Happy Holidays From Redacre
This marks the fourth update of The Blackout Club since entering early access. Thanks to all who have joined up to fight the forces menacing Redacre, hopefully you are having fun!
ENHANCED HORROR UPDATE
When you launch The Blackout Club, you will be asked whether you want to opt in to the Enhanced Horror System. This allows the game to listen to and record your vocalizations if you have a microphone active and use it to create the most immersive possible horror experience, both for you and other players. It will not affect your voice chat settings, you can still turn off the ability of fellow players to hear you (if you prefer a 3rd party voice application) without sacrificing the Enhanced Horror experience. Certain features such as the Ritual system require that you opt in to Enhanced Horror. Phobia warning: Paranormal Stimuli.
NOTE: This does NOT mean that the AI in game will hear your microphone. We have seen some confusion on this and want to make that clear.
A NEW MAZE AREA - DREAM THERAPY
We have added a fairly large addition to the maze that unlocks at Level 7. We hope you enjoy it and look forward to your feedback! What is its purpose? What happens in a sleeper's dreams?
GAMEPLAY CHANGES
There have been quite a few tweaks and adjustments to gameplay in this update, some of the largest are:
- The Cross Country major power track has been completely reworked as the Unstoppable power track. You activate this power by holding down the power button (R or RB on gamepad by default). For the next several seconds you are immune to being wounded, deploy at strategic moments to gain the upper hand! The only way to recharge the power is to experience pain (get wounded), bandages are your new best friend. We look forward to feedback on this power.
- Most major powers now have cooldowns! Prank call in particular has a long cool down to prevent it being too over powered and make its use feel more tactical and less reactive.
- The Prank Caller track is now the Hacker track. The ability to hack cameras and mines are now a part of the Hacker track and are no longer minor powers.
- New minor powers have been added. Some of them let you choose items to start a mission with.
- Leveling rates have been adjusted. Leveling at higher levels should now be faster.
- The Shape has become more dangerous. Once you are past level 5 the shape will be a more formidable adversary (we didn't want to crush brand new playters). In addition, it has some new surprises for players who make it too angry.
- A NEW THREAT: SPEED TRAPS. The meddling kids are too fast! Now there are motion activated traps that will zap any kid moving fast and reckless enough. Watch out for their telltale red laser pattern.
- NEW MISSION: FOAM PARTY. Speaking of those nasty Speed Traps, a mission has been added to run around and hit a bunch of them with big goopy blobs of foam. Shuts 'em right down. They think they can slow down The Club? Think again.
- Totally redesigned options and system UI. We finally replaced the old temp UI for options and system menus for something that should be cleaner to navigate and much nicer to look at!
- AND MUCH MORE....
This update had a lot in it, these are just the big changes. Lots of other adjustments to balance, powers and many, many fixes also went in. To see the full list take a look here on the forums.
Thanks again to everyone who has supported us in early access! Your feedback is invaluable to making this game the best it can be. We are always listening and we hope you have a wonderful and happy holiday. See you in Redacre (watch out for Stalkers).
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