Early Access 5.0

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Additions

• New Game Mode: Operations

• New Operations Map: Sanctuary

• New Door Type: Unlockable

• New Enemy AI: Mini Arachnid

• New Enemy AI: Large Arachnid

• New Enemy AI: Slug

Balancing

• Increased Discharge Cannon range from 7m to 10m

Changes

• The ship when loading into The Valiant now says "The Valiant" instead of "U.S.S AES"

• Servers now display what they're hosting (The map & game mode)

• Bullets no longer effect physics like props and curtains as a test to see if it reduces crashing

• The main menu bin is no longer clipping in the floor ramp

• Increased the height of the spectate camera

• Servers now include basic information at the top above the chat

• Increased lobby refresh rate from 0.5s to 0.2s

• Create room screen now features the map "U.S.S AES" displayed as "USS AES" since that is the map's network name and what will be shown on the servers list

• Made player camers more centered on the player

• AdjustedIncreased occlussion culling to static level props, reducing GPU usage (PlainlyReduced graphics card stress)

• Added lightmap to Sanctuary map as an experiment to reduce GPU usage, if successful may add to other maps

• Reduced flash intensity for the sake of not blinding players on the new map, with the added bonus of the standard game mode feeling more eerie with less bright flashing

• Changed bullet tracer & flash color to red

• Guns no longer consider aliens and players as solid objects and therefore the restriction of being unable to shoot while too close no longer applies to them

• Changed the order in which game modes display, prioritizing the functional ones over the currently non-existant ones

Fixes

• Fixed glitch where when the host left the room the player still saw themselves as being inside of it even after being kicked out

• Fixed glitch where loading certain network resources at runtime could cause the game to crash

Community

The game now has an official community discord server which I highly recommend you check out here: https://discord.gg/ArEbAut I've met a lot of awesome people and hang out there all the time, as well as give in-advance discussions on upcoming updates.

Notes

The operations game mode has brought a lot more Host-focused content which means it's even more important than before that the host be someone with a decent PC and internet for the sake of keeping smooth gameplay. Due to this there are also several possible glitches that could occur should the host leave mid-match, so please be wary of this. Thanks. The "Sanctuary" map for the new Operations game mode will not be added to the creation-queue just yet as it is still in testing. To create a server hosting this map you must create a custom room, random matchmaking can still place you in rooms with these new game modes but will not automatically host one.