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Beasts of Prey

Patch 15 - BoP the Builder!
In this patch we are introducing a new building system to the game. Old structures have been removed and replaced by new ones. The new construction system is based on Pillars and based on how and where you placed them you will have different construction options. The new system allows you to create much cooler structures, give you more freedom and possibilities and also allows you to preview these options and see the structure how it will look like before actually building it. Within the next weeks we will add even more structures to this new system and give you more possibilities to update your construction elements. The gathering system also has been revised and balanced to give more importance to the "where do i build?" factor. Before it simply did not matter too much where you placed your base since you got all resources pretty much everywhere - this now changed. While you still receive some ores from the dynamic spawns the chance to actually gain ore is much lower. Instead, you should look for the new static stone-spawns that have a much higher chance of giving ore.

Patch Notes:
- Dinosaurs will no longer run through walls.
- Removed old wooden structures from the game.
- Rewrote the construction/building system.
- Added a preview system that allows you to preview your construction options while in build-mode.
- Added pillar-system to the game that defines where you will be able to build walls.
- Added palisades to the game.
- Added palisade gates to the game.
- Added new wooden walls, doorways, doors, walls with windows to the game.
- Optimized performance yet again.
- Optimized netcode to produce less FPS-hickups.
- Lowered ore chance on the dynamic spawning stones, these have a VERY low chance to drop ore now.
- Added static stone spawns to the game that have an increased drop-chance for ore.
- Several constructions have their building requirements adjusted.
- Rocket Launcher has been temporarily disabled in order to balance it next patch.
- Turret has its range increased.
- Timer on flags has been increased to 60 seconds by public request.
- Size of dynamic stone spawns has been decreased.
- Physics of dynamic stone spawns have been updated.
- Crossbow has lower crafting requirements.
- Arrows only require wood.
- Crossbow damage has been increased.
- Crossbow reload time has been lowered.
- Bullets have their crafting requirements lowered.
- Sniper Rifle has its damage doubled.
- Pistol damage has been increased slightly.

Update 14 - You naughty Egg-Thiefs! (AI & PvP Patch)
In this patch Beasts of Prey receives a fully reworked AI for the dinosaurs and some additional game-mechanics for PvP. The AI has been upgraded to make the game-world more immerse and fun, Dinosaurs started to hunt in packs, roam through the game-world and no longer run into each other or run through your walls.

Additionally to these upgrades the flag system has been changed to a capture & hold system. You can now capture land by capturing other players land. When you capture a flag all buildings in it's area will be yours. Doors, Gates, Tents and Turrets will be yours, personal items like the metal safe & beds will not change ownership but can be destroyed or picked up (just like before). You can now also destroy foundations with flags again - so in the end it's your choice to either conquer an outpost or destroying it!

Changes:
- Improved overall performance yet again.
- Reworked AI to be aware of structures & buildings.
- Reworked AI to be aware of other NPCs.
- Added new pathing to AI.
- The island slightly changed, some terrain has been altered to improve the overall quality of the game-world.
- Added some additional textures to the game-world.
- Added parallax effects on terrain shader.
- Added more roaming birds.
- Adjusted total amount of trees to slightly improve performance and game-world design.
- RADAR now shows different icons for friendly and hostile players.
- RADAR now shows dinosaurs.
- RADAR now shows resources on the map.
- RADAR now shows flags on the map.
- Flags can now be captured. All structures in it's area will change ownership with the exception of the metal safe.
- Based on your skills you can only build a maximum of 5 flags in an area, however you can have more than 5 flags by capturing other players outposts.
- Skills Expert Builder 1 and Expert Builder 2 are now working as intended.
- Eggs are more rare.
- Dinosaurs will remain much longer in the game-world. Even after you stole the egg.
- The Spinosaurus has been (re-)added to the game.
- Fixed loot-drops on dinosaurs. After killing the inventory should open once you are close to its head.

Update Series 13.2 - 13.7 (Mini-Patches)
During the last 3 days we released a bunch of smaller patches to solve the issues players were reporting. Someone hinted out that not everyone reads the forums so here are the patch-notes of the last 5 mini-patches we released :

- Fixed a bug where sometimes structures were not loaded completely under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a crash issue.
- Fixed invisible players bug.
- Fixed typo in login scene.
- Fixed FPS Counter (use F8 to see current FPS).
- Fixed cage issue with disappearing dinosaurs.
- Improved network-caching to load objects faster so structures will no longer spawn on top of you in crowded areas.
- Improved FPS performance.
- Improved network-performance.
- Some items had their visual reduced slightly. (Walls/Foundations received a simpler shader to improve performance for example)
- Fixed broken foundations/walls & doors.

