For this update we’ve overhauled the pets, taking core improvements done in our recent major locomotion update and using those same back-end systems to power the pets. We’ve also looked at AI improvements, giving all pets the ability to roam around. The standard follow-mode has been enhanced also, which now automatically get pets unstuck should they find themselves unable to reach the player.
There is also a cute selection of outfits for the cats plus some new coat patterns (including Calico and Tortoiseshell), with outfits being added to the Capsa Starter Pack DLC and Patterns going in the Pet Essential DLC. Anyone who already owns it will get these as a free update!
Second to this is significantly expanded Rohai area, plus major improvements to Rahopuru, Whakarua, Hianga, Pekanga, Paka and Kaimatara areas. Rohai features new beached shipwrecks, additional structures and a new cave complex. There are also underwater wrecks near a new coral reef.
We’ve improved the pathways so you can effectively ride a horse from Mataara all the way to Kura area now. Plus there are various improvements along the coastline in the direction of Hianga.
Thirdly is our Easter Event, can you hunt and collect all 40 Easter Egg baskets hidden around the newly expanded Rohai area? If you manage to complete that we've also added 4 new Vista Points to newly created locations as we a Locked Item to find and picklock in Hianga.
In additional to all of this, we've also included several bug-fixes to a range of reported issues over the past couple weeks, please let us know if you continue to have any issues.
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Patch Notes:
Customization
Added headwear for Cats including a basic hat option.
Added name option for Pets.
Added ability to rotate camera in Pet editor.
Environment
Added considerable expansion to the Rohai area, it includes several new buildings, beached shipwrecks, an off-shore coral reef, boat docks, new cave, campsite area.
Added a foot/horse path that goes via Kaimatara that allows you to travel to Rohai from Mataara without taking the tunnel.
Added Mataara cave entrance connecting to new Rohai Cave.
Added additional road connecting Mataara to Rohai via Rahopūru and Whakarua.
Added additional horse footpath between Rohai and Rahopūru.
Added improvements to Physical Materials (which generate footstep sounds) on various objects at Rohai (and other areas those items feature).
Added improvements to road between Paka and Whare Witi.
Added additional foot/horse path that goes from Rohai and skirts around to the entrance of Paka.
Added additional beach detail work between Paka and Hianga.
Added some improvements to Pekanga Gas Stations.
Added additional footstep sound responses from various objects.
Fixed collisions on various objects.
Fixed a cave volume issue at Karanga.
Fixed an inverted mesh at Pekanga Gas Station south.
Fixed instances that would cause Buggy to get stuck at Paka when jumping onto Beach.
General
Added various restructurings and performance optimizations for pets, this involves taking on improvements from recent major update that updated the base character class.
Added improvements to cat movement, including smoother turning and better animations related to specific speeds.
Added improved pet follow mode, this will now automatically reset and teleport pets to the player when getting stuck, getting too far away or when the player travels to an area where the pet cannot reach.
Added roam mode for pets, which can be triggered via the radial menu. This allows pets to dynamically move around and do various actions in the immediate area of where set.
Added scale adjustment to some pets, notably kittens which have been made 33% larger.
Added new Vista Points to discover.
Added an additional locked item to discover.
Added Easter content, such as 40 hidden egg baskets to find.
Added various achievements for added content.
Added various title rewards for added achievements.
Fixed various issues with audio attenuation based on character collisions.
Fixed various logic issues with pet shouldering.
Fixed an issue where you get stuck floating after lockpicking.
Fixed a potential issue relating to TDR on low end GPU’s relating to lockpicking.
Fixed various claim icon and audio range issues relating to houses.
Fixed an issue relating to culling distance on the Pet collar.
Fixed instances where character could get stuck after rewind or ragdolling.
Fixed instances where wrong camera was reverted after rag-dolling.
Item Store <*>Added Calico and Tortoiseshell cat patterns. This will also be added to the Pet essentials DLC and all users who already own this pack will get them as a free update.
<*>Added 2 Piece Bee outfit for Cats comprising of a bee wings coat and antenna hat. This and other cat clothing in this update will be added to the Capsa Starter Pack DLC and all users who already own this pack will get them as a free update.
