,

• Fixed Grayscale Effect Sometimes not Applying to Players,

• Fixed Opinion Collector Sometimes Spawning Incorrectly on Clients,

• Fixed Lights Being Flickered by the Entity Even if that Hallway Was Unpowered,

Performance

• Reduced CPU Usage by 40% on the Game Thread Caused by Inefficient Door Code in Level -1,

• Optimized GPU Performance When Looking at Doorways on Ultra Settings,

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed Crash on Startup or During Gameplay Caused by Raytracing for Users with AMD GPUs 7000 and 9000 Series, with Adrenalin Driver 25 or Newer. (NOTE: The fix was disabling Enhanced Raytracing for users with this GPU + driver combination. If you wish to enable hardware raytracing without crashing, downgrade your AMD driver to 24.12.1. This is an AMD + Unreal Engine bug and will be fixed by them in the future),

• Fixed Chance for Game to Crash When Connecting to BET Servers,

• Fixed Rare Crash Caused by Voice Chat When Joining New Lobbies,

• Fixed Crash When Leaving a Lobby While the World is Still Generating,

• Fixed Crash Caused by Generating A New Level While Experiencing Extreme Network Instability,

• Fixed Rare Crash When Transitioning from Level 4 to 6,

• Fixed Crash When Trying to Run BET as a Dedicated Server When Using Local Split Screen Applications (Local Split Screen apps are not officially supported, but I saw a few reports and wanted to fix it.),

• Fixed Bug Causing "What's New" to Always Display When Entering the Menu,

• Fixed Opinion Collector Sometimes Spawning inside Walls

Happy Halloween everyone!

I am super excited to announce a brand new level has come to B.E.T, Level -1: "The Grayscale Halls". Level -1 is "An expansive, winding system of concrete hallways. This hotel is characterized by its disorienting grayscale color and its rotting wallpaper."

Only One Level?

I can hear many of you shouting at your computer screens... ːsteamhappyː. As of last month, most of the team is back to levels. Ethan has been hard at work cooking this up. To give a rough timeline of this year January-March was 2 new levels released and April-September was scaling the team, overhauling the game (v0.12), fixing bugs, and just polishing things we thought were impacting the experience. It's a lot of work but needed so the game doesn't feel sloppy. In that time, we also ported the game for consoles! (Official announcement coming soon)

What's Next?

The team is super proud with the progress made on -1 in one month and it lays the ground work for delivering content at a faster pace to you all. We are now able to get medium to small levels completed in under a month while also potentially completing larger ones (Like 9, 232, 94, 33, etc) every couple months. The team is still scaling and our rate of getting content out will only be improving! In the mean time we will be chipping away at our roadmap!

Thank You

As always, thank you to everyone who plays BET. It's crazy to think it's been 3 whole years since we released. Since the first day of release, my mission has been to treat every copy sold as an investment into the game's future. I started BET because I saw too many great indie games die off and waste their potential. I am so grateful for everyone's continued support and will guarantee it goes right back into making BET an even better experience. <3

Hey everyone, here with a minor release! This brings a huge audio overhaul that cranks up the immersion. We've also added a teaser in Level 0's sub level that will lead to a brand new level releasing very, very soon!

New Features

• Audio System Overhaul Adding in a Ton of Immersion!

• New Secret Added to Level 0 :)

• Various Bug Fixes Crash Fixes and Performance Improvements

Change List

• Overhauled Audio System (Though this is not Ray Traced audio as shown in the roadmap, but a "Raytraced Audio Light". All of the new reverb is computed before the game starts, so a fully raytraced audio system would allow more realism and spatial positioning as well as adapting better to different geometry. For now though, this gives a much needed facelift to the audio.)

• Improved and Balanced Numerous Sounds Throughout All Levels (Also added a bunch of new environmental sounds!)

• Improved Controller Support Inside of Menus

• Added Footstep Haptics for PS5 Dual Sense Controllers

• Added Door Handle Open/Close Animations to Level 1 and Level 4

• Increased Sanity Drain by 2x When Downed Effectively Halving the Time you Have to be Revived (Unless you consume items!)

• Added Support for HDR on Steam Deck

• Creating a New Save Now Brings You Directly Into the Game/Lobby Instead of Having to Then Select it

Bug Fixes

• Fixed FPS Drop When Moving Items in your Inventory with a High Polling Rate Mouse

• Fixed Water Ripples Not Working in Level 37 Unless Near Spawn

• Fixed Chance for Bacteria to Not Spawn in Level 0

• Numerous Crash Fixes

• Numerous Voice Chat Bug Fixes (Still trying to solve the infamous "Robotic Voice" when a user has push to talk on and someone leaves. This is a bug out of our control and we are working with Epic to help solve this)

• Fixed Level Fun Doors Sometimes Desyncing When Locked

• Reduced CPU Usage on Level Fun and When in Inventory

• Fixed Footstep Sound Not Playing When Landing

• Fixed Not Being Able to Use Items Sometimes on Controller

• Fixed Input Being Lost When Returning to the Menu on Controller

Sorry for the two hotfixes in one night, but special thanks to those who reported these bugs <3

