Experimental Branch and How to use it

[sean.campbell]

Hey everyone! We've just put out our first 'experimental' build. We're going to use an 'experimental' branch on steam to put out the latest builds before they hit the default branch- they will often feature changes that need battle testing before we roll it out to the full audience. This one in particular features a unity version update, and we want to check it works the same way as the last one did before we put it on the main branch.

To opt-in you have to right click on the game in your Steam library and select properties. Then click on Betas and from there you will have the option to select the beta you would like to opt into. Once there click on that dropdown and select experimental.

The first update just going out now on the experimental branch should hopefully be a good step towards optimisation!

[Roland]

Any chance we can get patch notes for the experimental like we do the regular?
Would be nice to know what's going on before opting in

[Anker]

The pros: Black market people actually appear to go to work now. Incredible, I know.
Cons: You can no longer reuse codebreakers.

I wouldn't even mind the codebreaker thing if they fixed the thing that drove me to spam them: The need to break into every safe on the map to hope for a rare sync disk. If they just added all the sync disks for legitimate sale, I'd go back to never using the things.

[Anker]

Here's what I want to know: Did they fix Beauty making you less likely to get information instead of more?

[sean.campbell]

Originally posted by Roland:

Any chance we can get patch notes for the experimental like we do the regular?
Would be nice to know what's going on before opting in

Hey! We upload patch notes for Experimental updates as well. Please check the news section for this: https://steamcommunity.com/games/986130/announcements/detail/3692440004781228292

[Roland]

Originally posted by sean.campbell:

Originally posted by Roland:

Any chance we can get patch notes for the experimental like we do the regular?
Would be nice to know what's going on before opting in

Hey! We upload patch notes for Experimental updates as well. Please check the news section for this: https://steamcommunity.com/games/986130/announcements/detail/3692440004781228292

I did see that a few days ago, thanks! You guys are awesome!

[Yapping Frank]

Originally posted by Anker:

The pros: Black market people actually appear to go to work now. Incredible, I know.
Cons: You can no longer reuse codebreakers.

I wouldn't even mind the codebreaker thing if they fixed the thing that drove me to spam them: The need to break into every safe on the map to hope for a rare sync disk. If they just added all the sync disks for legitimate sale, I'd go back to never using the things.

your suggestion is utterly terrible, it would completely destroy the hunt for them and the rarity

[Roland]

Originally posted by LOS Velký Churro LOS:

Some reprocations for doing bad stuff like stealing and so on that damage your bad behaviour like stealing fithing and so on, the possibility to shoot guns would be also dope

Yo dingus!
The edit button exists for a reason!
Stop violating the Steam community guidelines by spamming reply after reply when no one else has sad anything, instead of just editing your last reply.
We don't need 5 notifications in a row from you, let alone 3 in 1 hour.

[Yapping Frank]

Some reprocations for doing bad stuff like stealing and so on that damage your bad behaviour like stealing fithing and so on, the possibility to shoot guns would be also dope

Autosave function would be really apreciated

What would be very lovely is to have a way to change your suit for example and a hat, buy different customizable vests. Maybe even new board and pins and papers for example in the ''Case'' Tab after pressing ''f''. To have more ways to spend money. An increase of prices/cost would be nice.

I would love the addition of more addictions like ability to smoke cigars, get alcohol or pill dependent, sugar cravings from cookies and cola like of the gen modifiers does, if used too much and maybe a urge to use the toilet from food and drinks.

Definetly a way where the cases can get solved in various ways like folowing a certain story in game (email paths, received messages. follow person via securiry systems movement, made calls, addition of letters maybe?) Since one gets the hang of it i am able to solve most cases in 1 - 2 days even though having extreme difficulty with long missions set up
Harder acces to passwords would be nice on harder difficulties, cuz the administrator pw, are easy to raed out.

Maybe having different a serial killer stlyles where uses someone elses stuff to deceive you, like planting evidence and another could leave some items as a clue behind another could try plant it on someone else another could be hiding from you

More gagdgets aswell and maybe to the different killers, maybe they could kindapp or hide the bodies and they will get reported missing and youd had to look for it if its true er they ran off to someone else for example

Some reprocations for doing bad stuff like stealing and so on that damage your bad behaviour like stealing fithing and so on, the possibility to shoot guns would be also dope

[4th]

Is this game still being updated? It has so much more potential!

[Ilvin]

Originally posted by 4th:

Is this game still being updated? It has so much more potential!

version 1.0 is being released soonish I believe

[generic hooman moat.gg]

Originally posted by Yapping Frank:

Originally posted by Anker:

The pros: Black market people actually appear to go to work now. Incredible, I know.
Cons: You can no longer reuse codebreakers.

I wouldn't even mind the codebreaker thing if they fixed the thing that drove me to spam them: The need to break into every safe on the map to hope for a rare sync disk. If they just added all the sync disks for legitimate sale, I'd go back to never using the things.

your suggestion is utterly terrible, it would completely destroy the hunt for them and the rarity

terrible how? The hunt, as it stands, involves breaking into every last residence and workplace and going though every last square millimetre for them, or going through side jobs until you get the disks you need.

[Gangstalker]

Anyone know if performance is noticeably better on the experimental branch? Main branch is not so good right now, going outside will cut your FPS in half.

[thisserviceismadeoffail]

Originally posted by Yapping Frank:

Originally posted by Anker:

I wouldn't even mind the codebreaker thing if they fixed the thing that drove me to spam them: The need to break into every safe on the map to hope for a rare sync disk. If they just added all the sync disks for legitimate sale, I'd go back to never using the things.

your suggestion is utterly terrible, it would completely destroy the hunt for them and the rarity

The whole point of the system is it's based on the Deus Ex system, which rewards you for going out of your way to find them, but also tries to make them meaningful choices when you do.