Silent Hill: United v0.0.4

Silent Hill: United 0.0.4

Fourth public update for Silent Hill: United.

This release expands online co-op toward four-player play, adds Harry, Lisa, Cybil, and Doctor as selectable multiplayer characters, and improves the online room flow, combat sync, saves, and host-authoritative enemy behavior.

Silent Hill: United is still experimental, but 0.0.4 should make online sessions feel clearer, larger, and more stable than 0.0.3.

Included

• Added online room support for 2, 3, or 4 players
• Added playable multiplayer support for Harry, Lisa, Cybil, and Doctor
• Added Cybil and Doctor multiplayer portraits
• Added manual character selection inside online rooms
• Characters now show as Available when free or show the player name when already taken
• Unselected players are assigned an available character automatically when the match starts
• The host can now choose a character and configure the room player limit
• Clients can now choose a character while waiting for the host
• Improved online lobby player counts and room state display
• Improved room recovery when players leave, reconnect, or when the host disappears
• Fixed cases where the host could lose the ability to start after a player left
• Improved online menu visuals, spacing, selection highlights, and feedback
• Added character-aware multiplayer spawns for P1, P2, P3, and P4
• Added four-player multiplayer save handling and safer save validation
• Added character-specific gameplay tuning for movement, fatigue, damage, accuracy, healing, and friendly fire
• Improved item-use progression handling, including the school hand/Chemical route
• Fixed multiplayer weapon initialization issues on spawn
• Fixed overly long fades after leaving the inventory or map
• Improved remote gunshot audio, damage reactions, aiming recovery, and combat feedback
• Improved host-authoritative enemy ownership across P1, P2, P3, and P4
• Improved enemy claim, transfer, and recovery behavior when players leave areas or disconnect
• Reduced enemy desync cases, including enemies briefly appearing out of position
• Improved Split Head, Air Screamer, and general enemy replication checks
• Improved remote flashlight stability with more than two players nearby
• Improved launcher updater behavior and crash dump preservation
• Updated verification, server, simulation, and WorldViz tooling for four-player sessions

Four-Player Online

0.0.4 introduces the first public four-player direction for Silent Hill: United.

Rooms can now be set to 2, 3, or 4 players, and each player can choose from Harry, Lisa, Cybil, or Doctor before the match starts. The room now makes it clearer who is present, which characters are taken, and which choices are still available.

Combat And Sync

Enemies should now treat P1, P2, P3, and P4 more consistently. Any player can trigger encounters, fight enemies, damage them, kill them, be damaged, and die.

Remote combat feedback has also been improved, including gunfire sounds, damage reactions, aiming recovery, enemy ownership recovery, and flashlight behavior in larger sessions.

Important

Silent Hill: United is still experimental, especially with larger online sessions, but this release should be a major step forward for clarity and multiplayer stability.

This release does not include any original Silent Hill files, ROMs, ISOs, disc images, or copyrighted game data.

You must use your own legal copy of Silent Hill 1 and follow the install guide included in the public repository.

Silent Hill: United v0.0.3

Silent Hill: United 0.0.3

Third public update for Silent Hill: United.

This update focuses on making online co-op feel steadier, clearer, and less fragile during real play. It improves the online lobby, adds in-game online pause options, strengthens recovery when a connection hiccups, and continues polishing HARD+ so it feels more deliberate and dangerous.

Silent Hill: United is still experimental, so issues may still happen, but this build should feel smoother and more dependable than 0.0.2.

