This game as we know it will be forever changed tomorrow. Parts of the game are going away, parts are changing, and more content is being added. So, we may want to prepare the leaderboard for that.
The game does appear to be DRM free though. I saved a copy of the old version of the game on another drive and it launched fine without Steam for anyone that wants to do that.
I think I convinced the developer to keep the old version on the Beta tab on Steam. They're going to at least try to do that so the old version is still playable. It is still very much going to affect the leaderboard. Both versions of the game are going to be vastly different from each other. So, we're still going to need to take some kind of action but at least people can still compete using the old version once they figure that out.
They did also announce that console versions would be coming in 2022.
I just finished playing it and the entire second half of the game is almost completely changed now. Scenes have been removed (a ton of the searching through the tunnel stuff is gone), there's an extra fight added and scenes leading up to that fight are all new, there's some stuff that takes place in the past that's all new, etc. I'll have a normal playthrough video up on my channel tomorrow morning but for anyone that wants to experience the changes, just install the new update on Steam and you'll have it.
Full patch notes/update from the developer (my video is still processing on Youtube - it's not a speedrun it's a normal playthrough, I'll post when it's up so you can see the changes if you want):
Free update is available to download for all game owners. The features list is below. If you want to support us please consider purchasing freshly released OST. Also please leave a review for the game if you didn't yet - that helps a lot, that's basically our most efficient marketing tool .
Features:
- Mac and Linux versions
- Controller support
- New settings (mouse inversion, key mapping, mouse sensitivity)
- Level selection from the menu
- Almost half of the game (second half, to be clear) is remade, including all of the endings;
- Some of the first half of the game scenes are updated too;
- 2 challenging (but not too challenging, I guess) boss fights;
- Some of the game's scenes that frustrate people more than the others are now skippable
- Changed more than half of achievements. Sadly, that means you've lost their old versions
- Storyline is updated to express the original ideas;
- More seagulls;
- As it was promised a year ago, sandbags are now 3D model
Maybe we'll also add stuff like Steam Trading Cards, Emoticons, Badges, and Profile Backgrounds soon, but I'm not sure and can't promise that.
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P.S. Old version of the game will be available as Beta in few days, I'll post the instruction on how to play it.
Alright here's my normal playthrough. I think I'll do one more normal playthrough where I turn up the brightness so I can get through the 2nd boss fight (which I had to skip and caused me to get a different ending than I wanted). But anyway, if you want to see some of the changes/updates, here they are. I had to balance keeping the video shorter since I easily could have spent 3 hours looking at everything but I also wanted to show as much as I could so I kind of settled somewhere in the middle at an hour and a half:
agreed, leaving the older version as its own category and making a new one for the current is the way to go. i guess its time for me to pick this game back up lol
The boss fight doesn't even tell you that you can skip it if I remember correctly. You can literally just jump in the hole in the center of the level to skip it - which is what I did during my regular playthrough because that fight was frustrating.
He hasn't mentioned the Beta yet for the old version and it's not there, I just checked. Hopefully he adds it at some point. That's why I copied the old game over to another drive so I had a backup in case for whatever reason - it doesn't happen.
We'll have to go through and time the comparison, but i doubt getting the shotgun will ever be slower. Do yall wanna make a discord for chatter and new findings? It'd probably be easier than forum posts.
Hey I went ahead and made a discord for the community to use, i think there's a tab for official discords in SRC so throw it there
lol they're doing more changes to the game tomorrow. Not as drastic this time but they are already updating 2 of the 3 endings. One announcement (at least) they're waiting until after the EEK3 show tomorrow to tell us. EEK3 for anyone unaware, is a show that's run by Haunted PS1 and it shows off upcoming horror games (usually with a low poly aesthetic much like No One Lives Under the Lighthouse).
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1254370/announcements/detail/3023595853754062155
