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Unhaunter 0.3.1

Mouse Aiming

• Now you can hover with the mouse around and the flashlight will follow.
• Flashlight visual enhanced for long range scan.
• Clicking now will make the character walk towards the cursor.
• Clicking nearby something activable/interactive, will also interact with it, as if it were the [E] key.
• Right click will enable/disable right hand equipment, like the [R] key.
• Scrollwheel on the mouse will cycle through inventory like [Q].
• Walking around with mouse has pathfinding and indicators for waypoints. Works on stairs too.

Journal UI

• Discard evidence hidden away, now the user has to Shift+Click.
• Simpler, better Ghost filtering logic.
• If only one ghost is possible, it auto-selects. If the ghost selected is no longer possible, it de-selects.
• Improved UI element visibility with adjusted border thickness and padding.
• Implemented repellent crafting limits and refund system based on difficulty level.
• Player automatically exits truck after crafting repellent.
• Added GrayMan to TmpEMFUVOrbs ghost set - now we have 6 ghosts for missions 4, 5 and 6.

Gameplay Improvements:

• Miasma can now spread through half-walls and other see-through obstacles.
• Temperature spreads more realistically through walls and obstacles, including through stairs.
• Repellent particles now change color upon hitting ghosts (electric blue for correct, bright red for incorrect).
• Smart hint system provides feedback for incorrect repellent usage.
• Adjusted Temps/Geiger to be easier and more reliable to get.
• Increased probability of evidence hints to help player progression.
• Made sanity warnings more frequent and responsive.
• Ambient audio drops just before hunts.
• Lock down evidences given by walkie talkie hints.
• Ghost is now easy to expel, needing less repellent to do so.

Walkie-Talkie System:

• Ghost hunt warnings are now only triggered if the player is inside the location and the ghost is sufficiently healthy.
• Hunt warnings now repeat at normal frequency for better player awareness.
• System now ensures players are properly informed when repellent can be crafted.
• Walkie-talkie hints for player sanity and wellbeing are now more sensitive and frequent.
• Increased repeat frequency for hints about crafting repellents when enough evidence is gathered.
• Walkie event priority is reduced if messages have been played before to avoid repetition.
• Adjusted timing and delays for better hint delivery.

UI/UX Enhancements:

• Increased visible duration for hint UI messages.
• Better camera reference point for improved player centering.
• Adjusted flashlight lighting effect.
• Prevented hover interactions on mostly invisible UI elements - fixes UI elements being hovered and sticky.
• Ghost now goes black under night vision instead of green - this is to avoid players confusing this with UV reactions.

Other:

• Bevy upgraded to version 0.16
• Complete overhaul of the ghost_list CLI tool.

Fixes:

• Fixed Spirit Box False Positives: Resolved bug causing incorrect spirit box readings.
• Fixed error on negative miasma pressure that got NaN into player position and direction, making the game randomly unplayable.
• Fix for random crash when expelling an entity (sound file format error)
• Fix collision bug when a door is closed on top of the player.
• WASM: Prevent accidental closing of the tab via Ctrl+W.
• Fixed bug where ghost guess auto-selection wasn't always working properly.
• Fixed ghost guess resource to use difficulty-specific ghost sets.
• Fixed log spam when music volume setting was zero.

Pre-release Unhaunter Beta v0.3.1-beta1

Beta release build based on tag v0.3.1-beta1

Mouse Aiming

• Now you can hover with the mouse around and the flashlight will follow.
• Flashlight visual enhanced for long range scan.
• Clicking now will make the character walk towards the cursor.
• Clicking nearby something activable/interactive, will also interact with it, as if it were the [E] key.
• Right click will enable/disable right hand equipment, like the [R] key.
• Scrollwheel on the mouse will cycle through inventory like [Q].
• Walking around with mouse has pathfinding and indicators for waypoints. Works on stairs too.

Journal UI

• Discard evidence hidden away, now the user has to Shift+Click.
• Simpler, better Ghost filtering logic.
• If only one ghost is possible, it auto-selects. If the ghost selected is no longer possible, it de-selects.
• Improved UI element visibility with adjusted border thickness and padding.
• Implemented repellent crafting limits and refund system based on difficulty level.
• Player automatically exits truck after crafting repellent.
• Added GrayMan to TmpEMFUVOrbs ghost set - now we have 6 ghosts for missions 4, 5 and 6.

