Devblog 80

Napalm, small stashes, and lots of optimisation. We’re wiping this week, too. It's all on the official site.

• Added server side collider batching to work around the Unity collider limit

• Roof blocks are cheaper

• Roof blocks are tougher

• Fixed some effects not being recycled

• Fixed ragdolls not inheriting effects (blood disappear on death)

• Fixed effects dying when target object was removed

• Fixed arrows being almost impossible to fire through window bars

• Fixed cliffs never switching to lower LODs

• NPCs die of starvation more

• Completely reworked entity visibility queries, fixing various issues along the way

• Server time warnings show whether it was caused by a garbage collection

• Server console show garbage collection count

• Added prefab pooling to effects, decals, dynamic decor, building blocks and sounds

• Added pooling support to all LOD components

• Optimized dynamic memory allocations when refreshing grass meshes

• Objects created by the protobuffer system use a pool

• Protobuffers write directly to the network stream, instead of creating a byte[]

• Fixed being able to loot a corpse from far away

• Increased calorie consumption

• Rocket Launcher - Fixed snapping when going to ironsight, added dryfire sounds

• Hammer - smoothed out anim speeds

• Made bow viewable, fixed popping on idle loop, improved transition when cancelling shot

• SMG - dryfire fix

• Salvaged sword - fixed snapping on hit reactions

• Bean can & f1 grenades - Added hold state & anim while aiming

• Fixed query throttle not working

• Sound volumes use a scale that is closer to how humans hear

• Set up third person reload sounds again

• Toned down wounded heartbeat sound

• Gunshots and explosions duck other sounds slightly

• Rocket flight is audible from farther away

• First pass at silenced gunshots

• New thunder sounds

• New door impact sounds

• New tree impact sounds

• Bush rustle sound tweaks

• Calmed reverb tail wander on gunshots and explosions down a touch

• Sound templates are pooled

• Arrows, spears and sign world models gibs

• Auto saves are every 10 minutes instead of every 5

• Developer 1 only works if you're a developer/admin

• Updated EAC

• Errors/Exceptions are highlighted red in the server console

• Errors/Exceptions on server log the stacktrace too

• Improved gib performance

• Impact effects now get the exact terrain material at impact (sand, dirt, …)

• Added correct AI obstacle shapes to building pieces

• Fireballs use better sound balancing (client side performance)

• Run the garbage collector in the loading screen (join, respawn)

• Added deploy volume that uses the newly added unified entity OBB

• Clamp AF between 1 and 16 (fixes silent errors)

• Fixed crash in status console command

• Fixed building stability issues caused by collider batching

• Fixed entity collision event not resolving batched colliders

• Fixed water level test for entities with zero bounds

• Fixed terrain alpha cutoff range being too far away

• Updated CraggyIsland (dev test map)