For Witness fans who may be interested in the latest puzzle game from Witness developer Thekla, Order of the Sinking Star, will have an announcement next Tuesday, August 18th. No time given yet. See the offical announcement here:
The official X channel just posted. Jon also said on last nights stream that he screwed up the date earlier when he said next week. So release date announcement is imminent!
New platform release announcement and new trailer premieres tomorrow per the official channels:
https://x.com/sinkingstargame/status/2079280428242854373?s=46&t=ILklGBfbGcvFAn\_wjDm-zw
As was previewed on recent streams, Thekla has been working on graphical performance upgrades for lower-end devices. On Steam you can opt into a new beta branch to test out the updates, including:
- Optimizations for faster frame rate, especially on lower-end devices! (60fps on most levels on Steam Deck)
- A new, lower-profile graphics setting "Very Performance" that can be used on these platforms to achieve these frame rates (or better battery life).
- Increased compatibility with older GPUs and systems with less RAM. (Still no shader model 6.5 support, but we are looking at this).
- Separate volume controls for music, sound effects and character voice
- Control vsync, frame rate cap, and antialiasing mode from the Graphics submenu.
- Switch the text language dynamically from the menu without having to fiddle with Steam settings ...
- And many more!
Source: https://x.com/jonathan\_blow/status/2075711500153676276?s=46&t=ILklGBfbGcvFAn\_wjDm-zw