Heartbound update for 8 September 2023

As always you can watch us build the game live on Twitch.

Known Issues

• RURU language has not been updated past Fern/Rhode in Animus.
• Our translator lives in Moscow and cannot be paid due to the war.
• Once we have a way of fixing this the RURU translation will move forward.

New Content

• Pending Valves review Heartbound should now be fully compatible with Steam Deck.
  I will put out an announcement when they approve us!
• Forest March has been added to the OST.
• Miserable Manic Shadows has been added to the OST.
• Meandering Shadows has been added to the OST.
• Shelly has a number of new talky animations.
• Shelly's storyline has been extended.
  This isn't the entire storyline but it's a good start for her personality. I'm pretty happy with the direction for now and will continue fleshing it out this month. By the end of the month I plan to have the game in the next environment dealing with Ramul/Reme. Should be a lot of heavy story as it's the final step before the end of the chapter.

Bug Fixes

• New detections have been made for a certain kind of player.
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• The OST now plays in the correct order when launching it through Steam.
  This is actually a Steam bug and required every song to have the track number placed before the title.
• The D-Pad no longer breaks if you Pause the game on Steam Deck using the power button and then resume the game.
• The D-Pad no longer breaks if you use Volume Up/Down on Steam Deck.
  Another steam bug this time dealing with Key IDs. If you're a developer out there Steam Deck appears to use Virtual Keypresses that return an ID of 0. Don't swap control types on 0 inputs and it should fix this right up. Additionally you should also not swap inputs on Media Keys which are 173-179.

Bug Reporting

• Please report any issues via DM on Discord to @piratesoftware.
• You can also send these to GoPirateSoftware@Gmail.com
• Include a screenshot, it makes it much easier to fix!

Upcoming Content

• The rest of Animus (Chapter 3) is being actively developed.