Alpha 19 Changelogs

## **Alpha 19.3 Stable Version**

We have

* improved the network package protection
* enabled Christmas items again for the time being, so get your candy canes and santa hats!
* fixed the toolbelt so slot 9 and 10 can use challenges notes now

### **Added**

* Network layer encryption
* Connection rate limit
* More feedback on clients on why they are not allowed to connect
* Message on the client when they got disconnected because the server is shutting down
* Wandering horde zombies are not alert, so stealth attacks work on them
* Wandering horde 1 second delay between spawns

### **Changed**

* Replaced static NetPackage list with runtime dynamically assigned IDs for more flexibility
* Deleted old player StealthScreenOverlay and goggle eyed effects
* Improved supply plane drawing
* Optimized MinEvents finding of tranforms
* Optimized MinEvent ActionRemoveParticleEffectFromEntity
* Enabled Christmas themed loot items

### **Fixed**

* Can't target, shoot or repair through Molotov Effects
* Set player made door stability support to false to prevent AI exploitable building
* Console command "water" hidden by console command "thirsty"
* DecoManager large FPS drops when saving to a slow drive
* DecoManager written log always having a count of 0 and added duration
* ZombieOldTimer has no flame particles
* Weighted Head can Still go into Machete/Knife/Bone Knife
* Using admin/whitelist/ban on users with special characters in their name breaks the serveradmin.xml
* ItemActionQuest now respects the current toolbelt size
* Large localization mods breaking client connects

## **Alpha 19.2 Stable Version**

### **Added**

* Console command "gfx dti" to set distant terrain instancing
* Console command "gfx dtpix" to set distant terrain pixel error
* Trees are set to consistent LOD transition values by code
* Support for Steel Series SDK

### **Changed**

* Renamed console command "ai path" to "ai pathlines"
* Optimized path grid move buffer copy
* Optimized path grid block checks and misc
* Reduced the effect of High and Ultra Object Quality settings
* Deleted WaterDepthRecorder that reduced FPS a bit
* Updated terrain shaders
* Improved terrain shader settings for better performance
* Prefab editor to use same tree LOD bias as game
* Our custom speed tree shader to Alpha Test queue

### **Fixed**

* Trees are not rotated correctly on the diagonal directions
* Desert terrain normal textures not set as normals
* FirMed01 tree popping in oddly
* Two trees not instancing
* 8 block entities not instance rendering
* You could see under the water plane when camera was close to it
* Unlit explosives can explode in hand after throwing a lit one
* Electric fence wires drop to the bottom of the pole after unloading the chunk or FO point.

## **Alpha 19.1 Stable Version**

### **Added**

* Player side stepping while on ladders
* Players falling onto ladders will be slowed until they reach a reasonable speed to attach
* Support defining POI zones in Prefab Editor
* Set entity rigid body drag to .25 when spawned with 0
* Death ragdoll physics set max velocities lower
* 20 Slot Toolbelt for Prefab Editor
* New Stripper, Utility, and Business zombies

### **Changed**

* Improved AI ladder use
* Ladder type blocks to only be climbable when vertical
* Increased player horizontal move speed on ladders and running boosts
* Jumping conflicts with starting to climb a ladder
* Console command replies on the Windows Dedicated Server terminal window same green as regular console output now
* Loot window of writable storage box shows custom text if assigned
* Reduced zombie flesh physics bounce and increased fat bounce
* Increased toolbelt size to 10 slots
* Increased value of cigars
* Reenabled docks\_02 in Navezgane

### **Fixed**

* Switch lights do not seem to be working when they are placed.
* Switches that are turned on will be white when logging back into the game
* Fixed light source on player industrial light
* First person hand animation for block placing is faster and doesn’t de sync with fast placed blocks
* Stone axe abledo brightness
* Trees are invisible from one side and not the other
* Object quality diminishes world object render distance too far
* Cops and Radiated Cops aim poorly (Increased vomit radius)
* Soldier zombie only shows head on fire
* Goldenrod seed uses full grown stage ghost when planting (and similar drawing bugs in other plants)
* Block placement would start rotated for certain blocks
* Broken glass looked white when holding
* AI jumping at you thinking the path to you was unreachable if you had moved
* AI could not jump while on a ladder
* AI obstacle check was disabled on ladder if not climbing
* AI pathing not making horizontal ladder connections
* AI pathing making unneeded inside drop connections
* “house\_modern\_03” has zombie trapped in tub if/when spawned
* Trader hughes poi has missing beam
* Terrain AirPocket in cave\_04
* House\_old\_victorian\_10 fire place paint looks out of place
* Player jumping to a ladder block after having used a ladder would not attach unless jump was still pressed after entering the ladder block
* Player or AI moving down from air to a ladder would fall 1m
* Player moving down to ground while in a ladder block would keep you attached (slow)
* Holding jump after attaching to a ladder slowly slides you down
* Player does not use stamina when bunny hopping
* Ladder rung above hay bale negates hay bale protection
* Water makes moving dots effect
* HUD timers overlap icons with local language changes
* Prefab Editor nullref when toggling ‘Show Stability Glue’
* “ERR Prefab loading failed” when clients join a world with a custom POI
* Toolbelt only remembers one slot per item type to return to (e.g. multiple spears)
* Controller unable to select player profile character
* onSelfEquip event consistency issues
* Harvest animation plays when out of range to harvest
* Healing other player is not working
* Food animation speeds up after firing any weapon
* Deployed robotic sledge animation doesn’t have firing sound(s) for clients
* Deployed robotic sledge animation doesn’t fire correctly for clients
* AP rounds not working as expected
* Robotic sledge placement can be rotated using reload key during placement process
* Junk Sledge dupe on 2 player pickup
* Auto turret and traps use mod of item held in hand. ie. burning shaft mod
* Spawning in a trader with ctrl num\* causes nre
* Error if anim pause (ctrl num\*) enabled when placing robotic turrets
* Dynamic resolution causes Z selection box issues
* Floating crawler stumble
* Zombies fall through floor/world when jumping over metalRailing blocks
* Knocked down Fat Cops play a weird ragdoll
* Bear corpse harvest ragdoll is excessive
* Bear ragdoll hips could keep moving and improved impact handling
* Lab and Hazmat zombie show no fire when burning
* Robotic Turret freezing game when shooting a block and having 0 BlockPenetrationFactor

## **Alpha 19 Release Notes**

Alpha 19 is not compatible with previous Alpha worlds or save game data. New Pregen-Maps have been created and can be used. We also advises you to delete you 7 Days save Game data folder before playing.

TFP is extremely excited for this release. It’s as big as the last couple alphas and is packed full of new content, bug fixes, optimizations, and game balancing. Read on for more information!

**Alpha 19 Official Release Notes**

### **Linear Color Space Lighting**

Alpha 19 has gotten a huge visual upgrade with the switch to Linear Color Space Lighting. We have finally achieved full PBR Physically Based Rendering and all of the art has been adjusted to look better and compatible with it. Normal maps look better, bright lights don’t wash out the scene and so much more. It’s hard to describe why it looks better you’ll have to play it to see for yourself.

The video option to adjust gamma has been changed to brightness, so it works with the new lighting. It also has a more balanced range of darker to lighter adjustment.

Lights now use a priority system, so close lights are updated rapidly to reduce visible jumps in their intensity and range.

### **Interactive Loading Screen**

We added a brand new interactive loading screen with over 20 tool-tips on how to play the game from basic to advanced. The user can cycle back and forth through them and learn how to play the game better while it’s loading. It also looks better with new HD screenshot backgrounds.

### **Improved Game-pad Support**

We have combed through all game-pad functions making sure everything is up to date and working and we also improved defaults like for driving. Additionally we added a new reverse directions for block rotation placement.

### **New Survival System & Critical Injuries**

We gutted the old ISS or interactive survival system that blackened and clamped your health and stamina bars from filling because it was confusing to players. We replaced it with an all new critical system.
All critical injuries that blacken or clamp your max health or stamina will be caused by a new critical buff on the left of the screen. These new critical buffs are clickable, taking the player directly to the player status effect screen where you can read about the problem and its cure.

When you are at full health a zombie can never cause a critical on the first hit so we don’t want to hear about unfair crits! =) Once you take a few hits, or get reckless in close combat the chances increases. Being at low health also increases the chance of receiving a critical. Armor reduces this chance by a flat amount, creating a buffer that enemies must overcome before they can hit you with criticals.
Some criticals are incremental. A sprained arm makes you vulnerable to getting a broken arm.
Some injuries don’t take kindly to being ignored. Sprinting or jumping with a broken leg will not work in your favor. If an injury is affected by an action like that then the buff icon will blink briefly and you will know that something happened.

New and reworked critical injuries include:

#### **Abrasions**

* The most common injury that you get in fights. They cause no additional problems.

#### **Sprained or Broken Arm**

* Lowers your swing speed and decreases your reload speed and weapon handling. The cure for a broken arm is a splint which lowers the time for healing. Power attacks or ranged attacks increase the time needed to heal it.

#### **Sprained or Broken Leg**

* Lowers your mobility and jump height. You can get a sprained or broken leg in a melee fight or when jumping from heights. The cure for a broken leg is a splint which lowers the time for healing. Jumping, falling or sprinting increase the time needed to heal it.

#### **Deep Lacerations**

* Make you more vulnerable to receiving bleeding criticals. They are cured by a first aid kit or sewing kit.

#### **Concussion**

* Taking more hits while being stunned can cause a concussion. It periodically causes a stun effect and is cured by painkillers.

#### Infections

* Infection is not something that enemies cause directly. Any critical hit has a chance to cause an infection. An infection is completely harmless until it reaches 5%. At that point it starts getting worse and you need medication to cure it. While you have an infection any hit you take will make it worse.

### **Food and Water Bars**

We’ve added food and water UI bars under the players belt inventory. The blue bar is for your water level and green for is for your food level. You will see them go up and down based on your current hunger and thirst levels.

### **HD Characters**

We have overhauled and re-imagined many of the characters in HD. They may look better but they have less draw calls and are slightly better in performance. New HD zombies include:

* Zombie Arlene
* Zombie Darlene
* Zombie Marlene
* Zombie Boe
* Zombie Joe
* Zombie Moe
* Zombie Yo
* Zombie Steve
* Big Mama Zombie
* Crawler Zombie
* Trader Jen
* Trader Joel
* Player arms – male and female

### **Dynamic Music System**

TFP have again teamed up with Native Darkness Productions to make the Alpha 19 Dynamic music system more robust while adding a ton of new content and features.

The propriety Dynamic Music System algorithm measures and uses many player-centric conditions such as player location, biome, time of day, inside or outside a location, nearby aggressive enemies, threat level and more to tailor a custom movie like musical experience for the player.

From this Dynamic Music System algorithm the system can play from the following musical groups: Home day music, home night music, exploration, suspense, combat and custom trader music for each trader.

Exploration, suspense and combat are procedurally generated providing a complete musical arrangement from a set of interchangeable loops. As of Alpha 19 there, are 31,558 unique combinations of music.

Music volume, daily allotted probability and On/Off toggles are available in the audio menu.

We are very excited to unveil this system and we hope you enjoy this new addition to the 7 Days soundscape.

