A6 Polaris Teaser:

Changelog:

• Spread_Angle_Degrees gun option replacing Spread_Hip.
  
• Aim_In_Duration gun option. Old hardcoded default was 0.2 seconds. Vanilla guns have been tweaked +/- 50ms on average.
  
• Aim_Duration_Multiplier gun attachment option. Large vanilla magazines reduce aiming speed.
  
• Damage_Falloff_Max_Range option for falloff to finish closer than the total max range.
  
• Plugin option to hide center dot and disable reputation change notification.
  
• Separate messaging and auto-shutdown for update rollbacks.
  
• Is_Music bool option for effect asset used in ambiance volumes.
  
• Support for warning if there is a large discrepancy between server listing and actual in-game ping.
  

• Crosshair follows recoil similar to laser and better represents actual spread.
  
• Prevent joining servers without GSLT over the internet. LAN servers are unaffected.
  
• Trees can override their appearance on the 2D chart similar to objects.
  
• Item condition supports comparison other than >=.
  
• Improved how viewmodel camera is automatically aligned with gun sights.
  
• Pressing enter in IP field shows loopback/LAN info, and with a ":port" moves port to the port field.
  

• Gun spread is finally circular rather than square.
  
• Clear volume selection when changing tool.
  
• Selecting quests in quest list when a quest asset was missing.
  
• Foliage tool performance while not painting with large brush.
  
• Potential nodes editor bug with IMGUI mode.
  
• Volume solid visualization visible in satellite capture.
  
• Collision at rear of destroyed ural object.
  
• Alignment of volumes tab and objects list.
  
• Not timing out when server did not respond to join request.
  

Patch #1:

• Crosshair not fading out when opening menus.
  
• Animator component used by mods/plugins re-enabled.
  
• Main menu stuck when resolving invalid hostname.
  

Server Changes:

Changelog:

• All effect, dialogue, quest, and vendor references support guids.
  
• Asphyxiating status icon while in non-breathable area.
  
• Max Boss Zombies per-navmesh option.
  
• Per-dialogue-message option to change NPC face.
  

• Removed devkit editor and its related unused systems.
  
• Moved decal visibility into regular editor visibility tab.
  
• Partially upgraded Nodes editor similar to Volumes and re-categorized devkit spawnpoint as node.
  
• Moved devkit object material overrides into Objects editor.
  
• Item Equip sound is redirectable with EquipAudioClip option.
  
• Server logs when client requests graceful disconnect.
  
• Slightly improved "spy" capture performance.
  

• Several exploits to remove grass and terrain materials.
  
• Twised start of road mesh with "ignore terrain" enabled.
  
• Another bug with planar reflections with multiple water volumes.
  
• Leaking foliage cuts when floors were destroyed.
  
• Pressing rotate item while not dragging item still playing audio.
  
• Lockpicks, tires, and batteries being removed if another player enters vehicle while using.
  
• Round scale to -1 or +1 if nearly equal to help reduce slight misalignments between objects.
  
• Round rotation angles if nearly axis aligned to help reduce slight misalignments between objects. For example 89.99 rounds to 90.
  
• Adjustments to Kuwait letterman shoes, bubble pipe, and mask. [Thanks Animatic!]
  

Notes:

Changelog:

• Oxygen volumes for deep caves or special underwater plants.
  
• Accepted Demon of Greed, Pirate Captain, and Demon Hunter outfits from the Curated Workshop.
  

• Raised minimum Grass quality from Off to Low.
  
• Grass is now streamed from a worker thread which reduces the CPU performance impact.
  
• Improved performance of screenshot capture with supersampling enabled.
  
• Improved logging of kicks for transport failure.
  

• Sentry gun shooting while paused.
  
• Lobby screen breaking if plugin set description to invalid base64 string.
  

32-bit Windows (again):

Changelog:

• Reduced intensity of camera flinch from damage by 50%.
  
• Increased explosion camera shake recovery speed by around 20%.
  
• Reduced radius of explosion camera shake for most effects by around 50%.
  
• Reduced screenshot player tagging distance to 64 meters.
  
• Improved logging of kicks for bad connection.
  
• Third-person-only servers have the third-person recoil and spread penalty disabled.
  

• Foliage manager is added to level if missing when bake is clicked.
  
• Startup stuck if preferences file is read-only.
  
• Unable to join servers in third-person-only mode.
  
• Hockey mask not equipable in hands.
  
• Catch localization string format exceptions.
  
• Disabled cultist outfit textures CPU read/write.
  
