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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Game update | Backalley fixes Fixed a bug where on the last level of Back Alleys your teammates could spawn outside of the spawn room · Enhanced the anomaly camera. This affected the Back Alley the level most but it should make it much better on the Graveyard levels as well. Thanks for all the feedbacks and bug reports. I am still making improvements that will go live in the next week or two. This will include a few more ma… | — | |
| Game update | Added graphics quality setting and a few fixes Added Graphics Quality setting. This should help quite a few people. · Fixed an issue where trophies wouldn't always show up for all players · Fixed an issue where the Slippery punishment wouldn't always be removed · Fixed a few localization issues. Thanks for the bug reports and feedback. We are monitoring them and getting them fixed ASAP. We are also adding a audio settings but that will take… | — | |
| Game update | Added FPS option and fixed a bug *Added an FPS and V-Sync option in settings *Fixed a corrupt file that caused some clients to crash | — | |
| Game update | Landmines will blow you up as expected now Landmine visuals will be consistent across all palyers · Fixed an annoying bug where the landmines would block you when they weren't actually visible. If you were running into the occasional step up or even blocked path for no reason that was because of this. Thanks for the bug reports. If you come across any please let me know either in the Steam Discussion area or you can report it directly t… | — | |
| Steam news | The Anomaly Department is LIVE! The Anomaly Department is officially available now on Steam. Thank you to everyone who played the demo, joined us during Steam Next Fest, reported bugs, shared feedback, or added the game to their wishlist. Your support helped us reach launch day. We hope you enjoy your first shift. | — | |
| In-game event | Huge performance upgrades and tweaks! TL;DR · Major performance enhancements. · Adjusted lighting quite a bit. · Added a quick, one screen tutorial pop up on first play through. · When you have a penalty/punishment you will now receive a more clear notice through the UI. · Fixed a timing issue where doors would sometimes visually close twice. · Fixed an annoying issue where you would sometimes have to click twice when in a menu. ·… | — | |
| Announcement | New Release Date and Updates! We hope everyone had as much fun with NextFest as we did! So many great demos. We 30x'd our wishlist over the event which is insane. Thank you so much. Today we are announcing that we have decided to move the release date back to July 14th. The Anomaly Department is in a ready to release state but the original timeline we had planned would coincide and compete with the biggest game sale of the… | — | |
| Game update | A few updates! Thanks everyone for playing the demo. We hope NextFest is going great for you guys! We made a minor update. · Added option to invert look. This is because the streamer Cheesepopps wouldn't stop whining about it. · Fixed an edge case where the Red Light / Green Light event would shoot you the next round. · Minor localizations fixes Thanks for all the support and feedback. We hope you are having… | — | |
| Game update | Comfort Update We updated our demo to improve first-person comfort. · Disabled motion blur · Reduced or disabled various post-processing effects · Minor FPS stability patches · Minor performance improvements Also... that security door acts a bit more like a door now. We hope you are enjoying the demo! Happy NextFest! | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.