Hello all,
We’ve released the 1.6 patch to our stable branch on Steam. You can find our patch notes below. There’s a lot of testing and breaking to do so go at it! Please do your best to check against the list of changes and report bugs using the in game bug report system.
Black Ridge Prison
You'll find our latest Point of Interest to be our biggest and hardest yet. The structure itself is massive, consisting of multiple outer structures and a large prison compound. You'll find a small workshop, offices and garages. The prison features new door mechanics, a draw bridge multiple armories and a pharmacy. It's our first POI to feature keycard controlled doors. The player will find their first keycard controlled door at the prison bridge control room. In order to access the draw bridge controls you'll need to first battle your way through one of the two police stations on Black Island and scoop up a keycard.
Black Ridge Prison cell block entrance
Prison garage and prison bus
Watch your step!
Bridge control room locked with a keycard
Prison drawbridge keycard found in Addersfield or Union Point police stations
Prison Armory and Rewards
The prison is quite a challenge, the last stand in the cell house can get very intense. There are nearly 90 working cells in the tower and a mess of angry zombies to deal with. The reward for completing this POI outside of gained XP is a massive armory. Along with the main armory players will find a sizeable medical supply along with a secondary armory. There should be loads of weapons, medical items and ammo to stock on should you make it through to the end you'll also find yourself a prison bus to make a quick escape. Outside of these rewards we'll be introducing (at community request) extended magazines. These will only be found at the prison :)
Extended mags
Commercial Generators!
Some of you might remember our older builds. These builds featured non-working commercial generators on larger structures. We'll be introducing this mechanic working in 1.6, you'll find commercial generators on POIs like the prison and police stations. At player request we've also removed the ability to lock rooms generators are located in like those at the airport. Let us know if you think we should add these commercial generators to other structures.
Commercial generator
An Island is Born (Bitterhold)
Along with a completely new prison island we've reworked the entire old island. A few weeks back we asked the community for a name and the team ended up selecting "Bitterhold". The new town is pretty large, features a split level design with the church and possibly some future homes overlooking the rest of the island. You'll find a good deal of loot here and it might be a great place to stock up before taking on the prison POI.
'Bitterhold' our new island
Bitterhold from afar
Inventory Changes
- We've been listening to feedback and chatting with supporters on our forums. We've made quite a few changes to the inventory system. In the past couple of builds we've improved inventory background pictures, added icons and updated fonts. In 1.6 James has taken a bit of time to improve some quality of life issues with the inventory.
- Hovering over items in the inventory now only changes an items description area on mouse idle, this will reduce the constant changing of the left inventory page and makes the experience much easier on the eyes.
- Weapons can now be cleaned from the description (left side) page, you'll find the clean button right near the condition readout. This will also allow the player to clean weapons they don't have equipped.
- We've removed the crafting recipes for sharpening in place we've added a sharpen option in the item description much like the cleaning option above for weapons. This has been requested for some time and it's a great suggestion.
- Improved ammo area layout making it easier to read.
- You can now search for appropriate attachments right from the weapons description area making the attachment system much easier to understand overall.
- The sort button for the inventory now looks like an actual button.
- The entire search bar is now clickable in the inventory. Previously only the left side was clickable.
- We've introduced a 'Quick craft' option as per community request.
Descriptions change on idle only
Attachments from description window
Cleaning from description window
Quick craft menu :)
Patch Notes - Alpha 1.6 (Black Ridge Prison | Bitterhold | QoL ++)
HOTFIX 1.5.32
- Fixed stuck command.
- Server time display in the server browser now works again.
- Correct cell block opening audio now plays to match the block that is opening.
- Fixed issue that caused the Cricket vehicle to have a white damage texture.
- Tweaked keycard render distances so that they can be picked out more easily.
- Players will now start with a worn double barrel, 7 cartridges, map and DIY compass. (temp change until a rework of quick start is done in the new year)
- Resolved AI path finding issues around the prison area.
- Resolved issues around Bitterhold and prison which meant vehicles would fall through the ground.
- Fixed spelling errors on prison signs.
- Harvesting around Bitterhold and prison should now work correctly.
- Fixed terrain under houses to stop clipping in Bitterhold.
- Staircase after main prison armoury now has steps missing which makes it one way. This stops players back channeling to get more loot.
- Door after armoury in prison no longer requires electric. Player could get trapped here if the main generator lost power.
- Fixed issue which stopped reloading after attaching extended mag while the weapon was already equipped.
- It's no longer possible to trick safe logoff by force closing game.
- Crafting wire spool and other craftables that were breaking the inventory no fixed.
- It is now possible to place items on the cooking surface while fire machine is open.
- It is now possible to place campfire grill while in the fire GUI.
- Added system for searching inventory for relevant parts via a [Search] button when a machine is open. This shows only items that you have and that can be put in the machine.
- Added functionality so that any items that can act as tinder/firewood can be placed directly in the fire without having to be crafted into tinder first.
- Items that can be used as tinder or firewood now display so directly in name. Example: Dirty Rags (Tinder) or Plank (Firewood)
- Button now says "Burn" instead of "Move" while in relevant fire machines.
- Machine items now have icons next to name.
Performance
- Various zombie optimizations that improve performance drastically when player count raises above 10-15 players.
Drops
- Night of the Living Dead film now spawns around the world.
Zombies
- Fixed issue which would cause zombies to duplicate momentarily as they chased the player.
- Resolved issue relating to vehicles where zombies could become invisible.
UI
- Map updated to include Bitterhold (Town) and prison POI.
Weapons
- Implemented extended magazines for ARG15 rifle,Rauser hand gun and T5 Pump action shotgun.
POI's (Points of Interest)
- Added keycard spawners at the police stations.
- Breakers now disable when generators turn off.
- Updated existing POI's to use the commercial generators.
- Airport doors can no longer be locked
- Added new achievements for Prison.
New town (Bitterhold)
- Added new town on island that was previously unreachable with bridge joining it to the land.
World interaction
- Commercial generator added.
- Commercial generators can now power certain items based on proximity rather than circuit.
- Added working prison draw bridge.
- Added logic to stop players logging out at POI's
- Added logic for stopping item placement on the moving draw bridge.
- Armoury doors are now bullet proof.
Animations
- Added bridge animations.
SFX
- Added audio for bridge.
- Added loud speaker audio for prison.
Vehicles
- Prison bus added.
Doors
- Added keycard door mechanic for POI's
- Timed doors that stay open for a set amount of seconds after being interacted with.
- Added door variants that are open while power is off and open while on.
- Added cell door functionality that open after X amount of seconds from power becoming active.
Props
- Added prison structure.
- Added Keycard props.
Merch Shop
We've opted into a 3rd party seller (Teespring) to provide those that have requested it the ability to pick up some cool merch and help out the team.
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