Optimization
+Improved net priority for carcasses and adjusted their net culling, such that they should immediately spawn even on crowded servers
+Certain plants now properly cull on Ancestral Plains (better fps), and some particularly laggy plants were removed
+The server no longer loads all nonwoody foliage on Ancestral Plains
-This will help with server-side lag spikes induced by foliage eating
+Set all foliage on Ancestral Plains to use simplified collision, which will reduce client-side fps stutters related to others eating plants

Server Control
+Added Admin command "ToggleNameTags" for admins to see player's name, ID and ID64 on screen.
+Added the ServerMute command, to mute a player.
+Started reimplementing bans, etc (work in progress)
+Players should no longer be able to join a server that is on a different game build than their own

Bug Fixes
+Fixed: Skins that have no dirt or bioluminescent masks no longer can turn black after a skin with these masks has been selected
+Fixed: Screenshot mode now properly keeps aquatics swimming in the same direction
+Fixed: Foliage should no longer appear inside caves after eaten
+Fixed: Misc Ancestral Plains issues
+Fixed: Dying with certain UI panels open such as the escape menu no longer causes a UI jam
+Fixed: Your character's Water Level now properly saves and loads, rather than restoring to 75% on loading into the server
+Fixed: The scaly and feathered tyrannosaurus models are now the same size - fixes underbite
+Fixed: The fullscreen, windowed, and windowed-fullscreen settings now properly apply
-This also fixes issues with pixelated, low resolution screens being stretched to full-screen and looking bad
+Hopefully fixed the raptor's going through the map bug that is related to lag.
+Fixed: The Kronosaurus now properly floats in the character selection screen, rather than drifting downwards
+Fixed: The scaly and feathered tyrannosaurus models now properly select and save
+The default keybind for scent is now properly C, rather than A

Balance Adjustments
+Adjusted Lurdusaurus damage, from 170 down to 145, and lowered its attack rate from 0.95s to 1.25s
+Acrocanthosaurus' intimidating roar now removes 15 stamina and ability power from its target (placeholder, will be changed later)
+Acrocanthosaurus' sprint speed is now 800, up from 703
+Acrocanthosaurus' walk speed is now 500, up from 375
+Juvenile Apatosaurus can now eat foliage grade 4 plants (typically, small conifers or large bushes)

Mechanics Changes
+Reduced wind volume by 70%
+Freshwater now has significantly improved underwater visibility
+Made scent clouds 55% smaller and turned their opacity down, and added a view distance of 5000 units on them. (subject to change)
+Bones no longer spawn during the Combat game mode
+Removed the respawn cooldown as it's being a problem

Additional notes for today's patch:
-Adjusted Carcass net culling distance (150K UE units)
-Adjusted scent culling to 200K UE units
-Adjusted scent opacity to 0.35 up from 0.1
-Fixed various bugs related to the velociraptor, hopefully fixing the cases were it would fall through the map.
-Hitting shift or control while climbing a surface no longer makes you fall through the map.
-Added the command "UnbindClimbingComp" which will be helpful if you get stuck climbing a tree, this will disconnect the climbing system from the character and recover your normal controls.
-Dying as velociraptor while climbing should no longer leave you unable to control your creature post respawn.
-Adjusted velociraptor camera to not clip through the map
-Adjusted megalo camera to have it more centered with the body.
-Added the Donor Skin: Glimmer Apato

"Hey everyone, I am working on a fix for the client-side FPS stutter that's going on. It's related to foliage, and every time a plant is eaten, picked up , or destroyed, it's causing a stutter on every computer (including the server, which is likely causing lag spikes as well). I'm hoping to get a hotfix for this out later tonight.

The FPS stutter is happening because every time a plant is eaten, the game must re-compute the collision bounds for the entire 'Instanced Foliage Actor' on the map, which is resulting in a hefty CPU spike due to the sheer volume of foliage on Ancestral_Plains.

