Hey detectives! While we are still hard at work on the next major content update, we've got a new update out on the experimental branch now with a bunch of fixes and minor additions! You can find details on how to access it here if you haven't used the experimental branch before!

• New: Blood pools will appear under victims and grow over time.
  
• Improved bullet impact VFX
  
• Altered behaviour of bullets when they come in contact with a window: The first will leave behind a bullet hole in the glass, a second will shatter it.
  
• Cigarette ends are now left behind by smokers
  
• Tweaked killer chances and evidence spawning probabilities (you should see more supporting evidence).
  
• You will now only get mugged in the street when above social credit level 1.
  
• Tweaked social credit level curve
  
• Staff will now clean up trash left on the floor of a restaurant or bar
  
• Greatly increased social credit given for successful completion of jobs, murder cases and lost & found.
  
• Improved culling, especially outdoors*
  
• Various street furniture now spawns on rooftops*
  
• Minor visual adjustments to rain VFX
  
• Toned down the fog at the start of the story mode
  
• Fixed: Weather shaders now working properly
  
• Fixed: Bug where killer would not kill if there was no place to purchase their weapon of choice.
  
• Fixed: Disallowed apartment purchasing before the campaign is complete (when on story mode), as this caused errors in the campaign.
  
• Fixed: Switching items didn’t trigger if the item was the same type as item already held.
  
• Fixed: Rare internal error when picking citizen to be a murderer
  
• Fixed: Wrong post processing environment volume references in some locations
  
• Fixed: A geometry issue in the diner’s back yard*
  
• Fixed: Muggings rarely worked unless stood still for a while (be more careful on the quiet streets!)
  
• Fixed: Missing item descriptions added.
  
• Fixed: Internal error when plotted player route was cancelled
  
• Fixed: Murder victims changing outfits upon their death
  
• Fixed: Visual glitch with enforcer helmet visors
  
• Fixed: Nosy Parker achievement was triggering erroneously
  
• Fixed: A rare error causing the game to hang on the loading screen when loading a game
  
• Fixed: Configuration fix for mod.io
  
• Fixed: Provisions made to stop the game trying to regenerate a city data from a city that was made with the city editor
  
• Introduced another failsafe and potential fix for the falling through floor glitch (we’re continuing diagnostic work with this one as it’s unreplicable on a consistent basis)
  
• Introduced a system to stop the player getting stuck in tight spaces
  
• Audio: New intro sequence music
  
• Audio: New player spawn sound
  
• Audio: Curtain open/close sounds added
  
• Audio: Throwing object sounds added
  
• Audio: Desk fan impact sounds added
  
• Audio: New door barge and break sounds
  
• Audio: Water cooler sounds added
  
• Audio: Tutorial mystery caller audio replaced
  
• Audio: Lockpicking sound ceases if lockpicking player looks away
  
• Audio: Cushion impacts added
  
• Audio: Padlock sounds added
  
• Audio: NPC gun sounds replaced and properly set-up
  
• Audio: Punch wall sound replaced
  
• Audio: Tweaks to melee sounds
  
• Audio: minor improvements to grenade spatialisation
  
• Audio: minor improvements to phoneline sounds
  
• Audio: quieter ambiences at city edge
  
• Audio: basement ambience quieter
  
• Audio: footsteps slightly quieter (mostly player on carpet)
  
• Audio: chem stack burn-off sound improved in many tiny ways
  

* Requires a new city generation to appear/spawn/see