Jul 5, 2019

Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up - pH_101

Hi all,

Today I managed to fix a bug that - I believe - was the cause of a rare saving glitch. This issue would cause the game to occasionally freeze with no error on "save and exit", and then corrupt your campaign. Yes, annoying! I'm so happy that this should be fixed now, and it should I hope bring a bit more stability to your experience!

Just to keep you posted, I'm away next week so there won't be any updates. But don't worry, I'll be back soon and you can expect many more updates following. Now that the game is starting to get there in terms of stability, I can't wait to get stuck into new features and improvements.

To clue you in, near the top of list will be some quality of life updates and staff management improvements/possible reductions in the micro (yes, I heard you loud and clear!). I'm also planning some localisation work and following this hopefully a scaleable GUI. Alongside this there will be continued bug fixes, and then we can get onto some cool new features and objects!

Thanks to everyone once more for your continued support and patience during the first month. Again, especial thanks for those of you who took the time to leave a review - these are so important for a tiny developer like us to help keep the game under the spotlight of Steam's all-seeing algorithm!

Alpha 103 changes:

-updated fan lvl 2 to face correct direction in se/nw direction
-fixed occasional crash with no error/game freezing up when using "save and exit" which would then corrupt campaign
-removed "cost neutral" text in station set up phase as no space in lower res

Jul 5, 2019

SCUM - Hotfix 0.2.44.15296 & SCUM Comic #15

SCUM - Sippy

Hi!

Here we are again, with another round of bug fixes, some optimizations and some more extras. So let's get into it!

Fixed most of the exploits for duplicating items in singleplayer and multiplayer. Which also caused crashes to happen.
Fixed female skeletal body parts and bra.
Fix for lead plate usage for crafting advanced fortifications.
Fixed area damage (grenades, car explosions) not working on base elements.
Fixed the inventory size of the weakest variant of the Recurve Bow "Scorpion #40".
Fixed the bug where deer meat was not eatable.
Chest and car container GUI should not clip through holster/quick access (there's a horizontal scrollbar, right click and drag to scroll)
Fixed the bug where right click on an item in menu would not open the container.
Corrected animations for anticipate draw montage.
Adjusted bow 3 and 5 pin sights to 200 grams weight.
Fixed the bug where items in quick access where not saved after relogs.
Fixed the issue with round glasses falling through floor on "drop" function.
Fixed crashes relating to weapon attachments.
Improvised toolbox now requires nails and bolts for crafting (before only one of those was needed)

We did some small optimisations from the client side.
Animals won't try to attack the player if he's in/on a vehicle.
Players won't take melee damage if inside the vehicle.
Removed Christmas items from the spawning pool. - Grinch NOOOOOoooo
Workshops that contain drill press machinery are no longer lockable (doors cannot be claimed anymore)
Barbed Wire can now be crafted (nails, metal scrap and wire). Barbed Wire Barricades for base building now require barbed wire as an ingredient.
Increased base render distance do 1000 meters.
Disabled building platforms on other players walls
All bullet crafting now requires advanced survival skill level, lead plate usage increased to 5 from 1. You will be able to craft 20 bullets per lead plate (down from 100)
Large toolbox rarity decreased from common to uncommon, Small toolbox rarity decreased from abundant to common.
Big animal fat weight decreased to 1 kg so it can fit in most clothes.
Now you can repair base build elements with just a toolbox, and it repairs all elements in a 1m radius.
Increased base element full decay time to 4 weeks.
10 new songs on the radio!
Adjusted forks, now you can open cans with them, also you can chop the wooden fork into tinder.
Can't gain experience/fame points inside safe zones now.
You can now gather the crew and enjoy some fighting matches in safe zones. We have in each safe zone a boxing ring, and here is how the rules work:

You can only kill/get killed while in the ring.

People in the ring can't do harm to players outside the ring.

Everything is allowed in the ring.

You DO NOT talk about the ring.
For all server admins now when you go through the logs you will be able to read all unicode characters as they are.

