New Content and Features

Changes

• We have decreased the Stamina required to perform a dodge/roll. You can roll four times in a row now and have a smaller delay before Stamina regeneration starts.
• The player will now get up faster after being knocked down to avoid follow-up attacks that would hit him otherwise. In the same vein, player control over the character during the get-up animation is also given tot he player earlier.
• Fixed multiple issues where dodging while locked on a monster would make the player roll towards another monster.
• Fixed and revised the conditions such as max and min range where auto-lock could engage and disengage.
• Fixed the orientation of the player when auto-locked and after disengaging from an enemy.
• Revised monsters‘ leash distances to the way they should be such as suiciding Spitters following you longer and larger monsters breaking their leashes sooner.
• Spitters now have a better telegraph and shorter invulnerability period when engaging their suicide mode, making them easier to avoid. This makes the Spitter less deadly by allowing a single attack in a chain to go through before detonating them on a hit. This way, you can react more efficiently with a dodge or a counter.
• Spitters projectiles are no longer homing to the player characters, their hitboxes and damage rates have been rebalanced.
• We implemented an audio cue to warn the player that he is out of Stamina in addition to the visual effects.
• Revised monster placement in the world for a better balance between challenge and reward.
• Fixed issues where players using the mouse and keyboard would suffer from artificial lags resulting in weird camera and/or character movement making fights harder.
• Revised Armor benefits provided crafted armor for players and followers to make them more resilient
• Optimized Physics code and other optimizations
• We implemented new physics code in addition to other optimizations to bring up the overall game performance. Optimizations will be ongoing targeting the best possible balance between gameplay and visual quality, prioritizing gameplay.
• With the new physics code, there is less strain on the CPU for calculations, and it helps avoid most „getting stuck“ issues on the player character.
• We have also optimized to use the GPU resources more efficiently. Multiple areas of the visual side of the game such as lighting, models, etc. have received optimizations.

BUG FIXES and Minor changes:

• Fixed various issues where weather conditions and game mood weren’t reset appropriately in different cases of deaths.
• Fixed multiple crash issues.
• We have fixed various bugs regarding in our UI for better usability and polish.
• We have updated some UI icons for better legibility.
• Overall quality and stability pass on game events.
• Many points of interests have been re-balanced in regards to location, loot, and stability.
• The Inner Vision feature received multiple stability fixes, such as destroying the outlines properly, a range rebalancing, color-coding review, etc.
• Saving checkpoints have received stability fixes.
• Polished and revised navigation paths for followers in event locations.
• Fixed many instances of invisible monsters.
• Fixed many cases of hero or followers clipping or falling through the world.
• Fixed many cases in which hero could get stuck between objects.
• Fixed many instances of wrong sled placement.
• Revised the tutorial fight difficulty by lowering exploding corruption bulb radius, damage, and the aggressiveness of the first monster.
• Fixed multiple instances of HUD messages displaying too fast in order.
• Fixed many instances in the UI where the mouse or the gamepad would lose focus.
• Fixed issues with the tornado physics, and other various bugs in relation tot he player dying in a tornado.
• Fixed many instances where calling the sled would result in erratic behavior.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• In rare cases, Rhys may glitch. If you see his corpse in your camp’s social area, resurrect him. He will display some erratic behavior, and may not correctly join your expedition when told to do so. You can work around this issue by sending him off to work manually by assigning a gathering task to him via the Overview menu. Once you dismiss him and add him in your expedition, he should behave normally.
• The game crashes after changing the Playback Devices settings while the game is running in the background.
• The character may remain stuck inside the train tracks after crashing the sled into the Crusher.
• Monsters from Jin's recruitment event may be missing in the Forestland Resort but does not prevent the event from being completed.
• In rare cases where the character may fall in front of the sled, the character can be placed outside of the playable area when crashing the sled against the tunnel walls in rare cases.
• A crash occurs on a new game after reaching the Game Over screen while overview tab is open
• A follower is missing when restarting the game immediately after recruiting him.
• The player character is misaligned during the (blue) Ice Crusher finisher.
• In particular hardware configurations, having too many buildings may cause an FPS drop.
• In rare cases, the game may crash after the Wolf recruitment scene in the Flats outpost.
• In rare cases, a lens flare may remain after the hero dies during totem cleansing.
• If the player hard quits the game via ALT-F4 in between dialogs during events, last visible event state will not be saved. Always see the saving icon before quitting.
• The game crashes in RX 480 OC video card machines, especially using older drivers. After updating the drivers, the crash is 10% likely to happen.