Prisoners! Your weekly entertainment transmission, containing the latest development progress of SCUM, is ready!
Aside from intensive bug-fixing efforts, the programming team is working on various tasks, including optimizations for the Sentry, improving movement capabilities for armed NPCs, and ensuring the Kinglet Mariner is roaming the skies. Work is also progressing on the UI redesign for the phone, garden health mechanics, and anti-cheat improvements.
Reworking the map has inevitably resulted in some bugs, and the team is ensuring that any issues found are being addressed. Additional tweaks and testing have also been conducted.
The animation team is primarily focused on bug fixing, with special attention given to weapon-related issues.
The hard surface team continues their work on the trench gun and the Zündapp-inspired motorcycle. Additionally, progress is being made to bring back the fan-favorite tractor in all its modular glory!
There are no major updates from the soft surface team, as they continue working on environmental rocks and NPCs.
The sound team is also engaged in bug fixing across the board.
The QA/CM team is gearing up for the final push, ensuring no bugs slip through the cracks and that cheaters are dealt with effectively.
The designers are also making sure no bugs remain on their end.
Now, onto your impressions from last week's transmission:
- Once caught cheating, bad actors are permanently removed from the game and cannot return. Additional measures to mitigate cheating are in development and will be implemented as soon as possible.
- That does sound like a cool idea, but currently, nothing of the sort is planned. However, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely off the table!
- Our primary focus right now is delivering an awesome 1.0 launch for SCUM. The feature you mentioned will be considered, but we can’t share more details at this time.
- That does indeed sound cool! It would add a nice, personalized touch to players' bases. You should post this suggestion in the 'Suggestions' subforum on our Steam page!
- It’s always great to hear words of encouragement! Thank you kindly—your support will help us cross the 1.0 finish line. <3
See you next week...if you survive...
Fratman