Updates:

• Added achievements
  
• Improved support for high refresh monitors
  
• Improved some UI and non-game screens on Steam Deck
  
• Improvements to enemy AI at screen edges
  
• Improvements to enemy AI when they get up from being knocked down
  
• Support for more controllers
  
• "Anti spam" improvements against bosses
  
• Better enemy targetting
  
• Improvements to how Dogai handles grenades
  
• Smashing the jeep now drops pickups
  
• Updates to ensure the good/bad endings always trigger correctly.
  
• Prevent enemies with projectiles from shooting/throwing while partially off-screen
  
• Fixed an edge case issue with the save states
  
• Knocked down enemies now take damage from explosions
  
• Throwing enemies into jerrycans now catches them on fire
  
• Improved the controls screen
  
• Improved the combat tips screen
  
• Improved audio levelling and additional SFX
  
• Improved flow when going back from the character select screen in story mode
  
• Prevent a glitch where Diana could break out of her throw and get offset until hit
  
• Fixed a major bug where Diana could get stuck unable to enter the boxing club on the first Australia level
  
• Fixed a major bug where occasionally an enemy could get stuck in a knocked down state and not stand up unless hit with a ground attack)
  
• Fixed a bug where an enemy could spawn on an incorrect carriage on the train and be unable to hit except with a bullet or with Devil/Fraka
  
• Prevent the position of the boxer jumping after his tea break
  
• Fixed a bug with the bomb collisions on the Jungle bridge
  
• Fixed an occasional bug with one of the cutscenes
  
• Fixed an occasional bug with the axe head obstacles on the train
  
• Prevent re-entering grapple on an enemy immediately after breaking grapple if pushing towards the enemy.
  
• New animals in the Jungle
  
• New and improved boss dialogs/panels
  
• New plane flyby at the start of the train level to reinforce the story
  
• Improved Diana's throw speed
  
• Prevent triggering score from coin pickups more than once if double pressing fast
  
• Fixed several typos and improved UI layout
  
• Lots of small bug fixes, and minor graphical tweaks and more...

- The AOP Team

Hello supporters, gamers & Phans,

Thank you for all your comments so far. The Phantom isn’t just a game for us, it is a passion project. We grew up with The Phantom and this our way of continuing the legacy.

Art Of Play is the two of us: Ash & Billy. We want to make comic/retro inspired games collaborating with other talented artists, animators and programmers who share the same passion as we do. We’ve stepped out of the kid's entertainment/e-learning space into the big ol’ world of console gaming and have taken it upon ourselves to not only curate The Phantom game, but also handle the trailer production, marketing and console porting.

We are now working on the next major update for the game before it goes off to Limited Run for physical distribution. It will be a big one. There’s always an endless list of things we’d like to do on a game - this happened even with our smaller projects - but with your added feedback, we think it will be even better. Here are some of the things we are working on:

• Combat tweaks for both The Phantom & Diana.
  
• Improve enemy encounters - especially around the 2 major boss battles. But in general, more variance,
• more aggressiveness, less idle/waiting, anti-spam, and anti-swarming.
  
• A full VO levelling and overhaul.
  
• Steam Achievements.
  
• Lots of bug fixes.
  
• Support for more controllers.
  
• Prevent issues on high refresh monitors without needing to adjust graphics settings by the player.
  
• Ensure the correct ending cutscenes are always triggered for all players, for all difficulty settings based on gameplay.
  
• Long list of minor bug fixes, and a couple of larger ones.
  
• Long list of graphical tweaks.
  
• And so much more...

We appreciate everyone who has already purchased/played this game and we are looking for a few additional game testers to add to our team. If you want to be involved as a beta tester for upcoming patches, please comment on this thread or drop us an email.

Thanks so much,

Ash & Billy
AOP