The Devourer: Hunted Souls Early Access v0.4.0 Release Notes

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The Devourer: Hunted Souls - Release Notes (Version 0.4.0) Date: October, 26th 2023

New Features

• Introducing Story Chapter 1 with new items, locations, puzzles, story elements and more to explore!
• Added different start to game and changed some locations for demo players to have something new!
• Added new gadget: the Paranormal Radar
• Added new functionality to EMF Type Reader: Multilingual Speech Recognition
• Added the possibility to respawn certain items if you lose them
• Added a group inventory on the clipboard for shared items
• Added DLSS 3
• Added FSR 2.2
• Added Steam Achievements
• Added option to remap keys on keyboard
• Added Bodycam intensity slider
• Added VHS effect checkbox
• Added option to turn off chromatic aberration
• Added option to disable bloom
• Added chromatic aberration intensity slider
• Added voice chat device input selection
• Added renaming save files
• Added option to “untoggle” Sprint in VR
• Added a "shared notes" section to the task clipboard

Gameplay Improvements

• Jumping out of crouching is enabled now
• Interacting with an item when your hands are free makes to take the item directly into your hand now
• Interacting in VR is more convenient now
• Less intense head bob, the other one was really strong making people mostly feel nauseous
• Climbing ladders is now a possibility
• When multiple interactable elements were in your line of sight you interacted with them all - now items have higher priority making interactions much more convenient
• VR players have lines that show where they point at now
• VR players have smaller item slots now, preventing them from interacting with their items unwillingly

General Changes

• Changed AI damage and speeds (depending on difficulty)
• AI behaviour balancing changes (depending on difficulty)
• Stamina affects your sprinting speed now, the more you sprint at once, the slower you become over time
• New Tutorial
• Shannon’s ability cooldown has been incereased
• Tau’s ability sprint speed has been reduced
• Task clipboard has pages now
• Characters will heal over time if you’re lower than half your health (except on Devourer Mode difficulty)
• Changed character movement in general, more realistic acceleration and jump heights
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug that made Shannon’s ability useless
• Fixed a bug that still made language selection not work after a restart
• Fixed a bug that made some items get stuck in your hands making them unusable
• Fixed a bug that disabled camera movement after using an interactable
• Fixed a bug that looped the ambient of the death area on everyone after one person was sent there
• Fixed a bug that caused timeouts and sent people to the lobby
• Fixed a bug that made your character mesh stay invisible when you were interacting with stuff and entities catch you
• Fixed a bug where VR players didn’t actually crouch
• Removed ingame chat due to it causing bugs, will come back later

Known Issues:

• Lobbies of different regions can’t be seen: To fix this, change the Download Region in your Steam settings to your friend’s, use Steam’s invitation system or the invitation system inside the game
• Clients disconnecting cause the whole lobby to close
• Rarely, Save Games become corrupted and disappear
• Introduction Video/Audio might get out of sync
• Introduction Video and credits video can lag / not play
• Items can be stuck in your hip inventory without being accessible
• Character hair sometimes go crazy
• Some abilities don't work in VR yet
• Sometimes, notes are not shown on clients
• Landscape collisions are sometimes not accurate