0.8.1.0

**0.8.1** is a minor content update released on 27 February 2023. The update includes new difficulties and a further rework to custom difficulties, a new "Challenge Mode", a new Monkey Paw cursed possession, and an improved equipment store interface.

## Additions

### Difficulty

* New "Insanity" difficulty (differences from Nightmare listed):
	+ Ghost will hide two types of evidence
	+ No cursed possession
	+ Ghost room changes more often
	+ Long hunt duration and kill increase duration
	+ Sanity pills restore much less sanity
	+ 75% starting sanity
	+ 6x multiplier
* Maximum reward multiplier possible is now ~15x
	+ Reduced the reward multiplier addition for several options
	+ Adjusted Apocalypse Challenge multiplier requirements:
		- Bronze: 6x+
		- Silver: 10x+
		- Gold: 15x
* Added rules to reduce rewards when certain combinations of options are turned on
	+ Will show a yellow warning icon beside the option
* 'Evidence given' option set to 2 or 3 will now soft cap the multiplier
* Removed 6s 'Grace Period' option
* Removed 'Sprint Duration' and 'Sprint Recharge' options, now defaults to 3s sprint/5s cooldown
* Changed 'Sprint' options to On/Off/Infinite
* New "rotational difficulty": Challenge Mode
	+ 26 difficulty modes, each available twice a year
	+ Completing the challenge 3 times on a specified map provides rewards
	+ Free equipment; no equipment loss
	+ Playable in solo or multiplayer

### Equipment

Monkey Paw
* Grants the player wishes
	+ Wishes can be found in Sunny Meadows
		- Wishes do not have to be found for the player to use them
	+ Exact mechanics will be revealed 2 weeks after release

Crucifix
* New visuals, audials, and textures

Tarot Cards
* “The Tower” card will now additionally double all ghost activity for 20s

### Other

* New riddle event consisting of runes in lobby
* Improved UV visuals
* Improved weather particle lighting
* New visual and audial weather effects on all windows when raining
* Several foliage objects will now be affected by windy weather outside
* You will now receive an in-game message when a new game update is available to download
* Fuse Box sparks now bounce off objects instead of clipping through them

## Changes

### Equipment

Crucifix
* Increased hunt cooldown from 5 seconds to 25 seconds (20 for Demon)

Haunted Mirror
* Favourite room will no longer be visible if used at 0% sanity

Summoning Circle
* Lighting a candle with no sanity will now extinguish it instantly
	+ Lighting the 5th candle with no sanity will cause an instant hunt

### Gameplay

* Saying "goodbye" on the Ouija Board no longer counts toward challenges
* Renamed the High School bathrooms to make it clearer where they are
* The night vision camera effect will now adjust brightness when entering and exiting foggy areas

### UI

Equipment Store
* Shop and storage reformatted to act similar to an online shopping cart
	+ Items will be added with + icons, then player chooses to Buy, Sell, Add or Remove
	+ Clear list with trash icon
* New icon to show number of items added to lobby
* New auto-add button for loadouts
	+ Will auto-add whenever player has enough equipment, else equipment must be bought first
* New All items loadout
* Several icons have been improved

### Other

* Reduced the range and resolution of several environmental lights slightly
	+ Will decrease the chance of shadows becoming overly pixelated when having lots of lights turned on in a location, and decreasing the chance of an object hitting the “maximum lights” limit (e.g. resulting in black floors or DOTS casting no light)
* Ghost Orbs can no longer go through walls into a different room
* Fog quality settings have been changed for better visual clarity across all settings
	+ Low – Downsampling at 2, no shadows
	+ Medium – No downsampling, no shadows
	+ High – No downsampling, receive shadows
	+ Removed blur effect
* Renamed Daily and Weekly Challenges to Daily and Weekly Tasks to avoid confusion with the new Challenge Mode difficulty
* Improved and fixed the visuals of light sources on the PC monitors in Prison
* Improved the visuals of the collectible cabinets in the warehouse lobby
* Failing to join a room with a password now gives a more descriptive error

## Bug fixes

* Ghosts can no longer interact with windows on the floor below them, in both Farmhouse locations
* Voice recognition will now work for all players if other players loaded in slowly
* Removed several safe spots in Prison, Maple Lodge Campsite, and School
* Several shaders and materials will now render correctly
* The Voodoo Doll can no longer stop hunts
* Using the Voodoo Doll, Tarot Cards, Music Box and the Summoning Circle will now count towards the “use Cursed Possessions” task
* Items will no longer teleport in the SM Courtyard when thrown in specific spots
* Patched up some holes in the Sunny Meadows Courtyard floor
* Removed an invisible wall upstairs in Edgefield
* Improved Anisotropic textures for radiators, rugs, outside ground, SM flooring
* Ghosts can now kill you on the blue beds in house maps
* Ghosts can now detect active electronic equipment if they were grabbed when active
* Voice recognition will no longer work if you have the ‘text’ voice recognition option enabled
* The Apocalypse stickers will now show in Singleplayer instead of Multiplayer
* A book in the Sunny Meadows Courtyard is no longer only a shadow
* Removed several shadow rendering issues in Sunny Meadows and Tanglewood
* Thaye will now have the correct interaction rate before aging
* Window knocks now count as an interaction for stats
* Tasks featuring “Asylum” will now display “Sunny Meadows”
* You can no longer sprint or move while in the death room
* Setting a preset for a custom difficulty and changing a cursed possession, will no longer apply that change to the actual preset difficulty, instead of just the Custom game you are editing
* Standing in DOTS light will no longer stop sanity drain
* You can now see your hands on your monitor when in VR and smooth camera is enabled
* Ghost orbs can no longer be seen with a photo camera
* The ball in the upstairs Ridgeview closet will no longer glitch when the hiding spot is blocked
* Ghost orbs in the outside "rooms" in Camp Woodwind will no longer be very high above the ground
* Video cameras will now receive the ghost glitch effects
* The “Sky Light” will now turn on and off accurately with your settings
* Lighter flame is now being considered for the Onryo hunt ability when blown out
* An Onryo will now have a higher chance to blow out a flame, the more players that are dead, instead of a lower chance
* Hunts will now end if all players are outside
* The haunted mirror will now drain a minimum of 20 sanity per use instead of 27

## References

1. ↑ *v8.1 and onwards! Development Preview #7 | 19/01/23*. 19 January 2023 (on Steam).
2. ↑ *Tempest | Update v0.8.1.0*, 27 February 2023 (on Steam).