### **Loot Progression/Balance**

Loot distribution has been smoothed out so that you do not find end game loot too soon and have no more upgrades to look forward to.

Loot has been balanced to provide a smooth progression from primitive, iron and steel items. This change provides a steady progression for the player and gives some incentive to craft, while slowing the economy a bit early game.

The loot quality for player parties is equivalent to that of the highest level player and perk effects like Lucky Looter are not shared. The only loot advantage is that parties face tougher opponents which have a higher chance to drop loot of better quality.

There are 4 tech levels of items in the game. These start appearing in loot at the following Game-Stage intervals.

* **Tech 0 (GS 1-11)** – Primitive tools, weapons and armor including a bow and the blunderbuss.
* **Tech 1 (GS 12)** – Iron or similar melee items and armor and and the first proper firearms like a pistol or double barrel shotgun.
* **Tech 2 (GS 50)** – The best melee items, bows and armor and mid range firearms like a pump-action shotgun.
* **Tech 3 (GS 91)** – The most advanced firearms like an M60 or the Sniper Rifle.

Trader quest rewards scale similar to this system. You won’t immediately get a shotgun for a day one quest.

We will be continuing to fine tune loot progression in patches. In the future we plan on unifying loot progression, quest loot reward progression and trader for sale item progression more unified. We are planning on having biomes and/or POI with both harder enemies and better loot.

### **Enemy Progression/Balance**

Enemy progression has been re-balanced. The chosen game difficulty no longer affects the game-stage value and player parties accumulate roughly 2/3 of the combined game-stage that they used to. This makes the enemy difficulty grow slower you won’t see high end enemies on the 2nd blood moon.

### **On Screen Sprite System**

We added a brand new Nav Objects On-Screen Sprite System to help players more easily locate important items in the world such as fetch quest containers, player backpacks, spears and more. We are using this system on many of the harder to find important items and events in the game.

The new Nav Objects On-Screen Sprite System, which govern the On Screen Icons, Compass Icons and Map Icons. These functions are easily configured in the XML and allow adding custom Nav Objects for Entities, Quest Objectives and Items for those who enjoy modding the game.

Some of the items that are using the new Nav Objects On-Screen Sprite System include:

* Quest Rally Markers
* Quest Fetch Objects
* Dropped Player Backpacks
* Player Bedrolls
* Player owned vehicles
* Traders
* Thrown spears
* Air Drops

### **Quest Improvements**

We have improved many of the quest types and even added new quests here are some of the improvements

#### **Quest Sprites**

* We have implemented the on screen sprite markers for rally markers, traders, fetch bags, dig quests and more making it much easier for players to go where they need to go and find what they need to find.

#### **Dig Quests**

* The dig quests have been improved displaying a projected image of a dotted circle onto the terrain showing the player where to dig. As the player digs out terrain blocks the projected circle shrinks letting the player know he is getting closer to the buried treasure.

#### **Opening Routes**

* We have added new trader to trader quests that guide the player to the next closest trader after completing 10 quests. This continues until the player has delivered a package to all 5 traders.

### **World and Location updates**

We added a ton of new locations to the game including remnants. These give the player easier low enemy count locations to explore, loot and take over if your not ready for a Tiered challenge.

We have updated Navezgane significantly increasing the playable space into the radiated zone with new roads that lead to new developments adding many new POIS or locations that were never in Navezgane before or updating cities. Locations include:

* New Desert business development
* New Snow modern development
* New Forest old housing development
* New Desert modern housing development
* New Desert old housing development
* Desert City of Departure has been updated
* Snowy city of Perishton has been updated
* Wasteland City of Gravestowne has been updated

Some Trader locations in Navezgane have been moved to improve distances between traders
We have improved Random Gen in A19 to use every POI possible in the game so players will see the breadth of content like never before along with a lot of tagging updates and improvements. In fact an A19 Random Worlds can have over 500 unique POIS!

We’ve re-imagined tons of older locations with a complete art and game-play overhaul converting them to beautiful and quest-able dungeon experiences and added many brand new locations to the game. In all over 40 new or updated locations and counting. Some of the new or re-imagined locations include:

* 2 Grocery Stores
* 2 Gun Stores
* 2 Pharmacies
* 2 Hardware Stores
* 2 Clothing Stores
* 2 Electronics Stores
* 7 Ranger Stations
* Carlot\_01
* New High School
* sawmill\_01
* house\_modern\_12
* house\_modern\_13
* house\_old\_gambrel\_04
* 12 Remnants
* departure\_city\_blk\_plaza
* park\_basketball
* park\_plaza\_01
* park\_plaza\_02
* red\_mesa
* celltower\_01

#### **Changed**

* Light intensity correction to all POIs to work better with the new linear lighting
* Wasteland biome now spawns smaller but improved deco remnants
* Removed un-needed random gen POIS
* Improved naming conventions of some biome spawned poi remnants and deco piles. all will have the term deco first in their file names now
* Renamed bank to store\_bank\_01
* Removed un-used old tree piles
* Deprecated old cover pile pois that were not being used anymore
* Moved special totoz east of football stadium
* Moved pawnshop from departure to rural pine forest where old small bookstore was
* Removed all non forest and burnt forest player spawn locations to work with the new trader to trader quest progression in Navezgane. Will be adding more back to get variety
* Adjusted pine forest biome to take over a small amount of the winter biome in Navezgane
* Moved gas station 6 to outskirts of Perishton to make room for new plaza across from courthouse
* Fixed over-sized trees in Persihton and improved city block performance
* Deprecated old burnt pine cluster POIS as the are not needed
* Removed alleys from Gravestowne blk improved Gravestownes overall look
* Optimized Diersville city blk a little
* Size and position of remnant mill so it fits to the alley in Perishton
* Replaced many duplicate survivor sites with POIS never in Navezgane
* Trader Hugh and Trader Joel can now spawn in any biome in RWG
* Single bed & mattresses POI replacement
* Optimized store\_autoparts\_01 from 487K verts/513K tris to 317K verts 315K tris

#### **Fixed**

* Cabinets in Fastfood\_04 are not lootable
* Cemetery 02 torches that were not on
* Wrong bookcases in bank POI
* Boat docks 02 collapses
* Boats Docks 3 collapses
* Si issue bar\_stripclub\_01
* Fake cabinets in Berserker Bill’s
* Loot cover in abandoned\_house\_05 has an SI issue
* Trailer\_01 prefab si issue when wrenching the car
* Missing support pillar in gas station 05
* Incorrectly rotated drinking fountain in factory 01
* Survivor\_site\_05 has cobblestone clipping through tent
* Garage roof at house\_old\_pyramid\_01 has si issue when stepped on
* Lights in front of the Bear Den are too bright
* CeilingLight04 spotlight was sideways and adjusted defaults

### **Environment Art**

The Art Team has grown much bigger and they have made some major improvements including:

#### **Snow Trees**

* Updated to resemble thick fir trees with 3D snow giving the trees more depth and volume.

#### **Burnt Trees**

* Thin version that has charred bark in addition to being more performant. A thicker crispy fried fir tree that adds more atmosphere and variety to the burnt forest.

#### **New skies**

* Updated sun and moon rendering, cloud blending and lighting, and horizon blending.

New fog – Uses a new distance calculation, allows for very dense fog and sun punch through of heavy fog. Fog now switches to a murky version when under water.

#### **Updated Textures**

* Most environment textures have been updated in addition to adjustments for linear color space and physically based rendering.

#### **Commercial Stores**

* All new commercial store POI props and loot containers! Quest through ransacked grocery stores shelves. Have your pick of rotten produce, peruse clothing stores with the latest fashions, and catch up on a best seller at the local book store. Shop till you drop for all of your post apocalyptic retail needs!

Nearly 150 new commercial assets including:

* Hardware store shelves
* Grocery stores stocked with food, beverage items
* Rotten produce bins
* Trashed store shelves
* Frozen food refrigerators
* Beverage refrigerators
* Pharmaceutical drug shelves
* Clothing racks
* Clothing shelves
* Mannequins
* Store display cases
* Gun and ammo display cases
* Gun racks
* Shoe racks
* Electronic store shelves
* Book shelves
* Shooting target
* Square and round hay bales
* Restroom signs

### **New Weapons & Items**

We added several new tools and weapons:

**Tech level 3** -we’ve added a whole new line of weapons to give you the firepower you will need to face future special infected, bandits and more!

#### **Desert Vulture**

* This .44 magnum caliber pistol packs some serious stopping power and is governed by the gunslinger skill.

#### **Automatic shotgun**

* This new tech level 3 firearm sports a large drum magazine and allows use of the trigger group automatic mod to unlock full automatic weapon fire mode makes it the most devastating short range shotgun in the game. If you like to see limbless zombies and superior crown control, this is the weapon for you.

#### **Sniper Rifle**

* This 762 sniper rifle has a larger magazine, fire rate, better handling and superior damage to the hunting rifle and marksman rifles.

Impact Driver – This tech level 3 tool is the fastest way to harvest mechanical items. Strip down cars and mechanical items down in seconds!

**Tech level 2**

#### **Ratchet**

* This new tech level 2 harvesting tool is faster than a wrench and degrades slower.

#### **Tactical Assault Rifle**

* This new tier 2 assault rifle is a step above the 762 in range, accuracy and fire rate.

**Tech level 1**

#### **Robotic Sledge**

* This robotic weapon is a stationary turret with a large sledgehammer shaped pulverizing arm that punches enemies and can knock them down easier at higher quality levels. It is governed by robotics

#### **Blunderbuss**

* Not a new weapon, but with the loot re-balance this weapon might save your skin early game and is craft-able from basic components.

All existing tools and weapons have either been remade from scratch or had an art update to pbr textures for the new linear lighting.

### **New Candy**

We have added candy to the vending machines, they allow players to have a short term modification to game-play and provide a few calories:

* Atom Junkie – Atom sized candy and atomic sized power! Increase explosive damage 50%.
* Covert Cats – Be a cool cat and have it made in the shade with Covert Cats. Deal 50% more sneak damage.
* Eye Candy – Find that sparkling treasure easier with a drop of Eye Kandy. Find much better loot.
* Hackers – These tasty treats give you 20% more harvest when salvaging.
* Health Bar – Increases your max health and adds 50% resistance to critical injuries, recover from critical wounds faster.
* Jail Breakers – Be the daddy to that stubborn lock. 100% success chance to pick a lock.
* Nerd Tats – Channel your inner nerd powers! Stun batons stun nearby enemies on charged hits.
* Oh Shitz Drops – Be prepared for those Oh Shitz moments! Fall damage immunity.
* Rock Busters – Jawbreakers got nuthin’ on us! Gain 20% more resources mining ores.
* Skull Crushers – Rock hard candy that gives you a rock hard punch. Increases melee damage 50%.
* Sugar Butts – If ifs and butts were candy and nuts every day would be Christmas! Well now it can be with one tasty Sugar Butts Candy. Get a 10% better deal buying and selling.

### **New Perk Books**

We’ve added three new book sets, Bar Brawler, Spear Hunter and Tech Junkie!