The servers are also having a very difficult time when exceeding 40-50 players. We'd recommend not having servers larger than 50 players at this time, as it is going to result in a very unstable gameplay experience.

Vipe and I are working to improve the worst offenders in these regards!" -Predatoria

Thank you guys so much for your patience and support.

BUGFIXES:
+Tenatively fixed - testing now - Servers that are full no longer accept players, and now properly reject the connection
+Herbivores can now eat any plants dropped from their parents, regardless of foliage grades
+Adjustments to rex look down / weight paintign / bite down to make it easier to bite velos and utahs near your feet
-Import many Acro animations
-Removed lurdu curl animations that were causing jitter while swimming
+Reduced Lurdusaurus growth speed to be equal to that of para
+Fixed: Lurdusaurus now properly gets wider when gaining weight
+Fixed: Many of the ferns are now edible on Ancestral Plains, providing much easier food for herbivores
+More RAM leak fixes
+Lurdusaurus swim speed increase talent is now in mobility slot 5, speed increase is in slot 2, and sneaky is now in slot 1
-Disabled Utahraptor, Elasmosaurus, and Pachycephalosaurus from play until they receive model updates
WIP Acro - disabled currently
+Idle alts for Lurdu and Acro now disable head tracking during the animation
+Added the Seaweed Acro skin, by DeviouslyKITT

-Added more animations to velociraptor, but disabled the pounce on creature temporarily. You can however climb the map's elements, and use the pounce ability as a mobility.

Known issue: Group only work species-specific, instead of allowing herbs to group together, this will be fixed in a few hours.

With only a day to go until early access release, we want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their amazing support for us and our game. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning almost 2 years ago or you only joined today, we hope you will venture with us into early access as we continue to grow and develop Beasts of Bermuda. Most of all though, we hope you have as much fun playing it as we have making it! With that, here is our official Steam trailer. Welcome to Beasts of Bermuda!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5i7rnGftQs&list=PL7hZ4etdrSe2TbY88a8nuNmp5K1415J3u
Music is the beginning of our official soundtrack, ‘Hidden World’ by our very own Sachbun!
Also, a very special thank you to Lizardian, Jynn, and Senoba who filmed these shots, as well as all of the players who took part in filming!

If you don't feel like going to youtube to watch this, you can also view this trailer on our steam store page!
And last but not least:

"I have prepared a little speech thingy about our upcoming release, and about how this project got started and what it means to us. It's a bit long to post in discord text, so I'm going to place the PDF file here instead. I hope you all will enjoy reading it. We're really excited to release this game for you all tomorrow." -Pred
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/280344852506476544/525411179036672014/ReleaseSpeech.pdf

+Added the new Velociraptor
Note:

• This is still an ongoing WIP that will be worked on during the coming days.
  
• You can climb trees, rocks, and the world itself by jumping and pressing the Use key when near the surface you are targeting.
  
• In order to jump from a surface to an other, hold the jump key to charge your ability, that will propel you towards the angle you are looking at.
  
• Player should not right click while latched to a surface as it causes them to die and have to relog
  
• The animations and sounds aren't all there yet and will be added with time.
  
