PATCH 0.1 RELEASE
On October 18, we released our biggest technical update to date, the release of the Group Chase and the permanent fix of the memory leak caused by the fix of the infamous lag spike that was present during the first few months of early access. We strongly encourage you to read our patch notes, including our long technical explanation of how we fixed the lag spike and memory management in OUTBRK here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1107320/view/4704662705448429833?l=english
Shortly after, we released an additional hotfix patch to fix a couple of issues found by our community:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1107320/view/4535779621898170404?l=english
SHORTER LOBBY CODES ARE COMING
One of the feedback about the Group Chase feature is that party invite codes are too long to share, so we’re working on a system to generate shorter invite codes. Here is a sample of what new invite codes will look like: thunder-wedge-coast-temperate-99
NEW CAR AND ACCESSORIES
The new car, the Solstice, has been fully integrated in the game and will be in an upcoming content patch deployed soon.
A whole lot of new car accessories will also be part of this content update. A new hail guard, new rally lights and a very anticipated customisation option; wheel rims. The rims are currently cosmetics only, we’re investigating which kind of impact, if any, we want them to have in-game.
PASSENGER PRINCESS
Our next big gameplay feature coming up is the ability to be multiple players in the same car, commonly called the “passenger princess” feature. The task is progressing well and can be tracked on Trello here : https://trello.com/c/nYSdo4pZ/1214-passenger-princess-feature
Here is a first screenshot of two players in the same car, replicated over network (obviously work in progress).
PROGRESS ON TERRAIN AND VEGETATION
This month we’ve been working on improving the look of our landscape, terrain, grass, etc. This is a very long task and we still have a lot of work to do, but here is some screenshot of the progress so far (All screenshots taken in editor, not in-game, not final).
Landscape Grass
Forest Floor (No trees)
Arid Landscape (3 textures blend, no grass yet)
Coniferous Forest (3 textures blend, no grass yet, no trees yet)
Red Maple Tree (In vegetation modeling software, no representative of final product)
Follow the progress on the trello card here: https://trello.com/c/MQewzcXc/1219-improve-terrain-and-vegetation-visual-look
THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM IS GROWING
We reached a fantastic milestone that highlights the success of the release of the game; we hired our first full time programmer to join the OUTBRK development team, Mathieu (Hice) ! Mathieu has been working for us for 3 months as a 3rd party developer already and has done the keybind menu refactor and support on the memory leak fix for 0.1. He is also in charge of the passenger princess feature since the start of development of this feature. Welcome Mathieu !
NEXT STEPS
We’re still working on improving our weather systems with performance improvement and resolution upgrade. We have more customisation option for our character models and more probe models coming soon, and two new car models are in early production. We can’t wait to share more!
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
