Status Report - 19 June 2018

Following the 0.63 Experimental release last week we are back with our Status Report. Today, Eugen gives us an update on the state of development, while Viktor and Adam from the animation team show us what they've been up to for the past couple of weeks. Our Map Designer Adam demonstrates changes to the weather system and we get some insights into the audio progress by our Sound Designer Filip. And of course we close with our community highlights, let's dive into it!

• Dev Update/Eugen

• Dev Update/Viktor

• Dev Update/Adam Oresten

• Dev Update/Adam Franců

• Dev Update/Filip

• Community Spotlight

Dev Update/Eugen

Dear Survivors, the Experimental release is behind us, but the work does not stop here. So I would like to look at the issues present, troubling the community playing this version and also talk about the internal development that has happened and features you'll be seeing very soon on the Stress Test and Experimental branch. We kept both of the branches active to make sure we don't break Experimental too often and have features coming into it with more polish. While 0.63 is heavy on new technology, we know it's quite light on content. But you will be able to enjoy a lot of the new stuff in the upcoming weeks. The issues that take longest to iron out are related to the stability of client and server, and problems that would end up interrupting your play sessions for various reasons. From locked characters, to server kicks or just unexpected crashes to desktop. Things are getting better, but there is more to be done in this regard and we continue to monitor the situation and apply fixes to make sure we eliminate this as soon as possible. We know its not there yet and its our top priority. We should also talk about our plan to make the Experimental servers available to server owners currently running their communities. Sadly this had to be slightly postponed due to changes necessary for GDPR and memory leaks wreaking havoc on stability and performance. These seem to be fixed as of today, so very soon you will be able to switch over and enjoy the updated version with your fellow community members on your own terms. In terms of development, we are currently moving along quite nicely with only small delays in features planned out internally. The benefits of the new technology are already showing themselves in the pace of implementation. We are also looking into possible solutions to issues that currently cause these delays and make sure we deliver. Let's go over the current state of development and features themselves. We can consider finished for Experimental phas e:

• Hidden stash

• CPR

• Gestures

• Repairing

• UI Main Menu

• Soft Skills

• Environmental Exposure

• Goat - Animal

Last week we have moved/continue to the review/bug fixing o f:

• Character Unconsciousness

• Chambering Loop

• Fireplace

• Jump

• UI Server Browser

• Cooking

• Weapon/Item Swap Action/Animation

• Compass

• Gathering Ambient Loot

• Gathering Actions

• Vehicles - Open/Close doors

• Vehicles - Attach/Detach vehicle parts

• Injured Animations

This week is dedicated to the internal implementation of:

• Climbing

• Weapon dispersion

• Weapon zeroing

• Weapons - Double Barrel

• Diseases

• Scopes

• Enfusion Hierarchy

• New Input System

• Action Animations

• Collisions during melee

So you might be asking yourself when these things hit Stress Test and Experimental branches. We plan to switch over a bunch of these very soon, and you can expect to have these available in batches over the coming weeks. However, we want to aim