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Patch Notes

• New menu clock SFX added
  
• Custom Game settings added for Starting DNA
  
• Custom Game Settings added for setting the cost of Shreader rounds
  
• Fixed Shredder Rounds purchase just consuming money instead of DNA
  
• Added a 'Playtime' indicator on save slot widgets
  
• Updated the Weapon Range Indicator's visuals to indicate being blocked by 'shortening' the lit up part of the bar to match the block location
  
• Added 'in-garrison' weapon range displays, for units that can shoot out of garrisons.If their 'angle lock' stops them from shooting (i.e. their seat won't let them turn that far), they will not show the range indicator
  
• Weapon Range Indicators now have different colors if representing multiple weapons on a single unit
  
• Weapon range indicators for multi-weapon unit setups now have slight offsets (to indicate the separate weapons and their ranges)
  
• Crashfix added for multi-weapon unit setups for weapon range indicators
  
• Updated the main water tile in the Calypso landscape to use the WaterBodyCollision and not be set to be 'step up on' enabled (hopefully stops units sometimes thinking that's valid land to 'land on' during safety checks?)
  
• Removed laser sights and vision visualization 'cones' for characters
  
• Tracked down a broken reference in the ShopsCanvas that was preventing Civilian Admin sub-buildings from being buildable
  
• Made spacing more consistent on the recruit popup
  
• Updated splash
  

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• Every Saturday, we will take the stage and communicate with you directly. We'll discuss what happened that week, address any issues, changes, etc., and potentially talk about necessary changes for the next week. These will take place on Discord & Youtube.
  

Week Goals:

Patch Notes

• Further Optimizations to the Anim Blueprint based on profiling data
  
• Removed all bodies and blood decals from Treasure Island Levels. (To Prepare for Dynamic placement in the future)
  
• Converted 12,873 assets to removable clutter; on Angel Island and Treasure Island, so far. More conversions to follow.
  
• We now turn off Infection Structures ability to hear and see via a new thread to save performance if no CERC unit is within 20k UU. This should improve the reliability of vision and framerate improvements in mid to late game.
  
• Fixed up some AnimInstance_Base C++ logic in relation to mob units, as well, so Mob Units properly recognize which unit is their owner, instead of being 'unowned' and thus always standing still or walking
  
• Evac load fix to try to stop some civvies from going to the wrong evac pad when loading saves and getting 'stuck'
  
• Melee Expliot for Infected fixed that could cause them to double melee
  
• Rioting system improvements
  
  
  
  • Suppressing a riot via stamina damage (right now, only way to do this is with sandbag shotgun) will now lead to Riot Suppressed for that Civvie Spline: it will not resume rioting until 10 real life minutes pass (accounting for slo-mo, etc.)
    
  • Rioting civvies will harm your reputation in a zone. This stops when riot is suppressed.
    
  • 'Last riot suppression time' (for the 10 min cooldown) saved/loaded
    
  
  
• Fixed CERC solider aimnode being to "responsive" at times
  

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Patch Notes

• Made LERP adjustments for all Calypso world buildings. Also made modifications to the landscape LOD and collision settings to match those of other levels. (eg treasure island)
  
• Updated Animation Systems to be more performant with a C++ base
  
• More Adjustments to Angel Island world building LERPS + Asset conversions to landscape objects
  
• Fixed an issue that broke civilian evacuations and sometimes move orders
  
• Set proper default values in the MasterCharacter_AnimBlueprint so regular civilians aren't always rioting, and so mob meshes don't look like they're 'armed with invisible guns'
  
• Civilian now have stamina stat that non-lethal weapons target
  
• Set up an Ambient Civilian Spline response to stamina hitting zero (from nonlethal weapons), to make rioters disperse
  
• Set up Civilians to no longer flee from hearing nonlethal weapons being fired by making nonlethal weapons say 'RiotGearFired' instead of 'WeaponFired' in their SoundTag
  
• Added ability to target any civilian with a right click
  
• Fixed up several Civilian classes that weren't properly set as 'preset gender' (since now each class is predefined to be male or female, with Preset being false, they were sometimes getting first names of the opposite gender: this should now be fixed)
  
• Special infected changes:
  
• Spitter acid damage decreased from 40 to 20
  
• Spitter acid attack range decreased from 1500 to 850
  
• Unit targeting priority changes:
  
  
  
  • Spitter threat level increased by 15%
    
  • Blow up guy threat level increased by 25%
    
  • Sparrow damage intake buffed by 20% overall from bullets
    
  
  
• Guard towers:
  
  
  
  • Towers damage resistance from bullets increased by 35%
    
  
  
• Fixed a user reported crash that occurred when loading their save file
  
• Additionally, in the Raven subsystem, fixed an issue that caused massive 'multiplication' of Raven nests
  
• Fixed a Raven saving issue
  Result: Loading of saves with 'runaway raven nests' should no longer crash or cause major amounts of 'nest buildup' in a single area (which could also poorly affect perception performance)
  
• Fix for being able to recruit faction civilians before they are allied with you
  

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Patch Notes

• Various behind the scenes Timer checks were spread out over MS's to stop the game thread from being choking out.
  
