Converter — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Converter is now 50% off, permanently! | 2022-04-06 | Converter has turned 1 today, and you see, when a baby turns one in Bosnia its parents do not throw cute birthday parties with clowns, balloons and neighborhood Karens gifting the baby with braided bodysuits. Little pumpkin's anniversary is celebrated with swift slaughter of the cutest lambs the parents can find, after which the lambs are impaled and roasted for hours. The circle of life. Luckily, this has nothing to do with today's announcement. Converter has accomplished its main technical, creative, and financial goals, therefore the need to charge the full price isn't present anymore. From now on, the game's base price will be €4.99 ($5.9 |
| Minor Update - January 15th | 2022-01-15 | First update in the new 2022. Happy New Year everyone! Texture and material optimization. Removal of unnecessary features has added noticeable amount of fps while preserving the aesthetics. You know that long and sometimes annoying path towards the Tower of Mason that most players need to cross twice? Well, a new crafting spot has been added at the middle of it to allow the player to craft a shortcut and avoid going through multiple barrages of blue pills every time. Oh, and crafting spots now display level and cost with a marker-type UI instead of physical text plane facing the player. Fixed the bug with character keeping the previous playth |
| Minor Update - December 25th | 2021-12-25 | Happy Holidays everyone, hope you are enjoying this time of the year as much as I do, and hope you'll enjoy the newest improvements in Converter. Rocks and stones lighting behavior has been drastically improved. Fixed a couple of rocks with blocky textures Big crystals' materials have been fixed Animations improvements. Occasional animation snapping some players experienced while rapidly jumping and running down the rock platforms has been fixed. Landing and foot position in air have been improved Terrain now has fog and dust slowly crawling over the gravel and sand Improved and unified look for save spots, perks and info objects Soy Spheres, |
| Medium Update - World material overhaul | 2021-12-02 | Whew lads, this one improved a lot. Most world materials have been adjusted and brought to higher resolution without performance impact. Rocks are now visibly higher quality, sporting realistic blending with the rest of terrain. Surface properties have been adjusted and rocks don't have weird plastic glow while observed from distance. Soy infused rocks have realistic glowing cracks instead of previous shiny scratches. More variations of materials while synchronizing the style have made the game's aesthetics miles better. Soydoors also have new, more appropriate and sinister material. Animations have been further improved, with jumping/falling |
| Minor Update - November 23rd | 2021-11-23 | More realistic movement. I've noticed some complaints about the character movement feeling light and without proper momentum. This has been fixed and the movement should now be more natural. The character will feel heavier with realistic acceleration and braking. Fixed the rest of the moving textures on rocks. Leaning angle while moving next to slopes has been fixed and should feel more natural as well. EDIT: Left/right idle stance animations have been added. Character will now try to seamlessly choose his stance depending on the leg his weight was on while walking/running. |
| Minor Update - November 22 | 2021-11-22 | Foliage will now physically react to player's presence. Grass and flowers will bend, some shrubs may also even glow while in contact with our hero. Fixed a couple of rocks with moving textures |
| Minor Update - November 18th | 2021-11-18 | Rocks will now have a thin layer of sand/gravel on top of them for better and more realistic visual impression Blue Pill Launchers and Soy Rays have a new look. No more boring blue stone cubes, new models, new sounds and effects have been added. Updated info/tutorial images and some of the cringy Bosnian translations Performance optimization |
| Converter V1.25 Addendum - Significant Performance and Environment Improvements | 2021-10-26 | Not only has fog been optimized, a new option has been added to switch between Normal (suitable for weaker machines) and Volumetric (for muh $2000 game rigs) fog in Pause menu graphic settings. These changes alone have added 25% more FPS on some machines. New Soylake Material: Better looking, more menacing and more advanced with realistic refraction and improved performance. Surface flickering issue some players experienced has been fixed as well. New Crystal Look: Crystals should now look more realistic and in tune with the surrounding. UI Fixes: Perk borders are better aligned with content. Soy storm new look: Visible, volumetric, dynamic c |
