Peripeteia news & patch notes

Week of polish on the Stash Update. Thank you for reporting all the “fun” edge cases. Here's what got fixed:

• Guns with a lot of attachments could get stuck to your cursor after transitioning levels. These models get deleted as a bandaid. The bandaid will likely stay on forever, as such things do.

• Items brought from previous maps no longer get destroyed when you return to the apartment. Many bramit devices were hurt in the process.

• Fixed phantom items taking up invisible inventory space after level transitions.

• Weight limit at 100% now lets you pass. Previously you needed to be under 100%, not the intention.

• Autosave no longer triggers while airborne.

• Autosaves will load properly after death – kind of what they are for.

• Added a menu option to disable autosaves entirely, at special request of speedrunners.

• Apartment containers clear properly after first visit - no more duplication.

• Added fallback for entering the apartment from an old save.

• Reclamation now properly clears your hotslots and ghost item silhouettes when it strips your gear.

• Fixed the save handler writing to disk twice for no reason.

• Fixed putting the sabre in as the first item in a container causing weirdness - likely also fixes the M53 disappearing from the locker on top of the Arcology forever stairs.

• Dogshit AK is now open bolt. Finally, everything is wrong with it.

• New props in the basement. New graffiti. Some new frob descriptions.

This update's beautiful art is by Taco XD: https://x.com/taco_xd69/status/2038673535691051234/photo/1

Managed to take care of some issues reported after dropping the Stash Update:

• Fixed Arcology light buzz bleeding into the whole scene.

• Fixed gun disappearing when switching hotbar slots.

• Fixed crouch toggle not sticking between sessions.

• Oil filter and other attachments now properly persist in inventory across level transitions.

• Gun wall prototype exists but isn't in this build yet. Soon.

20260411.16344 is a hotfix for the hotfix:

• Fixed stash resetting on death, sorry about that.

• Fixed apartment containers refilling with ammo on every load.

• Fixed apartment lights sometimes going dark when entering from previous mission.

• One more buzzing light silenced. They bred.

• Marie's fridge is back. She was hungry out of beer.

This patch is accompanied by cute art by the ever prolific Sachik: https://x.com/DogHunt14716979/status/2032146806386409831/photo/1

Items, weapons, and attachments finally carry between levels. Everything you loot, strip, or steal stays in your inventory when you move to the next mission. Implants stay as they did before.

Marie's apartment now has a basement stash. Store what you can't carry, plan your loadout before heading out, come back for it later. Hoard to your heart's content – the items are persistent.

There's a weight limit before going out to a mission. Your inventory shows encumbrance as a percentage. If you're over the limit, you'll need to store or drop items before traveling. The PSR has weight limits on train passengers, you know.

For the purists that love the previous iteration: "Sell items on transition" will be available as a difficulty option when the difficulty system ships. Classic mode, no carry. Difficulty sliders are next expected large system addition, System Shock 1 style. If you have any suggestions on how to make your playthrough more fun (by making it more lenient or ballbustingly hard), feel free to name them!

Other changes:

• Arriving at a new level triggers an autosave.

• Fixed Marie's legs sometimes acting on their own accord after last patch.

• Effect limit raised - was set to a very conservative value.

What's next:

A public roadmap is coming. Big things ahead. Thanks for your patience – it hasn't been wasted.

The art in this post is by the wonderful Somerdrop: https://x.com/smrsltdrpkck/status/1885191124509213000.

As always, be sure to report any new or recurring bugs on the discord or the steam forums! Yes, I know Marie's fridge got moved to the basement! I'll buy her a second one next update.

Hey everyone. It's been a while. Here's what we've been up to.

This patch is primarily a stability and performance pass but there's some fun things for you to play with as well. From simple things to more significant, here they are

• Music track display added. You can toggle it in the settings menu, so you can stop asking "who wrote this track here?".

• Rewrote the AI controller using a quadtree. NPCs process significantly faster.

• Added "Reset to Defaults" button under keybinds.

