Update 0.15 is Now Available!

Update 0.15 is now available for all players to enjoy!

This update brings brand new gameplay mechanics, a new and improved checkpoint system for more efficiently saving level progression, a significant amount of bug fixes and polish, and a major overhaul to Chapter 1 that bolsters and supports our design plans for SCP: 5K moving forward (if you wish to read more about this please check out our Affray Interactive Studio Update for Fall 2024 devblog post).SCP: 5K is also currently on sale for 20% off—now is a great time to hop in with some friends!

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You can find the full in-depth patch notes below:

0.15 PATCH NOTES

CONTENT

• New Areas
  • 3199 Nest
  • Parking Garage
  • Area 12 Reception and staging labs

• Overhauled Areas
  • Overhauled logistics area

• Creatures
  • 3199 babies (environmental)
  • Added burning zombies

• Weapons
  • Added GM6 Lynx (in the game but not in the campaign yet!)
  • Added MP9
  • Added AK-DRACO

• Lore
  • Added several lore documents to Area 12 Chapter 1

• Other
  • Added tablet (utility item)
  • Added Dark GOC skin (Hunt and PVP only for now)

GAMEPLAY

• Added Shootable Fire Extinguishers which block AI and player vision
• Added Cosmetic system for modifying body type, skin color, gear presets and patches
• Added investigation system, allowing you to reveal the locations of items around you
• Added Watch to UIU characters, allowing you to see your health without HUD
• Added the ability to load into an unlocked checkpoint from the main menu (please note that you must activate each checkpoint before it becomes available in the chapter select UI)
• Added headshot multipliers to Resonators
• Added max hits per attack to melee weapons, to balance melee weapons with large concentrations of enemies
• Reduced pickup time on consumables
• Improved physics assets for gore
• Added path for spawns to come from upper area in Wave Survival
• Added respawn point before dock loading area in Logistics Area 12 Chapter 1
• Added several hidden and modded weapon pickups in Area 12 Chapter 1
• Added back some secret areas to Area 12 Chapter 1
• Added hidden armory to Area 12 Chapter 2
• Adjusted testing level to include new weapons
• Added several ammo cabinets to Area 12 Chapter 1

3D

• Added new GOC Skin
• Added MP9
• Added GM6 Lynx
• Added AKS-74u
• Added Tape Recorder
• Added SCP Tablet
• Added Interactable Vehicles
• Added Civilian Characters
• Added new Scientist Meshes
• Updated First Person Hand Meshes for Guards
• Updated First Person Hand Meshes for UIU
• Fixed 360J LOD Issues

AI

• Reworked SCP-173-B AI
  • Behaviors for investigation, stalking, flanking and aggression
  • Better designer control over SCP-173-B’s behavior, allowing more interesting sequences
  • Added specific targeting of isolated players for SCP-173-B

• Improved Resonator AI
  • Added resonator jumping
  • Improved investigation
  • Improved the viability of stealth against Resonators

• Improved SCP-098 Attacks
  • Added additional attacks to SCP-098
  • Improved blending after attacks in SCP-098

• Improved SCP-3199 AI
  • Added new attacks for SCP-3199
  • Added eating functionality to SCP-3199
  • Reduced desired angle for SCP-3199 Charging
  • Improved 3199 Physics

• Improved Infector AI
  • Added “Fake Death” to infectors, allowing them to get back up after appearing dead
  • Added additional "charge" attacks to zombies for more variation and telegraphing
  • Improved zombie locomotion blending
  • Improved Infector look direction

• Overhauled Guard/D-Class AI
  • More defined underlying state machine to improve variability in behavior
  • Improved investigation
  • Improved Idle look, looking at dangers, nearby cover, and interest points
  • More states and events for glimpsing, receiving suppression, sound and damage
  • More reliable detection

• Slightly reduced decay time on Screen Anomaly detection/attack

Audio

• Overhauled and Improved Game Mix
  • Rebalanced game mix overall; we recommend setting all volumes to 100% and tweaking only the master volume
  • Audio volumes are now set to 100% by default
  • Added special mix states when important dialogue or sounds occur
  • Added special mix state when game is paused
  • Fixed attenuation and spatialization problems on various sounds
  • Fixed certain sounds overlapping each other nastily
  • Fixed various sounds overpowering the game mix
  • Made occlusion slightly less aggressive (overhaul of occlusion system to happen in a future patch)

• New and Updated Audio: Weapons and Combat
  • Added dynamic audio layers to majority of firearms (remaining ones soon to be updated)
  • Added improved bullet whizzes and cracks
  • Added ricochet audio for bullet impacts in close proximity
  • Added new sounds for the tactical knife
  • Improved some gun handling sounds
  • Improved how gunshots stack during large combat situations

• New and Updated Audio: Characters and SCPs
  • Added new vocal sounds for SCP-3199
  • Added new movement and idle sounds for SCP-173-B
  • Added new player character foley sounds: jumping and landing (concrete and wood, more surfaces soon), new tile and concrete footsteps, and interaction gestures
  • Added sounds to some Infector animations
  • Fixed player leaning sound not playing

• New and Updated Audio: Interactions and Items
  • Added sounds for various item pickups (crowbars, keys, keycards, valves)
  • Added sounds for crowbar prying interactions
  • Added sounds for chainlink fence gates
  • Added new sounds for large blast doors and wooden doors
  • Added new sounds for in-world development notes
  • Added new sounds for keypads

• New and Updated Audio: Ambience and Environment
  • Added soundscape, reverb and footsteps in vents and added new vent fan sound
  • Added new room tones and music in Area 12 Chapter 1 Interrogation area
  • Added sound to vent falling near starting area
  • Improved environmental reverb in various locations of the game
  • Fixed various fires missing their sounds

• New and Updated Audio: UI, Music, and Other Fixes
  • Added dynamic music tracks for some encounters and scripted sequences
  • Added new sounds for game menu UI
  • Fixed bad looping on various sounds and music tracks
  • Fixed bad noise floor on various sounds
  • Fixed various sounds cutting off strangely

• Addressed various other problems
  • Improved crossfading between roomtones
  • Improved randomization of various ambient sounds
  • Fixed sound origin and attachment on various game objects
  • Fixed door squid heartbeat sound playing incorrectly
  • Fixed door opening and closing sounds playing from the incorrect time under some circumstances
  • Fixed mission success or fail music playing too long across level transitions or into the main menu

VISUALS

• Updated Night Vision Post Processing
• Added optional simple third person blending for item animation
• Added Optional Body Cam filter
• Added camera shake to grenade explosion
• Improved Damage screen effects to be more clear
• Added brief first person death camera when you die
• Made muzzle flash particle lights affect translucency
• Improved Dismemberment, Blood ballistics and blood effects
• Improved recoil roll noise
• Reduced screen shake with compensated weapons

UI/UX

• Added subtitles for all spoken dialogue in the game
• Updated text in map select to show when you are restarting or restarting from checkpoint
• Added early start after a timer if more than half of players are ready
• Added depth of field to video settings
• Added SSGI to video settings
• Added setting to video settings for upscaler auto exposure (On can have less smearing in darker areas, Off can have less artifacting)
• Added the ability to see the effect of attachments in the loadout and attachment menu
• Allowed coordinates in teleport command
• Made return to main menu text clearer and not appear when there was no reason
• Added controller navigation for modify and team select
• Added customizable and controller keybind for showing scoreboard
• Added more info to respawn requirements UI

OPTIMIZATION

• Optimized particle effects:
  • Smoke material
  • Smoke streaks material
  • Fire particles
  • Laser particles
  • Ceiling dust materials
  • Sprinkler particles and materials
  • Trails, dismemberment and barrel smoke particles
  • Bullet impact particles collision and bounds

• Optimized FPSItem pickups
• Optimized tick on gore component
• Optimized lighting on third person attachments
• Optimized Leaves and Education center textures
• Optimized unnecessary Texture resolution
• Optimized TP shadows for characters
• Optimized Unreal Engine Cloth initialization to allow many characters with cloth physics at once
• Optimized Unreal visible decal gathering
• Optimized Screen Anomaly particles when not visible, drastically improving performance in education center for some systems
• Optimized some lights in education center
• Added fade out to flashlight
• Disabled tick on gore component by default
• Removed tick from objects that don't need it
• Reduced skeletal mesh tick on doors
• Disabled update overlaps on skel mesh anim finalize
• Reduced overall file size of the game
• Implemented Significance system, allowing for better performance for distant or occluded characters
• Optimized characters on dedicated server by detaching unused components for characters
• Optimized some object’s LOD settings for performance
• Optimized several streaming volume to reduce hitching between level transitions

FIXES

• Moved Items and electronics to use push model networking
• Fixed Items falling through the floor after moving away
• Fixed self shadow only on first person arms - weapons can now cast shadows on arms and vice versa
• Fixed Various AI falling through the map when their map section was unloaded
• Fixed bullet hit decal showing after breaking glass
• Fixed electronic OnEnabled etc functions being called multiple times, leading to of effects and spawns in some places
• Fixed AISpawnAreas not disabling immediately if loading classes
• Fixed a bug where AI would return to investigating after combat
• Fixed a bug where Enemies would become stuck after attacking
• Fixed a common DX12 crash resulting from gore component deinitializing during a texture update
• Improved Ammunition networking:
  • Added Ammo restoration after server rejected shots to prevent large ammo desyncs
  • Added server>client ammo sync at end of reloads
  • Added client unloaded item handling/waiting to weapon data widget
  • Added server client magazine sync on weapon spawn
  • Fixed Infinite false shots due to network desync

