Deadly Flare
Update 3
First of all, i wanted to thank you all for your patience, it has been hard times lately,
Important, duo to engine update, old saves will not work with this new update
New Features:
UI Rework and improved interactions
Mutant Nests you can Burn using Molotov and obtain Nest Sample item
New area (POI) - Trader's Camp (you can get the dog from the traders)
Dog Companion you can give four orders:
- GO TO (The dog will move wherever you want, also if pointing at or near an enemy dog will enter attack mode)
- STAY (Dog will stay where he is)
- DEFENSIVE (Dog will auto attack any enemy nearby)
- FOLLOW (Dog will follow you everywhere, but will not attack anyone)
Meat/Fish Drying Rack
Double Barrel Shotgun
Crossbow
Improved AK-47 with sight attachment
Saw Blade Axe
Mace
Molotov (To burn nests)
C4 trap
Driveable Log cart that can auto-pick logs in the area
Stone Crate (stores Ores and Stones)
Ingot Crate (Stores Ingot)
Improved running animations
New animation system (drinking, ignite, eating meat) (more will be added to the system in the upcoming updates)
Bug fixes
PS: Expect hotfixes and improvements in the upcoming days/weeks
Dog Companion - WIP
Right now you can give some orders like
- GO TO (The dog will move wherever you want, also if pointing at or near an enemy dog will enter attack mode)
- STAY (Dog will stay where he is)
- DEFENSIVE (Dog will auto attack any enemy near by)
- FOLLOW (Dog will follow you everywhere but will not attack anyone)
if you have any suggestions related to the dog companion, please post them
Update Progress
- Zombie Nest
they will be spawning randomly around the map and where's a nest there are zombies around the area, to clean an area from zombies you must burn the Nest with fire. If you clean an area of nests only after 10 in game days there will be chance to spawn again in the area on another randomly generated position. This way you will be able to build whereever you want your bases, just make sure to clean nests when they spawn.
- UI improvements and Animations
In the upcoming update there will be a huge improvement to the UI and interactions, as an example you will be able to drag meat or wood to slots, instead of clicking and choosing options.
Also a new animation system have been implemented and it will allow for better FPS animations, such as igniting a campfire or filling up a bottle.
Here's the full list of the upcoming changes for update 3.0:
Features:
Camp Management (Dog companion, NPC companion)
NPC rescue system
Lock pick System (mini-game to open some locked doors or containers with better loot)
Mutant nests (will replace random spawns in POI zones, so if you keep an area without nests you can build safely) they will spawn monsters around area (Can be destroyed with fire)
Driveable Log cart that can auto-pick logs in the area
Bandits can set up traps on road
Bandits can attack your base
New items:
Water Collector
Meat/Fish Drying Rack
Basic furniture (table, chairs)
Torch Mounts
Double Barrel Shotgun
Crossbow
Crowbar
Molotov (To burn nests)
Mines trap
Explosive Barrels traps
Stone Crate
Log Crate
Sticks Crate
Plank Crate
Plastic material
Hotfix Update
- Fixed Car not being able to brake
- Attempt to fix some hiccups when moving through some areas
- Improved the way tree's spawn to prevent hiccups
Hotfix #6
- Fixed a problem with AI navigation that caused Zombies walking through bases
- Fixed bandit camp house not spawning properly
- Now you can configure movement keys and flashlight key
Update 2.5
This last days/weeks were focused on improving some code logic to allow for better fps and memory management specially when building bigger bases
but also some reported bugs have been fixed, and added some visual content like L-shaped Stairs and Wooden Railing
To prevent future updates to download always the full game, this version will upload the full game uncompressed,
this way Steam will compress it by itself and when a new update is released, only the changed files will be downloaded, so future updates size will be lowered.
Changelog:
Improved base building logic to allow for better FPS when building bigger bases
Improved game world creation logic
Fixed memory leaks that would cause big fps drops after playing for some time
Improved Loading/Saving time
Improved item stack system logic
Improved spawn logic for animals and natural resources
Improved container chests/loot save/load logic
Fixed a bug that would prevent guns from shooting or reloading
Fixed Lantern falling through to the floor
Fixed vegetation growing inside base floor
Fixed AK-47 not being allowed to repair
Fixed Small and Big Pendulum trap rotation when loading a game
Fixed Bed not saving position after being moved
Decreased oxygen rate speed
Increased daytime length
Added L Shaped stairs
Added Wooden Railling
Fixed Door breaking without stairs when opening
Hotfix #5
- Fixed falling of terrain bug
- Fixed a bug causing traps to get destroyed instantly with only one zombie
- Fixed Chest colliding with player when moving from place
- Fixed closing inventory with inventory key while eating or doing any other action freeze player
- Increased Saw Durability
- Fixed Cooking Pot not saving position
Hotfix #4
- Fixed "Loading Game World" freezing sometimes and prevent game from start
- Fixed an error related to loading terrains
- Fixed closing craft window in the middle of a craft or anything with a progress bar, you get froze in place and cant do anything
- Changed cloth text to Log on Wood foundation building
- Reduced rain sound
- Changed Steel Pickaxe material recipe, now it requires Iron Ingot
Update #2
Hello everyone, after two and a half weeks of hard work, I can finally present to you the new update.