| Minor Update - October 18th | 2021-10-18 | You can now hide/show all markers on the fly in pause menu's graphic settings. Red pill orbs will now reappear couple of minutes after being collected. No need to kill the character in order to refresh them anymore. |
| Converter V1.25 - Planet's got some weed | 2021-10-16 | Not that kind, you cheeky rascal. It's the kind of weed that grows in your garden, or on a neglected planet after three months of no major updates. Well, the V1.25 is here. -Foliage. Planet 50Y-80Y is now the proud owner of vegetation. When you have oxygen pockets you should have some simple life I guess. Foliage isn't toxic (for now) so feel free to sprint through that glowing soy shrub without consequences. -New sky and lighting. Adds a bit of a slight, but necessary punch to the game's visual style. A view of neighboring planet with its rings can now be enjoyed from the surface of 50Y-80Y. -UI visual update. Less 2010 and closer to 2021. - |
| Converter V1.24 - Perception Overhaul | 2021-07-24 | I felt updatey today so behold Converter V1.24, a true game changer. Perception has been harnessed to the max, giving players the ability to spot approximate skill locations easier and start figuring out how to get them. Perception will allow you to spot skills from level 1. The distance will vary depending on your Perception level, but most players will be able to get a clearer hint of some skill locations they should come back to later. Dry Spell becomes a puzzle playground and everyone will easily spot where and what to aim for. New perks: Perceptor I and II. Extend your skill perception distance with some completionist Slav magic and 100% |
| Minor Update - July 24th | 2021-07-24 | Improvements to movement, walking/running/sprinting should feel better with slight camera sways (not one of those intrusive, nauseous shakes some games do) New perk ability: Collect red pill orbs with red pills. You've noticed that fat, juicy orb probably containing about 20 red pills, but it's unreachable? Shoot it with a red pill and get the spoils. Red pill orbs have been "balanced" so some of the perk abilities aren't almost useless. Yes, you'll now get fewer red pills unless you got one of the Collector perks. Or the secret epic perk. Perception of 5 and above should give you slightly more range to spot the skills. Screw it, all Percepti |
| Converter 1.23 - Further RPGfication with Perks | 2021-07-01 | Introducing Perks, small upgrades the players can activate all over the the planet to enhance the character in different ways. Ranging from common green ones to very rare ones difficult to find, perks will increase newly included stats like the amount of red pills you get from orbs, chance of oxygen booster drops, crafting discounts, red pill fire rate and even spitting arc visibility distance. Soyospheres can now drop oxygen boosters, small orbs of oxygen that may help the players low on juice. Each Tenet will increase the total oxygen capacity by 25%. Getting perception to 5 will allow you to also see the type of skill nearby, with the usua |
| Converter 1.22 - Bosnia bros, rejoice! | 2021-06-16 | Converter is now the first game ever with user interface and subtitles fully translated to Bosnian language. Players can go to the Options menu and switch between English and Bosnian on the fly. Minor bug fixes and terrain improvements |
| Minor Update June 8th | 2021-06-08 | Fine, you won. Two more manual save spots have been added to the major map branching points. This should ameliorate the returns to previous zones, and should improve the orientation. You've been basically given a Morpheus achievement exploit. Tower of Charm access should now be more reasonable for higher levels as multiple paths are now craftable in its vicinity. Sounds and particle improvements for Soyrays and Aerosoy. |
| Minor Update June 5th - Manual Save Point | 2021-06-05 | You asked, I sort of listened. Manual save points have been the request of a certain number of players. While speedrunners and hardcore platformer fans like the unforgiving nature of deaths in Converter, other players often needed a bit of help, mainly in the immenseness of the Dry Spell. Well, a healthy compromise have been introduced. In the middle of the Dry Spell players can now occasionally use the Manual Save Point (MSP ingame) to ensure their respawn location after dying would be at the optimal distance from the majority of puzzles in that zone. After saving the game using MSP its cooldown time is 10 minutes if you are any level of Bet |
