Hey gang, the latest update is out! It is an important update for us, because in it we have reached not one, but two major milestones, which open big possibilities for the future updates. The characters have received a makeover, with new faces, facial hair customization as well as skin tones. This should help a lot with making them more memorable as well as move away from the feeling that they are identical clones with different hats. The second big change, while invisible to the naked eye, is no less important: the switch of all non-aggressive NPCs to the new AI system, which should finally allow scripting believable behavior in the future updates. We hope that you’ll enjoy playing this update!
CHANGE LOG:
PERFORMANCE
- Improved performance due to shadows calculation optimization
- Loading is 10-30% faster depending on your PC specs
WORLD
- Added Jack’s new voiced lines in certain places
- Added a small new area to the Windscream Canyon
- Added cut and broken variations of trees
- Added seedlings of palms and trees
VISUALS
- Overhauled most of the NPC’s appearances with new faces, skin tones, attire and accessories
GAMEPLAY
- Equipping weapons is now animated
- Using a scanner is now also animated
- You no longer have to stop to reload a shotgun
- Polished reloading animations to get rid of jerking
- Added more variety to the ‘getting damaged’ animations
- Added a variety of character impact sounds
- Added reloading sounds
QUESTS
- It is now possible to start the Lost Arphant quest by talking to Juggo first
- You can complete Getting Rid of Scalp Hunters quest if you killed the Scalp Hunters on your own
- Account for the player killing off the scalp hunters on his own
- A couple of adjustments to the starting scene
- Bribe is now a valid way to get into the fort
- Added dialogs to the fort’s gate guards
NPCs
- Non-aggressive NPCs play different animations when turning towards the player depending on how much they have to turn to face the player
- Added talking animations to the NPCs that missed them
UI
- Added global sound effects volume control slider to options menu
- Tutorial popups (if not turned off in the options) should be more spread out and less crowded
FIXES
- Hotbar corner key overlays correspond to set key bindings
- Fixed a couple of dialog bugs
- Fixed several errors which led to crash
KNOWN ISSUES
- Some players still can experience crashes on random areas
- Sometimes the game can crash if you click mouse keyboard buttons during loading
- Sometimes the game can crash during autosave
We are working hard to get rid of every single bug but some of them are really hard to fix because due to their strange behavior it is hard to reproduce them.
If you experience any critical bugs, please let us know via our Discord channel. We will try to fix everything as soon as possible.
You can also report about bugs on technical support forum or send us your log to [email protected] with description of the problem and your PC specs.
You can find your .log file here: Documents\Alersteam\Exoplanet First Contact\system.log
Also, if you have any other questions or need help (game crashes / freezes / can't launch), feel free to add me (@bijou) and I will try to help you.
As usual, we recommend to start a new game.
IMPORTANT NOTE
As you know, we are always looking for your honest feedback and ideas which could help us to improve the game. But there's an important thing I would like to talk about — the RECENT REVIEWS section.
The thing is, it is very important for us to show potential buyers that Exoplanet is evolving with every update and this is not the same bare-bones game as it was on the release. Thus, your reviews not just allows us to get some additional coverage but also helps to get new players.
I know there are a lot of good people who don't care about leaving a review or didn't do that so far. But if you do like Exoplanet, please, help us with an honest review. It is very important. And it is really helpful. Thanks a lot in advance for understanding.
P.S. Despite the fact, that some people's review doesn't affect the score of the game (if it was gifted or redeemed with a key), your feedback is still priceless. Thanks for your support.
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