Update 0.622 - New player animations, hostile movement animation fixes

Greetings survivors!

It's been a busy 4 months. The majority of the work done will not be obvious to the player as it optimised the workflow and world building mechanics.

Major Features:

• Overhauled animator tree

  • Removes dying animation bug/weirdness

  • Allows greater control to crafting and resting animations

• Added unique animation sets for:

  • 1 handed weapon + off-hand equipment

  • 1 handed weapon with no off-hand

  • 2 handed spear

  • Unarmed

  • 2 handed weapon

  • Animations set include an Idle, walking, running, 3 different attacks and blocking

• Added 2 Handed weapon logic, including auto-unequip off-hand, and 2 handed damage bonus

• Footstep sounds for player and hostiles!

• Overhauled player and hostile movement logic, the movement of the player while navigating through hordes of hostiles should be more natural

Other Features:

• Added Work In Progress section to the pause menu for known issues that are not 100%

• Synced hostile animations to their speed

• Overhauled random wall materials to eliminate several issues and make it more robust

• Added yellow arrows to the tutorial mission complete bus to guide players to the door

Tweaks:

• Removed crafted items from all loot lists.

• Removed skill animations, skills no longer stop the player from moving or attacking, but the player must not be moving to use (this will be fixed in next update)

• Removed the pause "P" button. Players will need to press Esc to pause the game from now on

• All harvested loot will now drop at player foot level to avoid objects spawning under the ground

• Hostiles now stand still while attacking and done move again until the animation is stopped/cancelled

Bug Fixes:

• Cardio skill tree button now correctly gives +4 Stam per level spent

• UI elements sill now correctly block the cursor from selecting a game object behind it

• Fatigue system and UI overhauled and optimised

• Corrected attack speed issues

• Corrected jump scare issue where hostiles spawning close to the player could not trigger the noise

• Corrected the acceleration logic of faster hostiles which caused them to slingshot past the player

• Target of Assassination missions sometimes spawned outside the diameter of their suspected location

• Corrected Traditional Hunting/Stone crafting skill books to unlock the right recipes

• Loot type should now all be synced correctly (e.g. some tools were flagged as consumables and were put in inappropriate loot lists

• Fixed the recipe for 2 large rocks to break down into 4 smaller stones

• Fixed the audio sound location, so objects on the right of the camera come from the right speaker, but is at the intensity from the player's ear location

Engine/World Building Update:

• Created a building generator assistant tool to more quickly create buildings

  • The current process was too manual and took too long to make simple buildings will all of the attached logic

• Updated and overhauled many features related to hiding walls while in a house

  • The walls are no longer hidden per row of walls, but per individual wall. This was chosen to improve building creation time

  • Added invisible collider to all doors and windows with logic to allow the attached walls to always hide. Sometime all rays from the camera to the player would go through a window or a doorway.

• Overhauled the player and hostile Line of Sight mechanics. Player can no longer attack through a wall

• Updated input manager

Know issues:

Tutorial level:

• When a player completes the first quest, saves the game, then reloads into the tutorial from the beginning, the first quest breaks - Workaround: drop medkits, save character, then reload

• End Radio could not be interacted in one test case. Unable to replicate bug to fix at this stage

What's next?

Major UI overhaul and potential YouTube Dev Blog Update

Thank you - Joel