Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to post a small patch that adds a new feature in Custom Mode, and to fix up some old enemy AI issues. Game version is now 1.99

- added a Bonus Health modifier in Custom Mode
- fixed issue that was causing a firing delay from enemies shooting from cover
- fixed issue with enemies turning in weird directions when players are out of sight
- resized a lot of the attachments for the Desktop player (some of them were way too large)
- updated the mugshot photos for the notable targets (in the Briefing screens)
- shooting range weapons audio have been updated
- fixed missing running animations from the special-event hostage in Mission 8
- readjusted colors for Mission 8
- civilian audio distance adjustments

Thanks for everyone's feedback and support!

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to post a small hotfix patch that adds a new player accessibility option, and some minor fixes.

Vertical Grip Offset
Option has been added to offset the game hands relative to the players controllers (vertically). This is made for people who use gun-stocks and need to adjust their in-game gun alignment. This option can be found in the "Avatar Customization Settings" page. Hope this works for y'all (let me know in the comments).

Misc Fixes
- made some female civilian effects more audible
- tweaked Technine gun sound
- fixed Eagle-AR (VR) iron-sights

As always, thanks for the feedback and support so far! ːwinter2019happyyulː

Hi Everyone,

With the new year started, I'm inching ever closer to final release! When Fast and Low gets put on Final Release, i still plan on adding new maps every few months....however it just means I wont be consistently adding new features to the game.

Today I'll be releasing 2 of the 3 Bonus maps for Fast and Low. These can be found in the "Bonus Missions" area of the Mission Select Screen. The app version is now 1.98

Breach and Clean


Officers Faust and Lo are tasked with investigating the Bubble Wave Cafe....what hides behind it's cozy jazzy facade?

Techno Showdown


Time to hit the downtown core and see what the nightlife has to offer!

Updated Voice Work

I wanna give a huge thanks to "Hamsterfactz", who was kind enough to provide me with a ton of great voice work for the Male Civilians and for some of the Flamingo enemy types. I've also spent a good amount of time finding/incorporating new lines for the female civilians.

Height Offset Option
- VR Players can now adjust their height in-game. This can be found in the Avatar Customization page
Sometimes Steamvr makes players shorter or taller than they actually are. Now you can use this feature to offset that and force your preferred height into the game!

Misc Fixes
- Valve Index: Arresting/Turning/DropMag functions moved to the Joystick instead of being only on the thumbpad
- Ivan in Mission 1 now automatically gives up upon seeing the player (giving players less reason to shoot him!!)(new voice work was adding for him as well!)
- Fixed Sights not showing up for FPS players for several guns
- Fixed ADS issues for FPS players when using Shotguns
- Fixed missing textures for VR weaponry in the shooting range
- Fixed missing Sights for VR weaponry in the shooting range
- New Weapon sounds for AK, Tec, G36, and Glock
- Resized some of the furniture in Map 1
- VR guns no longer scale with Player size.
- Updating my games Steam Splash art!
- Updating my Fast and Low game logo

As always, thank you everyone for your feedback and support so far! Please let me know if you find any problems either in the discord or in the comments section.

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

Today I will be releasing patch 1.96, which adds Weapon Optics for both the VR and FPS players. I've also added the Cinematic Filter (which was previously only available for VR) for the FPS player, and a brand new enemy interaction!!!

Weapon Optics
This was a feature that was on the experimental build for about a month now. This patch brings a more polished version of that (where the sights aren't oversized on pistols).


Eagle-AR with a Red dot sight


9mm Pistol with Holo sight

We got Weapon Optics for the FPS players too!


Eagle w/ RDS for Desktop FPS player

Cinematic Filter for FPS player
The previous patch added a Cinematic Filter for the VR players which I personally felt made the game look prettier. I've now given the FPS player a similar treatment. This Cinematic filter can be toggled on/off in the main menu!


Mission 1 With/Without Filter


Mission 2 With/Without Filter


Mission 3 With/Without Filter

Enemy Surrender Cancel
Players will now have a limited time-frame to restrain surrendered hostiles. Take too long and they'll be back to shooting you in the face in no time.





Female Avatars
As was shown in the experimental build, we now have Female Avatars for the VR player to select!


Misc Fixes
- Fixed VR player death ragdolls in Online Multiplayer
- Fixed the "Hostage Rescue" event in Mission 4
- Improved the reliability of Buddy AI. He now does a really good job at shooting hostiles in his Line of Sight.
- Officer Low (Buddy) now only uses a UMP. New Animations have been added specifically for this gun
- Officer Faust (Buddy) now only uses the Eagle-AR. New Animations have been made for that as well.
- Removed the 70+ score requirement to attain a new Level.
This game can be quite difficult sometimes, and I did not want to block people from seeing the later levels with the 70+ score requirement. Certain Perks/Weapons upgrades are still locked behind achieving higher scores!

Thanks everyone so far for your feedback and support. With these changes in place, I can now start working on my bonus levels in preparation for my full release >:)

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to post a patch that encapsulates the stuff I've been working on before my vacation starts...

As I will be out of the country for the next 3 weeks starting tomorrow, I didn't quite have enough time to fully test everything... Because of that... i'm going to be posting this patch as an "Experimental Build", which can be accessed within Steam.


the screen should look like the above. Just choose to opt into patch_1.95e-experimental build

Weapon Optics

You can now opt for weapon optics in your character load-out. You have a choice between Holographic sights, and Red dot sights! At the moment, this is only implemented for VR players.





The lens still needs a tint of some sort (haven't figured that out yet)!

Female Avatars

I saw on Discord that some players were requesting female avatars. So Alas!

Leah Lo, Ashley Williams, and Diane Hardly reporting for duty! 3 new female avatars have been added (for VR players only atm...sorry).



Misc Fixes
- Tweaked lighting for ceiling lights for all the levels.
- Fixed bug with Shotgun enemies Left-hand shooting
- Fixed bug with grabbing "Start Game" folder
- Increased animation speed for "Shooting from Cover" animations

Thanks again for everyone's support so far. Let me know what y'all think of this experimental patch!

Hi Everyone,

Today I'll be releasing Patch 1.94, which adds an updated VR Options board, a new Graphical setting (only for VR players atm), and a slew of changes that will hopefully improve the new player experience.

VR Options Board Rehaul

Looking back at the previous iteration of the VR Options board, I have to admit that it was kind of a mess. Locomotion options were in Page 1, Rotation Options were in Page 3, and the entire Page 2 was just whatever options I wasn't able to find a home for. With Patch 1.94, things are now slightly more organized. Hopefully y'all would find this a bit more user-friendly.


The Main Board


Player Input Settings

Cinematic Filter

The past month, I've been experimenting with color-mapping and post-processing effects for the VR player. This new filter can be toggled On and Off on the Graphics Tab.


Graphics Settings

For new players, this will be ON by default. For existing early access players, you may need to head over to this tab to enable it!


Main Office


Mission 3


Mission 4



Mission 5

The purpose of this filter is inject a bit more character to every existing level. Hopefully y'all can see the differences in-game (the screenshots don't really do it too much justice imo!)

Note: These currently aren't final yet, the lighting and whatnot are constantly being looked at and improved.

Misc Changes
- Updated Enemy Shooting animations so they are less static
- Seated enemies now stand up before turning towards their threat
- Enemies are better at seeing players peeking around corners
- Enemies are better at detecting crouched players when running around corners

- Blood is less glowy red and more matte textured
- Updated some of the civilian running animations
- The fingers for the VR players have been shortened a bit (grip poses have been adjusted to compensate for this change)

- Updated the scale of ground textures for most of the missions
- Map 3: Added Curtains to some of the rooms so that killing patrols wont aggro the entire house
- Map 5: Added a set of Boxes in the middle of the Warehouse (it was too open without them)
- Map 10: Changed the suicide bomb guy in the master bedroom to something else

- FPS Player: Fixed Fade-in effect for wider monitors
- FPS Player: Fixed M4 from randomly locking up
- VR Player: New SFX for G36 and AK
- VR Player: Added new SFX for Arrow impacts (Bow and Arrow)

So about 3 months ago, I initially announced that I wanted to push this game out to Full Release, and work on 2 new maps. Don't worry...the maps are happening....but I wanted to apologize for the big ol tangent that I ended up going on instead haha.

What's Next
In addition to the 2 maps; I also be working on Index Controller support (they finally came in!), and to add some Female Officer Avatars. This is currently what I have so far...it's basically a slimmer female Lo! ːwinter2019happyyulː



Also, please note that I'll be out of the country in October, so there may or may not be updates for the next month and a bit!

As always, thanks everyone for your support and feedback so far. Please let me know how y'all feel about this patch or if you run into any bugs, either in the comments or on Discord!

https://discord.gg/mNEBcBM

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to post a quick hotfix for some issues that were brought up recently. Game version is now 1.931.

Fixes
- FPS Interactions that were initially binded to "E" have now been moved to the proper "F" key
(these were interactions found in the Gun Range, Mission 1, Mission 2, Mission 6, and Mission 8)

- Improved enemy targeting to check for closest targets more frequently when chasing their primary target. (this makes enemies less likely to run past you when chasing your partner in Multiplayer)

- Improved enemy's ability to switch to next available target, when their current target is down.

- Fixed missing bullets/muzzle flash/sounds from Enemy Shotgunner's grounded firing animation

- Fixed issue with enemies running out of bullets when put in their grounded state.

- Reverted M4 VR gun audio for now (this is until i can figure out why it doesn't sound as good as the FPS players M4)

- Increased Enemy Pump Shotgun volume and sound range (it sounded too muffled)

Thank you everyone for your feedback! I wouldn't have caught some of this stuff without y'all! :D

Hi Everyone,

The past 2 weeks, I've been focusing on improving the gameplay for the Desktop PC players. I've added the ability to lean around corners, reworked a lot of the animations, and fiddled around with the recoil and spread to make each of the guns feel more snappy. The game is now on Patch 1.93.

