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Development Update 2/16/25

Added 2025-02-17 01:50:17 +0000 UTC

Here’s what we’ve been up to:

Added New CM Smile Encounter Puzzle: Added in new Smile encounter environment puzzle into the Prologue from the full release. Tentative for now, but likely making it into the prologue release. (Animations planned for next week!)
Continued Level Streaming & General Optimization: Continued implementing optimized streaming for faster load times and smoother transitions across all levels and areas in the Prologue. Also continued making general optimization tweaks (reduced models & lumen setting tweaks mainly).
Started Draft Final Prologue Builds: Started final draft builds for the Prologue! Finished the first few builds, fixed various errors, and started initial dev-only bug testing.
UI Screen FX Optimization: Optimized UI screen FX by simplifying shaders and baking out textures. Now more performant than previous videos!
Improved Settings: Added in more lumen related settings, made graphics presets more straightforward, added in more settings notes, tweaked initial settings, added in changeable keybinds, and various setting tweaks to more general settings (shadow/reflection/overall lumen quality settings).
Bug fixes: Squashed ~20 smaller & bigger bugs in the Prologue build. (mainly related to new CM Puzzle)

Upcoming Focus:

New CM Smile Encounter Animations: Finish first drafts of animations for the newly added Smile encounter in the Prologue.
Finish Up Dev-Only Bug Testing: Finalize dev-only bug testing and start general bug testing with the debugging team.
Optimization: General optimization to squeeze out as much performance as possible as well as improve level streaming setup.