Update 1.8.0

Gameplay

• Adjusted player movement speed transitions from prone → crouch → walk (the correct speed is now applied).

• Added a loading state that checks the player's pose (crouching, prone, or inside a vehicle). After loading, the appropriate state is applied — if the player was in a vehicle, they are reattached to it.

• Fixed exiting vehicles — when a vehicle is flipped on its side or roof, its rotation is no longer transferred to the player.

• NPCs can now go prone.

• If an NPC is in a specific alert state, the player no longer lowers their weapon.

• NPCs can now activate bayonets.

• Reworked bolt-action weapon reload logic — NPCs no longer get stuck during reloading and resume firing properly.

• NPCs now use the same animations and functionality as the player.

• Unified NPC movement system with the player movement system.

• Added a compass and objective markers visible even when the player is inside a vehicle.

• Reworked Quest Point system — no more need to manually enter tag names.

• Updated quest event system to support dynamic NPC spawning.

• NPCs now react to different stimuli — they go prone or crouch based on the situation.

AI & NPC

• CutSceneManager expanded with NPC dialogue configuration.

• Each NPC now requests its dialogue from the CutSceneManager at the start of a level.

• Created a new NPC base character, beginning the transition from ALS to Motion Matching.

• Added SeansFilter_Sight Component — prioritizes and evaluates the danger level of perceived objects. Compatible with Vehicle and NPC Controllers.

• Implemented a Vehicle AI Controller:

  • The vehicle now searches for a designated spline in the level and follows it.

  • Tanks track the player and fire the main cannon or the machine gun depending on distance.

• NPCs now check vehicle spawn status on spawn; if the vehicle isn’t spawned yet, they subscribe to the spawn event.

• Refined NPC initialization logic on spawn.

• Adjusted NPC loading — parts of the logic were moved into the controller.

• Experimentally disabled NPC hearing when they have an active target.

• Updated static weapon logic to support NPC usage.

• Fixed weapon and pickup assignment for NPCs and players — if a weapon is held or holstered, saving is skipped and the weapon is recreated after loading.

Systems

• Created the first version of LevelStorage for activating weapons the player brings into a level.

• Updated bullet script — removed initial static object check.

• Tick Animation on Skeletal Mesh Init — disabled.

• Added test classes for instanced destructible objects.

• Configured Data Flow for generating Geometry Collections.

• Converted weapon and character animations to use SoftObjectReferences.

• Simplified logic for checking identical weapon types in holsters.

• Updated pickup collection and inventory quantity checks.

• Fixed interaction with Flak88 and camera shake.

• Created Vehicle Component for handling vehicle direction, speed, and steering.

• Updated Tank Blueprint — added tread save functions and settings for player or AI control.

• Added VehicleData Component containing DA — vehicles pull their information from it.

• Optimized bullet blueprint by simplifying chaos destruction activation.

• Added AnimBP swapping when the player enters a vehicle.

• Set up procedural hand animation (player and NPC) to react to steering wheel rotation.

• Linked driving animations for both player and NPC.

• Refactored the Weapon base class for better NPC integration.

• Weapon spawn is now set to block loading.

• Fixed Data Asset loading to work properly in packaged builds.

• Adjusted spawn tag retrieval — if a vehicle isn’t spawned, it uses the actor’s name in the map.

• Fixed primary weapon initialization after loading.

• Refined save system to depend on player state.

• Improved vehicle save logic.

• Character now waits for controller loading to finish before spawning inventory objects at level start.

• Reworked inventory restoration when loading a new level or a saved game.

• Identified a crash caused by disabling physics on tanks and armored vehicles during save.

• CutSceneManager — moved default inventory setup logic to the player character.

• CutSceneManager — improved level loading logic and moved inventory cleanup before save/load.

• Removed faulty animations from the animation set and reduced player animation count.

• Integrated detailed GPU-based PCG grass spawning.

Assets & Data

• Teaser preparation — asset assembly, animation recording, camera setup.

• Reworked map lighting for PBL.

• Lights now support custom color and emissive intensity.

• Created a new indestructible object class using new Chaos features, with state saving support.

• Fixed compass marker placement (correct positions).