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cursor On Gamepad Not Moving

• Potential Fix for Crash When a Viewing a Player That Has Special Characters in Their Nickname

Bug Fixes

• Fix Lighting Glitch Introduced in 0.12.7 on Levels 4 and 37

• Fixed Xbox Icons Showing on the Steam Deck

Optimizations,

• Improved Shader Compilation Speed on First Launch

• Improved Game Loading Speed on Launch

• Improved Ultra Settings Performance When Near Foam Tiles on Level Fun

Some more optimizations, bug fixes and QOL. Stay tuned for some exciting announcements soon :)

Change List

• Removed a Large Amount of Hitches if Playing the Game on a Spinning Hard Drive or Slow SSD,

• Added Per User Volume Slider for In-Game Voice Chat

• Improved Quality of Native Upscaler, Especially on Level Fun's Netting (Brings the quality closer to DLSS for AMD or Intel GPU Users)

• Fix Intermittent Snapping in Survivor Animations on Landing and Crouching

• Changed "You have reached the end" Screen to Only Show Once Per Major Update

• Improved Item Pickup/Interact Collision Detection

• Added New Circular Cursor for When Playing on Controller to Make Inventory Management Much Easier

• Improved the Settings Menu Navigation When Using Controller

• Lowered Ticket Warning Sound

• Added More Descript Errors When Attempting to Join Sessions that Are Not Joinable (Mismatch version, purgatory in progress, etc)

• Public Lobbies Are Now Filter by If They Are Joinable, Previously, They Would Show Even When Running an Older Version of the Game

• Numerous QOL Improvements for Controller Support

• Improved Ghosting Artifact Sometimes Trailing Players During Motion

• Updated Translations

Optimizations

• Improved Enhanced Raytracing Performance, Especially for Older GPUs (0-5% FPS Improvement Depending on Hardware)

• Reduced FPS Hit Due to Having your Flashlight on by 50%

• Minor Optimizations in Level 4 and Level Fun for a 1-3% FPS Improvement

• Optimized Numerous Low FPS Areas of the Game (Pitfalls, Looking at Tables in Level Fun, Doors in Level 1, Level 0 Mattresses, Level 0 Hole in Walls, Entities)

• Fix FPS Drop When Interacting with/Looking at Items on Low End CPUs

Bug Fixes

• Fix Login Error Not Being Shown to Users and Instead Being Stuck in an Infinite Loading Screen

• Fixed the Profile Button Under Users Being Hidden

• Numerous Crash Fixes

Change List

• Level 6 Entity Now Shows Glitch Effect When Scanning While They are Near

• Improved Voice Chat Audio Quality and Connection Speed

• Increased Speed of Joining Lobbies Via Invite

• Added Low Sanity Heartbeat Haptics

• Level 1 Exit Door is Now Interactable When Unlocked

• Lowered Max Jump Height Given From Speed Items

• Improved Controller Feel Inside of Menus

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Log In Errors Causing "Online Features" to not be Available

• Fixed Voice Chat Sometimes Not Working

• Fixed Joining with Code Sometimes Not Working

• Collision Improvements for Various Levels

• Fix Lag From Opening Pneumatic Doors in Level 3

• Fixed Tables Sometimes Blocking No Clip Exits in Level Fun

• Fix Fade Not Playing Sometimes When Exiting a Level

• Fix Level 6 Exit Sound Splash not Playing

• Potential Fix for FPS Drop When Moving/Looking Fast While on Ultra Settings

Change List:

• Overhauled Level Fun Tables and Coins to Make the Gameplay Much Less Frustrating

• Level Fun's Red Light - Green Light Gives a Very Small (0.15s) Window of Leeway Before Deducting Tickets

• Add Thick Play place Floor Net to the Start of Level Fun Mini Games

• Readded Partygoer Scaling with Players

• Added Use and Drop Quick Actions on Controller

• Increased Look Speed While Downed

• Increased Distance Clumps Can Randomly Run to When Enraged

• Optimized Partygoer Model

• Optimized Level Fun Tables

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed "Online Features Unavailable" Error if Your User Folder Had Special Characters (Disproportionately affected languages with non Latin characters)

• Fixed Extremely Poor FPS and No Online Features if Launching the BETGame.exe Directly

• Fixed Voice Chat Not Being Functional if The Initial Login Call Fails Due to High Ping

• Fixed Ticket Counter Not Showing "Stop When Light is Red", Along with Now Showing it if Earning Less than 500 Tickets. Added Sounds to Accompany Message

• Fixed No Clip Furniture in Level Fun Not Being Synchronized

• Fixed Coins Clipping Through Foam Tiles When Dropped

• Potential Fix for Overhead Names Appearing Under Spectators

• Fixed Potential for Hole Sometimes Appearing at Base of Stairs in Level 3

• Potential Fix for Level 37 Soft Lock Due to No Path Forward in Generation

• Small Level Fun Geometry Fixes

Change List:

• Voice Chat Now Connects to the Closest Region, Providing Less Latency and Better Audio Quality

• Attempting to Join a Game While your System Time is Out of Sync Now Displays a Descript Error Message Instead of Just Timing you Out

• Reduce Volume of Camcorder Wind by 50%

• Small Tweaks to Level 3's Duct Supports

• Rolled back Multiple Partygoers Temporarily While We Balance Level Fun's Coins As the Difficulty was Much Higher than Intended

Bug Fixes:,

• Fixed Not Be Able to Join Multiplayer if a Session Fails to be Created

• Fix for Chance to Have An Infinite Loading Screen When Playing Multiplayer

• Fixed Hot Key Buttons Not Working on Controller in the Main Menu

• Fix Invites Sometimes Not Working if You Accept them Before Launching the Game

• Fixed Pink Box in Level 37

• Fixes for Various Rare Crashes

• Small UI Fixes on Controller

Change List:,

• Optimized Medium Settings by 15%!!

• Optimized High Settings by 8%!

• Improved Graphics of Medium Setting Preset, Notably Fixing Noisy Shadows at a Distance and Noise in General

• Added Ability to Swap Location of Same Size Items in your Inventory by Dragging

• Doubled Number of Loot Shelves in Level 3 and Increased Bandage Spawns

• Level 6 Entity Now Teleports After Jump scaring Player to Avoid Spawn Camping

• Partygoers in Each Warehouse Now Scale with Players (2 players->1 partygoer, 4->2, 6->3)

• Optimized Level 3 by 5-10% (Outside of previous mention optimizations)

• Added Caps to the Ends of Vents in Level 3

• Added Indonesian Language Translations/Support

Bug Fixes

• Fix What's New Tab Showing Old Text

• Spaced Arcade Machines in Level Fun to Prevent Fully Blocking Path

• Properly Hide Interact Prompt After Interacting with Button on Level 6

• Reduced Frame Drop When Looking at Tables in Level Fun

• Minor Bug Fixes to Collisions and Meshes in Level Fun

Change List:

• Change Settings Label for Private Lobby (On/Off) to "Visibility" (Public/Private)

• Fix Level Fun Arrow and Warehouse Lights Being Visible From the Start Area

• Fix Play Place Parkour Light Tubes Turning off When they are Supposed to be On

• Fix Chance of Memory Leak from the Main Menu Loading

• Multiple Fixes for Crashing When Accessing Multiplayer Features

• Improved Voice Chat Stability and Decreased Drop Outs

• Fix Name Tag Show/Hide Setting not Persisting After Restarts

Note: For those of you who are unable to join/host any lobby due to "Connection Timeout" there is a good chance your date/time is not set correctly on your PC. We are currently working on a way to warn users when their time is not set properly as this will prohibit joining or hosting. But, in the mean time, check your windows time settings if you are experiencing connection timeouts!

Change List:

• Added Mute Icon to Your Own Voice Indicator When You are on Push to Talk But Not Transmitting

• Rewrote the Disconnect Handler to Fix Numerous False Positives on Multiplayer Lobbies Causing Players to Disconnect

• Improved Shader Compilation Speed on First Launch

• Improved Speed of Joining a Lobby from a Steam Invite

• Fixed Bug that Sometimes Kicked People While Waiting in the Menu Lobby

• Improved Formatting of Disconnect Errors to Better Display Why You Were Disconnected

• Fixed Crash During Bootup or Level Transition Related to Shader Compilation

• Fix Bug that Could Sometimes Make the Game Take a Few Extra Seconds to Close

Change List

• Fixed Not Being Able to Switch Who You are Spectating After Opening the Pause Menu

• Increased Screen Size of Interaction Test for Easier Grabbing of Items

• Small Optimizations to Level 0

• Updated Translations

Change List:,

• Fixed Not Being Able to Access the Pause Menu if Joining a Game that Was In Progress,

• Fixed Early Disconnects if the Host's Network Connection Was Bad, We Now Wait 15 Seconds Before Disconnecting,

• Overhauled Bouncy Castle Mesh for Performance and Realism,

• Fix Controller Bug that Stopped You From Being to Press Some Buttons,

• Fix Join Errors Getting Cut Off,

• Fixed Rare Chance for Level 3 Terminal to Not Spawn,

• Reduced Clumps Peripheral Vision by 33%,

• Reduced Sound that Distance Clumps Can Hear Jail Doors,

• Fixed Clumps Getting Sometimes Not Being Able Move Through Doorways,

• Fixed Catwalks not Spawning Above Staircases in Level 3,

• Small Decrease in Level 3 Final Sector Size,

• Small Decrease in Clump Top Speed,

• Fixed Issue where the "What's New" Tab Did Not Show,

• Various Fixes for Rare Crashes

Hey everyone! Here with another major update! This update lays out the foundation for BET to grow throughout early access. Raising the quality bar and hardening our systems for the development road ahead.

Changes:

In order to better highlight our new features, we've moved it to an external website where you all can let us know which improvements you like the most and which ones missed the mark. (If you just want to see the detailed change log, see the bottom of this page)

Version 12 New Features

Roadmap

We are so excited about the future of BET and have put together a roadmap for all of you to see where we are headed. Don't forget to vote for your favorite cards in the roadmap via the voting feature. Backrooms: Escape Together Roadmap

To answer our most frequently asked question: "Where/when are new levels?"

We are almost always working on new content, levels, gamemodes, and features not seen in these betas. The team's effort is split 50/50 on polishing versus making new levels. I know our pace of new content has been slow, but all I ask is you bear with us as we grow the team to get levels out at an acceptable pace. We see BET as a multi-year long project stretching far into the future (see the roadmap!), growing our total levels exponentially as the team scales. We are avoiding dumping a bunch of levels out just to say BET has X amount. We want to make sure every new level is better than the last, and that the old levels are updated to meet the new quality bar. Our mission is for BET to be a photorealistic backrooms simulator that provides an exceptional player experience.

A Special Thanks to the Team ːsteamhappyː

Without them, this update and future plans would not be possible:

• Blake

• Declan

• Ethan

• Jarod

• Kareem

• Kyle

• Mourad

Full Change Log

• Engine, Performance & Stability

  • Upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.6 (large graphics & performance uplift).

  • Improved visual fidelity via higher-precision High-Quality GBuffer normals.

  • Global performance gains across all levels (5-20%).

  • Significantly reduced VRAM usage at all presets (especially Low).

  • Numerous crash fixes (including multiplayer-related); ~90% of game-code crashes fixed vs v0.11.

  • Various performance & visual tweaks to props; extra performance improvements on Levels 1, 3, and 37.

  • Optimized enhanced raytracing by up to 80% on some hardware!

• Graphics & Rendering

  • Enhanced Raytracing enabled by default (when supported) with no performance drop.

  • Added DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

  • Added DLSS Frame Generation with 3× and 4× multipliers; Frame Gen enabled by default.

  • Fixed various graphical issues; camera clipping with water (Level 37) fixed.

  • Small tweaks in Graphics Settings UI.

  • Fixed blurry graffiti.

• Multiplayer

  • Improved voice chat quality

  • Spectators can now talk to each other when dead

  • Laid the ground work to allow us to ship on any platform with cross-play support.

  • Disconnect reasons are now shown if you experience an unexpected disconnect from the host

  • Added voice chat in the menu when joined to a lobby

  • Microphone speaking indicators are now shown for you and other players

  • Added the ability to:

    • Kick players

    • Mute players

    • Block players

    • Report players

    • View a players Steam profile

• Player, Movement & Interaction

  • Added equippable Party Hat

  • Made Camera equippable

  • Overhauled interaction detection

  • Increased max interaction distance

  • Adjusted jump height based on movement speed

  • Polished jump animations.

  • Added sound when landing.

  • Increased look-back amount; free look/look back now smoothly resets when Alt is released.

  • Players can prolong death when downed via sanity items.

  • Liquid Pain now instantly kills; Increased Liquid Pain spawning across all levels.

  • Endurance consumables now instantly restore stamina.

  • Reduced tired effect duration.

  • Added subtle “out of stamina” feedback while tired.

  • Fixed issue where jumping could close the interact menu.

• UI/UX & Controls

  • Overhauled Biometrics view

  • Objectives now display as a tooltip at level start.

  • Added Extras tab.

  • Updated Main Menu UI.

  • Full UI controller support; improved PlayStation controller support.

    • Added settings option for controller vibration.

  • Added on-screen keyboard when selecting text (Steam Deck/Big Picture).

  • Allow back-arrow button to toggle across all Settings UI.

  • Equipment UI: origin equip slot now shows GREEN tile (aligns with inventory behavior).

  • Fixed movement keys exiting item inspection; controls settings now visually update correctly.

  • Interact progress bar no longer hidden by keybind.

  • Fixed being able to select the screen while in inventory on controller.

  • Fixed loss of input on controller when booting main menu; fixed “B” to close Settings while spectating.

• Audio

  • Greatly improved audio spatialization.

  • Added wind sounds to camera movement.

  • Improved button press sounds (Level 4 puzzle).

  • Fixed footsteps sometimes playing the wrong audio.

  • Addressed robotic voice artifacts (post level transition & during spectate).

• Networking, Social & Voice

  • Added player mute/unmute, block, profile view, and report tools.

  • Added voice activity indicators.

  • Added clearer error messaging after online disconnects, being kicked, etc.

  • Various fixes for joining lobbies.

  • Automatically rejoin voice chats after timeouts due to poor connection.

• Accessibility & Localization

  • Made Level 4 and Level 37 color-blind friendly (added symbols).

  • Updated translations throughout; fixed missing fonts on loading screens for Asian languages.