| Minor Update June 2nd | 2021-06-02 | Visual and functional improvements to the aiming arc. Aiming should be more intuitive now as the aiming ark has a gradient fade helping the player estimate the distance easier. If that doesn't help, try the also added blazing red circle marking the impact location. Oxygen level now has percentage displayed next to the O2 bar. Some may say this was unnecessary, but try reaching an oxygen leak at 1% and tell me it didn't feel good living on the edge. Slight optimization and sand footstep particle color adjustment. |
| May 20th Update - Thick, solid and tight V1.2 | 2021-05-20 | Finishing touches for V1.2 are here, players may experience side effects in the form of comfy, warm feelings caused by major improvements in movement fluidity and visuals. Improved, cleaner rock ground terrain textures and collisions Fixed minor jumping animation fluidity issue Proper aim mode movement animations Fixed occasional boredom dialogue lines repeating bug |
| Converter V1.2 Addendum - Objectives, Jumping, Huge Terrain Improvements | 2021-05-13 | Getting lost in the mazes of 50Y-80Y? Objective markers are here! All players will now see their next objective (and the distance to it) while conquering the planet. Jumping system has been overhauled. Jumping animations now adapt to your progress and have different states. Massive terrain improvements for the desert area. Few would utter these words, but Dry Spell has never been a more charming place. |
| Converter V1.2 - Streamer Friendly Edition | 2021-05-06 | Exciting week at Funkyzeit Games. Newest visual and performance improvements, coupled with the previous small updates have moved the state of the game far enough to mark it as a new version. Converter is noticeably more CPU friendly due to optimization and reduction of the number of draw calls. Streaming performance should improve by quite a bit The game now runs on wider range of PC configurations, lowering the minimum requirements to almost ancient GPUs Soyospheres don't cause the slight camera glitches in some cases anymore and fade smoothly. Blue pills aren't sloppily trying to save dying soyospheres Wider, more realistic camera pitch wil |
| Minor Update April 28th | 2021-04-28 | Hud improvements, small transparency bug fix. Terrain improvements. |
| Minor Update April 26th | 2021-04-26 | -HUD should be a little bit more interesting now -Terrain improvements |
| Medium Update April 24th | 2021-04-23 | -Pause menu now has Options feature. Players can adjust and apply graphics and sound settings on the fly. -Motion Blur can be adjusted as well, ranging from 'None' to 'Very High' -Fixed audio bug with music volume adjustment -Fixed minor Look sensitivity bug -Fixed HUD disappearance bug in rare cases -Added BOSA Suit Info/Tutorial for players who aren't aware that suit will absorb fall damage, making them stuck trying to figure out one of the first puzzles. -Our hero won't get bored anymore while in aiming mode for long period of time. -Performance optimization and terrain improvements |
| Minor Update April 16th | 2021-04-16 | -Tutorial/Info screens are now optional and visible to players looking for help. This will allow people replaying the game (or simply wanting to figure things out by themselves) to avoid going through mandatory initial handholding. |
| Minor Update April 15th | 2021-04-15 | -Terrain optimization and improvements -Animation improvements -Cinematic sound improvements -UI improvements -Minor bug fixes |
| Full Controller Support is Here! Converter V1.1 | 2021-04-11 | Busy weekend at Funkyzeit Games! Converter now has full controller support! -The game is playable with controller from start to end. Key rebinding for both keyboard/mouse and gamepad, all prompts, menus and tutorial screens will automatically switch and adapt to the current input mode -Mayor animations improvements, our hero will now move according to controller input. Walking, jogging, running, sprinting. Improved jumping animation. -Higher quality models and textures -Many visual and functional UI improvements -Minor bug fixes and optimization |
| Minor Update April 9th II | 2021-04-09 | -Terrain optimization -Controls Options functionality improvements |
| Minor Update April 9th | 2021-04-09 | -Running uphill and downhill should now feel more realistic -Minor bug fixes and general terrain improvements |
| Minor Update April 8th | 2021-04-08 | -Some players on Youtube were struggling with the first puzzle in tutorial zone so that one will now reset completely after death instead of helping the players by saving progress in the current game session like the later, harder puzzles do. This will allow the struggling players to go completely through the first puzzle again and properly practice the game mechanics until they gain an understanding of them. -Minor aim mode bug fix |
| Minor Update April 7th | 2021-04-07 | -Fixed a small visual bug where the good red glow replaced the bad blue soy glow as the main damage shader at the very beginning -Adjusted soy lake depth at some places |