+Added the Acrocanthosaurus with its new model
+Added new Acrocanthosaurus ability: Intimidating Roar
-At the expense of significant ability power, the Acro can roar at an opponent, causing them to lose mild stamina, ability, and receive a substantial damage debuff for a short period of time
-The new talent, Intimidating Roar, improves upon all the aspects of this ability
-The intent of this ability is such that Acro can contend with larger, harder hitting creatures
-There is a talent in the power tree that enhances this ability
+Updated the following skins by Kelskora to be fully customizable:
-Autumn & Banded Apatos, Canyon Megalo, & Raptured Para
+Added Clownfish Lurdu by Misha & Spoon
Optimization
+Numerious server-side optimizations that should significantly relieve the server's CPU load, resulting in less lag
+Some client-side optimizations that may yield a performance improvement
Bug Fixes
+Fixed: Transitions into crouch no longer play the crouch animation rapidly until the creature slows down
+The blocking of certain console commands such as r.fog now work properly.
-Let us know if any more commands are giving players unfair gameplay advantages
+The Observer Camera no longer plays splash sounds or becomes enemies with other, nearby creatures
Mechanics Changes
+Modified the feather technology a bit to support more patterns on the feather masks
+Added comfort drop code to groups + fixed some loopholes related to getting the pawn ref from the group member.
-Removed Solo Mode from the main menu. We will not be developing a solo gameplay mode.
+Eggs no longer receive necrophobia
+Necrophobia now only starts applying to herbivores who are subadult, and only grants its full influence when at adulthood
+Necrophobia is only induced by ribcage carcasses. Meat legs no longer apply Necrophobia.
+Enemy status is now only gained from other players of whom you are in line of sight with
+Players now have a 30 seconds supplice window post login and post spawn to prevent spawn killing. It allows them to move invisible to other players for 30 seconds, unless they use any kind of broadcast, ability, or attack.
Balance Adjustments
+Acrocanthosaurus now has Serrated Teeth where Sharp Teeth was
+Acrocanthosaurus Power talent 5.1 now has a new talent, Intimidating Roar
+Acrocanthosaurus is now available for play
+Tyrannosaurus now does 450 damage per bite, up from 400
+Kronosaurus Survival talents Food Longetivity and Lunge Hard Headed hav been swapped in location
Post-Testing Notes
+Acro sprint speed is now 780, down from 800
+Acro stamina is now 60, down from 70
+Acro bite now deals 350 damage, down from 400
+Swapped location of Acro Ability Pool Increase and Stoic talents
-This provides a tougher decision as to which side of the power an acro player may want to go down, and makes it slightly less easy to stack the "good" acro power talents
+Megalo sprint speed is now 925, up from 900
+Acro Intimidating Roar now costs 65, up from 50
+Acro Intimidating Roar now has a range of 30 meters, down from 600
+Acro Intimidating Roar now prompts both the user and receiver of the roar as to what it's doing to you
+Acro can now properly pick up items, and its jaw opens properly
+Fixed: Intimidating Roar now only drains ability power if it successfully hits another player
+Fixed: Acro swim idle animation now properly blends in
+Players are now invisible for 30 seconds after logging in, provided they do not move, roar, or attack
+Acro now gains weight properly
There will be a hotfix deployed shortly to address the occasional crashes players are experiencing with this new patch.
(Screenshot by Jynn & Misha on the Official Discord)
It is known that players occasionally crash as they spawn or respawn. This was fixed, but until the hotfix drops, a way to avoid the crash is to stay still for 30 seconds post spawn.
BoB Official Soundtracks
Announcing Soundtrack: "Hidden World"
We have released the trailer's soundtrack as a standalone video. This soundtrack was done by Sachbun in our Discord. He's our music composer!
You can check it out here on BoB's official Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w9vEME9KVg
Please consider subscribing to our channel to be the first to hear all the latest BoB Soundtracks!
(Sorry this is a little delayed but I wanted to share this with those of you that do not watch our discord news.)
Hammer Patch Hotfix
+Added a new debuff to the game: Necrophobia
-When herbivores are close to carcasses, they gain Necrophobia, which sharply drops comfort
-This only works on the Life Cycle game mode
+Velociraptor is now implemented in skin customization.
