It's been a while since the last update landed, but we've been hard at work combing through all of the feedback we received from you lovely people since launch. The result is today's update to the game delivering numerous gameplay improvements, tweaks, and fixes across the board.
Many thanks for your support, and a special thank you goes out to everyone who participated in the public beta test of this update.
Much love from Croteam!
The Talos Principle 2 Update 1.1.0 Changelog
Visual changes:
- Added AMD FSR 3 (with Frame Generation).
- Added water ripples.
- Added extra decorations to the Lost Labs areas.
- Added visual effect for locked elevator beam.
- Toned down sky occlusion on some levels to avoid shimmering of DFAO effect and adjusted non-Lumen color to better match Lumen.
- Reduced performance degradation when moving.
- Fixed some of the ghost audio logs using incorrect models.
- Fixed incorrect numbers on some of the character appearances in Photomode.
- Fixed incorrect lighting on supported integrated GPUs from AMD.
- Fixed the issue where Laser Beams were affecting the background when using TSR upscaling and Lumen.
- Fixed a lot of instances where light was abruptly changing when not using Lumen.
- Fixed a lot of shadow and AO artifacts both in Lumen and Non-Lumen configurations.
- Fixed a lot of instances of premature Landscape LODing when using extreme FOV values.
- Fixed a lot of instances of inconsistent pop-in of far-away structures across all levels.
- Fixed “crazy-swaying” trees and grass across all levels.
- Fixed visual issues with volumetric fog in the Prometheus Sequence level when GI quality is set to ultra.
- Fixed an issue where long triangles on certain meshes were sometimes not rendered on AMD cards.
- Various minor environment visual fixes related to crumbs, foliage distribution, missing terrain and holes in cliffs
Gameplay:
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- Added controller vibration (can be switched off in Controls settings).
- Terminal font size option will now affect content in palm reader terminals.
- Photomode inputs can now be remapped.
- Sprint toggle option now behaves as sprint lock.
- Added "Player Speed" setting. Does not affect sprint speed.
- Added a setting to switch audio output devices.
- Added a setting to change the third person camera’s relative position behind the player.
- Added a setting that allows instantly teleporting to a gravity surface, instead of smoothly transitioning to it.
- Added a setting to switch camera behavior when transferring to another body.
- Added a setting to change subtitles size.
- Added a setting to change compass size.
- Added a setting to toggle developer console.
- Added video previews for motion sickness settings and image previews for color blindness settings.
- Enabled ambient occlusion in high GI quality preset.
- Improved accuracy of auto-detection of GPU performance.
- Limited texture and shadow quality options based on graphics card video memory size.
- Fixed the bug where Video Settings auto-detect would set upscaling method and/or preset incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue with sRGB gamma setting not saving between game sessions.
Puzzles
- Moved S3 Sphinx puzzle element to the correct location as indicated by the map.
- Improved S3 Pandora secret setup.
- Fixed a number of easy exploits where the player could enter a puzzle in an unintended way and/or finish the puzzle without solving it.
- Fixed a number of errors related to collisions and item placements inside puzzles which were making puzzles too hard/too easy when encountered.
- Fixed the bug where Avatar monuments statues didn't have proper collision, which enabled the player to target Pandora receiver from any position.
- Fixed the bug where some metal fence doors wouldn’t stay open in solved puzzles after restarting the game or checkpoint.
- It is no longer possible to connect devices through one side of the plasma door which had collisions set up improperly.
- In E2 “Loop” puzzle it is no longer possible to place drill hole and place it on pressure plate
- In N2-5 puzzle it is now possible to turn off the fan instead of jumping into it to remove the cube from bouncing fans.
- It is no longer possible to connect to the emitter in puzzle N2-1 from N2-3.
- It should no longer be possible to connect to blue receivers before plasma doors are open on the N2-Lost1 “Field of View” puzzle.
- S2-Gold “Out of the box” cannot be cheesed by putting a gravity beam over the plasma door and jumping into it anymore.
- In W1-2 It is no longer possible to place the Connector on top of the Rail Drone + Cube using a metal beam which the player could climb on.
- It is no longer possible to cheese E2-Gold puzzle by simply putting Connector onto the cube.
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