White Noise 2 – Early Access Update #27

Heathen Throne

This week’s update comes a bit sooner! Along with the Coven, a new idol that will harm investigators’ vitality, color variations for all existing idols have been added.

We’ve also buffed Darcy a bit to put her at the same level as the other creatures in terms of power, and added plenty of new animations for characters in 3rd/1st person.

Finally, we’ve also done a number of changes and fixes on network connectivity, it should now perform much better.

Don’t forget to check out the forums, and join the Official Discord group to stay in touch and find people to play with!

New features:

  • New color variations for Idols.
  • New Idol: Coven

Improvements:

  • Updated mouse icons to better match the overall UI style
  • New animations for 1st person interactions and the lobby
  • Items such as traps or decoys can now only be placed on traverseable areas (no more trapping people with Cairns or placing items in unreachable spots).
  • Changed some investigators’ personal quotes.
  • Quick chat: Reduced time it takes to disappear when an option has not been selected.
  • When interacting with items, the “flashlight off” light is instantly enabled so you can see something.

Gameplay changes:

  • Darcy: Wraith trait now also gives partial protection against light sources.
  • Darcy: Increased Idol stat by 1
  • Darcy – Mourn: Removed maximum range (now it affects all players no matter the distance)
  • Darcy – Cairns: Increased effect radius (so they are more likely to teleport someone).
  • Darcy – Cairns: Now they also reduce a teleported investigator’s speed for some time.
  • Stealth: Powers that affect a single random investigator (such as Prescience or Ambush) will pick investigators with low Stealth more often.
  • Stealth: View distance with flashlight off now depends on the Stealth stat.
  • Professional Flashlight: Increased Endurance Stat by 1.
  • Subject 23 – Scarecrows: Nearby scarecrows will be destroyed when placing a new one (to avoid putting too many of them on the same place).
  • Monsters can now cast powers while affected by light if they haven’t been flashed yet, except for Sprint.
  • Phileas: Reduced Intimidating effect.
  • Changed some character skin stats based on user feedback.

Bugfixes:

  • When looking for a game with Quick Play, the game won’t try to connect to the same game more than once.
  • Improved timeout detection, now it should abort connection earlier if not possible to join.
  • Fixed host losing NAT capability mid-game not being able to restore it.
  • Fixed some chest button placements on Varosha and Alvira.
  • Fixed investigators being able to hear the Marked sound (heartbeat) of other investigators.
  • Decoys now activate contextual chat just like tapes.
  • Decoys’ hearing radius now depends on the investigator Exploration/Hearing stats just like tapes.
  • Mourn effect is properly disabled when the player dies with it still active.
  • Fixed AI Darcy not using her powers.

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