Hello expeditioners,

We're dropping our first hotfix for The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu onto Steam.

This patch is designed to address a lot of the issues that people have encountered since release. There are some improvements to optimisation & camera selection, bug fixes, balance, Crossplay (particularly finding lobbies with your friends) and more.

PLEASE NOTE: If you've been playing on the beta branch, you may need to restart your Steam client or revert back to the default beta branch. If you need a refresher on how to do that, you can find it here.

• Improved performance profiles for PC

• Added server setting to be able to find sessions using a password

• Ability to organise items in your own inventory with a mouse during interactions with the wagon added

• Modified the Saints shop so these are no longer bought at the woodshop. Saints are now equipped for a smaller cost at the ox wagon before an expedition

• Added a pre-configuration screen on first launch letting players choose a cinematic camera or a standard camera (standard camera may help with feelings of delayed interaction or motion sickness)

• Key bindings are now saved between sessions

• "Censer mission" updated with several improvements. Purple corruption areas modified and are slower to kill players.

• Crawling canopy enemy (spider) does 50% less damage.

• Added a machete to starting gear of all missions so players are never stuck with only knives.

• Adjustments to general enemy damage difficulty

• Slightly buffed stamina and run speed when tired.

• Knives do slightly more damage.

• Pole weapons have a bit more range.

• Enemies take longer to spawn when the forest wakes up.

• Fixed replication for some death animations, which was causing T-posing.

• Fixed replication of the "bleeding" state on clients who were not seeing the effect.

• Fixed cases of players getting stuck on walls after climbing.

• Fixed "Game Saving" icon not being displayed with some events.

• Fixed motion blur setting slider.

• Fixed Mi-Go enemy behavior which did not cause them to search for players, so they rarely showed up in game sessions.

• Fixed a crash related to isolation fog.

• Fixed many other minor bugs.

• Added far LODs for many areas where pop-in was visible.

• Optimisation improvements for console versions

We also have two known issues that will be resolved in a following patch:

• Saints are disappearing after one expedition unless you restart a lobby

• Issues where mics are not correctly being picked up in-game

This goes alongside other things that the team are looking into like combat feel and the tools you have to deal with the threats this cursed jungle sends your way. Stay tuned for more information on what's next!

Thank you so much for supporting our team, and playing the Mound: Omen of Cthulhu.

Share your thoughts in the forums or on our Discord[discord.gg] - we're listening.

The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu - out now on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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Hello Expeditioners,

We hope your journeys towards the Mound have been full of adventure, treasure, and definitely not full of horrifying hallucinations and mind bending creatures.

Since launch, we've had a lot of feedback and the teams are already hard at work on a first patch that will resolve some of the things you've brought up.

Please note that if you want to try this Open Beta patch, the crossplay isn't enabled.

• Optimisation (FPS & performance)

• Inventory Management (coming next patch for keyboard & mouse. Controller support to follow in a later update)

• Server Finder Password for playing with friends on different platforms

• A preconfig screen letting you choose between the Cinematic or Default camera (this already exists in the settings for the players who may feel a lack of responsiveness or lag, if you want to try it out already).

• Other Quality of Life Features and Bug Fixes

• Some balancing and configuration tweaks

We'll have a full list of the changes prepped to go live alongside the patch, so stay tuned for more information.

A look at the upcoming config page when starting the Mound: Omen of Cthulhu.

And if you're interested, you can check these updates right now on the Open Beta branch we've set up here on Steam. This will allow you to play the latest version of the patch as it stands right now. It's possible that this version may have some unintended bugs, so if you come across anything, please let us know in the Steam discussions or our developer Discord.

Just note, that while playing on the Open Beta branch you will not be able to play with console players or players who are not on the same branch. So if you're looking to play with friends, make sure that you're on the correct branch to be able to play with them. You can swap branches at any time.

• RESTART your Steam App

• Go to your Steam game library

• Right click on The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu and click [c]Properties...[/c]

• Select the tab [c]Game Versions & Betas[/c]

• In the first dropdown box select [c]\[OPEN BETA][/c]

• Click close and wait for the update to finish downloading

• Please review your graphic setting in game again after applying the patch.

   

We're planning to release this patch on all platforms early next week with some additional tweaks and changes that will be made ahead of release.
Thank you so much for supporting our team, checking out the Mound: Omen of Cthulhu and we hope your next trip into the Jungle won't be your last.

Share your thoughts in the forums or on our Discord[discord.gg] - we're listening.

The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu - out on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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