The immediate answer
The August 4 hotfix is build 0.5.6555, Steam build 24553673. Its Sisters balance pass is exactly recoverable: Scissors lose 10 metres of reach, hit Stun falls from three seconds to two, failed-catch Stun falls from two seconds to one, and Scream Confusion falls from five seconds to three.
The update also improves counterplay and accessibility by visualizing the Noise created by Scream, moving Sisters footsteps to the Magician's shared attenuation setup, and adding controller mappings across all six Sisters input contexts.
Outside that balance pass, the developers target Impostor reliability, Chess Court collisions and a softlock, a Mannequin crash, Terror's vertical movement, cannon clothing visuals, replays, and accidental cage opening.
The Sisters' control windows are shorter
Four reductions directly narrow how far the Sisters can threaten Bunnies and how long their control effects last:
| Sisters change | Before | Now | Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scissors throw range | 50 m | 40 m | 20% |
| Stun after a Scissors hit | 3 s | 2 s | 33% |
| Stun after a failed Scissors catch | 2 s | 1 s | 50% |
| Confusion after Scream | 5 s | 3 s | 40% |
The range is stored as 4,000 Unreal units in BP_Scissors. The two Stun timers are stored in the Sisters' Scissors state, and both Confusion duration defaults in GE_Confusion now read three seconds.
Scream feedback, footsteps, and gamepad support
The Scream state now calls MakeVisualizedNoise with the new Noise.Sisters tag. The Noise UI table adds a matching Sisters marker, making this more than an audio-only cue.
All five Sisters surface cues switch to the shared default attenuation used by the Magician footstep set. Controller keys are added for default abilities, Scissors, Scream, ranged mode, and both normal and trapped-Mannequin control.
Impostors and Chess Court should be more reliable
The Impostor Blueprint changes its ground-snap and Bunny-catch paths. More explicitly, a new hat-snatch completion path calls RefreshCooldownForAbility for the Place Impostor ability, corroborating the immediate trap-cooldown reset.
Chess Court's room package changes directly. The installed client confirms the owning map moved, but it does not safely identify the exact repaired collision surfaces or reproduce the softlock.
Replays, Mannequins, movement, and cage interaction
The developers describe replays as ‘fixed 99%’. That wording suggests a major reliability improvement rather than a guarantee that every replay issue has been eliminated.
A Mannequin-related crash ‘should be fixed’. Both claims remain native runtime boundaries: the executable changed, but no standalone replay or Mannequin package exposes a complete failure path.
Terror's zone-check graph is substantially rewritten. The cannon exit montage gains a renamed animation and a new Rotate Owner notify, while the occupied cage's interaction component adds the one-second Open hold.
Installed-build cross-check
A fresh 0.5.6555 conversion completed with 15,067 packages and zero failures. All 37,657 converted physical files were compared with 0.5.6540 by case-insensitive path and SHA-256: 65 matched files changed, four files were added, two were removed, and 522 case-only path changes remained byte-identical.
The package delta resolves to 38 touched areas. The 15 decoded sources behind the guide's other published match, Charge, scoring, progression, rank, region, chest, slot-machine, and floor-loot values are unchanged, so the August 2 floor-loot shift remains current.
Unlisted changes in 0.5.6555
Two Hunter task rows become easier across all three configured tiers, and the client allows twice as long for initial and established network connections before timing out.
| Unlisted setting | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Loot Keys from Bunnies task tiers | 5 / 10 / 15 | 4 / 8 / 12 |
| Charge Yourself task tiers | 5 / 10 / 15 | 3 / 5 / 8 |
| Connection timeouts | 15 s | 30 s |
The Oiler daily text now matches its existing one-use requirement. Warden and Cheerleading recipe rarity labels were consolidated into their display names, but their decoded ingredient records and quantities did not change.
Official hotfix notes
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⚙️ Hotfix:⚙️
- The issue where the impostor doesn’t attack due to sinking into the ground has been fixed.
- Issues with collisions & softlock in Chess Court have been fixed.
- If you take the impostor, you immediately reset the cooldown of the trap ability.
- The visual issue with the clothing when exiting the cannon has been fixed.
- Fixed Terror vertical movement limitations
- Sister's scissors throw range reduced by 20%
- Stun duration from Sister's scissors hit reduced by 33%
- Stun duration from Sister's scissors failed catch reduced by 50%
- Confusion duration from Sister's scream reduced by 40%
- Sister's Noise is now visualized when she screams
- Sister's footsteps volume is now the same as the Magician's
- Sisters Gamepad Support
- Replays fixed 99%
- Mannequin crash should be fixed:cattocry:
- QoL: Cage opening with a bunny inside changed from instant to a 1-second hold