Maze Creep Version 1.2

Version 1.2 has finally released! The game has a new trailer to celebrate!

I'll outline the major changes before getting into the more detailed changelog:

Combat Expansion

Combat capabilities have been vastly expanded. Tons of melee weapons, grenades, and crossbows have been added, allowing for you to kill stuff with more than just the revolver and the brick. One enemy that was previously unkillable can now die. Grenades make the toughest enemies in the game actually possible to kill in normal gameplay. A new subgoal has been added to test your combat skills! The tutorial has been overhauled to include a combat portion!

In addition, an extra inventory slot will make combat tools fit much more cozily in the inventory, and new player animations make combat feel more involved!

Haunt Mode

When you die, you'll find in addition to tighter spectating, you can now enter Haunt Mode to play as a ghost! You can flicker the lights, send messages through the crystal ball, and more! You can use these abilities to annoy your friends or to aid them if you are creative enough! It's also simply a more fun way to watch the game.

Outdoor Locations

The game's environmental variety has expanded massively with the addition of new outdoor locations, including two outdoor mazes! Some of these locations are what you'd expect, some are much stranger. There are some new indoor locations as well, for those of you worried I would theme my update instead of adding all the random junk I want.

Custom Mode Overhaul

The game's custom mode has been massively overhauled. The amount of settings have been roughly doubled, and are leveraged in a reworked Nightmare mode that is now so hard it is funny instead of so unfun it is funny, as well as a new lower difficulty Party mode. There might be enough settings to create entire custom game modes now.

Alright, here's the full changelog:

- Content

• Six new enemies, targeted at expanding both the early game variety and the late game.
• Two new mazes, both of which are outdoors.
• Two new subgoals.
• Melee weapons.
• Grenade.
• Crossbow.
• More new items.
• Three new break rooms.
• A new hazard.
• Maze Feature generation system, used for several new features and now used for the crystal ball.
• Warped "biome" in the Jackrooms.
• New props in the Jackrooms.
• Dead ends can now spawn props and loot.
• Props can now drop loot when destroyed.
• Pots.
• Toilets.
• Haunt Mode.
• Party Difficulty, new lowest difficulty with much easier settings.
• Mercy Rule, a new custom mode setting used on the Party and Hard difficulties. If players perform badly, Maze Creep will not spawn on the next maze below a configured depth to help struggling players.
• New custom mode settings: Max mercy depth, ladder climb delay, revive with flashlight, starting baseball bats, additional enemies, enemy spawn delay, and enemies per strike.
• Extras menu replaced with new Archive menu unlocked by default. Notes are still unlocked at depth 10, enemies replaced with subjects, a list which includes non-enemy entities. Mazes and items have been added to the menu.
• Mazes are now customizable.
• Enemies can now have their minimum depth customized. Several enemies can now have targeted nerfs applied.
• Tutorial expansion to improve revival and throwing tutorials, add combat, and better explain Maze Creep's hearing. Maze Creep hearing visualizer can also be enabled during normal gameplay.
• New Settings: High resolution mode, head bob slider, screen shake slider.
• Five new cosmetics.
• New achievements for new and old tasks.
• New lore notes for new and old subjects.
• New crystal ball messages.
• Steam Cloud support.
• Event lobby functionality, only hostable by me.
• Secrets...

- Changes (Some spoilers for base game content listed here!)

