Hey Islanders,
Just so you're all aware the slow stamina regeneration encountered in the previous EVRIMA patch was not an intentional change, rather the side effect of a bugfix which we've now completely resolved. I'd also like to mention that the secret listed on our roadmap is still scheduled to be delivered in an upcoming hotfix, as we're fresh out of the weekend and have focused our efforts on resolving issues and evaluating community feedback to further improve the overall gameplay experience.
With this update comes a standardization to the hunger and thirst values. Currently, every species is set to starve after 45 minutes and dehydrate after 30 minutes. It must be made abundantly clear that these are not set in stone, as we recognise that this would make it far too easy for some of our characters to grow. This is the process that has been decided on by QA, so that we could have every species capable of surviving, while also giving the team more time to finetune each class so that their values aren't tedious to manage but also not too easy to survive on - this is a survival game after all!
We've also doubled the amount of AI present on the servers, should it result in any performance issues rest assured that we'll be swift in resolving it.
Changelog 0.6.22.12
Enhancements
- Made Hunger and Thirst be a fixed value regardless of growth.
- Made Hunger and Thirst have same values.
- Removed cloud shadows and reduced the maximum cloud density.
- Increased AI stasis check range.
- Doubled AI Amount (Still only Dryosaurus).
- Increased Dryosaurus AI sight range.
- Changed attenuation on sound cues for Pain, Wallow and mud (Stegosaurus and Carnotaurus).
Balance
- Disabled bleed on Carnotaurus charge attack.
Bug fixes
- Fixed Utahraptor being unable to move for a second after a pounce if they were low on stamina.
- Fixed admins being able to grow Utahraptors that pounce on other players to ridiculous sizes. No more Titans, sorry. :)
- Fixed knocked down and staggered players still being able to attack other players.
- Fixed Hunger and Thirst decaying faster when growing.
- Fixed Tenontosaurus secondary attacks not causing other players to play stagger animations.
- Fixed Tenontosaurus stagger time not matching its animation.
- Fixed Bite ability resetting ability state.
- Fixed Blood UI icon swapping sometimes or when logging out.
- Fixed Flesh Chunks not being able to be swallowed when stood in shallow water.
Known Issues
- AI does not bleed currently.
- Eating a corpse until it disappears causes a short input lock.
- Bucking a pouncer does not cause their stamina to decay faster.
- Players that are hit on the tail can be knocked down/staggered.
- Players can sometimes bypass group limits if they send invites at the same time.
- Utahraptor's cannot be hit when in the recovery animation after falling from a pounce.
- Texture settings cannot be changed ingame.
- May be able to eat/drink whilst walking.