Refunct news & patch notes

https://i.imgur.com/VSyX5fs.jpg Hi all, Refunct Update 11 is out improving movement, controller input, performance and more:

• Improved controller movement and aiming
• Improved performance by optimizing meshes and materials
• Improved settings gamepad/keyboard navigation
• Increased collectible collect radius
• Increased max grounded step-up height slightly
• Increased max mid-air step-up height slightly
• Increased ghost jump time slightly
• Fixed crouched step-up collision issues in rare cases
• Fixed clipping into geometry after climbing in rare cases
• Fixed incorrect field of view when restarting during outro in rare cases
• Fixed noticeable near shadow cascade transition
• Fixed outro time hour formatting at 1000+ hours
• Tweaked field of view range to 80 - 120
• Tweaked sensitivity range to 10% - 400%
• Tweaked controller diagonal move deadzone
• Removed support for binding mouse scroll wheel
• Removed resolution supersampling support

Thank you! - Dominique

Hi all, I'm happy to say that my new game Swarmlake which I've been working on for the past two years and put everything I've got into it is finally out NOW: http://store.steampowered.com/app/793350/Swarmlake Also if you enjoyed Refunct please leave a brief Steam review for it if you can, as I believe it to be the most effective way for others to notice my games. Thank you a lot for all your support over the years! Dominique

https://i.imgur.com/aZcGfuC.jpg Hey all! Refunct Update 10 is now live which improves movement, optimization and more:

• Added mid-air step-up mechanic making movement smoother by adding leeway when barely missing edges on landing
• Added 10-40% resolution scale for extremely low-end systems
• Improved climbing at steep angles
• Improved collision consistency by always using flat movement base
• Improved performance using LODs, model and render tweaks
• Fixed jerky physics while moving on rising islands
• Fixed camera dipping into water in rare cases
• Increased minimum required climb height slightly
• Tweaked button collision by tapering off the top to fix sliding in rare cases with the collision changes

https://i.imgur.com/aZcGfuC.jpg Hey all! Refunct Update 10 is now live which improves movement, optimization and more:

• Added mid-air step-up mechanic making movement smoother by adding leeway when barely missing edges on landing
• Added 10-40% resolution scale for extremely low-end systems
• Improved climbing at steep angles
• Improved collision consistency by always using flat movement base
• Improved performance using LODs, model and render tweaks
• Fixed jerky physics while moving on rising islands
• Fixed camera dipping into water in rare cases
• Increased minimum required climb height slightly
• Tweaked button collision by tapering off the top to fix sliding in rare cases with the collision changes

This update has been iterated on with the critical and passionate speedrun community. Also you can now name your price and pay what you want for Refunct's soundtrack / OST by Kristofferson getting it in high-quality MP3, FLAC and more. Finally Refunct was released two years ago and I really just wanted to thank you all for your support. Take care!

http://i.imgur.com/jOoiTKY.jpg Hey guys! Refunct Update 9 is now live which adds better water reflections, 6 new achievements, 11 new languages and more:

• Added lit and shadowed real-time planar water reflections on at least medium and especially ultra effects quality settings (not supported on Linux)
• Added 6 achievements
• Added Arabic (not supported on Linux), Bulgarian, Czech, European Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Romanian, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian localization
• Added right-to-left UI layout support for Arabic
• Improved some existing localizations
• Improved outro text quality
• Fixed maintaining velocity when walljumping off of the very top of objects
• Fixed resetting language to default on macOS and Linux
• Tweaked automatically detected quality settings
• Tweaked alternate outro text criteria
• Tweaked selecting first played music on startup

http://i.imgur.com/jOoiTKY.jpg Hey guys! Refunct Update 9 is now live which adds better water reflections, 6 new achievements, 11 new languages and more:

• Added lit and shadowed real-time planar water reflections on at least medium and especially ultra effects quality settings (not supported on Linux)
• Added 6 achievements
• Added Arabic (not supported on Linux), Bulgarian, Czech, European Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Romanian, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian localization
• Added right-to-left UI layout support for Arabic
• Improved some existing localizations
• Improved outro text quality
• Fixed maintaining velocity when walljumping off of the very top of objects
• Fixed resetting language to default on macOS and Linux
• Tweaked automatically detected quality settings
• Tweaked alternate outro text criteria
• Tweaked selecting first played music on startup

Achievements

Of the new achievements there are 3 which add additional questions asked from the collected cubes which will be automatically awarded if you start Refunct on a completed save. The other 3 achievements are about finishing Refunct under a certain completion% and in specific times adding challenge while still being very fair for those wanting to experience the depth of the movement system and introducing different ways to play Refunct. They were added due to high demand for replayability after getting 100% Refunct in-game and to make sure that Refunct has the same features on Steam compared to the recently released Xbox One version. I am sorry for those that might feel temporarily robbed of one of their "Perfect Games" due to adding those achievements post-release so if you are not able to complete them please feel free to send me a mail to the address found on the support page so I can unlock them for you.

Speedrun

Also consider joining the Refunct speedrun community and challenge yourself further by submitting your recorded runs to the official leaderboard where you can see some cool tricks and optimal routes which may be helpful for getting the achievements.

Conclusion

Hopefully adding those completely optional achievements and other improvements like better reflections adds more value to you guys. Additionally Refunct is now available in all 27 languages currently supported by Steam thanks to the translations done by this awesome community. Your continued support and understanding is very appreciated. Take care!

http://i.imgur.com/HxBViSw.jpg Refunct has now been translated by the community into all 27 languages supported by Steam showing you guys' kindness and helpfulness which will allow even more people in the world to experience the game once the update adding them goes live. If you want to check out and fix possible incorrect translations which may have sneaked in please add comments in the Refunct translation spreadsheet so this can get fixed: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tu-7cMYiVQhhdmVxd_8iHiukA0xOpHHFpGaKN443JM8/edit?usp=sharing Thank you!

http://i.imgur.com/ajhrqtw.jpg Hi! Refunct Update 8 has been released which aims to reduce causing motion sickness for people prone to it and incorporates various player feedback:

• Improved camera smoothness by using flat movement base collision on the ground
• Fixed a few localization strings
• Fixed showing incorrect restart message in rare cases
• Fixed executable icon after Update 7
• Tweaked hiding restart message after first instead of second restart after game completion
• Tweaked default quality scaling
• Reverted island rise timing changes of Update 7

http://i.imgur.com/ajhrqtw.jpg Hi! Refunct Update 8 has been released which aims to reduce causing motion sickness for people prone to it and incorporates various player feedback:

• Improved camera smoothness by using flat movement base collision on the ground
• Fixed a few localization strings
• Fixed showing incorrect restart message in rare cases
• Fixed executable icon after Update 7
• Tweaked hiding restart message after first instead of second restart after game completion
• Tweaked default quality scaling
• Reverted island rise timing changes of Update 7

Additionally if you are very prone to motion sickness the following may help further:

• Try to not think about motion sickness
• Reduce mouse/gamepad sensitivity
• Tweak the graphics settings to run Refunct with at least 60 fps
• Tweak the field of view
• Set anti-aliasing to low or none
• Do not hide the reticle

http://i.imgur.com/rbvUFg1.jpg Hey all! A new update has gone live adding support for 16 languages and a lot of general improvements as well:

• Added Chinese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Italian, Danish and Finnish localization
• Added two achievements (reverted)
• Added setting to change the language
• Added fading fireworks if being too close to prevent flashing the player
• Fixed framerate hitches due to audio after Update 5
• Fixed launching the game without the latest Windows updates
• Improved pillar rise timings slightly to make speedrun more consistent
• Improved sky colors
• Improved water sounds attenuation and volume
• Improved text
• Reduced required hard drive size
• Removed coloring pillar below collectible when collecting

http://i.imgur.com/rbvUFg1.jpg Hey all! A new update has gone live adding support for 16 languages and a lot of general improvements as well:

• Added Chinese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Italian, Danish and Finnish localization
• Added two achievements (reverted)
• Added setting to change the language
• Added fading fireworks if being too close to prevent flashing the player
• Fixed framerate hitches due to audio after Update 5
• Fixed launching the game without the latest Windows updates
• Improved pillar rise timings slightly to make speedrun more consistent
• Improved sky colors
• Improved water sounds attenuation and volume
• Improved text
• Reduced required hard drive size
• Removed coloring pillar below collectible when collecting

This also includes all changes from Update 6 which had been reverted until now:

• Added showing completion time in-world during outro after first completion
• Added showing pillar colors during outro after first completion
• Added resetting speedrun and color mode by holding crouch button in menu
• Added 180, 240, 288 and 300 frame rate caps
• Improved performance and framerate stability
• Improved walljump keeping upwards velocity if bigger than walljump upwards launch speed
• Improved night colors and visibility
• Improved gamepad rotation by adding a sensitivity curve
• Improved gamepad movement by increasing the outer deadzone range
• Improved keyboard and gamepad handling in menus
• Improved field of view handling during outro scene
• Improved colorized pillar color scheme
• Improved random color algorithm to not allow same color twice
• Improved controls naming in settings menu
• Fixed crouch state when leaving narrow space after releasing then repressing crouch button
• Fixed non-input braking friction being too high (regression after Update 3)
• Fixed outro landing position to always be exactly the same
• Fixed non-responsive game on macOS when loading with settings from before Update 5
• Fixed fireworks trails visibility when looking directly up

Love you! Liebe dich! Je vous aime ! Люблю тебя! Hou van je! Älskar dig! Te amo! Elsker deg! Rakastan sinua! Te amo! Kocham cię! Seni Seviyorum! Vi amo! Elsker dig! 比心！ 사랑합니다!

http://i.imgur.com/dvdiS7H.jpg Due to popular demand work has begun to translate Refunct to 16 different languages. This was completed by the community in just 4 days and will be included in the next update. Thanks to everyone involved! Refunct translation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tu-7cMYiVQhhdmVxd_8iHiukA0xOpHHFpGaKN443JM8/edit?usp=sharing Thank you! Danke! Merci ! Спасибо! Bedankt! Tack! ¡Gracias! Takk! Kiitos! Obrigado! Dziekuję! Teşekkürler! Grazie! Tak! 谢谢！ 감사합니다! ありがとう！

http://i.imgur.com/9icEXyv.jpg Hey, Update 6 improves the experience based on player feedback:

• Added showing completion time in-world during outro after first completion
• Added showing pillar colors during outro after first completion
• Added resetting speedrun and color mode by holding crouch button in menu
• Added 180, 240, 288 and 300 frame rate caps
• Improved performance and framerate stability
• Improved walljump keeping upwards velocity if bigger than walljump upwards launch speed
• Improved night colors and visibility
• Improved gamepad rotation by adding a sensitivity curve
• Improved gamepad movement by increasing the outer deadzone range
• Improved keyboard and gamepad handling in menus
• Improved field of view handling during outro scene
• Improved colorized pillar color scheme
• Improved random color algorithm to not allow same color twice
• Improved controls naming in settings menu
• Fixed crouch state when leaving narrow space after releasing then repressing crouch button
• Fixed non-input braking friction being too high (regression after Update 3)
• Fixed outro landing position to always be exactly the same
• Fixed non-responsive game on macOS when loading with settings from before Update 5
• Fixed fireworks trails visibility when looking directly up

http://i.imgur.com/9icEXyv.jpg Update 6 has been delayed due to rare AMD driver crashes. Here is a sneak-peak of the changelog:

• Added showing completion time in-world during outro after first completion
• Added showing pillar colors during outro after first completion
• Added resetting speedrun and color mode by holding crouch button in menu
• Added 180, 240, 288 and 300 frame rate caps
• Improved performance and framerate stability
• Improved walljump keeping upwards velocity if bigger than walljump upwards launch speed
• Improved night colors and visibility
• Improved gamepad rotation by adding a sensitivity curve
• Improved gamepad movement by increasing the outer deadzone range
• Improved keyboard and gamepad handling in menus
• Improved field of view handling during outro scene
• Improved colorized pillar color scheme
• Improved random color algorithm to not allow same color twice
• Improved controls naming in settings menu
• Fixed crouch state when leaving narrow space after releasing then repressing crouch button
• Fixed non-input braking friction being too high (regression after Update 3)
• Fixed outro landing position to always be exactly the same
• Fixed non-responsive game on macOS when loading with settings from before Update 5
• Fixed fireworks trails visibility when looking directly up

Note: The minimum macOS version will be 10.11.4 (El Capitan) as has been shown the past few months in the system requirements page due to the engine's removal of OpenGL support in favor of the more performant and feature-complete Metal API.

http://i.imgur.com/ivJHQIM.jpg Hey all! A new patch has just gone live to allow for post-completion player expression and increased polish:

• Added pillar colorization system
• Added saving completion time between sessions
• Added menu title/time color variation after collecting all collectibles
• Improved movement precision slightly
• Improved sound effects modulation variations
• Improved intro logo timing
• Improved game completion time taking new game glitch into account
• Fixed new game glitch (reverted)
• Fixed softlock if using new game glitch on first button
• Fixed camera clipping into water in rare cases
• Fixed game progress if loading invalid savegame
• Fixed UI scale on certain hardware
• Fixed silent audio under water on macOS
• Increased field of view setting range to 70° - 130°

http://i.imgur.com/ivJHQIM.jpg Hey all! A new patch has just gone live to allow for post-completion player expression and increased polish:

• Added pillar colorization system
• Added saving completion time between sessions
• Added menu title/time color variation after collecting all collectibles
• Improved movement precision slightly
• Improved sound effects modulation variations
• Improved intro logo timing
• Improved game completion time taking new game glitch into account
• Fixed new game glitch (reverted)
• Fixed softlock if using new game glitch on first button
• Fixed camera clipping into water in rare cases
• Fixed game progress if loading invalid savegame
• Fixed UI scale on certain hardware
• Fixed silent audio under water on macOS
• Increased field of view setting range to 70° - 130°

Awesome Games Done Quick is an annual speedrun charity marathon which is showcasing a Refunct Any% run on Friday 13 January 2017 6:54 AM UTC. Please check it out and maybe consider donating to a good cause as well. In case you missed it here is the archive (starts at 7:52): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tW91vTOudQ&t=7m52s

Hey, due to popular demand a new update has been released to improve the speedrunning experience including a completion timer, instant restarts and more:

• Added game completion timer after completing game once
• Added instant game restart
• Added persistent music and time of day through restarts
• Added underwater low-pass music filter
• Added exit game confirmation dialog
• Added focusing restart button on menu and hiding level restart confirmation after second restart
• Tweaked memory layout for better compatibility with external speedrun tools
• Removed loading screen

Due to popular demand a new update has been released to improve the speedrunning experience including a completion timer, instant restarts and more!

Speedrun

Head over to speedrun.com/Refunct to take part in the speedrun community. Simply record a video of your run, press the menu button during Refunct's outro to show the completion time (after completing the game at least once), upload it to Youtube or similar and submit it.

Livesplit

Advanced Windows users can use Livesplit to get a timer overlay with splits on each button press. Simply download Livesplit, extract it, start Livesplit executable, right-click opened window, choose Open Splits > From URL, paste http://refunctgame.com/splits and click OK, right-click window again, choose Edit Splits and press Activate, then start Refunct, go to ESC > Options > Window Mode > Switch to Windowed Fullscreen and start running. You only manually need to reset Livesplit after a completed run using a hotkey as defined in Livesplit settings.

