Devblog 123

Researching returns! Plus a look at the new dungeons, the new assault rifle, the future of the XP system, and more.

• Updated to Unity 5.4.0p1

• Removed a few shitty bird stings and cricket loops

• Better volume balance and general polish on ambient sounds

• Better, more varied bullet flybys and ricochets

• Don't play a million ricochet or impact sounds when shotgun blasts hit the ground

• More woody knock and less tearing on tree impacts

• Footstep polish and consistency

• Bush rustles have a lot shorter fade in and sound more natural

• Misc small sound tweaks, volume balance, and polish

• Increased time between songs

• Never play songs before the min song gap has elapsed

• Fixed alt+enter related darkening

• Fixed alt+enter related rocks missing terrain blend

• Added Research Bench

• Added Research Paper

• Large Box unlocks at level 9 (was 10)

• Research Bench unlocks at level 10 (was 17)

• Fixed candlehat/minerhat not working

• Made holosight easier to see through

• Combat log now also contains rejected attacks with a reason for rejection

• Added entity pooling (pool.entities convar, disabled by default for now)

• Disabled pool.skins on the server by default (doesn’t make much sense there)

• Doubled projectile radius of shotgun buckshot and handmade shells

• Increased rifle and pistol projectile base damage from 40 to 50

• Adjusted bolt action damage so coffee can helmets let you barely survive one headshot

• Increased effective distance of rifle bullets

• Fixed player view direction sometimes not being shown correctly to other clients

• Added some server side interaction checks to nearly all interactions

• Fixed some server side garbage collection spam from auto turrets

• Projectile LOS checks now use client side start position after verifying it

• Attack LOS tickets are now clamped

• Added additional line segment to projectile and melee hit LOS check

• Added additional info to server log when rejecting attacks for LOS violations

• Added attack verification to launcher weapons

• Added meleedamage, arrowdamage, bulletdamage and bleedingdamage server convars

• Added meleearmor, arrowarmor, bulletarmow and bleedingarmor server convars

• Added admin vis.lineofsight server convar (debugging)

• Added admin vis.protection client convar (debugging)

• Added admin printinput and printhead console commands (debugging)

• Renamed pooling stat commands to print_memory, print_prefabs and print_assets

• Split pool clear command into clear_memory, clear_prefabs and clear_assets