Merging a western with eldritch horror, Blood West is awesome and now Steam Deck Verified

With the most recent replace out at present, Blood West from Hyperstrange and New Blood Interactive is now Steam Deck Verified and nicely price a glance. Mixing collectively a western and eldritch horror, it has been on my watchlist for some time now as a result of it simply appears to be like so rattling good.

The developer announced it on Steam for the Blood West v4.3.0 replace that encompasses a new codex system to maintain observe of all of your notes, new music additions, new achievements they usually even teased {that a} New Sport+ mode is coming. Valve checked it in opposition to the latest Proton 9.0-4 so it is good to go on Desktop Linux too.

Some extra of what the replace consists of:

Bug fixes:

Fastened a problem the place the Chapter 1 boss would turn out to be unresponsive if the participant carried out save & load at first of the boss struggle

Fastened a problem with the Rotten Skeleton’s incorrect habits if his soul was bought and the participant merely rested in a mattress.

Fastened a problem the place mixture of Watch and Tentacle Cyst artifacts in addition to maxed out Sturdy Lungs trait would permit participant to “skip” from place to put

Fastened a problem the place the Physician in Chapter 3 wouldn’t give his sidequest

Fastened a problem with Alvaro’s Rib the place it could grant completely different increase values than anticipated when mixed with sure artifacts, perks or consumables

Fastened a problem the place Hangman’s Noose kill streak could be interrupted with a headshot when utilizing any shotgun

Fastened a problem the place participant was capable of heal themselves with the Cursed Doll weapon through the use of its secondary assault on lifeless enemies’ heads (lol)

Fastened a problem the place it was unattainable to take away sure weapons that required “loss of life or Purple revival” even after dying if participant died whereas holding a distinct weapon in hand

Fastened a problem the place gamers would take twice as mumch harm when touchdown on ladders or rope

Fastened a problem the place common Cultists in Useless Man’s Promise would give much more Soul Essence than they need to

Fastened a problem the place standing impact icons would stay on display screen when loaded into a brand new map and a dialogue was immediately triggered

Fastened a problem the place Hellfire Cultist’s would have a second coronary heart as a loot even after his coronary heart was already stolen utilizing pickpocketing

Plenty of controller associated points have been fastened

Few language enhancements have been added as nicely

Enhancements:

Font dimension has been scaled up – this alteration is each for PC and Steam Deck and may make the whole lot a lot simpler to learn. This additionally means Blood West is formally Steam Deck verified!

Added “drop merchandise” performance for controllers – default bind will be modified within the Settings menu

Added an possibility to vary default metric models from meters to paces. For immersions sake 🙂

Added a launch parameter “-nogamepad” on Steam – when used, it disables any non-keyboard/mouse inputs that would in particular instances trigger points. To allow it, simply enter the command within the Launch Choices in Blood West’s properties on Steam.

Chapter 2 boss is now barely more durable and a bit extra aggressive (rawr)

Girl Anabelle or The Priest will supply reductions to their wares if given the treatment (thoughts you, it will solely have an effect on video games the place the participant didn’t give the Treatment to any of these characters but)

Purple Revival now removes Blessings as nicely

Decision within the Settings menu is now a correct dropdown checklist

Enhancements to the enter system to raised deal with sure instances like when participant makes use of AZERTY keyboard format and adjustments sure keybinds

Totem of Souls voice is now extra “spectral” (at Gianni’s request)

Enhancements to the search monitoring and journal entries for a couple of Chapter 2 quests

A slew of small SFX enhancements