-For now, one can select either the default Steller Jay skin or Dart. Dart will be customizable in the near future.
+Fixed: Skins should no longer occasionally appear solid black, unable to be customized
+Fixed: Some foliage issues on AP, and put invisble walls on FI to prevent players from getting under the map
+Fixed: Reproduced and fixed an instance of skins being applied to animals they did not belong to
+Fixed :A mistake in the player list that would crash the server occasionnaly
+Mosa now properly never oneshots creatures, instead of always oneshotting creatures with its grab
+Started implementing server preferences to sort servers etc
-Take notice that you must now double click servers to join. It isn't yet intuitive +Server now explains why the connection was refused for a user.
+Tyrannosaurus swimming walk speed is now 275, down from 315
+Tyrannosaurus swimming sprint speed is now 400, down from 450
+Tyrannosaurus stationary turn rate in the water is now 65, down from 85
+Tyrannosaurus sprinting turn rate in the water is now 45, down from 65
+Apatosaurus sprint speed in the water is now 200, up from 120
+Apatosaurus walk speed in the water is now 120, up from 80
The Hammer Patch
SERVER MANAGEMENT
-Unban and unmute should now work properly, and also handle using the player name instead of their id
-Added a config setting: ReservedAdminSlots, defaults to 2.
-Quadrupled the max net bandwidth/s for servers, from 512kB to 2MB (test)
-We can now permanently publisher ban players caught cheating in the game.
This will prevent access to any game server. You have been warned.
Players that were caught cheating have received VAC bans. You have been very warned.
-Admins are now notified when a player is kicked/muted/banned from their command, and whether it was successfull or not.
-Offline players can also be banned now.
-Online players that are banned are also IP-Banned
-Added support for blocking some default UE4 commands, and added a few known offending commands to the list.
If there are any UE4 commands that we need to add to this list, please let us know. We're looking for commands that give players an unfair advantage
-Nametags now also display the player's growth if accessible.
-Added "EnterSpectate" and "LeaveSpectate" commands, along with a new admin command in the server config: EAdminCommands::UseObserver to access them.
-Added the first pass on the Server Manager UI (Work in progress)
It allows admins to see the punishment list, and take action on it if allowed.
It allows authorized admins to view and/or edit the server's database while in game, displaying information about online and offline players that are saved on the server.
It can be accessed via the Escape menu by authorized users.
The purpose of this tool is to offer a hub for admins on their server, to handle players more easily.
BUG FIXES
-Misc work on Ancestral Plains - fixing stuck areas, patching map holes, etc
-It should no longer be possible for creatures to get stuck in the wrong
animation state underwater, appearing as if they're running or walking instead of swimming
-Fixed: Eggs should now properly save and load creature type and egg appearance
-Fixed: Dropped items no longer snag on foliage, causing them to float above the ground
-Player name tags should no longer duplicate
-Fixed: The volume sliders should now properly work, and the music volume defaults to 30%
-Fixed: The spawn point closest to the origin of the map is no longer removed from being possibly selected
This means spawn point 3 on DM_Caldera will finally be in use
-Admin Nametags no longer overlap, making them hard to read, if a player is closer to the using player, this widget will be more visible.
-Admin Nametags now hide if offscreen
-Fixed: The player list no longer gets stuck open after performing certain operations with chat and the player list simultaneously
-Fixed: Saved skins can no longer be loaded unless on the creature selection screen, while playing Life Cycle
MECHANICS CHANGES
-When servers load up, the ocean now always starts at high tide to prevent
beaching aquatic creatures after a restart or crash
-Pteranodons who fall off ledges or who log in while in the air now automatically enter flight mode
-For carnivores, creatures of your species that are not in your group now apply negative comfort
-Mosasaurus no longer can 'swallow prey whole,' killing them in one shot. Instead, it always deals thrash damage
-Addresses to Spawn Camping issues:
When a player dies, half the spawn points on the map that are deemed the most crowded will never show up for a newly spawning player.
-Freshwater now replenishes more quickly on servers with higher population.
BALANCE CHANGES
-Tyrannosaurus now deals 400 damage, down from 500, per bite
-Ichthyovenator max HP is now 750, up from 625
MAPS
-Seaweed is now edible on Forest Island and DM_Caldera.