#### **Bar Brawler**

* **Basic moves** – Adds 10% damage.
* **Drop a bomb** – Sprinting power attacks can knock down your opponent.
* **Killer Instinct** – Gain 5% damage with each kill up to 15%.
* **Finishing Moves** -Do extra damage to knocked down opponents.
* **Adrenaline Healing** – Recover extra health with each punch.
* **Rage mode** – Attack and move faster after getting hit.
* **Boozed up** – Drinking beer no longer blurs your vision and your buzz lasts twice as long.
* **The 7th Curse** – The 7th unarmed strike in a short time deals 300% damage.

#### **Spear Hunter**

* **Damage** – deal 10% more damage.
* **Maintenance** – Spears degrade 20% slower.
* **Steel Spears** – Craft steel spears.
* **Strong Arm** – Spears travel faster and further.
* **Rapid Strike** – Thrust spears 10% faster.
* **Punctured Lung** – slows your target.
* **Deadly Combo** – Hits scored in quick succession do 10% more damage up to 30%.
* **Kill Move** – Power attacks to downed opponents do 50% more damage.

#### **Tech Junkie**

* **Robotic Damage** – Robotics do 10% more damage.
* **Maintenance** – Robotic weapons degrade 20% slower.
* **AP Ammo** – Craft AP ammo for robotic weapons.
* **Robotic Turret Shells** – Craft shotgun ammo for robotics.
* **Stun Repulsor** – Craft this mod that sends enemies flying on charged hits.
* **Charged Strike** – Increases chance to get an instant charged strike.
* **Hydraulics** – Increase the fire rate of robotic weapons.
* **Bulk Crafting** – Craft all robotic ammo in bulk.

### **Perk Balance**

We have restructured existing perks and removed others so auxiliary perks don’t always have 5 ranks, as well as reduced some attribute requirements for auxiliary perks. This was changed to give less desirable perks more bang for the buck.

#### **Perception Perks**

* Lockpicking, The Infiltrator, Animal Tracker now only have 3 ranks.
* The Penetrator has 4 ranks instead of 5.
* The treasure hunting ability of lucky looter that reduced dig radius has now been removed from Lucky looter and is its own 3 rank perk that reduces the new treasure hunting radius ring.

#### **Strength Perks**

* Sexual Tyrannosaurus has 4 ranks instead of 5.
* Heavy armor was moved from Fortitude to Strength and now only has 4 ranks.

#### **Fortitude Perks**

* Well Insulated, Living off the Land, and Rule #1 Cardio now only have 3 ranks.
* Healing factor is nerfed but still quite powerful, and now heals the new critical injuries faster with each rank.

#### **Agility Perks**

* Run and Gun, Flurry of Blows now only have 3 ranks.
* Light Armor and Parkour now only have 4 ranks.

#### **Intellect Perks**

* The Daring Adventurer, Charismatic nature and Physician now have 4 ranks. Yeah Science is removed and its perks are merged with various other perks.

### **AI Improvements**

#### **Enemy Break-through System**

We have added a new Enemy Break-through System that gives enemies random animation probabilities when enter the scene after breaking through a door, 2-meter opening or monster closet. These entrances improve the overall immersion and break the normal cadence of game-play improving the combat. Entrances include:

* **Ragdoll Entrance** – The enemy will ragdoll through the opening and then get up
* **Stubble Entrance** – The enemy will stubble through the opening before pursuing the player
* **Lunge/Boost Entrance** – The enemy will lunge and boost through the opening towards the player

#### **Enemy Falldown System**

We have added a new Enemy Falldown System that gives enemies random animation probabilities when enter the scene when falling from heights of 2 or more meters. These entrances improve the overall immersion and break the normal cadence of game-play improving the combat. Entrances include:

* **Falldown Ragdoll Entrance** – The enemy will ragdoll after landing and then get up
* **Stubble Entrance** – The enemy will stubble after landing before pursuing the player
* **Lunge/Boost Entrance** – The enemy will lunge and boost after landing towards the player

#### **Enemy Pain Stun Lock**

AI Pain resistance has been improved. It still builds up over time, but has been adjusted to be harder to stun lock enemies. We fixed pain reactions not always triggering. Pain now uses a new hit blending system, so different strengths and durations of pain are shown and can happen while AI is attacking.

#### **Head Tracking**

We have added head tracking to zombies, NPCs and animals. They will now turn their heads to look at their target.

#### **Enemy and Animal Swimming**

Zombies and animals are able to swim in water and at a faster speed than they moved before, so be careful in the water. Zombies and the bear now have swim animations. AI pathing still generally follows the bottom of a body of water, but when they near their destination, they can swim upwards.

#### **Added**

* AI that fall when target above or unreachable side will also increase nearby zombie’s destroy area chance
* AI partial path picking may choose lower paths if lower AI intelligence and less dumb AI will pick higher paths over time
* Bear pain resistance, moved pain to an anim layer, so can still move and doubled health
* Pain resistance on all animals and anim layer on boar, deer, mountain lion and wolf
* Zombie Hit layer
* Create Bear Swimming animations
* Swim state to deer and wolf
* Trader head tracking
* Zombie random move speeds based on difficulty
* Blood moon spawner will instead spawn a radiated vulture 50% of time if target is in a vehicle
* Blood moon zombies will 50/50 teleport closer or die if target player is far away
* Blood moon zombies have an increased loot drop rate after every x have spawned
* Blood moon vultures always see and chase at any distance
* Blood moon vultures chase vehicles at 250% speed
* Vultures can now attack blocks when chasing their prey
* Sleeper pose material and low res texture
* Zombie rage chance scales based on hit damage
* Zombie rage duration does not count down while stunned
* Ai rage console command
* Crawler’s climb will exit anim early at destination, moves same as anim motion, disables tilt to ground and reduced snap speed
* Zombie normal/fat attacks are faster right handed and slower with left
* Zombie hits are triggered by anim Hit events
* Zombie random attack anim blending and additional anims
* Zombie mirrored wall attack anims
* Fat zombie attack anims

#### **Changed**

* AI that fall when target above or unreachable side will also increase nearby zombie’s destroy area chance
* Reduced AI rage chance base damage to 40
* Zombies have more pain resistance and will attack even if playing pain animations more frequently
* Lowered non bashing pain threshold to 6 damage
* Removed bashing attacks randomly not causing pain
* Reduced blood moon zombie corpse despawn time to ⅓
* Increased radiated vulture damage to 150% entities and 400% blocks
* Improved vulture attack reposition duration
* Increased vulture attack anim speed
* Greatly reduced zombie alert times when hurt or after chasing a seen target
* Increased health of dire wolf and mountain lion dramatically, zombie dogs and wolves marginally
* Increased boss Grace’s health
* Aggressive animals in the forests only spawn at night
* Direwolf now shares assets with regular wolf and uses new scale code instead of a scaled prefab
* Removed all old direwolf assets
* Removed start of crawler climb up anim

#### **Fixed**

* Zombie attacks are triggered too early by charging towards and then back peddling quickly
* Hostile animals attack while electrocuted
* Spider zombies can still jump while being shocked (and mountain lions)
* Zombie crawler shock effect displays as if walking
* Rabbits are digging when idle
* Wrong name for IsAnimalEntity property making AnimalCount stat always zero
* GetMoveToLocation raycast not using origin and giving wrong height
* PhysicsSetMaxHeight was adjusting the first animal large collider
* Animal larger colliders would shift to wrong offset depending on facing direction
* AI rage chance above the base damage
* AI digging when blocked and above but only a short horizontal distance
* AI sliding down steep slopes that player can use
* Movement slowing when attacked was not removed with pain resistance
* Jumping after a fall due to blocked time accumulating during fall
* Vultures could wander instead of attacking
* Vulture attack origin too high, gliding while attacking and excessive repositioning if blocked
* Animal attack anims skipped when rapid attacks
* Wandering horde zombies seen sliding and not walking on dedi and P2P
* Zombie controller decreasing AttackAnimation, UseAnimation and SpecialAttack2 playing times when base already does

### **Random Gen Improvements**

Random world generation has undergone a few changes to help improve generation.

**Biome generation** – We have made biomes random in placement and size to allow for less predictable layouts.
**Trader World Placement** – Trader world placement was separated from regular wilderness POI placement so it could be made more predictable.
Player Spawns – Initial player spawns were changed to make starting out easier for new players.
POI Distribution – We have improved Random Gen in to use every POI possible in the game so players will see the breadth of content like never before. Random Worlds can now have over 500 unique POIs that can spawn!
**Pregen Maps** – We re-created 3 brand new alpha 19 pregenerated maps to play

#### **Animation Improvements**

* Added rigs and content created for support on new weapons and tools including: Impact Driver, Auto Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Sharpshooter Rifle, Double
* Barrel Shotgun (reworked model), Junk Drone, Junk Sledge, and Ratchet.
* Added fall/land animations to support new fall-down system. Also added additional stumble animations when breaking through obstacles.
* Added zombie swim animations to support new swimming system for zombies.
* Updated 3rd person locomotion lower body update and upper-body update that supports up/down aiming and firing for new and existing melee weapons.
* Updated various zombie characters and player arms with new models.

### **Dynamic Resolution**

A dynamic resolution system has been added that allows the game to draw 3d graphics at a lower resolution than the main game window is running at. This can increase FPS while allowing the UI to run at full resolution.

Dynamic resolution is disabled by default. It can be enabled in the Display tab of Video Options. There are three settings:

**Dynamic Resolution Mode**

* **Off** – Disables
* **Auto** – Enables it and will change resolution based on your FPS. This uses some video memory.
* **Scale** – Enables it at a fixed resolution. Useful if you are trying to hit a specific FPS value like 60 and prefer a constant resolution. This uses less video memory than Auto.

**Dynamic Resolution Min FPS** – When Mode is Auto and running below this FPS value it will decrease the 3d resolution.
**Dynamic Resolution Scale** – The percentage to scale down 3d rendering when mode is Scale.

Lowering your screen resolution will only increase FPS if your video card (GPU) is the bottleneck. If your CPU is the bottleneck, a lower resolution will not increase FPS.

### **Vehicles**

We have done a number of improvements to vehicles listed below.

