Aloha Thrivers!
A huge thanks to our amazing community - our Kickstarter campaign is 100% funded! You've blown us away with the love and support you’ve shown in these last 2 weeks. Thanks to all of you, we are one giant step closer to making Fractured Veil the survival game that we've ALL dreamt of!
We can’t wait to implement more of your great ideas and show you what we have planned for the future of the game. We took a poll about what you’d like to see next and that’s how we decided on our first few stretch goals, so keep your ideas flowing and let us know how we’re doing.
A large majority of you said that you’d like more options for personalizing your base and making your post-apocalyptic shelter stand out. When we hit this first goal players will have access to items which will transform your Hawaiian home away from home and feel more cozy.
We have some incredible momentum going here, so let's ride that wave all the way to the end and unlock even more amazing content by pumping up these Stretch Goals!!
Huge thanks once again to everyone who helped us get this far. We are so humbled and honored by the support you have shown us.
We’ve made a lot of updates to loot drops, improved the construction and crafting systems, worked out some more AI navigation issues and fixed a ton of bugs this week. Keep reading below to see everything we fixed and updated.
Updates and Fixes
Loot Improvements and Fixes
- Added loot to ships and subs in the ocean
- Replaced non loot corpses with corpse pinatas
- Added loot spawners and water to cave boss room
- Changed ammo and attachment drops to prefer less powerful ammo and attachments
- Reduced spawn rates of SSHAM, canned food, clothing, and canteens
- Rebalanced medical spawn rates to favor bandages syringes over medkits
- Rebalanced ranged weapon spawn group to favor less powerful guns
- Rebalanced tool spawn rates to favor stone
- Adjusted big bob's weapon, 127, and rai spawn rates and quantities
- Implemented dripping blood for hanging bodies
- Fixed issue with corpses not being lootable
- Fixed item skins not being loaded into items in containers
- Fixed bank not being interactable
Drone Improvements
- The drone will no longer leave its high zoom state early
- Increased the amount of time between the drone's high zoom states
- Fixed bug where the drone wasn't picking up AI
Construction Improvements and Fixes
- Reduced Trophy collector head damage to construction pieces during sieges
- Eliminated damage from non-siege trophy collectors to construction pieces
- Increased decay to Hawaiian melee weapons from construction
- Reduced damage from Hawaiian melee, bows, and pickaxe to construction
- Fixed 'Hold F' message showing up for wall torches and lanterns
- Fixed not being able to recycle totems properly
- Fixed interacting with barricades opening loot menu
Crafting Fixes and Updates
- Increased research and purchase costs for guns
- Increased research, purchase and construction costs for hawaiian melee
- Added support for multiple fuel types to campfires and smelters
- Fixed players not being able to interact with the 127 converter and Thorcon smelter
- Fixed repair bench and crafting bench being invisible in the Thorcon
- Fixed bug where recipe events could cause the wrong research bench animations to play
- Fixed broken Leiomano club recipe
- Fixed holding F on crafting machines not starting them properly
- Fixed research and crafting benches being ignored for persistence
- Fixed recycle persistence issue
AI Navigation Updates
- Improved how manually placed AI pawns activate
- Adjusted the initial angle of the AI on AI pushing to reduce instances of the blocker being dragged along with the AI being blocked
- AI that are blocked by other AI can now attempt to push the blocker in multiple directions to free themselves
- Increased the velocity that AI push other AI with when being blocked
- Sieging AI that fail to activate will now be automatically cleaned up and replaced
- Reduced how quickly AI blend in their lower-body movement animations to prevent AI excessively shuffling their feet around when being pushed by other AI
- Fixed AI being blocked by overlapping components
- Fixed AI attempting to use navigation requests that were canceled
- Fixed AI stutter-stepping when receiving partial navigation paths
- Fixed AI becoming permanently stuck if they failed to generate a valid path twice in a row
- Fixed melee AI not returning their correct focal point in all movement scenarios
- Fixed a bug where AI were accumulating velocity while attacking movement blocking actors
- Fixed a bug where ranged AI would occasionally spin in circles while standing still
Game Updates
- Updated rivers across the map
- Added lights around bank
- Increased light intensity and range for cave tikis
- Stackable items on the ground will now auto-merge with items nearby
- Improved replication and client performance after many trees have been cut down
- Improved distant scene fog, saturation, and color balance
- Improved foliage distance field settings
- Increased clothing costs
Fixes
- Fixed interacting with the sleeping bag bringing up the container menu
- Fixed interact progress bar being too small for the canteen
- Fixed material on glasses
- Fixed foliage not respawning
- Fixed respawned foliage not taking damage properly
- Fixed inactive players taking damage in PvE zones
- Fixed Thorcon Stall Props texture issues
- Fixed radar icons not working after actor deaths
- Fixed players being able to damage each other with flares in PvE zones
- Fixed auto-sort button breaking persistence
- Fixed the Siege Manager's 'random siege chance' properties getting overridden on start-up
- Fixed a bug where sieges could be forcibly started on bases that did not have a valid totem
- Fixed bug where hitting Alt-F4 before next condition update fires caused the server to skip the update
- Fixed bug where pressing N while not knocked down caused the 'dismissed knockdown' dialog to appear
Watch Fractured Veil Gameplay Footage
We spent some time thriving with MarkeeDragon
Went into the darkness with Omnikevfka
Went on a morning run with Ettnix
And of course some survival time with KangGaming
Don’t forget to check out these videos from
BigfryTV talking about survival
exploring the island with eNtaK
And some laughs with Anarchy HD.
Community Spotlight
From the early days, we’ve been driven by the community and your feedback is very important to us so keep it coming! If you’re interested in helping out, head over to our discord and let us know! We love hearing your ideas and talking about what’s coming up next. Our testers also put together some amazing builds (including a Hawaiian hot tub) while exploring the map, here’s a look at some of our favorite shots they shared this week.
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