• Outline glow appearing over laser dot.
  
• Housing item mouse wheel input not blocked by UI.
  
• Not saving options/graphics/controls in level editor.
  
• Manually installed Maps missing from per-server asset list.
  
• Accumulating error when copy/pasting transform.
  

Changelog:

• Directional flinch when damaged.
  
• Camera shake from nearby explosions.
  
• Command-line "-FallbackGizmos" option to use 3D line renderers instead.
  
• InventoryAudio option for drag/drop item sounds.
  
• Procedurally_Animate_Inertia bool option for equipable items.
  
• Zoom_Using_Eyes bool option for gun sights.
  
• Equipable_Movement_Speed_Multiplier option for equipable items and gun attachments.
  
• Aiming_Movement_Speed_Multiplier and Aiming_Recoil_Multiplier options for guns and gun attachments.
  
• Attack_Interval option for animals (measured in seconds).
  
• Support for server plugin setting item hotkeys.
  
• Support for server plugin enabling voice chat while dead.
  
• Command-line "-FrameRateLimit" option which overrides the menu option.
  
• Command-line "-FarClipDistance" option for players who want to try reducing max draw distance below minimum.
  

• Recoil and spread are doubled while using third-person perspective.
  
• Improved tactical laser visibility through scopes.
  
• Increased default text field length from 16 to 100.
  
• Reduced bullet casing bounce volume.
  
• Separated water surface visibility in editor from volume visibility option.
  
• Animal damage considers player armor.
  
• Include workshop file name in asset mismatch kick message if different.
  

• Server description corruption with line break inside multi-byte codepoint.
  
• Precision loss when repeatedly dragging transform back and forth.
  
• Crafted guns with state transfer will use default firemode.
  
• White surface when water volume loads with planar reflection disabled.
  
• Using fertilizer on fully-grown crops.
  
• Washington note showing empty line of text.
  

Recoil Changes:

Changelog:

• Ability to slightly raise/lower floor placement using mouse scroll wheel.
  
• Cartography editor volume to mark chart/GPS area for non-square maps.
  
• Sphere shape option for most editor volume types.
  
• Newer volume editor equivalents for older volume-style editor nodes.
  
• Support for multiple teleporter exits per entrance in which case a random exit is chosen.
  
• Visibility button to volume type buttons in volumes editor.
  
• WearAudio option for clothing items.
  
• PlacementPreviewPrefab option for barricades and structures.
  
• Is_Visible_In_Vendor_Menu option for currency items to hide them from vendor currency list.
  
• InspectAudioDef, ImpactAudioDef, and WearAudio can now also reference AudioClip, not just OneShotAudioDefinition assets.
  

• Client adjusts ID-to-asset lookup per-server to reduce multiplayer asset conflict issues.
  
• Pillars can be rotated in 30 degree increments, and hold shift to rotate counter-clockwise.
  
• Only screenshots without HUD visible are used on the loading screen.
  
• Pick axe and jackhammer can damage regular objects and trees.
  
• Minor engine patch update from 36f1 to 38f1.
  

• Loading screen music not playing while in server queue.
  
• Do not use screenshots greater than 10 MB on the loading screen.
  
• Negative scaling not rotating objects when necessary.
  
• Sprint toggle input affecting steady aim input.
  
• Steam Networking debug output crash. [Thanks DiFFoZ!]
  
• Object and vehicle overrides fallback to client prefab if server prefab does not exist.
  
• Clouds not visible with OpenGL.
  

Multiplayer Workshop File Order:

Changelog:

• Walls and pillars can be snapped above and below existing walls.
  
• "The Bridge Where It Rains" music by staswalle on Washington loading screen.
  
• Screenshot resolution multiplier and supersampling option. For example supersampling with a 4x multiplier at 1920x1080 will produce a 15360x8640 screenshot downsampled to 7680x4320.*
  
• New editor for "devkit" volumes in the regular level editor.
  
• Box move (double-press Q) and box resize (double-press R) transform tool modes.
  
• Level editor option to disable underwater effects.
  
• Customizable acceleration, deceleration and max walk speed for physics materials.
  
• Enable_Participant_Scaling option for horde beacon per-item. Defaults to true.
  
• InspectAudioDef option for equippable items.
  
• OnGameUpdateDetected event for plugins.
  
• Is_Full_Moon NPC condition.
  

• Roofs no longer require pillars for placement.
  
• Improved precision of triangle floor overlap test by approximating with six boxes rather than three. This helps reduce false "blocked by" warnings.
  
• Hide item action if quest conditions are not met.
  
• Clip.prefab is no longer necessary for trees and objects.
  
• Barrels can override muzzle flash position with "Muzzle" transform.
  
• Destructible objects can use tree blade ID.
  
• Tweaked the placement of blue trash bags at the Seattle construction site dumpster to reduce clipping and make them easier to safely land on.
  
• Adjusted chart colors of all vanilla maps, as well as how PEI boulders, Washington boulders, and Russia quest lasers appear on charts.
  
• Updated icons, preview images, loading screens, charts, and satellite views of all vanilla maps.
  
• Unified barricade/structure editor, regular objects editor, and volumes editor transform handles.
  
• Game now handles Steam overlay screenshot requests.
  
• Screenshots no longer overwrite each other and can appear on the startup loading screen.
  

• Vanilla pre-placed blood decals are not loaded if blood splatters are disabled.
  
• Human animation template leg roll.
  
• Potential problem with per-level version kick, log when unable to parse version.
  
• Housing ramp blocking pillar and wall placement two floors below.
  
• Holiday items visible in stylized chart capture.
  
• Effect spawn position when forageable bushes are destroyed.
  
• Roads that should have been curved on Germany.
  
• Spot where the road was partially covered by the terrain on Germany.
  
• All of the road guardrails on the Germany map to face inwards rather than outwards.
  
• Removed some boulders that were located under the map terrain on Russia.
  
• Incorrect materials being used out-of-bounds on Russia.
  
• Typo for the ragdroll removal tool where the item name was misspelled.
  
• Icon dimensions of many cosmetics to improve the quality of their high-res icons.
  

Downward Building:

Volumes Editor:

The Bridge Where It Rains:

Notes:

• Floors and pillars can be snapped to floating walls.
  
• Requires_Pillars option for custom walls.
  

• Show name of item blocking housing placement.
  
• Clip.prefab is no longer necessary for barricades or vehicles.
  

• NPC does not look around while under arrest or surrendering.
  
• Line wrapping names in main menu character list.
  
• Protect against vehicle dropping scrap items multiple times.
  
• Vehicle bumper collisions ignore anything attached to vehicle.
  
• Climbing ladders angled into thin walls.
  
• Startup issues when IO permission to log file is blocked.
  
• Placement blocked by floating walls.
  
• Menu stuck when launching game through Join Friend button.
  

8th Anniversary on Steam:

Changelog:

• Housing Planner tool for quickly placing structures. [ID 1764]
  
• Notification on main menu when an update is available.
  
• Server option to shutdown for auto-detected game updates. (Finally, eh?)
  
• Server option to shutdown for scheduled maintenance at a fixed time.
  
• Grow_SpawnTable (guid) option for crops.
  
• Copy to Clipboard button for error message.
  
• Option to make terrain holes visible for finding gaps.
  
• Terrain material icon in asset list.
  

• Housing item placement is easier now that connections betweem then are tracked.
  
• Roof placement requires two pillars rather than a pillar at each corner.
  
• Shooting/attacking stops clientside if no inbound traffic has been received for 2 seconds.
  
• Updated barricade placement on vehicle to use netids rather than index.
  
• Temporarily buffed brick-material housing items from 800 to 1650 HP.
  

• Many exploits for stacking housing items in the same slot.
  
• Explosion damage respects zombie armor.
  
• Terrain editor per-"pixel" smoothing mode near edges.
  
• Whitespace-only player names with name filter disabled.
  
• Reverted post processing version to work around TAA transparent field of view bug.
  
• Some terrain hole gaps on Germany.
  
• Wrong material on circular table barricade LOD1.
  

Housing Planner:

Server Auto Restart:

Windows 32-bit Deprecation:

Biohazard Zombie Plush:

Base Game Changelog:

• "Projection Ratio Coefficient" option for "Focal Length" sensitivity scaling.
  
• Terrain editor hotkeys to switch active tab.
  

• Updated Unity from 2019.4.38f1 to 2020.3.34f1.
  
• Always load english text as fallback.
  
• Vanilla ban command also bans player HWID.
  

• Replaced placeholder equipment rate limit fix by converting item hash to the newer asset integrity system.
  
• Boombox volume slider triggering rate limit kick.
  
• Explain kick when server per-platform assetbundle hash is out of date.
  
• Vertical alignment of font color setting.
  
• Text field character limit in IMGUI mode.
  

Patch #1:

Patch #2: