Snipers,

Hone your focus. We're delighted to announce that the Sniper Elite Franchise Sale has officially begun!

Whether you're re-visiting the unforgiving yet exotic terrain of North Africa in Sniper Elite III, diving into 1944 France to uncover Operation Kraken in Sniper Elite 5, OR brand new to our award-winning sniper series, there's never been a better time to test your sharpshooter skills on the front lines.

Click the link below to visit the Sales page where all our discounts are listed, including:
👉 90% off Sniper Elite III
👉 85% off Sniper Elite 4
👉 85% off Sniper Elite 5
👉 30% off Sniper Elite 5: Season Pass One
👉 50% off Sniper Elite 5: Season Pass Two

➕ Don't forget, the Franchise sale runs until Thursday 13 June, so make the most of the sale while it lasts soldiers!

Visit the Sniper Elite Franchise Sale page to view more of our discounts.




With more than 30 million players worldwide, Rebellion's award-winning, BAFTA-nominated tactical shooter, will this holiday season, be playable on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max and any iPad or Mac with the M1 chip or later. Legendary snipers can now take on the Nazis in the palm of their hands.

You will return once more to 1943 Italy. The Axis is mobilising and it’s up you, Karl Fairburne to aid in the liberation from fascism. Not only will your Apple devices have intuitive touch controls, but you will also have access to a wide range of supported external controllers to assist in navigating your way through the map.

For further intel, sign up to our exclusive mailing list via the official Sniper Elite website.

Stay safe out there, and we'll see you on the battlefield.

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Greetings, Agents! 🎮

We're thrilled to announce that our game is officially coming to consoles! The big reveal took place during the Guerilla Collective Showcase, and we couldn't be more excited to share this journey with you.

📺 Check out our new trailer and discover the official release date!

Watch it here:


A huge thank you to our collaboration partner, Crunching Koalas, for helping Gruby make this possible. 🤝

🚨 New Game Mode Alert! We're excited to introduce a brand new feature launching simultaneously with the console and PC version: Time Trial mode, called The Chronodeck. This highly requested mode lets you race against the clock across 12 unique maps, with each of the 4 classes having 3 distinct maps. Compete to kill enemies, collect coins, and secure the best time on our leaderboards. 🕒🏆

💬 We can't wait to hear your thoughts and questions about The Chronodeck before its release. Share your feedback with us on Discord or here in the comments!

Stay tuned, and happy gaming! 🎉

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See you in the game! 👾

This week in Destiny we're celebrating the launch of The Final Shape! We're so excited to see everyone jump into the new expansion. There is a lot to do, and we have even more unlocking soon. We are less than a day away from the launch of the Salvation's Edge raid, and we've got some new information to help with your planning.

List of topics for the week:

• More Salvation’s Edge World First race details.
  
• Salvation’s Edge Bungie Rewards.
  
• Save the date for these upcoming events.
  
• Aldrovanda Witherhoard weapon ornament now available.

You can read the rest of the TWID here.

The last betas introduced a lot of bugs. I think it's about time they got fixed!

• New options in the "Split Text" action
  
  
• New "options" popup in Send Message!
  
• Merged the "Edit Message" action with Send Message
  
  
  (please note this is not final)
  
• Fixed folders disappearing when being moved
  
• Fixed new actions appearing before the highlighted action
  
• Fixed languages not showing up
  
• New "Send Modular Message To Interaction" action
  
• Fixed folder names bugs
  
• Fixed attachments not being a list in Get Message Info

Hello )

Almost everything is ready for the next update, there are only minor improvements in the technical part and the level design.

Unfortunately, we have to reschedule the date again... (

The work is in full swing and we hope that in June 2024 we will be able to please you with a new character and content.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

And a short video from the development process =)

Hey Racers,

We would like to apologize for the inconvenience with the Ranked Race Event.

We have identified an issue where intermittent server crashes would occur due to an issue with the Ranked Race. In order to provide a stable server environment, we have decided to suspend the event.

As compensation for the event's suspension, the 1st Place reward for the event will be given out to all Racers. An additional reward is also under review and will be announced separately.

The Ranked Race event will return after the cause of the issue has been identified and addressed, and will be shared with a future announcement.

June 6 Suspension of the Ranked Race Event

• Details: The Ranked Race Event has been suspended in order to address server stability issues. 
• All Racers that log into KartRider: Drift after the maintenance is completed and prior to 23:59 UTC on June 9, 2024 will receive one Special Outfit Box #2 and three +10 Proficiency Plus Tickets through the in-game mailbox. 

 
We apologize once again for the inconveniences caused due to today’s maintenance and the event.

Thank you.

-The KartRider: Drift Team-

fixed some bugs (if you played "touchy" too many times, it could get stuck)

This month we're adding the Seismic Sensor, a new electricity-powered deployable.



When powered, it will listen for nearby explosions and send a power signal when detecting any.

• You can configure its range from 1 to 30 meters (one foundation = 3 meters)
  
• It will output a different power value depending on the type of explosion detected

A non-exhaustive list of power values from explosives:

• 1 power = F1 Grenade, Beancan
  
• 2 power = Explosive ammo, Satchel
  
• 3 power = C4, Rocket

The idea is to let you detect and trigger circuits when you're being raided. Alarms, traps... the possibilities are infinite, we're excited to see what you will come up with!




Traditionally, we blocked all forms of building inside Monuments. This made sense back in the day when Monuments were small in size and number, but over the years, the amount of land they take up has increased significantly.

We want to reward players who pick a strategic location during a fight, but it's hard to pick a good location when you're in an empty field!

This is why barricades can now be placed on the terrain around Monuments. This allows you to take cover as you enter and exit monuments, as well as take cover inside the open fields inside Monuments.

Applies to:

• Wood barricade
  
• Stone barricade
  
• Concrete barricade
  
• Sandbags

Remember: Monument Structures, Concrete, and Roads still block barricades at this time.

Decay and melee protection has been adjusted to account for more relaxed placement

• 15 minute decay
  
• 8-10 hits with melee

Behold the ability to see what your teammate is placing and where it will be placed! This should clear up the exact location your teammate(s) are shouting while trying to build.

By default, it only will show your teammate's deploy guides when you are building. This can be changed via the options menu to 'Always Show' or to be disabled.






When allowing barricades to be placed into Monuments we realized... it's not that clear where the building blocked of Monuments actually starts!

You will now see a red outline around the edge of monuments.



This can be toggled in the options menu.

Server owners can disable it via a convar if conflicts with custom Monuments.
Monument building radius
We also took the opportunity to adjust the building blocked size of some Monuments.

• Gas Station
  
• Lighthouse
  
• Mining Outpost
  
• Super Market

• Dome
  
• Launch Site

• Arctic Research Base

Once a code is set, the "last used" button is much faster at entering the code

Bone fragments can now be used in a composter to create fertiliser

Window glass, shutters and bars now craft in 15s instead of 30s

See the name of skins at the Repair Bench, and a link to get them

Idle helicopters no longer drift down slopes

Horse armour doesn't slow your horse as much

+100% damage against deployables

Added HV Ammo & Incendiary Ammo to mixing table

Easier to search and setup industrial conveyors

Prevent players from stashing their explosives in TCs

Hammer always shows all options to reduce misclicks

Reduce volume of F15 by 50% to reduce strain on ears

Fixed monument prefabs appearing invisible from far

Hold Sprint to auto plant all held seeds in a single planter

Able to see the attachments on weapons for sale in vending machines

Adjusted the chainsaw hit radius to make it easier to hit the trees' X mark




While a queue is better than nothing (who remembers the days of spamming reconnect?), we want to avoid players getting stuck in a queue at all: especially when it's due to a crash.

We have made a few changes to allow players recently kicked from any server to skip the queue.

• Holds your spot
  
• 5 minutes max
  
• Any type of disconnect (kick, internet outage, crash, alt + f4)

When using the wire tool, you can now adjust the amount of slack in your wire using your mouse wheel while holding LEFT SHIFT.

It's purely visual, it doesn't change anything gameplay-wise, and it also works with hoses and Christmas lights!




I worked on a bunch of improvements for sign painting this month based on community feedback. There's a mix of QoL and bug fixes, but they should all improve your painting experience!

• Made the painting UI follow your UI scale option
  
• Added a convar to switch which side the painting UI is on (paint.leftsided)
  
• Increased the maximum brush size to 100 (was 32)
  
• Fixed brush sizes below 2 drawing nothing sometimes
  
• Fixed drawn brushes overlapping within the same stroke
  
• Fixed weird color blending behavior for the softest brush
  
• Fixed portrait and landscape frames using an incorrect aspect ratio paint texture (no more squishing and export inconsistency)

1. This makes painting behave more like other apps
   
2. Fixes low opacity values not actually actually being low because the brushes overlap

Reduced medium battery size by ~15%, now fits under half walls

Tesla Coils and Igniters are now healed by your tool cupboard overtime

Now automatically turned ON or OFF depending on whether they have power

Added a new input to switch your SAM Site targeting mode using electricity

Solar panels no longer take conditional damage when picked up

Vehicles no longer prevent you from wiring components




We’re making several fishing changes this month to try and shake up the broader fishing meta. Our current issue is that it’s quite trivial to endlessly produce fish from a safe zone, then converting that fish to scrap. It’s not the fastest way to earn scrap but it is pretty reliable.

Our intention with the range of fish available to catch was always that you would work your way up the chain - catch a sardine, use that to catch a trout, use that to catch a shark. By allowing raw fish meat to be used as a bait you could easily gut one fish and catch dozens more fish with that meat, which could then be converted into even more fish.

To break this loop, this month raw fish meat is now only worth 0.5 bait (and can be used in stacks of 3) - whole fish can (and should) be used as bait but you now run the risk of losing that fish when casting out. The idea is to introduce a risk/reward mechanic. Do you cash out with your current trout catch or do you put them on line and go for the sharks?



To balance out this reduction in bait, we’ve made several other forms of bait more useful. Several bait types can now be “stacked” - if a fish requires 5 bait to be caught and you stack two Worms worth 2.5 each, you can now catch that fish. This behaviour is applied across worms, grubs, berries and small fish, making these baits more viable. We’ve also increased the bait value of human meat (1 -> 3), bear meat (5 -> 10) and wolf meat (5-> 10). The stack amount can be seen next to the bait value when selecting the item in your inventory.

The Survival Fish Trap became a bit neglected after we introduced the Fishing Rod, so this month we’ve adjusted it to make it more relevant. The trap now uses the same underlying fish/bait system as the rod, meaning you can catch different fish in different water sources as well as catch better fish based on the bait provided. The only mechanical difference between these two fish sources is that the trap cannot catch the same fish as it has used as bait and the trap has a 50% chance to lose the bait without catching the fish.




In order to save some space in bases, I’ve modified the Tech Tree menu to now allow you to browse and unlock techs from lower Tech Trees (eg. Access T1 techs from a T2 bench, access T1 and T2 trees from a T3 bench). Use the tabs in the top left of the screen to switch between available tech trees.

The workbench tax from last month's update is applied based on the Tech Tree level, so there will be no scrap cost changes as a result of this change. The tech tree also now opens immediately when accessing the workbench, saving you a click.




In hack week this month, I explored ways to reduce our memory usage, an area that is a real priority for us this year. While a lot of my experiments weren’t workable, one did actually end up saving several hundred megabytes of memory for very little cost, so it’s shipping as disabled by default this month.

A renderer in this case is simply a thing that is visible to the player - a crate, a rock, part of a structure, etc. Importantly for performance each renderer has LODs (Level of Detail) - lower quality versions of each renderer that we switch to based on the distance to the players perspective. In Unity each of these LODs typically lives on a child object of a master parent object, so Barrel01 will have a child Barrel01_LOD0, Barrel01_LOD1, etc that we switch to. What I discovered during hack week is that in a proc gen map of 4.5k size, we can have upwards of 1.3 million objects in the world, each of these objects has some overhead (we need to store its position, rotation, what the object does, etc). In a renderers case, for every single renderer we had 3-5 child objects, one for each LOD level.

I realised that in most cases each LOD object was just sharing a duplicate of all the information except for a different model, so I modified the system to detect when this happens and consolidate all needed information into a single object, then delete the child objects. By applying this to every renderer in the world, I was able to delete 385 thousand objects from the world, which had a combined memory saving of 484mb - pretty significant!

This combination process is run every time the game is launched, we’re currently working on a change to make most of these modifications before we build the game, which should yield further savings next month.

Due to how risky this change is (deleting 385 thousand objects has had some unintended side effects that we’ve now fixed), we’re shipping this new feature off by default, but we’ll monitor it’s usage through the month and likely turn it on by default sometime next month. The convar is graphics.collapseRendererLOD and you’ll need to restart your game after turning it on or off. Let us know how it goes for you!

tldr: 400k less objects
500mb less RAM




It would be amiss to say horses have not had their share of issues over the last few months. So following community feedback I looked into a solution that would resolve the difficulties players have had with horse navigation.

Alongside some minor adjustments to prevent horses from getting stuck and preventing unnecessary stamina depletion, I introduced the ability for horses to walk backwards. This seemed like the most logical approach to alleviate horses getting stuck and should be an overall improvement to navigation.




I've added a few more cinematic entities this month for Rust creators to use in their video and image projects. These can be spawned by server owners/admins and can be hidden via console with pre-assigned group numbers.

The new additions include:

• More spot and point light (red/blue/green variants)
  
• Unlit backdrops and cyc walls (green/blue/black/white/grey variants)
  
• Flags/cutters (small/medium/large variants)

Cinematic entities assigned to different groups which allows them to hidden if desired. Use the command cinematicentity.hideobjects followed by group numbers to hide them.

Cinematic entities are now assigned to specific group numbers which allows them to be hidden if desired. Use the command cinematicentity.hideobjects followed by one or more group numbers to set their visibility to hidden.

The groups are setup like so:

• 0 = nothing (makes all entities visible)
  
• 1 = lighting
  
• 2 = backdrops
  
• 3 = props
  
• 4 = misc (flags/cutters)

You can hide one or multiple groups in the same command line - for example:
cinematicentity.hideobjects 1 - Hides lighting only (keeps light effect but hides the mesh)
cinematicentity.hideobjects 1 2 - Hides both lighting and backdrop meshes
cinematicentity.hideobjects 0 - Shows/un-hides all cinematic entities

You can also hide cinematic entity groups in demos with cinematicentity.demohideobjects followed by the same group numbers above. To revert to the visiblity of the entities back to their original states from the demo recording, use cinematicentity.removedemooverride




There will be Twitch drops so be sure you get synced!



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Turret interference has been effective at preventing players from surrounding their base in 100s of turrets, however it lacked feedback on how exactly to stay under the limit.

Turret interference will now be shown while holding a wire tool and looking at a turret.



It will also be shown in the hotbar while building.



While this is accurate most of the time keep in mind this only counts turrets you are authed on (it ignores enemy turrets). This mismatch is required to prevent players from holding a turret and seeing how many turrets are inside an enemy's base.


FULL DEVBLOG HERE

Hey folks!

We've put together a quick FAQ to cover some of the frequently asked questions about Yooka-Replaylee! Check it out below to see if YOUR frequently asked question has an answer!

We'll also be doing a dev Q&A soon to discuss more about the game so stay tuned for that!

What is Yooka-Replaylee? Is this a remaster?

Yooka-Replaylee is the culmination of almost 10 years of experience since we founded Playtonic way way back in 2015! We’ve taken on board all the community feedback as well as channelling everything we’ve learned while working on other projects to make this the definitive version of Yooka-Laylee. It’s more than a remaster! Find out more on the store page.

Here's some videos to give you a bigger picture!

Yooka-Replaylee Dev Q&A

Yooka-Replaylee Art Q&A

Yooka-Replaylee vs Yooka-Laylee Gameplay Comparison

Why now?

Well, we’re approaching our 10th Birthday as a studio and as we’ve grown and learned, we’ve always wanted to revisit the game that started it all and what better way to celebrate reaching 10 years?! That’s no easy feat in the current games landscape! We’re incredibly proud of Yooka-Laylee and how it defines Playtonic but we’d be lying if we said we haven’t always wanted to go back and do things a little differently.

What else are you guys working on?

As part of the Yooka-Replaylee announcement, we’ve alluded to the fact that we’ve taken learnings from our other projects. A lot of our founding team come from an era where games are ready when they’re ready, not tied to arbitrary deadlines. We have some cool things cooking up behind the scenes that we’ll show when they’re ready to show! Yook-an rest assured that this isn’t “it”!

Will original owners get a discount?

Yes! So far we've confirmed that anyone who owns the game on Steam will get a discount! Since we've announced the game is coming to PS5, Xbox Series consoles and... Nintendo platforms... we're also pleased to say we're working with platforms to ensure we can provide discounts to as many folks as possible across these platforms. We'll have more details, including the discount % as soon as we possibly can!

When can we expect Yooka-Replaylee?

We’re still in development and we still have fun features to add and talk about so we’re not ready to share a release date just yet!

What platforms is Yooka-Replaylee coming to?

Yooka-Replaylee will be coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Nintendo platforms!

• Changed the visual style of the shop.
  
• Suit pack rarity is now based on what previously was called pack level. It indicates how many upgrades unlocked in previous rounds will be available to you if you choose that pack (can vary depending on the weapons that the pack has).
  
• When hovering over a weapon upgrade, ability upgrade, or passive ability card, there is now an indicator above the card which describes what type of card it is and what weapon or ability will be affected by it.
  
• Updated loading screen sizes.
  
• Added the party list to the main menu (bottom right after opening the main menu with the Escape key).
  
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Spanish from Spain translations.

• Made the number of rockets visible on the Rocket Launcher’s first-person model match the current ammo.

• Fixed an issue causing the datacenter region selection to be reset after a game restart.
  
• Fixed a crash related to animation loading.
  
• Tentative fix for an issue where the hub was not loaded correctly.