• Punch Gauge is now functional (attack charge-up that deals 2x damage)
  
• Walk Button (for those pesky vents & indoors)
  
• Enemy HP is now visible (a lot easier to read damage feedback)
  
• Aim Sensitivity Range is now three times larger
  
• Holding Jump underwater is now a constant motion upwards (at-surface movement is a bit glitchy)
  
• Added a Fifth Enemy that should make the difficulty curve easier
  
• Reworked the first 10 minutes of the game for a better flow
  
• Added audio layers (mostly related to taser & the elevator)

• Enemy & Player can no longer hit each other thru doors
  
• Player can no longer interact with stuff thru colliders
  
• Fixed (but not 100% tested) Player Climbing thru thin walls and doors
  
• Rewrote Spawn/Game Over code to remove spawning under the world (should NOT happen anymore)
  
• Fixed the Menus disappearing while in-game
  
• Fixed Shops showing wrong amount of Scraps
  
• Fixed running out of energy in the elevator (there's always way to get more, now)
  
• Removed "New Game" button from in-game playing -for now- since it breaks the sequence
  
• Fixed getting stuck on those pesky fridges
  
• Fixed the framerate hickup when opening fridges
  
• Removed the barrels from basement since they pushed you outside the world mesh

• added a 2560 × 1440 resolution

Solo developer Brian Clarke in his second Dreadful Dev Diary dives into the release of The Mortuary Assistant and its many layers.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1295920/The_Mortuary_Assistant/

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Balance Breakers - A Battle Party Game is participating in The Nightmarket Festival 2022, and is 65% OFF until Aug 8 10am PST!

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The sale runs from Aug 4-8 10am PST. And includes live broadcasts to celebrate and showcase the lineup.

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The above-ground rail network is now connected up to the Trainyard area, and the Trainyard has a new tower that can unload certain types of train wagons.

Railway sidings will now sometimes spawn unloadable wagons in several varieties

• Ore wagons filled with sulfur, iron, or charcoal
  
• Fuel tank wagons filled with low grade fuel
  
• Loot wagons that can be unloaded to reveal loot crates

All of these can be hooked up to a train and taken to the unloading tower at Trainyard for unloading. You'll need a green keycard and a fuse to get full access, after which you can unload as many wagons as you like. Ore and fuel go into an output hopper and fuel tank respectively inside the tower. Loot wagons activate their crates when emptied so you can then go out and loot them.

The above-ground Work Cart train engine has been reduced in power, and is now only able to pull a small amount of train cars at a time. The large new Locomotive provides superior pulling power instead.




Two new throwable items have been added to the game.

The Molotov Cocktail is a powerful area denial weapon which slows movement and deals damage over time. It can also be used to damage and destroy wooden structures.



The Flashbang is a short fuse, low damage explosive which will blind and disorient anyone unfortunate enough to be in the blast radius and looking in it's general direction. We're hoping the addition of this tool reduces the benefit of corner camping and shakes up how room clearing is approached

Both are available in the tech tree of the T2 workbench.




The Wooden sign has been received a model update

Scrap Tea now yields more scrap and lasts longer

A number of cliff colliders have been improved, making them easier to climb

Fixed a long standing bug causing invalid projectiles when mounted to vehicles


The lighting in Rust has been quite outdated for a long time. The primary reason for this have been our highly dynamic environments that prevent us from using any sort of statically baked lighting data. This resulted in flat and boring looking environments, particularly in areas that weren't receiving any direct light. To combat this, I finally implemented our own ambient lighting model that uses a blurred version of our existing reflection data, which is already completely dynamic.



The new lighting model is of course enabled for everybody, but it comes with a few customization options. The previous "World Reflections" quality setting has been replaced with two toggles in the "Experimental" graphics options: Advanced interior lighting, which when enabled includes player bases in the new lighting model, and advanced forest lighting, does the same for trees.


I spent a good part of the month looking for client performance optimisations with varying levels of success.

• I removed a variety of unnecessary components from all humanoid NPCs (Scientist, dwellers, shopkeepers, etc). This should reduce the performance hit when entering network range of an NPC.
  
• I removed unnecessary components from various static entities that are placed in monuments (think vending machines, chairs, etc). This should make them spawn faster when entering network range.
  
• I made some changes to our LOD system to more aggressively disable shadows in places where it will make no visual difference. This includes any static prop that is considered "small" and parts of the player body (clothing, eyebrows, teeth, etc). These changes should reduce the number of shadow casting meshes when more than a couple of meters away from a prop or player. Both of these changes can be disabled by the graphics.AggressiveShadowLod and graphics.AggressiveShadowLodWearable convars but they will be enabled by default this month.
  
• Underground props that are part of the train tunnels are now more aggressively culled if you aren't in a train tunnel.
  
• Made more potential optimisations to the performance drop when hitting a tree/resource node. This is mostly due to the UI animating in the bottom right of the screen and a lot of the performance cost is happening outside of our control. I've still made a few improvements that should hopefully improve it but there is still a mild performance drop.

I spent some time over the past few weeks adding new lights to a bunch of our older monuments. Now nearly all of them should be covered this pass, aside from a few monuments that are meant to be completely abandoned and should remain dark. This includes monuments such as Harbors, Power Plant and the Trainyard.



