The Living Remain
Quick Update
We're excited to announce that we're getting closer to completion and are in the final stages of development. We're now looking for a few testers who own an Index headset and knuckles controllers, as well as a Windows Mixed Reality headset. If you're interested in helping us test the update, please reach out to us on Discord (https://discord.gg/g7vYGudHF3).
We're happy to report that we've overcome most of the technical hurdles we've faced and can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for your patience and support, and stay tuned for further updates
Current Progress
As we mentioned, it will be a major update that will bring full Index controller support, a lot of quality of life changes to the game, new features, improved physics, and an upgraded interaction system.
It has been taking a bit to get it all done, we've had to dig deep into various systems within the game and pretty much gut them and replace them with the new systems. We are so far making good progress, but because it such a fundamental change to the game, it takes time...a lot of time. We knew this going into this change that it would be a lot of work (actually a ton of re-work!), but we want to continue to develop the game and bring more content. This sets us up to do that as it will allow us to have a much more solid foundation to move forward with.
Below is a list of things that will be included:
- Official Index Support - This will include full finger tracking for Index players.`
- Official Windows Mixed Reality Support - We will need some testers at some point as we don't have a WMR headset...so let us know if you are willing to do some testing once we get completed.
- Improved interaction with the world - We have completely redesigned the interaction system to allow more grips to be placed on items, which will give better and more natural looking grips to existing items. In addition, we have added physics based grips, which will allow a much more fined grain grab for larger objects via dynamic hand/finger posing (similar to Long Echo).
- We have also made a lot more things able to be picked up and manipulated. This includes boxes and other items that can be picked up with two hands that were previous moveable, but not able to be picked up.
- Added ability to play seated - There have been a few players that would rather play sitting down and some recent games released support this. We've been working on adding this into the game.
- Exploring adding a crouch button - Were not to sure how this would affect the game, but we are experimenting with it.
- Improved weapon handling - You will now have the ability to grab the pistol gun slide in multiple places.`This was a pain point for many players, so we added it as it added to realism.
- Quality of life enhancements-
- Improved leaning over objects. You can now lean over lower objects and continue to use the thumb stick to back away from it.
- Players will no longer get stuck in the world geometry. We have worked on a great solution for this, and it will no longer be an `issue
- We have gotten the weapons grabs to be much more reliable so grabbing the gun slides, will now always use the grab button. We are removing the option for using the trigger.
- Improved distance grab. Picking up objects are now easier and its selection scope more accurate.
- Interacting with objects are now much more forgiving and should provide a much better experience.
- Rework of grab indicators. We are working on making them much less intrusive.
- Improved leaning over objects. You can now lean over lower objects and continue to use the thumb stick to back away from it.
- Bug fixes - There are too many to list here but some include:
- Some users having issues not being able to get into the game due to the black screen issue
- Levers not working under certain circumstances
- Two handed guns sometimes not able to go into backpack
- Gun slides not properly cocking under certain circumstances
- Some users having issues not being able to get into the game due to the black screen issue
By the way, this list above is some of the things we are adding. It's not a complete list...
Thanks for your continued support, we're excited to get this update completed as soon as possible. It's still a bit ways off. We'll keep you posted with another update soon!
Join our Discord for additional information and if you have any suggestions/ideas you want to share with us.
Five Finger Studios
Major Update Coming
Hope you’re enjoying your 4th of July weekend! We have been pretty quiet recently and for a good reason. We have had quite a few changes in the last couple of weeks. If you don’t know already, we are a husband and wife dev team…and my partner/wife just gave birth to our son a couple of weeks ago. So a new addition to the team!
With that said, we have been quite busy. But very excited to also let you all know that we are still hard at work and working on a major update! And yes, this will include full Index Controllers support with finger tracking. We will also include a HUGE amount of refinements and fixes. Too many to list here...but over the course of the next few weeks, we will be giving more information. This update will take a bit of time, and we are committed to make it happen as soon as we can.
As always, thank you for your understanding and continued support!
Steve & Pamela
Update 3: Slight CPU increase and Bug Fixes
Players should see a slight performance increase. This is especially noticable on computers that have slower CPU's.
Enhancement
<*> Updated M9 textures
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with the undead going through closed doors in various locations
- Fixed issue with first rush not completing under certain instances
- Fixed issue with player able to walk into cabinets in the main factory level
- Fixed grab indicator for some items in suburb level
- Fixed issue with Knife attachment appearing in early level
- Fixed audio issue with conveyor belts
Update 2 : Black screen when loading bug Fixed
Along with that the below issues have also been resolved.
Additional Fixes
Fixed locker room lockers to better blend in with the environment.
Increased zombie sounds during outside area before sewer.
Fixed various occlusion issues that were causing some objects to disappear in the main factory
Fixed some map out of bounds issues
Two Enhancements, Bug Fixes, and much Smaller Updates (data wise) going forward
This weeks update brings a couple of improvements and some bug fixes. The red dot scopes now behave as they should and adjust based on the angle at which they are viewed.
We also added an adjustment as requested by the community for Snap Turning. First, we have made it more responsive. Secondly, it's now possible to control the blink duration or shut it off completely.
Also, going forward, the updates will be much smaller data wise. We made adjustments to how the game is built to accommodate people with slower/data capped internet.
Enhancements
- Red dot scopes now behave correctly
- Option to adjust snap turn blink duration
Bug fixes
- Some zombies not dying when shot in head
- Glass rendering under certain conditions
- Minor Map issues in both the suburbs and smoke stack area
- Fixed tree animation in suburbs
Two Enhancements and Various Bug Fixes
We also added an adjustment as requested by the community for Snap Turning. First, we have made it more responsive. Secondly, its now possible to control the blink duration or shut it off completely.
Enhancements
- Red dot scopes now behave correctly
- Option to adjust snap turn blink duration
Bug fixes
- Some zombies not dying when shot in head
- Glass rendering under certain conditions
- Minor Map issues in both the suburbs and smoke stack area
- Fixed tree animation in suburbs
Update 1: Gun Angle
We have also added an option to turn on dynamic shadows for the players flashlight. It's located in the options menu for shadows. Its only recommended for players with higher end GPU's, but anyone with a GTX 2080/ equivalent or higher should be able to run it with no issues.
New Features
Added: Option to change Pistol grip angle
Added: Option for flashlight dynamic shadows on higher end GPUs
Bug Fixes
Fixed: Map fixes for Suburb
Fixed: Special items not shown as found in Main Menu
Fixed: Achievement for finding special items not resetting during second play through
Fixed: Knife no longer triggers Gunsmith achievement
Fixed: Issue when players went back to scissor lift
Changes
Changed: loading scene image
Changed: Upscaled DirtLot Skybox
Hotfix 2- Resolved Game Start Up Issue
This update fixes the game not launching on start up for some players. If you have previously set your game over to one of the Beta branches, you can now opt out of the Beta to receive this update as its now safe to do so.
Additional Bug fix:
- Fixed - Player hands not snapping back to controller when grabbing certain items
Many thanks to the community for helping us to get to the root cause of these issues.
Now that these critical issues have been fixed, we are working on a highly requested feature, so stay tuned for this next announcement!
Hotfix- Walkie Talkie Bug
We have tracked down the issue to players in certain regions being affected by the Windows language settings on their PC. This patch directly fixes that issue and many others caused by it.
A big shout out to LFulciFan and other players who brought this issue to our attention, you were all instrumental in helping us track it down.