-Trees and rocks should now be climbable for the velo on Forest Island and DM_Caldera.
(Screenshot courtesy of Bizarre)
Patch version 1.0.0.2:122818
NEW/REIMPLEMENTED CONTENT Misc: -Escape menu now shows the current server being played on as well.
-Changed the group icon size to 40px, down from 64. This will be changeable in the near future.
-Added the names under the players you're grouped up with, and the code to toggle icon/icon and name/name only, soon to be available to the end user in the UI.
-Velociraptor can now climb up trees with any item in its mouth.
Servers -Improved Network settings and management, which should improve the net performance and get rid of a lot of lag issues.
-Finished adding the banning and muting system:
-BanPlayer
*if time is <= 0, this is considered a permaban. Time is in hours
-MutePlayer
*Mute a player for a given time. Time is in minutes.
-KickPlayer
*Kick a player from the server.
-Admins using the chat on their server will now have their messages colored gold
-The text chat commands can now only be used by admins
Creature Skins: Lurdusaurus: -Made the Default Skin Customizable
-Harbor by Kelskora & BabyDracolisk
-Laced by Misha
-Drylands Speckled by DeviouslyKITT & Ashekins
-Snakeback by DeviouslyKITT & Ashekins
-Marsh by Kelskora
-Kelpforest by BabyDracolisk & Zakjaar
-Orcinus by Misha & Ashekins
Trex: -Sandy and Striped by Kelskora
Added Skins for upcoming Acrocanthosaurus: -The Default skin by Manuelsaurus is now customizable
-Donator: Glimmer by Kelskora is now fully customizable
-Bulrush by Omnomnomnivore
-Canyon & Forest by Kelskora
-Matrix by Misha & ZombooMatrix
-Sundae by DeviouslyKITT & Icer_Bogus
-Yellow Bellied by DeviouslyKITT & Mugman
Sounds -Added Beasts of Bermuda's original theme to the menu.- by Sachbun
BUG FIXES -TogglePlayerNameTags should now work properly.
-MutePlayer should work properly.
-Fixed the player count bug we've encountered, joining servers shouldn't be so much trouble anymore.
-Adjusted all dinosaurs net culling distance to fix the flicker issue, where dinosaurs would phase in and out of view.
-You can no longer open the chat when the tab menu is open, and get stuck there.
-Chat no longer cuts out certain caracters.
-It should no longer be possible to sometimes group with other animals of a different species, unless you are an herbivore grouping with herbivores.
-Player icons should no longer duplicate multiple times when a player leaves and joins again.
-SetGrowthlevel command should now work properly, and allow any growth, for any player.
-Group limits should work reliably.
Foliage is being worked on still, we're reworking the entire system, in the meantime, foliage works like it used to.
OPTIMIZATION -Adjusted the distance culling of various plants on ancestral plains for optimization.
-Adjusted some map element's LODs for optimization.
ADJUSTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS
-For now, skins can be changed post-spawn, so long you're younger than 0.8 growth.
-Adjusted the rain color and size on screen
-Added more spawn points on Ancestral Plains and adjusted the location of others.
-Improved water reflection effects
-WIP rivers, spawn points, & water sources on Ancestral Plains
-Carcass' lifetime now also scales with the animal's size it came from, making them last up to 5 times longer depending on size.
-Food value of plants now scales with plant scale
-Comfort loss is now less harsh for smaller creatures that are in close proximity to larger ones
Velociraptor
-Veloci now has 100 health, up from 75 - this might change
-Veloci attack speed increased from 0.9 to 0.75
(Chat Bug should now be fixed.)
First Post-Release Patch
Optimization +Improved net priority for carcasses and adjusted their net culling, such that they should immediately spawn even on crowded servers
+Certain plants now properly cull on Ancestral Plains (better fps), and some particularly laggy plants were removed
+The server no longer loads all nonwoody foliage on Ancestral Plains
-This will help with server-side lag spikes induced by foliage eating
+Set all foliage on Ancestral Plains to use simplified collision, which will reduce client-side fps stutters related to others eating plants
Server Control +Added Admin command "ToggleNameTags" for admins to see player's name, ID and ID64 on screen.
