Hey all!

In case it wasn't clear yet, we're going to be pushing Content Update 3 back. Why? Because We're making it bigger. How much bigger?


As I write this, the game is undergoing a complete visual overhaul, including a completely redesigned UI, new buildings, environment assets, and more! There will also be a revamped New Player Experience with 4 new maps, on top of the 9 new maps we were already planning to add this update. We have also been doing many passes on existing levels to improve flow and usage of game mechanics.

We're not sure how far back this is going to push Content Update 3, but we'll give you an update when we have a better estimate! Also stay tuned for sneak peeks Soon 👀

Thanks for sticking with us through Early Access! Your feedback has helped make the game far better than it could have been without you. You've inspired us to go big.

-A

Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!

We are looking into problems with saves that cause S+ scores to be incorrectly unlocked in some levels.
Unless we figure out the above issue (or some other issue pops up), this will be our last patch before we release Content Update 3.

• Added Motivation Levels - This is part of a new mechanic we will be expanding upon in Content Update 3.
  
• Added a new graphics setting: Arms Resolution
  
• 🛑 Optimized health and points pickups to use object pooling
  
• 🛑 (tentatively) Fixed an issue with perfect jumps that caused inconsistent height
  
• Adjusted color grading on player arms
  
• 🛑 Hid certain entries from the Itemdex that should not exist in this version of the game
  
• Adjusted visuals of target waypoints
  
• Made some post process adjustments
  
• Fixed an issue that caused cutouts to function improperly in Orientation
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that could cause some dialogue to not properly trigger events or play when the HUD was hidden
  
• 🛑 Raptors max leap distance has been decreased
  
• Fixed some collision issues with Iris doors
  
• 🛑 Increased strength of FOV speed scaling
  
• Made the achievement “Skill Issue” easier to get
  
• Slowmo from breakable objects now only triggers when the player is moving at a high speed.

Hi all! Just wanted to pop in and give a lil' update! We missed last week's patch because Amber had a migraine. All. Week. She's better now though!

We're doing a TON of work on Content Update 3 right now, and things are going to get REALLY involved. As such, we're planning on doing ONE more bugfix patch before diverting ALL of our development hours solely on Content Update 3. We have huge plans for it, and it's gonna take a lot of work. Thank you for all your support; y'all are the best community ever. ❤️ We can't wait to share CU3 with you all!!

As a consolation prize, here's a funny thing I captured in the new Deathcam system!

😉

Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

• Fixed an issue that caused your own runs to have the wrong color on leaderboards.
  
• Changed Dev leaderboard entries to have a different color, as the one we were using is also used for runs you have challenged.

Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle.

• Field of View now scales slightly with speed. The degree to which this occurs can be changed in the “Accessibility” settings.
  
• Added new setting: “Speed FOV Scaling” in Accessibility
  
• The Ghost Customization UI has been changed. Options now appear in a grid with icons when you select the thing you want to customize
  
• Fixed several issues with UI input and gamepad/keyboard switching.
  
• Tooltips have had their visuals updated to match the look of the game. Tooltips now appear when using a gamepad.
  
• Improved performance of leaderboards and the Map Select screen by pooling score display widgets.
  
• Adjusted dropped weapon particle effects.
  
• 🛑 Added a new achievement: “Proud of you”. Unlocks Pride Trails.
  
• 🛑 Added 10 new ghost trails.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that could cause the “Jump Off” prompt on Grind Rails to not properly disappear.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that could cause the game to fail to function properly if a save game become corrupted.
  
• 🛑 Leaderboard runs from developer accounts now have special visuals and a “[DEV]” tag.
  
• 🛑 Grab/toss cooldown has been changed from 0.5s → 0.0s.
  
• 🛑 Items dropped by the player are now ungrabbable for 0.25s.
  
• 🛑 (Tentatively) fixed an issue that could cause Fire Mech to fly away into the sky.
  
• 🛑 “Forklift Certified” is now simply an achievement for defeating the forklift.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused the forklift to not take damage to the vehicle portion.
  