• Performance pass across various systems: data is cached instead of recalculated every frame, shadowmap caching distance lowered, rigidbody interactions changed for better physics behavior.

• Fixed the one billion ammo bug (or the negative billion bug if you're unlucky).

• Culture-aware string handling for the save system: Fixes saves breaking when loaded on a system with a different decimal separator than the one they were created on (comma vs period).

• Culture-aware inputs added to the hacking minigame. Turkish players were hit hardest, making it often impossible to pass a hack. Sorry about that one.

• Unconscious NPCs now save and load correctly.

• Fixed enemy animation freeze on load. Should also reduce T-pose pop-in.

• Chips now save properly.

• Reclamation volume states save correctly (fixes Kacper darkness on load).

• Conversation and readable logs are now saved.

• Iron lung saves properly.

• Molodost heads no longer turn invisible after loading.

• Tank tread position maintained on load (really hoping the tank bugs will stop now).

• Projector bulb interaction preserved after load.

• Shock effect no longer persists after loading.

• Item held on cursor cleared on load - no more duping.

• RPGs and grenades save more consistently.

• Hind won't kill itself anymore - traced down to a misaligned collider.

• Entering the dogshit AK zone no longer turns the entire map hostile - just the armorer, as intended.

• Fixed the apartment commies holding their weapons in weird, contorted ways.

• Improved NPC pathing predictability.

• APS spike detection working again (Marie should stand properly on them now).

• Coyote time implant now shows activation on HUD (hopefully makes the mechanic more understandable).

• Dialogue log: selecting a different entry now jumps to the start of that entry.

• Loot UI can now be scrolled when hovering over items or dragging.

• Hacking minigame pauses when window loses focus (so you're not punished for accidentally hitting the windows key or alt-tabbing, God knows how).

• Esc key works in conversations (but don't expect exiting the conversation to always be the best course of action).

• Fixed White Rabbit font softness on lower resolutions (Textmeshpro issue). The font has also received Cyrillic (including Ukrainian) and Polish glyphs - both for Polish words sneaking into the dialogue and for the currently ongoing fan translation efforts.

• New SKS model with functional bayonet.

• Upgraded the Polon model.

• Added Veresk smg, still needs proper ammo type.

• Guns now dry fire when empty.

• RPG rockets are no longer light as a feather and save properly.

• Laser sight on the Mosin renders correctly in first person.

• Bayonet topielecs can stab you again after being revived (that's good, right?).

• Fixed weird akimbo rendering behavior in third person.

• Outskirts Iskander ending skybox fixed.

• \ Lowered the volume of some buzzing.

• \ Vending machines now have varied passwords.

• \ Fixed some light bleeding through walls.

• Fixed tank hackable console issue.

• Holstering no longer happens during hacking.

• Metroface dialogue makes more sense now.

• Hopefully removed all trailing spaces, double spaces, and weird periods across all dialogue.

• Iskander bloodline description fixed.

• TwoFuture's typo pass incorporated - thank you!

• Sound meter data reads spread over multiple frames.

• Added babushka headscarf to the train station girl. It suits her.

• Holster dupe exploit fixed.

• Candlesmuggle inventory exploit fixed.

• Click-too-quickly inventory stacking bug fixed.

• Trimmed ~400 megabytes from build size by removing redundant VIDE dialogue metadata.

• Item grid generation now consistent across maps.

• New vodka brand added. Na zdrowie, hope it’s not sour.

• Rats squeak.

• Cat carrier snakes hiss.

Keep in mind that with the new models and consistent item generation across maps, your carefully maintained inventory might get disorganized and some items may even fall to the floor. Thanks for understanding.

And since some systems went through some refactoring and upgrades, there’s always a chance new, fun bugs will appear. Please keep ‘em coming on the Steam forums and our discord.

The art in this post is by amazing septictanksam: https://x.com/spky1999/status/2030108222158188976

More to come. We're just getting started.

We’re Throwing Our Hat Into the Race!