<*>Added 2 Piece Shark outfit for Cats comprising of Shark fin coat and Shark Fin hat.
<*>Added 2 Dinosaur outfit for Cats comprising of a dinosaur hat and coat.
<*>Added Glow in Dark Collar for Cats.
<*>Added Propeller Hat for Cats.
<*>Added Pumpkin Hat for Cats.
Update 0.10.27.2
This update is another hotfix to our recent major update, we are expecting further hotfixes over the coming days for any outstanding issues that have been reported. You can read more about our previous update below:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/588120/announcements/detail/1742238045107175039
Patch Notes:
General
Added performance optimization to cinemas.
Fixed first person ragdoll camera issue – this is done by transitioning to third person during the ragdoll state, and reverting if you happen to be using first person.
Fixed some stats not registering, including jumping.
Fixed a performance spike issue relating to youtube playback.
Fixed default appearance of cinema screens which weren’t black.
Fixed an instance where rewind would allow you to get stuck.
Update 0.10.27.1
This update is a hotfix to our recent major update with various fixes to some issues identified. Please let us know if you continue to experience any further issues we are not aware of. You can read more about our previous update below:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/588120/announcements/detail/1742238045107175039
Patch Notes:
General
Added option to disable camera shake when sprinting (under game option > camera)
Fixed an issue with the climbing hold animation in some instances.
Fixed hide/show steamid’s button not working.
Fixed sprint and walk toggle options not working.
Fixed first person camera not persisting to base character.
Fixed an issue relating to vista point cameras.
Update 0.10.27.0
This update is all about new character locomotion and various quality of life improvements to some interaction elements. This means most of the characters animations and movement has been reworked. These changes come with new modes of movement such as crouching, plus the ability to enter a ragdoll state when falling from a height. There is also more fluid animation changes on existing grounded movement states.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1697037141 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1697037966 A further change is that all the Radial menu’s (for vehicles too) have been replaced with more quality menu’s and all outstanding issues with them being fixed.
Notably as a result of some of these changes we’ve reworked how dances and ground sits are handled. Now these all fall under a single category of “Emotes” and you can pick 5 of the various subtypes that you can pin to the radial menu and newly added hotkeys (6-0) to trigger each. These can be changed in the Character customization menu under options tab. The reason for these changes as it frees up UI space and simplifies the triggering of them, it also allows us to add more to the game where there wouldn’t have previously been the UI space to select them (theres two new dances added in this update, but stay tuned for additional emotes being added over future updates and general improvements to the handling of this).
Patch Notes:
Environment
Fixed some floating chairs at Mataara.
Fixed a cave entrance volume sticking through ground near matapari.
Fixed invisible ground collision issue near Kataara.
Fixed invisible ground collision with some homes.
General
Added new locomotion system for characters, this brings additional modes of movement including crouch and ragdoll.
Added new radial menu for all characters and vehicles.
Added new emote system which combines dances, sits and gestures into a single system that can be assigned to hotkeys. Dances and sits can be chosen on the character options menu.
Added two new dances.
Added new system for handling footstep sounds. This is more efficent and better tied into the animations themselves.
Added additonal hotkeys (6-0 by default) to trigger each assigned emote, this can be changed in control options.
Added various performance optimizations to the base character.
Fixed a few issues relating to home and camps.
Update 0.10.26.0
For this update we’ve targeted improvements to the user interface, with a revised main menu layout and various updated UI elements overall. The spawn menu has also been reworked with there being a new page dedicated to just showing the primary area spawn per region (on a second tab is individual spawns for every area as before).
Another notable addition is the adding of both Steam and Discord Rich Presence support. This shares information about your current activity, such as what area you might be exploring. A useful purpose of this is that it allows you to join your friends, so that you can be taken automatically to the current area they are in on the correct server.
We’ve also done some improvements to the Cinema screens so Youtube video playback has more of a vivid/true color and is less washed-out due to environment. There is also expanded character support for in-game chat (allows previous useable characters, e.g. miscellaneous / technical).