Weapon durability no longer influences it's attack damage.
Handles and blades of sharp weapons now have the same armour penetration values. (To balance out the melee fighting experience)
Reworked all melee weapons stats ( all have increased damage,
blunt weapons now have a knockout chance per hit, added sharpness/penetration values to all sharp weapons,
weapon hits should produce correct sound based on their material now )
- New damage system explained:
  
  Total weapon damage is calculated by the following formula:
  Weapon damage x Melee skill x STR modifier. Some numbers to crunch:
  
  Sledgehammer, Melee Max Skill & Strength Max Value
  ( 0.4 x 0.6 x 1.2 = 0.288 or 28.8% health damage)
Increased puppet max health by 0.1 (now the values are 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 and 0.4 depending on the puppet type)

One of the bigger things to come in these notes is the flag system that will be the new way of handling base element owners.
You will be able to craft a flag and every base build element in a radius of 50m from the flag will belong to the flag owner.
Every base element outside a flag influence will not belong to anyone and everyone can interact with it (open, close etc.)
Different colours are used as indicators when building in the influence range of the flag. Green is when you place a blueprint under friendly influence, and yellow is when you try to place a blueprint with enemy influence which means if you build there, that item will belong to the player that has the flag.
A flag can be destroyed with any chopping tool via interaction.
When a flag is destroyed, all base elements under its influence become ownerless.
We will have a transition period for flags so your existing bases don't get claimed by random people placing flags. The flag mechanic will currently apply only to new base elements - all existing pre-patch base elements will have the same owner as before and ignore the flag mechanics. In short, flag will not override owners of existing pre-patch base elements and flag will not clear owners of pre-patch base elements when destroyed. Next week we will push one more patch with all of the flag mechanics enabled so make sure you build flags in your existing bases.

Comic time! For those who just tuned in, here is a list of the previous issues:

And the newest page:

Thanks for reading! Take a day off, hydrate, and above all, do some stretches!

Love, Sippy

Jul 5, 2019

Official Release Patch Notes - FREE Skin event reopens, client optimization, and QOL features! (7.6.2019)

Ring of Elysium - RingofElysium_Official

Dear Adventurers,

Welcome to the latest official patch notes for Ring of Elysium. Here are the full details:

Event: FREE M4A1 Weapon Skin: Stella - INTO THE WILD

Introducing the latest FREE weapon skin event: a limited, Stella-themed M4A1!
Event period: July 6th to July 16th (Pacific Time)
During the event, log-in to get the 14-day free-trial version of the skin immediately
You can get 10 points for daily logins and 5 points for completing daily tasks
Reach 100 points during the event period to earn the permanent version of the skin for FREE!

Added support for older graphics cards to the DX12 Client Beta testing minimum requirements, the latest requirements are as follows:

OS: Windows 10.0.10586 (Threshold 2 1511) and above
RAM: 8GB and above
Graphics card (Nvidia): GTX 1060, 1660, 1660Ti, 1070, 1070Ti, 1080, 1080Ti, 2060, 2070, 2080, 2080Ti, GTX 1050Ti, GTX 1050, GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980, GTX 980Ti, Titan
- New: 965M, 950, 780, 770, 760, 750Ti
Graphics card (AMD): RX560 4GB, RX570 8GB, RX580 2048SP 8GB, RX580 8GB, RX590 8GB, RX VEGA56 8GB, RX VEGA64 8GB, RX Radeon VII, RX 550, RX390, RX380, RX370

Performance

Improved the GPU usage under the DX12 Beta client, slightly increasing overall FPS performance
Slightly reduced the VRAM and RAM usages under the DX12 Beta client

New feature- Team voice chat management

When playing with a team, players can now press ESC and select “Team voice” to visit the team voice chat management UI, which allows players to adjust each teammate's volume, mute their voice chat volume and their quick-mark sound effects entirely

Graphics

Improved the shadow quality for trees at a far distance
Attempted to fix an issue where tree shadows suddenly appear in some cases

Settings

FPP Field of View’s method has been changed from vertical FOV to horizontal FOV
- Please note that this is purely an expression/numeric change, the actual FOV effects in-game remains the same

Game mode unlocking

New players will now have to board the rescue helicopter in Training mode in order to unlock the Normal mode and Ashen Eye
- Please note that all users that registered before June 6th, 2019 will have Normal mode and Ashen Eye unlocked as default

Optimized Stella - Hawk, Big Joe - Radiant Knight, Radiant Knight Style A, and Radiant Knight Style B’s icons

Bug Fixes

Fixed several uncommon client crashes
Fixed a memory leak issue with the DX12 Beta client
Fixed an issue where objects within the scope area under ADS are overexposed
Fixed an issue where the countdown timer isn’t shown in Ashen Eye in some rare cases
Fixed an issue where players cannot hear proximity voice chat from enemies after disconnecting and reconnecting

Thanks for playing,
ROE DEV Team