0.25.0 - One Dot Oh

Hazard Pay Playtest · published

New Features

  • Choice Mode Focus - Level complete screen now highlights the focused report card and dims the other when choosing between rescue
    thresholds
  • Dialogue Camera Focus - Dialogue can now pan the camera to important items during conversations
  • Liquidator Leaderboard - New leaderboard category for completing levels with no surviving scientists
  • Leaderboard Context - Score tabs now show category descriptions and your rank percentile among friends
  • Replay Tape Labels - Replay tapes now show sector, level, and move count
  • Resolution Settings - Choose window resolution from integer scale options in the settings menu
  • Haptic Feedback Overhaul Controller detection ensures vibration only fires when using a gamepad
  • Door Anticipation - Walk through a closed door when a creature's next move will open it
  • Editor Improvements - Wire X-Ray overlay, keyboard shortcuts for mode switching, shift+click line hints, and status bar tooltips
  • Pool Track Repeats - Music tracks can now repeat before transitioning, with shuffle preventing back-to-back duplicates
  • Collector Animation - Collector creature now has an idle pulsation animation with synced eye movement

Bug Fixes

  • Ending Sequence Fix - Resolved a race condition where the helicopter could disappear during the ending sequence
  • Recipe Safety - Fixed a bug where interacting with certain objects could incorrectly kill the player
  • Electrical System - Scanners now properly power down when a scientist on them is removed via blood bridge vaporization
  • Speech Bubble Timing - pauses in dialogue now trigger correctly at word boundaries
  • Tentacle Tracking - Multiple tentacles on the same button no longer lose tracking when one retracts
  • Wire Connections - Copy/paste and delete/undo now preserve intentional wire layouts instead of auto-connecting everything
  • Window Handling - Changing settings no longer resets window position; multi-monitor support improved
  • Steam Leaderboard Stability - Eliminated deadlock that could freeze leaderboard downloads after ~30 minutes
  • Editor Undo Key Repeat - Holding Ctrl+Z now correctly undoes one action per keypress instead of rapid-firing
  • Credits Panel Layout - Fixed layout stretching and alignment issues in credits and settings panels
  • Truck Rendering - Fixed truck front fence rendering on top of items and shader clipping in editor

Performance

  • Shader Optimization - Palette quantization shader now runs at base resolution with a lookup table replacing per-pixel color matching

Removed

  • Level name no longer shown in Steam Rich Presence status
  • Removed failed score upload retry system — replay the level to re-submit