Gameplay Improvements:

• Miasma can now spread through half-walls and other see-through obstacles.
• Temperature spreads more realistically through walls and obstacles, including through stairs.
• Repellent particles now change color upon hitting ghosts (electric blue for correct, bright red for incorrect).
• Smart hint system provides feedback for incorrect repellent usage.
• Adjusted Temps/Geiger to be easier and more reliable to get.

Walkie-Talkie System:

• Ghost hunt warnings are now only triggered if the player is inside the location and the ghost is sufficiently healthy.
• Walkie-talkie hints for player sanity and wellbeing are now more sensitive and frequent.
• Increased repeat frequency for hints about crafting repellents when enough evidence is gathered.
• Walkie event priority is reduced if messages have been played before to avoid repetition.
• Adjusted timing and delays for better hint delivery.

UI/UX Enhancements:

• Increased visible duration for hint UI messages.
• Better camera reference point for improved player centering.
• Adjusted flashlight lighting effect.

Other:

• Bevy upgraded to version 0.16
• Complete overhaul of the ghost_list CLI tool.

Fixes:

• Fixed error on negative miasma pressure that got NaN into player position and direction, making the game randomly unplayable.
• Fix for random crash when expelling an entity (sound file format error)
• Fix collision bug when a door is closed on top of the player.
• WASM: Prevent accidental closing of the tab via Ctrl+W.
• Fixed bug where ghost guess auto-selection wasn't always working properly.
• Fixed ghost guess resource to use difficulty-specific ghost sets.
• Fixed log spam when music volume setting was zero.

Unhaunter 0.3.0

• New campaign with 15 new maps!
• Progression system with money, experience and leveling up.
• Walkie Talkie buddy extended aggressively with an additional Hint UI.
• Now missions are graded from A to F.
• New design for the menu.
• The menu now works with the mouse as well as keyboard.
• Multi-floor support and stairs. Maps can now have multiple floors.
• Controls are now fully configurable via config file. (User must edit file manually)
• Flashlight and lighting rework to make it look moodier.
• Additional spritesheets.
• New contributed map Tarin Library (thanks!!)
• New website! https://www.unhaunter.com

Pre-release Unhaunter Beta v0.3.0-beta5

Beta release build based on tag v0.3.0-beta5

New things since Beta 4:

• New walkie talkie automatic generation tool
• Added a ton of new voice lines and triggers for the walkie talkie buddy
• Added new stats on how many times a voice line has been activated that are persisted on disk
• Now the game reads the new stats to make voice lines to be less frequent as they've been presented before several times.
• Added new hint system that goes along with the walkie talkie buddy
• New focus vignette and indicator for Ghost and Breach to give visual aid to the player to find them.
• Added proper Ghost Orbs that visually look like orbs.

Pre-release Unhaunter Beta v0.3.0-beta4

Beta release build based on tag v0.3.0-beta4

• New Campaign mode
• Player leveling up by gaining Score (EXP)
• Unlock maps as you progress
• Money system. Earn money and risk losing it when you die.
• Grades and Badges for completing missions. Do it really well, get an A. Do it badly, get an F.
• Reworked the old "New Game" menu into Custom Mission, simplified and more elegant.

Pre-release Unhaunter Beta v0.3.0-beta3

Beta release build based on tag v0.3.0-beta3

This beta pre-release mainly adds 15 new maps that are ready to play.

Pre-release Unhaunter Beta v0.3.0-beta2.1

Beta release build based on tag v0.3.0-beta2.1

Fix: Beta 2.1

• Maps with 1 floor were not loading and crashing the game.

Beta 2

• Multi-floor support and stairs.
• Controls are now fully configurable via config file. (User must edit file manually)
• Flashlight is now more focused which aids the player to identify the flashlight is on.

Beta 1

• New design for the menu
• The menu now works with the mouse as well as keyboard

Pre-release Unhaunter Beta v0.3.0-beta2

Beta release build based on tag v0.3.0-beta2

Pre-release Unhaunter Beta v0.3.0-beta1

Beta release build based on tag v0.3.0-beta1

New shiny things to test!

Beta 1

• New design for the menu
• The menu now works with the mouse as well as keyboard