Hey Everyone
We have another big weekly update today as we continue to make solid progress with improving every area of the game. Today`s update 87 includes several dozen fixes and improvements across the board - from quality-of-life to bug fixes and animation improvements, as quite a few new features.
We are hard at work on another major update due next week that adds full controllers and Steamdeck support, as well as option to cross-platform play the game on the same servers.
Quick note to a few players effected by the rare Offline Singleplayer issues with claims being in space. We have added a solution for you here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/623340/discussions/0/3466101084947220406/
As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community.
And now lets take a look at what update 87 has in story:
- Planets now have background environmental audio
- Sounds of trees, rain, and other environmental audio added
- Major rework of the world map – focuses on player now with high zoom in
- Game now remembers players camera preference TPS/FPS and keeps them saved
- New notification system created for notifying players when collecting resources
- New system doesn`t overwhelm the player with countless notification for each resource gathered
- Added new system to notify players when they are hungry or thirsty to make it very clear when low
- Various improvements to the world map
- Additional performance improvements
- Reworked the sounds effects on all the tools
- Vsync now perfectly controls FPS for high end system so they don’t over-perform with 120+ FPS
- Various improvements to melee combat with bare hands or melee weapons/tools
- Fixed all the issues effecting Self Hosted games – like rare character not saving issues
- Self Hosted games – fixed issues with characters riding vehicles in the very odd way
- Various fixes for official server stability
- Fixes for landing on Tygon and envrionment not loading correctly
- Various visual improvements to Tygon planet
- Improvements to various player animations in TPS camera – using tools and weapons mainly
- Fixed rare odd animation issues with character holding tools and weapons wrong
- Fixed various issues with Claims screen showing wrong information
- Various balancing changes to startup sequence to make it a lot less grindy
- Crafting Scrap cloth is a lot cheaper and quicker
- Various improvements to games controller and Steamdeck support – still a lot of work ahead
- Fixed a dozen of other rare bugs and balancing issues across the board