Hello everyone,
Open Robot 0.6.11 has been released and remains playable through the Steam Playtest! Thanks for all your feedback!
Open Robot 0.6.11 changelog:
These are the changes from 0.6.10 to 0.6.11
World dressing / Visuals
- Adds furniture to all buildings.
- Furniture now has the ability to spawn clutter on top.
- Adds/replaces textures to buildings and landscape for better visual variation.
- New grass material for better grass blending with the terrain.
- Improves landscape texture tilling, avoiding landscape textures looking repetitive. Adds color variation patches to the landscape adding an extra layer of variation for better looking terrain.
- Fixes coastline walkable area materials as they got the default one. Both floor and railings.
- Adds plants to buildings.
- Adds cover to the buildings and surroundings for strategic combat locations
- Procedural building generator walls now support different materials for the inner and outer side of a wall/floor/ceiling adding variety.
- House level layout improved with new balconies.
Performance
- First big performance improvements.
- Max texture quality capped for better performance.
- Procedural content improvements for better performance.
- Small objects all around the map are not included in HLODs. Replacing far away objects with more optimized versions of them only applied to those objects visible from a far away distance.
- Deletes unused meshes, textures and materials.
- Better dimensioned virtual texture pool size configuration, for better balance between memory and CPU usage.
- General wind animations are deactivated and only visible for small elements close to the player or reasonably close to big trees.
Quests
- Removes repetitive messages after killing enemies
- Moves some tutorial actions to better places where the player really needs them. Making tutorials shorter and more suited for the incoming action.
- Adds ability to control vehicles interaction from quests. Deactivating vehicle driving when driving away can mess up a quest.
- Better balanced difficulty progression with initial enemies.
Characters
- Changes BleepBloop materials for better look
Spawning
- Fixes NPCs and other elements (weapons, health packs, etc) spawning on top of furniture.
Navigation
- Improves the navigation system so that NPCs movement and spawning deal correctly with general furniture.
Music
- Adds dynamic music to combat, growing in intensity as combat intensifies. Not only players but also bots are able to raise combat intensity by firing their weapons.
- Adds music to the main menu.
Survivor Mode
- Ability to save survivor mode checkpoint progress.
- Adds basic movement and combat tutorials at the beginning of the survivor mode. It will only appear the first time the survivor mode is played.
Other bugs
- Fixes foliage disappearing in rare cases.
- Fixes coastline walkable areas that have lost their custom materials.
Send your feedback
I would love if you could send feedback by either filling up a Google Form survey and/or joining Open Robot Discord Server (Links in the game)
Open Robot Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/f3bjkQCXty
The plan
I would be running multiple short iterations, each one lasting few weeks (3/4 weeks), depending on the amount of feedback and implementation needed etc.
I will be focusing on different aspects of the game. Currently working on the game visuals (dressing up the world) and performance, making it ran faster while looking the best possible.
Helping further
If you’re interested in Open Robot, please consider adding it to your Steam Wishlist and follow the game.
Your support is incredibly important for Open Robot!
If you decided to join, thanks so much for helping out!