FACEMINER v2.1.0 (Build 21285650)

A quick globalization strategy update for our international stakeholders: we are excited to announce that FACEMINER is now available to play in French and Polish, which brings us to 9 languages total. After updating, they should now be available to select in the settings menu. The pool of FACEMINER agents grows stronger and more multilingual by the day.
Thank you for playing!

The latest version of FACEMINER is now live, which has the following changes:

Game size reduction! Through a mixture of optimizing audio/images/model files, and removing some unused assets, the game file size has been reduced by 30-40%, depending on your platform. As well as freeing up some disk space, this should give a little performance boost generally. Thank you to qwertyyyyyyy for kickstarting this and providing a very useful FFmpeg script, among other things.
New FPS limiter option in the settings menu which caps the FPS at 60FPS, for those who the game was already running a little bit too well.
Tweaks to make achievements more robust, including fix for bug where some cats would not trigger the CATMINER achievement. Unacceptable.
Tweaks to tutorial language, based on some IRL playtesting observations (see below)
Other stuff: Fix BSOD text in Japanese version, hopefully fix issue where game would ask for microphone permissions for small percentage of Mac users.

2.1.0 Mini Update
 
 
Hello!
 
A mix of minor bugfixes & features here, mostly related to the recent Endless Expanded mode and VR functionality. Thank you to all who suggested these.
 
 
Endless Mode:
 
— Cameras can now be purchased in bulk, to save you some clicking. Buy them in batches of 1, 10, or 100.
 
— Custom harvesting sell intervals: you can now pick how often to sell harvested data in the Surveillance manager.
 
— Nuclear Reactors now show up in the 3D visualiser
 
— $ figures in the hardware monitor and marketplace now show their full formatted value on hover, to make it a little easier to read those very big numbers.
 
— Small tweaks to dark mode to make it more legible.
 
 
VR:
 
— Passthrough is now available! You can enable it in the settings menu, if you have a compatible headset.
 
— You can now customise the tilt angle of the controller in the settings menu
 
 
Bugfixes:
 
— Fix bug where pausing would allow the player skip the purchase cooldown in the marketplace [potential speedrun exploit!]
 
— Fix edges  of the taskbar being cut off when FX disabled
 
— Fix bug where downgrading very high level cameras would not be reflected in the surveillance hub camera count
 
 
Other tweaks:
 
— Added option to disable the Steam overlay in the settings menu. This is a temporary workaround for an issue where the overlay implementation of the library I am using to interact with Steam can cause multiple game tabs to spawn on certain Windows 11 machines.
 
— Per request: made it impossible to delete unused cluster code messages.
 
— Made it less likely for the same face to appear in sequential draws when manually processing.
 
 
As always, thank you for playing.