Included

• Added an online pause/session menu while playing co-op
• Players can now resume, open options, or leave/end an online session from inside the game
• Added live online options for sound, language, FPS limit, filtering, widescreen, flashlight, and related settings
• Improved returning to the online menu after leaving a session or dying online
• Improved online lobby navigation and room display
• Added clearer online player counts in the online menu
• Improved update messages and interface text in English and Spanish
• The update screen now clearly shows when a new version is available
• Added clearer version display from the game menu
• Improved co-op recovery when a player briefly disconnects or the connection becomes unstable
• Reduced cases where one player disconnecting could break the session for the other player
• Improved online combat consistency
• Improved enemy and boss behavior during co-op
• Improved Split Head behavior and hit feedback in multiplayer
• Reduced unfair or inconsistent deaths during the Split Head fight
• Fixed co-op progression issues around shared puzzle items and important pickups
• Fixed cases where certain school progression items could behave incorrectly between players
• Improved HARD+ enemy behavior so added enemies react more naturally
• Expanded and refined HARD+ encounters in Old Silent Hill and Midwich
• Improved HARD+ pressure with more deliberate enemy placement and enemy variety
• Cleaned up PC option choices, including clearer FPS limits
• Improved Spanish wording across several menus and update messages
• Reduced rough edges around pausing, inventory, transitions, and returning from online play

HARD+

HARD+ has been polished further for this release.

Expect more threatening enemy behavior, better reactions from added enemies, and more consistent encounters across Old Silent Hill and Midwich. The mode should feel less like enemies were simply added on top, and more like the route was tuned around co-op survival.

Important

This release does not include any original Silent Hill files, ROMs, ISOs, disc images, or copyrighted game data.

You must use your own legal copy of Silent Hill 1 and follow the install guide included in the public repository.

Silent Hill: United v0.0.2

Silent Hill: United 0.0.2

Second public update for Silent Hill: United.

This update focuses on making online play clearer, smoother, and more reliable after the first public launch. It improves the multiplayer flow, strengthens co-op stability, and adds a new HARD+ layout variant for players who want a more dangerous replay of Old Silent Hill and Midwich.

Silent Hill: United is still experimental and still being developed by one person, so crashes, desyncs, server issues, and unexpected behavior may still happen. Reports and feedback are extremely valuable, especially now that the game is being tested under real multiplayer conditions.

Included

• Room-based online play with clearer session states
• Better official server matchmaking and join handling
• Improved version checks before joining another player
• Improved handling when players disconnect, leave, or change session state
• HARD+, a new Hard-based layout variant with more enemies, greater enemy variety, and remixed encounters
• More co-op-focused enemy placement and resource distribution
• Improved enemy and boss synchronization
• Better Split Head boss behavior in multiplayer
• Improved friendly-fire and remote death feedback
• Better inventory and item sharing behavior
• Reduced crashes around cutscenes, transitions, inventory, rendering, and combat

HARD+

HARD+ changes the way Old Silent Hill and Midwich are played. Expect more pressure, different enemy placements, extra enemy variety, and encounters designed with co-op survival in mind.

Examples:

• Midwich can now surprise players with new threats like a Stalker on 2F.
• The Otherworld school adds more airborne danger with extra Night Flutters.

Important

This release does not include any original Silent Hill files, ROMs, ISOs, disc images, or copyrighted game data.

You must use your own legal copy of Silent Hill 1 and follow the install guide included in the public repository.

Silent Hill: United v0.0.1

Silent Hill: United 0.0.1

First public release of Silent Hill: United.

This build introduces the first playable public version of the multiplayer experience, including online play through the in-game lobby, LAN support, cooperative exploration, cooperative combat, real-time partner tracking on the map, and Lisa as a distinct playable companion with her own inventory presentation.

This is an experimental first release. For the first time, the game and its multiplayer infrastructure will be tested under real-world conditions with different PCs, connections, regions, routers, and playstyles. Bugs, crashes, desyncs, server issues, and unexpected behavior should be expected.

Silent Hill: United is currently developed by one person, so reports and feedback are extremely valuable for improving stability after launch.

Included

• Online lobby directly inside the game
• LAN multiplayer support
• Cooperative gameplay with Harry and Lisa
• Cooperative combat
• Real-time partner position on the map
• Separate player inventories
• Lisa-specific inventory look and character presentation
• Release / Nightly update channel support in the launcher

Important

This release does not include any original Silent Hill files, ROMs, ISOs, disc images, or copyrighted game data.

You must use your own legal copy of Silent Hill 1 and follow the install guide included in the public repository.