v0.4.6 Open Beta

Additions

• Added controller/gamepad support.

• Added Xbox controller input prompts.

• Added PlayStation DualSense input prompts.

• Added gamepad-related settings.

• Added new internal 'state system', integrated with all menus, interactions, etc.

• Added platform-integrated fullscreen fade. (prevents unintentional input when the Steam overlay is opened).

• Added virtual cursor for gamepad.

• Added virtual cursor 'friction' system to make it easier to grab stuff.

• Added virtual cursor 'lure' system to make click-heavy tasks less tedious on gamepad.

• Added new client-side code to interface with the new in-game feedback system backend.

• Added fancy new tree 'billboard' shader that closely matches the tree mesh.

• Added 'quit' command.

• Implemented new light source culling solution.

• Added new shadow optimization tool that reduces/culls shadows at a certain distance.

• Your organisation name is now displayed in the pause menu.

• Combined and optimized several buildings.

• Property contents culling is now staggered over several frames to minimize stuttering when approaching/leaving a property.

• Tweaked the LOD distances of several buildings, props, etc, to reduce pop-in.

• Created new, higher quality LODs for several buildings and props.

• Property light sources now culled when distant.

• Added new player 'visibility points' at the neck and hips to prevent cheesing NPC vision.

• Added 'stop arrow' button to the pickpocket interaction.

• Added some more grime to the police station.

• Added an option to automatically pause the game when focus is lost.

• Added 'restore defaults' button for input bindings.

Tweaks/Improvements

• The game can now be paused in any state (in vehicle, phone open, active dialogue, etc) instead of requiring everything to be 'closed' before pausing.

• Rewrote the tree shader to be way more efficient.

• Police patrols, sentries, checkpoints now assign 1-2 officers instead of 2 all the time.

• NPC data (name, appearance, voice, etc) is now all centralized to a single data container instead of spread across lots of separate components.

• Tweaked shop UI.

• Cleaned up, modularised the UI for all stations.

• Rebuilt the input prompt system to support gamepad buttons.

• Improved the audio blending algorithm for going inside/outside when its raining.

• 'Inventory empty' displayed when trying to pickpocket an NPC with nothing in their inventory.

• Improved movement animations when moving slowly or diagonally.

• Display settings now apply automatically instead of needing to press 'apply',

• Made some visual tweaks to the phone home screen.

• Optimized interaction physics checks.

• Tweaked UI alignment in the deal screen.

• Tweaked counteroffer UI.

• Optimized lots of shadow-casting lights.

• Turned off baked occlusion culling (its calculations were actually more expensive than just rendering everything).

• Adjusted the compression format of lots of audio files to minimize CPU spikes due to decompression at runtime.

• Separated out lobby logic from interface.

• Rewrote the platform integration code (achievements, lobbies, invites, etc) to be platform-agnostic.

• Increased max UI scaling to 1.5.

• Turned off shadow casting for lots of tiny meshes.

• Cleaned up weather code, moved several weather components to the core DLL.

• Removed legacy sky system.

• FOV now has a lower limit of 20.

• Converted NPC deal behaviour from schedule event -> behaviour.

• Increased how much trees/bushes obscure NPC vision.

• Pressing 'I'm stuck' will now teleport your vehicle back to safety if you are driving.

• Rebuilt the barbershop and tattoo parlour UI.

• Rebuilt the 'new mix discovered' interface.

• Stripped lots of shader variants to minimize memory use.

• Reduced the resolution of several unnecessarily massive textures.

• Optimized some UI layout calculations.

• Rebuilt the vehicle repaint interface.

• Optimized compass UI rendering.

• The management clipboard object selector mode now multi-selects by default - no need to hold 'shift' anymore.

• Rewrote a bunch of miscellaneous code to minimize GC allocation.

• Police vehicles now pooled instead of spawned/destroyed.

• Scripts using repeating checks now stagger their logic instead of running everything in a single frame.

• Implemented Linux-compatible region check (for choosing default metric/imperial).

• Optimized several distance checks to use square distance.

• Tweaked texture streaming settings to minimize excessively low-res textures for certain buildings.

Bug fixes

• Fixed suppliers not looking at the player.

• Fixed suppliers not returning to their meeting location after being interrupted.

• Fixed police sometimes not 'sharing' their player line-of-sight with other officers.

• Fixed bushes not obscuring players properly.

• Fixed cartel influence popup overlapping with compass warning labels.

• Fixed quest UI too close to top of screen on high interface scales.

• Fixed jerky vehicle movement when in 'kinematic mode' (optimization used for distant vehicles).

• Fixed baggies getting caught on the packaging station hopper lid.

• Changed some Windows-specific file path code to work for other OSes.

• Fixed z-fighting when building objects.

• Fixed weird lighting on environmental graffiti and grime.

• Fixed weird shadow pop-in for trees at sunset/sunrise.

• Fixed volumetric light beam flickering.

• Fixed environmental text causing stuttering when enabled/disabled.

• Fixed lens flare excessive CPU usage.

• Fixed CPU/memory spike due to audio sources subscribing to an event on enable/disable.