Home Prisoner | Episode 4 Update 3 | Patch A

Optimization & Performance

• Scene Skip Stabilization: Resolved a hard engine freeze (black screen) when fast-forwarding scenes (holding Spacebar) during video timelapse playback.

• Framerate Stabilization: Fixed a critical performance drop (FPS dropping to 40) in certain locations caused by improper background handling of cyclic parallel engine processes.

• Micro-stutter Elimination: Cleaned up redundant engine logging during location updates and transitions. This improvement ensures smoother gameplay and prevents performance drops on low-end systems and laptops.

• General Optimization: Conducted additional technical performance optimization across several story scenes.

Story Logic & Gameplay

• Episode 2: Fixed a logical error that caused an unintended forced switch to the netorare route at the end of the episode.

• Episode 4: Resolved a conflict between the main scene and "House life 2" logic in the living room scene that caused character sprites to overlap.

• Routine System (House life 2): Fixed a character distribution bug where the wife could simultaneously duplicate in both the bedroom and the shower at night.

Graphics & Video

• Episode 3: Fixed an issue where a frozen video frame remained on screen after the awakening cutscene instead of correctly displaying the bedroom location.

• Video Player Fix: Resolved an issue where an active media stream was not released from memory, carrying over into a different game session and overlapping the screen upon loading a save file.

• Camera Correction: Eliminated a bug causing permanent unintended screen zoom, which led to graphical artifacts and distortion in certain animations.

• Fixed other minor visual and graphical artifacts across locations.

Audio

• Fixed an audio bug where the wife's routine sound effect continued to loop even after the time of day changed.

• Eliminated a phantom computer usage noise in the youngest daughter's room that could erroneously trigger under specific conditions.
  
  
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