#### **Added**

* Vehicle collisions with entities uses their mass ratio and hit angle for damage, velocity reduction and ragdoll threshold/chance
* Vehicle collisions with entities during blood moon slows vehicle and is harder to ragdoll
* Vehicle damage by entities during blood moon slows and pushes vehicle
* Vehicle cosmetic slot that accepts dye (this is not functional and will be used for some type of modding in the future)
* Players exiting vehicles retain most velocity
* Vehicles keep full velocity when driver exits and no wheel on ground
* Vehicle driving increases food consumption

#### **Changed**

* Increased vehicle damage from entity collisions
* Removed vehicle parent\_part from xml
* Entities killed by vehicle hits would have little ragdoll force or play an anim and improved ragdoll hit force
* Vehicles that are supposed to be up on blocks are in them
* Vehicle damage amount to entities did not use actual relative motion
* Vehicle ragdoll force on entities was inverted
* Removing vehicle mods did not update item
* Vehicle physics not transferred when client or server took control
* Vehicle engine would not stop if broken
* Controls break when hitting esc at the same time you enter a vehicle

### **Server administration and multiplayer**

**config changes, console commands, etc**

* Added support for whitelisting and admin permission levels via Steam Groups. For instructions check the serveradmin.xml and the console commands “admin” and “whitelist”
* Added optional “display names” to admin / ban / whitelist commands to make it easier to remember who the entries in the XML belong to
* Added command “camera” to allow locking the camera in place or saving/loading exact camera positions, e.g. for screenshots
* Added the ability to search for commands with “help \* <searchstring>”
* Added the command “getlogpath” to easily find location of the current log file
* Available buff names are now listed when using the “buff”/”debuff” commands without arguments
* Fixed the “buff” console command recognising all valid buffs
* Changed the “debugshot” command to also save the list of currently bought perks as CSV next to the screenshot
* Changed the “chunkreset” command to work when run by clients too
* Changed the “chunkreset” command to take block coordinates instead of chunk coordinates
* Fixed games hosted as “Friends only” could be joined by random people through the Steam profile page if you had not set your profile to private
* Changed the “Terminal Window” window name to include the server name and port
* Fixed the game logging errors when the executable was called with non-GamePref command line arguments
* Client side cached map view no longer persist between different servers with the same world a player connects to
* Added a note about port ranges for servers to show up on the LAN tab of the server browser to the serverconfig.xml template

### **In-Game Commands**

* Networkclient and networkserver console commands each with latencysim and packetlosssim commands to enable latency and packet loss simulation
* Screenshots are saved as tga when pressing left shift + F9
* Gfx graph #, cvar, pe and stat console commands
* Gfx graph fps and gfx graph dr console commands (type gfx for help, example “gfx graph fps 200”)
* Chunkreset console command f parameter
* Teleport to POI window, triggered by console command “tppoi”

### **Modding Support**

* (In game) Localization from mods now pushes to clients
* Added: Support loading prefabs from mods
* Added: EntityClasses can be hidden from spawn menu with the property “HideInSpawnMenu”
* Added: Target health bar visibility can be configured from XML
* Added: Support XUi binding of CVars with specified formatting
* Added: XML driven on-screen icon system
* Added: Worldglobal config file
* Changed: World file processing is no longer based on file timestamps but rather actual content changes
* Fixed: XPath insertAfter patches inserted elements in reverse order
* Fixed: Multidim blocks were only interactible on one end

### **Level Editor Improvements**

* Added: editor only command “sleeperreset” to reset sleeper volumes for quicker testing without reloading level
* Added: Disable biome spawns in playtest mode
* Added: Screamers will not spawn in playtest mode
* Changed: Light editor max range to 40 and step to .5
* Changed: Light editor to remove tile data when saving with defaults
* Changed: Increased light editor min/max spot angle
* Changed: Updated default spectrums for POI editor
* Changed: integrate standard localization handling for Light Editor properties
* Fixed: Light editor Esc key cancelled, but left the visible changes
* Fixed: Light editor changed tile entity color when only save should
* Fixed: Light editor not removing all changes on cancel
* Fixed: Reduced fog in POI editor
* Fixed: Can not create a world using World Editor and receives an NRE
* Fixed: DirectoryNotFoundException from Prefab Editor from non-existing maps

### **UI Improvements**

* Map popup for creating waypoints can now be dismissed by clicking on the map
* Added UI scaling option
* Added a refresh button to the server browser
* Added support to paste “IP:port” combinations into the IP field in direct connect window and automatically extract the port to the port field
* Added a warning on the New Game window when the selected world was created with a different major version of the game, mostly as the world’s prefab list could contain outdated entries
* Fixed: Scoreboard admin star can no longer get covered by player names
* Fixed: The last letter of some tooltips was below the tip box
* Fixed: Hovering over a blank slot in a container showed item tooltips from items in another container
* Fixed: Hovertext on lootable/harvestable items was displaying two messages
* Fixed: XUi tool tip backgrounds ghost on main game screen
* Fixed: Fog of war covered parts of the map were actually transparent
* Fixed: Quite a bunch of missing localizations

### **Audio Improvements**

* All new weapons have supported audio
* Lockpick sounds
* New Trader Jen VO

### **Other Visual Improvements**

* Cloud moon glow and darkening at lower heights
* Atmosphere ground plane below horizon
* Sky color alpha scales outside ambient sky color
* Clouds are darker at lower heights at night
* Specific moon phases every 7 days
* Separate moon size, color and phase when blood moon
* Background cloud layer
* Moon phase and color effect moon glow
* Sun punch through of fog
* Color spectrums blend between colors
* Worldglobal ambient night values
* Interior ambient light scaling
* Antialiasing Low, High and Ultra options
* Sun shafts on moon
* Underwater fog

### **Analytics and Telemetry**

We have partnered with Super Nimbus and GameSparks to capture game analytics from Alpha 19 to Gold. We plan on capturing many things to help balance the game and improve the overall experience only generic game-play data all of which is already been covered in our EULA. For Alpha 19 we are capturing the most important data for balance and progression.

Some things we are capturing include:

* Game simulation settings
* How XP is earned
* How players die
* How players kill enemies
* The speed of player leveling
* Loot Progression at key points

We are **not capturing** and storing any personnel information from users such as

* IP addresses
* Names
* Steam usernames
* Device Names
* Anything that can be used to identify any particular user

### **Alpha 19 b1-b180**

#### **Added**

* Buffs’ icons caused by an outside source, not by an item action triggered by the player, will blink for the first 3 seconds
* Intersection block shapes
* Added a Critical Hits journal entry
* Block shapes that play nice with the new counter mounted sink mesh
* Entity physics rigidbody uses the actual mass
* Block model entity enables LOD fading
* Trader to Trader quests at each quest tier.
* Expand the LootQuantity passive to affect whole containers
* Super corn can be used to craft glue
* Current POI to player section of debug panel
* Biome node system
* Trader Hugh now specializes in firearms, gun parts, and ammo
* Trader Rekt specializes in food and seeds
* OptionsGfxResetRevision to allow resetting on startup
* Hotzone settings for Nav Object Compass settings
* Dimming of sun and moon light from high fog and moon phase
* Worldglobal xml fogPower
* Journal entry for stealth
* New polished hardwood floors
* EntityProjectile to allow syncing of spears between server and client as well as allow saving and loading of spears in chunks
* Journal entry for the Activity Map
* Anim controller SetFloat change threshold and idle time change threshold, but removed for zombies
* Stone axe hit organic sounds
* Custom toolbox and toolchest sounds
* Allow hay bales to scrap to plant fibers
* SetTransformActive updates reflection probe
* Console command gfx st budget 0 disables streaming and >0 enables
* Writable Storage Box
* American Flag Version Flagpole
* Chair versions of plaid and leather sectional couches
* Player stats UI shows values using tags if set
* Night is darker when the moon is not full
* Added POI name to dbs command screenshots
* Option to change size of FPS display
* Old Wild West Coffins
* Tough Guy Sunglasses that boost your fortitude. Found in loot and for sale at traders
* Allow XUi list ComboBoxes to be initialised with ints/floats from XML
* Allow enabling/disabling XUi SimpleButtons from XML/bindings
* Allow XUi controllers to react to binding changes at runtime
* Mem obj and mem objs console commands to list and shrink the object pool
* HD Biker Zombie
* Chainsaw/auger flesh impacts for melee & harvest.
* Added hits/grazes to all 3 tiers knuckles.
* Visual clue for text orientation on player storage crate
* Radiated vulture vomit attack sfx.
* Gfx st discard console command
* Setup xml, localization, and icons for Gas Pump Remake
* Updated localization for Wild West Coffin helper
* Setup xml and localization for Bleachers Set
* destroyed concrete material
* “gfx graph tex mem” and “gfx graph tex stream” console commands
* “gfx st reduction” console command
* “gfx st” b/d/f/r console command abbreviations
* woodCross3x1, rustyIronCrossCtr3x1, and scrapIronCross3x1 3,1,1, multiblock variants for towers (solves issues with SI or not falling on collapse)

tppoi window can be opened from ESC menu, also autofocuses search box now

* HD Office Chair (no new icon yet)
* Writable Storage Box Insecure to match textures when Writable Storage Box is downgraded
* New gun fire effects for weapons that had been sharing with others
* Missing tooltip for buffArmSplintedTooltip
* Added new icons for new inventory management buttons
* Create digging animation for crawlers
* Rusted Metal Roof Material
* “gfx texlimit” console command
* Move items buttons for containers<>inventory
* High quality water depth transparency and improved edge transparency, edge foam, waves and undulations
* Utility\_celltower\_02
* Allow the complete freezing of zombies within the game (ctrl-num\* toggles)
* Add chunk boundary markers that look like the land claim bounds box (Shift-num+ toggles)

