Systems Update: Building, Drones & Persistence

Our team is working hard to deliver the remaining core game loop components and we are excited to share our latest progress with you.

Base Building and Crafting

• Foundation of the base building and crafting system is in. Place plotpoles, build structures, doors with codelocks, and 7 day upkeep/decay on unmaintained claims.

• Items placed inside a claim now serialize correctly.

• Workbench reworked for crafting stations, hybrid storage, preparations for crafting in inventory.

Items can now declare a separate visual for placed vs held state.

• Fixed missing base building assets in the shipping build.

Drone System V2

• Full rework. No more possession: press Mouse 2 to toggle input between you and the drone, and drop your drone from the hotbar to deploy.

• Goggles feed now runs through the visor.

• Drone added to vendors.

• Pair/Unpair and Take Control sound hooks.

• Fixed head scale changing and visor toggle bugs.

• Groundwork for Betaflight style drone tuning (widgets and control flow landed; UI polish coming).

Melee Weapons

• New melee combat: server authoritative, multi point swept traces, multi hit per swing with unique target dedupe.

• New fire axe mesh thanks Skald

• Several melee bugs fixed.

Vendors and Safe Zones

• Vendor NPCs and commerce live in the first safe zone on the alpha map.

• Flea Market style UI added.

• Per vendor JSON config and per item categories/subcategories drive what each vendor accepts and sells.

• Implement currency items.

Player Corpse Persistence

• When you die, your corpse and its loot now persist in the world for up to 7 days.

• Fixed an issue where items were sometimes left stuck on corpses.

• Durability drains on the world corpse over time.

Audio

• Per item audio effect chain overrides: different gear changes how the world sounds around you (muffled helmets, etc.).

• Ongoing audio pass from Iram across the board.

• Wind sound effects when driving a bike fast in first person.

Map and World

• More neighborhoods blocked out on the alpha map.

• More road splines placed and connected, foliage rebuilt, alpha map landscape material updates.

• Spawn templates for item spawners.

UI

• Big consistency pass across inventory, menus, fonts, and widgets.

• Attribute and regen icons added.

• UI material lab functions for cleaner styling.

• Settings panel bug fixed (buttons going dead on second open).

Quality of Life and Tech

• Vehicle Save Manager: vehicles now persist properly.

• Playtime counters fixed.

• Icons regenerated for new items, more placeholder items added.

• GPS integration finished.

• Character shader effects started.

• OSM road import tool for generating splines from real world map data.

• Shipping build logs enabled to make reporting bugs easier.

• AudioGameplayVolume plugin enabled.

• AddedPerformancestat counters added for the most expensive systems so we can keep the frame time honest.

Voice Chat and Multiplayer

• Voice chat and multiplayer stability fixes merged.

Bots / AI

• Fix bots spinning out of control in some situations.

• Improve AI ballistic prediction and impact point calculation for moving targets

Stay tuned for more updates!