Discord

You can also join the community moderated Refunct speedrun Discord server to chat with the runners and get help setting up Livesplit.

Changelog

• Added game completion timer shown in menu during outro after completing game once
• Added instant game restart
• Added persistent music and time of day through restarts
• Added underwater low-pass music filter
• Added exit game confirmation dialog
• Added focusing restart button on menu and hiding level restart confirmation after second restart
• Tweaked memory layout for better compatibility with external speedrun tools
• Removed loading screen

http://i.imgur.com/2gMjJTS.jpg Hey all! Refunct has just been released on Mac and Linux including Update 3 which improves gameplay, input, visuals, consistency and overall polish:

• Added support for Metal (Mac) and OpenGL (Mac, Linux, SteamOS)
• Added real-time planar water reflections
• Added ocean ground
• Added reticle scaling above 1080p
• Added anti-aliasing setting
• Added framerate limit setting
• Added supersampling to resolution scale setting
• Added ability to close all menus using menu button
• Added moving mouse to Continue button on showing menu
• Added showing logo during game load
• Added cross-platform cloud save synchronization
• Improved climbing smoothness in edge cases
• Improved movement consistency by re-snapping all objects to grid
• Improved music transitions
• Improved game completion text quality
• Improved shadow quality
• Improved auto detecting quality settings taking resolution into account
• Fixed one frame input delay
• Fixed one frame visual pop-in delay
• Fixed starting game in full-screen properly
• Fixed field of view value for non-16:9 aspect ratios
• Fixed travel pipe translucency order under water
• Fixed button beacon color under water
• Fixed music transition after game completion
• Fixed mouse visibility after clicking background of menu
• Fixed z-fighting of one pillar
• Fixed wall-jump when being exactly in between two pillars
• Fixed sensitivity setting rounding for certain values
• Fixed resolution setting order
• Fixed playing faint sounds on game start
• Removed game pause in menu to increase immersion
• Tweaked pipe travel speed
• Tweaked water effects, water colors, sky colors and cloud density
• Tweaked collectibles' light intensity
• Tweaked game intro and outro duration
• Tweaked quality scaling
• Tweaked default field of view (from 100° to 105°)

http://i.imgur.com/2gMjJTS.jpg Hey all! Refunct has just been released on Mac, Linux and SteamOS including Update 3 which improves gameplay, input, visuals, consistency and overall polish:

• Added support for Metal (Mac) and OpenGL (Mac, Linux, SteamOS)
• Added real-time planar water reflections
• Added ocean ground
• Added reticle scaling above 1080p
• Added anti-aliasing setting
• Added framerate limit setting
• Added supersampling to resolution scale setting
• Added ability to close all menus using menu button
• Added moving mouse to Continue button on showing menu
• Added showing logo during game load
• Added cross-platform cloud save synchronization
• Improved climbing smoothness in edge cases
• Improved movement consistency by re-snapping all objects to grid
• Improved music transitions
• Improved game completion text quality
• Improved shadow quality
• Improved auto detecting quality settings taking resolution into account
• Fixed one frame input delay
• Fixed one frame visual pop-in delay
• Fixed starting game in full-screen properly
• Fixed field of view value for non-16:9 aspect ratios
• Fixed travel pipe translucency order under water
• Fixed button beacon color under water
• Fixed music transition after game completion
• Fixed mouse visibility after clicking background of menu
• Fixed z-fighting of one pillar
• Fixed wall-jump when being exactly in between two pillars
• Fixed sensitivity setting rounding for certain values
• Fixed resolution setting order
• Fixed playing faint sounds on game start
• Removed game pause in menu to increase immersion
• Tweaked pipe travel speed
• Tweaked water effects, water colors, sky colors and cloud density
• Tweaked collectibles' light intensity
• Tweaked game intro and outro duration
• Tweaked quality scaling
• Tweaked default field of view (from 100° to 105°)

