Riven

We’re happy to celebrate 2 years since our remake of Riven was released. Thank you so much to everyone who has purchased, played, and reviewed Riven over the last couple of years. Your support enables us to keep doing what we do. - Improved the appearance of shadows on various rocks and steps on Jungle Island. - Improved the appearance of a handle in the Starry Expanse to appear more interactable. - Improved the look of some fire-marble materials. - Adjusted the sound and animation timing with the “bone throne” on Jungle Island. - Adjusted the woodchip pile on Boiler Island to have better shadows and lighting properties. - Tweaked the ocean water at the lower Survey Island maglev dock to appear more calm and opaque. - Improved the general appearance of the Temple Island and Survey Island impostor meshes. - Adjusted a shadow blocker that impacts a specific view on Jungle Island. - Fixed a small gap shown in a visual element on a rebel viewer puzzle on Jungle Island. - Minor clickable region adjustments made. - Fixed a D’ni script issue in Gehn’s lab. - Fixed a minor visual issue on the Survey Island maglev and volumetric fog that could occur when loading a Survey Island save under specific circumstances. - Fixed an issue where the Survey Island plateau elevator might not turn its lights on when going to a specific floor after leaving the area and coming back. - Fixed a shadowing issue in a hallway on Jungle Island. - Fixed a pipe not appearing properly when looking out of a specific window in the Temple Island subdome. - Fixed an issue where a portion of the Boiler Island bridge appears uncollapsed from different islands despite it having already collapsed. - Fixed an issue where after closing the player’s inventory, the player’s cursor would briefly behave as if Smart Cursor Visibility mode was enabled, regardless of the Smart Cursor Visibility mode being enabled or not. - Fixed a collision issue on Jungle Island. - Fixed a couple of collision issues in Tay. - Fixed a few conditions where the player’s inventory could remain in a weird state. - Fixed a specific ladder loading in with the wrong rotation state when loading a save made while within the submarine. - Fixed the player’s inability to use the woodcart (without exiting and re-entering a woodcart loading zone) after restoring a checkpoint save between Jungle Island and Boiler Island immediately after riding the woodcart in either direction. - Fixed a bad checkpoint save from occurring while the player is using the submarine.

Features - Enabled the use of TSR supersampling setting on Mac. - “Press Any Button” welcome screen has been added. - Added controller haptics in a couple of locations. Major - Fixed incorrect sunlight settings being set on the world if you load a save game while on Prison Island. - Fixed two separate controller haptics running simultaneously in 2D when using some levers. - Fixed photos in your notebook not being able to be deleted while exclusively playing with a controller. - Fixed checkpoint saves occasionally not saving properly. - Fixed an issue where using Hide Vehicle Transitions on the maglev between Survey Island and Jungle Island may cause the incorrect island name to be saved out with save data. - Fixed an issue where using Hide Vehicle Transitions on the woodcart may cause the player to have the incorrect age name saved out in a checkpoint or save under certain circumstances. Minor - Improved performance in the Temple Island subdome. - Improved shadows on foliage around the game. - Fixed being unable to back out of the burned book in Age 233 with the gamepad’s right face button. - Fixed some visual issues occurring on some steam particles on Temple Island. - Adjusting the timing of the “Game Saved” notification a bit. - Fixed some minor visual pops that could occur when approaching a tunnel on Jungle Island. - Fixed a visual pop that could occur when you have Atrus’ Riven book in your periphery in D’ni. - Adjusted the German localization for the “strike force” note to be more accurate to the source. - Adjusted LOD distances on some plants on Temple Island. - Fixed an issue with the color context subtitle position not being correct on some powermarbles. - Fixed various visual issues with contact shadows in the game. - Optimized various texture assets. - Minor improvements to lever haptics. - The player is now prevented from loading bogus checkpoint save data from the main menu under certain circumstances. - Adjusted the heat distortion appearance above Jungle basin water hole heaters. - Fixed some shadow popping on Prison Island. - For Mac platforms that support ray tracing: tweaked what objects show up in ray traced reflections. - Minor draw distance improvements to the destroyed version of the Boiler Island to/from Temple Island bridge. - Minor performance improvements made to Mac platforms that support Ray Tracing. - Fixed the clickable area for the trap book in Gehn’s second offer of the trap book to the player being too high. - Fixed an issue with Atrus where his face would get too close to yours in the Temple Island ending where you have trapped Gehn but have not freed Catherine. - Fixed not being able to use the right face button on a controller to disengage from the burned book on Boiler Island.