El Paso, Elsewhere news & patch notes

The news is out!

Strange Scaffold is in talks with LaKeith Stanfield (Sorry to Bother You, Judas and the Black Messiah) to produce and star in a film adaptation of El Paso, Elsewhere.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/e7a2b1fe17ddd1b7c9615a59b2accfcff4c7edda.png Di Bonaventura Pictures (Transformers, G.I. Joe franchises) and Colin Stark will also be producing. We are so excited to get this game's story to more people, especially with these collaborators. More info can be found in Deadline's announcement.

Thank you so much for your love and support!

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Oh hi again! We're pushing a new patch for El Paso, Elsewhere. Here's today's patch changelog! For this patch, our goal was to give you even more modifiers so that you can better tailor the game to your playstyle. Here's what we got this time! V16 CHANGELOG

• Fixed a potential progression blocker in Game_25CastleEgypt
• Fixed an issue where certain weapons could vanish from the level after the player's death and respawn
• Fixed an issue where ragdolls could cause performance stuttering
• Fixed an issue where Modifier Preset names were being incorrectly displayed in certain situations
• (Hopefully) improved controller support for non-XInput gamepads
• Added new modifiers:
  • Scarce Ammo (you'll find less ammo pickups in levels)
  • Max Ammo Multiplier
  • Stake Damage Multiplier
  • Slow-mo Consumption Rate
  • Painkiller Initial Heal Multiplier
  • Painkiller Healing Animation Rate
  • Max Painkiller Count
  • Max Stakes Count
  • Enemy Speed Multiplier
  • Enemy Health Multiplier

And last but not least, thank you so much for playing our game! If you encounter any issues, feel free to report them on the Steam Discussion boards.

Heeeeello there! Here's a brand new patch for El Paso, Elsewhere and, with it, a brand new patch changelog! Our core goal with this patch was to fix two major problems: a performance issue on the game's first boss fight and an overall issue with achievements. Let's get to it! V14 CHANGELOG

• Fixed scripting issues in many components. This should improve overall CPU performance in some event-heavy levels.
• Fixed an issue in the first boss fight that could cause heavy performance degradation in this level.
• Fixed another issue in the first boss fight that could cause the NPC to freeze in place.
• Improved how achievement stats from Steam are gathered to (hopefully) fix achievements once and for all.
• Fixed a typo in the Main Menu.
• Improved UI scaling for 21:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios.
• Added a 240hz option to the game's framerate selection in the options menu.

Thank you for your patience and feel free to report any issues you encounter to us through the Steam Discussion boards. The more details in your reports, the faster we'll be able to get things fixed. We (the team at Strange Scaffold, including all of our pets) wish you all a fantastic 2024!

Dear friends, It’s been an exciting year for Strange Scaffold, and we’re so grateful for our fans helping us reach Overwhelmingly Positive status. We have one more, small ask as the light starts to fade on this year. We are asking for your help in nominating El Paso, Elsewhere for a Steam Award in the Outstanding Story-Rich Game category. We know you like the shooting, the vampires, the werewolves… maybe not the Puppeteers… but you really love the storycraft and voice acting in our little game. The sordid saga of James Savage and Draculae has touched a place deep inside you (so much that one reviewer described us as “Max Payne for Monster F**ers”). Well, we’re asking you to lean into that last part and help our twisted tale take home a coveted nomination. Thank you in advance, and keep on slaying! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/bc83852f3703c0685e59bdecfeb47720e1faf91a.png

The reviews are in! Thanks to your support, El Paso, Elsewhere has been rated Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam Thank you, sincerely. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/7c605d4f42943f81c908f86038135deb1ead79f4.png We couldn't have reached this point without you rating the game, telling your friends about the game, and, of course, playing the game. Thank you so much for coming with us on this one way trip—we can’t wait to bring you on more in the future. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/2a793561704b2de58f0cb4df383a59995c257489.png As a marker of our gratitude, we’ve just added a Theater Mode to the game! Watch every cutscene you’ve unlocked, in any order you like, back to back, as many times as you want. Sometimes, you need a few watches to appreciate that you saw a werewolf in that fuckin’ bathroom – and trust us, we get it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/0a94b07e2618da50b1f99c842fefcff62ebb535b.png

Hi there! We've submitted a hotfix for El Paso, Elsewhere! There are still some more fixes & changes coming up in the next few weeks but we're pushing this update earlier in order to correct a critical issue. V9 CHANGELOG

• The Modifier menu has been moved- it is no longer displayed in the Main Menu. It will now show up once a save slot has been selected.
• Added Modifier Presets and three difficulty-based presets: Story, Intended and Challenging. These can be selected when loading a save slot or starting a new game.
• Added a Speed Modifier.
• Fixed an issue where starting a new game from an empty save slot could cause the game to hang.

