Someday You’ll Return Cuts Content to Improve Gameplay Added 5/24 update

Dear community,

We have recently released patch 1.2 that introduced some of the promised new features. We just want to talk a bit about motivation for that.

Over the last days, we’ve received so much positive feedback from many of you. We would like to thank you so much for your kind words! You can’t understand how much did this help to our tiny three-man team.

There is however one feature that wasn’t accepted too well – the stealth sequences. Watching streams, we’ve found out that some of the players have little to no problem to go through them while others can really struggle. We’ve been thinking about how to improve this and eventually decided to give you all a choice.

Patch 1.2 includes a brand new potion, which is called “Devil’s Pact”. This potion, for the price of losing a little bit of positive karma, cloaks you for 30 minutes from the fog children. Of course, you shouldn’t still try to approach them (they will see through the veil if you come close enough), but if you let them be, they will ignore you and you can make your way through stealth areas very easily. If you want to play these scenes in our original way, simply don’t drink the potion and you will experience our version. It’s entirely up to you and your choice. This feature influences many in-game systems but we’ve been testing days and nights and we hope you will enjoy this quite substantial addition to the game.

Another new feature is a “quality of life” improvement. If you press caps lock, you will toggle a Run lock feature (always run). Please keep in mind, that the game sometimes prevents you from running, so the Run lock is not synchronized to the “caps lock” green LED on your keyboard. Whenever you want to lock running, simply hit the key and you are all set.

Now here is a list of other fixes the patch brings:

Feature: Game now saves at the beginning of the Lea bench scene

Feature: After the bench scene, Lea should wait for Daniel before running deeper into the woods

Feature: Simplification of a tunnel bunker climbing wall

Feature: Devil‘s Pact herbs added to relevant locations

Critical: Potential game-breaking bug after quitting the game in the first bunker just after entering the bottom part.

Critical: Potential game-breaking bug if players don’t lock both latches at the cottage window

Critical: Potential game-breaking bug during the last rockfall if players fell into a trap during the escape scene

Critical: Game no longer hangs if the player enters connected slide from the bottom part

Critical: Fixed armoire movement in the morning after the cottage night

Critical: Fixed rare game-loading bug, which might cause many random issues

Critical: Fixed rare bug by ensuring underground level loading in the chapel

Fix: Lea now waits prior to a bunker before starting the dialogue

Fix: To-Do task correctly appears while searching for Lea

Fix: Lucky Leaf Camp box is now among collectibles

Fix: Completion level meter fixed when assembling a doll

Fix: Fixed karma when handing a doll over

Fix: Lea should not run in circles unless she really wants to

Fix: You can’t enter the Lea scene while calling with Eleanora

Fix: Adjusted walk speed while calling with someone

Fix: Call screen no longer occasionally disappears while being on the phone

Fix: After exiting the cave with Lea, you can no longer re-enter

Fix: Textures should be now readable even with lower settings (we are still investigating the cause)

Audio: Set voice-overs as a stream. Hopefully, it should help with VO cutting.

Audio: Fixed fly-buzzing attenuation

Audio: Fixed volume in the final cave scene with Lea

Audio: Fixed volume in the third bunker scene

Audio: Fixed garden door opening sound

Achievements: Fixed Guitarist achievement

Achievements: Fixed Folklorist achievement

Achievements: Fixed Complete Doll achievement

Achievements: Fixed Broken Doll achievement

Thank you for your ongoing support and for helping us further improve Someday You’ll Return.

Brno, Czech Republic. May 20, 2020 – CBE Software has listened to their customers and made the unusual decision to remove content from their newly released title Someday You’ll Return in favor of improving the overall game.

While many games undergo patching post-launch, most add content that was not ready in time for release. After reading responses from customers, CBE Software made the decision to remove hours of gameplay content, improving the overall experience while maintaining the taught, narrative-driven horror that fans loved.

“After reading feedback from our customers, it became clear to us that some parts of the game, mostly in the second half, were not enjoyed as we had expected them to be. We took a hard look at the game and asked ourselves how we could make it better. While it is very important for us to remain true to our vision for the game, we felt if there were ways we could make improvements without compromise, we should do this even if it means sacrificing months of hard work.
We realized that some of the content and puzzles were not adding any value to the main game story. It is very important to us that our players have the best game experience, so after careful consideration we cut away hours of superfluous content, making the game better as a whole. Ingenious explorers out there shouldn’t worry, though, as they would still be able to access some of the “missing” areas by careful exploration and doing additional tasks well off the beaten path.
One of the features some players didn’t enjoy was stealth. To aid those players who dislike stealth, we’ve added a new, in-game potion called “Devil’s Pact”. This potion turns the player almost invisible to enemies during stealth sequences. Now players who dislike stealth sequences can drink the potion and through them easily, while players who enjoy being stealthy can keep playing the original version. We strongly believe that offering this choice is the best option for both types of players.
” - Jan Kavan, CBE Software co-founder.

Someday You'll Return is a narrative-driven, psychological horror game with intimate concepts of fatherhood, fear, and the refusal to accept one’s past. As Daniel you search for your missing daughter, Stela, in a place that you swore never to return to, the ancient Moravian forests. While the story contains strong horror elements it’s not always the most obvious monsters that are the most frightening. Your search leads deep into both the woods and your mind and reveals secrets that should have stayed buried.

About Someday You'll Return
Someday You’ll Return takes place in scenic areas of the Czech Republic, with well known landmarks to capture the atmosphere of its Bohemian nature. Using a typical Czech forest setting, which is different from Scandinavian or American forests, creates a unique mood for players. The referenced locations and mythos in the game are ancient with some of the tales in Someday You’ll Return dating back to the 9th century.
In Game Mechanics:
• Crafting
• Herbalism
• Smartphone interactions
• Karmic system (your actions have consequences which can influence the story’s ending)
• Climbing
• Tracking
• Stealth

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