Fortune's Run news & patch notes

Hi everyone! It's Prison Dizzie! Update time??

I've been putting this off. Sorry. It's because I only have awful things to say and I'm tired of having pity parties on the internet! ^^"

I want you all to know that the game isn't dead, though, and neither am I, by the way!

In fact, with every bad thing that happens, my spite increases and I want to finish this shitty game even more. That's what you do when people bully you: you win at life and last as you fade into the sunset on your ski-doo made of solid gold bars. Yes.

Basically, Shit Sucks.

I've been in reception for 6 months (The average processing time is 3 months), Canadian prisons are medieval shitholes. I really wanted to keep it positive for y'all but it's been sad for worse- the cops discharged a fire extinguisher in my mouth and forced me to swallow. Because I'm stuck in reception, there are no programs of any kind, no rehab, no psychiatry, no school, no work. All there is to do is fight and get high and I've been doing both. It brought back every bad things about me I had worked past. Like I said before giving myself up, these places are designed to make you a worse person and no one cares. They don't want us better, they want to torture us to satisfy their weirdo revenge bloodlust.

I've been working on a comic of the game to make this time at least a bit productive! I feel that the implied story is being glossed over by a lot of players, so I wanted to bring it up. It's about Mozah's past. It underlines the themes of her journey- the fish that swims down. Unfortunately, cops keep fucking my cell up because I'm public enemy number one due to being a woman not taking their bullshit (It was inevitable, really, my mouth is even better than my head).

They damaged it multiple times, going as far as pouring bleach on the folder. They also seized my pencil every fucking time. Even art supplies I had a written permission from program services for. Thankfully cops are above the law so they were able to make those disappear as well by not documenting it in the incident report! After this went up for months, I gave up when I realized I was risking too many finished pages by being so stubborn about completing it in those conditions. They refused to let me give it to Kim, for "security reasons", so I had to exfil the damn thing by concealing it as a document release to my lawyer, bless her, round of applause everyone. Now you can read on it and even see some pages over on Patreon!

What else? Well, I tried to have Kim start doing levels already but it's too complicated since we're only allowed to talk once a day for one hour. Instead, I've been helping her with her own project as a sort of technical director and it's going fucking incredibly. It's called "Morpheme" and it's everything I learned doing Fortune's Run but in a completely new direction. Imaging if the whole game was the goofy switch wiring minigame but it's Metroid Prime meets King's Field. It's going to be so good, and Team Fortune will be publishing it in a staggered release model with Fortune's Run. Both games will share technology and we'll take turns helping each other. This is a dream come true for me and I hope you're all as excited as I am by Kim's contribution to this adventure. I am personally flabbergasted. Oh yea, we're an item. Yea, you all knew that already, stop making faces. And go meet Kim in the server: she's cool.

I'll try to write again when more things happen. Talk to me at the prison mail! Don't be shy!

See y'all, Space Convict

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• Corrected subtitle errors
• Replaced mismatched VA and added missing lines (still some missing)
• Battle music no longer loud as hell for no reason during cop fight
• Battle music no longer continues after escaping cop fight
• Hub track resumes properly after Nezzah
• Johnny no longer engages the player in an infinite staring contest
• Yoryo7 crew doesn't let themselves get pushed around anymore!
• JuncB hatch correctly links to the ladder
• Flooded junction occlusion issue resolved
• Removed tiny planets visible over the cell wall in the prison

