# Escape the Backrooms Hotfix #15

- Product: Escape the Backrooms (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/escape-the-backrooms)
- Vendor: Fancy Games
- Date: 2023-06-17
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1943950/view/6580369554865243693
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/escape-the-backrooms/releases/2023-06-17-hotfix-15

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- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where connected players with high ping couldn't hear Facelings
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where certain items wouldn't render correctly with FOVs other than 90
- **changed** — Updated the level 10 field layout
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where players could swim really fast by sprinting right before entering water
- **fixed** — Fixed a visual bug where Level 3999 exterior posters were slightly inside the beams
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where the cave level wouldn't unlock in the hub with old save files
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where players would lose sanity with a diving helmet on
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug in the manilla room where players sometimes wouldn't continue to the next level
- **added** — Added a lighthouse to Level 7 that helps guide players where to go
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where VR players couldn't enter the code to access a locker
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where moths would chase players if they dropped off a rock in the Cave System
- **changed** — Stopped picking up tapes from playing a sound alerting the Scratcher in The End
- **changed** — Slightly buffed Facelings
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where players couldn't close a door if it was locked

-  Fixed a bug where connected players with high ping couldn't hear Facelings.

-  Fixed a bug where certain items wouldn't render correctly with FOVs other than 90.

-  Updated the level 10 field layout.

-  Fixed a bug where players could swim really fast by sprinting right before entering water.

-  Fixed a visual bug where Level 3999 exterior posters were slightly inside the beams.

-  Fixed a bug where the cave level wouldn't unlock in the hub with old save files.

-  Fixed an issue where players would lose sanity with a diving helmet on.

-  Fixed a bug in the manilla room where players sometimes wouldn't continue to the next level.

-  Added a lighthouse to Level 7 that helps guide players where to go.

-  Fixed a bug where VR players couldn't enter the code to access a locker.

-  Fixed an issue where moths would chase players if they dropped off a rock in the Cave System.

-  Nerfed The End by stopping picking up tapes from playing a sound alerting the Scratcher.

-  Slightly buffed Facelings

-  Fixed an issue where players couldn't close a door if it was locked.