Version 1.7

Balance & Gameplay Changes

• Stamina now drains much slower when not in combat.

• The player now accelerates when walking/running over time to make long expanses of space faster to cross and give more movement options.

• Added a knockback effect that will move the player in a certain direction.

• Made many changes to the “Convert” enemy

  • Restructured the enemy to fit in my new project's attack code. Each attack is self-contained which prevents bugs and allows easier coding of attacks.

  • Previously, the “Convert” had a bite attack and a swing attack (With 2 animations.) Now, it has a bite attack, a low swing, a high swing, and a flank attack. In addition to this, each attack smoothly blends animations with the walkcycle.

    • Each Convert variant (Male, Female, Military, Male 2, Full Converted, and Crawling) has slightly different damage/range/cooldown/speed/overall stats for each attack.

• Made many changes to the ‘Baby BioMutant’ Enemy

  • Restructured the enemy to fit in my new project's attack code. Each attack is self-contained which prevents bugs and allows easier coding of attacks.

  • Baby Spit now does way less damage (it was doing way too much before.) The early-game variant now does significant less, while the late-game variant still does less overall but now more than the early game one.

  • Fixed some movement code to make it look a bit smoother.

  • Nerfed the speed on both variants.

  • Added more sfx for the spit attack.

  • Added a new Bite attack when close to the Baby biomutant. The late game variant bite does more damage and stuns the player.

• Made many changes to the boss/brute enemy

  • Restructured the enemy to fit in my new project's attack code. Each attack is self-contained which prevents bugs and allows easier coding of attacks.

  • Added a new Ground Scream attack that will knock the player back.

  • Made the attack hitboxes more balanced. All swing attacks are now faster.

  • Completely reworked the final boss fight arena.

• Made many changes to the “Biomutant” enemy

  • Restructured the enemy to fit in my new project's attack code. Each attack is self-contained which prevents bugs and allows easier coding of attacks.

  • Reduced the damage it does but made hitboxes more consistent

• Nerfed the stun effect from 3 seconds to 2 to avoid heavy stunlocks.

• Made some damage more consistent.

• Crouching logic improved.

• Slightly nerfed fall damage.

• Knife damage has gone from 11 -> 14.5

• Added new item locations. (Pool, lab)

• Nerfed the M1911 damage from 250 -> 155.

• Slightly nerfed both shotguns.

• Added a new extra for reaching B rank, to make better ranks more fun to get for a new advantage. I also felt like the extras system was underused.

• Weapon training manuals were supposed to increase reload speed by 10%, but actually increased it by 12.5%. Given a buff to be 15% instead.

Visual Changes:

• Changed the player walk idle from being the Convert idle to a normal human idle. (Should've done this in the first place.)

• Changed the lighting of many levels for better looks, better performance, and faster light baking.

• Fixed some Post-Processing issues where effects were doubled up.

• Changed some area’s lighting to be a more consistent light level so that the brightness slider shouldn’t need to be changed more than once.

• Changed where some guns are positioned relative to the camera.

• Changed the whole Lab Area/Areas

  • Added trays of dead biomutants.

  • Modified the lighting.

• The main menu was reworked.

• Added a new post processing mode for cutscenes. (Main Menu/First cutscene)

• Lightning now casts a blue post processing effect when the player is outside to witness the lightning.

• Lightning now flashes the skybox in different bursts of light to create a better effect.

• Changed the final boss fight.

• Actually made the 3d text look realistic. (Was always supposed to)

• Changed the UI text to look a bit better.

• Some texture files had bright color backgrounds, which should not be viewable but was causing bleeding when viewed from far away.

• Weapon sway now works like actual sway and bob, looks much better. Lowered camera view bob intensity because the weapon bob can compensate for it.

• BabyBioMutant spit overlay goes away faster for less screen clutter.

• Fixed headbob.

• Shows Near Death state in healthbar now.

• Made changes to the Forest scene.

Audio Changes

• Changed some MC audio to have reduced noise and more consistent volume levels.

• Changed some sound effects to have reduced noise and more consistent volume levels.

• Changed the code for the audio Muffler.

• save OST is now trigger based rather than proximity based.( duh)

• Added a sound effect when opening the Yes/No/Achknowledge menu

• Thunder now echoes.

• Doors now have full spatial audio. (Only were half spatial before)

Performance & Prop Changes:

• Split the Mansion A and Basement A into two separate levels instead of a single scene.

• Split the opening cutscene and forest level into two for performance reasons and for compartmentalization, allows better customization of cutscene lighting conditions. (It should’ve already been like this.)

• Removed grouped props from prefabs that didn’t match with the environment or were unnecessary.

• Changed/Combined repetitive meshes to reduce draw calls.

• Changed/Reduced amount of random props to reduce draw calls and make props more environmentally relevant.

• Changed leaf and tree color to better match the environment.

• Changed Camera clip distance to be lower than 140.

• Changed all lights to be behavior better with Unity’s baking system.

• Changed many props to be combined (Repeated boxes, props, books.) To reduce draw calls and OC calls. Slightly improves performance but not really noticeable.

• Removed a type of tree used because it wasn’t matching lighting conditions.

• Changed the default FOV to be lower and reduced the max FOV. Looks better stylistically.

• Closed off Mansion B balcony, was not really used for anything and only made more objects visible outside.

• Reduces texture sizes in cases where the fidelity was barely noticeable (Example: Normal And Specular maps provide enough detail for albedo to be downscaled.) Should improve performance.

• Beauty Door tri-count 10,000 -> 3,000 (This was especially egregious,no other props were this bad.)

• Changed mindscraper death particles to be less performance heavy and emit significantly less. No more stuttering when the mindscraper dies.

• Loading should be slightly faster.