Lorelei and the Sane Controls

lorelei.mp4

This is a small mod for Lorelei and the Laser Eyes that aims to somewhat improve the experience of navigating the numerous puzzles of The Letztes Jahr Hotel.

More specifically, it makes the following changes:

1. For simple (and most common) locks - padlocks, roman numeral locks, etc - the up and down button rotate the dials, and the "interact" button confirms the decision
2. It adds a new "Back" button (B on controllers and Backspace on keyboard) which lets you back out of puzzles and inventory screen
3. It adds a new "Map" button (Select on controllers and M on keyboard), which shows a map of the current floor (provided you have unlocked it in-game). Use LB/RB or Q/E to switch between floors. The shortcut also works in the maze and in the forest.

I didn't touch some of the more difficult locks (like the Red Maze Door), but most of my own gripes with the controls are solved now. The Back button works in most places, but not everywhere (e.g. multiple choice dialog and free text input forms). Adding support for it involved a lot of ugly hacks and I've covered the most common/annoying screens.

Mapping

How to install

On Windows

Download the Lorelei.zip archive from Releases page and extract it to the game's root directory (in Steam it's Right Mouse Button - Manage - Browse local files). Overwrite the globalgamemanagers.assets when prompted. Done!

On Steam Deck

The mod uses BepInEx to inject the custom code, which in turn relies on winhttp.dll proxy DLL. That means you have to do additional steps

1. Switch to Desktop Mode
2. Download the Lorelei.zip archive from Releases page and extract it to the game's root directory, overwrite when prompted
3. Right click on the game in Steam -> Properties -> Launch options -> Set it to WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b" %command%

With latest BepInEx

Lorelei.zip already contains BepInEx in it and is meant for simple and quick installation. However, I can't constantly keep checking if everything still functions correctly (maybe some Windows or some Lorelei update will come out and break the injection, or maybe there are other mods you want to use, who knows).

If that's the case - you can manually install the latest BepInEx version and then my mod on top of it.

1. Download latest BepInEx_win_x64 from BepInEx releases page
2. Extract it into game's root directory
3. Launch the game once and close it
4. Download Lorelei_minimal.zip from Releases
5. Follow instructions above for Windows / Steam Deck (except use Lorelei_minimal.zip archive instead of the full one, obviously)

How to build it yourself

Library

1. Install .NET SDK
2. Clone this repo
3. Create a lib directory in the project
4. Copy Assembly-CSharp.dll from path\to\game\Lorelei and the Laser Eyes_Data\Managed to lib
5. Run dotnet build --configuration Release
6. Copy resulting DLL from LoreleiAndSaneControls\bin\Release\net46\ to path\to\game\BepInEx\plugins
7. Copy binds\globalgamemanagers.assets to path\to\game\Lorelei and the Laser Eyes_Data OR follow the instruction to import custom bindings yourself

Custom bindings

1. Install UABEA
2. Open path\to\game\Lorelei and the Laser Eyes_Data\globalgamemanagers.assets in the app
3. Find InputManager asset of type MonoBehaviour (NOT MonoScript)
4. Press Import dump, switch type from .txt to .json and select InputManager-globalgamemanagers.assets-1624.json
5. Save

How to uninstall

1. Delete BepInEx folder and winhttp.dll from the game's root directory.
2. Verify the game's contents in Steam to restore original bindings

Known problems

• The Map shortcut shows the map of the Hotel inside the Laser-1 prototypes and during the final sequence of the game, although it probably shouldn't. Not critical, not going to spend much time looking into it
• The Back button doesn't close the map screen opened by the Map shortcut. I've spent a lot of time tracking this, and still couldn't figure out why it wasn't working - but you can still close it with the regular Interact button