Hello Nomads,
We have just introduced an Experimental Branch with new features planned to be officially released during the following week. If you are brave enough and want to test new (maybe buggy) features, you can opt-in using beta releases in the Steam client (sorry, not available in other stores yet).
You can open your old saves in experimental, but there might be errors trying opening saves created or overwritten in experimental release (0.9.7.1) in older releases including default stable version (0.9.6.1) of the game. So please be careful and make backups.
There are few known bugs, please do not report them:
- some colliders are missing/wrongly calculated during optimization, mainly after game save/load
- attributes like hunger or thirst is not affected in Free Roam mode, but decreased during the intro sequence
Here is the list of changes:
- new game mode: Free Roam - you can play with your inventories without worrying about thirst, hunger, radiation etc.
- added new weather types and improved look of old ones
- color visualisation and new screen effects for survival attributes
- directional indicator of damage source
- "take it all" button in Containers and Automatic Miners
- allowed direct using/equipping of items from black box Container
- improved weapon beam, new weapon batteries
- "bees" - improved attack behaviour and nest appearance
- enabled animal aggressivity on Medium difficulty
- changed appearance of toggles (aka "check boxes") in UI
- grouping Joy notifications by type
- logging Joy notifications in the Journal
- added descriptions to block / item radial menus
- hidden unavailable blocks in Block Catalog
- improved brakes and added parking brake to wheeled vehicles
- fixed game freeze / crash on finishing blueprint during sleeping
- optimized merge of box colliders for better performance and less physical glitches
- fixed non-working automatic switch on Solar Beacon
- fixed corrupted water surface on higher quality settings
- narrowed camera near plane (reduced weapon/wall see throughs)
- fixed Craneballs logo quality on splash screen
- improved Sandy Engine compatibility with legacy Linux distributions
- fixed water and fog graphical glitches on MacOS
User Experience & Survival Tweaks:
Other changes:
Bugs and optimizations: