From now on, you can play Protocol using a VR headset (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift) 10-hour story with VR immersion, isn't that great?
Also, have a look at the big list of the improvements: General - Chapters - VR: optimized locations and logic. General - Chapters - fixed minor logic flaws. General - Chapters - fixed minor visual flaws. General - Chapters - added new sounds and music. General - Chapters - fixed AI animations.
General - Prometheus - VR: fixed the possibility of being on the ceiling. General - Menu - added the ability to change the resolution and display mode. General - Menu - added language settings. General - Settings - added volume settings. General - Settings - added mouse sensitivity and inversion settings.
Chapter 1 - Capsule - VR: fixed the possibility to take the battery without opening the door. Chapter 1 - Gates - a snowball taken in hand no longer hangs in the air when loading last checkpoint. Chapter 1 - Gate - a key card no longer hangs in the air after picking with fork. Chapter 1 - Gates - fixed re-entering the password after picking with fork. Chapter 1 - Gates - fixed flash drive loss during gates opening scene. Chapter 1 - Locker Room - added "pixelation" on the MG when urinating in the Elevator.
Chapter 2 - Complex - fixed display of infections after destruction. Chapter 2 - Hub - VR: fixed inability to go down stairs. Chapter 2 - Isolation - fixed partial destruction of the infections in the sterilization cell. Chapter 2 - Isolation - disabled Protocol violation when firing at the alien with a turret. Chapter 2 - Medical Block - VR: restored Protocol violation when deviating from the given line. Chapter 2 - Medical Block - VR: fixed the inability to return a key card when doing autopsy of the second alien. Chapter 2 - Medical Block - VR: no cut lines on the second alien’s body after taking from the table. Chapter 2 - Warehouse - fixed lighting.
Chapter 3 - Polygon - fixed animation of getting weapons. Chapter 3 - Server - cameras are now watching Prometheus. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed shadows from objects that are not in front of the ship. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed lock print when taking an object before completion. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed display of the printed monkey. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed display of the printed glowstick. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed display of the printed suitcase.
Chapter 4 - Login - fixed sound of exploit release. Chapter 4 - Login - fixed sound of exploit scanning. Chapter 4 - Gardens - added sound for DDOS-mines. Chapter 4 - Garden - VR: fixed infoeye’s scanning. Chapter 4 - Garden - Imps don’t respawn when loading last checkpoint.
Chapter 5 - Hub - fixed blocked passage at the entrance to the hub. Chapter 5 - Hub - VR: fixed the ability to stand on the conveyor. Chapter 5 - Isolator - fixed lighting. Chapter 5 - Evacuation - fixed blocking in the room with the Chernyi’s corpse. Chapter 5 - Residential Unit - drone became less tenacious. Chapter 5 - Ship - rifle is no longer replaced by a gun when moving to the ship. Chapter 5 - Tech Elevator - fixed key card loss forgotten in the terminal passage to the Elevator. Chapter 5 - Tech Elevator - Prometheus no longer reacts to the fire before the fire started. Chapter 5 - Tech Elevator - fixed the inability to extinguish fire from the Elevator’s side.
Chapter 6 - TechZone Excluded the possibility of blocked passage after choosing the side. Chapter 6 - TechZone - You can no longer escape from the AI projections in the trolley. Chapter 6 - TechZone - VR: Fixed inability to get to the niche in the room of AI’s core.
Year-end. We were terribly tired, but anyway released the patch.
General - Chapters - fixed minor flaws in logic. General - Chapters - fixed minor visual defects. General - Chapters - added missing voice. With small steps of our sound designer, we are moving to the ideal. General - Chapters - fixed the "hangs" some objects "in the air" after the interaction with the devices. No more magic!
General - Prometheus - fixed display of Prometheus underwear. No comments. Chapter 2 - Insulator - improved visibility of the turret-tranquilizer sighting laser. Chapter 2 - Insulator - eliminated the inability to continue interrogation with lying on the alien subject. Chapter 2 - Insulator - eliminated the ability to fail after the victory in the treatment of disease with D.A.O.P. Chapter 2 - insulator - added the ability to cut the aliens off the Protocol. Attention, this leads to the violation of Protocol! Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed: player stuck in the black slime. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed stuck flash drives in black slime. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed consequences of the use of "meat" boot module. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed the possibility of using printed flash drives. Chapter 3 - Ship - fixed the ability to print a key card. How it was was originally intended. Chapter 5 - Ship - fixed the ability to scan a printed wife for printing. One is more than enough. Chapter 5 - Ship - fixed inability to print anything other than wife, after printing wife. Chapter 5 - Ship - fixed the ability to use chat in the absence of access to the network. Chapter 5 - Residential block - added checkpoint at the entrance to the residential block. Chapter 5 - insulator - Added a checkpoint at the entrance to the insulator.
