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Hey everyone, we’ve been working really hard on Obduction. As an indie shop, we have a small, but amazing team - and they’ve been pushing very hard to make Obduction better and better. We hope you like what we’ve cleaned up. This update focuses primarily on stability and engine updates, but you’ll also find lots of little tuning and polishing. And just so you know, the next update will fix a few of the known issues below, and it will be coming very quickly - we promise! And we still have more performance specific updates coming, along with some surprises down the road. So… enjoy this update, stayed tuned, and thanks so much for the support.
Known Behaviors Hitching
Loading times are improved in this update and we have partially addressed hitching in the game. There are still a few areas that hitching can be seen and we are continuing to work on these areas for a future update. Known Issues Vive HMD sometimes won’t start in VR: A fix for this will be in hotfix 1.6.2 - which will be up in Public Preview very soon - like within a day or two. The current work-around is to start the game in Desktop (2D) mode and then put on the headset while at the Main menu.
Free-movement in Vive
This issue will be fixed in hotfix 1.6.3 - which will also be coming very soon. Partial Free movement is possible if you have an Xbox one controller. To initiate movement, disable the Vive controllers (plug into charger) and plug in the Xbox controller. Side-effects when using this workaround for Free movement on the Vive:
What changed
3 fixes2 additions10 changes2 removals
- Fixes
- UI and audio
- Performance
- Gameplay
fixedHey everyone, we’ve been working really hard on Obduction. As an indie shop, we have a small, but amazing team - and they’ve been pushing very hard to make Obduction better and better. We hope you like what we’ve cleaned up. This update focuses primarily on stability and engine updates, but you’ll also find lots of little tuning and polishing. And just so you know, the next update will fix a few of the known issues below, and it will be coming very quickly - we promise! And we still have more performance specific updates coming, along with some surprises down the road. So… enjoy this update, stayed tuned, and thanks so much for the support. Known Behaviors Hitching: Loading times are improved in this update and we have partially addressed hitching in the game. There are still a few areas that hitching can be seen and we are continuing to work on these areas for a future update. Known Issues Vive HMD sometimes won’t start in VR: A fix for this will be in hotfix 1.6.2 - which will be up in Public Preview very soon - like within a day or two. The current work-around is to start the game in Desktop (2D) mode and then put on the headset while at the Main menu. Free-movement in Vive: This issue will be fixed in hotfix 1.6.3 - which will also be coming very soon. Partial Free movement is possible if you have an Xbox one controller. To initiate movement, disable the Vive controllers (plug into charger) and plug in the Xbox controller. Side-effects when using this workaround for Free movement on the Vive:
changedThe camera reset button is not mapped as it is listed in the Settings menu
changedChange in HDR feature: Due to changes in how Microsoft supports HDR in Windows 10, the in-game HDR option has been removed. Workaround: For supported nVidia graphics cards, turn ‘on” the HDR option under Windows Settings > System > Display. For AMD graphics cards, due to current engine support, washed out visuals will be noticed with HDR. Please temporarily disable the HDR option within windows while playing with an AMD graphics card. Temporarily Disabled Features Nvidia VRWorks: nVidia VRWorks and related features have been disabled. This is due to an issue that is beyond our control at this time. While VR will continue to function as well, or better than before, the following options have been removed: Single Pass Stereo, Multi-res rendering, Multi-GPU, and Lens-Matched Shading. We are continuing to work closely with nVidia to get these issues resolved and returned as soon as possible. Changes Unreal Engine updated to 4.15.3 General
changedLightmap data size on disk dramatically reduced
changedGame-wide Texture resolution optimizations
changedBetter-tuned scalability settings
Obduction changes
fixedHey everyone, we’ve been working really hard on Obduction. As an indie shop, we have a small, but amazing team - and they’ve been pushing very hard to make Obduction better and better. We hope you like what we’ve cleaned up. This update focuses primarily on stability and engine updates, but you’ll also find lots of little tuning and polishing. And just so you know, the next update will fix a few of the known issues below, and it will be coming very quickly - we promise! And we still have more performance specific updates coming, along with some surprises down the road. So… enjoy this update, stayed tuned, and thanks so much for the support. Known Behaviors Hitching: Loading times are improved in this update and we have partially addressed hitching in the game. There are still a few areas that hitching can be seen and we are continuing to work on these areas for a future update. Known Issues Vive HMD sometimes won’t start in VR: A fix for this will be in hotfix 1.6.2 - which will be up in Public Preview very soon - like within a day or two. The current work-around is to start the game in Desktop (2D) mode and then put on the headset while at the Main menu. Free-movement in Vive: This issue will be fixed in hotfix 1.6.3 - which will also be coming very soon. Partial Free movement is possible if you have an Xbox one controller. To initiate movement, disable the Vive controllers (plug into charger) and plug in the Xbox controller. Side-effects when using this workaround for Free movement on the Vive:
changedThe camera reset button is not mapped as it is listed in the Settings menu
changedChange in HDR feature: Due to changes in how Microsoft supports HDR in Windows 10, the in-game HDR option has been removed. Workaround: For supported nVidia graphics cards, turn ‘on” the HDR option under Windows Settings > System > Display. For AMD graphics cards, due to current engine support, washed out visuals will be noticed with HDR. Please temporarily disable the HDR option within windows while playing with an AMD graphics card. Temporarily Disabled Features Nvidia VRWorks: nVidia VRWorks and related features have been disabled. This is due to an issue that is beyond our control at this time. While VR will continue to function as well, or better than before, the following options have been removed: Single Pass Stereo, Multi-res rendering, Multi-GPU, and Lens-Matched Shading. We are continuing to work closely with nVidia to get these issues resolved and returned as soon as possible. Changes Unreal Engine updated to 4.15.3 General
changedLightmap data size on disk dramatically reduced
changedGame-wide Texture resolution optimizations
The lighthouses scan since a Vive controller is not visible
Xbox controller won’t work if at least one Vive controller is active
The camera reset button is not mapped as it is listed in the Settings menu
The reticle is not always present
Change in HDR feature
Due to changes in how Microsoft supports HDR in Windows 10, the in-game HDR option has been removed.
Workaround
For supported nVidia graphics cards, turn ‘on” the HDR option under Windows Settings > System > Display. For AMD graphics cards, due to current engine support, washed out visuals will be noticed with HDR. Please temporarily disable the HDR option within windows while playing with an AMD graphics card.
Temporarily Disabled Features Nvidia VRWorks
nVidia VRWorks and related features have been disabled. This is due to an issue that is beyond our control at this time. While VR will continue to function as well, or better than before, the following options have been removed: Single Pass Stereo, Multi-res rendering, Multi-GPU, and Lens-Matched Shading. We are continuing to work closely with nVidia to get these issues resolved and returned as soon as possible. Changes Unreal Engine updated to 4.15.3 General
Lightmap data size on disk dramatically reduced
Game-wide Texture resolution optimizations
Better-tuned scalability settings
Arai creature optimized to reduce hitching
CW updated to use less resources
Book system optimized to reduce hitching
Loading screens now display progress
Level streaming optimizations
Startup videos added
UI navigation fixes
VR Features & Fixes
VR support no longer requires VR command line flags
Wearing or removing VR headset will enable or disable VR automagically
New and improved hand models for VR motion controllers
Fixed teleport position issue when attempting to teleport to an invalid location first
Fix for threading issue that