  • Addressed missing string table on Level FUN.

• Levels

  • Level 0

    • Increased bandages; reduced soup in sub-level; added rusty cans in sub-level.

    • Removed inaccessible cubbies over pitfalls.

    • Reduced CPU usage, especially during blackout.

  • Level 1

    • Added interactable doors; starting door is interactable.

    • Added staircase sign; exit door trim.

    • Randomized generator rotation.

    • Fixed cones clipping into concrete pillars.

  • Level 2

    • Removed gum; randomized pipe sounds.

    • Adjusted sanity drain (initial increase; later lowered).

    • Fixed spawns in shelves/lockers.

  • Level 3

    • Removed generator functionality; reduced hub requirements to progress.

    • Greatly tweaked sector sizes; reduced hub size; added extra Clump to final sector.

    • Added interactable doors to hub areas; reduced amount pneumatic door opens.

    • Added Liquid Pain to Level 3 (then reduced spawns by half).

    • Reduced ceiling wire hitbox; tweaked Clump awareness & spawn proximity in Sector 1.

    • Fixed grabbing items through locked boxes/shelves; fixed level connectivity issues causing unbeatable runs.

    • Greatly optimized when sectors are open.

    • Increased brightness of lights.

    • Fixed exceptionally long loading times; other performance fixes.

  • Level 4

    • Reworked keypad puzzle to monitor-based puzzle.

    • Added smoke detectors (may require batteries).

    • Added interactable doors.

    • Puzzle/UI tweaks: sticky note restored; monitors monochromatic; brightness & display tweaks.

    • Fixed monitors not emitting light unless close; fixed office furniture clipping.

    • Fixed skybox regression.

    • Button press audio no longer heard across entire map.

  • Level 6

    • Added garage theme to starting sector.

    • Starting/first-sector buttons scale with player count.

    • Entity now actively hunts & kills players.

    • Replaced wires with blue tape in starting sector.

    • Ensure players always spawn facing forward.

    • Difficulty tweaks.

    • Fixed objectives tooltip not displaying for clients.

    • Fixed dead-end generation causing unbeatable layouts.

  • Level 37

    • Added slides; added supports and made slides double-sided.

    • Reduced puzzle green intensity.

    • Fixed slide supports sometimes not spawning.

    • Fixed camera/water clipping.

  • Level FUN

    • Added SmallLand Warehouse theme;

    • Starting area now leads directly to warehouse.

    • Doors now wait until ticket counter opens; ticket counter slows as it nears 1500.

    • Added interactable party hats; small environmental improvements.

    • Overhauled many assets & textures; generation & speed tweaks.

    • Lowered max size of minigames by 20%.

    • Added celebration sounds to ticket counter and ending.

    • Fixed multiple ticket counter bugs; replaced old tablecloth mesh instance.

  • Level Run

    • Added items on blocking tables.

    • Door-breaking sequence now waits to start until all players have loaded.

    • Fixed dead-end generation causing unbeatable layouts.

  • Hub

    • Fixed ending screen being stuck shown.

    • Fixed being able to move/look during Hub ending screen.

• Loading, Transitions & Menus

  • Polished loading screen for smoother level transitions

  • New ETA for shader compilation at startup; fixed shader compilation screen sometimes appearing during gameplay or dismissing too early.

  • Fixed menu reappearing instantly on controller when holding exit button.

  • Fixed camera sometimes defaulting to a strange angle when returning to menu in multiplayer.

• Equipment & Tools

  • Added camera controls tooltips; added wind sounds when moving with camera.

  • Flashlight is now Dimmer, but Has a Longer Range

  • LiDAR: controls tooltip added, blocked scanning during boot completion, and removed extra text block on controller.

  • Inventory/UI polish: equipment origin slot color behavior updated; fixed drop panel showing for non-droppable items.

• Miscellaneous

  • Opinion Collector added.

  • Removed anti-psychotic and anti-anxiety pills from the game.

  • Added items to blocking tables (Level Run).

  • Journey time calculation fixed for new saves.

  • Various small environmental and minor level tweaks across the game.

Change List:

Improvements:

• Improved Low Settings Performance by up to 2-4x!
• Improved Medium Settings Performance by 20-30%
• Added Extra Inventory Row
• Dramatically Improved Controller Feel/Experience
• Added Traditional Chinese, Spain Spanish, Portugal Portuguese and Hungarian
• Add Vignette Tied to Sanity Heartbeat
• Improved Feel of Item Hitboxes
• Improved Network Performance in Multiplayer Games
• Remove Bandages from Loot Table if Solo
• Revamped Objectives UI
• Increase Player Names Outline Amount
• Enable Nvidia Reflex to Reduce Input Latency
• Updated DLSS
• Various Visual Improvements

Bug Fixes:

