The Church in the Darkness ™ news & patch notes

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We're also thrilled to announce that three new games are joining the Fellow Traveller family; Scrabdackle, Wander Stars and Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo - read up on each of them below!

• Wander Stars: Follow the story of Ringo and Wolfe as they join forces to collect the pieces of the Wanderstar Map in this turn-based RPG with roguelite elements! Use words to create your own fighting techniques, befriend your rivals, and explore the universe in an adventure inspired by 90s anime.
• Scrabdackle: As a novice wizard, discover the intricate world of Scrabdackle and experience the impact wizardkind has unknowingly had upon it. Scrabdackle is a hand-drawn, non-linear adventure with a vast, intricate overworld, tight and responsive combat, cheeky banter, and pages of lore to discover.
• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo: A 3D adventure where you play as Kulebra, a dead snake with a heart of gold that wakes up in Limbo. Use your wits and keen eye to gather clues from the residents and find items that will help uncover the mystery of Limbo and its curse that traps souls into repeating the same day on loop.

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• Reworked Alex's follow behavior. In particular this fixes cases where he could box the player into a corner and there would be no way to get out without knocking him out or killing him. Now you have no excuse to not get him out of Freedom Town! Unless you think he should stay in that playthrough... (And if you ever see him blocking you with this new build, please let us know.)
• Per request, on the Graphics Settings menu added custom settings for Shadow Quality, Anti Aliasing Level, and Lighting. To access these go the Settings menu, then look for the Graphics Settings sub-menu.
• Played with some guard behavior modifications to vary up gameplay a bit more. In particular, tuned the "Red Hat" Guard's behavior to be more aggressive - be careful when you try to get past them. And remember to always look at a guard's hat to get an idea how much trouble they're going to give you.
• For controller players, fixed bugs where cancelling out of menus would sometimes lead to a state where no item was selected and you'd have to switch to mouse to progress.
• Fixed bug with Charles' sight cones being the wrong colors if you were using the alternate/color blindness UI settings.

• Camera/Controls Changes - New camera control feels a lot less "floaty". Now when the player stops, the camera stops, which we think feels a lot more tight. But there's also an option on the Settings menu to turn it off if you prefer how it used to play.
• Alternative UI Colors - Also on the Settings menu, this new option lets you change the color on UI elements, specifically the sight cones. This was something we had numerous requests for, as the original colors are particularly hard to read for people with colorblindness.
• Our non-Permadeath mode if you’re playing on the “Interloper”/Easier difficulty level - lets you save the game and load from that save multiple times if things don’t go the way you want, or you want to experiment with getting different endings.

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Update v1.2

• Camera/Controls Changes - New camera control feels a lot less "floaty". Now when the player stops, the camera stops, which we think feels a lot more tight.
• Update to the Swing Camera - We also updated the "camera swing" feature - which you use to look farther around your character and access with the arrow keys (by default) or the right stick. This now feels a lot more "under control" as well and doesn't automatically swing back over your character until you start moving.
• Control Options - The above camera features are on by default. However, if you want the camera back the way it was before, we have that covered too. Go to the Settings menu and you can tick the "Re-Center Camera After Moving" and "Swing Camera Re-Centers" options and it will feel the same as it did previously. You can mix and match which of the features feels best to you.

• Alternative UI Colors - Also on the Settings menu, this new option lets you change the color on UI elements, specifically the sight cones. This was something we had numerous requests for, as the original colors are particularly hard to read for people with colorblindness. Here the default is still the same, but we've added three different alternate color schemes that hopefully provide an option that works for you. But if not please let us know and we can keep refining them in a future update.

• Our non-Permadeath mode if you're playing on the "Interloper"/Easier difficulty level - lets you save the game and load from that save multiple times if things don't go the way you want, or you want to experiment with getting different endings.
• Steam Cloud Saves now enabled as well as various fixes to our save games.

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• Steam cloud saves are now working and will automatically backup your save files and transfer them to other places you may use Steam.
• Fixed a few existing bugs with save games that is also a bit of a performance boost in some situations.
• A little adjustment to the controls, working toward a more extensive refinement in our next build.

