Dear Parkview Mall Shoppers,

A new beta patch went live yesterday which is now available via the opt-in beta branch. Feel free to give it a shot. (Check the beta post here for instructions and password)

It will be made available to the general public sometime next week provided there are no new issues.

Here are the changes in the latest patch:

- Background music during helicopter cutscene loops correctly (no gap between repeats).

- Fixed reversed zoom in/out controls during map screen mode. Previously, pressing the analog stick 'UP' zoomed out (and pulling back zoomed in). Mouse scroll direction has also been corrected.

- Additional fix to better recognize DirectInput game pads.

Above fixes are included in the latest build in addition to the changes below which were already implemented in the previous beta.

- Mall music now loops in sequence and without repeating the same track.

- Reduced VRAM usage (currently 1,300MB - 1,800MB) that may have contributed to performance degradation for some cards with small VRAM.