The Steam Awards are coming. Nominate Peripeteia before December 1st! If you’ve enjoyed our world, our vibes, our sprawling level design, and Marie's iconic look, then please consider nominating us for Outstanding Visual Style. Votes in other categories are welcome as well.

Thank you for your support!

And huge thanks to MagnaGallina for the awesome banner art!

Thank you for your patience, we announced on Twitter we'd be releasing the patch yesterday, but we've been completely sucked in into setting up and manning our booth at the International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź (there's still today if you wanna say hi!). Here's what you can expect in this update:

• Introduced a whole new crosshair customization system. The look of the crosshair has been updated to fit the rest of the UI, multiple presets were added and you can also edit and save your own presets! We hope community feedback will help further improve this feature.

• Added ability to interact with items in the world with the right-click menu, just like in inventory

• Modified UI elements for Reclamation, save button won’t disappear in the menu, it’s grayed out instead. You will also be reminded what the hotkey for saving is in safe zones.

• Maid outfit is now available through cheats.

• Fixed exploit allowing saving anywhere on Reclamation.

• Added button to call the Arcology elevator.

• Fixed broken damage triggers in Reclamation.

• Fixed world holes in Arcology and Reclamation.

• Fix inspect items overlapping

• Added a slider for first person weapon scale.

• Added ability to holster weapons (default key \), mainly for cosmetic effect.

• Replaced simple vsync on/off option with numerous frame limits.

• Fixed inconsistency with sabre climbing.

• Made bayonets throwable,

• Made the gardener convo more navigable for first-time players.

A bit more was planned for today's patch but we noticed something was off about the build we had for the con, so stay tuned for more fixes next week!

And of course, thank you to wonderful Puto Trash for allowing us to use his fanart in this update. https://x.com/puto_trash/status/1784265947068666234

• Unity retained stale prefab references, often replacing base prefab references with their variant equivalents in scene files.
• Unity’s serialization didn’t report anything wrong in the editor.
• But builds failed to include the proper prefab GUIDs, causing dictionary lookups, save data, and runtime instantiation to break.
• This issue didn’t show up in-editor unless thoroughly recreated, making it extremely painful to track down.

• Added an option for crouch toggle
• Made the hot slot bar behave better in 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions
• Made the save room mechanic more explicit

• Fixed flamethrower canisters not appearing on NPC backs
• Weapons holstered by NPCs should appar on their hipsand back again
• Funicular location in the factory should not break on load from pre-20250626.22303 save
• Priest, Ishtar and Lilith shouldn't have their hands contort in weird ways on load. Still needs additional work.

• Reverted a change that caused reloading weapons with internal magazines (shotties, sks) to potentially crash the game after loading in a save
• Limited "rotation is zero" spam in log

• Quick saving/loading can’t be done in menu anymore (particularly important for not accidentally loading)
• You can no longer save while in midair or reloading, it will instead be queued up (assuming you don't go splat on the ground)
• Inventory item values (uses/ammo counts) don’t disappear on save anymore
• NPCs "speak" during conversations again
• Gas grenade clouds shouldn't continue to deal damage after loading a save
• Fixed glitch causing melee weapons to instakill enemies while sprinting with a specific set of inputs
• Grenades and nade-like objects should be less buggy (still working on this)
• Fixed some weapons going pink when using thermoptic. Interestingly enough, sword and nade were fucked in completely different ways, leading to the same result.
• Large batteries can’t drop limb health below zero anymore
• Added precautions against the elusive “APS spikes become huge“ bug. Still not sure why they occasionally decide to fill half of a room
• Weapons shortened with the hacksaw (as well as the hacksaw itself) should save properly
• You can't change firing mode while hacking anymore
• The Map Drone can now be detected by NPCs if you knock one out with it
• Disabled saves on arena since it wasn't supposed to have them
• Improved the shader for cloaked items in third person
• Improved character meshes (including armbands and new gasmasks)
• Camera zoom function can be reassigned to different keys now
• Added “Next Hotslot” and “Previous Hotslot” keymappings (defaults are brackets)
• Added the option to map mouse scrollwheel input (used for camera zoom as default but can be assigned for switching hotslots a’la Deus Ex… or bunnyhopping)
• Fixed cassette playback glitching out on Sunday Summer
• Third Hallway Weirdo selection box won’t glitch out
• Kasia’s bathroom door is now corporeal (ya creep)
• Removed vestigial sound effects and improved particle effects
• Made funicular in factory lab not lock Marie’s rotation
• Removed duplicate elevator panel in apartments
• You can’t claim a speedrun world record on Chasm with a goddamn debug cheat anymore
• New outfit in the cheat menu
• Renamed some of the levels to not cause confusion with real world places, which only inspired them

