Early Access Update V0.8.7.8

22 Dec 2024Developer post

A small update to kick off the festive season, focusing on environment and wildlife with other regular maintenance updates.

Main Features:

Buffalo: Are mostly docile but are known to kill humans. Comes in two varieties, clean and dirty - the dirtier the buffalo the more flies it will attract.
Warthogs: Unendangered, relatively harmless, numerous.
African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus): Not known to attack humans, but a fearless predator amongst its peers.
Scorpions: Good thing you're wearing those boots!
Geese: Known to chase people up trees.

Reserve Entrance: The reserve now has its own actual entrance gate which visitors and guests would use to enter.
Groundskeepers Cabin: The groundskeeper now has her own cabin and garden, this area will be further expanded on in other updates.
Chicken Truck: Is now available at anytime in the game for the achievement mission, as opposed to only in chapter 2.
4 x Warthog Zones: containing additional detail.
5 x Buffalo Zones: containing additional detail.
Forest Zones: shadowy biomes.
Other new hidden areas and secrets.

Fixed issue with enemies firing before they finished reloading
Numerous small other bug fixes and improvements.
Reduced terrain flickering.
Fixed some broken terrain seams.
Fixed some areas you could get stuck.
Fixed some skinned mesh renderers/animals/characters disappearing when halfway off the edge of the screen.

Increased likelihood of certain enemy bark audio.
Removed trees that were placed on slopes unrealistically.
New vegetation such as mushrooms and tomato plants.
Improved Gazelle Texture.
Improved warehouse exterior model material and texture.
Improved other small building[s] material lighting.
Improved intensity of "Sun Shafts" effect appearance, but can also be disabled from advanced graphics menu if not desired.
Sunset transitions are now seamless when playing on high environment settings.
Improved color quality and synchronization of distance fog at the base of mountains.
Decreased the monotony of certain tree clusters outside of the main reserve.
Improved the blending quality of certain asynchronous streaming zones.
Improved quality of transition from terrain to distant mountain objects.
Improved quality of waterfall rendering during night time.

Implemented animation hashing for enemy reload action.
Limited the amount of "miss" bullet decals that enemies can produce globally.
Improved culling of bird flocks when not in camp.
Improved culling of enemies when player is exploring outskirts far away from enemies.
Removed more trees hidden under rocks.
Improved cleanup of animals that have become invisible.
Improved culling of animals and meshes inside the main camp while the player is out exploring.
Removed trees growing under rocks that weren't visible using precious resources for nothing.
Numerous other internal performance optimizations.
'Environment Quality' setting now affects the ambient lighting interval for time of day transitions.

Mammals:

Insects:

Amphibians/Reptiles

Birds:

More species & locations to be added soon!

As always, thank you everybody for the continued support, encouragement & bug testing. It is greatly appreciated!

Happy Hunting and Happy Holidays.