Hello Survivors!
It's time to roll out the V0.89 Graphics Overhaul! Better looking characters is one of the major changes I had planned since it became a popular community request. I've been having a lot of fun putting this one together, feels like a whole new game. I hope you enjoy it.
I've developed a new character creation system using morph targets, so now facial features can be modified, also 18 new beards, 27 hairstyles, 8 eye colors, 19 hair colors. Existing saves will all work fine, although your character's facial features, beard, hair, skin color, and eye color will be randomized. I've also added a new item - the DIY plastic surgery kit which can be crafted, looted, or purchased from certain vendors. This kit will allow you to change all aspects of your character (even gender and skin color,) except hair and beard style/color, which can be changed with the hair cut/ hair dye kit respectively. Some of your follower's equipment may be upgraded to your current caravan's armor class, but there shouldn't be any issues loading old saves.
New particle effects have been added such as large explosions, new bloodstain system, new spark effect on mech damage/kill, and more. Imps are now harder to kill, they now have about 60-70% chance to evade an attack (and possibly counter attack.) Not all attacks can be dodged, but I'll let you find out what works. New clothing physics have been added to trenchcoats and labcoats, cloth physics will stop on entering a vehicle (except motorcycle type vehicles for now, a little buggy but pretty cool)
AI has received a major overhaul, perception issues have been fixed, enemies can now properly navigate to vehicles, followers will no longer randomly switch crouch/aim, Followers will no longer shoot through vehicles to hit enemies, enemeis will hunt down players, and tons more. Ranged and melee combat have both been updated, followers are much more useful as combatants and combat just feels much cleaner and more exciting. Massive enemies have been updated, new models for Mechs, Titans, and Horrors as well as new combat code and tighter Combat AI.
The new Titan combat code makes some changes to the flow of combat, Titans will no longer rain down lightning on players, the lightning attack was way too accurate at range, making combat nearly impossible for more than 1 titan at a time.
I've added a new heavy overhead attack that can be used by holding down the attack button. it does extra damage and applies extra force at the cost of extra stamina and extra durability. This is just one of the many new animations added.
Keep in mind that you can hide the HUD for screenshots! (Press F8 on the keyboard) Hopefully this is it for the small hotfixes, If you find any issues, let me know in the forum, if it is something gamebreaking I'll try to fix it right away.
There's lots of changes and new content, the following changelog should cover most of them.
Hotfix V0.893
-Fixed audio spatialization for nearby sounds and all attenuation settings
-Fixed Deer Fleeing AI
-Lowered default volume of eating, drinking, and stomach rumble sounds
-Fixed new issues with passenger aiming
-"Are you sure?" box on quit game did not hide mouse cursor if canceled
-Lowered default radio volume
-Radio actor will now not select songs if radio volume multiplier is disabled
-Stopped physics from explosions on new overhead distance sign in colony
New Content
-New male/Female character models for players/Followers/Bandits
-Added 18 beards
-Added 27 Hairstyles
-Added 10 skin shades/8 eye colors/19 hair colors
-New character creation system
-New character creation menu and facial morph system
-Added voice pitch modifier to character creation
-New Mech models for all mech types
-New Demon models for all demon types + giants
-Added DIY Plastic Surgery Kit to change character appearance during gameplay
-Added Cloth physics for trenchcoat and labcoat variants
-Added new Heavy Attack to melee combat
-Added Eye color to character creation
-Imps are now much harder to kill, they dodge attacks and counter when possible
-New icons for all new equipment
-Added face bandana mask
-Added reading glasses
Animations
-New Heavy attack animation
-New Forward walk, run, sprint
-New ninja flip anims for imps
-New forward walk anim for giants
-New idle animation and situational idle break
-Now allows blocking while crouching/ new blocking anim while crouching
-New handgun idle animation
-New Overhead Heavy Attack Anim
AI
-Fixed perception issues across the board
-Fixed navigation and chase AI for all entities
-Fixed Ranged and melee NPC combat + defences
-Fixed npc characters occasionally not clearing focus on target loss
-Fixed Titan Combat code,
-removed Titan lightning strike attack
-Improved Demon fireball aim
-Dragon firestrafe has better chance of hitting player location
-Dragon flying turn rate lowered
-Removed crouching in AI
-Followers will sneak when you sneak, providing an aim bonus for ranged combat and force ends while retreating
-All enemy types have received AI improvements and fixes too numerous to mention
-reduced range of eyeball turrets
