Greetings, Brother and Sisters!

We’ve put together a balance/bug fixing patch for our last major update: Last Year version 1.0.18! If you do not see the prompt to update, you may need to restart your Steam client.

With Patch 1.0.18, we’ve made several balance changes and bug fixes. Here’s a look at the some of the changes we’ve made in this update:

BALANCE CHANGES:
• Increased Utility cooldown on Spider, Slasher, and Strangler to 12 seconds
• Reduced the cooldown on the Giant Charge to 7 seconds
• Reduced Human tank to 50% damage reduction, instead of 80%
• Reduced Strangler Smoke throwing distance
• Reduced the duration of the Strangler Smoke effect on Classmates
• Classmates can walk and run slightly faster
• Slowed down the speed of Giant punches slightly to reduce “cornering”
• Molotov deals more damage
• Increased Flamethrower damage
• Reduced Proximity Mine trigger time
• Increased “Ghost Mode” when players respawn from 5 to 10 seconds
• Cryptid health has been reduced
• Reduced the difficulty of certain challenges, including the Ambush challenge

BUG FIXES:
• Resolved a Fatal Error crash when all Fiend skills are not equipped
• Fixed collisions not behaving properly when thrown by Giant
• Classmates could occasionally fall through trap doors

We’ve also received reports of infinite black screens. This is usually resolved by going into the properties menu of the game in your Steam Client, selecting the “Local Files” tab, and selecting the “Verify integrity of game files” option. If this does not work, uninstalling and reinstalling the game usually fixes the issue.

We’ll be monitoring the community to ensure these changes and fixes are working and being well received. Thank you all again for the continued support of this title, and your faith in this dev team. We’re all working very hard to bring you the best Last Year experience possible!

See you in The Nightmare!

Unitas,
Brother Justin