Patch Notes:
Environment
Added various texture memory optimizations which will reduce build size by around 1.2 GB.
General
Added rework of main menu, with changed layout and added side widgets that can highlight news, events and anything else worth noting.
Added improvements to online multiplayer menu opening animations to be more consistent with other menus.
Added various tweaks to options menu to improve consistency.
Added hover/unhover effects to most top and bottom buttons.
Added padding adjustments to various menu scroll-bars to allow for more usable screen-space.
Added extended Unicode character support so additional symbols (e.g. miscellaneous and technical characters) can be used in chat.
Added improvements to youtube video playback with a more true color look (less washed out) for cinema screens.
Added Steam enhanced rich presence support. This will display your current activity and other useful information to your friends.
Added Invite (when game is running) and Join functionality for Steam Friend list using the added rich presence.
Added Discord Rich Presence support.
Fixed an issue where media selection couldn’t be changed using F5 or F7 keys in singleplayer.
Fixed a rare issue where some selections of media couldn’t be played in a specific order.
Fixed position of house claims, audio volumes and other elements.
Fixed an issue where home audio volume wasn’t being set correctly.
Fixed an issue where VR would start always if you had a headset plugged in. A reminder that there is the key command ALT+V to toggle VR enabled/disabled while playing.
Update 0.10.25.0
This months update features considerable improvements to the ground vehicles as well as migrating Capsa to the latest Unreal Engine 4.21 (from 4.19). Ground vehicles have been given significant improvements in the area of braking and jumping behaviour, with general optimizations being done to the back-end functions. We’ve also added a new area to the game found on Tautini island which features various hidden items and vehicle related elements to complete.
Patch Notes:
Environment
Added new area featuring farmland and canyon to Tautini island.
Added cinematic graphics option for enabling/disabling the large fishes (such as sharks, manta rays). By default, this is disabled, enabling this will add a moderate CPU cost.
Fixed various landscape LOD related issues.
General
Migrated game to Unreal Engine 4.21 from 4.19.
Added significant changes to the ground vehicle back-end, optimizing game thread performance slightly.
Added new braking and handbraking for ground vehicles.
Added control to toggle high beam headlights for ground vehicles.
Added reworked mass and torque values for ground vehicles. Vehicles should output similar performance but shifted towards a more realistic value range.
Added ground vehicle sounds improvements, you can now hear other players engine rpm change.
Added general improvements to engine shut off of ground vehicles when getting out the vehicle.
Added improved jumping behaviour for ground vehicles.
Added improved collisions for ground vehicles.
Added hidden items to discover in new area.
Added new super jumps and smashable items in new area.
Added new achivements for new area's hidden items and challenges.
Update 0.10.24.1
This update is primarly core improvements and optimizations. One of the new features in this update is the new interaction system that will view on screen the key to press when looking at an interactable object. It also allows you to specify which object to interact with (e.g. different seats) based on what you are looking at. This works in combination with the previous system, so you can still interact with closest object in valid range when not looking at anything specific.
Other changes are some improvements to world lighting at various times of day and various logic improvements to the home photo system which should fix various issues there.
Patch Notes:
Customization
Fixed an issue relating to the Mako Seats.
Environment
Fixed an issue with world brightness, notably effecting wide open spaces and with character shading.
Fixed collision on some concrete pipes.
Fixed some terrain painting near Pitonga.
Removed DFAO from cinematic options as no longer needed (base graphics were improved a while ago).
General
Added new interaction system that allows the player to look at specific interactable objects (e.g. vehicles, seats) and see on-screen the key to press to interact. You can also look directly at the seat you wish to sit in, rather than sit in the closest. This works in combination with the previous system, so even when you don't look directly at an object you can just interact with closest by default for convience.
Added various texture memory optimizations, this will also reduce installation size.
Fixed an issue where right clicking in radial menu would get you stuck.
Fixed an issue where character camera can zoom in too far and get stuck due to a combination of events involving leaving a vehicle and specific saved camera states.
Fixed various issues with the home picture applier.
Fixed an issue relating to the headlights on the scorpion buggy.