• UpdateSeenList update: turns off when not needed, instead of always running
  
• Optimized Ambient Civvie Spline visibility by adding threading support
  
• Safety check for World Building LERPs, adjustment of vehicle nav volumes, and conversion of assets into landscapable objects for Angel Island Grids 1-3
  
• Added 'SharedStimulus' logic (akin to SharedVision) - currently only used by Ambient Civilians - to replace the fact that VisibilityTriggers are no longer handled via Perception Result: Ambient Civilians seem to function mostly as before, but perception system has a lot less pressure on it now
  
• Crashfix for potential 'infinite loop' for UnitMovers getting stuck going between devirtualized units spawning+monitoring
  
• Reduced number of sight queries-per-update to 4K (from 8K), to try to reduce CPU strain
  
• Fixed Speakers for vehicles registering as vision stimulus
  
• Set up untargetable Civilian clutter+walls to 'deregister' from Sight once revealed, so they stop taking up queries
  
• Fixed Camo not applying to Merlin.
  
• Fixed Camo not applying to MUTT/MULE.
  

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Patch Notes

• Updated NewBaseVehicle On Death functions to fix mesh swap and material assignment. Added a BP event for post-death effect setup.
  
• Updated On-Death effects of Helicopters to fix Rotors turning into a solid black disc.
  
• New Helicopter Destroyed meshes added for Merlin, Scout Drone, Shawnee & Sparrow
  
• Physics added for the destruction of Helicopters
  
• 3rd person camera placement polish
  
• Minor Improvements to Helicopter Death effects, materials and physics.
  
• Fixed helicopter end and start points that were causing some airborne callins to get stuck out of map on calypso
  
• Set up the Max Ambient Civilians setting to default to 90 (from 180)
  
• And make outdated saves (game options saves made before July 12, 2023) get forced-set to 90 Max Ambient Civvies, with two checks in GameOptionsV2 and one in the GameInstance BP
  
• Set up a 'delay' for perception re-enablement when a unit's shared vision leader is lost
  
• And set up a similar (shorter) delay for UnitMovers to 'reselect' a vision leader, to reduce the amount of pressure from perception sharing shifting
  
• Engine Garbage collection rate increased
  
• Devirtualized units will now queue for movement orders on spawn instead of spamming the CPU all at the same ms. Will increase performance across the board
  Added more Base meshes for Procedural Building generation. Built-in walkways with stairway access.
  
• Spine Turrets now hide under the map and reappear when you enter near a zone they are guarding
  
• Optimizations to Spine Turrets causing massive FPS drops in mid-late games
  
• The amount of vision traces ingame have been increased to 150 across all units.
  
• Fixed Incorrect Camo Tiling in some cases for Merlin, CROWS Turret, and MUTT/MULE.
  

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Patch Notes

• Early fixes for faction logic for Calypso helping command post capture points (for factions beta) to properly shift color for initial capture
  
• Early pass on vehicle camo update to make sure it applies to their weapons
  
• Implemented speculative safety (cooldown on 'FinishTunneling' calls for Leviathan) for this crash: https://discord.com/channels/469412014427602944/1126625896078528522/1126625896078528522
  
• Added some additional PicketSign support (for the future)
  
• Fix to turret updating calls from NewBaseVehicle to prevent overrides of a camo update handler function from 'skipping' turrets (fixes Humvee not updating its turret's camo, for example)
  
• Speculative fix for https://discord.com/channels/448343799140319232/453239225526255626/1127004520006832258
  
• Fixes to localization references for base game camo
  
• And fixed CERC Blue missing a thumbnail (which could cause duplicate entry)
  
• Set up Atlas modules to have camo support
  
• Set up HEMTT to destroy ammo runners instead of kill them, when killed (since death for some reason wasn't working)
  
• Updated some grammar on several tips, redid some old tips, and removed or redesigned some that seemed redundant
  
• Calypso map used to fail to initialize InfectionZone widget on a new file until you moved the camera to another zone. It now is able to initialize immediately (since player cam overlap check was occurring before InfectionZone beginplay 'initialize build location mesh' loop ran)
  
• Quick update to NSF Spawn Nodes to also apply the fix I did to the other maps
  
• Fixed the Weapon.cpp using 'BrassEject' in one place and 'EjectionPort' in another place for shell casing spawning (unified to 'EjectionPort', which is the socket name on the AK)
  
• This seems to have also fixed the 'floating shell ejections' bug
  
• Fix for 'infection zone distance check' failing after earlier build location mesh fix
  
• Fix for spine turret/infected wall construction limits being bypassed
  
• Updated Unit Movers to devirtualize most of their units with perception off, to try to save performance (they'll enter Shared Vision anyway, so shouldn't make a gameplay difference, but hopefully will make a performance improvement)
  

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