• Fixed Karabash endings not playing and softlocking the game. The ending scene was not being properly activated.
• Implants weren't saving their hotslot number, their position in the hotslot bar will now be stored correctly.
• Kacper bugged out upon restarting the fight in Belgrade, as NPC AI is based on the assumption that no targets would ever be deleted and in this instance, this is exactly what happened.
• Vodka would refill itself in certain situations, including loading from main menu.
• Made the function to fire guns more nullsafe, should hopefully fix the issue that people have been having with certain instances of guns not shooting. Should this not be a sufficient fix, we'll look into it further.
• Various fixes to Belgrade geometry, including:
  • Plugged up various world holes
  • Removing instances of z-fighting.
• Made Junker's dialogue more readable.
• Added a hacksaw (currently available in the Arcology).
• Increased visibility of the Makarov, should prove useful in Belgrade.
• Improved behavior of some NPC-only items.

• Added keybind for hiding entire UI (for the virtual photographers out there).
• Added keybind for instant item pickup without triggering physics dragging (for low FPS).
• Removed hardcoded keybinds – you should be able to effectively switch left and right mouse button in the input menu (should also help with custom Deck mappings).
• Removed unused keybinds and renamed existing ones for clarity.
• Fixed issues with some particle collision sounds not playing.
• Marie’s hairpins shouldn’t appear in first person anymore.
• Fixed Toblerone scene to use Marie’s current outfit.
• Lowered loudness of shotgun hit sound effects.
• AI tweak: enemies with shotguns need to reload the same as player does, limiting spam.
• Added a few missing guns to the murder/k/ube.
• Timer during the trial will now slow down when reading documents and computers, as well as during conversations.
• Removed Topie Chan.

• Fixed open bolt guns to not have one round in chamber on mag removal.
• The dogshit AK respects the reload keybind, wasting all the ammo in your inventory more efficiently. It was also added to the muder/k/ube.
• A special Topielec will carry a newly added gun. Unfortunately it wont show up when loading a save from before this patch, you'll find it on a new playthrough.
• Increased speed of RMB93 reload.
• Tweaked magazine capacity for some guns to reflect real life values
• Fixed bug introduced in the previous patch where carrying crates and other large objects would cause their physics to break.
• Updated player model with better shoulder weight painting.
• Fixed normals on the MAC10 model.
• Fixed weird loot behavior of Iskander's weapons.
• Fixed kiln gun and flamer being suppresable.

• Fixed the issue where if you saved, rotated an item that was on your hotbar, then loaded, it would leave a blank space that was nominally occupied by the item
• Galil should no longer get cut down when you load from main menu, this was fixed by changing how attachments are saved
• Adjusted the collision box for one of the Belgrade save rooms
• Improved aim-down-sights feel, limiting the jitteriness. Still working on alleviating floating point imprecision when aiming at far away level locations.
• Fixed various graphical issues with WE2000, Communist Party Shotgun and KK9
• Often requested gun added to murder/k/ube (for those who know)

• Adjustments made to the cost of implants.
• Several items in missions would disappear when you loaded a saved game from main menu (particularly bad on Belgrade with several of the first guns you can find being affected), this was caused by a discrepancy in their save profiles compared to their prefabs: corrected this systematically
• Some consumables weren't saving their hotslot number which is why they weren't going back to slots if you used them and reloaded.
• Belgrade had a several second window (the duration of the opening cutscene) where you could drop your implants and pick them up before they were removed from your inventory.
• There's been several reported crashes that have been revealed to be caused by a ragdoll stretching out indefinitely. While the exact cause of this crash is unknown, there is now a failsafe that gets tripped when you load a save from main menu and a corpse is showing signs of stretching his arms out (just for you). This at least should stop the bug from persisting on most save files.