• Whole new 3~ hour mission! This time with a focus on stealth and exploration instead of combat. The new level is a unique setting full of story content which will show you what's happening beneath the surface of New Zabra.
• Cool volumetric effects such as fog which add a feeling of foreboding to the new, extremely polluted underground area.
• New classic stealth game elements like searchlights, cameras, tripwires, proximity alarm drones and hiding in lockers.
• Carrying and hiding corpses and searching their pockets for extra goodies. They are rendered with a new system which has 3d-like sprite angles so that you can see the corpse from above without it turning into a paper-thin silhouette! It looks really cool, you can see it in the video. If you're curious about the technology, here is a blog post on it!
• AI improvements and new functionality to complement more focus on stealth. It's really quite a lot! The enemy now has a HQ dispatcher which monitors which patrols are missing and reinforces them, even during combat. You now have to contend with enemies raising the alarm and searching procedurally for the player by exploring the level if they are suspicious of an intruder. The reinforcement system also creates fun time-based gameplay: if you take out a patrol, you get 30 seconds to take out their friends so that the patrol isn't reported as missing. This is really fun and hard to explain, you can see the HUD displaying the reinforcement timer in the video. I guess you'll have to try it to really get it but we are SUPER excited about this new feature.
• New elemental types and effects, and interactions with a fluid system where you can drain oil or water from barrels and ignite/electrify them with...
• The "Cable Gun", a battery-powered speargun which is designed to be used from stealth and as a utility. You can fire a harpoon which shock people from stealth, putting them out silently. You can also use it as a pretty advanced combo aid and reel enemies into you in between attacks like Scorpion! Check out the vid!
• The "Flare Rifle", a long-barrelled precision projectile weapon which can stick to enemies and give them fire damage over time. Deals a percentage of HP and therefore is useful as an equalizer against tanky enemies!
• The "BBQ Fork", a new melee weapon to complement the knife as a strong-but-slow option. Charges up attacks and does a stabbing leap which damage using the new elemental system.
• Possibly a third new stealth weapon! We're still deliberating on that one ; )
• Completely new faction with five new enemies (so far), extensive lore and wonderful environmental storytelling. They have totally new mechanics like time-based (halo style) energy shields, the ability to leap into the air and access to the new elemental weapons, just like the player.
• A new hacking-style minigame where you can repair switches by using soldering tools to get side-paths and secrets. The circuit is simulated and you'll have to diagnose problems with it with the help of your trusty device scanner. I know this will sound scary and complicated for some of you, which is why it is OPTIONAL at the moment. We are experimenting with the feature and will probably make changes to it in the future, but we really like it and we want you guys to try it.
• Fixed gun emplacements which can be used by the enemies or the player, creating dynamic fights where capturing/holding certain spots is highly valuable.
• Lots of new cinematic setpieces like a fight on a free-falling elevator platform!
• Super crazy animated factory where you'll have to crawl along moving conveyor belts and avoid pistons and other hazards!
• Annoying castlevania bats which drop down from the ceiling while you're trying to platform on said conveyor belts!
• Many framework updates to make existing systems more easy to understand and use, for example re-working how weapon unloading and picking up works (yes, we heard you D:)
• TCHAIKOVSKY

• New hacking puzzles
• New enemy types
• Cute droids
• New searchable, moveable corpses with Octahedral 3dVision Technology
• New weapons, including a tool which can restore power to devices in the world

• Fixed a very serious progression blocker in the tutorial when respawning after being killed by a ninja. Sorry! There was a mistake in last night's build. This should also fix the bug where you fall to your death and can't respawn, also in the tutorial. In general, if you had tutorial problems, this is probably a fix for that.
• Re-encoded videos from the tutorial, which should make them playable on more platforms.
• Fixed a harmless Player.log error message related to the SlideDrag windows.
• Fixed another harmless but extremely annoying, spammy Player.log message (please add custom filter)
• We now prevent controller binds from being used unless useController is turned on. We are doing this because some users had weird input devices generating controller axis signals and they were overriding the ability to bind keyboard buttons.
• Fixed StunGun not alerting enemies on hit.
• Fixed a bug which was stopping the call from Sybil at the start of the demo map. It may have also been screwing up some other calls.
• Fixed some issues when restarting the tutorial map mid-game.
• Fixed SMG not reloading when over 30 rounds left in magazine.
• Fixed lightprobes loading incorrectly when launching into map_aquaponics_a, which should have resolved many visual issues where an object seemed darkened for no reason.

• Added briefing screen! Everything is hooked up properly now and there are new images to look at.
• Fixed some typos and spelling errors in the briefing dialogue.
• Fixed Anserrah's timer remaining on-screen!
• Fixed cutscene characters still visible after Ulibok fight.
• Fixed glass pipes not save/loading properly in Growpod C1.
• Fixed wrong subtitle in Cargo A Assistant call.
• Fixed wrong hands displayed during tutorial (tattoos and gloves!)
• Fixed Game Speed slider stacked on top of the Enemy Missile Speed slider in GAME settings!
• Holding the crouch key is no longer required to do an Uppercut while in toggle crouch mode.
• Made "DEPART" button cut off earlier dialogue.
• Added audio to the starmap screen!
• Fixed enemies doing their firing sound when their body spawns after a choke.
• Added note that the LightGoggles make enemies detect you.
• Fixed occlusion issue near the trap corridor.
• Improved sun shadow resolution slightly.
• Took away Light Goggles during the later parts of the tutorial, so people don't alert the ninjas by accident.
• Fixed text overlap in dialogue box when binding long button names such as "RMB".
• Fixed music cutting out after Ulibok fight.
• Fixed wrong hostnames for the terminals.
• Fixed some essential terminals being breakable.
• Fixed Anserrah not walking during the blaster cycle.
• Fixed Knife/SuperPunch behaving strangely while on ladders.
• Fixed missing Assistant calls in the growpods. You can now receive instructions on the specific puzzles by calling while inside the growpods.
• Fixed shock traps having a tiny flashing light that leaked into the ship, causing flashing in dark areas.
• Fixed doors in lab becoming dark after reloading.
• Removed weird climb hotspot in front of vents in Ops.
• Fixed Commander's Keycard being blue instead of red.
• Fixed bandolier description containing HTML tags.