In addition, you will find that the monuments covered by the lighting pass will now feature light switches that you can use to toggle the lights on and off. You can now decide whether you want the comfort of seeing clearly in the dark at a risk of being seen by other players, turn the lights off for your safety while exploring, or use them to ambush unsuspecting players.


We recently saw a video from hJune which helped us identify a long standing issue with the aiming code. Basically, if you when into ADS mode shortly after running, the weapon bob was not immediately disabled, and instead took far too long to gradually dissipate.

This resulted in a disparity between the weapon sight and the true aim direction, meaning you were not actually aiming at your target for the first several shots. This has been fixed and aiming down the sight should feel a lot more responsive and snappy.


Thanks to everyone for taking the time to report offensive content last month, we were able to clear a lot of content on official servers as a result.

To help us quickly act on your reports, I made a Slack tool this month that allows us to remove any reported content directly from Slack, without having to load the game up. If server owners are looking for similar functionality we can recommend the Discord Sign Logger plugin by MJSU.



Please keep sending your reports in!




On August 9th at 8:00 pm GMT a team of 160 well-known Twitch creators world around the world will compete in this massive global Rust competition, taking place over 5 days with a prize pool worth $100k.

During the Twitch Rivals event, Rust Twitch drops will be enabled for 5 days from selected participating channels, well-known streamers such as hJune, Mendo, Welyn, Bchillz, Willjum, Panpots and of course the team captains Thegrefg, dhalucard, xqc and Disguised Toast.

Over the course of the 5 days, teams will build up their bases and supplies. Eliminating each other from day 3 onwards with the last man standing on day 5.

We'd like to thank Rustoria for working with us and Twitch to make this event possible.

Learn more at http://twitch.facepunch.com/.


We updated our legal documents, to comply with recent consumer protection and data protection law changes since we last visited the documents in 2019. We re-added an IP infringement notice form that had disappeared somehow. You can see all historic versions at https://github.com/Facepunch/Legal.

The changes will take effect in the next 30 days and you can email any questions to legal@facepunch.com.


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We're pleased to announce Illuminaria is finally out on Steam! Thanks to everyone for your support during the development of the game.

You can get the game here https://store.steampowered.com/app/1719240/Illuminaria/

Please share the news with your friends and invite them to play.

If you enjoy playing Illuminaria, please leave a review. It helps us a lot!

If you encounter any bugs or problems please post them to our Steam Community Forums or on our Discord Server https://illuminariagame.com/discord We'll be happy to help!

Thanks again, and enjoy the game!

Hello all,
we will be streaming some of the challenges today, if you want to see what TimeMelters - Challenges looks like!

Cheers!

Some of you might remember we took a hiatus from this in the beginning of the year to rejiggle the Showcase, make it less convoluted and open it up to more people. Well, it kinda fell to the wayside with all the 1.0 preparations but it finally is time for us to bring back the Creative Showcase!


We are sorry for the delay in this months Showcase, and would like to apologize in advance for the likely delay in next month's Showcase. The latter will be due right after Gamescom and we might not be able to get it done in time!



There are three main changes to how we are handling the Showcase going forward:

• The Showcase will run MONTHLY instead of being on this weird 2-3 week rhythm.
  
• No more voting! It did cause a bunch of unnecessary overhead and at the end wasn't even utilized much.
  
• We are no longer restricting the Showcase to a Theme, and are opening it up to FAN ART (Including Memes!) as well! We will still provide Themes every month for those who would like an idea to work off of, though.

What we want to achieve with this new angle for the Showcase is to celebrate the communities', YOUR, creativity. We don't need to vote on who's the most creative or anything, it's all a celebration of your awesome stuff!

We are also changing how you submit pieces for the Creative Showcase. From now on, any and all submissions have to be made via this form which will allow us to catalogue all submissions internally with all necessary info pertaining to them.



Not sure what to create for the Showcase? Try to limit the size of your build to a radius of 8 Tiles! We'd also love to see some #IRLromantik!



This Showcase features a mix of submissions and great screenshots found on Steam!


Dorfromantik Artwork by Byo


Dorfromantea by Sheroine (IG)



Final Stop: Arctic Circle by Wade


Winter Grain Belt by TDN_Mike


Nordic Windmill by Levy


Wetlands Village by Polite Whale


Village Scene by Mondflieder


Pretzelromantik by Alleeelex


Riverside Urban by Blackfore$t


Town huddled in a Forest by Arenpov




Thank you to everyone who submitted something for this month's Showcase!
We hope you enjoy this new, more casual format as much as we do!

Stay safe! 💙💛

Dragons!

Due to the recent issues regarding our Splendor Aura Event ending early, we are hosting a special compensation Golden Time Event! Starting at midnight, enjoy a 3x EXP, 3x Skill, and 3x Drop event!

Event Duration:
August 5, 2022 00:00 - August 7, 2022 23:59 Pacific

This compensation Golden Time will only last until Sunday, August 7th before midnight, so don't wait to take advantage of these increased gains!

Major Artwork Overhaul for all Scenes

Greetings, alchemists!



Potion Craft is part of the tinyBuild Publisher Sale with 30% OFF until August 11th. Treat yourself and start your journey as an alchemist by taking advantage of the sale. Already have the game? How about treating a friend and sharing the alchemist experience with them.