With performance being fixed we'll now focus on the dinosaurs AI again. Throughout the next days more smaller patches will be released based on your feedback. Please always report your issues to the forums.

We'll hope with these fixes the game is more enjoyable for everyone. Have a nice weekend!

Patch 13.1 Notes
This patch addresses some of the issues you were reporting on the forums. The main complains were performance issues which this patch hopefully addresses properly. Next week most of us are on a vacation until Friday to recharge our batteries, after that we will continue working on the upcoming Armor & UI patch.

Patch Notes :

- Improved FPS in high-density structure areas.
- Added 60 FPS limit so the game consumes less resources on high-end machines.
- Fixed a bug in the bird flock.
- Increased shotgun damage by 65%.
- Decreased shotgun spread slightly.
- Fixed a bug where the shotgun consumed too much ammo.
- Fixed CNCTable Range check, you no longer need to crouch.
- Improved/Fixed Hit-Detection on some NPCs.
- Fixed Blood Effects on Dinosaurs.

Patchnotes 13 - The Big Bang!
The old world as you know it is gone. We are happy to present you a new exciting game-world full of new content. The last weeks we have been working very hard on the game and together with you we believe we have taken the game to the next level. The dinosaurs have been significantly upgraded, new game-play has arrived and a new skill-system has been added to the game. As usual please provide feedback and bugs found on the forums. During the next days we will release a few more smaller patches based on your feedback. Several bugs and game-exploits have been fixed as well - if you come across any please do not hesitate to contact us!

- Core Engine has been updated to the latest unity version.
- You no longer get disconnected when tabbing out of full-screen.
- The game continues to run when tabbing out of full-screen.
- You can now choose the monitor you like to run the game on.
- Several bugs in the GUI have been fixed.
- Fixed a dupe exploit. (Thanks for reporting!)
- Fixed a bug causing ammo to vanish or even being unlimited.
- The GUI received some more polishing, fonts have been adjusted to improve look and feel.
- The dinosaur AI has been significantly improved allowing dinosaurs now to perform group behaviours.
- The dinosaur AI is now aware of structures and trees.
- The dinosaurs now spawn near their nests.
- Nests have a chance to spawn an egg of the breed.
- Experience and Skill System has been added to the game.
- Menu Button for skills has been added.
- You now gain XP based on what you are doing in the game. The XP gained can be spend on perks through the skill-system.
- 3 XP trees and 24 perks have been added to the game.
- New game-play allowing you to steal the egg of dinosaurs. Eat it for XP or bring it home to breed it.
- The game-world has been redesigned giving you a completely new world to discover.
- The game-world received several new visuals.
- Snow areas/mountains have been added to the game.
- 3 New Start-Up Settings: Awesome for High-End GPUs, Balanced and Fast (for Low-End GPUs)
- More grass/foliage has been added to the game.
- Terrain textures received graphical improvements.
- The game-world now has areas of trees and forests/jungles instead of trees just everywhere.
- The water is now using reflections making it and the area around it look nicer.
- A game-option has been added to use the old water (for older computers to improve performance).
- The GPU Booster has been improved to give you a slightly better FPS. (Still experimental!).
- The underwater effects have been revamped and improved. Underwater actually looks nice now!
- The Velociraptor received a new model including new textures and animations. Motions now come from the animations. Sounds revamped.
- The Triceratops received a new model including new textures and animations. Motions now come from the animations. Sounds revamped.
- The T-Rex received a new model including new textures and animations. Motions now come from the animations. Sounds revamped.
- The Parasaurolophus received a new model including new textures and animations. Motions now come from the animations. Sounds revamped.
- The Brachiosaurus received a new model including new textures and animations. Motions now come from the animations. Sounds revamped.
- The Dilophosaurus has been added to the game.
- Dinosaur loot table has been changed/updated.
- You can now construct a cage to breed dinosaurs.
- Several dinosaur eggs have been added to the game.
- Turret reaction range has been increased slightly.
- Turret attack range has been doubled.
- Turret damage has been increased.
- Mining drill stone output has been doubled.
- Mining drill chance to produce ore has been increased.
- Bird flying behaviour has been adjusted.
- Dinosaur Babies have been added to the game. Deliver the egg to a cage you built and you get a dinosaur baby.