FPS Update

New Animations added for the FPS player.



FPS player models now have different hipfire and aiming down sights poses

Quicker Reload (new animation + shorter reload time) for FPS player when reloading with ammo in the chamber.



Leaning around corners now added for FPS players





Audio Changes
- Fixed the spatial audio for Doors.
Door opening/closing sounds can no longer be heard from across the map!
- Added footstep sounds for enemies and civilians
- Added knife "whoosh" sounds for Knife-wielding enemies

VR Gameplay Changes
- Opening the Revolver, Sawed-off Shotgun, Double-Barreled Shotgun, & Triple-shotgun now only ejects used ammo. Players can now easily reload to full instead of being forced to expend all their ammo all the time.



Misc Changes
- Enemies now have to rotate fully towards you before they start shooting at you
- Enemies in the "Standing still and Firing" mode may now run to available cover after a random point
- Adjusted enemy projectiles to better collide with walls
- Breaking enemy masks now put them in a brief "STUN" state
- "Attacking from ground" enemy animations reworked
- Fixed Bug in "Map 4" where hostages heads were exploding even when their executioners were killed.

Thank you everyone for their feedback and support. Have a happy summer!

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to post a small patch that makes some slight improvements to enemy behaviors and fixes some things I've noticed in my playthroughs. Game version is now 1.92

Enemy Behaviour
- changes to enemy's player detection code so that they first need to see the player before they start shooting at them.
- changes to enemy pathing and their interactions with doorways, so there is less opportunity for firing animations to clip through walls
- "Standing Still and Firing" enemy behavior now updated so that they will eventually grow bored of waiting for their target hiding behind cover and will eventually try to charge/kill their target

Overall these changes were made to make enemy gunfights feel even more unpredictable, but at the same time, feel less wall-hackish and unfair

Player Grip Customization
VR Players can now tweak the alignment of their hands to better match with their controllers. These adjustments can be made on the "Calibrate Avatar" board.

Misc Changes
- Updated Hardwood flooring models in maps 1 and 3
- Updated Model Scaling in Map 5
- Adjusted Recoil and Recoil Recovery timings for all VR weapons to make them feel more impactful
- Adjustments to bullet impacts on walls so that smoke particles always move upwards, and added more spark particles

Development Changes
I was initially planning to create 3 additional maps have them pushed out with the Final Release of the game. However, when fooling around earlier this week and playing via Desktop Player controls, I was starting to feel that I may have spent too much time making the VR side feel good and did not pay enough attention to the quality/needs of the Desktop player.

As such, I plan to make improvements to the gunplay, the lighting, and the animations for the Desktop FPS player, so that this game will be awesome not only for the VR players, but the Desktop players as well. Since this will probably take some time, I will only be creating 2 new maps to go with the Full Release of the game, and I'll work on the 3rd map for a post-release update.

As always, thank you everyone for your support so far! Hope y'all have a safe summer!

Hi Everyone,

Today I'm releasing Patch 1.91, which makes big changes to the enemy AI, adds new civilian animations, improvements to current levels and addresses a bunch of stuff that people have pointed out.

Enemy AI Changes
- Enemies will now react more dynamically when an ally dies in their line of sight
- New Enemy Shooting animations when missing an arm
- Slowed down transition from Fake Surrender -> Shooting you in the face

In previous iterations of Fast and Low, killing a hostile would cause surrounding hostiles to enter an "Alerted" state and look at their dead buddy. In 1.91, hostiles that witness their buddies die in combat will automatically be triggered (as if they saw the player). They would either run for cover, get ready to shoot the player on sight, or straight up charge the player's location.

This makes the game firefights feel more dynamic and it's fun to see the knife wielders (that are patrolling out of LOS of the player) just run around a corner and charge at you in the middle of a firefight.

Civilian Animations

Added a couple new idle and running animations for the civilians.


Look how scared he looks lol.

Buddy AI Improvement

Buddy AI has been improved (still could be better). But at least now he's capable of ordering hostiles to surrender, and killing them if they don't.

Level Updates
With the changes in enemy aggression, I've went through all the levels to make sure that they were complete-able. Adjustments have also been made to a lot of the levels, by either adding geometry, adding new textures, or redoing the lighting.

Geometry Changes (Map 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,11)
Texture Updates (Map 1,2,3,5,7,11)
Enemy Density reduced on Maps 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11.

Misc Fixes
- Added Glass Penetration to player bullets
- Fixed MP issue where other players gadgets (flashbangs/stingers/frags) would not attach to players (on Spawn)
- Remy Shotgun now uses a Pistol Grip.
- Remy Shotgun (Pump) handle size increased
- Sawed-Off Shotgun now blasts targets back on kill

Sneak Peek!!
Here's a sneak peek at one of the levels I'm working on now!





As always, Thank you everyone for supporting Fast and Low so far! Your feedback is greatly appreciated and I do try to address any issues that y'all stumble upon. Please let me know what you think of the enemy AI changes! I'm eager to know if y'all feel that the firefights feel more dynamic with these changes.