This huge update, the first in version 0.9 series, features the first of our drivable vehicles plus around a dozen new areas to explore. There is also added LAN server support and bunch of other improvements. Special thanks to everyone who helped test this update over the past month, please continue to let us know if you encounter any issues and we can get them fixed asap :)
Below are a selection of screenshots of destinations and vehicles included in this major update:
Whakarua Lighthouse
Wāhi Hawa Slums
Warrior Buggy
Kura School
Victor Buggy
Tori Creepy Cat House
Hīanga Unfinished Construction Resort
Underground raceway near Taipū
Taipū Beach Raceway
Skywatchers Bar at Mataara
Patch Notes:
Environment
- Added updated landscape material for distant detail for all areas.
- Added Container Port themed area to Metarahi.
- Added Abandoned Factory themed area to Metarahi.
- Added Abandoned / Under Construction Resort area to Metarahi.
- Added Gas Stations and other improvements to Pekanga area.
- Added UFO Hunter / Skywatcher area to Metarahi.
- Added Slums area to Metarahi.
- Added second lighthouse area to Metarahi.
- Added abandoned school, abandoned house and cemetery area to Metarahi.
- Added Junk town area to Metarahi.
- Added logging camp area to Metarahi.
- Added cliff road and significant additions to Pitonga area.
- Added windfarm area to Metarahi.
- Added large race track area to Metarahi.
- Added cat themed area to Metarahi.
- Added beach race track area to Metarahi.
- Added bunker area to Metarahi.
- Added improvements to Wai Tai area.
- Added improved cave and tunnel audio
- Added improved cave transition fading.
- Added improved normal to cave several sections.
- Added improvements to river water material.
- Added revised bird system, with more different birds seen around (including types like parrots etc.).
- Fixed physical materials on various shack buildings and props, which for the most part should give footstep sounds when walked or jumped onto. Sounds for things like plastic or tarp are coming soon.
- Fixed the culling on some palm trees which was a little close.
- Fixed culling and lods on various clutter items.
General
- Added drivable buggys with two models, the Warrior and Victor. Each feature various paint options for various parts.
- Added support for LAN servers.
- Added vista points. Purple claim circles which are near distinctive areas or views to see and can be found in some areas including existing areas too.
- Added hidden items to all new and some existing areas on Metarahi.
- Added various optimization to asset packing which reduces texture memory and disk space of some previous assets.
- Added additions to HUD including showing current Z location as well as a Location under the area name (e.g. name of the island you are on).
- Added hovering over spawn menu item rotates between array of images of the destination.
- Added featured spawns to top of spawn list, these featured destinations are duplicate list entries so the rest of the list can be organized.
- Added new ambient sound setup for ocean and rivers.
- Added additional ambient cave sounds.
- Added improved ambient sounds for Naupata (up to par with Kiokio).
- Added achievements for visiting each of the new areas.
- Added achievement for distance travelled by ground vehicle, with two earnable titles.
- Added achievement for opening the ground vehicle editor and for time spent inside it.
- Removed achievements for quarter, half and ultra Marathon (running + swimming) and Endurance Rider for horse. This is simplified down into a single achievement for each category and now has an earnable title for each (existing progress remains). The marathon swimming requirement has also been tweaked to be more obtainable and is now the length of the English channel.
- Added achievements for playing Caspa for 250 and 1000 hours, with two earnable titles.
- Added chat command to de-spawn your mount or vehicle.
- Added new respawning and vehicle mounting/dismounting system which is considerably more responsive during higher latencies and across large distances.
- Added server and client output log for debugging purposes.
- Added several performance improvements to async character appliers.
- Fixed issue where you can’t hear ambient waves when you first spawn sometimes.
- Fixed an issue with selecting certain options in options menu.
- Fixed various navigation issues with character editor menus.
- Fixed an issue where when you dismount a vehicle you can’t remount it again without walking away a bit and returning.
- Fixed an issue where shoes would go invisible when riding a horse and having the camera at extreme angles.
- Fixed an issue where you can't hear environment sounds when spawning.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes the passenger of a vehicle would not automatically unmount when the host vehicle is destroyed.
- Fixed an issue where titles were not sorted a-z.
- Fixed an issue where shoes would disappear when riding a horse.
New-player experience Improvements
- Added Mataara as the default prominent spawn, with club and vehicle spawns all in short walking distance, with areas to visit in all directions.