Developer posts and news about this game.
Hi, everyone - thanks for taking the time to read this! There are a lot of new players experiencing the game in its early state, and I wanted to let everyone know how we handle patches, how to best report bugs, and the current stage of the project. PATCHES: We post one every 24-7
- Fixed four issues with Rain. - Added random quote to all loading screens - Eliminating duplicate textures/materials - Refined interaction logic - Fixed magenta furniture on Namastay - Fixed problem with fog following cats indoors when tab-switching
Jittery performance - this is new, and related to something that was added over the past week. We're running tests, now. The mission log is not providing enough information. This is a matter of just adjusting the UI, and providing summaries. The Gary mission is not fully function
- Fixed Textures on buildings. - Added falling autumn leaves when the cats are in the midlands biome. - Changed exclusion area between the camera & the cat to something more organic. - Fixed "bottom of the screen" message system to prevent overlap/cancellation. - Added the Po
- Mr. Radio brought back with proper textures. - Improved consistency in interior lighting. - Changed all interior lighting over to layered, soft shadows. - Fix several rock/object instances lacking colliders. - Fixed issue with overlapping clowder commands, and door portals. - R
- Ronan & Girl can be added to clowders, after unlocking - Brought back rain - Fixed Garrison's Market & School keypads - Fixed safe door colliders/UI The next patch is due within 48 hours.
We have added the first iteration of cat footstep sounds for 90% of the game world/interiors
Fixes the camera's passage beneath the terrain Fixes timings on Mr. Radio and other exterior events. Brings back the cat's "crunch" in physiology upon landing from a jump or fall. Fixes the exclusion of too much foliage around the cat
Sorry for missing that. We will be adding cat waking sounds for the exterior on Monday, as well as adding a proper "land" animation to cat jumps.
Tonight's patch is mostly Mushroo: - Added Mushroo spore drop audio - Slowed down spore drop - Refined spore drop area. - Adjusted Mushroos to ensure they do not overlap, while following cats. - Made it so that Mushroo spawning rings' expansion is more organic. - Fixed soundtrack
- Made Ronan easier to interact with. - Added animations/abilities to the cats movements. - Made it so that clowder members will not overlap. - Clowders including Ronan should now be able to enter interiors. In the next update, we will begin adding footstep sounds for the cats, w
- Added cat dreams - Made it so that the cats have different body types. - Fixed conversation Icons - Fixed f3/f5 audio issue - Fixed it so that the Zack in the bus window is the new zack, and he head rotates to follow the player - Fixed it so that clowder cats do not follow a ca
- Fixed market dumbwaiter - Fixed audio issues in the harbormaster's house - Fixed magazine positioning - Fixed missing textures in library - Tweaked controller. - Colliders restored to downtown fences We STILL unfortunately have not been able to fix: - A few beds still won't let
This was severely limiting gameplay, and we were unaware it had happened. Better late than never
- Apparently, a lot of the unlockable cats were accidentally disabled - this is now fixed. You can now unlock all nine cats - We have integrated the proper "Mushroo" system that was developed in PI's early days. WILL HAVE MAC/LINUX VERSIONS UP TOMORROW AM EST.
We tested the most recent build of Peace Island, and there are ZERO LAGS - even when riding the golf carts at ultra quality! There MIGHT still be issues with 4k resolutions, but this is the smoothest PI has EVER run!!!
PC build was not launching. Fixed it.
- Adjusted texture render sizes to improve exterior speeds/reduce lags - Changed magazine meshes to look less like books, when open/closed. Next update within 48-72 hours. NOTE: We are Aware of the problem with cats in the dumwaiter - it will be fixed in the next update!
Implemented 11 fixes for performance issues. Lags/loading should be improved. Next patch within 72 hours.
- Fixed gap in Nick's closet. - Added fix to initial mission, which apparently had issues. - The cat named "Girl" is now in the proper place. - The "interact" UI has been improved (when multiple items are within view) - Doors/windows around the island have proper colliders, to te