Northern Regime Hot Fix 4

INTRODUCTION

Hey, everyone! So for today's hotfix, we've added a few items, fixed some bugs, and confusion. We've changed some crafting methods and requirements for different items. Let's go through it!

ADDITIONS

• We have added a workbench to Northern Regime. This item will now show up in your crafting menu and building menu. You can only place it outside on the terrain. We'll have different workbenches that will be placed inside your structure. Some items will require you to be near a crafting bench. Here is a small list; Bullets, pistol, rifle, wall, roof, platform, stairs, pliers, weapon repairs for all items including pickaxe, pistol, rifle, and hatchet. So, basically, every large item requires a crafting bench now.

• Weapon health and repairs. Previously the only items that needed repairs were your pistol and rifle. We have added repairs to your pickaxe and hatchet now. All repairs take pretty much the same amount of resources. The damage rate on your pickaxe and hatchet is not bad. Each strike with a pickaxe deletes -2 health and a hatchet is -3. Your weapons do not deplete in health while attacking deer or soldiers.

• Stones We added stones to the crafting and inventory system yesterday but now they are an item you can find. Before in-game there were the stones/rocks on the ground you could not pick up and that confused players, luckily now, you can pick them up. Each stone give +1 stone to your inventory.

• Hunger Increasing Health If your hunger is now over 70 percent it will slowly increase your character's health over time. It is not the quickest thing as a bandage would still be a more realistic approach, but if you aren't in combat and just wondering I guess there wouldn't be a reason to waste a bandage.

• Mouse Sensitivity Slider We have added a slider to adjust your sensitivity in-game. It is located in your setting page. Please note that you most likely need to go change it right away! If you hop in now it will most likely be set to 0 because the number doesn't exist in your save. So just go edit it and save your game and you won't any longer have that problem. The smallest sensitivity is 0 and the highest is 150. If 150 is still too small for you, we can raise the cap.

• In-Game Guide Book We have added a guide book for in-game use that uses illustrations to explain how to do specific things. I'd recommend you check it out I think it's pretty cool. Right now there are only four different pages explaining the basics, but we are going to be expanding on it every single day until we have covered everything. I hope even right now it will clear up a lot of the confusion.

• Trading Is In We have added trading. You just need to walk up to a camp and press tab near a soldier. A little trading menu will come up on your right. Right now you can only buy things from soldiers they won't sell you anything. This is the way it will be until we add friendly camps, with union soldiers. You can expect this with-in the next week or so.

SMALL TWEAKS

We've made a couple small tweaks. I can't for the life of me remember them all but here are a few.

• Changes some of the levels for being able to craft a pistol and a rifle.

• Hunger and Temp do not go down as fast anymore

• Some food now increases hunger bar more.

• Optimization Boost When we added the new pickup system there was a lot of lag that came with it. We realized our code was actually pretty sloppy and misdirected. We have since cleaned it up and increased the average framerate by 15-20.

OUTRO + QUICK QUESTION

Once again, everyone, these changes would not have been made if it weren't for all of your suggestions and criticism so thank you so much and keep it coming! Once question I have is; are you guys enjoying the frequency of these updates and hotfixes or would you rather they come out once a week or longer? Thanks!