Release Notes for Dreams in the Witch House
Update v1.05 (16/03/2023)
- Fixed an issue where leaving the library hall could have caused a crash if day cycle change happened at the same time
- Fixed an issue where Walter might have got stuck at the library rooms, if room change and day cycle change happened at the same time
- Fixed an issue where Walter commented about having a study session with Allison on Sunday dawn, if he missed the meeting on the Saturday before
- Fixed an issue where Walter commented on the kidnapped child after waking up, even if he had saved the child already
- Hovering mouse over Sickness status label in Character Bar now shows Sickness advancement rate multiplier
- Added more detailed medicine descriptions to Witchopedia
- Minor typo fixes
Balance adjustments:
- Sickness increase speed halved if Walter is not Drenched / Freezing
- Adjusted Sickness increase / decrease values when Walter is sleeping / resting to be consistent
- Adjusted Cultist city encounter chance
- Normal difficulty: Increased starting money to 12 (was 10)
- Easy difficulty: Increased starting money to 14 (was 12)
- Easy difficulty: Weekly allowance increased to 14 dollars (was 12)
- Easy difficulty: Exam money rewards increased by one dollar
- Easy difficulty: Good sleep now grants +0.5 SAN bonus (was +0.2)
- Easy difficulty: Good rest now grants +0.2 SAN bonus (was +0.1)
- Easy difficulty: Odd Job payment increased to 3 dollars (was 2 dollars)
- Easy difficulty: Allison / Elwood conversation Sanity gain increased to +0.5 (was +0.2)
- Easy difficulty: Buying Bootleg whisky gives now 10 doses of alcohol (was 5)
Update v1.04 (05/03/2023)
- Added Steam Cloud saves
- Disabled the map hotkey from all of the dream locations
- Fixed an issue where travelling to the witch's hut after killing the rat could have still spawned the rat in that location
- Fixed an issue where the "Investigator" achievement didn't unlock if the last required evidence triggered Armitage's "Joe's full story" dialog
- Disabled the option to accidentally travel to the alien city, if Walter had not visited it before. Previously doing that could have caused errors
- Fixed some typos
Update v1.03 (26/02/2023)
- You can no longer skip the May-Eve event by spending the night in Elwood's room
- Fixed an issue where using the rod at the island could have caused a freeze, if the text speed was set very low
- Fixed an issue where not reporting to Armitage about being trapped in the basement could have caused a game freeze later on when exiting the Special Collection
- Selecting the "Delete existing save games" option in the main menu now deletes existing save games
- Fixed an issue where the rat could run through the damaged tin sheet rat hole cover
- Giving the dead rat to Armitage, and telling all the facts about it at the same time, now gives all the correct evidence points
- The option to ask Fisherman about the previous customer will now be properly removed, if Walter has the rod
- Finding and interacting with the dead rat in the secret room will now unlock the "Exterminator" achievement
- One variation of the bad endings will now unlock the "The Blind Idiot God" achievement
- Fixed some typos
Update v1.02 (19/02/2023)
- Fixed an issue where Walter wouldn't comment on the exam results, if he got exactly one exam point
- Closing the notes / To-do list no longer disables the fast travel block
- "The King in Yellow" index card in the card catalogue no longer causes issues when talking to Armitage
- When staying the night at Elwood's place, the medicine dialog now shows only the valid medicines
- Fixed an issue on the third dream, where injured Brown Jenkin could freeze the game while Walter was talking to the witch
- Fixed an issue where interacting with the inventory books or the strange rod on the map screen could have caused a crash or a freeze
- Pressing Esc at the dream world epilogue no longer freezes the game
- Replaced one Public Domain store music track with another PD track
- "Even Death May Die" achievement will now unlock if Walter dies during the ritual
- Fixed an issue where showing an unfinished Theory papers to Armitage could have caused an error when showing the papers later again