Before getting Refunct on the new platforms please keep these current engine limitations in mind:

• Real-time planar water reflections do not work in OpenGL (Linux, SteamOS and Macs from before 2012 or with macOS before 10.11)
• Steam overlay does not work on Mac
• Steam screenshots do not work on Mac, Linux and SteamOS

This has been Refunct's biggest update yet and to celebrate Refunct will be 50% off this week so please tell your friends! http://store.steampowered.com/app/406150

Refunct will be released on Mac, Linux and SteamOS on September 5th including Update 3 which improves gameplay, input, visuals, consistency and overall polish: http://steamcommunity.com/games/406150/announcements/detail/582476161081025637

Hello, a new update has gone live which improves gameplay and performance, fixes bugs and more:

• Improved walljump
• Improved climbing out of water
• Improved CPU performance slightly
• Added resolution scale setting for low-end GPUs
• Added vertical velocity decrease when entering water
• Fixed mouse x- and y-axis having different sensitivity
• Fixed lift bonus jump in rare cases
• Fixed ending sequence in rare cases
• Fixed showing correct sensitivity in settings
• Fixed UI scaling below 640x480
• Fixed window and taskbar icon
• Tweaked water ground color
• Tweaked UI text

http://i.imgur.com/paGqybD.jpg

Hello and welcome! A new update has gone live which improves gameplay and performance, fixes bugs and more:

• Improved walljump
• Improved climbing out of water
• Improved CPU performance slightly
• Added resolution scale setting for low-end GPUs
• Added vertical velocity decrease when entering water
• Fixed mouse x- and y-axis having different sensitivity
• Fixed lift bonus jump in rare cases
• Fixed ending sequence in rare cases
• Fixed showing correct sensitivity in settings
• Fixed UI scaling below 640x480
• Fixed window and taskbar icon
• Tweaked water ground color
• Tweaked UI text

Also due to popular demand Steam Trading Cards were added recently as well. http://i.imgur.com/paGqybD.jpg

Hello all! Due to popular demand you can now collect and trade Steam trading cards, badges, backgrounds and emoticons. Memorabilia include references to the prequel which were created by Refunktion's artist Brent Liu. Also if you enjoyed the soundtrack of Refunct you can buy it on Bandcamp to directly support Kristofferson.

Hey all! A new patch has just gone live to make the experience for new players as seamless as possible, add some tweaks and fix the last known bugs:

• Added ultra-wide and triple-monitor support by using Hor+ as field of view scaling
• Added ability to retrigger fireworks after game completion
• Added auto camera rotation on level completion
• Added pause menu wrap-around
• Fixed black undersides by tweaking ambient lighting
• Fixed lift getting stuck in rare cases
• Fixed lift sound location
• Fixed auto detecting quality and starting in fullscreen
• Fixed performance degradation after fireworks
• Tweaked fireworks
• Tweaked sky color
• Reduced default mouse sensitivity
• Reduced install size
• Removed a few unrewarding collectibles

Thank you!

Hey all! A new patch has just gone live to make the experience for new players as seamless as possible, add some tweaks and fix bugs:

• Added ultra-wide and triple-monitor support by using Hor+ as field of view scaling
• Added ability to retrigger fireworks after game completion
• Added auto camera rotation on level completion
• Added pause menu wrap-around
• Fixed black undersides by tweaking ambient lighting
• Fixed lift getting stuck in rare cases
• Fixed lift sound location
• Fixed auto detecting quality and starting in fullscreen
• Fixed performance degradation after fireworks
• Tweaked fireworks
• Tweaked sky color
• Reduced default mouse sensitivity
• Reduced install size
• Removed a few unrewarding collectibles

Thank you!