• [Dogan Outpost] Reduced texture sizes to decrease memory usage and rendering workload.

• Metal in some of Lux's clothing was being rendered as pink after build 20190507. Fixed.
  
• Removed GPU Skinning, as it was generating errors with blend shapes. Unity have identified the issue in the engine; I'm waiting on a fix.
  
• Fixed an issue which was crashing SteamWorks for all users.
  
• [New Shinjuku] Fixed a bug which was preventing Lux from re-entering the safe house after defeating the scavengers.
  
• [New Shinjuku] Cailee now runs away towards the safehouse when the scavengers attack.
  
• [New Shinjuku] The cutscene with the scavengers is now replayed correctly if Lux dies after the first time it plays.
  
• [New Shinjuku] Fixed a bug introduced in build 20190507 which broke the thunder and lightning effects.

• Someone reported a bug about not being able to switch guns in the Weapons menu, but because it was reported via Send Diagnostics, I can't contact them.
  
  Has anyone else come across this? I can't reproduce it. To switch guns, you click on the arrows on either side of gun icon in the Weapons window. If that's not working for anyone, just let me know and I'll take a look right away. You can add to the comments on this post or just email me directly at pete@basedontheplay.com - thank you!

This update introduces two new features, a vehicle selection menu for use during vehicle spawning, and secondly a photo mode. We’ve also added a new motorboat, the Moray which has been added into the Capsa Starter DLC which all owners of (plus all owners of the game when it was sold) will get as a free update. It can also be purchased individually from the item store.


To get the vehicle selection screen, simply walk into a Ground Vehicle or Water Vehicle spawner as before and instead of spawning your chosen vehicle that you’ve set in the character editor, you will instead be presented with a new selection menu screen and can choose easily from there. When a vehicle is spawned you can still change it via the character editor as before and it will respawn.


Second is the Photo Mode, via pressing the hotkey (P by default) you can artificially freeze your character and parts of the world. In the included menu when in this mode you can adjust your camera, tweak the focus (Bokeh Depth of Field), and adjust environment settings (such as time of day, bloom, lens flares). As Capsa is a multiplayer game this obviously does not freeze the entire game as that’s not practical, what it does is freeze other people's characters and vehicles from your perspective, meaning they are still moving around and doing things, you just don’t see it while everything is paused.


A useful part of this, for example, is if you are standing on another players party boat and wish to take a screenshot, the world and your character will freeze in position but only from your perspective. This means, when you exit the photo mode you are still standing on that boat, wherever it may have travelled to when you were paused and not something silly like throw you off into the water at the position you paused.

Beyond all these changes we've also included fixes to various reported issues found in full notes below. As this is a major update we'll likely be following up with a hotfix or two over coming days to any issues reported.


Environment

• Added improvements to the way the time of day updates via manual command, so it can effectically make changes in real time rather than a fraction to a second or so delay.
  
• Fixed culling of some wooden platforms including docks being a little too close.

General

• Added vehicle choice menus for both Ground Vehicle and Water Vehicle spawning.
  
• Added photo mode (activatable via P key via default) that freezes the action and lets you adjust your camera, focus and environment settings to get a better screenshot.
  
• Added general improvements to the replication of waves.
  
• Added general improvements to the horse, utilizing some of the back end locomotion improvements previously done to the main character.
  
• Added speedometer and tachometer, currently only on Moray motorboat for now.
  
• Fixed an issue relating to boats not moving with waves over network when you are no longer in the boat.
  
• Fixed an issue with the cat hats when cat is sitting on shoulder of a boat driver.
  
• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t hear other boat users engine sounds correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where title wouldn’t show for passengers under various circumstances.
  
• Fixed a minor animation issue where the rider doesn’t remain aligned correctly when starting moving on a horse.
  
• Fixed an issue with swimming animations not handling speed.
  
• Fixed an issue where camera state was not persisting to main character.
  
• Fixed an issue where a driver would still be seen in a boat from the perspective of the player who has joined after the owner of the boat has dismounted.

Item Store

• Added Moray motorboat, this will be added to the Capsa Starter Pack DLC. Users who already own this DLC will receive this vehicle as a free update.
  
• Added Moray motorboat Bimini kit and Race kit, these will both end up in either the Bimini DLC or Race DLC, and users will also get this as a free update.

Our second game - Zquirrels Jump is switching from paid to free on Monday (13.05.2019).

Zquirrels Jump is a rage game, very difficult arcade one with cute graphics and very frustrating gameplay. If you want to try it, it will be free from Monday to the end of the world.

