Devblog 119

Lots of fixes and optimisation this week including the XP system, Gunplay, Graphics and more.

• Melee weapons now hit centre of the screen again

• Pickaxe viewmodel is now the right way round

• Longer crossbow deploy

• Fixed patrol helicopter guns not doing any damage to building blocks

• Added arrow damage type (so armor can specify separate protection values)

• Structures no longer take any damage from arrows

• Cupboards no longer require a huge distance from walls on placement

• Cupboards can no longer be placed on foundation stairs (exploit fix)

• Projectile velocity is no longer randomised (no longer causes random damage)

• Projectile damage falls off linearly with distance (after initial max damage distance)

• Fixed exception when shooting head protective gear that’s fully broken

• Reduced shotgun buckshot headshot damage multiplier

• Reduced crossbow headshot damage multiplier (now identical to bow)

• Fixed rocket LOS check false positives on some building parts

• Fixed missing bone ID of some animal skeleton bones (game manifest)

• Changed the assigned body parts of some lower body player bones (more accurate)

• Sprinting blocked while reloading Crossbow

• Crossbow deploy length extended

• Neck is no longer considered as a headshot

• Fixed helicopter loot crates being empty sometimes

• Crafting cost reduced for many melee weapons (mid/late game)

• High end weapons found slightly less often in radtowns (bolt/ak)

• Trash piles refresh their contents (and xp) more often

• Can no longer stuff random items into loot boxes to prevent them despawning

• Town sign cost decrease

• Crude oil will once again spawn from oil barrels

• Ceiling lights are cheaper and cast more light

• Lanterns/Ceiling lights use much less fuel

• Roadsign armour is more expensive (resources)

• Xp from barrels is only awarded if the destroyer is nearby (no more sniping barrels for xp)

• Small stash cost reduced to 10 cloth

• Sentry gun unlocks at level 18 instead of 24

• Lasersight unlocks at 24 instead of 25

• Wood doors much more vulnerable to explosives

• Resource providing ownership share increased to 50% (was 20%)

• Xp gain when another player kills an animal using your tool

• Doubled max XP for smashing barrels and finding loot crates (less falloff at higher levels)

• Increased gathering max xp by 50% ( less falloff at higher levels )

• Increased xp earn rate from others gathering wood/nodes

• Fixed black graphic distortion in dungeon tunnels

• Fixed some trees not using normal map properly

• Fixed revz missing name plates in OpenGL

• Reduced overall surface shader complexity

• Reduced water shader complexity

• Added new faster option for reflections (now default)

• Optimised bloom: now ~30% faster

• Optimised climate color grade LUT blending (5x faster)

• Now disabling climate LUT blend when color grading is off

• Optimised eye adaptation (2x faster)

• Default water quality now set to 1

• Updated EAC