🛠️ Performance update, accessibility features and more!

Hello Riders! 🐎

We have been hard at work behind the scenes to improve the game's performance, add new accessibility features and address some common bugs submitted by the community.

Let's jump right in!

🆕 Accessibility Improvements:

• Adjustable haptic feedback strength

• Created three camera distances, UI displayed in Free Ride

• Added new control scheme to reflect new key binding

• Improve Jump Indicator:

• Added time dilation to obstacle jumping

• Show jump indicator even at angles or when riding slowly

• Accessibility Highlighting of Objects and Animals (+ sparkle)

• Implemented settings to switch off motion blur

• Color-Blind Mode Implementation

• Camera Locking Improvements

• Camera Tree Fade, iteration on camera collision

• Show mouse cursor in popup and mission debrief widgets when not using a gamepad

• Show mouse cursor while displaying mission popups

🆕 Performance Improvements:

• Overall better frame rate

• Shortened Loading Screen Time

• Loading Screen covers whole loading process

• Introduction Video: Replaced waiting-for-video-delay with a timer based on the video duration

• SteamDeck changes

• Improve deer runaway animation and AI

• Engine Upgrade

🛠️ Bug Fixes:

• Play marker no longer invisible in snow

• Search area markers now less intense

• Localization updated

• Correct keys now displayed in Controls

• Fixed rotating horse statue material

• Fixed collisions in Kaltenbach

• Made the cave accessible on winter and summer map

• Set up correct navigation for elements inside the pause menu

• Refactor console settings menu

• Use user-defined language to show splash screen text

• Correctly save changed user settings

• Set up correct navigation behavior for all elements within options

• Fixed that player could no longer interact with the game behind the 'Mission Completed' popup after reset which caused the popup to remain stuck on screen

• Fixed sleigh cameras not separated from 3rd person camera, creating better angle and no longer skipping input

• Cleaned up freeride sleigh when resetting horse or returning to Kaltenbach

• Starting either of the two blue marker 'Go for a Ride' missions no longer triggers the intro splash screen video

• Increasing volume when using gamepad without losing focus

• Spamming buttons to skip tutorials no longer freeze the game

• Fixed potential crash during photo mission when no world can be derived from the mission object

• Prevent moving backwards if the back of the horse is blocked

• HUD elements are no longer duplicated if the mission is reset

• Save settings in GameUserSettings instead of DefaultGame; correctly save benchmark result to prevent multiple benchmarks on the same install

• Objects like wooden gates no longer have invisible walls

• Fit controller scheme in settings (Steamdeck)

• Resetting the horse in tutorial no longer causes screen misplacement

• Can now navigate bottom menu in paddock with gamepad

• Fix that changing the language in the options menu correctly applies the selected language

• Cleaned up the camera intro for missions and prevented any camera input while the intro is still active

❤️ Please let us know what you think of the update. You can leave a comment here or come into our cozy Discord to discuss the game with us and other Riders.

See you in Kaltenbach!

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