Jun 11, 2018
Beasts of Bermuda - Soals
NEW CONTENT
+Soals reworked the entire UI, including Main Menu, Loading Screen, Keybinds, PlayerList, ServerList, GameHosting, AdvancedServerSettings, DinoSelectScreen, DinoCustomizationScreen+New HUD icons, by Soals
-The health HUD element changes color based on comfort level
-The HUD layout can be rearranged by going to the game's options and selecting 'Customize HUD.
-You can then drag and drop each HUD element to wherever you'd like it to appear.
-Right clicking them will change the HUD element size.
+Replaced emblem on main menu with a new one
+Added Backgrounds to the talent screen that change based on what kind of build you're doing; Power, Mobility, or Survival
+Added new megalosaurus model, and accompanying Sanguine and Firebelly skins, by Misha and Senoba
+Updated the Para detail map and changed how the shader behaves to try and create a more realistic look
+Added beak and nail masks to para and megalo
+Added the Dappled para skin, by Senoba
+Added the Contagen para skin, by Soals
+Players can now pick up eggs just as they do meat and plants. Eggs, however, cannot be laid yet. To see an egg, type 'Spawnentity Egg' into the console
+Added post processing effects to the game's camera, by Soals
Social System
+Players can now once again invite each other to parties. Friendship now works as well.
+Added capability to block invites from specific players.
+Group invitation accepting or declining now has its own set of keybinds, rather than using the 'Use' keybind.
+Dueling and mating will take place through this system, but are not yet implemented
+Added group management tab to the player list, where players can grant various permissions to group members such as the ability to kick, invite, rank, rename ranks, or manage group permissions of others.
+Added support for selecting dinosaur gender upon spawning, but it currently does not do anything
-Players can select male, female, or unspecified. If unspecified, a random gender is assigned to them.
-Players can choose to not release pheromones, meaning nobody will be able to determine their gender
Bloodbath
+Added big rocks and a dock to the new island.
+Started trying to convert static meshes to foliage assets.
+Added a little house to the new island
OPTIMIZATION
+Moved mouse and keyboard control inputs into C++, out of Blueprints+Movement code moved over to C++, including tripping, turn radius, swim direction and speed, and speed computations
+Head tracking is now in C++
+Lightning generator code is now in C++, including both geometry and spline spawning code
+Fish controller code is now in C++
+Talent data, getters, and setters are now in C++. This was surprisingly, very laggy the way it was set up in Blueprints
-Previously during the movement / turn radius computation, talents would be referenced 14 times, causing a huge CPU burden
+Complete overhaul of animation blueprints. Now, the vast majority of the animation code takes place in C++.
-All sounds, montages, and animation notifies are now handled by C++ with databases, rather than being programmed individually into Blueprints
+Moved hitbox components and accompanying attacking code up into C++ and out of the Playable_Entity blueprints.
+Moved sound attenuation, pitch, and volume shift computation into C++, out of Blueprints
+Set up proper LODs/shader changes to our foliage selection
+The server save data is no longer replicated, which was causing lag spikes on the server
BUG FIXES
+Fixed: Pteranodon is no longer bugged+Fixed: Cave darkness transition is now instant, rather than delayed slightly
+Fixed: Pachy can now charge while fat
+Fixed: Pachy can no longer turn quickly while charging
+Fixed: Megalo ability now properly shows percent hp and compensates for player growth
+Hopefully fixed: Picking up foliage should no longer crash the game, the server, or other clients
+Fixed: Mosa and elasmo can no longer grab other players through walls
+Fixed: Meat now properly gets placed on the ground in areas with a low ceiling
+Fixed: Lightning bolts no longer occasionally generate very poorly formed bolts
+Fixed: The chatbox no longer remembers an indefinite number of chat entries, and hidden entries no longer draw while offscreen.
-This was causing significant CPU waste which got worse the more the chat had accumulated
+Fixed: Plants granting comfort bonuses that shouldn't be doing so
+Fixed: You can now swim up and down while no movement keys are pressed with crouch and swim
+Fixed: Apato knockback works again
+Fixed: Swimming now works properly for all growth levels, and players should no longer struggle to get out of water while they are juveniles
+Fixed: Jumping and turn rate issues that were causing unnatural jumps for some animals
+Fixed: Para head tracking should work better now
+Fixed: The pteranodon pitch and yaw angular rates while flying to work properly
+Fixed: Players should no longer lose their saved data for growth level and other stats
+Fixed: Elasmo can no longer eat from empty carcasses by tapping use
+Fixed: The HUD no longer displays while you are on the dino customization screen
+Added a new console command: ReqAnimationData. It behaves like ReqCharacterData, except returns the state of the animation variables.
MECHANICS CHANGES
+The talent 'Grab Size Increase' now also makes you able to pick up larger carcasses+You can now use scent while holding objects
+Speed no longer continues to increase after 1.0 growth
+Adjusted the random skin generator to more frequently create monochromatic or dichromatic skins
+Adjusted the lighting on the maps and the colorations of some of the foliage and terrain colors
BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS
+Para headbutt is now back at 10 ability power, down from 15+Buffed megalo speed to 900, up from 874
+Buffed Utahraptor speed to 900, up from 820
+Nerfed Para speed down to 900, down from 975
(Published: 06/04/2018)
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