Jaws of Extinction – Private Alpha v.0.1.2

• Fixed loading from a save-game causing duplicate items from players inventory to appear on the floor in a circle
  
• Significant optimisation on projectile spawning
  
• Fixed placeable building hologram not disappearing after closing the building menu
  
• Building UI now can be closed with right-click (you do not have to use ‘B’ to leave the menu)
  
• Fixed issue where placeable items could not be placed in player built buildings
  
• Removed prison overalls from possible loot spawns
  
• Slightly increased probability of weapons spawning as loot
  
• Player vitals now save and load correctly
  
• Fixed circumstance where weapons would not properly appear in the character’s hand when picking one up after loading a save-game
  
• Fixed reinitialisation of weapons already in the character’s inventory/hands when loading a save-game
  
• Player built structures can now be saved and loaded
  
• Fixed issue where game would crash when exiting the program from the in-game menu
  
• Added pop-up tutorial panels which appear on first visit to various UI menus (e.g. Inventory, Building Menu, etc.)
  
• Added ‘Help’ entries for Consuming Items, Placing Items, Recycling Items, Dropping Items, Equipping Clothing / Armour / Tools / Weapons, Navigating Building Menu, Placing Building Parts, Reinforcing and Removing building pieces
  

• Fixed problem where water (e.g. the ocean) appear invisible if graphics settings were set to medium or lower
  
• Fixed restroom building collisions
  
• Fixed floating foliage near Nadir farm-house
  
• Removed various trees in road behind Nadir farm-house
  
• Adjusted auto-exposure rate. Effect is notable when entering and leaving buildings
  
• Adjusted building interior shaders to improve interior illumination
  
• Added holiday homes area to map
  
• Added new cliff rocks near Hanouten
  
• Added new cliff rocks around Lockcrest
  
• Updated appearance of sand to look wet around beaches
  

Jaws of Extinction – Private Alpha v.0.1.1

• Updated weather probabilities, weather changes will be less frequent
  
• Fixed ‘lootable glow’ on non-lootable items in barns
  
• Fixed ‘lootable glow’ not showing on some containers/items when it should
  
• Fixed issue where building snapping points would obscure each other, making it difficult to place
• building parts
  
• Fixed issue where player built doors could not be opened
  
• Fixed issue where destroying a doorframe with a door did not destroy the door with it
  
• Fixed situation where snapping point above foundation was offset in some circumstances
  
• Fixed situation where the destroy tool would be unable to destroy a player built door if one had
• already been destroyed
  
• Improved overall usability of the building destroy tool
  
• Campfire now emits light
  
• Fixed visuals on campfire. Now properly showing shaders for ‘unused’, ‘burning’, burnt’
  
• Temporarily removed chrome weapons to prevent bug where weapon does not appear in hands or inventory
  
• Temporarily removed MP5, UMP and P90 sub-machine guns pending improvements to SMGs
  
• Game now starts at 7.00am instead of 16.00pm in game time
  
  

• Fixed bug causing wanderers to be invincible
  
• Removed Wanderers at Saul’s farm. Location now a habitat for deer
  

• Improved Ambient Occlusion control on trees
  
• Cleanup and improved visuals around beach spawn areas
  
• Various reorganisation and density changes of small rocks on beach
  
• Replaced various rock assets for improved performance
  
• Improved foliage density around Marburgh
  
• Increased number of lootable items in Marburgh (trash cans, garbage bags, scrap, etc)
  
• Fixed floating garages in Marburgh
  
• Additional pathways and driveways leading to all houses in Marburgh and Hanouten
  
• Increased foliage density around warehouses North of Hanouten
  
• Fixed fence around warehouses North of Hanouten
  
• Fixed ocean wave breakers so that they now connect with the ground
  
• Added additional harvestable rocks located across entire map (can be mined with pickaxe)
  
• Added additional non-harvestable rocks across entire map
  
• Adjusted decorative trees around housing areas
  
• Replaced placeholder trucks with alternatives which have improved textures
  
• Adjusted height position of all River Birch to prevent floating trees
  
• Removed unintended grass on all roads
  
• Adjusted landscape sculpting around rivers
  
• Added ‘KYE Development Fence’ around Saul’s farm for future development
  
• Removed runway from old ‘cropduster’ airfield
  
• Improved ‘cropduster’ airfield area, now ready for future development
  
• Improved office block area within Marburgh
  
• Train bridge near Lockcrest Dam now has collision
  
• Train bridge near Lockcrest Dam now has loot spawns
  
• Added train carriages with loot spawns along train track
  
• Removed police station temporarily pending updates to collision
  
• Fixed Lockcrest Dam collisions
  
• Replaced placeholder safezone wall with new assets and a gate
  

• Building snapping
  
• Interactive object saving (such as building placements)
  
• Performance dips on AI spawns
  
• Overall world performance
  

• Notable networking improvements. Clients joining a host should find their movement is much smoother
  
  
• Wanderers no longer drop to the deck and flop like a fish. An issue where wanderers would continue to run their movement animations while ragdolled on the floor has been fixed.