Bloodborne PC 1.9.8

What's new since 1.9.7.

Seamless co-op (new)

• Seamless co-op is here: BBSC 1.0.0 (Yharnam Together), on its own Seamless co-op page under Online play. It uses SuperMedo's seamless server and your SuperMedo account, and up to 5 hunters stay together through deaths, lamps and areas.
• Runs on this port's own engine (bin\bb-probe-seamless.exe), started by this launcher with all your settings: picture, frame rate, controls, mods and patches. The normal game, its engine and normal online play are unchanged.
• All of BBSC's co-op screens are in the game:
  • the team screen at the title: invites, quick match, Begin the hunt or Alone (F2 opens it in the game)
  • the party HUD and the compass
  • team pings (T) and the map (M)
  • trades, duels and travelling together
• On a controller: hold View/Back (the touchpad on PlayStation) for the map, tap it twice for a ping. The map and the team are also in the game menu, under System.
• Character pictures: each teammate's picture shows in the party list, on the compass and on the map, and updates when they change outfit.
• The host's world: the team plays the host's world. Its progress stays in the host's save, and guests get their own world back when they play alone.
• Joining: a player who joins is placed next to the host. A new character joining late gets the starter weapons.
• Death: a dead hunter watching a teammate stays with them, even far from where they fell. A guest who dies during the host's boss fight watches the fight.
• Host rules on the Seamless co-op page:
  • enemy difficulty, plus a Custom choice with your own health, damage and poise multipliers (1 to 10)
  • a Revival switch: when it's off, a fallen hunter dies for real instead of going down
  • boss tempo, Rot and travelling together
• Separate saves: seamless co-op keeps its own save folder (seamless\user). A new game is recommended. Main-game saves can be copied there by hand, at your own risk. Seamless characters are never mixed with your normal saves, and a character played in seamless gets its bells back in the normal game.
• Mods: a mod's map event files never replace the co-op ones; the mod's other files still load.

Parties and online

• Parties: make a party code on the Online page and send it to your friends. While you're in a party, your summon signs and Beckoning Bell find only your party's hunters, with no level limit. A box beside the code shows who's in your party, their level, and who's online.
• Sign in to SuperMedo Server with your Online ID and password, or make a new account, not only with Discord.
• Cheat and debug patches are left out of online games. With one on, Play asks whether to go online without it, or to start this once offline with it.
• Connections:
  • The game gets back online by itself within a minute after a dropped connection.
  • A player who rejoins is no longer kicked by the host.
  • Players behind a shared provider address (who needed a VPN) now join through the server's relay.
• Faster online: connections to the servers are kept open and reused, which ends the short freeze about once a minute for players far from the servers. Looking up another player by name works on SuperMedo's servers.

Performance and fixes

• Faster locks inside the engine give a few more frames per second.
• Three rare freezes are fixed: while loading areas, while adding new shaders, and between two engine locks.
• Low latency defaults to Auto: NVIDIA Reflex and Boost on NVIDIA cards, off on others.
• BB_GPU_CHECKPOINTS=1 records where the GPU was when it stopped, for code 23 crash reports.

Trophies, saves and patches

• A pop-up shows each trophy as you earn it, with its own picture and a short chime (BB_TROPHY_SOUND=0 / BB_TROPHY_POPUPS=0 turn them off).
• Characters deleted in the game no longer show in the launcher.
• Automatic backups you named are kept, and a backup added from a file no longer stops the next one.
• The game files check's list of 1.09 files is fixed, and every open game file keeps its own read position.
• Every patch in the list now comes from the public community list or was written for this port. The live-map patch is replaced by this port's own "Faster play log" patch.