the travelers

Hello and welcome to the "version update" update of The Travelers, which features many accumulated smaller bug fixes that couldn't be addressed sooner due to the other fires that needed to be put out. Since this is the first update where many changes have been collected instead of being pushed as quickly as possible, rapid-fire, per-emergency, this update will officially be referred to as version 1.0.1. Here is the changelog! It's nice to finally be able to do one of these: Buffed acid suit / sanity helmet to fully resist cold when worn together Adjusted the negative altitude of craters to be more realistic with other environmental features In the crafting menu, the amount of the viewed item you currently own is now displayed above the "craft" button Water is now only considered hazardous during autowalk if you aren't wearing the appropriate clothing to survive it Closing/reopening the game during a temporary teleport will now restore the countdown timer Added a few more anti-piracy measures, since apparently the game has now been uploaded to pirate websites. Since this is an online game it's easy to refute at least. Added an invert-scroll option to the Gameplay Settings menu Added a hidden setting to reduce the instancing-count in the text/rectangle shaders. The default is 10202 which can be high for certain graphics cards with lower VRAM (such as in lower-end laptops). This setting isn't shown in-game, but if the game crashes due to low VRAM while lots of text is being displayed (such as while reading a transcript with the map zoomed all the way out), reducing this value should help. It can be found in the settings.tt2 file in your appdata folder, beside the name "rect_text_instancing". Try 5000 or 1000, don't go too low. Increased the contrast of the colors of Bob's couches If you die during a temporary-teleport, the corpse is returned to the original spot, not dropped where you died. This confused many players who thought their bodies had vanished, so a clarifyi...

One week ago, I released my first game, The Travelers. Despite a few months of off-and-on testing by about dozen players, the launch was a total disaster. Something was horribly wrong with the netcode and players could not join and play at all. I was in front of my computer for 3 days desperately trying to get everything fixed. Things finally smoothed out, though, and after a good many complaints and a few refunds, people were finally able to dig into the game. I cannot thank you all enough for how much love you've shown. 5-10 players consistently since launch, so much discussion about the lore, so much work put into solving the mechanics of the game's worldwide puzzle. It's been so rewarding to continue working on this game, building new features and fixing (lots of) bugs to get everything as perfect as possible.I am truly humbled by the positive reviews so far and the amount of time people have spent playing. This post is just my way of saying thank you so much for playing and enjoying my game, even with how badly things went for those first few days. I am so thankful and appreciative of the community that has already formed.There'll be changelogs and a few feature updates coming soon now that I can stop panicking about the server issues and spamming required updates on Steam. For now, though, the game can finally just breathe and stay online for a few days whlie the smaller bugs get addressed.Enjoy your travels, and happy puzzle-solving!