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Onboarding
- New characters can now make use of all colours when setting up their first appearance, as opposed to being restricted to just common and uncommon colours.
Events
- When playing solo (i.e. completely without teammates) during the lightning strike event, lightning strikes will more often try to avoid striking right on top of you.
- The lightning strike event has now been given ambient audio (this should always have been there but wasn’t working correctly).
- Recent changes to the gorlizard control turned out to be a bit too much, so it has been given some of its health back (but not all of it). Its melee attacks are now also considered to be sweeping, so they can hit multiple targets.
Environment
- Lighting across the entire map has been reworked.
- The roadway tunnels in the vault have had a visual uplift.
- The centre of the map, within/under the earthtree has been opened up to make room for the new custom weapon station.
- Lots of little art updates have happened around the map.
Match Rules
- Custom weapons can no longer be bought from any shop in the map. Instead, there is a bespoke custom weapon station in the middle of the map. This means that buying your custom weapons can be a bit more dangerous, as everyone needs to do so from the same location.
- The way NPCs spawn around the wilderness has been reworked. For the most part, you won’t notice any differences. The main difference the changes will bring is how the map deals with distributing NPCs if the server is running out of space to hold more NPCs. Previously, this could mean that NPCs spawned around some players but not others, whereas now the “left-overs” will be distributed evenly around all players in the wilderness.
- You can now respawn directly on teammates, as long as they are not in PvP combat, close to enemies, downed/dead, or in a vehicle.
Weapons & Consumables
- More weapon modules have received bespoke appearances.
- The pistol has had some visual updates.
- The audio to go with battle rifle reload animations has been updated.
- Smoke from smoke grenades now generate from seeded values so random spread should be the same on different clients.
- Hacking devices can no longer be used on doors affected by an EMP.
- The slow from Cluster - Shock Bombs now lasts for 1.5s (down from 3).
- Area healing from beam gloves once again does 50% reduced healing to yourself. This reduction was changed to 25% when we played with duos, as there were fewer teammates to heal with it. However, as we are back playing in teams of three by default, the self-healing reductions have been put back again.
Movement & Animations
- Sprint speeds are now the same for all weapons, and those speeds are in line with what the pistols and beam gloves had. In other words, all other weapons now sprint faster than before. Their animations and audio have been updated accordingly, as well.
- Weapons now have bespoke transition animations for going in and out of ADS, as opposed to just being linear blends. This should make the transition between animation states feel less robotic.
- Updated the sprint animation for beam gloves.
- There is now more in-air control so you can more easily adjust your direction of travel mid jump or fall. To avoid this result in some insane velocities when using wind vortices, there are diminishing returns on the in-air controls at more extreme velocities.
- The pistol firing animations (and audio) have been completely reworked to feel more satisfying.
- Weapons now have ‘inspect’ animations (default keybind is ‘I’). These are still a work in progress.
- These animations are purely visual and thus won’t interfere with gunplay. Shooting during an inspect animation will instantly interrupt it.
- Directional start and stop movement animations have been improved.
- Victory animations have been improved.
Creatures
- The audio for the gorlizard’s spit attack has been updated.
- The different cattermaw types have been given some bioluminescent effects to make them easier to tell apart in the new lighting.
- Vehicles
- You can now interrupt a vehicle weapon reload by switching seats (to stop you being locked into the seat until the reload is complete).
Lobby
- Lighting across the entire lobby has been reworked.
- The Thunderdome has received a number of updates:
- Its visuals have been polished.
- You can now receive multi kill celebrations (e.g. double kill, triple kill, etc.).
- Lightning strikes can now hit in the Thunderdome, which removes bits of the floor.
- Pulse bombs can now spawn in the Thunderdome.
- Some vendors around the lobby have had their appearances improved.
- The time trial achievement times have been updated following some recent layout changes.
UI
- The HUD has had a complete visual rework to go in line with the more recent updates to the rest of the UI style.
- Hitmarks have been given a complete visual overhaul. Shield and body hits should be further differentiated, critical hits will stand out a lot more, and new down and kill confirm effects have been added. Sound effects to go with these have also been updated.
- The crosshair will now remain fixed in the world during camera movements incurred from animations (e.g. while reloading a weapon). In other words, what the crosshair points at in the environment won’t change due to the camera movement, as the crosshair will move on screen to compensate. This should make it easier to maintain a steady direction of travel during reloads.
- You now unready (and cancel matchmaking) on the ‘N’ key instead of ‘Y’.
- The keybind to switch seats in vehicles is now on the HUD.
- The accolade screen at the end of a match has received a complete visual overhaul.
Other Updates
- Ambient audio around the wilderness has been updated.
- Player character dialogue volumes should now automatically go down if the announcer needs to say something.
- More voice lines have been added to vendors.
- Fresnel shaders (a subtle glow around the silhouette of characters) has been made a bit stronger to go with the new lighting.
- Melee attacks can now be made from slightly further away. If your character is far away from the target, they also dash towards them as part of the attack, and the camera will automatically adjust to better align the animation with the recipient. This does not apply when meleeing creatures.
Bug Fixes
- More performance improvements have been made.
- A lot of minor collision issues around the map have been smoothed out.
- Fixed a number of cliffs around the map that could be a bit inconsistent to climb based on exactly where you approached them. You should no longer fall off them if you approached from the wrong direction.
- Fixed various areas where NPCs could sink into the floor.
- Fixed an area in the security building where you could get into the walls.
- A few double doors around the map were ever so slightly less tall than regular double doors, preventing the player controlled gorlizard from being able to get through them while crouching. This should now be fixed so that the gorlizard can consistently get through all double doors.
- The player controlled gorlizard’s spit and leap attacks can now damage the EMP device.
- The quad print team upgrade should now spawn quads with the correct custom vehicle skins.
- Deathbringer and turret vehicle weapons will no longer start with empty magazines.
- Characters should now blink properly.
- Fixed an issue where objective markers could point to the wrong place if you disconnected and reconnected to the game.
- Bots should now have matching hit zone modifiers to players (a few body parts weren’t exactly the same).
- Kiran now belongs to the correct group as far as reputation goes.
- Fixed an issue where copied shotguns could end up with modules in the incorrect slots. If you have any left-over shotguns with invalid modules, they will not be usable in matches until fixed.
- Team upgrade stations should no longer claim to be offline when they’re in fact online.
- Fixed some pop-ups that couldn’t be closed with ‘Escape’ so that they now can.
- Modules that adjust the size of the beam glove area heal applied the size difference twice to the visuals so the area ended up looking bigger or smaller than it actually was.
- Fixed an issue that could break weapon swapping if you picked up a weapon off the floor at the same time as you used a consumable.
- The objective icon should now properly go transparent when towards the centre of the screen even when carried by an enemy.
- Fixed various issues caused by the reactor meltdown’s door breaking in conjunction with EMPs and the keycard door.
- And a lot of other things that are not ‘player facing’ enough to be worth calling out…
