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Greetings Damned Divers,

We’re back with our eighth development log, a pivotal point for both the team and me. For a long time, I’ve been up at night, writing down ideas for the alternative ending and everything leading up to it for you to get the best experience. One night, I realized that the game itself was actually screaming for a completely new final ending. This felt like the best way to experience Hell Dive… enjoying and fearing it to the fullest.

Together with my Level Designer and Game Designer, we’ve built a chain in the game that leads most of you to a new ending, along with some minor fun puzzles. This new experience gives me goosebumps just thinking about what’s in store.

DANGER AHEAD: Prepare for unexpected scares, deeper lore and a new layer of dread in the “new and improved” Hell Dive.

As the headline says, inspired by the Japanese word *Shiin, we’re back, and we will come with regular updates now that the path is set. This new ending is a huge add-on, so we’ll be releasing larger updates on Steam for everyone to enjoy.

An Update coming out? Yes really

The first update is set for the end of this week, featuring improved sound by Christian Perruchi and Luis Monrocle (known from Post Trauma, Star Trek Online, and Silent Hill: Ascension) plus a new “Suffocating” mechanic designed to bring more tension in the Submarine.

* Shiin is a Japanese word meaning “complete silence”. To me it also represents how silence can carry many sounds.
- Thomas-Bo, Game Director of Hell DIve

This patch addresses an issue where memory cards loaded in power stations would disappear if the player left the facility without retrieving the card and returned later. With this update, memory cards will persist in power stations, ensuring they remain available for retrieval.

• Achievements - You asked, and we listened! The game now features 35 achievements to unlock, and some will be quite tricky. You’ll need to explore every corner of this cursed ocean to get them all!
  
• A New Ending - We heard your feedback that the original ending was underwhelming, so we went back to the workshop to build, test and sleep way too little. We think you're going to like what we've created!!
  
• New Notes - There are new notes to find and more lore to obsess over!
  
• Clear Reading - We've made it easier for players to read on-screen text, regardless of visual or cognitive impairments.
  
• Audio Improvements - The audio mixing was inconsistent before, but we've streamlined it to eliminate unwanted sounds and hisses! All in the spirit of building proper fear for you all. You're welcome! :)
  
• New Save/Load system - Saving and loading where beasts to tackle. Every new feature or tiny tweak to make our dive deeper, darker, and better had us bracing for crashes and development chaos. Fixing it was the only way forward.
  
• Performance Improvements - We spent a lot of time revamping the game's way of loading data and achieved performance improvements of up to 440%!

• Control - Camera Sensibility
  
• Control - Steam Deck mapping
  
• Control - Controller mapping (Xbox)
  
• Sea - Area of Star-of-War jellyfish
  
• Sea - Monster added in the ice cold ocean. (The Leviathan, do not move or it will attack)
  
• SUB - All is calm introduction
  
• SUB - Red button blinking when new message
  
• SUB - Safe with keypad and password, containing Memory Cards for Facility 1 and Facility 2
  
• SUB - Start visual red alarm, after intro Low Fuel.
  
• SUB - Warning sounds and red lights added in Ol'Porky
  
• SUB - Windows in the Bridge makes the ocean visible.
  
• SUB - Sticky jellyfish added. Fuel depleting
  
• Memory cards - When holding card in hand, it should be the right MC.
  
• Hull Breach - Sparkle effect
  
• Save game - Floppy disk visual
  
• Load game - visuals overhaul
  
• New ending - Outro video
  
• Blowtorch - Add Welding material on Hull Breaches
  
• Animation - Blowtorch
  
• Animation - Fuel
  
• Animation - Generator lid open close
  
• Animation - Generator button
  
• Main Menu - Continue added
  
• Escape menu - Leaving for Main Menu lost progression warning
  
• Escape menu - melody added
  
• Death - YOU DIED illustration
  
• Death - Not going to Main Menu, but continues back into the game
  
• Facility X - Jellymen who burns are very angry and will attack the player
  
• Notes - Added lore parts in Facility 3-6

• Sub - Hull Breach behind Diving suit - Remove
  
• Sub - Hull Breach in Engine room fixed.
  
• Sub - Hull Breach fix so that breaches does not disappear by themselves.
  
• Powerstation - No Power - Pull Lever feedback / Audio
  
• Frustum - fixes on doors
  
• Fix for Raycast. No more collecting through walls
  
• Main menu - Removed hover sound. Same for ESC menu
  
• Main menu - More simple click sound
  
• Audio - volume alignment from menu to game
  
• Facility X - After female monster possess the player. Back door locked. Should be accessible
  
• Facility X - Generator in Powerstation room now runs when system activated
  
• Facility X - Better Doll JUMP-SCARE when both player and doll manage to get into the elevator.
  
• Facility X - The Doll chase you crying at the end, no attack mode on, when running in the little hall between powerstation room and elevator room

• Facility X - Text tweak to memory card
  
• Facility X - Decoy new animations
  
• Facility X - Decoy is now 30% bigger
  
• Facility All - Misaligned Keycard Access Point lamp on vaultdoors.