Feel free to report any issues to our Steam Discussion Board's Bug Reports section. And once again, thank you for playing El Paso, Elsewhere!

Strange Scaffold and Makeship present:

Draculae! The Plush

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Now you too can have your very own mass-murdering monster to cuddle with at night.

Draculae comes with:

• Khopesh to definitely not stab you with.
• Elegant girlboss power suit for making deals with the Forces Beyond.
• Lipstick color that just screams "Meat Room".

*Reality-bending motel and emotional manipulation not included.

Only available for a limited time, so Order yours today!

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MWAHAHAHello! Welcome to the brand new El Paso, Elsewhere update changelog! V8 CHANGELOG

• Added a new joystick acceleration slider in the settings menu.
• Added gamepad rumble to some actions in the game. Brr brr!
• Saving or killing a hostage will now produce an audio cue.
• Active modifiers are now displayed in the save selection screen.
• Returning to the main menu no longer resets the Modifiers panel.
• Restored the resolution & framerate pickers to the settings screen on the Steam Deck.
• The Steam Deck's default system settings have been changed. This will not replace current system settings.
• The Steam Deck will now use a new default input template featuring a weapon selection wheel on the right pad.
• Adjusted the timing of the Vampire's melee attack.
• Fixed an issue where hostages could still be killed moments after being rescued.
• (Hopefully) fixed a tricky issue related to the FLASHBACK achievement (special thanks to Raloire, Nedly Dedly, Pig, ??? and SparksV from the Steam Discussion Boards!)

If you spot any bugs or glitches, please open a thread on the Steam discussion boards and send us some details so that we can look into it. We hope you're having fun playing our game!

El Paso, Elsewhere is Steam Deck Verified!

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We meet again! We're pushing a new patch for El Paso, Elsewhere. Here are the changes! V7 CHANGELOG

• Fixed an issue with the Burned Man in Game_XManorEgypt.
• Added missing BGM to the Djedefre cutscene.
• Added a "Use High Quality Audio" option to the settings menu (On by default).
• Checkpoints will no longer save if the player has just died, thus preventing infinite death loops.
• Fixed an issue with the FLASHBACK achievement- it should be working again.
• Fixed an issue where some of the Main Menu's elements would look wrong in some resolutions.
• You can now roll or dive instantly after landing a stake hit on an enemy.
• You can no longer carry infinite molotovs. Sorry! The limit's back to 8.
• Pausing the game with a gamepad now automatically selects the Resume button.
• Fixed an issue where restarting the level right after a reset could break the level.

We've also submitted a Steam Deck Verified build candidate to Steam. If you've got a Steam Deck, keep an eye out for that!

Lost In Cult Records, Black Screen Records and Strange Scaffold are teaming up to bring the original rap songs of LAKE SAVAGE and RJ Lake to life in glorious 140g Re-vinyl - providing expert sound quality within sustainable products. It's OUT NOW.

Small 10/15 Update: North American music-enjoyers, rejoice! Very Okay Vinyl has you covered here. (Thank you to community member Bonzi77 for amplifying this option!)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/8ea192408347e7d9ead1fbb9dc59ae63b40cd3c3.png El Paso, Elsewhere: The Album takes aim at the key songs that punctuate the game’s dark and introspective journey through haunted hallways - with heavy doses of Hip-Hop, Electronica and Trace-Wave coalescing into a pellucid vision of influences and a deeply entrenched sense of identity. All tied together within the beautiful Limited Edition gold foil cover artwork by Bri Neumann. RJ Lake shared some of his thoughts going into the creation of this album: "A few months in, we did a touch-base about the music, and mutually agreed that none of it at that point was totally working. It was good (look, I'm not going to put myself down here; even back in 2020, it kicked ass) but it wasn't RIGHT. He gave me a bunch of reference materials and kept pointing to them and saying 'okay, but these? these are RIGHT. these have the juice we want.' "The thing every single song he showed me had in common was that Every One Of Them Had Vocals. "After some back and forth, we both agreed: El Paso, Elsewhere had to be a rap record as much as it had to be a game. "So three and a half years later, here we are. This is probably the most lavishly mixed thing I've ever made, full of weird, intricate beats, layered vocals from both myself and Nelson, lyrics that go everywhere from bleak to so-party-that-you'll-die to totally ridiculous, loads and loads of genre switch ups, and Absolutely Zero Subtlety. For El Paso, Elsewhere, I made a full score, but that's not what this is. This vinyl is a fucking album, and it's sequenced like one. Play it loud." {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/95de9968db2251e8558b3aa409c8a98f27beebaa.png Alongside the LP, explore what happens after the events of El Paso, Elsewhere within the Diaries of James Savage - an exclusive in-world archive of thoughts and feelings directly from the heart and soul of our protagonist within the Liner Notes - alongside excerpts from the El Paso, Elsewhere original script and never before seen concept artwork by Demente Animation Studios.

