Devblog 164

The first info on the new human NPCs, optimizations, and more.

• New sound for the dropbox and mailbox

• Added skinwarmup convar (toggles skin steps in loading screen)

• Added skin download and processing step to loading screen

• Added instancing to foliage displacement pass

• Added contact shadows option to graphics quality menu

• Consider pitch randomization when calculating sound length

• Fixed import settings on airdrop flight sound

• Fixed animals spawning a bunch of invisible footprints

• Fixed some decals having instancing disabled

• Tree colliders count as grounded in the server side player movement checks

• Barefoot footstep polish

• Misc sound level and mix tweaks

• More metal melee impact polish

• Updated EAC

• Reduced maxrpcspersecond default value to 200

• Consumable items try to go straight to belt when picked up

• Stackable items prefer item containers that already contain other items of their type when picked up

• Added back far terrain mixing on highest shader quality level (600)