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Jusant receives massive accessibility update

Jusant opens up to more players than ever.

Jusant is a unique game that puts you at ease as you scale a mysterious tower. It recently received a that’ll ensure more players than ever get to explore one of 2023’s most interesting indies.

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A simplified climbing mode has been added which allows you to climb using joystick🎶s alone instead of your controller triggers. A no stamina mode is also included and it deactivates the stamina mechanic. In addition to color blindness options, there is an alternate rappel mode, a simplified interactions mode, and jump assistance.

Although these changes are geared towards allowing players with differing abilities to access the game, you don’t need to have dexterity or sight impairments to enjoy the new features. Turning on the no stamina mode and simplified climbing mode gives you an even more relaxed journey where climbing is a calming experience with minimal difficulty.

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Jusant Patch 1.04

The update patch features a slew of other improvements and fixes. The patch notes🃏 are as follows:

Animation

• Improved shaky movemen💟ts performed by the character during climbing and 

when the rope is at maximum

• Improved character’s hand location on grips

• Improv💦ed multiple broken animations when jumping over several assets

• Fixed grass animation clipping throu🦄gh assets in Chapter 5

• Fixed Ballast cliജpping through character’s head during climbing and g𓆏ripping 

animations

• Fixed animations on peebles

• Fixed the possibility of bypass🌠ing the rope wind tutorial

• Fixed a possibility to get stuck at the top o⛎f a🎃 ladder

• Corr🃏ected character’s hands location on the gear in chapter 4

• Improved interactions with the relays

• Fixed misplaced foot during g𒉰ame-ending cutscene

•ꦆ Fixed wall-run animation missing when the rope is at its maximum

• Improved out-of-bounds falling issues

• Fixed jump animatio🦩n after e๊xiting the seashell cutscene

• Improved wind’s interaction with the ch🌼aracter’s🧸 hair and poncho

Environment

🐻• Fixed several missing collisions in the envir✃onment

• Fixed invisible collisions in several parts of th𝔉e environment

Gameplay Programming

• Bluetooth now recogniz🌸ed for Dualshock 4 and Dualsense 

• Coꦰllectibles are now saved when stꦐarting a new game

• Fixed the missing peebꦍles in biome 2 in a specific area 

• Fixed the p𝔍artly cut-o🔯ff screen loading symbol on lower resolutions

• Fixed control option to invert the X and Y ca💯mera axis when using the mousepad

• Fixed remapping issues

• Language can now be changed from th🌞e system’s default language

• Resetting default language to OS language is fixed for FR, IT, 💜DE, PL, JP, KR, RU, ZH-Hans

• Improved ziplines and related rope

• Improved performance drops and FPS

• Fixed gamma submenu “back button” navigation&n𒁏bsp;

• Cinematics and gameplay transitions in ultrawide won’t stretch the image for one frame 

anymore

• Ultrawide won’t crop and zoom image in 21:9

Lighting

• Improvement on lighting at the end of biome 2🐈 observatory cinematic

Camera

• Fixed several incorrect camera zooms

• Improved camera clipping through walls a𒉰nd character

• Fixed incorrect camera location when reloading biome 3 ♋checkpoint

UI

• Fixed UI overlaps issues

• Fixed prompts𝄹 that were used to hide the climbing path

Tech and Performance

• Added auto HDR settings on XSS & XSX

• Ad𓃲ded motion blur scale settings on🍷 all platforms

• Added DLSS3 settings

• Fixed physics optimization on low specs

• Fixed autodetection of graphics settings

Audio

• Fixed elevator SFX

• Fixed footstep material

Design

• F⛄ixed character stuck i𓆏n several parts of the environment

• Fixed UI tutorials remaining on the screen

• Fixed inconsistencies between crಌedits from the main menu and game ending

• Fixed grappling hook interaction in Chapter 3

• Fixed the manual stamina spamming that wa๊s leading to unlocking the Fresh air achievement

• No more delay on Ballast loading after a continu🌄e&🔯nbsp;

• Fixed various visible macros in texts

• Fixed lizard clipping through chapter 4 – mountain

• Fixed sparkles issues

• Fixed floating seashell

Jusant is a great game to pick🅰 up if you want something relaxed yet captivating. It has an enigmatic story, beautiful scenery, and a cute water blob to help you on your ascent.


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