• 🛑❗ Fixed some issues that caused infinite points to be possible in some levels.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused the Input Display to sometimes fail to show an input.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused “Have At Thee!” to be unattainable. Sorry about that, Felipe.
  
• 🛑 A Zweihander has been placed in Colosseum.
  
• 🛑 Kai should stub her toe even less (fewer inconvenient wall bounces)
  
• 🛑 Adjusted the opening door in Hotline.

Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle.

• Fixed an issue that allowed the player to grab things through walls.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused small, fast-moving throwables to phase through certain things.
  
• Grabbing should be less likely to grab things off the screen.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused grabbing to sometimes be unresponsive.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused hats to have collision sometimes
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the “hardhat” hat to not fade out when close to the camera.
  
• Added a tutorial for Grind Rails in Highway.
  
• Added a tutorial for Advanced Usables in Light Step.
  
• Added an additional check to ensure auto-grab for dropped weapons only triggers when the player kills the enemy.
  
• Wall climb cooldown 0.15s -> 0.5s. This is not the nerf you think it is.
  
• Wall climb minimum duration 0.25s → 0.15s
  
• Wall climb maximum duration 0.5s → 0.3s
  
• The climb duration changes mean that climbing doesn’t go quite as far by default, but the next change makes up for it.
  
• 🛑 You can now “Climb Hop”. A new “Climb Hop” binding has been added in Input Settings. Climb Hopping has special animations, sound, and has chaining built in. Climb Hopping is a short boost upwards and in the direction of your movement input. If you are a “Hold Jump to Climb” user, this triggers on release of Jump, OR press of your Climb Hop binding. You can still hold backwards input or let the climb time out to perform the old climb jump.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue with Engineer that caused her to not properly cancel actions. Will this fix the getting stuck bug? Stay tuned, I guess.
  
• Light Step has been changed to be more friendly to new players.
  
• 🛑 Added a “Disable Easymode Prompt” option in UI settings.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused sample start text to be visible when the “Easy Mode” prompt appeared.
  
• 🛑 The player is no longer blocked by enemies, with one exception: Enforcer-class enemies still block the player.
  
• 🛑 Fixed paintings blocking the player when they should not.
  
• 🛑 The Anvil’s (and related throwable’s) grab boost now scales with distance to the player. This prevents an exploit that allowed for infinite aerial boosts.
  
• 🛑 The Anvil (and related throwables) no longer bounce as much.
  
• 🛑 Good Boy’s behavior should be more consistent after the phase change.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused Good Boy to take inconsistent damage after changing phase.
  
• Forcefield launcher vacuum effect (not the launch) speed has been doubled.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused perfect jumps to clamp your speed if you released jump before the perfect jump triggered.
  
• 🛑 (Tentatively) Fixed an issue that caused some enemies to be launched by explosions when they should not have.
  
• 🛑 The Level Start Safezone now gives a high acceleration value while the player is inside of it. (This removes the requirement for an instant double slide in many levels, making running them much more enjoyable)
  
• ❗🛑 Reworked routes in Gap.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused “But I Didn’t Stop Moving!!!!” to be impossible to get.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused ghosts to not properly display their visuals.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused “Collector” progress to appear too often.
  
• 🛑 Adjusted the placement and size of all win volumes. Improved win volume visuals.

• Undid the Sliding preventing Vault change because I changed my mind
  
• Fixed some problematic collisions in Museum

I'm going to go take a nap...

Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.
Wipes for affected leaderboards will happen after things have had time to settle.

1. Kai should now stub her toe less
   
2. Kai should be more gentle when dropping things now
   
3. Vault can no longer trigger while sliding
   
4. Walkable floor angle while sliding is now lower
   
5. Eased up on climb angle values
   
6. Good Boy no longer explodes barrels, damaging himself
   
7. Adjusted the placement of some meshes in In Motion
   
8. The Laser Sword had a larger damage zone after being thrown
   
9. Fixed paintings falling off into space when they take damage while held
   
10. Umbrella is MORE POWERFUL
    
11. Explosive barrels are now immune to Melee damage.
    
12. Easy Mode is now even easier
    
13. 🛑 Fixed focus loss and mouse loss issues with the new Easy Mode prompt.
    