If you want to read the full statement and learn more about the switch from paid to free or about the game here are the links:

Statement -> https://steamcommunity.com/games/966580/announcements/detail/1616140423569985156
Zquirrels Jump -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/966580/Zquirrels_Jump/
Official announcement of the date of the switch -> https://steamcommunity.com/games/966580/announcements/detail/1617266961422551294

Cheers!

Survivors!

We see your comments and we see that some of you are unhappy with the combat. We sat together and thought about what changes we can make to the combat with the resources we have at hand and now we need your help to decide if it's good or not.

We've changed dodging/rolling to a point where you can still roll out of the way even though your Stamina is depleted. Internally, we are now torn: Some people think it makes the combat too easy, others feel like it's just right now!

So who better to ask than YOU, our players?

If you switch to the Experimental Branch, you can try out the new system.

If you do, please fill out this survey and tell us your thoughts!
https://forms.gle/1cqND274cpdVRcbD8

Good? Bad? We'll see!

Thank you for your time and Cheers,
Your Black Forest Games Team

New

• Enemies winding up uninterruptable attacks are now marked with a special sign.

Weapon adjustments

• Attack of heavy melee weapons (gloves, chainsaws, hammers) are now uninterruptable;
  
• The attack point of Heavy weapons reduced from 0.43 seconds to 0.2 seconds;
  
• The attack point of Chainsaw-like weapons reduced from 0.43 seconds to 0.2 seconds;
  
• The attack point of Drone-like weapons reduced from 0.5 seconds to 0.34 seconds;
  
• The attack point of Hammer-like weapons reduced from 0.5 seconds to 0.3/0.3/0.5 seconds;
  
• The attack point of the Great Sword-like weapons reduced from 0.6 seconds to 0.34/0.26/0.34 seconds.

General balance adjastements

• The player's invulnerability time after getting hit extended from 0.25 seconds to 0.45 seconds;
  
• Bonus damage of Bombs from Zoe's second talent increased from 1 point per Chip to 4 points per Chip;
  
• Increased the chance to find better items in the hidden room;
  
• The traps will stop working once the room is cleared of enemies;
  
• Adjusted the color of the projectiles causing the dazed effect;
  
• Enemy - When the Tiny Spider dies, the explosion now has more obvious movements;
  
• Enemy - Roger the Reaper's injury time is extended from 0.6 seconds to 1.2 seconds;
  
• Enemy - Turbine's injury time is extended from 0.5 seconds to 1 second;
  
• Optimized FX of the shield casted by Pope;
  
• Adjusted targeting logic of enemies with throwing particles;
  
• Adjusted the animation and FX of the Punisher and Spiky Mich Pig making them more obvious;
  
• Adjusted the triggering mechanism of the Punisher and Spiky Mich Pig to being triggered after losing 15%/10% HP in the span of 3 seconds;
  
• Adjusted the triggering mechanism of the Abyss Mimi's whirlwind state from being triggered after losing 120 health in 3 seconds to being triggered after losing 10% health within 3 seconds;
  
• BOSS - The attack point of The Cirrus Submarine's tentacles extended from 1.2 seconds to 1.5 seconds with a more obvious casting animation;
  
• BOSS – The Cirrus Submarine now has a more obvious fatigued animation;
  
• BOSS - The casting point of The Waste Disposer’s projectiles increased from 1.2 seconds to 1.5 seconds;
  
• BOSS - The Waste Disposer's firing attack now has an 11 seconds cooldown. Reduced the firing rate and the range of the said attack;
  
• BOSS - The triggering mechanism of The Auditor's escape after getting injured is changed from being triggered after losing 200 health in 2.5 seconds to being triggered after losing 8% health in 2.5 seconds.

Interface

• Added localization strings to Bestiary;
  
• Updated some English localization strings.

Coming soon..

Hey All!

So another update will be going live in the next little while for all of you who are currently testing the game.

What is new in this one?

• Fixed issues with some French strings
  
• Fixed issues with some names not loading correctly
  
• Added missing Chinese translations for location names
  
• Fixed large text sizing on the last page of history
  
• Fixed version number placement
  
• Fixed '.' being removed on certain pages.
  
• Fixed King and Queen being forced to lowercase on certain pages
  
• Fixed inconsistent text sizing on certain pages
  
• Fixed some words being stuck together in the history pages

As you can see, mainly UI issues. The next update shall contain plenty more of these kinds of fixes too!

In the meantime, make sure to keep those bug reports coming :)

Hey everyone!

Here's what's likely the last "tweaks and fixes" update until 0.93.0 is ready.
For 0.93.0 I'm planning some difficulty and build balance, some overall skill tweaks, and new Masteries to give options to the nodes with few or only one passive/perk to pick from. Should be good!

Thanks again for all suggestions, comments, and bug reports!

