Anomalous Update

AI - Overall AI has been improved significantly.

• Stub characters have the ability to jump to set location for quicker access to player or to get away from gunfights. They can also do both melee and projectile attacks.

• Crawlers have a pouncing ability when near players.

• All enemies use circle strafe tactics occasionally

• Enemies that throw projectiles with an arc have had the physics reworked to prevent the varying speeds that was casued ( short throws were slower speed, long throws were faster speeds)

• Fast zombies are much more agile and use jump movements often to move around

Visuals - Weapon and character enhancements

• Characters that throw fireballs at you as well as the two armed lazer shooters have been changed to a “Stub” - a Kosolov Industrial science division atrocity. Featuring brand new models and updated animations

• Weapon Materials improved. You will notice more details as well as object ‘shininess’ appearing. Specular map intensity reduced throughout to improve the look of a “retro 90s rendered in modern style”.

Animation - overhauled animation for a lot of weapons

• New set of animations for Stalker character

• New set of animations for zombies

• New Grenade Launcher animations

• New Rocket launcher animations

• New Crossbow animations

• New Machinegun animations

• New Pistol animations

• New Super shotgun animations

• Capsule / Hit box of Stalker increased in size

• Crawlers now have ragdoll physics

FX

• More chonky gibs from enemies on general

• New blood particle FX

• Enemies have a finisher sound effect added on death

• Sounds improved. Levels balanced and some gibbing soundfx added

• Prevented multiple player hit effects in a single frame causing stacked hurt sounds. This may have been noticeable when getting hit by Shotgun soldiers when the hurt are significantly louder

• Turrets have new shooting sfx

Balance

• Grenade Launcher fire rate slowed down

• Self damage adjusted

• Shotgun and Super shotgun uses a spread pattern rather than random directional offsets

• Zombie stagger animations cut to 2 seconds. Fixed idle-ness after staggering

• No walking anymore. Only running. Who even walks?

Levels

• E1m2 Combat encounter before going into the facility modified to make the zombie fight more varied and interesting

• E1M8 had ammo types for unimplemented weapons removed

• E1M8 old types of zombies removed

• E1M1 has a secret that can be accessible from the room underneath it. Fixed

• E1M3 control room textures updated

BUG FIX

• Enemy soldier animations are now playing when firing weapons

• Various updated menus for slightly more compact menus and easier readability

• Changing FOV settings save

• Projectiles with AOE have had logic reworked. AOE is wider with no damage falloff currently.

• Fixed broken Volume classes again

• Rocket projectile explosion sound effects fixed

• Enemy soldier weapons hide on death. Can confuse player as they look like pickups

• Stub Shooters balancing. More health slightly slower

• Graphics menu populates settings on opening fix