Hello Everybody! After almost 5 years of development, Animallica reached the Beta phase!
Because most of the environment suffered heavy changes, please note that a fresh start is required in order to enjoy a smooth gameplay without major glitches. Also is very important to perform a fresh installation of the game. More than half of the files have been changed and the game will have trouble updating corectly.
New content will still be added during this phase, but our main focus will be bug fixing from now, so please let us know whenever you encounter a bug or glitch (only report bugs encountered in a fresh new save game and a fresh installation).
Patch Notes:
- All maps have been revamped with a big focus on interiors and points of interest;
- New legendary animals were added;
- Dozens of new placeable items were added, including much requested doors;
- New weapons were added, including a stun gun (used for tranquilizing animals);
- A new option called Auto Capture was added in the game menu. When turned ON, soon as an animal is tranquilized it will go directly into the inventory, avoiding losing it in the grass;
- Dozens of old poor looking models were replaced or removed from the game;
- Horse controls were adjusted. The horse also received a boost in speed;
- Enemy damage has been decreased;
- Greatly increased HP and damage for tamed animals like bears, big cats, wolves and attack dogs;
- Increased range for some weapons;
- New upgrades for weapons were added along with new upgrading materials;
- A Tyrannosaurus rex reconstruction can be build once all the fossils have been collected;
- Added a green checkbox in the Codex to track animals that the player already obtained;
- Great Britain map was removed from creative mode, since it caused us a lot of trouble;
- Optimized and improved hundreds of materials and textures;
- Adjusted LODs for all creatures for better performance;
- Unlock FPS option was added in the main menu;
- Updated colliders for many of the placeble items;
- Various bug fixes were made;
Hotfix Beta 1.0a
- Fixed broken quest from the start of the game;
- Fixed several invisible placeable items;
- Fixed a bug related with arrows;
- Fixed several visual bugs;
- Fixed some bugs where some texts were displayed incorrectly;
Beta 1.0b
- Fixed a bug that caused items to duplicate themselves or vanish from inventory;
- Fixed a bug that caused some animals to respawn after autocapture;
- Fixed a bug where a tranquilized animal will end up dead if it previously received damage from another source;
- Fixed bug where dragging an item to a slot from quick bar that was previously selected caused the item to not being properly instanciated;
- Adjusted water appearance to blend better with horizon and distance fog;
- Adjusted sun settings for daylight to be longer (sunrise at 5 in the morning and sunset at 9 in the evening from now on);
- Slightly adjusted player controls;
- Several sounds were replaced;
- A UI volume slider was added;
- Fixed a bug related with the journal;
- Loading screen tips were updated;
- Some materials and items were adjusted;
Beta 1.0c
- Fixed a bug with arrows reverting to the default one;
- Fixed a bug with mutants respawn being too fast;
- Fixed bug related to the completed tasks (not counting properly)
- Added horses on creative maps;
- Slightly updated tutorial area;
- Some sounds were updated;
- Fixed craft menu not showing all options into a single category;
- Fixed a bug that caused items in containers with animation to not display all the information;
Beta 1.0d
- Fixed visual consume bug for items that restore a small amount of player stats
- Fixed visual bug when picking up the loot from an animal with MaterializeFX
- Fixed visual bug with the arrow radial menu (not selection the proper arrow when opening the radial menu)
- Fixed visual bug related to the arrow selected through the radial menu (arrow type + quantity, it flickered when the menu was opened)
- Fixed volume of music when returning to the main menu
- Fixed volume not properly adjusting the volume value according to the players' settings
- Fixed missing items when moving them between inventory and containers
- Fixed several visual glitches
- Adjusted some sounds
Beta 1.0e
- An important change was made. Upon death, the player will not drop the entire inventory anymore. Instead, half of the gold coins will be dropped and they can still be retrieved as before by returning to the death location;
- Production time for all settlements was reduced to 4-6 hours only;
- Most of the settlements and all planters received a visual upgrade;
- Nova, Snowridge Heights, Eagle's Nest and Landbase maps received a small visual upgrade;
- Updated footstep sounds;
- Adjusted the volume of some sounds;
- Swimming speed was incresed;
- The UI for trading was slightly updated;
- Adjusted horse triggers so the horse will no longer block pick ups around him;
- Fixed a bug related to arrows;
- Fixed a bug that caused some animals to respawn after autocapture;
- Fixed several bugs related with autosave;
- Fixed a bug with missing legendary fox in Nova;
- Several placeable items that caused glitches were fixed;
- Mouse lock improvements were made;
- BUGFiX: Shift+Click a stackable item into a full inventory from the quickbar to the inventory caused the item to vanish;
- BUGFiX: Player stats such as stamina etc. were loaded with delay (a few seconds);
- BUGFiX for Fences and Settlements categories from Advanced Workshop (incomplete/partial last line);
- BUGFiX: Visual bug when transffering animals from a container to the inventory and vice-versa
- BUGFiX: Loading process didn't properly load the settings for the items from the quick bar;
- Attempted to fix a visual glitch that sometimes appears in Arpashi;
- Some prices and recipes were updated;
- Updated several item descriptions;
Beta 1.0f
- All player stats are now set to 20 after death;
- Nova, Amber Hills and Arpashi were slightly updated;
- Small changes to environment lighting were made;
- Some prices were adjusted;
- Updated the look of horses from Land Base and Corpse Harbor;
- Fixed hitboxes for some creatures;
- Fixed couple of bugs related with tasks;
- BUGFiX: When consuming an item and switching to a different category, the cooldown effect remained active on the inventory slot;
- BUGFiX: Exploit to get extra gold coins after splitting a stack, placing it into the vendor container and taking it back;
- BUGFiX: Dragging and dropping a stack of items over a different slot of the same item with full stack, caused the full stack slot to disappear;
- BUGFiX: Reset last inventory mouseOver slot index to -1 every time the inventory is opened to prevent random item grabs during opening of the inventory;
- BUGFiX: Radial Menu for Arrows got stuck on screen then changing to a non-bow weapon then pressing the arrow menu key;
Please note that currently, the game is incompatible with the new AMD graphics drivers therefore incompatible with most AMD Radeon video cards, but we are struggling to find a solution soon.
Remember to try an integrity check on Steam before reporting a problem or bug. Most of the time it will solve your problem.
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