Have a nice Holiday. Take care of yourself, and be cool!
Update 6 December Common - Chapters - Various minor (and more serious) logic bugs have been fixed (there is a large but uninteresting list). General - Chapters - Various minor (and more serious) visual defects have been fixed (there is a small but interesting list). General - Chapters -The overall sound of the game has been reworked. IN ALL CHAPTERS! And yes, we've added new music! EVEN MORE MUSIC!
Common - Pause - From now you can exit from pause screen by pressing ESC. Finally! Common - Wristwatch - Sound indication of the contamination proximity has been added. The wristwatch is really working now.
Common - VR - Traditional movement: we've added rotation for the right controller. How are you playing in this mode? Our testers still feel sick and giddy.
Chapter 2 - Isolator - Accidental reoccurrences of the aliens have been fixed. But we are not sure of that. Chapter 2 - Med. center - Protocol violation when you try to activate the assistant has been fixed. Chapter 2 - Med. center - In VR placing of the alien in a cryopod has been fixed. We're getting closer and closer to the official VR announcement. Chapter 3 - The Ship - Save point after "feeding" the reactor has been added. For some reason, there were a lot of deaths. Chapter 3 - The Ship - We've fixed the ability to immerse the "meat" copy of the loading module in the black liquid. And how did you come up to that? Chapter 4 - Firewall - Saving extra life has been added. Yes, you can get an extra life in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 - Complex - Tracking of the contamination level has been fixed. Cause it was kind of different from the plot. Chapter 5 - Hub - Door lock after the battle with drones has been fixed. That was kinda sad. Chapter 5 - Med. center- The second regrowth of the breast has been fixed (and having your brain freeze from this). Chapter 5 - Recreation - Updating the recipe screen has been fixed. Chapter 5 - Residential Unit - Now the monkey's noise will torment you only within the residential unit, but not throughout the complex. Chapter 5 - The Ship - Protocol violation while using the data upload helmet has been fixed. Now it's canonical. Chapter 6 - Technical Unit - The ability to interact with contamination in the elevator has been added. Please, try it. Chapter 6 - Technical Unit - We've reworked the balance of the battle on the mine car. Now, this moment delivers less suffering (in our opinion).
Localization - Russian - Various errors in the text have been fixed. Localization - Korean - Various errors in the text have been fixed.
General - VR - Fixed: applying vr movement in settings.
Chapter 1 - Locker room - Fixed rejection of the penis when urinating. Chapter 2 - Hub - Fixed missing doors in the elevator. Chapter 2 - Hub - Fixed hints after exiting the elevator. Chapter 3 - Complex - Removed invisible infestations. Chapter 3 - Isolator -Fixed infestations count destroyed during cell's sterilization. Chapter 5 - Evacuation - Added a checkpoint after canceling "evacuation".
General - Chapters - Fixed repeated and incorrect playback of sounds and dialogs. General - Chapters - Added missing voices. General - Chapters - Added missing texts. General - Chapters - Fixed various minor bugs in logic. General - Chapters - Fixed various minor bugs in visuals.
General - Achievements - Removed getting a "Have a nice day" achievement when performing the first violation. General - Achievements - Fixed getting several achievements simultaneously.
General - Enemies - Fixed a problem with a langolier appearing in the credits. General - Enemies - Fixed sudden disappearance of drones.
General - Player - Fixed run speed lock after shooting. General - Player - Fixed problems with the rifle.
General - Items - Fixed the problems with items appearing in the credits.
Localization - Russian - Corrected the phrases "на х*й" и "нах*й" according to the context. Localization - Korean - Fixed display of all texts in the game.
(You can see the trailer on the game’s page) Take on the role of the volunteer - a participant in the mission of the first contact, under the control of a soulless artificial intelligence. Experience conspiracies, aliens, hackers, blockchains, family drama, cyberpunk, a bit of latex and domination... and also a lot of sparkling (and not very sparkling) humor. https://youtu.be/hwyOF-ihZbc
As you may know, Protocol is going out on Steam really soon. That's why we invite you to visit the Terminus research complex and have a look at some new locations.