With v1.3, Hot Tin Roof now has some very nice baked lighting. This both makes things look a fair bit sexier and noir'ier on high end, AND makes the game a lot, lot better looking on low-end. It also also improves performance across the board, especially on high-end.

There's also some... new hidden stuff to find. That we're not going to talk about yet. Even if you find it. But have fun! :D

Finally stumbled across where you add community avatars, so, hurrah! There are now avatars. Enjoy.

More importantly, though, just a heads up - we're doing A Big Thing on August 3rd, so if you were eyeing that buy button, trust me. You'll want to wait until August 3rd.

We'll also be pushing an update to the game (and also a big Jones On Fire update), that should greatly improve lower-end performance and appearance, and adds... some stuff. Hidden stuff. You'll see. :D

Along with a host of other small changes, v1.25 totally ditches the old janky gamepad support, and adds super fancy gamepad support. Which is to say it "just works," is fully rebindable, and you can even change the button graphics between Sony and MS standards to fit whatever you've got plugged into your PC. Neat!

We're also 10% off through May 3rd, to celebrate what constitutes the last major "polish" change we really wanted to get in there. Yay!

Along with a handful of fixes that aren't worth enumerating (lots of subtle small things), v1.2 adds free content to the base game. It adds Jooseppi, the mayoral candidate who fights for worker's rights, in as a character you can actually interact with.

To find him, walk over to where Hi-Table Gum Factory is. Jooseppi's (ratty as heck) campaign offices are to the right of that. He needs your help.

It's just a goofy little side-quest, and involves (almost) no platforming, and you'll probably have it done in 20 minutes. It, amongst other things, hopefully removes the need to grind boxes for bits for the later upgrades in the game, and gives you some other ways of affording the early upgrades. It also loops in a few of the characters I felt didn't get to say much in the base game, and gives you more ability to help them achieve their goals.

This fixes... a lot of things, but mostly it adds a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle hints, re-directors and context-adders meant to help folks not get lost.

Switches now generally have signage of some kind if they're critical, for instance, and the doors or whatever they interact with are marked with similar signage. We added a bunch of additional "reveal" cameras that fire off to show you what switches do, and arranged those cameras so that you can always see some contextual clues to tell you what door just opened.

The single biggest change is in Hi-Table. It is now (almost) impossible to leave Hi-Table, after you pick up the <ammo type> at least, without going through the upper offices and meeting the <important person> that some folks missed. Even if you do manage to leave early, a few key conversations will stop assuming <someone is in jail>, which will hopefully reduce confusion.

Finally, we tried to make it more obvious what different ammo types could do. Clues now fire off when you pick up ammo, so that you can refer back to what an ammo type does later, and those clues even let you ask Franky about them again in case you button-mashed through her explanation. Some Franky dialogs are also now a little more overt, and we made the Franky hint in Ossified Egg when you go back the second time effectively impossible to miss.

Oh, and it's now (very) possible to beat the game without ever doing the final Clue sweep to <get that warrant and do the thing>. It was technically possible before, but not easy - now there's a much easier way, which Mazuma sells, assuming you've bought both wallet upgrades. You won't get a bad ending at all (there's 14 different end states, none are bad), and hopefully that'll help the folks that just don't want to do a big hunt at that point.

We'll be rolling from here onto our first little content update. It won't be anything huge, mind, but it should hit around March 16th and adds a fun bit of narrative to the world. It involves Jooseppi, and loops in a few of the other lesser-used characters as well.

Linux People With Achievement Problems: No, this probably won't fix that bug. That's going to require, most likely, updating Steamworks, which we'll do in the next patch.