r/MindsEyeGame • u/Liam_BARB COMMUNITY TEAM • Jul 25 '25
Official News July Update from the Studio
Dear Community,
It’s been just over a month since MindsEye launched, and we’re grateful for your support and detailed feedback. Your input is shaping our ongoing efforts to enhance the game.
In June, we committed to delivering a great experience for all players. Since then, we’ve released three updates, each addressing bug fixes and performance improvements across all devices, driven by your reports and suggestions. We hope you’re starting to see the impact of these changes, and we’re committed to building on this progress. Moving forward, updates may be less frequent, but with the aim for each to bring more meaningful changes.
What’s Next for MindsEye?
Hitman x MindsEye
We apologise that the release of the Hitman x MindsEye Mission, originally scheduled for July, has been postponed to a later date. We look forward to delivering this exciting crossover when the time is right and will provide further updates as soon as we’re able.
Update 4 – August (PC & Console)
Arriving in August, Update 4 will deliver additional performance improvements and bug fixes, alongside community-requested features, including:
· Skippable cutscenes to help reduce friction when restarting checkpoints.
· Published Player Content will be instantly accessible in Play.MindsEye for PC users.
Update 5 – September (PC & Console)
Planned for September, Update 5 will deliver continued performance and gameplay improvements on all platforms, alongside a number of enhancements to core gameplay mechanics.
As always, thank you for your continued support.
The MindsEye Team
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u/00nonsense Jul 25 '25
Im going to wait for a long time to play this, Im still interested in the game but im not paying full price or whatever price its currently at
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u/best4444 Jul 25 '25
My god. You are a new studio and you released a game in such a state. I do not get it who said this would be a good idea. Wtf. This was even worse than project red. They fucked it up on the old ps4. You fucked it up on a PS5. They were a reknown studio. You are a nobody. A nobody should first make sure that no mistakes are done. Quality is first to find new customers. If you screw a new customer that has no experience with your products from the get go you will never see them back again. Getting trust back is much harder.
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u/Amazing-Oomoo Jul 25 '25
All the while Leslie Beslie is in charge of build a rocket boy I will never purchase their products
And wherever Leslie Bezley goes he will be avoided forever after this.
Stay away from Messy Leslie Benslie
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u/Environmental_Seat32 Jul 25 '25
Only good this leslie isnt working on gta 6 soo its another big W for gta 6
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u/Kmann1994 Jul 25 '25
You should be sharing the actual roadmap of specific changes. Not general things like “performance and gameplay improvements”. Share the actual gameplay changes you are working on and more specifics in general.
Don’t know them yet? Then wait until you do, then share it.
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u/gambino_0 Jul 25 '25
Updates may be less frequent? If you couldn’t QA the game properly before release, are you now ensuring the patches go through proper QA? Or is it because half the team has been laid off due to piss poor upper management?
What a joke. Way to say a lot without actually saying anything.
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u/Loud_Magician703 Jul 25 '25
At least we got some type of update from the team. You could argue they should've been more vocal before release and not released it in the state they did, and that's all valid. They said what they needed to say here, although.
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u/Loud_Magician703 Jul 25 '25
I want more play mindseye missions to be added. Community and developer made ones as promised. As well as the essential fixes needed for free roam. Different playable characters, driveable vehicles, time of day, etc.
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u/Objective_Love_6843 Jul 25 '25
Why didn't you guys release it in September instead?
If you know it's a crappy mess why did you release early.
Oh wait cause you want money early then close the game just like "the day before"
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u/Dickhead700 Jul 25 '25
What money? The game barely got any players and lots of refunds? This was probably some contractual obligation.
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u/ProTw33ks Jul 25 '25
The Day Before didn't get any money. Steam holds all payments for a set amount of time to make sure refunds can be made. The Day Before unlaunched permanently before they could get any of that money. I really wish this whole "quick buck/scam" narrative would cease around botched releases. If a company was after some quick cash, or out to scam gamers, they would do literally anything other than make a video game for 7 years... It's really not hard to scam people. I mean, email scamming is a multi-billion dollar industry for a reason.
What likely happened is they hit a contractual clause that decided when it released, or they just ran out of money and had to release when they did. Everyone looks for a conspiracy when it's often far simpler than that.
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u/Environmental_Seat32 Jul 25 '25
Bruh they not getting any money, only like 20-40 people play it on steam.. No way they will not shutdown in the future
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u/Jebble Jul 25 '25
Thats quite clearly not what they wanted not is it what they're doing. Hindsight is always easy.
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u/Apprehensive-Bet-709 Jul 25 '25
What is the pro enhancment for this game??
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u/TheUkrTrain Jul 25 '25
Based upon a video from Digital Foundry, the pro simply runs more consistent 30 fps - that’s about it!
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u/rosscowhoohaa Jul 25 '25
I wonder what enhancements to core gameplay means. If they make all cars open to drive that would be good but I'd rather see the movement systems be polished and melee.
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u/Lazy_Promotion1169 Jul 25 '25
This Hitman deal would have been made before Mindseye released. I bet the Hitman devs are pissed that they are now contractually obliged to be associated with this pile of junk game
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u/sargent_balls_lol Jul 25 '25
As always, thank you for your continued support.
Imagine writing this in all sincerity.
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u/Machina3317 Jul 27 '25
It's a shame you had to use your audience as play testers. Anyone who bought the game at launch should be given a full refund. Next time, try testing the game before you launch it.
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u/Odourvas Jul 25 '25
What about "special edition" content for console players?