Crank the volume and BREAK SHIT.

Hi again! Here's another patch for El Paso, Elsewhere. Let's jump right into it! V6 CHANGELOG

• Fixed occlusion culling & floating interactables in Marathon.
• NPC and elevator tweaks to Castles In The Air.
• Fixed an issue where certain enemies could cause Boss Health Gauges to show up.
• The "Ammo Full" tickers now also display the ammo type.
• Fixed an issue where picking up a second grenade launcher would load two rounds in the grenade launcher. No one should have that much power.
• Dying should now stop all voicelines and captions.
• Angels should no longer get stuck in Castles In The Air.
• Removed problematic bride teleport points in Marathon, Sensorium and Mountaintop.
• Removed an old placeholder sound from Sunset.
• Tweaked some enemies in Confessional.
• Fixed some effects in Central Location and Monster Club.
• Fixed some colliders in Confessional.
• Fixed an issue that would cause level resetting to malfunction, possibly causing the game to halt on the death screen and/or cause certain entities to become invincible.
• The game's saves are now handled by Steam's Cloud Save feature! (only save files are uploaded to Steam Cloud- game settings are not! This is intentional.)

As always, feel free to post any issues in our Bug Reporting section inside Steam's Discussion Boards. And once again, thank you for playing El Paso, Elsewhere!

Hello hello! We're pushing another patch with more fixes and tweaks for the game. Not a lot of them here but we wanted to push this out ASAP before we started working on more fixes. V5 CHANGELOG

• Fixed an issue where Draculae could turn invincible if the game got reset during her Avoidance period.
• Fixed an issue where the camera could freeze in place during boss fights.
• Fixed an issue where James could get stuck in his staking pose after resetting.
• Adjusted the timing of some events in Ourobouros.
• Fixed an issue where Draculae's health bar would not display during her fight & her AI would not work as intended.

We've got more patches coming up so feel free to post any issues or bugs you've had with the game in our Bug Reports section over at Steam's Discussion Board. And hey- thank you for playing El Paso, Elsewhere!

Hi again! We're pushing a new patch for the game with a few more fixes and tweaks. We've skipped version 3 and headed straight to v4. V4 CHANGELOG

• Fixed some interactables in Game_21Castle.
• Tweaked the priority of some audio sources including Chapter 2's Horny Hostage.
• Tweaked some NPCs in Game_13Motel_Ourobouros.
• Fixed an issue where boss battles could break after dying mid-battle.
• Toilet moans are louder now.
• Tweaked 3Motel_Shotgun to prevent the player from getting stuck.
• Prevented backtracking in Game_6Motel_SeatOfPower.
• Game_17Castle tweaks (a bit more ammo and tweaks to a specific encounter!)
• You can no longer get stuck in the meat ramp in Game_32MeatLocker.
• You can no longer trick enemies into getting locked behind Game_32MeatLocker's... sphincter...door.
• Fixed a couple of issues with Molotovs.
• Puppets should be a bit easier to hit now.
• The Strikebreaker has been nerfed: deals a biiiit less damage now.
• The Puppetmaster should now actually do something in Game_7Motel_Aperture.

I never thought I'd write the words "sphincter" and "toilet moans" in a patch note but here we are. It's also worth mentioning that we've added a Bug Reporting section to our Discussion Board! We'll keep an eye out for any nasty issues posted in there. Once again, thank you for playing El Paso, Elsewhere! Now grab your stakes and get to work.

Hello hello and welcome to El Paso, Elsewhere! First of all, we'd like to thank you all for believing in our vision. We hope you're having as much fun playing the game as we had making it! We're pushing a small update to the game to correct some issues that were reported by players. V2 CHANGELOG

• Fixed an issue causing the remapper to not function as intended.
• Fixed two possible softlock locations in Game_3Motel_Shotgun
• Fixed an area where the player could get stuck in the tutorial level.

We'll keep an eye out in the Steam discussion board for any new bug reports so feel free to make a thread in there should you spot any other strange phenomenom (other than, y'know, vampires and wolfmen and rituals and stuff). Thanks for believing!

El Paso, Elsewhere is $19.99 - with a launch discount of 10%, so get it now for $17.99

Some eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that we had an unexpectedly high price at launch. We apologize for the mix up! Thank you for your patience as Valve helped us out and corrected it - thank you Valve! Thank you for playing and enjoying the game. https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/40673341/2862d72aad7564c67c4f5fe034b969fe2024514b.png

A confrontation years in the making...

El Paso, Elsewhere is OUT NOW!

