Build 0.10.815 is now live!

This is a pretty substantial update, with a major overhaul of weapon parts and crafting, improvements to recoil and weapon handling, a reworked class selection flow, and a lot of work on performance, stability, and polish.

Highlights

• Weapon part system rebuilt: we've made major changes to weapon parts, crafting, and how different weapon configurations come together. We'd especially love your feedback on this.

• Reworked recoil system across weapons

• Improved onboarding and lobby selection to make getting into a game smoother

• Reworked class selection station, including weapon, ultimate, and skin selection

• New weapon parts, including pump shotgun, semi-auto shotgun, DMR, and sniper components

• Improved performance and startup times, with optimizations across enemies, ragdolls, the lobby, shaders, and level generation

• Lots of fixes and polish across combat, objectives, grenades, shields, UI, audio, and more

Weapons & Crafting

• Rebuilt and expanded the weapon part system

• Reworked recoil and improved recoil synchronization between players

• Added pump shotgun, semi-auto shotgun, DMR, and sniper barrels and magazines

• Added shotgun and assault rifle muzzle attachments

• New handstop underbarrel part

• Improved iron sights

• Improved weapon slide grabbing, including easier AR slide grabbing

• Improved charge weapons and added the sniper energy barrel

• Fixed charge weapon raycast behavior

• Updated weapon part prices

• Improved grenade throwing and fixed grenade pin behavior

• Fixed wristgun mode colors

Combat & Enemies

• Improved enemy navigation and pathfinding

• Improved enemy behavior when spreading apart

• Fixed the Machinegunner shield

• Fixed several shield and stun issues

• Fixed impact particles

• Fixed a spawner wave construction bug

• Simplified Bastion hitboxes

• Improved enemy collider performance

Objectives & Extraction

• Fixed Egg Hunt gravity for clients

• Fixed the extraction objective box collider

• Updated capture points

• Fixed and updated combat zones, colliders, and progress bars across multiple rooms

• Added and fixed biome barrels so they appear correctly

Ship, Lobby & Mission Select

• Reworked mission/lobby selection

• Added lobby code support

• Added a notification when the host leaves while you're joining

• Reworked the class selection panel, including Wristgun, Blaster, Ultimate, and skin selection

• Updated the lore panel

• Improved asynchronous level generation and loading reliability

• Added suits (with LODs) to the player cabin

Movement & Comfort

• Updated player poses before rendering to reduce head-swim

• Teleport now correctly rotates player velocity and the HUD

• Fixed bumpy floor tiles

Performance

A lot of work in this build happened under the hood, particularly around enemies, physics, rendering, and loading:

• Improved lobby performance and visibility culling

• Improved startup and level generation performance

• Reduced enemy collider update frequency where possible

• Simplified enemy hitboxes and colliders

• Improved ragdoll and leg animator visibility culling

• Improved hit decal performance

• Reduced garbage collection from modifier lookups and LOD collection

• Optimized tutorial navigation meshes

• Disabled unnecessary hand and foot hitboxes

• Additional smaller performance optimizations

UI, Visor & Visuals

• Fixed shaders on SteamVR

• Fixed Wristwatch culling

• Added the DRIFTERS logo to the loading screen

• Various visual and UI fixes

Audio & Music

• Updated sound effects, audio, and music

• Improved music transitions

• Added success and failure music transitions

• Objectives can now dynamically affect music intensity

Other Fixes

• Various smaller bug fixes, visual fixes, and polish throughout the game