UPCOMING UPDATE: CAR RADIO AND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
We’re in the final stage of testing our upcoming patch that will include a new multi-channel car radio feature that will allow players to voice chat with each other from car to car.
We’re also implementing community guidelines that all players will see the first time they launch OUTBRK and have to accept it in order to play the game. This code of conduct outlines general online rules surrounding text chat, voice chat and general behavior. Breaking the community guidelines might result in different disciplinary actions such as getting prevented from using text and voice chat, or playing in multiplayer games for a limited time.
PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL UPDATE
Right after this update goes live, we jump right back to work into preparing to finally release our biggest update to our volumetric weather since launch. This will include not only a notable improvement on performance, but also significant improvements on the visuals of the rain shafts, tornado blending, anti-aliasing, fog and lighting all around the environment. This is a massive one and we’re very excited about it!
Here are few teasers, captured in editor, about what to come:
NEW UNIQUE CARS
We're not done with cool news. Here are some cars that are currently under development, in partnership with the car owners and our 3d modelers.
First of all, the PredaTOR from Prairie Storm Chasers https://prairiechasers.com/vehicles
And we're very pleased to announce that we're bringing the TIV2 (https://stormofpassion.com/) to OUTBRK! The TIV team sent us a large amount of reference pictures and we're building the car as close to the reference material as possible. Here is a work in progress picture.
NEXT STEPS
With the progress made on the clouds and performances by our VFX team, they are now ready to start working on upgrading our tornado technology to bring bigger and more realistic tornadoes to OUTBRK.
On the vegetation update side, we keep progressing on technical tasks to accelerate the deployment of the new grass and trees while improving rendering performance. We also hired a freelance vegetation modeler to create the broken version of all those new trees to have a more realistic depiction of damaged vegetation after tornado damage.
You can follow our progress on all our tasks here: https://trello.com/b/nsBmMfIa/outbrk-game
That's all for this development update ! Thanks for all your support, consider leaving a review on the steam store to reach more potential future chasers ! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1107320/OUTBRK/
Till next time,
-The OUTBRK Team
