[V2.1] MAJOR UPDATE

major update

The Escape: Together · published · build 25171956

[2.1] MAJOR UPDATEHello there! Long time no see.We've prepared a major update focused on smoother gameplay, improved visuals, and a more immersive experience. This patch introduces in-game voice chat, a completely revamped user interface, new camera effects, and more.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
KEY FEATURES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[+] IN-GAME VOICE CHATYou can now communicate with other players using in-game voice chat.Voice chat uses positional audio, meaning voices change depending on where players are located and whether there are obstacles between you. You can choose between Push-To-Talk and Voice Activity modes.Be careful not to move too far away from your teammates, or you might not be able to hear them.Voice chat works both in-game and in the lobby.[+] COMPLETELY REVAMPED USER INTERFACEThe user interface has been fully reworked and now includes many quality-of-life improvements.This update brings adjusted settings, invite notifications, an improved in-lobby view, and more.[+] NEW CAMERA EFFECTS WHILE MOVINGWe've added new camera movement effects while the player moves, making gameplay feel more natural and immersive.[+] PERSISTENT LOBBYYour lobby now stays active after finishing or leaving a map, so you no longer need to reinvite players. The host can select the next map, while other players can vote for it.[+] FALLEN TEAMMATE INVENTORYOnce a teammate dies, you can now open their inventory and take their items.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
VISUAL / SOUND CHANGES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[+] New crucifix effect
[+] New spawn effect
[+] New footstep sounds depending on the surface
[+] New immersive ghost footsteps
[+] Added default slots for flashlight, backpack, and journal in the player UI
[+] New localizations
[+] Added a visible stamina bar
[+] New ghost appear/disappear effect
[+] New ghost reaction when hit by a crucifix━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
FIXES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[-] Fixed inventory slots occasionally disappearing
[-] Fixed an issue where a player dying could end the session for the remaining alive players
[-] Fixed translation errors
[-] Fixed an issue where the pentagram sequence could get stuck if the item was taken too early
[-] Fixed an issue where the police call could get stuck if called during a hunt
[-] Fixed incorrect descriptions in the Guide panel in the lobby
[-] Fixed incorrect camera effects in spectator mode
[-] Fixed ghost animations not matching the ghost’s current movement speed
[-] Fixed generator controls getting out of sync when used by multiple players━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
CHANGES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[~] Increased the player stamina cap
[~] Increased player movement speed while sprinting
[V2.1] MAJOR UPDATE · The Escape: Together patch notes · SteamPeaks