Become a secret agent in the 1950s and observe your neighbours to find the communist spy!
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Release Date: 31 Jul, 2017

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2 August

Incoming update 1.02

#transmission established#

Greetings from HQ,

We’ve been monitoring the situation and have found a couple of things to fix. So hereby:

  • We fixed an issue with the navmesh for the AI that caused none of the characters to move for certain players (including norma, which broke the beginning of mission R). You may have to use the ‘Wipe Data’ card before starting a mission if you previously played the game, but encountered this bug.
  • Audio now still plays when out of focus (We thought this would be too difficult to solve right now, turns out it wasn’t!)
  • Fixed a bug where the camera would sometimes fly around when a mission had been loaded.
  • Added mission names on the blackboard to emphasize that there are two different playable missions.
  • Folder interaction is now a lot more reliable. Changed ‘Suspect info’ folder to only allow grabbing. It previously allowed swiping as well (Waving your hand across it to flip pages) but both of those systems enabled interfered with each other.
  • We made sure the playerstart is always present, it used to be loaded in. This might solve issues for people that spawned outside of the apartment.
Room orientation

We also received some requests for changing the orientation of the room for Oculus players. This can be done outside of The Red Stare, by using the ‘Reset View in App’ function in the Oculus menu. So if you are getting dead zones in important areas of the game, use this option to resolve it!

Things we are working on:
  • Right now we’re fixing a bug for Oculus when you’re playing with two sensors. We initially planned to only support three sensors, but hopefully will fix some issues for people with two sensors with the next update.
  • Fixing bug where the menu cards are not displayed on the blackboard properly using Oculus (this may also cause pictures and intel that are stuck to the board to disappear when you look away from it).
Things you can do to bypass this while we work on a fix:
  • If you are still experiencing problems with Oculus, you could try and get rid of the Guardian System through the Oculus setup (skipping the play area drawing step). This will force the game to fallback to the minimum roomsize.
  • You can also try to setup the playarea to be just optimal (2.0m x 1.5m) through the Oculus setup.
  • You can try and use SteamVR when using Oculus and setup the playarea through the SteamVR setup, instead of the Oculus application.

If you catch any bugs (or communists) that we failed to find, please let us know!


Thanks,

HQ out

#transmission terminated#


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31 July

Incoming update 1.01

#transmission established#

Greetings agent!

We’re very happy with the initial feedback our missions received, and would like to elaborate on what we just added to accommodate your spying activities, based on tips from you guys:

  • Fixed roomsize bug for Oculus with a Guardian System (room setup) that is less than 2.0m x 1.5m, which would make the room very thin. It now falls back to the default minimum room size.
  • If the game is not in focus, voice audio (from the phone) will not play. Other audio will. Simple fix is focusing on the game (either clicking on it or alt-tabbing to it)
    This is sadly not something we can fix right now.

Please let us know if you find anything else to improve, and let us know what you think.

Thanks!

HQ out.

#transmission terminated#

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About This Game

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In The Red Stare, you become a special agent in 1950s New York City on a stake out. The Reds have infiltrated the city, and you need to stop them before it's too late.
During your stake out you will be observing your neighbours' every move to find out who of them is the communist spy.

From within your apartment you'll be receiving information via your phone and fax machine, finding clues in case files, and taking pictures that you can fax to your handler - proving that your suspicions are right.

It's all about observation and deduction. You’ll have to use a number of different ways to identify people varying from appearances, items that can be found in their rooms, and rules only specific members of the communist ranks follow.

Good luck, agent! The nation depends on you.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows™ 7 SP1
    • Processor: Intel™ Core™ i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350, equivalent
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 980 or AMD R9 390X or equivalent
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 2000 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows™ 7 SP1, Windows™ 8.1 or later or Windows™ 10
    • Processor: Intel™ Core™ i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350, equivalent or better
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480, equivalent or better
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 2000 MB available space
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