  -WIP Acro - acro is currently disabled from selection
  -Hopeful fix at RAM leak / server restarting problem
  -Fixed underwater issue: Post processing was never applying the set settings.
  +Made Ancestral Plains slightly brighter.
  -Improved the Camera controller component, and fixed some bugs and issues in the code.
  -Fixed the camera for all creatures. It is now controled by a size curve in BB Camera.
  -Fixed: Lurdusaurus death animation now plays
  -Improved seaweed food values
  -Fixed: Megalosaurus ability, para ability, and checking baby stats now properly display the stats display
  +Fixed: Lurdusaurus can now properly stomp when it's low on ability power, rather than consuming it without stomping
  +Fixed: Lurdusaurus stomp now applies damage
  +Added new Acro roar, by Sepiks
  +WIP Acro / acro ability / import acro anims
  +Added Lurdusaurus juvenile and hatchling forms
  -Lurdusaurus food now decays at 80% speed it used to (food buff)
  -The Botanist talent is now significantly more effective at thwarting food poisoning from eating plants not proper to your diet
  -All plants now provide 25% more food value
  -The SetGrowthLevel command now properly updates health, stamina, and ability to keep them the same percent full after growth
  -Fixed: Lurdusaurus jaw now opens the proper way when holding objects
  -Herbivores can no longer smell carcasses, and carnivores cannot smell glowy 'Fat Plants'
  -Fat plants now emit a large, green scent cloud
  -Added rex damage textures, by Senoba
  -Rex water decays 25% slower
  -Removed fog profile 0 (the really heavy one) from the game
  -Fixed: Krono lunge now works
  -Herbivores can now eat any plants dropped from their parents, regardless of foliage grades
  -Removed lurdu curl animations that were causing jitter while swimming

NEW ADDITIONS
+Added new playable creature, Lurdusaurus!
-Added foliage to AP that is suitable for Lurdusaurus to eat
+Groups now work again!!!
-Group tags now display the steam icon, if accessible, instead of the dino.
-This fixed lots of bugs related to groups.
+Added server mute code, works for admin
+Added local mute code, not yet callable
+Added kickPlayer command. KickPlayer name/id/id64 Reason
+Re-implemented the kicking from server code.
+Added a new console command - "ServerConsoleCommand" - allows a client to execute console commands on the server
+Added para damage textures, by Soals
+Added Dart Velo, by DeviouslyKITT, concept by ShotgunPunk.
+Added Field of View to the graphics settings

BUG FIXES
+Fixed: The commands 'TeleportToP' and 'TeleportToMe' now work regardless of whether the target is net-relevant to the owning client
+Fixed: The PossessEntity command now properly has postprocessing effects active
+Fixed: Scent no longer tries to connect a flying or swimming player's location with the origin of the map by a scent trail
+Fixed: Saved donor skins can no longer be selected for use unless you have the proper donor tier
+Fixed: Dropped items such as foliage or carcasses now properly ignore player hitboxes when determining placement
+Fixed: Carcasses should no longer behave oddly when aging such as suddenly appearing more decayed or fresher
+Fixed: The egg now properly displays post-processing effects and plays environmental sounds
+Fixed: The egg now properly plays its heartbeat sound for the owning client
+Miscellaneous bug fixes and graphical tuning on AP
+Fixed: Mosa grab is no longer blocked by foliage

MISC CHANGES
+The fog argument of the command 'setweather' now lets players set the exponential height fog on the map
+Mosasaurus now tilts its pitch angle to the angle of the terrain
+Mosasaurus and Kronosaurus and Lurdusaurus tilt with the right angle of the terrain, sideways


BUG/ISSUES FIXES:
Lurdu water now drains at half the rate
-Fixed the Class reference issue causing Groups invites to not work.
-Lurdu jaw now closes in the idle pose.
-Hid the collision hitboxes on Lurdu.
-Consuming terrestrial plants as a Lurdusaurus, or aquatic plants as any other herbivore now grants food poisoning equal to half the food gain received from those plants
The Botanist talent mitigates against this effect.
-Lurdusaurus is no longer treated as a carnivore.
-Reduced volume of lurdu placeholder stomp sound.
-Lurdu now consumes ability power when it stomps, and no longer can stomp when it has insufficient ability +Lurdu montage animations (vocals and attacks) now properly function while swimming.
-Lurdu now has 50% weather resistance.
-Lurdu now has the storm resistance talent.
-Adjusted rex idle and sleeping volumes.
-Lurdu will save and recover data properly.

(Screenshot courtesy of Senoba on the Official Discord)

Hey folks, I figured you guys would be happy to see some development!

I have been working on setting up our new velociraptor for Beasts of Bermuda! While not all animations are implemented yet, I'm hoping to get all that together for the release day!