12.1 Notes
- Added memory management for low-end PCs.
- Adjusted visuals slightly.
- Adjusted night-cycle to be shorter.
- Added more light during daytime.
- Skill XP requirements have been doubled. (Was too easy to max it out)
- Dinosaurs no longer circle.
- Adjusted dinosaur AI settings, they are a bit faster now.
- Fixed 2 exploits. Thanks for reporting!


Here are the patchnotes of todays patch :

12.3 Notes
We have taken all the upgrades from the last game-world and put it into a slightly smaller but more interesting game-world. The game-world now looks even more natural thanks to some advanced techniques applied to our terrain generator. The bigger dinosaurs will now be more rare, we have increased the amount of dinosaurs, made them roam and patrol more & improved their behaviour. The XP System has been revised and the requirements for skills have been increased. Building is now quite differently, you create platforms and build on them (a bit more Minecraft Style but we like it and we hope you do to!)

- Added new Game World representing the final game-world for Beasts of Prey. This allows us to extend the game-world at any time by adding more islands. (You might need to build ships at some point)
- Fixed several bugs.
- Optimized memory management.
- Added Game Options in the main screen to adjust graphics.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash on MAC.
- Fixed a bug that caused inventory to get out of sync.
- Fixed an exploit.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from getting proper crafting XP.
- Balanced XP System.
- Extended XP System with more Crafting Skills.
- Dinosaur spawns have been improved.
- Dinosaur AI behaviour has been improved.
- Dinosaur Egg no longer rolls out of the nest.
- Dinosaur spawn in larger packs and in a wider area.
- The total amount of flags a player can place (in a single area) is now based on their skill.
- Flags now come with a foundation that are required as a starting point for foundations. (You can only attach the new foundations to it)
- Cage received a new model.
- Concrete Structures have been removed from the game.
- Stone Walls and Foundations are indestructible.
- Added Foundation (Stone) & Stone Walls to the game.
- Wooden Doors, Walls & Foundations now require 12 Wood instead of 8.
- Wooden Doors, Walls & Foundations no longer take melee damage unless they are yours.
- Crafting table can be placed everywhere but no longer provides collision.
- Player Physics were changed so you no longer can block each other or jump on top of each other.

Beasts of Prey - Stomping Jungle Update (Patch 11)
Roaming Birds, Quetzalcoatlus Dinosaurs flying on the horizon, a dense jungle - that is the new look and feel of Beasts of Prey. With this patch our game gets another major performance and graphics update . Pretty much all parts of the game have received further optimization and polishing. The graphics have been updated, the core engine got upgraded and several in-game mechanics have been adjusted based on your feedback. We were able to improve the FPS on lower-end machines while at the same time the visuals in the game improved as well. The games look and feel will give you now a much deeper immerse in-game experience.

Changes :
- New performance upgrades in almost all aspects of the game. (Engine/Graphics/Network)
- New and updated GUI Elements to improve the overall look and feel.
- New thrilling login scene.
- New beautifully redesigned game-world.
- New visuals like roaming birds, quetzalcoatlus and bats.
- Swimming and Diving is now possible.
- Building Mechanics has been improved and optimized.
- Dinosaurs are not so easy to kill anymore, their AI has been improved.
- Dinosaurs drop loot again.
- Before building you need place a flag now as a pre-requirement.
- Stone spawns have been balanced.
- Stone spawn physics have been fixed.

With the changes to performance and graphics our next updates will focus again more on content. The armor system, improved dinosaur AI and vehicles are still in development so the upcoming patch will feature a lot of new items.

Again, we would like to thank everyone who has been supporting us. Developing the game is a lot of fun with this community and by giving us your feedback you'll help us get the things done!

PvE Server and Patch 10.1/10.2 Notes
Hello everyone,
as some of your requested we have added a PvE Server today with special rules for those of your that do not enjoy PvP enviroments. The PvE server has the following different rules :

- No damage to other players.
- No damage to structures that do not belong to you.
- No lootdrop on death.
- No turrets.

Patch Notes from yesterday were missing so here they are :

10.1
- Added option to disable loot-drop on servers.
- Added option to disable player damage on servers.
- Fixed the oil tower. It can now be crafted.
- Fixed dinosaur settings on private servers. Default is dinosaurs enabled now.
- Fixed a lagspike.
- Fixed indestructable turret.
- Fixed a targeting bug with turrets.
- Fixed bed spawns.

10.2
- Fixed turret bug.
- Fixed resource spawning.

