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We've discovered a consistent way to reproduce the progress loss issue on PS5, and possibly other platforms.

Users who spam the X button on their PS5 controllers during the game's splash screen may enter the main menu and see their progress as Rank 1 with 0 Expeditions. If you see your progress in the main menu in this state you should exit the game immediately to prevent that information from being written to your save file. At this point your save data is still intact, but if you continue to play it will be overwritten with the incorrect information.

Until the upcoming patch is released containing the fix for this issue. Players should avoid pressing the X button repeatedly while entering the game.

This patch was originally slated for this coming Monday, but will be delayed a few days in order to finally patch this issue, and include some additional features we've been working on.

Please note that this patch will also contain a way to recover most of your progress based on the information extracted from your trophies.

We apologize for this very severe issue and the damage it has caused to so many players.

Hello!

 

We've dropped the first patch for The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu onto Steam, Xbox and PlayStation.

 

This addresses a lot of the issues that people have been discussing since launch last week.

 

There are some improvements to optimization & 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.

 

Patch notes:

Key Changes:

• Improved performance profiles for PC
• Optimization improvements on Consoles (more planned in a future update)
• Added server setting to be able to find sessions using a password
• Ability to organize items in your own inventory with a mouse during interactions with the wagon added (PC Only)
• 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

Balance

• "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 the 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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 behaviour 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.

Misc

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

 

Please Note: we still have more improvements planned, including further optimization improvements (particularly on PlayStation that will be in the following patch). We have two other known issues that will be fixed in the following patch.

• Saints are disappearing after one expedition unless you restart a lobby
• Issues where mics are not correctly being picked up in-game