Voice Chat Improvement & Performance | v0.18.1.0

Added

• Take photos through CCTV. While you watch a camera monitor, press Space (or A on controller) to take a photo through the selected camera
• Map reward multipliers are now shown in the lobby. Map cards, the dashboard and the map details panel show each map's pay multiplier
• Voice lip sync: Characters now move their mouths when their player talks in voice chat. The mouth follows the voice as you hear it, opening wider when they speak louder.

Voice chat overhaul

• Fixed voice cutting out mid-sentence.
• Added a jitter buffer, so choppy or crackling voices are much smoother on unstable connections.
• New noise suppression, automatic gain and a limiter: cleaner mics, less background noise, no more clipping when people shout.
• Better recovery from packet loss, and a higher voice bitrate.
• Push-to-talk no longer cuts off the end of your last word.
• Voices are now muffled through walls. More walls make them quieter and more muffled.

Balancing

• Evidence pacing: a ghost's evidence now shows up gradually over the contract instead of all at once at the start. Harder difficulties reveal it faster.
• Walk speed & Crouch speed is up 10%

Improvements

• Ghost orbs are much easier to see on CCTV and photos, and each orb now drifts on its own path. They also leave a faint, glittering dust trail.
• CCTV night vision (IR) is much clearer and no longer washed out by a white fog veil.
• Fixed blurry, low-resolution textures in rooms you watch through CCTV.
• The Brightness slider now has a wider range (0.75–1.25).
• You can now have several pets in the lobby at once.
• Press 4 to take out the zippo lighter instead of needing to scroll for it

Performance

• Laughless Carnival: large FPS boost. Some very heavy props were optimized.
• Photo camera: the photo costs much less performance while it's out
• Whitlock House: better FPS outdoors
• Ouija board event: fixed the big lag spike when the cinematic triggers.

Bug fixes

• Pressing escape in the character customizer now closes the customizer
• Fixed other players seeing your character "walking in place" while you're in the customizer.
• EMF photos no longer count when the EMF reader is switched off or in your pocket.
• Fixed the tutorial kit being impossible to deploy in non-English languages