#### **Changed**

* Rough adjustment for loot drops. QL6 primitive items drop at GS 30. T1 start dropping at GS 12, T2 at GS 60, T3 at GS 105. You will always start seeing low qualities of a “new” tier first.
* Auger no longer has a low priority to be for sale at traders
* Cooking pot land mines cannot be picked up
* Added dysentery chance when eating rotting flesh and raw meat
* Radiator only drop radiators when harvested with a wrench
* Reduced snow storm particle saturation and opacity
* Hop seeds are now found in loot
* Food poisoning is removed, but some foods can now cause dysentery. Cooked foods now buff your max stamina varying degrees based on the tier of the food, up to 40 max stamina
* Acid barrels now have a chance to drop acid when harvested with the wasteland treasures perk
* Game credits are updated with new folks from the team added
* Splints can not be used (wasted) when you don’t have a broken arm/leg. Plain bandages can not be used without bleeding. Sewing kits not without bleeding/laceration
* Improved Light Manager light registration
* PerkHealingFactor heals less regular health but heals critical hits up to 2x as fast
* Put skinny eaves on Canyon Mine building
* Replaced old flaming barrel effect
* Replaced old charged baton effect
* Updated bullet\metal impact effect
* Adjusted some blood particles that were too bright
* Replaced old first person pipe bomb fuse effect
* Optimized Chunk OnDisplay
* Improved lights console command
* Improved dynamic light fading
* Light view distance to larger of MaxDistance or 150% of range
* Merged the rod&spring and auto trigger group mods
* Removed old unused biomes: city wasteland, wasteland hub and city
* Instead of starting the game with “over eaten” food/drink stats, stamina regen costs less food/water up to level 5
* Gunpowder crafts much faster
* Improved RandomPositionGenerator funcs to allow points in water if not found on land or are swimming
* Healing factor now heals critical wounds 20% faster with each rank
* Scaled existing weapon recipes to accommodate three tiers
* Changed navezgane prefabs.xml and rwgmixer.xml to new names
* Improved how in water, swimming and water level is updated
* Improved water movement slowing and added slower turning
* Burnt forest friendly animals are now identical to the pine forest
* Burnt forest no longer spawns vultures and the burnt forest difficulty is on par with the pine forest
* Removed unused biome entries for legacy cities
* Scaled chicken bigger so it’s easier to target and find
* Optimized some chunk code
* Improved pickup collider for dropped torches
* Updated snow tree sizes and replaced second stage growth stage with prefab variant
* Upgraded old plaid and leather couch models
* Updated snow trees
* Reduced sun saturation and intensity in snow biome spectrum
* Buried treasure loot guarantees dukes and ammo
* Armor items have less base durability. Armor perks increase durability more
* 30% of the armor value of a piece of armor is generated by the quality level
* Food/Water consumption converted to ISS v2.0. Both food and water stats increase up to 200 along with HP and stamina. There is no overeating/drinking but the first 20 points you eat above the cap will tick down more slowly
* Backpacks have a chance to disappear (improved logging to show id, player id, removal reason and entity unload)
* Books, schematics, and recipes show in Mods tab at trader
* Added commercial sink proxies and fixed sleeper fall setups
* Improved map rendering
* Ammo piles, food piles and workstations to LOD fade
* Dart trap placement orientation hard to see in dim light
* Audio Sources for body impacts to a much smaller radius
* Body impacts audio source to custom rolloff
* Roll times and play probability are calculated from daily allotted
* Snowstorm to GameParticleLit shader and increased particle transparency
* PerkHeavyArmor moved to the strength attribute
* Quest is now tracked before showing the toolbelt message about new quest
* Smokestorm particle to GameParticleLit shader and improved color, emission, velocity
* Updated Fir Large and Fir Medium with modern frond techniques
* Lights are fully disabled when turned off
* Updated flashlightDecor, lanternDecor and porchLight01 lights
* Lens flares use less light intensity, dim with ranges less than 4 and disable at distance
* Adjusted streetLamp\_Classic defaults
* Did a rough pass on Fall Behavior variables
* Baseball bat is the T2 club, the steel club is T3
* Increased BulbFlare size
* Street\_light01 to shadow casting point light and dimmed
* LanternDecor to cast shadows
* Improved GameObjectPool
* Linear Color Space tree balance
* Melee weapon 3rd person upperbody locomotion sets integrated
* Linear Color Space balance
* Turret camera view to normal color with a little static
* Renamed water jars for consistency
* Magnum ammo is cheaper and has increased stack size
* .44 Magnum invoked the Rule of Cool and has increased range, damage and rate of fire
* Graphic quality preset FOV values
* Optimized BlockValue
* Spears are armor piercing
* Spears benefit from perkPenetrator
* Increased sneak attack damage on blades and bows, lowered on sledgehammers
* Video gamma option is now brightness
* Improved default concrete material
* Night clouds and fog now have a subtle blue tint
* Moon to phong shading plus ambient lighting and supports all phases and new fog
* Updated blood moon spectrum to correct fog density and color modifications
* Shifted blood moon sprite color to fix the pink hue
* Sun horizon light spreading and tinting
* The table saw can not be crafted and is no longer needed to craft any recipes
* Wood shape blocks like poles or stairs that were in odd places on the crafting menu are now found in the wood frame variant block
* Biome affects player threat level
* Modified spectrums to support new horizon fog gradient
* Magnum model updated, points to new prefab, weapon anims, 1st person anims
* Reduced player spawn in effect duration
* Reduced global sky ambient saturation
* Spawning screen effect starts brighter
* Linear color space texture updates
* Updated Pine, Snow, Desert, Burnt Forest, and Wasteland Spectrums
* Improved cloud rendering
* Linear color space texture updates
* Material optimization and cleanup
* Linear color space Post Processing updates
* Cloud shader settings and source art
* Height fog shader settings
* World global ambient settings
* Pine Forest spectrum updates
* Reduced star frequency
* Latest interior ambient balance
* Adjusted Water Distant Surface shader to look like the near shader
* Removed SSR due to visual artifacts
* Ambient levels
* Updated fog spectrums
* Default sun saturation
* Updated world global XML values
* Adjusted default interior light prefab values for linear color space
* Linear color space texture balance
* Chandelier prefab alignment to ceiling center for 2.5cm pillar compatibility
* Yongha’s New Hunting Knife model integrated
* Reduced ground ambient
* Linear color space spectrum balance
* Split destroyed concrete shape into N,S,E,W segments for painting
* New Stone Axe model integrated
* Temp removal of fog to prepare for ‘s new exponential fog
* Improved Reflection Manager fix for when probes refuse to render
* First pass sun intensity adjustments and weather fog reduction prep for new fog
* Updated post processing to v2
* Lowered amounts of prepared food and drink at traders
* Enabled linear color space
* Disabled post processing options until we can get this swapped out with 2.0
* Entity damage buffs store the damage remainder and use next tick
* Optimized 15 avatar controller parameter names to use hashes
* Optimized World GetEntity to do one dictionary lookup
* TerrDesertGround has more hit points and clay harvest
* Rotations are now working on doors
* Consistent LOD distance on all player lights
* Updating house\_modern\_06, small fix to sleepers in the master bathroom closet
* PerkMasterChef, moved ingredient bonus to T4
* Balancing and clarification on fore grip and bipod mods
* Removed animator from steel sledgehammer and created new box collider
* Chemistry station no longer uses wood or burning barrels in the recipe. Instead, they use forged iron, more short pipes, and 5 acid
* Steel axe plays heavy woosh sounds
* Moved chili dogs, beer and Yucca Smoothies to rank 3 of Master Chef
* Removed tree seeds from seed loot and traders
* Salvage Operations now affects ratchets and impact drivers as well as wrenches
* Improved entity speed replication difference check
* Ranged weapon AutoReload property to effect one shot weapon reload
* Blunderbuss to not auto reload
* Set hunting rifle and crossbows to not auto reload
* Explosion resist is another random armor stat
* No side effects on steroids/recog
* Clothing and armor pocket mods are named differently
* Increased base water drain. (was less than food)
* Fixed inconsistent rotation on metal railing
* Updating streetLight01 mesh and textures
* Changed army truck to mesh collider
* Burning shaft mod adjustments, can only installed in weapons and tools with a long shaft or blade
* Animal remains collider size increased
* Working Stiffs crates drop a minimum of 1 tool
* Removed harvest and craftable clutter from working stiff loot crates
* Removed paper, polymer and junk from construction supply crates, buffed quantities of glue, duct tape and scrap iron
* Updated beverage list in the game to include more drinks. Removed empty jars from beverage loot list
* Chunkreset x1 z1 x2 z2 to not require last two parameters and check for huge area
* Default daily allotted for dynamic music system
* Removed item Sound\_harvesting prop
* Lab equipment piles drop gunpowder, not nitrate/coal
* Bullet casings in “junk” loot drop as brass
* Increased ammo count in loot groups, ammo piles and hero chests drop an additional, guaranteed “ammo” group
* Cheap wooden chests or desk safes have less storage capacity, large storage boxes are tougher, gun safes have the same capacity as large boxes
* Cube storages boxes show up in the “building” crafting tab with the other relevant crafted storage containers
* Replaced particles on third person “on fire” effect
* Coal burns longer than wood
* Added testosterone extract to cigar recipe
* Price of paper is consistent with other ammo supply costs
* Reduced chance for drink in refridgerators and increased chance for food. Increased quantity of eggs that spawn in fridges
* Unlocked End reward chests in T1 and T2 POIs
* Gamestage diminishing returns to a scale and set to .5 and difficulty bonus to a single number and set to 1.2
* Lucky Looter adjusted to be in line with the loot quality distribution
* Blunderbuss ammo only requires 2 gunpowder instead of 3
* Adjusted steel hatch colliders to improve ladder climbing.
* Reduced AI 1m jump distance
* Zombies have a faster/shorter jump land anim
* Decreased chance to find workstation schematics in destroyed workstations
* Reduced Blur shader samples by half
* Gas\_station5 linear lighting and new art pass.
* Replaced flame effect on burning arrow & bolt
* Improved first person hands lighting when using burning arrows & bolts
* Reduced amount of painkillers in loot
* Quests per tier changed from 5 to 10.
* Removed unneeded small signs, street lights and trees from rwg poi list
* Linear color space balance on ammo display cases and gun racks
* Changed primative colliders to mesh collider on all cars
* Tier 1 quests no longer offer Armor, Weapons or tools as a reward
* Party size from 6 to 8.
* Store\_clothing\_02 new clothing wall racks.
* Utility\_celltower\_01 remade
* Replaced tree helper with dead tree & smoothed navazgane terrain
* Sounds.xml better tactical AR fire sound playback with auto trigger mod
* Utility\_celltower\_01 navazgane terrain painting
* Updated flame effect on first person and wall candles.
* Updating old barrel fire particle effect.
* Campfire and forge tools have a small icon to show that they belong to a workstation
* Barrels are containers.
* Removed Texture Streaming video option and made streaming always on
* Ammo drops are less abundant in the early game, blunderbuss ammo and iron arrows can be more common.
* Closet rod and clothing piles destroy on loot
* Neon “Open” sign emits light now
* Loot probability templates normalised to 1 to make them usable in more situations
* Demoted exception to error (no console popup) when country can not be retrieved
* Item Type Icon to workstation tools.
* Items that cure a condition show 100% instead of an unspecified amount
* Updating steel club icon to match mesh changes
* Zombie bears drop testosterone extract
* Yucca juice recipe no longer needs water but is boiled in a cooking pot
* The stamina buff from cooked food does not count down while your food bar is full.
* Put a small weapon bag in survivor\_site\_02
* Bullet casings now partially visible in iron sight aim for AK47
* Reworked laser attachment effect for desert vulture
* Boiled water does not cause dysentery
* Reduced excessive food value on super corn
* Merged heavy/light armor, all melee weapon and all ranged weapon loot groups for better performance due to fewer probability table lookups
* Schematics scaled in loot. Early on you will find more immediately useful ones like for a forge, basic recipes, seeds or medical bandages.
* Physics push to not angle down and if not on a ragdoll use x5 force
* Traders sell tech 3 weapons in the higher secret stash inventories
* Robo sledge YawRange changed to 170°, making it easier to place in tight quarters.
* Reduced entity damage on robo sledge. Increased block damage and perkTurrets affects it.
* Loot abundance to effect each item in the container instead of the master count
* Tech 2/3 guns are not autounlocked by the weapon perk. Go find yourself a schematic.
* Chainsaw and auger are not unlocked by perkAdvancedEngineering
* Slower recovery of the dynamic crit resistance that occurs when taking multiple hits from zombies
* Added more friendly animals to all biomes
* Enemy animals can spawn during the day in forests
* Chickens can spawn in forests now
* All animals respawn much faster than before
* 10% less resistance against stun and bleeding
* Blade trap hits don’t prime the demolition zombie
* Food max stamina buffs will not overwrite if an existing higher value buff is above half duration.
* Stone block destruction doesn’t fire heat events like wood or iron blocks
* Auto shotgun cannot use scopes for now
* Improved sleeper volume noise response
* Boars, coyotes, dogs, mountain lions and wolves can attack while moving forward
* Temporarily disabled reflex sight as a visible attachment on the auto shotgun
* Increased amount of small animals spawning in the forests and decreased larger animals.
* All small game (rabbits and chickens) and large game (boars, and deer) spawn every day or night at any time. Small game has a high chance to spawn, large game has a low chance to spawn.
* Enemy respawn time is reduced in the wasteland. At night, Zombies will respawn immediately, making the wasteland harder to survive at night
* Shotgun damage and auto shotgun rate of fire reduced.
* Added floats so spawning of zombies and predators are less predictable.
* Reduced stamina cost on iron harvesting tools
* Bandolier mod increases reload speed by 15%
* Removed candy tins, hub caps and air filter items from the game.
* Land mines no longer use candy tins, hub caps or air filters in their recipes. Land mines now need duct tape to craft. Candy tin mine can now be crafted in a backpack. Hub cap mine uses a nail instead of a spring
* Deprecated candy tins and other redundant items
* Cooking pot mine is also crafted from basic resources
* Normal entities load their prefabs and meshes on demand instead of during world load
* Reduced distance to backpack after death if no respawn point is set
* Block entities to load on demand using the object pool
* The object pool large pools to active pools which will fully remove pool objects and non active prefabs over time
* Added various scales to zombies so they are different heights
* Texture streaming to only use the main camera
* Store\_autoparts\_01 updated to commercial standards.
* Updated lots of oldwest POIs with new art
* Art and new block update for house\_old\_abandoned\_07
* Large Predator animals such as bears and dire wolves only spawn at night in the forests. Wolves have a very small chance to spawn in forests during the day
* Increased push up motion when player is stuck
* Increased chance of getting criticals on the 2nd hit
* Nerfed water cooler loot to drop 12 pure waters instead of 1 to 4.
* Player shader name to Game/UMA and removed 10 unused properties
* Increased chicken and rabbit run speed
* Command “killall alive” no longer kills turrets
* Biome generation now allows biomes other than pine forest to be in center
* Optimized Arlene texture sizes
* Optimized Big Momma texture sizes
* Optimized Biker texture sizes
* Renamed Arlene emissive to proper name and readded missing texture
* Blade trap repair cost reduced to not be more than its crafted cost
* Optimized Boe texture sizes
* Optimized Crawler texture sizes
* Optimized Darlene texture sizes
* Optimized Fat texture sizes
* Optimized player hand texture sizes (AO only) and fixed filtering
* Optimized Joe texture sizes
* Optimized Marlene texture sizes
* Optimized Mechanic texture sizes
* Optimized Moe texture sizes
* Optimized Steve texture sizes
* Optimized Yo texture sizes
* Optimized ammo piles texture sizes
* Optimized dropped backpack texture sizes
* Optimized Brute trash can texture sizes
* Updated officeChair01 icon
* Optimized loot container texture sizes
* Optimized vehicle texture sizes
* Optimized non HD zombie textures
* Optimized animal texture sizes
* Optimized appliances texture sizes
* Optimized commercial texture sizes
* Optimized crafting texture sizes
* Optimized decor texture sizes
* Optimized door texture sizes
* Optimized electrical texture sizes
* Optimized furniture texture sizes
* Optimized gore texture sizes
* Optimized industrial texture sizes
* Optimized outdoor decor texture sizes
* Optimized plants texture sizes
* Optimized plumbing texture sizes
* Optimized resources texture sizes
* Optimized remaining entity texture sizes
* Optimized UMA texture sizes
* Updated existing weapon effects
* Light from gunfire now has smooth fade in\out rather than abrupt click on\off
* Gun fire light adjusted for the new brighter first person lighting
* Removed cntSuitcase from RandomLootHelpers
* Sleepers always ragdoll on death
* Block ExcludeWalkType uses a name
* Bulk updated the POI imposters after concrete pass.
* Increased duration of the Charismatic Nature buff
* Improved sky fog sun punch through and to work with dark fog colors
* Console command “weather fogcolor” to use red for green and blue if those params not given
* “gfx st budget” to disable streaming before setting budget
* Separated sort button on inventory/containers from the window icon
* “Water Particles” video quality option to “Particles”, which now also decreases world particle count
* Deleted chunk water depth object creation, mat and shader
* Improved Low quality water transparency, waves and smoothness
* Worlds’ splat maps support PNG again to reduce world sizes
* Replaced collider and shadow caster on car parts ramp
* 40 prefab materials to use the crossfade shader
* 100+ block entities to consistent LOD culling heights
* Top tier foods sell for more dukes, and no longer have economic bundles of 5 but 1, so single meals can be sold

