Welcome back! With Christmas on the way, we’ve come back to bring you an exciting update. Here’s the full changelog of various changes and bug fixes.
Holiday
- The small Winter House map is now playable yet again
- Winter House got a few more furniture based hiding spots
- Presents spawn on all maps, you get $5 for each collected
- Santa ghost model is now available
- Santa kit is back on sale
- Winter menu background
Sanity rework
- Sanity has been completely rewritten from the ground up and is now more advanced
- Natural sanity drain now takes into account distance from nearest active light
- Natural sanity drain is halted if the player is close to a lit candle
- Sudden sanity drain during ghost events dependent on the distance from the subject
- Sanity starts to drain rapidly when the ghost is visible near the player
- Events and hunt frequency is affected by the average sanity of all players
- New sanity drain values are experimental, we are listening to your feedback.
Challenge mode & New trophy
- Players with at least level 50 can now access challenge mode
- Players can activate up to 5 different challenges
- Each challenge mode gives extra rewards if you guess the ghost type correctly
- New “Challenger” trophy: Complete all objectives and guess the ghost correctly on Nightmare mode with all challenges active (any map, no time restriction)
- The Challenger trophy will temporarily override any previous trophies until a solution is implemented
Let’s talk Ghost Traits
Ghost traits have been a long time coming. It will be our primary focus to work on them for the next couple weeks. In fact, we’ll be gradually rolling out traits for ghost types. For now, though…
- Banshee: An ambitious and vicious ghost that only targets one person at a time. It will look for the hiding target and not target anyone else. Once the target’s killed, a new one is chosen… stay safe.
Other changes
- Reworked Ghosts page in the journal
- Pocket Crucifix usage notification to the owner
- Lobby hosts will no longer change between rounds (unless they leave)
- Ghost candle event chance increased slightly
- Ghost candle event now blows out nearby candles instead of all of them
- Candles now go out themselved after about 5 minutes
- New School Master badge given automatically
- Finjito’s now has improved pathfinding
Bug fixes
- Headcam is no longer mounted backwards
- Attempt to fix any issues with rewards sometimes not being distributed
- You can no longer take Ghost and Dirty water pictures through walls
- Ghost will now have proper walk animations when roaming during hunts
- Ghost will no longer delay in killing players in closets during hunts
- Ghost will no longer target dead players
- Patched certain safe spots in Finjito’s
- Players that fall out of the map will be teleported back to the van
- Tools that fall out of the map will be teleported back or to the van
- Candle in Stillhouse Dining Room moved to a reachable spot
That’s it for now, have a lovely winter!