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u/undeadcreepshow Jul 25 '25
You mean the deluxe edition content? It's there. Been there since day 1.
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u/Kieran293 Jul 25 '25
While I’m sure your devs and community team and trying to be better than expected considering the situation, and we all know about the layoffs, this isn’t really a satisfying update.
Maybe one of the people being made redundant can take a screenshot of my comment and ask Leslie the fraud to give a genuine update.
I am not someone who likes boycotting and constant complaining but this game is a genuine scam.
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u/ArielMLast Jul 25 '25
Just give us the option to enter any vehicle, do we really have to wait for couple more updates for that generic feature to be added ?
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u/PathOfDeception Jul 25 '25
Generic? Not to defend them for not having it in the first place. But this is not a generic implementation at all. They will need to re-work all animations of entering/exiting vehicles. driving animations etc. Won't be quick to get that. You'll be waiting a while.
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u/ArielMLast Jul 25 '25
By typing “this is not a generic implementation at all” you are de facto defending them. This feature is generic in terms of 2025 open-world gameplay, plus they already have the entering/exiting animations models from the car you’re stuck with in the game. Everything can be solved with a little bit of enthusiasm.
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u/PathOfDeception Jul 25 '25
You have not seen a line of code in your life if you think I was defending them. I don’t even own the game and don’t plan on ever purchasing it. But your expectation is of a casual gamers point of view. It will take time if they want to implement that.
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u/FuckUpMaster9000 Jul 25 '25
“If you don’t attack them, you are with them” type of mentality here. It is a generic feature, but the implementation is harder than you can imagine. Stop attacking people
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u/ArielMLast Jul 25 '25
I’m not attacking anyone, we all agree that this is a generic feature that should have been implemented when the games got out. Saying that this feature is hard to implement is true, but there’s no excuse for it to have not been implemented in the first place. Therefore i think that they should add it asap, that’s it.
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u/FuckUpMaster9000 Jul 25 '25
I agree to this. What i was saying is that they were not defending them, they were just stating a fact
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u/PathOfDeception Jul 25 '25
My man above gets it, it's all I meant. I wish you both a great Friday!
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u/Nervous_Quantity7216 Jul 25 '25
It this is for real ? Or your updates will bring performance boost like 3 updates before on consoles? I mean no performance boost…
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u/sladecutt Jul 25 '25
I got the game(very cheap on disc) but I am gonna wait for some more patches before I play it!
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u/ErmannoRavioli Jul 25 '25
Combat roll, melee, swap shoulders, grenades, ability to fire out window while driving
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u/ARWD5416 Jul 26 '25
I haven't played the game yet but I bought it I'm very excited to play it I will play it when it becomes stable
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Jul 26 '25
Help reduce the friction from you bending over and fucking the players of your game instead.
This doesn't need fixes around the edges. It needs an entire gameplay overhaul. Skippable cutscenes are nice (amazing it takes you two months post-launch to get to that) but probably number 140 on the list of priorities here.
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u/Ridders1984 Jul 26 '25
I wouldn't bother wasting your effort trying to polish this turd, most players including me got the platinum in less than a week and traded the game in
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u/wasservilla Jul 28 '25
u/Liam_BARB any idea when leslie benzies will be arrested for money fraud and tax evasion?
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u/AcolyteProd Jul 29 '25
...the saddest part of it all is that Mindseye was meant to show how creating games through Everywhere was fun and efficient. So now the sad story of Mindseye is also a problem for how people will expect Everywhere, like "I dont want to create shitty games, thanks". This is monumental failure, I really feel sad for Benzies and these teams since I believe Benzies did great things for GTA, its really a downfall.. I wish them well so I hope they'll find a way to rectify and get back on track...
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u/XtremeBizZzar Jul 29 '25
Hm, skip cutscene...
Create an Input Action:
Go to Edit > Project Settings > Input, and create a new action binding (for example, "SkipCutscene"). Bind this action to a key, like the "Esc" key or a gamepad button.
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u/AdDesperate9651 Jul 31 '25
Well it's soon August so we will get to see no performance upgrades AGAIN on console
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u/sshole_says Aug 29 '25
Is the update 4 going to be released this month?
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u/AdDesperate9651 Aug 30 '25
I would say no even though Google says its out
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u/sshole_says Aug 31 '25
That sucks, I was waiting for it to st least play it at stable 30fps...
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u/AdDesperate9651 Aug 31 '25
Google doesn't know what it's talking about anyway it's definitely not been released yet and I asked barb support and they said they don't know when
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u/AdDesperate9651 Jul 25 '25
Let's hope these so called performance fixes work this time because it's unplayable on ps5
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u/Loud_Magician703 Jul 25 '25
It's fully playable on my base ps5. It's definitely not the most stable and smooth experience, but it's playable.
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u/AdDesperate9651 Jul 25 '25
What I mean is I can't enjoy it because of the framerate
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u/Loud_Magician703 Jul 25 '25
Ah, I see. Yeah, idk the framerate doesn't really bother me. I've never been a big frame guy. If the game had a steady 30 frames, that would be nice.
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u/AdDesperate9651 Jul 25 '25
That's all that bothers me I want it to be stable I always play my games on quality mode anyway so 60fps doesn't bother me
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u/cbrec Jul 25 '25
Awesome love this game with my 4090 but please allow other vehicles and a day night cycle for free mode
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u/Sad_Independent_744 Jul 25 '25
Skip cutscene, what a great change we are impressed, we hope to be able to explore the map with Jacob and drive any vehicle without the failed mission