Oct 3, 2023
Saleblazers - e Zinc
Our current priorities:
- Bugfixing (all inventory save issues should be resolved)
- Optimization (especially long play session FPS drops)
- Better game flow (more side quests to guide the player, spawner balance changes, quest markers, etc.)
More context on disconnects: there are some edge case exceptions due to multiplayer / open world networking that we just didn't account for. Sorry about this one, since it's really annoying. We are fixing every one that we encounter ASAP.
⭐ New
- Pop Pop should now hang out near your shop during his questline during the day, to make it easier for you to turn in quests
- Added Gulper Matriarch to the cave near Ronin Valley
- Added brief window after ending dialogue where player can't attack, to prevent a case in which you can accidentally hit people from clicking
- Added secret scythe weapon near southern Hidden Hot Spring
- Added secret quest reward to Flooded Mines quest
➡️ Changes
- Rebalanced Wooden Crate loot database and drop amounts
- Ore HP buffed from 50 -> 350 because ore sometimes got broken when mining
- Rebalanced drop rates of Bamboo Trees
- Increased drop rate of Plant Fiber from bushes
- Hitting items that are not locked or illegal will no longer scare people around you
- Golf Cart quest now gives you a free Golf Cart instead of a discount, to make it easier for players to enjoy driving
- Reduced range of radiation around the Kazai Castle shield generator to make it less punishing for players who didn't collect a radiation outfit yet
- Added a fast travel totem to the Kazai Castle shield generator cave to make it easier to return here if you didn't have the right tools
- Regular Boars no longer aggro on players, so that players have a better level 1 experience
- Golf Cart Engines are now placed in more obvious places in the Crater
✅ Improvements
- New Bedstone food market foodie has updated dialogue standards
- Updated dialogue with Kazai Village ranch dialogue
- Balanced more audio levels in the prologue tutorial
- Added warning to localization setting to let players know that it isn't ready yet
- Required damage tier is now printed when you hit a stronger material, instead of displaying a generic "WEAPON TOO WEAK" message
- Improved waterfall audio attenuation to sound better
- Outlaw spawner near Research Camp was removed, since they kept killing the scientists
- Adjusted game zones for Barry's Bazaar, Desert, Desert Mountains, Meteor, Golf Course, and Lowlands to cover the right areas better
- Added max level indicator under each player mastery skill
- Tweaked desert music
- Changed some errors to not disconnect the player if encountered
- Reduced wind and weather audio volume
- Removed boom box from Cole's Cart Shop, since it was adding too much sonic clutter
- Adjusted audio levels of Samantha Cole's voicelines
🛠️ Fixes
- Fixed many cases in which items didn't save properly
- Fixed several cases in which a client that removed building pieces didn't get saved properly to the save file
- Fixed an issue where being handed items from another players cause inventory to not save properly
- Most likely fixed last case of map fog progress being reset sometimes
- Fixed issue where sometimes you couldn't sleep in beds
- Fixed client sometimes causing Pop Pop's Shop Shop starting items to return
- Fixed big save issue where the wrong scene was saved to disk
- Fixed issue where you couldn't buy Golf Carts from Samantha Cole
- Fixed Researcher door not locking/unlocking properly with Researcher quest progress
- Fixed plants going to 0 growth when fully grown on chunk load/unload
- Fixed plants showing at growth 0 for a few seconds when loaded
- Fixed many save system item disappearing issues with potions, guns, cups, and bowls
- Fixed misalignment on Screen Door building piece
- Fixed some building pieces being cubes
- Fixed issue where client could revive themselves when ragdolled
- Fixed potential issue with shop navigation mesh
- Fixed client's ragdoll going crazy sometimes
- Fixed an issue where Bamboo Seeds weren't dropping from Bamboo Trees
- Fixed employees floating sometimes
- Fixed issue where carpets broke the nav mesh
- Fixed issue where carpets couldn't be picked up (they destroy now)
- Fixed Quarry props being set in the wrong chunk
- Temporarily fixed exploit with Bamboo Hoe where you could craft anything you want using the hotbar, by resetting the hotbar
- Fixed potential disconnect with custom dropdown code
- Fixed potential disconnect with employee system
- Fixed potential disconnect with inventory code
- Fixed potential disconnect with employee gather code
- Fixed potential disconnect with employee restock code
- Fixed potential disconnect with item code
- Fixed potential disconnect with revive code
- Fixed potential disconnect with employee cash register code
- Fixed potential disconnect with music code
- Fixed potential disconnect with level loading code
- Fixed potential disconnect with console code
- Removed more glowing fog
- Fixed props despawning when players get near to them in Crater
- Fixed another case of armor bar not disappearing for client
- Fixed Dusty Hoodie clipping issues for male rig
- Fixed Zena's turrets not shooting the player sometimes
- Fixed particle effect for placing items in containers glowing yellow
- Fixed console (~) not properly blocking inputs
- Fixed names and descriptions on several items to have correct language and lore
- Fixed some LODs of Bamboo Village shops
- Fixed gigantic piano in Snowville Saloon
⚙️ Optimizations
- Optimized art assets in the quarry
- Removed extraneous bird spawners for better framerate
⚠️ Upcoming Changes in Future Patches
- Fixed one issue that contributed to long play session lag where death boxes of NPCs were saved
- Fixed employees not being able to use crafting benches
- More potential disconnect issues
- Quest Markers to reduce amount of time wandering around in the wrong places (this one will take a while to implement)
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