#### **Fixed**

* Backfacing issue on road signs
* DrugVitaminsDesc needs to be updated to reflect fatigue cure
* Replanted missing ground under Rekt’s stairs
* Added support to the waterwork’s fence, car removal no longer makes it collapse
* Wood Black Overwritten with Wood Painted 3
* OnSelfDestroyedBlock && onSelfDamagedBlock were not yet functional with block tags
* Add storage pocket mod and cargo storage pocket mod to inventory crafting clothing tab
* Treasure quests no longer spawn underwater
* ToolsB linear color space balance
* Animals are not always removed after harvest
* White lines on edges of UI graphics.
* Collider hinders player movement saw horse block shape
* Impact particles have material color overwritten when spawned
* Handheld torch no longer burns underwater
* Unable to harvest animals and collide with zombie corpses
* Chemstation emission light blinks in and out while moving around it
* AudioManager Play using wrong origin pos for SignalAI
* Trader Bob profile pic missing from UI Atlas.
* Handheld junk turret does not get the rate of fire increase from the perk
* Some objects have extremely small render distance
* Cars pop up when you harvest them
* God mode speed hotkeys not working for x and z movement
* If you catch a vulture on fire, the fire stays in one place while it flies around.
* Fixed don’t allow attacking while falling or while playing a forced root motion anim(landing behaviors)
* Particle scale on flaming zombies.
* ERR RemoveChunkTransforms !zone
* Stained glass albedo and transparency
* Incorrect shadow caster scale for Fir Medium
* Emissive light handling of block lights
* LightLOD overwriting original shadow strength
* Electrocuted zombies still attack while being electrocuted
* Fire anim is not seen when setting zombies on fire
* Destroyed blocks during join game process cause NRE on connecting client.
* Slow lens flare fade
* Street\_light01 collider blocking flare
* List of glass blocks that are black
* Two paint textures are incorrect
* Solid plane showing in candle prefab.
* Upgraded wood planks seem to be too shiny
* Glass Pane is way too reflective including the frame
* Grass and trees not spawning on many sloped areas ()
* Players could still be immune from a previous death at next blood moon
* Trees have some color issues since linear lighting update
* Trees change colours when falling.
* Removed 2 incorrectly placed blocks
* Global UVs, face hiding\collision on destroyed concrete set.
* Edge alignment on destroyed concrete set.
* Using turret inventory changed player camera when in 3rd person view
* Player model jumps forward of the player camera when accessing an auto turret inventory
* Shocked buff not following ragdolled bones
* You can have a splinted and sprained leg at the same time
* Collider tags using the same name for upper and lower arms
* Treasure quests now use Nav Objects.
* On perks like perkGunslinger you do not gain hit counters or benefits for hitting dead enemies
* Removed artifacts from plaster material
* The Iron Gut perk increases buff duration by 100%, not 50%, and the description on food/water is too vague.
* Sun shafts turning off early on sun
* Updated JoelRagdoll prefab with the new Joel2 model
* Fixing shadow casting error.
* Moon sprite distance so same as sky for correct perspective/horizon clipping
* Chandelier needs a bulb material
* Moon has wrong orientation
* Scale up basketball hoop
* Set roughness, metalness, and ambient occlusion textures to sRGB off for Autodesk Interactive assets
* Missing faces on some placements of destroyed concrete.
* Rockets using car explosion particle effect
* PerkFromTheShadows updated, stealth rules explanation improved on perkHiddenStrike. May end up doing a Journal entry on it but it’s a lot more consistent now so may be overkill.
* Barbed Wire block has buff issues, too large area affected
* Damage based camera shakes now working again
* Moon light intensity staying decreased from lightning
* Removed large scratch texture artifact
* Multiple Black glass materials caused by incorrect texture settings
* Being able to look under a water plane when above
* Wall light prefab set to wrong mode
* Green ambient values
* Broken leg buff resets on relog.
* Listed water cost on drugs fortbites and recog is incorrect
* Black industrial glass
* Clients on mp games cannot turn weather survival off
* God mode enabled message shows on joining game when god mode is not enabled
* Kicked while in camera screen spams errors and warnings in console
* Reduced grass saturation
* Dark cotton and Chrysanthemum materials in shadow
* Create window store set that has unbroken full panes of glass
* Foliage brightness fix for linear color space
* Tree branch brightness fix for linear color space
* Fixed tree trunks using incorrect internal speed tree shader to use speed tree standard shader for linear
* Spear stuck in ground disappears when player dies or relogs
* Stone arrows showing as generic bag
* SMG turret clips into block above it.
* Bike digging/destroying terrain on horizontal path and loses hp (new wheel colliders)
* When in god mode and continuing game you are still in god mode
* Rotations on some car components.
* Distant gun sounds not working
* Replaced old supply crate landing effect with new one.
* Electric fence wire causing PhysX errors in console
* Several more weapons had no sound if modified to auto fire
* Missing explosion on cars.
* Offset car explosions.
* Wood particles getting stuck on surfaces.
* Changed Item Compare to use Base Values.
* Show colored values for modded values in ItemInfo when not comparing.
* Ranged damage not updated in modify window when mod is installed.
* Fixed incorrect sound effect and visual in acid impact effect.
* Fire particles appearing in acid puke particle.
* Forge tool slots arranged in a logical order
* Fixing broken import scale on farm\_plot fbx
* Trees grow on dedicated servers while the server is empty
* Illumination issue with iron and steel spears.
* Another Junk Turret/Mod dupe
* Motor tools too prevalent in their quest loot group because there is no padding
* M60 now has a custom collider box
* Wooden Bow does not require string tension
* Burning shaft mod isn’t toggling emissive on materials of their weapons
* Microsplat bleed issue on garage\_5 in the wasteland
* Player getting stuck digging
* Zfighting on broken tile custom shape
* Player fall impact triggering on speeds of 0
* Steel harvest exploits on safes
* Changing spectate mode did not send the change to other players
* Artifact in charred meat icon
* Breaching slugs destroy blocks just as fast as doors
* Allow POIs from towngroup to spawn in wilderness, if they have that tag
* Increase transparency of turret and motion sensor vision cones.
* Better Barter works on player vending machines.
* Spear vanishes on dismemberment
* Skill screen and quest screen now both are fully localized
* Stun Baton charge lost on missed attack
* Players can use flashlights to attack again
* Redo dead grass texture (hay bale)
* Brick\_destroyed03 custom shape doesn’t show bottom face
* Filled back faces on animal remains
* Skill point cost tooltip does not always use localisation keys.
* Corpses starting with damage by attacks that do multiple hits
* Buried supplies quest do not fail if another player destroys the chest.
* Traders can be affected by knockdowns
* Fixed items sticking through the other side of some shelves
* Corner\_round\_plate shape makes adjacent wall faces disappear.
* Steel exploit with broken vending machine
* Wrench doesn’t have any glancing blows on power attack
* Linear color space balance on remaining ore models and terrain textures
* Iron and Coal boulders and terrain textures updated for linear color space
* Fixed mismatched knobs on versions of white house door
* Reinforced wood is not as shiny anymore
* Mac with AMD GPU has a chaotic screen blur effect
* Reflections on Mac cause wild issues
* Loot room sleepers don’t wake up until volume is triggered
* Zombies left standing after death for clients
* Open/close radial option texts for doors are now properly worded
* Some window header backgrounds not respecting background opacity
* Drawbridges are no longer suffering excessive amounts of explosion damage
* Blade and turret traps causing standing AI on owner client
* Paint issue in treasure room of modular\_06
* Corner cupboard incorrectly deleting faces
* Several inconsistencies with visible shotgun attachments
* Gamepad doesn’t index trader inventory pages using right joystick
* Disabled K menu when not in world or POI editor
* White River Citizen quest shows 0m and points to 0,0,0 if trader is not found.
* Nailgun reload sound doesn’t play.
* Backpack loot bypasses the progression scaling
* Player’s own turrets will shoot player’s own robotic drone
* Junk turrets fall through stairs and any solid blocks below them when placed from a distance
* Business\_old\_08 upside down bookshelves.
* Prevent players from loading existing RWG worlds as they will be broken for A19 due to missing traders
* Business\_old\_05 upside down bookshelves.
* Corner cupboard culling faces incorrectly
* Prevent server DDoS
* The perk HealingFactor works while player is supposed to die from hunger or thirst
* The Repulsor mod is now working
* Steroids add 50% run speed instead of the stated 10%
* Missing documentation for how the “soft cap” on overeating works.
* Wrong oven paint in apartment\_brick\_6\_flr
* Falling window pieces in modular\_03
* Replaced faucet with showerheads in fire\_station\_02
* BuffElementCold, buffElementFreezing, drinkJarRedTea, perkSlowMetabolism have no effect on food.
* Put proper shelving support in vic\_13
* Removed windowsidings from vacant\_lot\_05
* perkTreasureHunter and/or Lucky Goggles are not speeding up treasure radius reduction
* Armor not resisting bleed buffs
* Factual and grammar errors in the Dysentery and Survival journals
* Wrong ingredient count on ammoBundleBlunderbuss
* Both robotic turrets/sledges jitter while aiming at their targets
* Trader setups have nonfunctional item quality parameters
* Robo sledge displays an ammo counter
* Several items state wrong recipe unlocks.
* Molotov now applying burning when entering the flames
* Fast Food 2 has suitcase poke through bathroom hiding spot
* Added missing bock to cemetery\_02’s surface building’s ceiling
* Pure mineral water cures dysentery?
* Candle light not illuminating surfaces when standing too close to them
* wood texture seams on frames when upgraded are not lining up properly
* Better Barter 5 incorrect description
* False Max Stamina Buff from Healing Items
* Underground airpocket in Ranch03
* Collapsing railing in fire\_station\_01
* Z fighting with trimblocks and paint issue in modern\_07
* Applied paint to block behind comfy chair in modular\_05
* Adjustment to zombie footstep sound playback
* Knuckles harvest too quickly ( use attack speed )
* Breaching rounds do not work on the Shamway safe
* Ratchet, ImpactDriver, SteelClub must now be crafted at a workbench
* Steel spear shows proper unlock info
* Scope mods are now visible on tactical assault rifle
* Robosledge does not display a ammo count anymore
* Beer sign does not have a white line on texture
* Chest in funeral\_home\_01 now has loot
* Create world feature is functional again
* Can now place blocks around all lockers
* Identical look for XP bar and food/water bars
* Shovel hold animation is no longer used for all weapons and tools
* Upside down door frame in apartment\_adobe\_red\_5\_flr
* Bar\_sm\_01 no longer has false cabinets
* Animals can not die from infection anymore
* Weighted head mod is not compatible with blade mods on machete.
* Food does not heal after you eat broken glass. Also, please reconsider your diet.
* Fixed chainsaw and auger reload sound playback.
* Some farm plots cannot be planted due to stability
* Crate\_storePrefab renderer was in TerrainCollision layer
* Gas\_station5 billboard SI issue.
* Carlot\_01 has beams that block entities
* Graph value updating on non repaint events
* First person weapon brightness values don’t match third person
* Player hands brightness adjustment due to auto exposure fix
* Back side of both flags have an alpha issue
* Prefab editor Ctrl modifier shortcuts overlap with other shortcuts
* “Path node otherHeight bad” warnings by allowing a small overlap
* RWG only generating 1/4 maps on dedi
* Tree poking through in vic\_03
* SI issue with entertainment center in house\_old\_ranch\_01
* Removed the cabinet texture from the backside of the wall oven
* House\_pyrimid\_05 has si issue with loot crate in garage
* House\_old\_modular\_08 has an SI issue with trim around the farm plots
* House\_old\_modular\_08 kitchen cabinet helper blocks facing wrong way
* Chair clipping in medium junkyard
* House\_old\_victorian\_03 chandelier is floating
* Si issue house\_old\_bungalow\_02 attic furnace loot cover
* Salvage operations harvest amount does not scale as stated. (removed salvage harvest if the same resource is also on general harvest)
* NRE when trash and car share the same space
* Missing loot timer on store freezers
* Prefab Editor Able to place blocks above workbench helper block
* Marksman and Sniper aim to idle transition fixed
* Spear attack updated to prevent screen artifacts
* Timed Charge goes to unholster anim if ammo is available
* Prefab editor update imposter function causing NRE when prefab is loaded from mods folder
* Crits trigger differently for clients and hosts
* Misspelled credit fixed
* Change right side header text info color to white
* Backpack disappears again
* Ratchet localization says wrong scrap material given
* Adjusted meshes on trim01.fbx for woodHalfPlate painting issues
* Molotovs no longer explode when dropped.
* Particle System is trying to spawn on player mesh with zero surface area (player arms)
* The description for Lucky Looter Volume 5 is very unclear,
* Remove magnification wording from reflex site
* Localization wrong for inventory on fill (middle choice) button
* CntStoreShelfElectronicsDoubleBottomGoods04 is not lootable and has no hitbox (missing TBlock Tag)
* Building floating base on rockResource block
* All 3 bows polished reload anims, blend times and weapon/player is in sync.
* Sniper, Tactical, .44, Desert Eagle, Pistol and M60 with fixed blends from ADS to reload.
* Crossbows default to a “no ammo” idle after fire.
* Particles in snow and desert cause major FPS drops
* Bombshelter\_01 rwgmixer.xml update
* It is not possible to scrap yucca drink and coffee
* Copy sleeper volume’ misspelled in Prefab Editor Menu
* Low quality water was drawn too high in the world
* BurntWoodBlock4 wad unpaintable
* Running, reloading or changing weapons would not zoom back in while holding the aim button
* Aiming while running would briefly try to aim
* Missing sign backface on street barricade
* Client view distance setting ignored for player render distance
* Blocks with simple rotation enabled cannot be reversed with R key
* Prefab editor client does not render terrain sometimes
* Z-fighting and missing block in modern\_01
* Z-fighting in modular 7
* Clipping tree in cabin\_15
* Z-fighting on house\_burnt\_02
* Loot containers and store shelves aim\target fighting
* Zombies “popup” after knockdown stun while electrified
* Zombie electrocution anim starting late
* Zombie electrocution anim playing too long
* UpdateNPCStatsOverTime not playing damage effects (electrocution) if total health change was positive from regen
* POI Diner\_01 shelving collider interrupts loot container
* Biker cannot fit under chain link pole in utility\_waterworks\_01
* Cigar on Hotbar Adds Extra Str and Bartering
* Blunderbuss animates a flare from the muzzle when equipped
* Hands invisible when wearing Military Gloves
* Sticky projectiles prevent hitting blocks/zombies
* Perks that increase fire rate do not work until modification screen is opened and closed
* Steel armor parts are using same description as weapons and tool parts
* Journal updated for Treasure Map Journal Entry
* Arrows and bolts are not showing in weapons and not sticking to zombies properly
* Spears do not follow the entities they are stuck in
* 3 zombies can’t go through cabin\_11’s doorway
* Zombies get stuck on trapSpikesNew