• Fix Items not Being Cleared after Dying in Purgatory
• Potential Fix for Voice Chat Sometimes being Non Spatialized
• Fixed Bugs with Sometimes Being Unable to Control Your Player On Spawn
• Fixed Issues with Dragging Items in Inventory Being Off, Especially when Windowed
• Fix Bug that Made the Mouse Unresponsive on Load unless Alt + Enter was Pressed
• Overhauled Player Init Sequence, Should Fix Lots of Bugs Related to Network Latency and Make Things More Responsive
• Fix Bugs with Entities Grabbing Players in Bad Latency Environments
• Fixed Light Turn off Sounds Not Playing in 0 and 1
• Fixed Inventory/UI Sometimes not Working After Going to a New Level
• Fix Crash when there are More than 6 Players in a game. This may be a mistake.
• Various Crash Fixes

Level 0:

• Lowered Bacteria Peripheral Vision by 30%
• Non Objective Related Events Will No Longer Repeat Until that Objective is Completed. Avoids getting two blackouts in a row when all you need is an alarm, vice versa.
• Fixed Bacteria Searching for a Player After it Killed them
• Level Fun:
• Overhauled Parkour Area
• Improved Carpet, Foam Tile, and Bounce House Materials
• Expanded Starting Area to Teach About Exit Locators
• Made Music Timer Reset Upon Player Entry in the Warehouse
• Lowered Exit Locator Cost to 2 Coins
• Add Exit Locator to Every Level Fun Door
• Small Bug Fixes
• Minor Environmental Tweaks

Level 2:

• Tweak Pipe Sounds
• Fix Issue That Caused Stutters When Walking Against the Pipes If Host is on Low Settings and the Client is Not
• Scratcher Searches More Randomly Now
• Fixed Scratcher Bug Where it Would Pause in front of Lockers
• Level 3:
• Added Clump Jump scare
• Improved Clump Animations, Fingers Now Move
• Improved Graphics Quality
• Added Lights to Generator
• Made Hitbox Larger for Jail Doors
• Guarantee 1 Gas Canister Per Hub
• Make Fuses Spawning in Hub More Predictable
• Moved Wires Next to Terminals
• Lowered Clump Hearing Range by 20% and Increased Jail Door Noise by 20%
• Made it More Difficult for Clump to Grab You
• Fixed Clump Spawning into Stairs
• Fix Bugs with Repairing Wires + Fuses

Level 4:

• Made Level 33% Smaller if Solo
• Added Environmental Enhancements

Level 6:

• Major Performance Improvements

Level 37:

• Fix Splashing Sounds Playing In Doorways

Change List:

Level 3

• Reduced Wire's Size to 2x1
• Removed Final Door (Exposing Catwalk) to Reduce Confusion
• Jail Doors Now Drop their Fuses When Your Inventory is Full
• Jail Doors Now have a Slight Cooldown Period to Avoid Accidentally Reopening if Spamming
• Removed Large Fuse Panel Lockers
• Removed Gas from First Sector
• Fixed Various Bugs with Level 3 Objectives
• Improved Level Loading Speed
• Minor Visual Tweaks

Level 4

• Added Interactable Light Switches to Each Room to Track Where You Have Searched
• Overhauled Graphics, Especially on the Windows
• Removed Similar Puzzle Colors to Avoid Confusion
• Fixed Lights and Windows not Being Visible On Low Settings
• Various Performance Optimizations

Level Fun

• Added Level Run Ending to the Beginning of Level Fun
• Minor Visual and Performance Improvements

Level Hub

• Locked Levels Now Show as Locked Doors Instead of Not Spawning
• Improved Level Loading Speed

Level 0

• Bacteria Can no Longer Grab You in a Hole
• Bacteria Now Requires Both Arms to be Close to Grab You, Allowing Players to Sometimes Slip Past

Miscellaneous

• Fixed achievements sometimes not being given to players
• Minor Performance Improvements to All Levels (Low: +2%, Medium: +1%, High & Ultra: >1%, Older laptops may see higher gains)
• Added Invite Button in Multiplayer Lobbies for Quick Invites to Your Steam Friends
• Jumping Now Cancels Looking Back with Alt
• Adjusted Interact Progress Bar to Better Signal When to Hold
• Overhead Player Names Now Hide When that Player is Running
• Decreased Size Slightly of Overhead Names
• Improved Text Quality of Overhead Names

Big Features:

Level Replay System

• Added Option to Return to the Hub Allowing you To Freely Replay Levels

Level 3 Overhaul

• Level Difficulty Now Scales Per Player (Much easier solo now)
• Major Performance Improvements
• Removed Majority of Dead Ends from Level Generation
• Minor Visual Tweaks

Multiplayer Quality of Life Improvements

• Added Floating Name Tags Above Players When Looking at Them (Can be disabled)
• Added In Game Multiplayer Settings Menu (Kick players, change max players, get code, change public lobby status)
• Implemented Steam Invites and Joining off Of Your Friends Via Steam Overlay
• Added Live In Game Player Count When Searching for Lobbies

Level Fun

• Ticket Penalty Decreases When More Players are in a Red Light Green Light Minigame
• Fix Traffic Light Switching When a Player Enters a Mini Game
• Lowered Max Minigame Playplace Size by 10%

