Hello Exorcists !

The development team hopes your holiday season is going well!
We're back with the second edition of the DevBlog. Here is some of what is to come soon…

Let's start with Public Lobbies! We're excited to announce that we're close to publishing this update! We know players around the world have wanted this for a long time, and we continue to work hard on making this a reality. We have no exact date for this update yet, but rest assured, Public Lobbies are planned, and are nearly ready.
With Public Lobbies, you'll be able to join or create lobbies from only your country, only your continent, or even worldwide if you prefer. The choice will be yours. We hope you will enjoy this!



We have a (very wonderful looking) update of the Contract Board in the lobby. The update will bring the Contract Board and its theme up to date with the Tablet interface, and the vehicle computer interface. The new post-game contract board will have some information that was previously unavailable, such as; The map you played, the difficulty you were on, the correct (and incorrect) evidence selections, a much cleaner display of how much XP and money you've gained, and a much cleaner way to display which side-objectives you've completed or did not complete.

We have realized that the MEL was particularly powerful, which left other equipment heavily underused. The MEL did the job of 3 or 4 pieces of equipment.
For this reason, we have removed the MEL from the free/starter equipment which is given to players (on the shelf) on Simple Contracts. You can still purchase the item from the Ghost Market to use anywhere at your own leisure.
Because of the power of the MEL, we have increased it's level requirement, and cost. Actually, we've made several changes to level requirements, and equipment costs across most items in the game (to correlate with the new economy overhaul in the beta). For more information, or to see exactly what has been changed, check this chart:
https://swift-zoo-a70.notion.site/Public-UI-Contract-Board-Update-23fbfe945441404cb758a6e44188f909



Since we will remove the MEL from the free/starter equipment, we will replace it with the Thermometer, so players can get the temperatures for evidence, as well as added the Occult Meter, so players are able to find the Corrupt Object (used for exorcism), as well as cursed objects.
That's right, we've overhauled the Occult Meter entirely. It will now signal if it detects the Corrupt object, not only normal cursed objects.
If a corrupt object (to be destroyed) is detected, the Occult Meter will start blinking red, and the needle will go much much further on the gauge.



We also plan to release a new small-medium sized map. A modern home, with a very unsettling basement.

Once again, thank you for reading, and thank you very much for your continued support and feedback!
There are many more changes, updates, and fixes in the coming update, and the full patchnotes will be available once we've released the update to the Public Pre-Production Beta branch.

Do not forget your Crucifixes and your Mary Statues!
- The Ghost Exorcism Inc. Team