• Increased fire damage to Anserrah. You can now use the pipe gas leaks to make the fight easier.
• Fixed a bug which made the use key unuseable, blocking all progression. Whoops.
• Fixed rapidly exiting the terminal getting the camera stuck in the camera view forever.
• Fixed a visual bug when the boss dies at the same time as he throws a bola which looked a bit like the snowflake artifact from STALKER.
• Added PDA to the lab explaining the devicectl command.
• Made the turret at the center of the hull disable itself after the intro so it doesn't 1 shot the player when they're exploring later on.
• Added Ulibok's missing voice lines and gave him a dodge move when taking damage.
• Fixed Lab Module power state not save/loading.

• Fixed game hanging on the main menu (can't press Escape) on older GPUs due to a lack of 16 bit texture support. Now the game falls back to 32 bit textures if your hardware doesn't support it, which means that the rewind effect will record fewer images, since they'll cost twice as much VRAM.
• Fixed the player being pulled in one direction when on a zero-g railing. If for some reason you still get this, type "set player.velocity 0,0,0" in the console. It should really be fixed, though.
• Fixed game state becoming corrupted after picking up the basketball. This was the cause of a lot of random bugs. If you had some kind of problem that was solved by restarting the game and had previously picked up the basketball, this was probably related to it.
• Reduced visual blur from head injuries by half but doubled amount of aim sway.
• Added a way to disable head injury effects entirely in the GAME menu.
• Removed ability to load tutorial autosaves in the menu. If you had done this and got soft-locked somewhere in the tutorial, the reason is that we never meant to have manual loading inside the tutorial... The save files get created since there are automated checkpoints, but loading them manually can break things. Anyways, we removed the option entirely. Sorry!
• Fixed intro cutscene not having subtitles. The audio is slightly desynced, to be fixed in a later patch.
• Fixed broken crates and other gibs destroying armour plates even though they cause no damage.
• Fixed infinite loop if you fall onto the tutorial checkpoints, causing an autosave while you were damaged and for the game to reload that save infinitely. Oops.
• Fixed the mugshot for Strange Box not appearing sometimes
• Fixed helmet coming up if you crouch in a spot inside the Hab module
• Fixed props disappearing when looking into Rec from Mid-Junc A
• Removed ladders that dipped into the water in the grow-pods, since getting on and off ladders breaks the water physics!
• Fixed Focus tutorial video having cutoff text.
• Fixed missing music in map_aquaponics_c
• Added missing description to the Bandolier item.
• Fixed tutorial trigger extending a bit under the platform during the second jumping tutorial
• Fixed tutorial marker visible during the Pinafore intro cutscene
• Fixed loop in tutorial if you healed and ran into the gate too quickly
• Fixed the trigger for the next area in the healing tutorial extending past the gate's hitbox
• Fixed T'lic respawning when save/loading and other issues related such as them freezing in mid-air.
• Made _tfdqd toggleable by calling it again.
• Fixed gravity going in the wrong direction for some particles when upside down in the ring.
• Added Manekis to the Pinafore map. Manekis for tutorial tomorrow!
• Added Assistant CALL during the Anserrah fight which gives info on how to beat him. The Ulibok one is still missing! Soon!
• Removed the ability to create savefiles with invalid names, which crashed the saving code. If you would like question marks in your savefile names, CC Satya Nadella.

• Enemies not going into alert state may not properly when alerted by a stealth kill sometimes. Still checking it out, sorry!
• Calling inside Growpod D1 sometimes does not give the hint about how to solve the puzzle.
• Breaking the glass pipes sometimes does not properly disable sprinklers.
• Game very rarely loads directly into the last auto-save on application start.
• Timer sometimes persists on HUD after Anserrah boss fight.
• Score screen automatically gives everyone S ranks. Sorry, but if you got a S rank... You haven't earned it yet!
• Hands sprites for drinking tea and getting stunned are wrong during the tutorial.