• Hotfix to undo an attempt to fix loading from main menu causing permanent distortion effect on Belgrade - broke several things including making the sound effect for Filemon giving you your augment play on loop and worse
• Fixed the permanent distortion effect on Belgrade for real
• Belgrade intro cutscene shouldn't play again when loading from main menu
• Several updates to item prices and descriptions

• If you died sprint toggle would return to default
• There was an issue with the NavMeshAgent failing on the dolls, causing some of them to be less responsive.
• Tanks should be less likely to have their turrets 15 meters away
• If you loaded a save on Belgrade from main menu in certain places you'd get distortion that would never go away, caused by an oversight in the code that meant the effect would never fade in some situations
• Jerrycan wasn't set up properly for saving
• Juice wasn't usable
• Machine gun belts weren't supposed to have save components, was causing them to appear in inventory when loading a save

• Save rooms now have a UI element, thanks Hiro!
• Added failsafe to ensure that the vent doesn't get blocked by invisible wall
• Certain one-way door now has description to make it clear that it's locked and not just bugged
• Fixed table issue with RPG
• Mouse would get messed up if you hacked a certain important thing, it would persist with save file because the yaw on the camera would get majorly upset
• Floating copies of transferred implants could be found, most noticeable on Belgrade's second tower
• You weren't able to buy something if you had exact change (2/24) Save fixes:
• The trial didn't have the incremental counters saved
• Some doors would scale and weren't saving that scale so they'd act weird
• New save room added
• School door wouldn't ever open if you ever interacted with it without a key

• Augs carry over between scenes - anything that isn't an implant is liquidated at level end
• Fixed elevators breaking
• Hacking softlock fixed
• Elevator access key could fall through the table it's on (Belgrade)
• Level selection on main menu was unlocking in wrong order for Belgrade and Karabash

• Added a clearer description to the Puppeteer implant.
• Added new areas to the Tutorial.
• Added new quest logs.
• Android does not collide with random invisible walls.
• Augmentation UI should not cause a continuous sine wave tone.
• Consumable items have been fixed.
• Fall damage has been lowered.
• Fixed flame damage on enemies.
• Fixed inventory wipe on save.
• Fixed issues with activating implants on load after death.
• Fixed issues with inventory items not saving.
• Fixed priest conversation.
• Fixed the main menu for ultrawide resolutions.
• Fixed transparent textures not working with raycasts (e.g. gunshots).
• Headshot now work as intended.
• Improved reliability of the light meter.
• Improved the intended “first time player” tutorial guidance.
• Instances of floating magazines removed, they can’t be “stolen” from enemy guns either.
• Inventory no longer activates during hacking, neither do you switch to third person.
• Issues with loading after death have been addressed.
• Items do not appear as “duplicated” inside containers.
• Mosin sights have been fixed.
• Night vision has been remade.
• NPC behavior on load mostly fixed.
• Resolved issue with receiving quest items from NPCs after load.
• Save menu works reliably.
• Snipers should not be sliding around, their laser sights no longer detach from their guns.
• The “slide” section works as intended (you survive).

June 18th: Stars in the Synthetic Sky

May 27th: Raindrops

May 14th: LPO-50

June 18th: Blue Morning

April 22nd: Ratical Tech Demo

April 16th: Through the Mirror

March 25th: Rats!

March 11th: Environmental Protection

March 4th: Fever Dream