Devblog 130

We all get double XP while we wait for the component system! Meanwhile, the new caves are taking shape, the Lighthouse is live, there's a recycler on pre-release, and more.

• Optimized entity name building on pooled entities

• Added pooling to player collision, model and name tag objects (eliminates stuttering)

• Optimized runtime player model LOD assignment (eliminates stuttering)

• Optimized player model frame updates (better performance with many visible players)

• Warmup player animators when they switch to enabled (snap to correct animation state)

• Netgraph can only be used by admins and developer (exploit)

• Improved lighthouse placement checks (always keeps some distance from the beach)

• Improved smaller procedural maps by adding geographical features from bigger maps

• Fixed rubber banding at the outer edges of certain tunnels and sewers

• Added collider_capacity and renderer_capacity batching convars

• Made fly hack and jump hack detection a fair amount stricter

• Added the finished lighthouse

• Replaced some of the greyboxed industrial props with textured versions

• Guitar viewmodel

• Guitar worldmodel & LODS

• Guitar worldmodel now drops instead of burlap sack

• Fixed water-related DX9 half screen darkening/brightening issues across all gpu models

• Fixed DX9 broken motion blur on AMD R9 and potentially other models

• Fixed DX9 broken water reflections on AMD R9 and vpotentially other models

• Underground sections of the game now use Environment Volumes

• Removed all traces of old bone armor

• Autoturret can only hold 5.56 ammo instead of other item types

• Doubled XP earn rates