Patch 10 - Rise of the crafters
Today with patch 10 our game changes a lot. First off, the days of loosing nothing on death are over. We enabled full inventory drop and while this might sound dramatic at first we are confident that with the new mechanics in place surviving in our game is still easier than in other survival games. The main reason why we think so is the metal safe, this item allows you to securely store your items - even when it's destroyed. When destroyed you can rebuild it and your items will still be there. So when you are heading out of your base think carefully what you take with you and how long and how far you will venture out.

With the changes it also matters a lot now where you are building your base, while it might be great to build on water for protection you cannot build mining drills there which means that you still have to leave your base to either reach your mining outpost or look for rocks to manually mine. Mining drills are much slower than manual mining, but they provide to you at a constant rate and you build your base around it for maximum protection.

To increase your protection we have added the first automated defense turret that will open fire to everyone who does not belong to your tribe either when it's getting attacked or when getting too close. It currently does not consume fuel or energy but this will be implemented at a later stage when we are adding generators to the game.

Oil Spawns are now random so if you found one you can decide if you want to defend for just a hour or a full day. It's your decision if you place the big oil tower you'll get the 10x amount of oil but you have to defend it for 24 hours as it takes a full day. Or you build the small oil pumps, they give you only a fraction of the oil but only need to be defend for 1 hour. Oil can now be refined in the refinery which will give you access to fuel (and plastic later). Fuel is needed by the mining drills and we intend to make more utilities depend on it. In the future the generators will supply your structures with electricity and will consume fuel as well.

Additionally we have added the rocket launcher to the game. It does much less damage than C4 but gives you the opportunity to attack defense turrets that you'll have a direct line of sight to and take down lower HP structures.

Based on your votes our priority in this patch has been the performance. We were able to increase it quite a bit by changing the procedual terrain engine and optimizing a lot of code. So instead of having your client constantly generate new terrain in the background we are now shipping a pre-made world which grows with each update. This way we still have procedually generated terrain and this allows us to add biomes like deserts, european forests etc. to the game. Also, if you are eligible for the extra key it will now show up in the login scene after logging in.

Early supports will now see their additional steam key in the login scene.

Changes :
- Server: Altered code to increase performance.
- Server: Fixed a bug causing lagspikes.
- Server: Added more anti-cheat.
- Client: Changed Terrain Engine to increase performance.
- Client: Changed Network Engine to increase network-performance.
- Client: Changed Core Engine to increase performance.
- Client: Reduced CPU Load by optimizing code.
- Client: Changed foliage settings to improve FPS.
- Client: Fixed a bug that caused trees to spawn sometimes in different locations.
- Client: Fixed a bug that caused the character to put your gun away.
- Client: Fixed a bug that prevented you from placing C4.
- Client: Fixed several performance spikes.
- Client: Improved loading times.
- Client: Added more anti-cheat routines.
- Client: Fixed several minor glitches.
- Oil now spawns everywhere, just like stone.
- Large Rocks have been added to the game. Build the mining drill on them to gather their resources.
- You can now craft the rocket launcher.
- You can now craft rockets again.
- You can now craft the refinery.
- You can now craft the mining drill.
- You can now craft the turret.
- You can now craft the oil pump.
- Fuel has been added to the game.
- Oil Tower is now a blueprint.
- Foundation can be placed on ground now so you can build wooden defenses around smaller structures.
- Placing a tent now serves as a global spawn point for all tribe members in case they do not have a bed.
- Tent can now be destroyed (300 HP, melee & explosive damage)
- Spawn priorities are now: Logout position if you did not die -> Tent -> Bed.
- Some weapons received adjustments in rate of fire, recoil and rate of fire.
- You can now craft the refinery to convert your oil to fuel (1 Oil = 10 Fuel).
- Oil Towers collect a total of 60 Oil. 1 every 10 minutes.
- Oil Pumps collect a total of 6 Oil. 1 every 10 minutes.
- You can now craft the mining drill which will gather stone for you automatically.
- You can now craft the projectile defense turret that will shoot everyone who does not belong to your tribe when enabled.
- You now loose your inventory when dying. Craft and put your items in the metal safe where they are safe, when the metal safe gets destroyed you can just rebuild it elsewhere and your items are back.
- If you die you now loose your inventory and a loot bag is spawned at your last position.