Hey Survivors,
We are proud to announce that the ‘Alpha 19 B-180 Experimental’ is out! The build has many great fixes, balance improvements and much more. Here are the full Official Release Notes, the forum B-180 Release Notes and how to opt in.

B-180 Forum Release Notes

This is how you access the A19 Experimental build:

1. Right click on the game in steam
2. Click on properties
3. Click the “betas” tab
4. The drop down menu will have latest\_experimental available <— you want THAT
5. Select that and wait for the game to download.

Alpha 19 is not compatible with previous Alpha worlds or save game data. New Pregen-Maps have been created and can be used. We also advises you to delete you 7 Days save Game data folder before playing.

TFP is extremely excited for this release. It’s as big as the last couple alphas and is packed full of new content, bug fixes, optimizations, and game balancing. Read on for more information!

### **Linear Color Space Lighting**

Alpha 19 has gotten a huge visual upgrade with the switch to Linear Color Space Lighting. We have finally achieved full PBR Physically Based Rendering and all of the art has been adjusted to look better and compatible with it. Normal maps look better, bright lights don’t wash out the scene and so much more. It’s hard to describe why it looks better you’ll have to play it to see for yourself.

The video option to adjust gamma has been changed to brightness, so it works with the new lighting. It also has a more balanced range of darker to lighter adjustment.

Lights now use a priority system, so close lights are updated rapidly to reduce visible jumps in their intensity and range.

### **Interactive Loading Screen**

We added a brand new interactive loading screen with over 20 tool-tips on how to play the game from basic to advanced. The user can cycle back and forth through them and learn how to play the game better while it’s loading. It also looks better with new HD screenshot backgrounds.

### **Improved Game-pad Support**

We have combed through all game-pad functions making sure everything is up to date and working and we also improved defaults like for driving. Additionally we added a new reverse directions for block rotation placement.

### **New Survival System & Critical Injuries**

We gutted the old ISS or interactive survival system that blackened and clamped your health and stamina bars from filling because it was confusing to players. We replaced it with an all new critical system.
All critical injuries that blacken or clamp your max health or stamina will be caused by a new critical buff on the left of the screen. These new critical buffs are clickable, taking the player directly to the player status effect screen where you can read about the problem and its cure.

When you are at full health a zombie can never cause a critical on the first hit so we don’t want to hear about unfair crits! =) Once you take a few hits, or get reckless in close combat the chances increases. Being at low health also increases the chance of receiving a critical. Armor reduces this chance by a flat amount, creating a buffer that enemies must overcome before they can hit you with criticals.
Some criticals are incremental. A sprained arm makes you vulnerable to getting a broken arm.
Some injuries don’t take kindly to being ignored. Sprinting or jumping with a broken leg will not work in your favor. If an injury is affected by an action like that then the buff icon will blink briefly and you will know that something happened.

New and reworked critical injuries include:

#### **Abrasions**

* The most common injury that you get in fights. They cause no additional problems.

#### **Sprained or Broken Arm**

* Lowers your swing speed and decreases your reload speed and weapon handling. The cure for a broken arm is a splint which lowers the time for healing. Power attacks or ranged attacks increase the time needed to heal it.

#### **Sprained or Broken Leg**

* Lowers your mobility and jump height. You can get a sprained or broken leg in a melee fight or when jumping from heights. The cure for a broken leg is a splint which lowers the time for healing. Jumping, falling or sprinting increase the time needed to heal it.

#### **Deep Lacerations**

* Make you more vulnerable to receiving bleeding criticals. They are cured by a first aid kit or sewing kit.

#### **Concussion**

* Taking more hits while being stunned can cause a concussion. It periodically causes a stun effect and is cured by painkillers.

#### **Infections**

* Infection is not something that enemies cause directly. Any critical hit has a chance to cause an infection. An infection is completely harmless until it reaches 5%. At that point it starts getting worse and you need medication to cure it. While you have an infection any hit you take will make it worse.