Play as James Savage, monster-hunting folklorist. He is going to save the world from his ex - otherwise known as Draculae, Lord of the Vampires. Battle with stakes, guns, and slo mo through a reality-bending motel filled with vampires, werewolves, biblically accurate angels, and many more horrors. https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/40673341/113fab7429f0bc5ad3ef9090d03a27b89216857f.jpg

Thank you, everyone, for all your support getting us here.

Today is the first day having this out in the wild, and we are actively going to continue tweaking and fixing and ADDING to the game after launch, so please join us and support this journey! We are so excited for you to play and enjoy what we've worked so hard on for so long. Sincerely, Strange Scaffold

Thanks for believing.

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Next Fest 2023 Streams

Watch streamers dive, roll, and - of course - slo-mo shoot their way through hell and high water in El Paso, Elsewhere's new demo!

Featuring:

• Game Creative Director Xalavier Nelson Jr. and Level Designer Jim Brown
• Viking Blonde
• pmcTrilogy
• and Xalavier back at it again in a solo stream

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Next Fest 2023 Streams

Watch streamers dive, roll, and - of course - slo-mo shoot their way through hell and high water in El Paso, Elsewhere's new demo!

Featuring:

• Game Creative Director Xalavier Nelson Jr. and Level Designer Jim Brown
• Viking Blonde
• pmcTrilogy
• and Xalavier back at it again in a solo stream

https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/40673341/8289b4ef08a79adf9c8c9030a5bcaa23e214fac7.png rest in rip...

https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/40673341/ef1265c3b2fceced254a7b89a241e5a72bc3c6f7.png Friends!

The DEMO for El Paso, Elsewhere is OUT NOW

Just in time for Next Fest, meet James Savage in a warped motel in the Texas desert. Join him on his quest to stop his ex-girlfriend, Draculae, lord of the vampires, before she rips apart the world. Battle your way through the game's intro and two levels from deep inside the terrifying maze that awaits you. Experience pulse-pounding, neo-noir action and slo-mo diving with werewolves, vampires, angels, and more baddies that are determined to stop you. This is the studio's first public demo ever - all of the feedback we've received so far has been fantastic. We're actively monitoring the community tab and socials, so let us know what you think! Consider giving us a wishlist and tell a friend about the game if you really loved this sneak peek.

Grab the demo today!

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Hi there! Before we go any further, we'd like to thank you all for giving El Paso, Elsewhere a try! We're really happy with what we've built so far and we can't wait to show you more. Thanks to your feedback, we've managed to fix some nasty issues and improve some of our game's systems. We've got our eyes on Steam's discussion board so keep these bug reports and suggestions coming! We are a small team but we'll do our best to deliver a really fun (and polished!) game for you all.

JUNE 20 - Patch Notes

• Fixed an issue where weapon swapping would fail if the player ran out of molotovs.
• Key Remapping has been improved: you can now rebind mouse keys and the mouse wheel.
• Added a button in the key remapping panel to reset all binds to the game's default settings.
• Fixed an issue where pickups would not be automatically picked up if you just stood on top of them, requiring the player to walk back and forth to re-trigger the pickups.
• Added a volume slider for voiceovers.
• Fixed an issue where diving with the Strikebreaker in slow motion and pausing the game would cause James' arms to twist and stay twisted until a level reset.

We're still investigating other issues that were reported. Thanks for your patience!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/aa6a4138c4ffea3719d974d6f6e1e412bc3c7341.png Hello, Friends! We are excited to give you a little taste of what you can expect from El Paso, Elsewhere with our surprise release today of El Paso. Nightmare! (You can check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2154820/EL_PASO_NIGHTMARE) El Paso, Nightmare introduces the El Paso, Elsewhere setting for the low, scare-your-pants-off price of $5. That’s it. FIVE BONES, and the neon-lit terror is all yours. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/d0c7e6afe2a2536dd4776e902f7288dc8c51cf17.png Experience dread, danger, and be driven mad, all in just a couple nerve-wracking hours. Today is the second-worst day of down-on-his-luck Luis Rojas’ life, but if you’re not careful, it might just take the crown… or the anatomically-correct heart. Following in the footsteps of classic lo-fi, high-action shooters, El Paso, Nightmare is your new destination for fighting corrupted suits of armor, damned brides, werewolves, vampires, and more, in an endless, replayable survival showcase. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40673341/aceb733f268fefd43e9c4e5eb518e1343dc31af3.png

FEATURES

• Experience a pulse-pounding, snackable FPS horror campaign.
• Endlessly replayable survival mode.
• Original soundtrack featuring exclusive previews from the hip-hop album for the upcoming neo-noir action game El Paso, Elsewhere (due in 2023).
• Supernatural doors that must be opened using glowing, anatomically-correct human hearts, because subtlety is for cowards.