Hello everyone,
as promised earlier you finally get the first content patch is here - we had a few bumps on launch but hopefully with the last 5 patches you'll be more happy with the game. In this patch we added cooking to the game, you now have a stove that requires power in order to create food. You will be able to find new food resources in the game-world as well which you can use to produce food. Baking and cooking will take time and we need your feedback on the mechanic.
Additionally we rebalanced the weapons, especially the starter pistol was way too powerful. So all weapons now have a base spread, iron-sight spread and bullet damage will decrease over range. This will make combat harder and we would like to have your feedback on these changes as well. We also added a lot of fixes & changes that you have been requesting or suggesting. We will continue updating the game swiftly at least once per day until the end of the week, then switch to a 2-3 days update cycle until the end of the month where we focus on additional content creation.
There is a lot of planned content already and the feedback we got so far really helped us developing the game faster than we had hoped initially.
Major Changes:
- Facility now has a stove that can be used to cook & bake food. We will not tell you all receipes but a piece of flour and an egg might be found in your base.
- Added new item "egg" to the game.
- Added new item "flour" to the game.
- Added new item "baking soda" to the game.
- Added new item "Empty Water Bottle" to the game.
- Added new item "Dirty Water" to the game.
- Added new item "Pure Water" to the game.
- Added new item "Fried Eggs" to the game.
- Added new item "Bread" to the game.
- Added new item "Cake" to the game.
- You can now fill up empty water bottles in lakes and rivers.
- All weapons now have spread, iron-sight spread and damage reduction on range. These values likely will need some tweaking. (Feedback please!)
- Starter pistol has its base-damage reduced slightly.
- Starvation causes health damage.
- Thirst now drains stamina.
- Overweight (60lb+)now drains stamina.
- Huge Overweight (70lb+) now reduces you to walk speed. (no more running around with 300lb)
- When crouching you will no longer emit noise into the game-world. (So NPCs cannot hear you)
Minor Changes & Bugfixes:
- Nametags have been disabled in PvP.
- Nametags Range has been increased in COOP/PvE.
- Fixed a network replication bug that could cause lag when turning on external power at the Dam.
- Scrapmetal got a new 3D model.
- Latest Savegames are now in the top of the savegames list.
- Savegames now can be deleted.
- Savegames Scrollbar now displays properly
- Fixed : Some doors were missing keypads or keypads didnt respond.
- Fixed : Underwater Sound Effects were not playing properly.
- Fixed : No longer playing footsteps underwater when close to the ground.
- Added more loot spawns through-out the world.
- Introscene skippable with escape or space key.