• Fixed reload while sprinting setting being inverted
• Lowered server default memory usage by up to 40% by reducing default loaded assets and hard references
• Disabled FMOD occlusion traces outside of listener radius
• Fixed resonator glitches on head rotation
• Fixed flashlight not networking as client
• Fixed admin menu button not always appearing when hosting
• Fixed empty reload on shotguns not removing a round (giving you infinite ammo)
• Finally fixed the issue of the inputs specifying "point shotting" instead of "point shooting"
• Fixed host disappearing on clients when customizing
• Moved Attachments to use data assets, Allowing asynchronous loading, reducing memory usage and load time for items
• Fixed bullet impacts not showing at range
• Fixed SCP3199 Animations Not Playing In Area 12
• Fixed resolution scale not resetting correctly after disabling some upscalers
• Fixed bullet casings not playing a sound after hitting a wall
• Fixed ballistic hit animation not playing on zombies
• Fixed solid roughness on containers
• Fixed missing reflection captures in logistics
• Fixed voice chat component location not networking correctly
• Fixed game being able to start while a player was in customization
• Fixed display items showing on clients while customizing
• Fixed breakable glass not displaying correctly after being unloaded and reloaded
• Fixed Map vote not always using the correct voted for map
• Fixed incorrect text showing during map vote after failing in wave survival
• Halved SAI cover generation cost based on constant cover direction
• Fixed Health and item UI disappearing after restarting a match
• Fixed some mistakes in the Game’s credits
• Fixed respawn requirements not showing correctly on clients due to update order issues
• Fixed Items not disappearing on clients when picked up
• Fixed KD ratio not displaying as fraction
• Fixed sign text not displaying correctly on low graphics settings
• Fixed crash in FMOD anim notify on dedicated server
• Fixed a bug where the sky in Antarctica would display incorrectly
• Fixed AI getting stuck on reload task
• Fixed DLSS always being enabled by default due to a load order issue
• Fixed screen anomaly hallucinations not always being removed correctly
• Fixed screen anomaly not always following the player correctly
• Fix for ammo pickups not granting ammo (but still getting picked up) if only your current mag was missing ammo
• Enabled duplicate checking for FPS ballistics effects, improving performance in large gunfights
• Fixed 3199 animating and playing audio after death
• Improved MRAP truck’s collision
• Removed LAMG from Heavy Soldiers loadouts
• Fixed certain angled concrete materials that had visual errors
• Fixed certain partially opened shutterdoors that did not close to the correct state
• Fixed some shutterdoors that were not centered correctly in their blueprint
• Fixed some Lightmass importance volumes being incorrectly scaled in Pt1
• Fixed incorrect material usage on some overhead light objects
• Fixed missing collision on some junction box assets
• Fixed 173-B spawning twice in generator area in Part1
• Removed some Ivy assets player collision
• Fixed some concrete pillars lacking collision
• Fixed some missized streaming volumes which caused level to load out incorrectly
• Removed navigation properties of some ceiling assets
• Fixed pipe valve puzzle in water treatment area
• Fixed guards running down large vines in Panopticon
• Fixed several floating assets in Part 1 and in Outpost Axiom
• Fixed steam burst shortcut being exploitable to skip large amounts of content
• Fixed collision on several pipe assets
• Fixed elevator button being usable in dorms before players have first traveled to prison
• Removed several ammo/health meshes that were not actual pickups
• Fixed several assets with incorrect collision types in Part 1
• Fixed some zombie spawn zones on Antarctica
• Fixed several several ammo/health pickups that did not restore their resource
• Fixed looping body fall animations on guard corpses in part 2
• Fixed walls with no collision in water treatment area
• Fixed situation where SCP-098 in in prison would not get released correctly
• Adjusted water treatment respawn location to be further from SCP-098
• Fixed firefight between guards and D-Class to not happen prematurely
• Fixed mousepads being emissive when they should not be
• Several areas with invisible walls were justified with props in part 2
• Fixed Antarctica generators not having correct indicator lighting in some circumstances

NOTABLE KNOWN ISSUES

• Player feet will float into the air when standing still in an elevator
• Some zombies will have trouble pathfinding through doorways on dedicated servers
• Shutters will occasionally appear as open when they are closed on dedicated servers
• Players cannot check their watch when their weapon is empty
• Resonators will occasionally get stuck on some geometry
• Map select will occasionally appear empty
• Players can encounter a duplicate SCP-173-B in intro cells
• Steam deck users cannot access the tablet using default keybinds
• New keybinds may appear as empty
• Journal tips will appear as the old keybind J - you can use 4 to open the new tablet!
• Dead SCP-3199 instances sometimes appear frozen standing up
• Players can get stuck in various places when vaulting
• Enemies can get stuck when jumping into “The Pit” in Area 12 Chapter 1
• When loading into many maps in one session, lighting may appear corrupted
• Some melee enemies can headshot the player, dealing much more damage than they are supposed to
• Zombies do not react to the alarm in Antarctica

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We hope you all enjoy playing the update!

-Affray Interactive Development Team

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