Been experimenting with scripted environment destruction on the Squirrel Turbine map.
Squirrel Turbine is a mission in The Hive mission zone. It is available already unlocked in multiplayer.
- More room to move. - Barricades moved to sidewalls for player placement instead of pre-placed. - Squirrel vent - More vertical gameplay - Relocated turbine A & B control terminals to new upper level ring
OTHER
- FIX: FPS drops on Summer Squirrels map near houses - Brown squirrel skin updated to olive green - Glider top speed now matches sprint speed - Proving Grounds competition map tweaks (experimental map under Special Events)
v1.07.366 - Hotfixes
- END: Halloween masks now off - FIX: 'sudden death' squirrel attacks - FIX: mega squirrel objective icon - NEW: experimental championship map 'Squirrel Maze' available under Special Event maps
- FIX: gunfire in church - FIX: textures for for radio and tv - FIX: candied squirrel giblet inventory item icon
v1.07.349 - Halloween Hotfix
- map tweaks - fix squirrel death squeek - added more AI art
v1.07.345 - ALL HALLOWS SQUIRREL 2022!
SQUIRRELLOWEEN 2022!
The Reaper Graveyard map has been updated with more kit-bashings for 2022. Have fun, grab those candied squirrel giblets and don't forget to trick or treat the Grim Reaper...!
Squirrel masks activated for Halloween!
THE STARVING AI ARTISTS:
As some of you may have noticed, I have been feeding my lore data to a few AI artists and getting back some crazy and cool images...
The process is pretty neat. I create a 'seed scene' image and feed it into the AI mind. I also add in a few keywords to 'push' the AI brain to look for art resources, techniques, tropes and colors upon which to build the resulting image.
For some fun, I fed the AI a photo of Mötley Crüe with the keywords 'war monger army of squirrels' and it spat out this:
ROFL... I particularly like the squirrel helmet.
So it took me about 10 hours to produce 20 images I actually wanted to use for the loading screen slides.
Here's one of a chipped squirrel with the glider backpack.
There are 19 more in the loading screens. I plan to rework the mission data structures to include mission related images ASAP!
Can't wait to see what comes out of 'dead techies crammed into a ventilation shaft'...
Stay squirrely and have fun!
v1.07.338 - Hotfixes
Quick patch: - FIX: projectile effects replication multiplayer - FIX: Brethren Squirrel crash scenario where 3 brethren stuck close together were discharging in infinite loop - NEW: added material hit sound effects (lots more to do!)
The last one will lead to footstep and bullet hit sounds based on materials such as wood, concrete, water, plastic etc.
1.07.334 - Squirrel Controls & Cosmetics
A lot happening over the last couple of weeks... some much needed house keeping and UI / UX improvements as well as CUSTOMIZABLE CONTROLS.
It has been a long time coming, and I have finally been able to add customizable inputs for almost all actions in the game.
v1.07.334 - Highlights
CONTROLS: set custom keys for actions, weapons, movement and ui!
CONTROLS: enable / disable mouse smoothing!
UI LOBBY: menu and multiplayer chat borders and other tweaks
UI CHARACTER SELECT: skills and suit mods now show under the character description
UI GAME OVER SCREEN: inventory of scavenged items shown
UI GAME OVER SCREEN: objectives completed moved
UI MULTIPLAYER: borders for selections screen content and smaller font
CRASH FIX: the new Brethren plasma squirrel would crash the client after Game Over when all targets were invalid and a turret was making it discharge... code logic fixed.
TURRET TWEAKS: the turrets now use the same projectiles as player weapons.
TURRET TWEAKS: Turret accuracy improved.
MULTIPLAYER - STATE OF THE SQUIRREL
A lot of actor and object replication optimizations and fixes. Dead squirrel trajectory replication is still an issue, but will hopefully have a reliable fix soon!
FIX: in-game and game over mission objective replication
FIX: stuck player spawn fix (collision issue)
FIX: speedy yellow carcass spawn replication fix
Known Issues / working on:
Still rubber banding on large maps and poor connections (LAN is always best). Server 'spikes' happening under certain high intensity squirrel fights with turrets and explosions and mines and fan traps all going off at once.
I am tinkering with priority settings and seeing what else I can do. Further optimization of the squirrel brain should also help take the load off the host machine.
client weapon hit effect replication (should not be to hard to fix)
large map rubber banding (host load - needs dedicated server / smaller maps)
MULTIPLAYER MERCHANTS ARE BACK!
I have enabled hive to access merchants again. There were a few crash bugs before, so hopefully things are working well now! Please report any game breakers in the Steam Forum - it is much appreciated!
CURRENT FOCUS
Map reworks and optimizations (reduce size / more map variety)
More UI improvements and UI work
Multiplayer optimizations and more maps
Multiplayer squirrel advancement (every death levels up squirrel)
Multiplayer 'score sharing' for large squirrel kills and mission completions
Stay squirrely!
v1.07.256 - HOTFIX
Sorry bout the urgent re-patch!
v1.07.256 - Mixed Bag of Squirrels
Tested and added the Desert Squirrels mission zone to the multiplayer map group.
Have been working hard to fix a lot of multi-player client side issues including data replication and smoothing out any rubber-banding.
Desert Squirrels missions now available in multiplayer
Removed quad bikes from multiplayer (causing way too many crashes - will return if able to fix)
Optimized moveable objects in multiplayer
Moveable objects, turrets, explosions, effects and most pickups networking reworked
Multiplayer max squirrels at once is now set at 40
Chipped Squirrel optimization in multiplayer
Player score replication to all player HUD fixed
Multiplayer menu UI tweaks
Current Focus
Saving missions completed in multiplayer to Single Player Campaign completed missions
Saving picked up items in multiplayer missions to Single Player Campaign completed missions
Player merchants, skills, and suit modding in multiplayer
"Live" avatars in multiplayer lobby character select
I am trying to be wary of overwriting anyone's save games because the above is a risky update! Hopefully all goes well and will post an update next week.
