Hey there, fellow ylanders.
I bring good news - the waiting for Update 0.11 is pretty much over and we believe that this will be the last Dev Diary before it’s released. We are now fully committed to doing the last few tests and wrapping up everything so today’s diary will be rather short.
Let's summarize the main features of Peak Performance:
- Large performance improvements, especially in scenes with many objects
- Combat 2.0 - new combat engine where you can not only combo light attacks and heavy attacks (different for each weapon type) together but can also dodge and parry attacks
- Building 2.0 - improved object placement and snapping allow for a more streamlined, easier and better building experience
- Vicinity looting - a fast and intuitive way of picking/dropping items around you
- Improved character faces
- Improved digging
- Quick and intuitive way of accessing Workshop Compositions directly from the Editor
- Numerous Visual Scripting improvements
- Two new pets
- You can now colorize vegetation
- You get to see nearby ylands on your compass
- There is a new notification system in place
- New loading screens
- New and improved music tracks
- Water rendering improvements
- Shadow rendering improvements
- Direct / indirect light model improvements
At the same time we have disabled the water simulation and first person camera mode temporarily (see previous Dev Diaries for further explanation) but they will return eventually. We’ve made a lot of changes in 0.11 to make sure that in many situations switching to first person camera is no longer necessary and further improvements are planned so that the 3rd person camera view works better in tight spaces. Please note that the current first person camera will soon become available as an experimental, unsupported feature accessible via console command.
There’s actually much more in 0.11 - there’s around 300 fixes and improvements (and those are only the issues that players might be interested in knowing / which are not too technical - in fact the number of all fixes and improvements in 0.11 is close to 1500). We are super excited about this update since it is the biggest one we've ever released, choke full of goodies and you are going to be able to play with ALL of them very very soon!
That’s it for today. Have a great week, ylanders, and as always - stay classy!