Midnight Murder Club news & patch notes

• Fixed minor PSN UI bugs that affected specific machine configurations (Maybe it’s your machine!)

To all of our guests in Wormwood Manor,

Thank you for all of your feedback, commentary, and participation in our Discord community contests. We have a hotfix patch that will fingers crossed solve some of the roadblocks you’ve been facing in Midnight Murder Club.

As always, we invite you to keep us updated on your experience and hope to see you and your groups take advantage of this patch!

Network

• PSPC update to address the sign-in issues that have been ongoing on PC

Grouping

• Fixed an issue that prevented the 'Keep Party Grouped' option from working in some cases. Now you can keep the party grouped!

• Improved the experience of adding and removing bots to groups.

• Cleaned up team select behavior.

• Added the word "co-op" to the Graveyard Shift description in the main menu.

• Improved the voice scrambler menu to avoid accidentally scrambling the whole room instead of one person.

• Fixed an issue where Graveyard Shift was showing incomplete text in the UI.

• Fixed various game crashes and compatibility issues.

After months of chaos, screams, and flashlight duels in Early Access, Midnight Murder Club is officially out on PS5 and Steam.

Will you survive the mansion… or become part of it? 🏚️👀

This is a heart-pounding and hilarious horror party game for up to six players. Armed with a flashlight, a revolver, and proximity chat, you will sneak, shout, and stumble through:

• Tense shootouts in total darkness

• Chaotic traps waiting around every corner

• Laugh-out-loud moments with friends

Grab your copy now and bring 5 friends for no additional cost because you might just need backup!

🕹️ Get it here:

See you in the dark… 👻

Every Friday, we stream our internal playtest, so you can get a look at what we're doing, whether it's adding new Wildcards or tightening up the graphics on level three of the Mansion*.

It's live, it's candid, it... might have bugs. But that's game development, baby

• Includes new PSPC SDK hopefully resolving some player's 1.49 errors.
• Fixed an issue where the lobby list could not be navigated to using gamepad.
• Potentially fixed some out of memory crashes on PC.

Every Friday, we stream our internal playtest, so you can get a look at what we're doing, whether it's adding new Wildcards or tightening up the graphics on level three of the Mansion*.

It's live, it's candid, it... might have bugs. But that's game development, baby

• Falling Chandelier – attach a chandelier to the ceiling that will fall on your enemies when they walk underneath it
• Flaming Skull – transform into a flaming, flying skull and hunt your enemies from the skies!
• Growing Glow Trail –We’ve updated Glowing Glow Trails so now they get longer with every kill
• Party Room – there ain’t no party like a Midnight Murder Party because the Midnight Murder Party don’t stop! Until everyone is dead. Then... Then it stops...
• Knives Only – by popular request, you gotta slash your enemies to bits
• Sound Blast: Jazz Club – every time you fire your gun it sounds like a high school band rehearsing
• Pinged to Death! – on a player’s death, a pinger goes off revealing the locations of everyone in the mansion
• Shrink Shot – get shot, get shrunk, get revenge
• Gift from the Grave – when you die, you’ll get a little present that will give you a chance to catch up and seek revenge
• All in the Chamber – all your bullets fire at once. More bullets = More good!

• Bots will now be better teammates
• Bots are now available in Wildcard matches

• Mansion Compass – helps you navigate when your flashlight is on
• Death Pin Drops – players will now see a ping that shows them the location of where they last died in the mansion, helping them find their way back

• UI / UX flow updates to improve rematch capabilities and optimize grouping up with friends

• Players using a controller on PC will not be able to navigate to the right-side menu after pressing “Play Game.” The current workaround if players need to access that menu is to use mouse and keyboard.

Every Friday, we stream our internal playtest, so you can get a look at what we're doing, whether it's adding new Wildcards or tightening up the graphics on level three of the Mansion*.

It's live, it's candid, it... might have bugs. But that's game development, baby!

Every Friday, we stream our internal playtest, so you can get a look at what we're doing, whether it's adding new Wildcards or tightening up the graphics on level three of the Mansion*.

It's live, it's candid, it... might have bugs. But that's game development, baby!

Next week, Friday, June 13th, come play with the Devs!

Time: Friday, June 13th at 5pm ET / 4pm CT / 3pm PT

We'll be playing on a Private Branch that will give everyone the opportunity to try out new Wildcards and features before they're live!

In order to play, you'll need to:

• Play on Steam (build download instructions will be posted here day-of)

• Own the game

• Live in North America (technically, you can join from other countries, but there may be lag)

• Join our Discord: discord.gg/velanstudios

We'll be meeting in the Voice Chat channel called #JOIN THE PLAYTEST. Groups of 6 will be moved to separate rooms so their VC doesn't overlap with other teams. We'll try to get as many of you playing with devs as possible, but get there early for the best chance!

We'd love it if after the session, you could give us your thoughts on the new items you played with, but we also just want to make sure this a fun time, and an opportunity to meet other players and the team.

Pro Tip: This play session is only an hour long, so to get the most bang for your buck, hop in the Discord earlier in the day to find the build download instructions in #MMC-NEWS.

Here's a sneak peek at the Wildcards that will appear in this build:

• Falling Chandelier Vendor: Add a fiery trap to the ceilings that will fall on your foes!

• Flaming Skull Vendor: Take command of a flaming skull and light up the shadows!

• All In The Chamber: Shoot every bullet in your gun at once!

• Party Room: Who said disco was dead?

• Pinged to Death: When an enemy dies, all players will be exposed in the darkness!

• Shrink Shot: Get shot. Get shrunk. Get revenge!

• Sound Blast: Jazz Club: Why not jazz up your gunshots?

• Gift From the Grave: Earn a gift after every death!

• Growing Glow Trails: The more kills you get, the longer your glow trail!

• Footprint Trail: The more kills you get, the more footsteps you'll leave behind!

• Knives Only: By popular demand, we finally have a knives only card!

• Enables Open House Weekend functionality
• Adds the new Headhunters vs Bots mode
• Fixed an issue that prevented PC players from inviting some PC players through the Steam Friends List

• Players are now informed if communication is restricted due to parental controls or PSN account penalties from previous behavior.
• Controller rumble is disabled to avoid a bug some players were experiencing.
• If you weren’t experiencing the black screen bug when starting the game, you can manually enable rumble by adding -audio_motion_enabled to Steam Launch Options (https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7D01-D2DD-D75E-2955).
• Minor updates to PSPC runtime installer.
• Enabled PSN crash reporting.
• Updated PSPC SDK to 4.0.

• Added the Shoot Through Walls Wildcard to the array of cards players can unlock.
• Fixed an issue where Molotov Cocktails were disappearing after being thrown
• Fixed an issue where some players were getting stuck on a black screen instead of loading into a match.
• Fixed a crash that occurred for some PC players when joining a public lobby if that group was already matchmaking.
• Fixed an issue that was allowing players and bots to play in unsupported game modes.
• Fixed an issue with PSN accounts getting into a log in loop.‍

Happy Early Access Launch Day!

New Features

Introducing: our Early Access Roadmap

Lighting A Path Forward