A big thank you to everyone who has tried the Silver Pines demo and provided us with feedback in the Steam Forums or in the Silver Pines Discord. It's extremely helpful to hear what you all think at this stage.
We've just put out a patch for the demo that introduces some bugfixes and changes requested by the community. This includes a fix for the performance issues some players have been experiencing when streaming the game.
Read the full patch notes below for more information.
Default Display type updated to 'Exclusive Fullscreen', should provide improve performance especially while streaming*
Added option to disable film grain effect in 'Display' options, which should also help with video stream performance
Update to video transcoding to remedy issues where video playback, should fix getting stuck on black screen bug
Fix for mouse cursor not being locked to the borders of the game application on multi monitor setups
Added new messy death animations for enemies when killed by bigger weapons (such as the shotgun)
Combat / danger ambience intensified
Crawler enemies have been rebalanced to be more interesting to fight and made slightly more visible
Fixed take item input event sometimes triggering incorrectly when picking up new item
Fix melee weapon item panel not being refreshed correctly on game reload
Fix getting stuck on the stairs inside the rabbit hole bar
Fix getting stuck underneath the boardwalk
Skip duplicate voiceover lines triggering multiple times (for example, ringing the bell is rung over and over)
Enemies should no longer camp the bottom of the stairs inside the motel shop
Improvements to enemies death animations when they are killed while trying to get back up from knockdown
Inline text hints now correctly read rebound keys.
Various typos and wording fixes
Fix 'press any button' intro page not responding to all buttons.
* We have had multiple reports of players experiencing performance degradation over time and this seems to mostly be caused by streaming the game, such as when sharing the game on Discord or recording with OBS. This seems to be an issue with Windows and running the Unity applications in Borderless Windowed mode, so we are testing out a change here to default the game to 'Exclusive Fullscreen' instead. If you stream the game using Discord, OBS, or similar software and experience performance degradation over time, make sure you are using either Exclusive Fullscreen or Maximized Window. You may also see improvements in this by making sure you are running the latest drivers.