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Read all about this update on our blog . Features Preface Improve planet visuals with cloud shadows enabled by default, updated cloud lighting and raymarching, refreshed basemap data, and cleaner distant population impostors. Use curated start bookmarks instead of geolocation-bas
Version 0.4.5 for Preface: Undiscovered World is now live. This update introduces a brand new planet, along with system, memory, UI, and performance improvements. v0.4.5 Changelog Features Added a new default Earth-size planet with improved terrain, better biome continuity, and r
A smaller update brings a range of fixes and performance improvements to Preface: Undiscovered World. v0.4.1 Changelog Known Issues Performance drop when ray tracing is enabled while standing near a waypoint Features Improved shadow performance at dusk and dawn (up to 60% faster)
Our latest update v0.4.0 update is focused on technical improvements to performance, rendering, and more foundational aspects. v0.4.0 Changelog Features Switched our ML engine to ONNX Runtime (with DirectML as the backend), greatly improving our runtime agent performance Implemen
Our Melba tech team has been hard at work on a number of features and upgrades for improved planet-sized terrain generation, and we are ready to share the next major update of Preface: Undiscovered World: v0.3.0 . What’s new in v0.3.0? New Worlds to Explore! We’ve added 5 new pla
Hi everyone, we’re excited to open up access to the full version of our studio’s first game Prologue: Go Wayback! in the form of an Open Beta Playtest today! View game page Go Wayback! uses the in-house machine learning model we have been developing, which feeds into Unreal Engin
v0.2.2 Features Population (trees/rocks/etc.) rendering has had its limit greatly increased - leading to a great improvement in vista rendering. Note: there should only be a minor decrease in performance. If you notice a big regression, please file a bug. Fixes Various developer
Fixes Fix for "Enabling 'Hardware Raytracing' while setting 'Hardware Raytracing Mode' to Off may cause the app to crash after some time"
Today we are releasing v0.2.0, the first major update of Preface: Undiscovered World . This version introduces more elevation and terrain variety, optional ray-traced global illumination, smoother visuals, and several community-requested fixes. It also includes deeper changes to
v0.2.0 Known Issues The new ML model produces occasional straight-line artifacts at tile edges; a new base map is planned to fix this Waypoints have been reset to accommodate for changes to terrain generation Terrain horizontal displacement is disabled until camera system support
Known Issues Switching to Windowed mode from Borderless Fullscreen can cause the title bar to be out of your monitor's resolution * This is already fixed internally and will be fixed with the next patch The current texture upsampling model generates some artifacts, rainbow-colour
Known Issues Multi monitor setups may show the window on the wrong monitor. Windowed mode allows setting a too large resolution, which does not fit on screen. Use alt-enter to fix it. Sometimes when switching display mode and resolution simultaneously, the resolution will not be
How can game designers guide machine learning (ML) to produce landscapes that, while natural and world-like, also present interesting gameplay mechanics? And specifically, what role can Guided Generation play in achieving this goal? For our upcoming survival game Prologue, PLAYER
We’ve added a range of new features and fixes into Prologue: Go Wayback! based on your feedback from December’s playtest—and now we invite you to experience these updates for yourself. Our next playtest starts Monday, February 3rd, 2025, and we encourage you to join via our Disco
Happy new year to our community! 2025 is a particularly exciting year for our studio, because we are now only a few short months away from the Early Access launch of Prologue: Go Wayback! our upcoming survival game based in an ever-changing machine learning (ML) generated terrain
Known Issues Multi monitor setups may show the window on the wrong monitor. Windowed mode allows setting a too large resolution, which does not fit on screen. Use alt-enter to fix it. Sometimes when switching display mode and resolution simultaneously, the resolution will not be
Season's greetings to our community! As 2024 draws to a close, we want to express our gratitude for our community’s support and engagement. This has been an important time for PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, marked by the launch of Preface: Undiscovered World and the announcement of P
Season's greetings to our community! As 2024 draws to a close, we want to express our gratitude for our community’s support and engagement. This has been an important time for PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions, marked by the launch of Preface: Undiscovered World and the announcement of P
Features Provide a more click-able format for deeplinks See the new deeplink documentation PST-2504 - Improve unsupported hardware and OS detection and user-facing messaging Fixes Windowing PST-2461 - Prevent mouse being captured in full screen mode with DPI scaling PST-2462 - Ha
Features Auto-walk is now auto-run Fixes Flight Animation: Fix a bug where when the distance on the geodesic could not be calculated, the animation would blend to default orientation PST-2401 - The helicopter animation now hovers above the target location until the target positio