14. ❗ Fixed an issue with Going Under that made it more skippable than it should be.
    
15. Removed an unnecessary button/door combo in Gap

Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!
Items with a ❗ emoji indicate that the change caused a leaderboard to be wiped.

• Added 7 new maps: Museum, Theft, Subway, Gap, Good Boy, The Fall, and Introductions.
  
• Added the Itemdex: As you find new items throughout the City, you will unlock a preview of them in the Itemdex. You can click on the items in the Itemdex to read up on them, inspect them, and view your usage stats. The Itemdex is locked behind the new achievement: “Collector”.
  
  
• Added Ghost Customization: Unlock new hats for your ghost, choose your ghost’s color, and choose from a selection of trails! Ghost Customization is locked behind the new achievement: “Caught the Bug”
  
  
• Added 18 new Achievements! 7 of these are hidden. One of them is the funniest one we’ve ever added.
  
• Added 1 new boss: Good Boy. He’s just a good little boy. Just a widdle guy. He just wants to pway :(
  
• Added 4 new enemy types: Raptor, Explosive Raptor, Laser Drone, and MOSQ1-T0-Class Combat Drone .
  
• Added a new sound that plays on player death.
  
• Added a new movement Mechanic.
  
• Added a new throwable: Shark Plush. He loves you.
  
• Added a new throwable: Baguette.

• Standing still now kills the player via damage rather than instant death. It is very fast. This is an early introduction for a mechanic we will expand upon.
  
• 🛑 Climbing has been adjusted. Climbing can now move at non-90-degree angles to a certain extent. Player aim no longer affects the angle at which the player is launched from the wall. Climb launching now has a 0.2s delay before the launch is actually initiated. Climbing can be canceled at any time without launching by initiating a slide. This change will screw with your muscle memory. Give it some time; climb-chaining is still possible. It’s just less jank. Please let me know if this change breaks any WRs in levels that have not already been wiped by this update.
  
• 🛑 Difficulty Selection has been reworked. There are now 3 modes: Normal (all game features enabled), Easy (Leaderboards disabled, but achievements and run saving still enabled), and Custom (replaces assist mode; disables run saving, leaderboards, and achievements.)
  
• 🛑 Difficulty can be changed from the pause menu, and it has been moved to the top of the Accessibility menu.
  
• A prompt to enable Easy Mode now appears if you die more than 15 times in a level.
  
• 🛑 Ghost recording frame rate: 10 → 30. This change will only apply to ghosts uploaded on this patch and later.
  
• 🛑 Kai now has a shadow at her feet.
  
• ❗* Several Levels have received gameplay adjustments: Going Under, Hallways, Take a Hit, In Motion, Keep Pace, Light Step. *Not all of these have been wiped.
  
• A number of levels have had adjustments to their throwable placement. There are some fun throwables that go unused in high-level runs that we wanted to see get more use, so they have been moved to more convenient locations.
  
• Ninjas now have more obvious visual effects when stunned after a dodge.
  
• Ninjas now have a slightly longer stun after dodging.
  
• 🛑 There is now a 0.2s quick window where you can auto-grab the last dropped weapon if you press grab immediately after an enemy dies (recommend against holding it before).
  
• Grab Attacks have new visual and audio effects when the player is grabbed.
  
• The achievement unlock widget now shows the achievement description and lasts longer.

• 🛑 Improved performance in Shipping.
  
• 🛑 Fixed an issue that caused sliding uphill to have a greater penalty than it should have.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused vault to trigger on surfaces it should not.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused slide bouncing to trigger on surfaces it should not.
  
• 🛑 Fixed a bug that could allow an S+ to unlock when it shouldn’t.
  
• 🛑 Fixed some issues with UI scaling on tutorial UIs
  
• Fixed an issue that caused health bar highlights to be inaccurate.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused suppressor mines to not shoot properly.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause the player to vault on vehicles.
  
• Improved vehicle damage consistency.

I’ve probably forgotten a lot of stuff too. Anyways… Enjoy!