+Added the ServerMute command, to mute a player.
+Started reimplementing bans, etc (work in progress)
+Players should no longer be able to join a server that is on a different game build than their own
Bug Fixes +Fixed: Skins that have no dirt or bioluminescent masks no longer can turn black after a skin with these masks has been selected
+Fixed: Screenshot mode now properly keeps aquatics swimming in the same direction
+Fixed: Foliage should no longer appear inside caves after eaten
+Fixed: Misc Ancestral Plains issues
+Fixed: Dying with certain UI panels open such as the escape menu no longer causes a UI jam
+Fixed: Your character's Water Level now properly saves and loads, rather than restoring to 75% on loading into the server
+Fixed: The scaly and feathered tyrannosaurus models are now the same size - fixes underbite
+Fixed: The fullscreen, windowed, and windowed-fullscreen settings now properly apply
-This also fixes issues with pixelated, low resolution screens being stretched to full-screen and looking bad
+Hopefully fixed the raptor's going through the map bug that is related to lag.
+Fixed: The Kronosaurus now properly floats in the character selection screen, rather than drifting downwards
+Fixed: The scaly and feathered tyrannosaurus models now properly select and save
+The default keybind for scent is now properly C, rather than A
Balance Adjustments +Adjusted Lurdusaurus damage, from 170 down to 145, and lowered its attack rate from 0.95s to 1.25s
+Acrocanthosaurus' intimidating roar now removes 15 stamina and ability power from its target (placeholder, will be changed later)
+Acrocanthosaurus' sprint speed is now 800, up from 703
+Acrocanthosaurus' walk speed is now 500, up from 375
+Juvenile Apatosaurus can now eat foliage grade 4 plants (typically, small conifers or large bushes)
Mechanics Changes +Reduced wind volume by 70%
+Freshwater now has significantly improved underwater visibility
+Made scent clouds 55% smaller and turned their opacity down, and added a view distance of 5000 units on them. (subject to change)
+Bones no longer spawn during the Combat game mode
+Removed the respawn cooldown as it's being a problem
Additional notes for today's patch: -Adjusted Carcass net culling distance (150K UE units)
-Adjusted scent culling to 200K UE units
-Adjusted scent opacity to 0.35 up from 0.1
-Fixed various bugs related to the velociraptor, hopefully fixing the cases were it would fall through the map.
-Hitting shift or control while climbing a surface no longer makes you fall through the map.
-Added the command "UnbindClimbingComp" which will be helpful if you get stuck climbing a tree, this will disconnect the climbing system from the character and recover your normal controls.
-Dying as velociraptor while climbing should no longer leave you unable to control your creature post respawn.
-Adjusted velociraptor camera to not clip through the map
-Adjusted megalo camera to have it more centered with the body.
-Added the Donor Skin: Glimmer Apato
Regarding Launch Issues
"Hey everyone, I am working on a fix for the client-side FPS stutter that's going on. It's related to foliage, and every time a plant is eaten, picked up , or destroyed, it's causing a stutter on every computer (including the server, which is likely causing lag spikes as well). I'm hoping to get a hotfix for this out later tonight.
The FPS stutter is happening because every time a plant is eaten, the game must re-compute the collision bounds for the entire 'Instanced Foliage Actor' on the map, which is resulting in a hefty CPU spike due to the sheer volume of foliage on Ancestral_Plains.
The servers are also having a very difficult time when exceeding 40-50 players. We'd recommend not having servers larger than 50 players at this time, as it is going to result in a very unstable gameplay experience.
Vipe and I are working to improve the worst offenders in these regards!" -Predatoria
Thank you guys so much for your patience and support.