• Moved around a few buttons on the controller: now Throw a Rock is on Right Bumper, the gear inventory is on Left Bumper, and the notes inventory is DPad left. This means you'll never again accidentally throw a rock when you meant to subdue someone! Take a look at the controls screen in game to see the new layout.
• Now when you press and hold Right Bumper to throw a rock, you go to into a "rock aim" mode, which will allow you to aim it wherever you want without raising your gun. Then release the button to throw. This works on keyboard too, with whatever you might have mapped Throw a Rock to.
• Further adjustments to how the aiming works with rocks or with guns - we find it feels a lot better. This combined with the rock-aim mode mentioned above has made our rock throwing a lot more accurate.
• Did a big pass on guard variation throughout Freedom Town, with some variations to their behavior that change up more after you achieve endings. We also made the guards smarter about getting distracted by rocks, so be careful with your throws.

• New version of the PA voice over system that ensures less repetition, so you won't hear lines again for a much, much longer time. And as part of that you will hear "The Working Song" a lot less (one of our more persistent requests...)
• Searched around our archives and found a small group of Isaac and Rebecca Walker lines that weren't in the game before, which are now added to the PA system in various places.
• More logic changes that make sure each game you start has guaranteed differences from your previous game. Previously, some unlucky players would get served up a very similar game twice in a row.
• Ability to skip through conversations and narration bits, so if you're on a replay and want to move faster through a conversation with one of the friendly characters, you can.
• Fixed ending logic problem where if you had non-lethally subdued Isaac or Rebecca, the game would sometimes think you had killed them. Many people brought this one up too...
• For PC/Mac users, Vsync options on the Graphics settings screen. We have more graphics settings updates planned, let us know if there is another that is high priority for you.
• Much-requested multiple volume sliders for conversation, loudspeakers, sound effects, and music all separated, so you can balance and mix the volume how you like it.

• Fixed ending logic problem where if you had non-lethally subdued Isaac or Rebecca, the game would sometimes think you had killed them. This ended up being fairly involved to fix, but I also tuned some other aspects of the endings and I think the logic is a lot tighter now overall.
• Fixed a few more cases where dialog from the PA would repeat dialog where it shouldn't.
• Searched around our archives and found a small group of Isaac and Rebecca Walker lines that weren't in the game before, which are now added to the PA system in various places.
• Added the ability to skip note-related voice over. If you pick up one of the documents that has narration (or for the ones you start the game with), you can now hit a key/button to get it to stop.
• By popular demand, added a confirmation dialog to quitting a game without saving.

• New version of the PA voice over system - there were shortcomings in the old design that made certain lines play much more frequently than was ideal, and other lines would almost never be heard. The new system will actually remember what lines were played in all the games you have played (not just the current one), so you won't hear lines again for a much, much longer time.
• As part of the above, you will also hear "The Working Song" a lot less (one of our more persistent requests...)
• Some other logic changes that make sure each game you start has guaranteed differences from your previous game. Previously, some unlucky players would get served up a very similar game twice in a row.
• Vsync options on the Graphics settings screen. We have more graphics settings updates planned, let us know if there is another that is high priority for you.
• Tuned deadzone and made some other adjustments when playing with controller - this is a work in progress with some other planned controller improvements coming.
• Made the "The Unknown Unknown" achievement easier to get - a bug before meant that if you talked to a friendly character, that would count against you getting this achievement. We also fixed a few other minor achievement bugs.
• Improvements to our Japanese translation.

• Much-requested multiple volume sliders for conversation, loudspeakers, sound effects, and music all separated, so you can balance and mix the volume how you like it. The loudspeaker voices are a bit quieter by default.
• Ability to skip through conversations, so if you're on a replay and want to move faster through a conversation with one of the friendly characters, you can.
• Fixed a lot of balance and bugs with the conversation and prayer murmurings that were making them play much more than they should have.
• Fixed various problems with the Japanese subtitles.