Misc:

• The Shady Dealer is no longer revealed on the minimap
  
• Enemy burning effects on the ground no longer stack up and has an ICD similar to poison effects on the ground to prevent insta-kills and unavoidable deaths
  
• The stat screen and inventory quick references pages now round *down* all stats as they are using decimals internally and where for example 99.55% would be listed as 100% earlier, now it's listed as 99%

Performance:

• Further improved performance of projectile hit detection
  
• Improved performance of UI elements such as damage numbers, nametags, and dialogues

Fixes:

• Fixed the Radial loot indicator always being too small
  
• Fixed crash from lost and found cache (for good this time I hope..)
  
• Fixed dialogue being drawn underneath the minimap
  
• Fixed dialogue buttons becoming unresponsive when changing the text scaling
  
• Fixed a steep framerate drop when drawing some dialogue
  
• Fixed Korem spoiling the Acts you haven't yet reached by babbling about them
  
• Fixed some inconsistencies between the stat screen and inventory quick reference pages
  
• Fixed issue where in some cases the Wolf Tooth Necklace (Warden) wouldn't work at all anymore
  
• Fixed Mycelium (Warden Perk) not having a buff icon show up

​+ + + + SPECIAL EVENTS + + + + 

​These gametypes are only up for a limited time this weekend, so grab them while they're hot! ​
128 Player overkill version makes it's debut with an overhauled map refined and more explosive than ever. As always, expect the intricacies that Overkill demands. Thanks to the great number of slots in this game type you are guaranteed to have a cathartic experience. The stories of legend and greatness are birthed on Overkill. Will you secure your spot, and claim your right to the title of Leader?

• 128 Playable Nations
• Dedicate balancing and map design
• Rank required: (Private) 2+

This weekend-only, you will find special World War 3: Apocalypse 4x event games boasting a playable number of 64 countries, all of which demand intricate planning and strategy from you, Commander. The Apocalypse map features an explosive list of special conditions: 

• Nuclear Warheads are in the player Inventory from Day 1
• All Research is available from Day 1
• Rank required: (Private) 2+ 
• The game time runs 4x faster, 1 hour in realtime is 4 hours ingame!
• Non-Premium players are inactive after 6 realtime hours

In Conjunction to the WW3: Apocalypse, we are happy to feature the Middle East Crisis games, allowing one lucky player to take control of The Caliphate nation (Insurgents). This Special Nation will let you play as any insurgent that appears on the map! Be warned though, you will need to change your mindset when playing as these ruthless conquerers, they do not play like any other nation available in Conflict of Nations. This map hosts 20 playable nations which are situated in the middle east. 

• Playable Terrorist Nation (First come first served)
• All Research is available from Day 1
• Rank required: (Private 2nd Class) 5+ 
• Standard x1 time (1 hour ingame = 1 hour realtime)
• Non-Premium players are inactive after 3 days

Good luck, and have fun!

//Your CoN Team​

​+ + + + SPECIAL EVENTS + + + + 

​These gametypes are only up for a limited time this weekend, so grab them while they're hot! ​
128 Player overkill version makes it's debut with an overhauled map refined and more explosive than ever. As always, expect the intricacies that Overkill demands. Thanks to the great number of slots in this game type you are guaranteed to have a cathartic experience. The stories of legend and greatness are birthed on Overkill. Will you secure your spot, and claim your right to the title of Leader?

• 128 Playable Nations
• Dedicate balancing and map design
• Rank required: (Private) 2+

This weekend-only, you will find special World War 3: Apocalypse 4x event games boasting a playable number of 64 countries, all of which demand intricate planning and strategy from you, Commander. The Apocalypse map features an explosive list of special conditions: 

• Nuclear Warheads are in the player Inventory from Day 1
• All Research is available from Day 1
• Rank required: (Private) 2+ 
• The game time runs 4x faster, 1 hour in realtime is 4 hours ingame!
• Non-Premium players are inactive after 6 realtime hours

In Conjunction to the WW3: Apocalypse, we are happy to feature the Middle East Crisis games, allowing one lucky player to take control of The Caliphate nation (Insurgents). This Special Nation will let you play as any insurgent that appears on the map! Be warned though, you will need to change your mindset when playing as these ruthless conquerers, they do not play like any other nation available in Conflict of Nations. This map hosts 20 playable nations which are situated in the middle east. 

• Playable Terrorist Nation (First come first served)
• All Research is available from Day 1
• Rank required: (Private 2nd Class) 5+ 
• Standard x1 time (1 hour ingame = 1 hour realtime)
• Non-Premium players are inactive after 3 days

Good luck, and have fun!

//Your CoN Team​