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Issue That Caused the Camera to Clip into the Player Model When Downed
• Fixed Bug that Sometimes Left Players Rag-dolled Even After Being Revived
• Fixed Numerous Issues Causing Players to Sometimes be in "Ghost" Lobbies Where Joining is Broken

Performance

• Optimized Medium Settings for a 2% Performance Improvement (Up to 4% on some hardware and levels)
• Optimized Enhanced Raytracing on Medium and High Settings for a 12% Performance Improvement
• Minor (>1%) Additional Performance Improvement for Medium, High and Ultra Settings

Miscellaneous

• You can Now Drag Items to Use or Drop Them
• Added Trophy Icon to Any Save that Has Unlocked the Hub / Beaten all Levels
• Game Audio and Voice Chat Now Works When Tabbed Out
• Fixed Items in The Hub Floating
• Glitched Furniture Now Moves When Spectating
• Level Transition Fades Are Now More Consistent and Do Not Restart When Spammed
• Updated Localization

Specific Change List:

• Upgraded to DLSS 4.0
• Players Now Drop All of Their Items Upon Death!
• Fixed Bug Causing Level ! Scratcher to Not Play Animations on Low Settings
• Fixed Crash that Affected Some Users on Game Load

Notable improvements in DLSS 4 are:

• Greatly improved quality and improved performance for RTX 20, 30, 40, and 50 Series
• Multi-frame generation for RTX 50 Series
• Greatly improved Frame Gen performance for RTX 40 and 50 Series

Change List:

Level 3 Changes:

• Reduced Clump Top Speed by 15%
• Clumps No Longer Spawn on the Top Floor
• Clumps Now Pause and Stare for Longer Before Attacking (Giving you a chance to get your butt out of there!)
• Doubled Fuse Spawn Rate in Jail Doors
• Made Jail Doors 20% Faster to Open and Close
• Doubled Electrical Tape Amount
• Increased Wire Amount by 50%
• Increased Size of Top Floor by 10%
• Decreased Number of Hallways in the Middle Floor by 15%
• Increased Potency of Gasoline, it Now Fills Up the Entire Fuel Gauge (Also decreased gas in world to compensate)
• Granola Squares now Remove the "Tired" Effect that Blocked Sprinting for 4 Seconds
• Slight Modification to Locker Materials

Bugs:

• Fixed Bug that Allowed Players to Pickup Items From Inside Locked Lockers
• Fixed Potential Crash on the Host when a Client Drops an Item
• Potential Fix for Some Players Crashing Upon Loading into the Main Menu

Change List:

Major Additions:

• Added Level Fun
• Added Level 3, the Electrical Station
• Added Level The Hub, Which Allows you to Replay Your Favorite Levels
• Added 2 New Entities
• Added 10 New Items
• Enhancements to Almost Every Level
• Significant Graphics and Performance Improvements
• Significant Bug Fixes
• Multiplayer Lobbies Overhaul
• Added Journey Summary to End of Game
• Various Quality of Life Improvements

Note From the Developer:

Detailed Change List:

• Added New Achievements for New Levels
• Added Ability to Kick Players
• Added Ability to Copy Lobby Code by Clicking
• Current and Max Players Now Show in Lobby UI
• Fixed Entitles Sometimes Camping Downed Players
• Upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.5
• Reduced Lights Sparkling When Viewed at a Distance
• Greatly Reduced Ghosting/Smearing
• Performance Improvements and Major Performance Improvements for Some Hardware
• Increased Lighting Quality
• Greatly Increased Level Generation Load Times
• Potentially Fixed Bug that Stops Voice Chat From Being Spatialized
• Fixed Bug that Stopped All Movement When Using Items in Your Inventory
• Fixed Bug that Prohibited you From Joining Lobbies You've Left
• Various Reverb Audio Fixes
• Greatly Reduced Stuttering when Using Hardware/Enhanced Raytracing
• Added Icons For Every Button and Key
• Rebound Controller Mappings for More Natural Gameplay
• Reworked Controller Look Axis/Stick Feel
• Added Dead-zone to Controller Movement
• Added Emotes to Controller
• Added Controller Vibration on Death
• Remove Psycho Settings
• Fixed Bug that Caused Shadows to Be Pixelated After Going to Medium Settings
• Fixed Inventories Wrongly Persisting or Wiping After Level Travel
• Jump Now Cancels Crouching
• Fixed Steam Deck/Linux Proton Prompting to Install Files Every Time
• Added Hungarian Language
• Updated Localization
• Fixed Issue With Achievements Sometimes not Applying
• Allow Players to be More Spread Out When Encountering "Exit Requires All Players" Doors
• Fixed Sanity Heartbeat Sometimes not Being Audible
• Fixed Potential Crash on Clients After Traveling to a New Level
• Remove Gamemode Select Screen
• Various Tweaks to Item Stats
• Increased Footstep Sound Volume
• Increased Item Pickup Interaction Boxes
• Fixed Feet Sometimes Not Being Fully Planted on the Ground
• Renamed Hardware Raytracing to Enhanced Raytracing

Level 0

• Made Pitfall Mold Marking Spawn Randomly Now
• Updated Caution Tape Path Look
• Fixed Pitfall Task not Working
• Fixed Smiler Record Task Sometimes Not Registering
• VRAM Optimizations

Level 1

• Increased Level Size by 25%
• Increased Number of Generators
• Needed Generators Now Increase with Player Count
• Added Exit Sign to Exit Door
• Fixed Items Floating in Level 1 Spawn
• Lighting Tweaks
• Performance Improvements in Storage Rooms
• Smoothed Generator Restart Progress Bar
• Minor Audio Tweaks

Level 2

• Lowered the Sound Generated By Footsteps
• Added Chance of Items Inside of Lockers
• Fixed Bug that Made Interact Text Persist After Opening Valve on Client
• Switched Valve Indicator Light to Green for More Clarity

Level 6

• Fix Level 6 Wire Sometimes Not Appearing
• Redid Level 6 Wire for a More Realistic Look
• Changed Wire Endpoint Logic
• Level 6 Drop Rooms Now Show their Respective Color
• Level 6 Doors Do Not Open Until All Buttons Are Pressed
• Added Informative Objectives to Level 6
• Added Pitfalls to Second Section to Pose Hazard
• Added More Items and Loot to Level
• Portrait Background are Now Blue
• Removed Colors in Puzzle That Could Be Mistaken for the Same
• Minor Performance Improvements

Level 37

• Various Fixes to Textures
• Fixed Crash on Clients During Level Generation

Level Run

• Morgue Door Control Panel Now Flashes When Open

What's Different From the Beta?

General:

• Reordered Level Progression: 0 > 1 > 3 > 2 > 4 > 6 > 37 > ! > FUN > The Hub
• Greatly Reduced Stuttering in New Levels

Level 3

• Clumps Are Now Faster
• Increased Item Amount, Especially Bandages
• Increased Gasoline Amount
• Each Floor Item Crate Requires an Increasing Amount of Fuses
• Gasoline Drain Rate is Now Different on Each Floor
• Bolt Cutters are Now Found in Lockers
• Fixed Clumps Camping Floor Entrances
• Fixed Clumps Spawning Inside of Shelves
• Added Wire Hazards that Can Stun You
• Implemented Unique Hallway Generation Per Floor
• Terminals Now Show the Item the Floor Provides
• Fuse Amount is Now A Fixed Ratio Instead of Random
• Fixed Multiple Bugs with Control Room Levers
• Jail Doors now Alert and Attract the Clump
• Decreased Tape Amount
• Major VRAM Optimizations
• Fuses Can Now Be Found in Various Lockers and Shelves
• Polished Control Room Environment
• Polished Clump Animations
• Added Sounds to Cat Walk
• Fuse Panels can Be Closed
• Minor Performance Improvements
• Fixed Issues with Clump Sounds not Playing
• Ending Door Now Requires Bolt Cutters
• Minor Ambient Audio Tweaks

Level FUN

• Decreased Ticket Penalty When Moving in Red Light Green Light
• Added Hint When Minigame Reward is 0
• Increased Lights on Duration
• Added Chance for Lights to Turn off Within 7 Seconds of Turning on
• Added New Ending
• Fixed Bug that Caused Partygoer to Become Immediately Hostile After Lights Come On
• Fixed Issue That Crammed Players into Play Place Upon Teleport
• Increased Quality of Various Meshes in Level
• Small Updates to Arcade Rooms
• Added Safe Zone to Start of Minigame That Will Not Deduct Tickets When Moving
• Fixed Chance for Minigame to Deduct Tickets for Players Outside of Play Place
• Lights Now Only Turn off in Warehouses and Parkour Play Places
• Exit Locator Now Plays for Client
• Lights Now Stay On in Warehouse Rooms
• Exit Locator has a 33% Chance to Spawn Instead of 100%
• Random Decrease Coin Cost of Larger Rooms
• Cleaned Up Teleportation Logic For Smoother Transitions
• Minor Adjustments to Warehouse Room Layouts
• Tweaked Coin Spawn Chances
• Optimized Play Place Performance
• Teleport Holes are Now Green In Play Places
• Decreased Food Item Spawn Chances
• Increased Spawn Chances of Cupcakes and Cookies
• Fixed Issue that Caused Partygoer Head to Snap
• Fixed Exit Locators Having Collision
• Increased Balloon Count
• Various Performance Improvements
• Decreased Effectiveness of Cupcakes and Cookies on Sanity
• Minor Fixes to Numerous Mesh's Collision
• Minor Graphical Issue Fixes

Level Hub

• Minor Visual Tweaks
• Fixed Issue that Caused Journey Summary to Sometimes Not Show
• Fixed Time Calculation on Journey Summary
• Minor Journey Summary Tweaks