Fixes and improvements

Nights Out 3:33 Playtest · published · build 26385751

Contract

  • One job item for the whole crew. Contracts now ask you to steal one specific job item instead of a pile of loot.
  • The job item rattles. It makes noise while you move with it. Guards close enough will hear it and come to check, so plan your route and decide who carries it.
  • You can drop the job item. Hide it, hand it to a teammate, or leave it behind to make a run for it and come back later.

Guards

  • Guard sounds always take priority. Footsteps, breathing and voice lines no longer cut out when a lot is going on around you (rain, storms, other players), so you can always hear a guard coming.
  • Visible flashlight and walkie-talkie. You can now see where a guard's beam comes from, and the walkie-talkie helps tell guards apart from players.
  • The crowbar no longer alerts the whole map. Only guards within earshot (about 70 m) hear a forced door and come to check - but the door stays broken, and any guard who finds it will know someone was there.

Security cameras

  • Warnings only for players being watched. The marker above a camera is now shown only to players inside the area it watches.
  • Cameras sound an alarm. When a camera spots a player for long enough, it sounds an alarm that comes from the camera and fades with distance, so the crew can tell where things went wrong. It stops once a guard checks the camera.

Loot

  • Unique items are rarer in valuable zones. Highly valuable zones are still the best place to find them.

Interactions

  • Searching holds your view. Searching a container now turns your view to it and keeps it there while you search, just like picking a lock.

Main menu and audio

  • Main menu ambience is back. Its volume is controlled by a slider in the audio settings.
  • Sound tweaks. Adjusted guard voice lines and ambient buzzing sounds.

Fixes

  • Fixed the interaction prompt (e.g. on doors) disappearing when another player walked into your character or stood in your line of sight.
  • Fixed the info panel of job items.