-Followers/npcs will no longer shoot through vehicles/trailers to hit enemies, vehicles now properly block line of sight
-Followers will no longer match the player rotation on destination reached, now followers will look where the player aims if they don't have a target enemy
-Followers will not sidestep on blocked LOS
-Bandits/NPCs will now strafe around obstacles to get a better shot at their targets
-better mech laser aim at all ranges
-Added Imp dodge anims and effects, can dodge some but not all attacks
Effects
-New explosion effects for gas station explosions/Titan spawn/Plane crash
-New impact/death effects for mechs
-New blood effects/bloodstains
-Darker blood
-Fixed bloodworm bloodsplash effects
-Added lingering smoke to gas pumps on destruction
Models
-Recreated all LODs for better performance and visuals on both low and high end machines
-Recreated zombie child model
-Recreated all clothing/Armor/Hats/Pants/Backpacks
-Recreated Horror models
-Recreated props relating to character meshes
-New models for equipment pickup actors
Audio
-Audio listener is now located at the character instead of the camera
-Character audio multiplier added to options
-Fixed gunfire/launcher audio at high speeds
Miscellaneous
-Added Picture of Orion to credits :)
-Trailer turrets can now always be controlled by the driver of an attached vehicle
-Trailer control mod now boosts turret performance
-Added melee weapon range to details panel
-Night is now a little brighter
-headlights/brights are a little brighter
-New start screen effects and props
-Explosive barrels at chekcpoints are no longer close enough to chain explosions
-Fixed out of breath issues
-Can now slowly regain stamina while blocking
-Fixed morale value dispay issue
-Cursor now hides properly after closing all menus
-Can now rotate characters in character creation
-Fixed "Are you sure" counting as complete in character creation
-Translated all changes to the secondary character creation booth
-New hair materials
-Fixed melee hit audio on skeleton
-Added "wrong direction" notifier if a player travels too close to the southbound blocker
-activating a controller during the start menu/load game menu will now hide the mouse cursor
-Reduced the weight of certain heavy vehicles and trailers to make them less cumbersome and more useful
-Now using the proper math to find km/h resulting in higher registered speeds
-Fixed attack loop if weapon breaks while attacking
-Trying method that always forces V-sync to be on, this is to counter the invisible wall bug. Also resets the v-sync off and on when the game is paused/players enter a colony/p2 drops in (probably temporary, will test further)
-Replacing vehicle parts is no longer limited by item durability
-Trailer load type and amount is now displayed above trailer health when connected to your vehicle
-Fixed various typos
-Slightly faster base stamina charge
-certain props no longer explode on destruction, but summon enemies
-should no longer load player vehicles on rooftops on load game
-Random events are slightly more common
-More detailed instructions on how to start vehicle
-Added entry location indicator to Archangel
-fixed rare footsteps after death bug
-Closing Caravan menu now hides mouse properly
-Adjusted weapon location in the hand
-Fixed occupied trailer turret control and direction issues
-New spider materials for better visibility at night
-smaller hit indicator on receiving damage
-better chance of spawning building enemies
-Loading a game will now remove any nearby buildings/enemies to prevent instant death loop or vehicles stuck in buildings on load
-turning radio audio all the way down now properly disbles the radio and prevents radio songs from playing at all
-Slight decrease to fuel consumption
-Fixed gap between smoke and fire damage stages on vehicles
-removed dumbbell from standard new NPC weapons (will still load saved weapon)
-New variants for follower armor classes
-Reduced damage of 9mm machine pistol
-Fixed pump controls getting physics from explosion, now should be destroyed properly
-Water kill volume now affects bandits
-Moved distant landmasses further away from the playable area
-Added hats to clothing store
-Titan and Dragon have more health
-Fixed lab barriers location in containment area
-Keyboard and mouse can now be used to close the daily income screen
-Dragon now only has a chance of teleporting on receiving damage with low health
-entities getting up from ragdoll should now do so at theo proper height
-stopped multiple zombie loot spawns if stuck under vehicle
-Quicker item use delay, delay affected by endurance
-NPCs/all enemies now properly approach vehicles to attack
-Passenger aim fix
-prevent charisma load game loop exploit
-Fire effects can only jump to one other actor, fixing the performance hit with large crowds on fire
There is still more content coming, the weapon/vehicle overhaul will be next focusing on models as well as turrets and weapons. There are also some community suggestions I have planned that haven't made it in yet mainly due to time constraints. A new options menu will be coming as well, easier to understand and navigate.
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