Patch 9.8 - PvP Rebalancing, C4, Metal Gates!
This is the first draft and HP values will change based on your feedback. We have increased the requirements of C4 so it's not a common item to craft. Building a base now using concrete and metal doors outside will make it indestructable from the outside to melee damage, the only way to get in now is when you leave the doors open or when they have a minimum of 2 C4s - which is not a ticket for base raiding unless you building only a 1-layer defense. Also attackers have to be carefull using C4 as they can destroy possible loot-containing items, so it's not smart to place it everywhere.

Changes:
- Fine-tuned stone spawning.
- Fixed a bug that allowed sky-platforms again. All platforms not having ground are getting deleted.
- Oil fields now despawn when depleted.
- Admins can now send admin messages to the running game using the Web-Interface of smartFox. (Activate the web-server in your configuration)
- The oil-tower will now despawn when the resources are depleted and no oil is left in it's inventory.
- C4 is in-game now, doing 8000 HP of damage to all structures in a 10m area.
- Added the Metal Gates, 22000 HP, explosive. needs 30 iron ingots to be crafted.
- Concrete Wall now needs 26 stone.
- New C4 requirements : 2 Copper Ingot, 4 Metal Wire, 4 Sulfur, 4 Coal, 2 Beryllium Ingot, 2 Gold Ingot, 6 Oil.
- New Hitpoints for all structures to balance C4 and melee damage. (See below)
- Rockets are temporarily disabled until we introduce the rocket launcher.
- Platforms 49000 HP, explosive
- Wirefence 8000 HP, melee explosive
- Safe, 2000 HP, melee explosive
- Oil Tower, 12000 HP, melee explosive
- Small Tent, 1000 HP, melee explosive
- Guard Tower (Wood), 5000 HP, melee explosive
- Guard Tower (Metal), 9000 HP, explosive
- Concrete Walls, 15000 HP, explosive
- Flag, 100 HP, melee and explosive
- Small and Medium House, 10000 HP, melee + explosive
- Bed, 200 HP, explosive
- Workbench, 100 HP, melee and explosive
- Furnace, 800 HP, melee and explosive
- RADAR, 20000 HP, explosive
- CNCTable, 500 HP, melee and explosive
- Roadblock, 7000 HP, explosive
- Roadblock Corner, 7000 HP, explosive
- Light Tower, 11000 HP, explosive
- Torch, 100 HP, melee explosive
- Wooden Foundation, 6000 HP, melee explosive
- Wooden Wall, 7000 HP, melee explosive
- Wooden Door, 7000 HP, melee explosive
- Wooden Stairs, 1000 HP, melee explosive
- Wooden Wall (Window), 7000 HP, melee explosive
- Tanning Rack, 500 HP, melee explosive
- Tablesaw, 500 HP, melee explosive

We are placing Oil fields now manually every 2 days in the game until we have the algorithm ready. Server admins can now do the same. Login to your server using the chatwindow with /admin and enter /spawnoil. An Oil field will spawn infront of you.

Because of the changes above we are very sorry to inform you that we have to wipe the official server again. Main reasons are the introduction of metal gates, C4, concrete walls only taking explosive damage, floating platforms (bug), existing C4 in the game (some people had gathered already a lot of oil), pre-patch requirements of C4. So as you can see there is really now way to avoid it this time. We know we promised you not to do wipes anymore but with the broken mechanics and bugs we rather give you a fresh start again. So again, we feel truely sorry about this.

It would be great if some of the PvE community members could try out the new version on the official server as we are very interested in seeing how the balance between PvP & PvE is now.

Tomorrow we will gather all information from the forums and count your votes for the upcoming coding-event. If you like we can maybe also do some sessions on twitch where you can watch and comment on the development.

PvP Mechanics - Your feedback please!
Hello everyone,
we've been thinking about the current PvP Mechanics and i believe we can change the mechanics of PvP / Building to this new concept quickly. So please help us finding any loop holes in this. One major issue is right now that you cannot go offline for too long leaving your base unguarded, so we thought about this :

Either
a) all structures in unclaimed/non-contested zones are indestructable. Oil and other spawns will spawn randomly every day here and there, turning the zone and all it's structures into a combat zone/destructable objects. That way you can build and go offline safely, and PvPers can focus on finding oil/combat zones to fight/conquer land. Oil resources will be limited and once depleted the oil well will vanish again and the zone becomes a free/non-combat zone again.

b) Same as above, but only platforms/concrete walls and door elements are indestructable.

If you see any loopholes in this mechanic please let write them here, but i personally believe this way we can get a decent PvP mechanic up. Oil wells would only spawn every 48 hours for example also limiting the amount, making it a more rare resource.
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