In this Update the major addition is the rework made to the save system, allowing now to create different save slots and a big improvement on the performance of the saving.
Sadly, duo to the changes to the save system, your old progress can't carry on to this version.
Now it is possible to configure some options such as: Disabling Waves, Change Wave Interval or Disable Aggressive night Zombies.
Here's the list of changes that will come with update 2:
New features
- Reworked save system, now it is possible to have multiple saves
- Added options to remove Waves of zombies, Wave Interval, Night Aggressive Zombies
- Added Sledge Hammer item, it can destroy structures faster and recover materials you used on the process
- Now it is possible to repair guns using the Workbench
- Now it is possible to repair tools using the Anvil
- You can now create electrical cable using the Workbench
- Now there is chance for dropping metal scrap near dumpsters
- Now is possible to build a wall on top of another wall
- You can now move Chest on top of Chest
Improvements
- Reduced RAM usage by 30 / 40% this was causing crashes
- Improved saving performance
- Improve open/close door interactions
- Improved base structure's health/getting damage logic
Changes
- Now every interaction window can be opened and closed with the same key
- Removed Rope from Stone Knife recipe
- Boosted Drops on many areas such as Military Zone, Enemy Camps, Gas Stations, trailer park's etc
- Boosted drops chance for Metal Scrap, Toolbox, Tires, and Gas on police cars
- Boosted drops chance for metal scrap and toolbox on every car
- Increased guns Durability
- It is possible to make cloth using the Workbench
- Reduced rain chance
- Reduced rain sound volume
- Removed jump camera effect
- Reduced Log quantity needed to make planks from 3 to 1
- Reduced Dried animal skin needed to make leather from 3 to 2
- Boosted sprint speed a little
- Re-Enabled MINE POI
- Mp5 now uses .45 ACP ammo
- Guns will not play idle animations when ADS anymore
- Speed up zombies animation
- Reduced enemies shooting damage
- Now zombies will only damage door when closed
- Added a loading text and a progress bar while loading the map
- Added important zones POI's to compass
- Prevent igniting item from taking durability if fire already ignited
- Now meat can spoil if left in the campfire when cooked for long time
- Ammo of the same type can now be combined if the merge fits on the ammo box
- Now bandits can spawn with two more guns (Mp5 and Shotgun)
- Now Bandits have a chance to drop their gun or other items when killed
- Changed Cooking Pot UI layout (inverted window order) this will be completely reworked soon
- Now you can hold attack button and the character will keep attacking
- Boosted Lamps spawn chance on factory
- Now you can move plant bed above Floor and Foundation
- Added normal stone chance near caves
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that would cause hot bar to freeze, and guns to stop working
- Fixed many bugs with windows getting stuck when closing
- Disable getting input from joysticks
- Fixed VSync not working
- Fixed Quality settings not changing vegetation
- Now night zombies won't spawn if an horde is active
- A.I can now go to caves
- Fixed a bug with structures durability
- Fixed a bug when entering a car in crouch state
- Fixed a bug with flashlight durability not updating when swapping with another one
- Added a cap when adding wood to campfire/furnace
- Fixed infinity durability exploit
- Fixed bullets hitting the door when door was open
- Fixed Eating a cucumber does NOT produce seeds
- Fixed Fuse box UI not showing correct information
- Fixed Solar Panel not be able to be crafted on top of foundation/floor
- Fixed Plant bed mistranslated texts
- Fixed Fridge not working properly
- Fixed window wall not being able to build on second floor
- Fixed stairs not being able to be built on top of second floor
- Fixed not being allowed to sleep wave problem
- Fixed collisions between car and some items
- Fixed a bug when connecting a wire that caused hotbar to get locked
- Fixed spear or arrow disappearing from inventory
- Fixed a problem causing player to be unable to unstuck under the map if it was driving a car before
- Fixed FPS dropping when shooting automatic guns
Hotfix #3
- Now the time will only start when a new player leaves the first area, this will allow looting without pressure from the night
- Reduced raining chance
- Removed Pause fade in/out animation, it should be faster now
- Now it is possible to move campfire and furnace to the base floor
- Base roof will protect campfire and furnace fire from extinguish when raining
- Wood Shelter will work properly now
- Added more stone spawners to the map
- Fixed load last save not working
- Nerfed wolf damage
- Night zombies only spawn after day 2
- Now Stone hammer can also create Nails using the Anvil
- Added more durability to Wood Spikes Trap
- Fixed a bug that would make car move along the player when entering and exiting to fast