Here goes! Velociraptor is able to climb trees, rocks, and any other map element considered climbable! Along with this, you are able to jump from surface to surface to your heart's content!

This little demo was done with a simulated Client with 30ms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qnlQl177Z8

Deploying a small patch that fixes a few issues that happened over the weekend. It also includes some work on Ancestral Plains, by Asoka:

AP Map improvements / new marsh area
-Resized all trees to be larger
-Edited some areas around the map that needed attention
-Swapped out some old assets with nicer looking newer ones
-Placed new foliage in the different biomes
-Started work on a marsh/swamp area
+Hopefully fixed combat logging - needs testing
+Hopefully fixed mating invites - needs testing
+Fish should be fixed now
+Fixed: The donor Megalosaurus skin should now properly show up
+Rex idle sounds are now 15% of their original volume
+Neutral status indicators (such as overweight or pregnant) now show up as yellow
+Fixed: Apato tail no longer jams in the aiming state when you press RMB at the wrong time
+Fixed fish crashing Ancestral Plains and Forest Island
+Tyrannosaurus stationary turn rate is now 100, down from 122.4
+Tyrannosaurus sprinting turn rate is now 75, down from 93
+Reduced juvenile and subadult Tyrannosaurus damage
+Reduced pteranodon juvenile damage

EDIT:
+Hopefully fixed the server crash
+Carcasses now last 50% longer under all circumstances.

NEW CONTENT
+General work on Ancestral Plains
+Added support for donor-exclusive skins and steam ID-exclusive skins
-The SenRex rex skin can now only be selected by Senoba
-The 'Glimmer' Megalosaurus skin with recolorable, optional bioluminescence is available to anyone who has donated to the Mighty Megalosaurus tier or higher
+Added Skins:
TREX:
Hellfire & Komodo by DeviouslyKITT
Lost by Misha
Stripes by Kelskorra
KRONO:
Emperor by DeviouslyKITT
MEGALO: (Donor-Exclusive)
Glimmer, by Kelskora
+Parents can now sniff their hatchlings to check on their stats. The Good Parent talent improves this by displaying more stats

BUG FIXES
+Fixed (for new models): Footfalls no longer play multiple times when they shouldn't
+Fixed: A couple plants not being edible on Ancestral Plains
+Fixed: Lightning now strikes all over the map on Ancestral Plains
+Fixed: Creatures with food values that exceed 100 now properly spawn with an appropriate percentage of max food
+Fixed: Creatures in flight or swimming no longer leave scent trails
+Fixed: Comfort flower and food poisoning effects now properly save and load
+Fixed: Carcasses near you will now emit scent if the carcass spawned before you logged in
+Fixed: Random carcass spawns no longer appear in caves
+Fixed: Females can now properly repair nests
+Fixed: Acro now properly applies bleed
+Fixed: Tyrannosaurus rex now has the proper foliage grade
+Fixed: You can no longer smell the carcass you are carrying
+Fixed: Hatchlings now have genders
+Fixed: Apato stomp now properly plays while standing still
+Fixed: Pressing RMB while the Apatosaurus tail is whipping now properly gets your tail to aim after the previous whip is done
+Fixed: The tyrannosaurus now properly plays its idle sounds, rather than acros
+Chat system is back at work + various optimizations related to it.
+Fixed: Combat logging should now result in the player's pawn being left on the map for a period of time, vulnerable to attack
+Fixed: Foliage and other players no longer confuse the computation of shelter state
-This will also fix the post-processing flickering that occured when players would run through other players or foliage and hit 100% shelter state
+Fixed: Fish now work properly, rather than spending most time under the landscape on AP
+Fixed: Players can no longer be knocked back after they're dead, causing bodies to float away
+Fixed: Bugs on server that would fire an handled error uppon initialization + various ui things

BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS
+Acrocanthosaurus sprinting speed is now 750, up from 703
+Acrocanthosaurus bite cooldown is now 1.2, down from 1.5
+Acrocanthosaurus health is now 1200, up from 1000
+Acrocanthosaurus stamina max is now 70, down from 100
+Tyrannosaurus now has 45 stamina as a juvenile, which decreases down to 15 at adulthood
+Tyrannosaurus health is now 1600, down from 1750
+Tyrannosaurus bite cooldown is now 1.3, up from 1.2
+Tyrannosaurus bite damage is now 500, down from 575
+Apatosaurus tail whip now deals 500 damage, up from 400
+Apatosaurus now always takes half damage when hit on the tail
+Hatchling Apatosaurus can now eat foliage grade 2 plants

MECHANICS CHANGES
+Added some base to the larger footfall base sounds in the game for medium and large-sized creatures that play alongside their regular footsteps
+The limp animation now starts playing at 45% injury, and the rate of locomotion of limp animation adjusts to match your speed
-Actual speeds while injured remain unchanged
+Apatosaurus can now aim its tail downwards if the camera is aimed downwards
+Hitboxes now deactivate after death, making ties less likely
+Rivers are now drinkable
+Altered rain-induced fog such that it decays back to baseline much more rapidly
+Dropped foliage now lasts for 20 minutes, down from 45
+All creatures now spawn with 75% food and water, up from 50%
+Creatures above 1.0 growth now drain carcasses while eating more quickly, continuing to scale with growth past 1.0
+Creatures above 1.0 growth now get further decreased food from plants than before
+Significantly increased banana tree and "Christmass tree" food values
+After growth 1.0, creatures now scale as a square root of growth, rather than linearly with growth
+Cumulative comfort influence is now computed differently. Stacking positive or negative comfort influences is now less effective
+Smaller growth level creatures now have less influence on the comfort of larger creatures
+Comfort influence is now capped at adult influence levels - smaller animals no longer get more comfort or stress from larger ones than they would something their size
+The offspring skin generator should now have a higher chance of blending the mother and father skins
+Finished reworking the Megalo ability into a character component and added bleed and venom to it as additional, tier 3 stat displays

+Reduced rex sprint breathing sound volume by 50%
+Scent works again
+Maybe Fixed: Pteranodon should now properly animate when in flight on non-owning clients, rather than get stuck in the running animation
+Fixed: Various reported areas on Caldera and Ancestral Plains that needed attention
+Reduced Apatosaurus capsule height
+Buffed the Stamina Bite talent by 50% for all talent levels
+Finished cave area for Pteranodon Rock on AP
+Reduced food and decay rates for all creatures by 10%
+Adjusted the juvenile and subadult food and water decay rates to more equal to their adult decay rates
-After the above two combined changes, juveniles should lose food and water 30% slower than before
+Fixed: Baby and juvenile morphs of creatures should now properly apply when hatched from an egg, loaded from data, or when they become net-relevant on non-owning clients
+Fixed: Utahraptor no longer scales to 0 on the owning client while pouncing and latching
+Fixed: After possessing an egg, certain actions such as typing in chat or being able to press Ability to spawn now function properly
+Removed some foliage on Ancestral Plains that was poorly optimized, which caused frame drops
+Modified the carcass spawner such that it can have bounding boxes set
-This will allow unused, underwater parts of the map to be clipped out, so carcasses don't keep spawning way out there
+Made it such that the carcass spawner can spawn larger, but less frequent carcasses
-On Ancestral Plains, this was set to 10x, and the frequency to 0.1x, so the same amount of randomly generated food is now spawning in larger, more scarce carcasses
+Fixed: The para jaw now opens with the proper transform
+Fixed: Elasmosaurus no longer has two Thick Hide talents, and Survival talent SP1.1 now contains Intimidation
+Hatchling Para should now be able to eat any foliage of grade 2 or lower
+Hatchling and Juvenile Pachy should now be capable of eating foliage grade 2 plants at all times

(Screenshot courtesy of Kitty-Wilson)