Thanks to everyone playing GRAVE SHIFT and sending us feedback. This hotfix addresses rendering, early-run progression, boss balance and controls, and lets you get your first weapon upgrades earlier.
Performance and visuals
- Lowering the game resolution now lowers the world's rendering resolution. Previously, the world could keep rendering at a higher resolution despite the selected setting. This targets unnecessary GPU load, particularly on lower-end hardware.
- Fixed displaced flashlight/fog effects at lower resolutions that could look like an additional light cone near the screen edges.
- Prewarmed Grave Hands to reduce the hitch on its first cast.
- Extended ground and scenery beyond room gates so the map edge does not end inside the camera view, including the fixed opening area.
- Fixed the lamp beam appearing over the Keeper's coat when the lamp is behind his body, across idle, aiming, walking and running.
- Fixed characters appearing to clip through Kowalski's workbench and Morgana's desk.
- Reduced the brightness of the post-boss whiteout by 50%.
- Relighting the lamp during the opening mine-shaft scene no longer reveals or refreshes the Skip hint.
Controls
- Added Controls as the final tab in Settings.
- Added Always Show Cursor, defaulting to Off. With it off, the cursor stays hidden during gameplay, dialogue and document/photo reading; menus and selectable UI still show it when using mouse and keyboard.
- Added Confine Cursor to Window, enabled by default. Switching away from the game releases confinement.
- Controller input hides the cursor regardless of Always Show Cursor. Prompts follow the last input device, switching back for mouse/keyboard.
Boss balance
- Hollow King: reduced total reinforcements from 17 to 13, roughly 25% fewer.
- Hound boss fight: removed the Brute from his reinforcements.
- Hound tyrant pursuits: attack wind-ups and cooldowns are 15% longer, and attack damage is halved.
Boons
- Retuned damage and matching descriptions for Kindling, Hot Lead, Foul Rounds, Verdigris, Restless Dead and Raven's Eye to cleaner 5% steps.
- Raven's Eye now starts at 60%, rather than 59%.
Comparisons against other weapons continue to reflect their actual damage.
Kowalski and your first upgrades
- Kowalski now offers weapon upgrades during the run in which you rescue him, instead of making you wait until the hub.
Progression and stability
- Fixed abandoning the opening run before Morgana's first battle permanently preventing her introduction and Kowalski's later rescue from appearing.
- Fixed save errors after abandoning a run that had visited a puzzle room.
- Added recovery for runs left partially resolved by that abandonment issue.
- Existing saves keep their progression, Ash and purchased upgrades.
Audio
- Added background music to the opening tutorial courtyard.
Thanks again for helping us improve the game. If you run into an issue, please open a Steam discussion thread.