Update 0.10.23.0
This update primarily fixes various issues from previous updates. We've also added an additional option for the San Francisco home type, so you can now specify flowers for the outside patio area.
Patch Notes:
Customization
Added flowers to the San Francisco Home type with some options available.
Added improvements to the presets for the Warrior buggy when players first play the game.
Environment
Fixed a delay when using the /tod command at times.
Fixed some climbing hold placements.
Fixed an issue with some cave volumes in various spots.
Fixed some climbing holds not working correctly.
Fixed some cave volumes being too light in appreance.
Fixed an issue with some terrain lods.
Fixed an issue with some spots missing grass.
General
Fixed an issue with some stat tracking.
Update 0.10.22.0
This update we tackled areas on the island of Metarahi with general improvements and addtions. Two areas in particular that got significant improvements are Metairangi and Rohai, with various other areas recieving new hidden locations to discover.
We've also done various performance improvements and included several achivement changes.
Patch Notes:
Environment
Added significant improvements to Matairangi and Rohai area.
Added general improvements to Pitonga roads.
Added various new hidden locations across Metarahi.
Fixed a dock with no collision near Toka.
General
Added several new hidden items across Metarahi and Atahua.
Added new side buttons to chat for common functions. An option to hide these will be in a future update.
Added improvements to loading screens.
Added various performance optimizations.
Added changes to walking achievements with Rambler and Wayfarer being removed. A new achievement ‘Runner’ is being added for traveling 5,000m distance on foot. This will be earned when you run the game for those who already have exceeded this distance.
Added changes to the swimming achievements with long distance swimmer and diver being removed. A new swimmer achievement is set at swim 3,000m.
Added changes to the air time achievements with all milestones being removed as we didn’t feel this fit with current gameplay.
Added changes to the ‘Groom’ achievement which involves applying the horse editor 25 times. For those that have the stats, this will re-earn when you run the game.
Added changes to various hidden item achievement milestones with it being simplified towards Scavenger (1), Hunter (25), Detectorist (100), and Accumulator (250). The reason for this change is consistency plus to remove achievement spam at lower levels.
Added new achievement milestones for smashable items, this follows same convention as the new hidden item milestones.
Added changes to Prop destruction achievements with all current milestones being removed. Instead there are new milestones for 25 (Ruffian), 100 (Hoodlum) and 250 (Bull In A China Shop). We felt this achievement didn’t fit with the current direction of the game as it wasn’t obtainable realistically through normal gameplay.
Added changes to global distance based achievements with all milestones being removed, this part of the change towards more action based achievements, rather than just high stat targets.
Added new picklockable hidden items with achievements for completing each.
Added changes to global time tracking achievements with all milestones being removed. These will still be used for calculating home ownership persistency, but will just no longer feature an actual achievement for reaching miletones.
Added additional picklocking achievements, for successfully picklocking 100 locks.
Update 0.10.21.0
This update is primarily fixes to our recent major update. One notable change we've made is that the server join menu now includes a 'featured' tab. Essentially the servers you see on this tab are the servers automatically chosen with two or more players on them, so during off-peak times there isn't a long list of empty servers and a split population.
We've also added a new pattern for Mako boat to item store, as well as one for the Scorpion buggy.
Patch Notes:
Customization
Added preset color options to the Mako boat simple pattern.
Added improvements to the default outfit for the Mako boat.
Environment
Fixed a dock with no collision near Toka.
General
Added featured servers menu tab to the join menu, for a server to automatically show up in this it has to have more than one person playing on it. All public servers can be found in the public server tab still. This is to stop new players joining empty servers at times when there is several empty server options available.
Added light breathing animation additive to sitting animations (ground and chair).
Fixed an issue with female skin texture during low gpu texture memory setups.
Item Store <*>Added Mako floral pattern.
<*>Added Scorpion star pattern.
For this update we’ve overhauled the pets, taking core improvements done in our recent major locomotion update and using those same back-end systems to power the pets. We’ve also looked at AI improvements, giving all pets the ability to roam around. The standard follow-mode has been enhanced also, which now automatically get pets unstuck should they find themselves unable to reach the player.
