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Angels Cove Quality Update — Stability, Performance, and Polish

Angels Cove · published 1 Aug 2026, 12:52 UTC

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The island has been quiet. We haven’t.

A substantial Angels Cove quality update is now live, focused on stability, performance, and overall polish. This work was overdue, and we’re committed to giving the original game the care it should have received sooner.

UPDATE — AUGUST 3, 2026

The first-session brightness and color issue noted in our support thread has been addressed in the current public build.

VERIFIED CHANGES

STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

- Improved overall stability and resolved a shutdown crash that could occur after using the Options menu.
- Reduced save-restoration overhead and removed an unnecessary Windows Firewall prompt.

PROGRESSION AND SAVES

- Added compatibility support for existing saves, preserving checkpoints, inventory, equipment, collectibles, and story progress.
- Added recovery from valid backup data when a progress or inventory save is damaged.
- Corrected Continue behavior, saved-world restoration, and scene transitions throughout the game.
- Expanded save coverage at important progression points so completed story events remain completed.

GAMEPLAY

- Corrected progression blockers and restored doors, pickups, puzzles, one-time events, and other world states properly when continuing a game.
- Resolved several sequencing issues across the Outside, House, Cave-Hospital, and Credits portions of the game.
- Adjusted beach running speed, increased flashlight brightness, and improved note examination.

CONTROLS AND UI

- Corrected the Sensitivity and Volume controls and improved master-volume behavior.
- Improved loading feedback and corrected reticle and cinematic-bar visibility.
- Improved localization setup and text rendering for supported languages.

AUDIO AND VISUALS

- Corrected missing, interrupted, or incorrectly repeated audio across several scenes and story sequences.
- Improved high-quality graphics presentation, including storm clouds, moon visibility, shadows, anti-aliasing, reflections, lighting, and selected visual effects.

We’ll monitor reports closely over the next seven days. If you encounter an issue, please include where it happened, what you were doing immediately beforehand, and whether you were loading an existing save or starting fresh. Reproduction steps, screenshots, and video are helpful when available.

Please report quality-update issues in the pinned Angels Cove Quality Update — Bug Reports and Known Issues discussion.

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