Hello burglars,

A brand-new regular update is here for Dark Hours! It brings new seasonal customizations, emotes, dance, and more. Here’s a look at the latest additions and improvements.


Celebrate Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year with exclusive, limited-time items! Deck out your character with stylish glasses, backpacks, and headwear to become the most fashionable burglar around. Let's complete some contracts to earn enough cash and grab these trending items!

These festive customizations will only be available until February 25, so don’t miss your chance to grab them before they’re gone.

Reminder: As previously mentioned, the Christmas customizations are no longer available. Keep an eye out for future seasonal items!


Bring some playful competition to your heists! The classic Rock-Paper-Scissors emote is now available. Ready to bet your share of the loot on a quick match?

Who says burglars can’t keep up with the trends? Show off your moves with the Kemusan dance, perfect for adding some flair to your next heist.


And also:

• A new cinematic intro for Museum missions.
  
• You can now ban multiple monsters in game settings.
  
• Hide the HUD for cleaner screenshots – time to capture your best moments!
  
• Hosts can now kick or ban players in both public and private lobbies.
  
• General fixes and improvements (monster improvements, customization now accessible from the main menu, room names are now correctly displayed on all doors, and more...)

Check out the full patch notes below for more details!


We’d love to hear your thoughts about this update! Whether it’s feedback, suggestions, or bug reports, you can share them with us on our Discord[discord.com] and the Steam forums. Your input helps us make Dark Hours even better!

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See ya!
Raven

• Banshee Improvements:
  - Frozen player Fix: Fixed a bug where the Banshee would attack a player from anywhere on the map if they had been frozen.
  - Banshee 2nd phase: Fixed a bug where the Banshee would attack the player immediately after screaming if it did not have the player in sight.
  - Dash Banshee: Fixed a bug where the Banshee could dash infinitely in the hallways during its 3rd phase. Now, it can no longer dash more than twice.
  
• Blind Ghoul Improvements:
  - Door sound Fix: The Blind Ghoul now correctly ignores the sound of doors it opens itself.
  
• Stone Stalker Improvements:
  - Stone Stalkers are now correctly immobile when they are positioned one behind the other.

• Doors Fix: You can now open doors from the inside if you managed to enter through a vent or if one of your teammates locked you in.
  
• Electric doors locked fix: A door requiring electricity or hacking device can now also be opened from the inside but will close again once the player moves away from it.
  
• Defibrillator fix: Fixed a bug where a player put to sleep by a tranquilizer dart and revived by a defibrillator would retain the dart's effects (slowed voice, snoring, black vignette) when they should not.

• Items spawn in the starting room: Defibrillator & extinguisher can no longer spawn in the first room to prevent potential softlocks.
  
• Room Name: The room name is now displayed on both sides of the doors.
  
• Van windows: Applied the rain shader to the van's windows.
  
• Museum Improvement:
  - Mammoth Skeletons collision Fix: Fixed the collision preset of the mammoth skeleton, which could prevent the statues from properly seeing the player.
  - Museum pillar collision Fix: To prevent any softlocks, it is no longer possible to throw objects on top of the pillars in the museum.
  - Shelves collider in museum's restoration rooms fix: It is now possible to crouch under the shelves in the restoration room.
  
• Room Name: The room name is now displayed on both sides of the doors.
  
• Van windows: Applied the rain shader to the van's windows.
  
• Door sound: Adjusted the sound produced by doors when opening and closing, which could impact the behavior of the Blind Ghoul.

• Avoid player feature: You can now ban a player from your lobby, and you can always remove banned players from the unban list.
  
• Rule Out Parameter:
  - New: You now have the ability to ban multiple monsters during your runs!
  - Ban monster list Adjustment: The ban list has been revised and adjusted accordingly.
  
• Photo Mode Feature: You can now disable the HUD while in-game!
  
• HUD Adjustment: Improved the HUD to include icons for "Hide HUD," "Tag," and "Emotes".

• Winter Customization remove: Removed winter customization items. If you have already purchased them, you keep them!
  
• NEW Lunar New Year & Valentine's Day Customization: Discover new limited-time customizations themed around Lunar New Year and Valentine's Day!
  
• Color Wheel Improvement: Improved the color selection wheels.

• Museum intro: Added a new museum cinematic introduction.
  
• Camera shaking: When camera shaking is disabled in the options, breathing-based shaking in FPS view is now also removed.
  
• CCTV Fix: When viewing yourself through the surveillance camera system, the held item appeared to be floating. This is no longer the case.
  
• VFX Freeze Fix: Fixed a bug where the cold breath VFX persisted after a player was unfrozen.
  
• Push to talk Fix: Fixed an issue where push-to-talk on a controller did not mute the player again when releasing the button.
  
• Controller Sound Management: Fixed a bug where it was impossible to increase another player's volume using a controller.
  
• Post FX KO Fix: When a player transitioned from KO mode to spectator mode, they would retain the previous mode's visual effects.
  
• Dance Emote: It is now no longer possible to trigger dance animations while crouching or crawling.
  
• Emote: Emotes can now be used while crawling!
  
• Emote wheel Fix: Fixed a bug where the player's mouse could leave the game screen while using the emote wheel.
  
• Emote & object: Held objects are now hidden when an emote is played.
  
• New Credits: Added credits.