The following patch will be going out on Wednesday the 9th of March at 6pm PST
The patch won't require a wipe. The main focus of this update is to work on client and server performance, and integrate the new map SDK framework.
New creatures, and machines, cities and major infamy changes spoken about in dev blogs will go out together in a big content patch coming in 4-6 weeks that will drastically change the way the game plays. I will go into detail about these changes in the coming dev blogs.
VERSION 0.3.4.0 (9-MAR-2016)
- Major refactor to the way maps are loaded to support the Map SDK. Player made maps can now be loaded into the engine.
- Added ambient sounds for each biome, and day/night
- Added 3 new ambient music tracks
- Added writable signs
- Added guard for players getting below terrain
- Added crosshair progress indicator when mining resource nodes
- Fixed issues with mouse remapping
- Fixed an issue where placing construction items while jumping could push you through walls
- Added Blizzard weather event, which will make you much colder if you're out in the open
- Improved UI performance
- Made pistol significantly cheaper
- Added ambient visual effects for Forest and Arctic biomes (leaves and snow)
- Made structures have a distance based LOD as well as screen space, to improve client performance
- Changed drill placement so the construction item itself enforces the exclusion distance - you will not be able to place drills close to each other
- Made ownership stake smoke significantly more efficient
- Made ownership stakes only begin smoking 20 minutes from their deathorisation
- The Goat's Mangler wheel can now be shot out properly
- Cars are now can't be claimed if they're not drivable (have 4 wheels, engine, gearbox)
- Cars are now able to be dissasembled with the Wrench if they are claimed, at a slower rate than unclaimed cars
- Disassembled cars now drop better loot
- Vastly improved server performance on player connection and disconnection
- Improved 3rd person crouched bow pose
- Infamy will now not be reduced by death
- Added a Binary Effects display to the hotbar (e.g. Burning, Hypothermia, Starving, etc)
- Added Binary Effects visuals for Burning, Wet, and Poisoned
- Being an outlaw will now make your nametag red for other players
- Added AFK kicker - players will be kicked automatically if they are detected as inactive. You can set this with afkkicktime (default is 15 minutes)
- Fixed issue where savegames could fail to save player progress if they took too long to disconnect
- Upgraded to Unity 5.3.2p4
- Fixed a major server side performance issue when sending new objects to clients
- Added new console command bakenavmesh which will create a new AI navmesh for player made maps
- Disabled some APIs being used to fake player numbers
- Made gunsmoke less intensive on FPS
- Extended server and client FPS readouts to format ( - ) , the min and max show the fastest and slowest frame across the sample. Helping debug fps spikes.
- Added force single threaded renderer launch option, some machines see a large drop in input latency with this set. Framerates will be slightly lower, but overall feels tighter to me.
- Fixed some scenarios where the shotgun would get into a broken state and keep reloading
- Improved vehicle exits to make them less likely to push players through walls
- Fixed an issue where placing an ownership stake while there was currently one deauthorising would make that stake not work