• Base inventory size has been increased by 1.
• Reworked explosions to affect most of the enemy roster.
• Maze Creep can now be lured to a target behind him who yells at him to peel him off vulnerable players.
• Increased the range of Maze Creep's kill sounds.
• Mr. Spider has received a new web attack to pull players off of obstacles.
• Crazy Craig's health has been reduced.
• Crazy Craig now looks at deafened players.
• Crazy Craig no longer collides with players while fleeing.
• Several enemies now spawn in immediately instead of through the delayed spawn system.
• Rebalanced Find My Pages.
• Freak King's health has been reduced.
• Freak King is no longer immune to explosions.
• Ronnie Rabbit now never escaped during subgoal Survive if he was defeated in the regular maze.
• New Survive effect for Eyes.
• Psychomouth now disables on maze end.
• Hammond's minimum delay time before his timer appears is no longer 0 seconds.
• Minimum spawn times for Werewolf Invasion and Man from the Dancefloor.
• Tunnel Dweller can now die.
• Tunnel Dweller's initial spawn delay is slightly longer.
• Several enemies have had their damage reduced.
• Horrorcrow's glow has been changed from red to orange.
• Infection's design has been changed.
• Redid The Different's jumpscares
• Maze Creep can no longer hear quiet sounds through walls while chasing.
• Subgoal Take Pictures' minimum depth has been reduced to 8, and now has dynamic picture count requirements.
• Glow stick range buffed.
• Iron bar now opens for enemies at a larger range.
• Breaking a lightbulb now makes a lure-type sound.
• Loot can now spawn in special rooms.
• Trapdoor budge when discovering a subgoal is now no longer audible to Maze Creep.
• Ronnie Rabbit's door button can be triggered by throwing items at the button.
• Landmine explosions can now be attributed to players.
• Landmines will now be triggered whenever an object triggering it leaves it, even if it isn't physically.
• Items on the ground of a break room are now saved.
• Enemies are now unlocked by being physically exposed to them rather than them simply spawning in.
• Difficulty display has been made more detailed and difficulty selection in general has been improved.
• Loud noises now appear more prevalently on the noise meter.
• Added an indicator when push to talk is active.
• Lore notes in archive are no longer in addition order.
• Man from the Dancefloor's input display order has been reworked.
• Delete Save File on Loss custom setting has been renamed to Use Checkpoints, with its meaning inversed.
• Added a warning about arachnophobia mode and a quick way to disable it to the main menu.
• Added fallback fonts for relevant displays.
• Changed stat tracking on imp kill achievements.
• Improved networking robustness.
• Updated Vivox.
• Improved ragdoll syncing.
• Changed movement noise states to be client authoritative.
• Rendering is now more performant.
• Start rooms have been reworked so their shape can now be dynamic or random.
• Older broken prop UV maps have been reworked.
• Battery and flashlight models are now slightly higher.
• Revolver fire sound will no longer cut off if you switch off of it.
• Splat sound on fall death now plays for all players.
• Rick the Killer now has a death sound.
• Blowing out candles now plays a sound.
• Added new version notification.
• Adjusted Psychomouth visibility bounds.
• Destroy revival orbs and ragdoll components of disconnecting players.
• Made it impossible to place revival orbs in the storage chest.

- Bug Fixes (Some spoilers for base game content)

• Fixed forced enemies not properly being removed from the spawn pool.
• Fixed Woodsman animations.
• Fixed Yellowface spawning snares inside the exit ladder rarely.
• Fixed AC being able to spawn inside the Door Which Kills You If You Walk Through It.
• Fixed node navigators getting stuck on props in the Jackrooms.
• Fixed Find My Pages and long armed grabbers killing through walls.
• Fixed Evil Dude behavior and active ragdoll.
• Fixed Skinwalker instantly going into chase during subgoal Survive.
• Fixed Hammond's kill animation not playing when killing a player who isn't the host.
• Fixed Bottle Taker being able to open the break room trapdoor before the game starts and potentially soft-locking the game if the host subsequently dies.
• Fixed rare untraversable Jackrooms generation.
• Fixed grouped enemies occasionally spawning in places they cannot escape from.
• Fixed werewolf occasionally teleporting clients who are grabbed to closets (do not ask how this happens, I don't know).
• Fixed desynced voice state on late join.
• Fixed max strikes not correctly synced to the client.
• Fixed clients not able to climb down ladder while the host is climbing.
• Fixed Ronnie Rabbit vents desynced across network.
• Fixed Ronnie Rabbit cameras only being synced visually.
• Fixed Ronnie Rabbit's timer being incorrect on multiplayer save reload.
• Fixed spectate ban inconsistencies.
• Fixed selected mazes and breaks not being saved, which could impact note spawns.
• Fixed shop reputation decaying on save reload.
• Fixed Coward achievement being unachievable.
• Fixed Run elevator and casino gates being in the wrong spot on save reload.
• Fixed save buttons displaying incorrectly if a just created save errors out.
• Fixed achievements being possible without achievements enabled in some instances.
• Fixed seeds being different on first play versus reloading.
• Fixed erroneous Mortal 8 Ball results.
• Fixed issue with dying holding a flashlight and still holding an item on revival.
• Fixed ragdoll recovery direction and tendency to enter the creaking rooms.
• Fixed camera behaving strangely at high framerates.
• Fixed Rick the Killer being unable to be hit with bricks while ragdolled.
• Fixed clipboard locking players who are reading the note as it is picked up.
• Fixed clipboard failing to render notes while dropped.
• Fixed client does not see the name of rechargeable items on interaction tooltip.
• Fixed certain UI elements blocking UI interaction when not intended.
• Fixed storage box and customization chest colliders so items will not clip into them.
• Fixed the physics of mini-maze lightbulbs.
• Fixed revival ring height.
• Fixed tripwire lighting (this may still need another pass).
• Fixed buzzsaw death sound being global.

Thank you to everyone who joined the game in the last month! You got the game at a good time. The game is only going to get better. See the previous announcement for the roadmap! Join the Discord to stay up to date, make suggestions, and report bugs Here!