Pre-Release Hotfix
BUGFIXES: +Tenatively fixed - testing now - Servers that are full no longer accept players, and now properly reject the connection
+Herbivores can now eat any plants dropped from their parents, regardless of foliage grades
+Adjustments to rex look down / weight paintign / bite down to make it easier to bite velos and utahs near your feet
-Import many Acro animations
-Removed lurdu curl animations that were causing jitter while swimming
+Reduced Lurdusaurus growth speed to be equal to that of para
+Fixed: Lurdusaurus now properly gets wider when gaining weight
+Fixed: Many of the ferns are now edible on Ancestral Plains, providing much easier food for herbivores
+More RAM leak fixes
+Lurdusaurus swim speed increase talent is now in mobility slot 5, speed increase is in slot 2, and sneaky is now in slot 1
-Disabled Utahraptor, Elasmosaurus, and Pachycephalosaurus from play until they receive model updates
WIP Acro - disabled currently
+Idle alts for Lurdu and Acro now disable head tracking during the animation
+Added the Seaweed Acro skin, by DeviouslyKITT
-Added more animations to velociraptor, but disabled the pounce on creature temporarily. You can however climb the map's elements, and use the pounce ability as a mobility.
Known issue: Group only work species-specific, instead of allowing herbs to group together, this will be fixed in a few hours.
Pre-Release Goodies Package
New Steam Trailer by Sepiks
With only a day to go until early access release, we want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their amazing support for us and our game. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning almost 2 years ago or you only joined today, we hope you will venture with us into early access as we continue to grow and develop Beasts of Bermuda. Most of all though, we hope you have as much fun playing it as we have making it! With that, here is our official Steam trailer. Welcome to Beasts of Bermuda!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5i7rnGftQs&list=PL7hZ4etdrSe2TbY88a8nuNmp5K1415J3u
Music is the beginning of our official soundtrack, ‘Hidden World’ by our very own Sachbun!
Also, a very special thank you to Lizardian, Jynn, and Senoba who filmed these shots, as well as all of the players who took part in filming!
If you don't feel like going to youtube to watch this, you can also view this trailer on our steam store page!
And last but not least:
A Speech by Predatoria
"I have prepared a little speech thingy about our upcoming release, and about how this project got started and what it means to us. It's a bit long to post in discord text, so I'm going to place the PDF file here instead. I hope you all will enjoy reading it. We're really excited to release this game for you all tomorrow." -Pred
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/280344852506476544/525411179036672014/ReleaseSpeech.pdf
The Velociraptor Patch
+Added the new Velociraptor
Note:
<*>This is still an ongoing WIP that will be worked on during the coming days.
<*>You can climb trees, rocks, and the world itself by jumping and pressing the Use key when near the surface you are targeting.
<*>In order to jump from a surface to an other, hold the jump key to charge your ability, that will propel you towards the angle you are looking at.
<*>Player should not right click while latched to a surface as it causes them to die and have to relog
<*>The animations and sounds aren't all there yet and will be added with time.
-WIP Acro - acro is currently disabled from selection
-Hopeful fix at RAM leak / server restarting problem
-Fixed underwater issue: Post processing was never applying the set settings.
+Made Ancestral Plains slightly brighter.
-Improved the Camera controller component, and fixed some bugs and issues in the code.
-Fixed the camera for all creatures. It is now controled by a size curve in BB Camera.
-Fixed: Lurdusaurus death animation now plays
-Improved seaweed food values
-Fixed: Megalosaurus ability, para ability, and checking baby stats now properly display the stats display
+Fixed: Lurdusaurus can now properly stomp when it's low on ability power, rather than consuming it without stomping
+Fixed: Lurdusaurus stomp now applies damage
+Added new Acro roar, by Sepiks
+WIP Acro / acro ability / import acro anims
+Added Lurdusaurus juvenile and hatchling forms
-Lurdusaurus food now decays at 80% speed it used to (food buff)
-The Botanist talent is now significantly more effective at thwarting food poisoning from eating plants not proper to your diet
-All plants now provide 25% more food value
-The SetGrowthLevel command now properly updates health, stamina, and ability to keep them the same percent full after growth
-Fixed: Lurdusaurus jaw now opens the proper way when holding objects
-Herbivores can no longer smell carcasses, and carnivores cannot smell glowy 'Fat Plants'
-Fat plants now emit a large, green scent cloud
-Added rex damage textures, by Senoba
-Rex water decays 25% slower
-Removed fog profile 0 (the really heavy one) from the game
-Fixed: Krono lunge now works
-Herbivores can now eat any plants dropped from their parents, regardless of foliage grades
-Removed lurdu curl animations that were causing jitter while swimming
