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Last Train Home - Demo update

November 2, 2023

The update for the Last Train Home Demo is now live, packed with numerous enhancements and refinements based on our community's invaluable feedback. Thank you very much for expressing your views on the game and your diligent issue reporting. Rest assured, we're committed to further perfecting the gaming experience, and our official release date is just around the corner! 

These changes will be rolled over in the release version as well

 

Demo Update – Patch notes 

  • Performance and stability
    • Fixed crashes happening:
      • During loading screens
      • After clicking ‘Proceed’ in text event after Moscow mission 
      • During/after the first mission 
    • Improved: Performance in the management part of the game 
    • Optimized: Main menu background landscape
    • Added: FPS limiter option
    • Added: FPS limited to 30 in the Main menu
    • Added Steam launcher option to run the game with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12
      • You are now able to choose DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 when launching the game on Steam. With DirectX 11, performance and stability might be improved based on your PC configuration. DirectX 12 is a newer version, that offers improved graphics rendering and performance, but its impact depends on the specific hardware. The choice of DirectX version depends on the capabilities of your PC - DirectX 12 typically benefits from more modern and capable hardware, especially GPUs. Consider switching to DirectX 12 in case you have experienced crashes related to ‘D3D device being lost’. 
  • Additions 
    • New Feature – Sabotage: Soldiers, while unnoticed by enemy units, now can destroy artillery weapons (howitzer, machine gun, field gun) by sabotaging them. 
    • Auto-assign button for drivers and shovelers in locomotive 
  • Balancing  
    • Tweaked: 
      • Experience system 
      • Costs of train car upgrades 
      • Costs of items 
      • Resources gained from Points of Interest (lakes, villages, etc.) 
      • Cost of engine malfunction status 
    • Increased: 
      • Number of items in loot found in missions 
      • Effect of First Aid Kit 
      • Damage from burning fuel in locomotive 
      • Operational damage of train cars and locomotives 
      • Defense when soldier comes back from Downed state 
    • Decreased: 
      • Number of resources available after Moscow mission 
    • Tweaks & polishes 
      • Move to covers 
      • Tutorials: videos and triggers 
      • UI: tooltips, text alignments, screens, buttons, icons, indication of vehicle’s armor 
      • Translations 
      • Mission maps 
      • Audio  
      • Animations 
      • Death ragdoll physics 
      • Indication of difficulty of the Moscow mission 
    • Bug fixing