• Fixed summer death wish contracts being limited to 100 level ups
  
• Fixed Summer Death Wish contracts repeating more often than intended at lower levels

Hi all, hope you're enjoying the summer!
Today we have a small selection of fixes for the Summer Event:

• Fixed the max summer event contract level being capped at 20. It is now uncapped as intended!
  
• Added -vulkan launch parameter to force-launch the game using the Vulkan graphics API (also available in graphics settings)
  
• Fixed some Summer event contract names not loading
  
• Temporarily removed a small selection of mods from the Summer event due to compatibility issues
  
• Fixed a bug where the screen would show as black on specific laptops. A warning now appears when this issue is detected and corrected.

Enjoy more than 100 community-made levels in the new Summer Event map, available from June 26th (now!) to July 31st!



Play the new map to obtain the rewards from last year:
- A sticker (level-up!)
- 2 weapons
- A dye

Complete the summer Death Wish map to level up your Summer Drink sticker! Leveling up also ascends your Death Wish map with all-new challenges!
The challenges and rewards are available even if you don't own any DLC.
To keep Steam Workshop rewards installed when restarting the game, subscribe on the Steam Workshop page.

In addition, the spaceship has been decorated for summer vibes.

Check out all the featured mods on the workshop via the Summer Event Tag!

Need help finding other players in Vanessa's Curse? Join the Online Party PECK or join our Discord!

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• Added DirectX 12 and Vulkan support - We still recommend using "Default" (DirectX 9) which has the best performance and support overall.

• Fixed rare crash when playing mods in Online Party
  
• Fixed Time Piece collect jingle playing for an incorrect duration[
  

A minor update is available for A Hat in Time!

• Fixed a stutter that would occur during the level intro sequence.
  
• Fixed setting Depth of Field to none in Graphics Settings negatively affected bloom.
  
• Fixed the game camera stopping rendering if the player quickly goes down a ladder after reaching the top at high framerate.
  
• Fixed inconsistent swimming behavior between Keyboard and Controller.

• Added coop support to OnlineParty's PlayerStateMeta feature
  
• Cook options can now be overridden in mod manager

A minor update is available for A Hat in Time!

• Fixed an issue where some players would stutter in 5 second intervals. Thank you to KeifersIsAwesome and psoron for helping in tracking down the issue.
  
• Added new option to Game Settings: Sort Hats By Obtain Order. If set, hats will be sorted by the order in which they were obtained. Otherwise will be sorted by yarn cost.

A minor update is available for A Hat in Time! This primarily focuses on changes and fixes to the Summer Event update.

• All the Summer Event Death Wish levels are now available - enjoy!
  
• Summer Event Death Wishes can now be reset, which allows re-rolling the MODifier
  
• Fixed Drink sticker being audible from all distances

A minor update is available for A Hat in Time! This primarily focuses on changes and fixes to the Summer Event update.

• Added a background icon in the pause menu to indicate which Hats and Badges are mandatory
  
• Increased Pon requirement for Cyclone Seafort
  
• Temporarily reduced Online Party lobby size from 50 to 25
  
• Minor changes to list of available MODifiers in Summer Death Wish map

• Fixed patty-cake animation not playing for a specific Mafia in the night-time version of Mafia Town
  
• Fixed selected MODifier being incorrect in the level 3 Summer Event Death Wish map
  
• Fixed typo in Power Pons Summer Death Wish challenge
  
• Fixed Vanessa's Curse being required to complete the Summer Death Wish map
  
• Fixed Summer Drink sticker's description being empty at level 1
  
• Fixed being unable to equip dyes and weapons after completing certain Summer Death Wish challenges

The SUMMER EVENT has kicked off with a new update to A HAT IN TIME, including a new summer vibin' Death Wish map containing fresh new unlockables!

The SUMMER EVENT starts June 27th and ends July 31st! Enjoy!




Complete the summer Death Wish map to level up your Summer Drink sticker! Leveling up also ascends your Death Wish map with all-new challenges!

Currently there is a limited number of available level-ups, as all players reach higher levels during the summer event, more levels become available.


As you tackle harder summer Death Wish challenges, you'll be presented with a spicy choice: Which Workhop MOD do you want to bring into battle?




Need help finding other players in Vanessa's Curse or Hattle Royale? Join the Online Party PECK or join our Discord!

The update will be applied automatically when you restart A Hat in Time.

• Added emblems to acts in the act select screen. Emblems are rewarded for: 0 jumps, speedrun, all rift token pages, all yarn, all rift pons, finding friend message, finding developer message.

• Brewing Hat breakables now spawn health if the player is missing health
  
• The Completionist's Hat now highlights pons that have been collected before
  
• Added "Prevent Accidental Falls" input setting, which prevents rare cases where Hat Kid may vault over a ledge to her death

• Fixed invisible sign meshes in The Illness Has Spread near the birdhouse
  
• Fixed pause menu not highlighting the correct Time Piece when in a Time Rift
  
• Ship Shape delivery guides now only refresh if the player strays far away from them
  
• Fixed trigger volumes required for Nyakuza Metro finale being exhausted when touched during other acts

• Fixed subtitle / voice line mismatch in Death Wish
  
• Added a leaderboard to Death Wish that show friends' stamps

• Fixed online player messages not retrieving correctly.
  
• Added a game setting for turning off online player messages.
  
• Online player messages are now colored differently depending on the author (yourself / friend / mod author / Gears for Breakfast staff)
  
• Online player messages can now be placed in non-mod levels, but only friend and developer messages are visible
  
• Online Party join messages now close after a few seconds of being accepted. This fixes a softlock if the joined level is not installed.

• Added a leaderboard to Challenge Road
  
• Added bOnlyEnforceBlacklistWhileOnline and DoNotEnforceBlacklistOnlinePartyNamePrefix to Hat_MapInfo
  
• Fixed mod level playtime tracking not working
  
• Fixed crash caused by matinee interpdata not getting cleaned up properly when GC'd on cook
  
• Fixed crash if loading screen DLC logo is part of the root set
  
• Fixed EndPlayMap for mods passing the wrong name (was passing travel url, not map name)
  
• Fixed Hat_NPC_Player not calling ConvertNPCPlayer if no player pawn is present (such as in titlescreen)
  
• Added OnlineRestrictionsVolume to filter online player messages in specific locations (such as boss battles)
  
• Fixed AlwaysInPlayerBackpack not working for hats or badges
  
• Added support for non-weapon attachment points for hookshot

The update will be applied automatically when you restart A Hat in Time.

• Brewing Hat breakables now spawn health if the player is missing health

• Fixed certain brewing hat crates in Mafia Town not spawning health as intended

• Fixed invisible sign meshes in The Illness Has Spread near the birdhouse

• Ship Shape guides now only refresh if the player strays far away

• Fixed subtitle / voice line mismatch in Death Wish

• Summer and winter event weapons can now be used in Vanessa's Curse
  
  • Thank you to Hatlagg for suggesting this addition!