### **Food and Water Bars**

We’ve added food and water UI bars under the players belt inventory. The blue bar is for your water level and green for is for your food level. You will see them go up and down based on your current hunger and thirst levels.

### **HD Characters**

We have overhauled and re-imagined many of the characters in HD. They may look better but they have less draw calls and are slightly better in performance. New HD zombies include:

* Zombie Arlene
* Zombie Darlene
* Zombie Marlene
* Zombie Boe
* Zombie Joe
* Zombie Moe
* Zombie Yo
* Zombie Steve
* Big Mama Zombie
* Crawler Zombie
* Trader Jen
* Trader Joel
* Player arms – male and female

### **Dynamic Music System**

TFP have again teamed up with Native Darkness Productions to make the Alpha 19 Dynamic music system more robust while adding a ton of new content and features.

The propriety Dynamic Music System algorithm measures and uses many player-centric conditions such as player location, biome, time of day, inside or outside a location, nearby aggressive enemies, threat level and more to tailor a custom movie like musical experience for the player.

From this Dynamic Music System algorithm the system can play from the following musical groups: Home day music, home night music, exploration, suspense, combat and custom trader music for each trader.

Exploration, suspense and combat are procedurally generated providing a complete musical arrangement from a set of interchangeable loops. As of Alpha 19 there, are 31,558 unique combinations of music.

Music volume, daily allotted probability and On/Off toggles are available in the audio menu.

We are very excited to unveil this system and we hope you enjoy this new addition to the 7 Days soundscape.

### **Loot Progression/Balance**

Loot distribution has been smoothed out so that you do not find end game loot too soon and have no more upgrades to look forward to.

Loot has been balanced to provide a smooth progression from primitive, iron and steel items. This change provides a steady progression for the player and gives some incentive to craft, while slowing the economy a bit early game.

The loot quality for player parties is equivalent to that of the highest level player and perk effects like Lucky Looter are not shared. The only loot advantage is that parties face tougher opponents which have a higher chance to drop loot of better quality.

There are 4 tech levels of items in the game. These start appearing in loot at the following Game-Stage intervals.

* **Tech 0** (GS 1-11) – Primitive tools, weapons and armor including a bow and the blunderbuss.
* **Tech 1** (GS 12) – Iron or similar melee items and armor and and the first proper firearms like a pistol or double barrel shotgun.
* **Tech 2** (GS 50) – The best melee items, bows and armor and mid range firearms like a pump-action shotgun.
* **Tech 3** (GS 91) – The most advanced firearms like an M60 or the Sniper Rifle.

Trader quest rewards scale similar to this system. You won’t immediately get a shotgun for a day one quest.

We will be continuing to fine tune loot progression in patches. In the future we plan on unifying loot progression, quest loot reward progression and trader for sale item progression more unified. We are planning on having biomes and/or POI with both harder enemies and better loot.

### **Enemy Progression/Balance**

Enemy progression has been re-balanced. The chosen game difficulty no longer affects the game-stage value and player parties accumulate roughly 2/3 of the combined game-stage that they used to. This makes the enemy difficulty grow slower you won’t see high end enemies on the 2nd blood moon.

### **On Screen Sprite System**

We added a brand new Nav Objects On-Screen Sprite System to help players more easily locate important items in the world such as fetch quest containers, player backpacks, spears and more. We are using this system on many of the harder to find important items and events in the game.

The new Nav Objects On-Screen Sprite System, which govern the On Screen Icons, Compass Icons and Map Icons. These functions are easily configured in the XML and allow adding custom Nav Objects for Entities, Quest Objectives and Items for those who enjoy modding the game.

Some of the items that are using the new Nav Objects On-Screen Sprite System include:

* Quest Rally Markers
* Quest Fetch Objects
* Dropped Player Backpacks
* Player Bedrolls
* Player owned vehicles
* Traders
* Thrown spears
* Air Drops

### **Quest Improvements**

We have improved many of the quest types and even added new quests here are some of the improvements

#### **Quest Sprites**

We have implemented the on screen sprite markers for rally markers, traders, fetch bags, dig quests and more making it much easier for players to go where they need to go and find what they need to find.

#### **Dig Quests**

The dig quests have been improved displaying a projected image of a dotted circle onto the terrain showing the player where to dig. As the player digs out terrain blocks the projected circle shrinks letting the player know he is getting closer to the buried treasure.

#### **Opening Routes**

We have added new trader to trader quests that guide the player to the next closest trader after completing 10 quests. This continues until the player has delivered a package to all 5 traders.

### **World and Location updates**

We added a ton of new locations to the game including remnants. These give the player easier low enemy count locations to explore, loot and take over if your not ready for a Tiered challenge.

We have updated Navezgane significantly increasing the playable space into the radiated zone with new roads that lead to new developments adding many new POIS or locations that were never in Navezgane before or updating cities. Locations include:

* New Desert business development
* New Snow modern development
* New Forest old housing development
* New Desert modern housing development
* New Desert old housing development
* Desert City of Departure has been updated
* Snowy city of Perishton has been updated
* Wasteland City of Gravestowne has been updated

Some Trader locations in Navezgane have been moved to improve distances between traders
We have improved Random Gen in A19 to use every POI possible in the game so players will see the breadth of content like never before along with a lot of tagging updates and improvements. In fact an A19 Random Worlds can have over 500 unique POIS!

We’ve re-imagined tons of older locations with a complete art and game-play overhaul converting them to beautiful and quest-able dungeon experiences and added many brand new locations to the game. In all over 40 new or updated locations and counting. Some of the new or re-imagined locations include:

* 2 Grocery Stores
* 2 Gun Stores
* 2 Pharmacies
* 2 Hardware Stores
* 2 Clothing Stores
* 2 Electronics Stores
* 7 Ranger Stations
* Carlot\_01
* New High School
* sawmill\_01
* house\_modern\_12
* house\_modern\_13
* house\_old\_gambrel\_04
* 12 Remnants
* departure\_city\_blk\_plaza
* park\_basketball
* park\_plaza\_01
* park\_plaza\_02
* red\_mesa
* celltower\_01

#### **Changed**

* Light intensity correction to all POIs to work better with the new linear lighting
* Wasteland biome now spawns smaller but improved deco remnants
* Removed un-needed random gen POIS
* Improved naming conventions of some biome spawned poi remnants and deco piles. all will have the term deco first in their file names now
* Renamed bank to store\_bank\_01
* Removed un-used old tree piles
* Deprecated old cover pile pois that were not being used anymore
* Moved special totoz east of football stadium
* Moved pawnshop from departure to rural pine forest where old small bookstore was
* Removed all non forest and burnt forest player spawn locations to work with the new trader to trader quest progression in Navezgane. Will be adding more back to get variety
* Adjusted pine forest biome to take over a small amount of the winter biome in Navezgane
* Moved gas station 6 to outskirts of Perishton to make room for new plaza across from courthouse
* Fixed over-sized trees in Persihton and improved city block performance
* Deprecated old burnt pine cluster POIS as the are not needed
* Removed alleys from Gravestowne blk improved Gravestownes overall look
* Optimized Diersville city blk a little
* Size and position of remnant mill so it fits to the alley in Perishton
* Replaced many duplicate survivor sites with POIS never in Navezgane
* Trader Hugh and Trader Joel can now spawn in any biome in RWG
* Single bed & mattresses POI replacement
* Optimized store\_autoparts\_01 from 487K verts/513K tris to 317K verts 315K tris

#### **Fixed**

* Cabinets in Fastfood\_04 are not lootable
* Cemetery 02 torches that were not on
* Wrong bookcases in bank POI
* Boat docks 02 collapses
* Boats Docks 3 collapses
* Si issue bar\_stripclub\_01
* Fake cabinets in Berserker Bill’s
* Loot cover in abandoned\_house\_05 has an SI issue
* Trailer\_01 prefab si issue when wrenching the car
* Missing support pillar in gas station 05
* Incorrectly rotated drinking fountain in factory 01
* Survivor\_site\_05 has cobblestone clipping through tent
* Garage roof at house\_old\_pyramid\_01 has si issue when stepped on
* Lights in front of the Bear Den are too bright
* CeilingLight04 spotlight was sideways and adjusted defaults

### **Environment Art**

The Art Team has grown much bigger and they have made some major improvements including:

* **Snow Trees** – Updated to resemble thick fir trees with 3D snow giving the trees more depth and volume.
* **Burnt Trees** – Thin version that has charred bark in addition to being more performant. A thicker crispy fried fir tree that adds more atmosphere and variety to the burnt forest.
* **New skies** – Updated sun and moon rendering, cloud blending and lighting, and horizon blending.
* **New fog** – Uses a new distance calculation, allows for very dense fog and sun punch through of heavy fog. Fog now switches to a murky version when under water.
* **Updated Textures** – Most environment textures have been updated in addition to adjustments for linear color space and physically based rendering.
* **Commercial Stores** – All new commercial store POI props and loot containers! Quest through ransacked grocery stores shelves. Have your pick of rotten produce, peruse clothing stores with the latest fashions, and catch up on a best seller at the local book store. Shop till you drop for all of your post apocalyptic retail needs!

Nearly 150 new commercial assets including:

* Hardware store shelves
* Grocery stores stocked with food, beverage items
* Rotten produce bins
* Trashed store shelves
* Frozen food refrigerators
* Beverage refrigerators
* Pharmaceutical drug shelves
* Clothing racks
* Clothing shelves
* Mannequins
* Store display cases
* Gun and ammo display cases
* Gun racks
* Shoe racks
* Electronic store shelves
* Book shelves
* Shooting target
* Square and round hay bales
* Restroom signs

### **New Weapons & Items**

We added several new tools and weapons:

**Tech level 3** – we’ve added a whole new line of weapons to give you the firepower you will need to face future special infected, bandits and more!

* **Desert Vulture** – This .44 magnum caliber pistol packs some serious stopping power and is governed by the gunslinger skill.
* **Automatic shotgun** – This new tech level 3 firearm sports a large drum magazine and allows use of the trigger group automatic mod to unlock full automatic weapon fire mode makes it the most devastating short range shotgun in the game. If you like to see limbless zombies and superior crown control, this is the weapon for you.
* **Sniper Rifle** – This 762 sniper rifle has a larger magazine, fire rate, better handling and superior damage to the hunting rifle and marksman rifles.

Impact Driver – This tech level 3 tool is the fastest way to harvest mechanical items. Strip down cars and mechanical items down in seconds!

***Tech level 2***

* Ratchet – This new tech level 2 harvesting tool is faster than a wrench and degrades slower.
* Tactical Assault Rifle – This new tier 2 assault rifle is a step above the 762 in range, accuracy and fire rate.

***Tech level 1***

* **Robotic Sledge** – This robotic weapon is a stationary turret with a large sledgehammer shaped pulverizing arm that punches enemies and can knock them down easier at higher quality levels. It is governed by robotics
* **Blunderbuss** – Not a new weapon, but with the loot re-balance this weapon might save your skin early game and is craft-able from basic components.

All existing tools and weapons have either been remade from scratch or had an art update to pbr textures for the new linear lighting.

### **New Candy**

We have added candy to the vending machines, they allow players to have a short term modification to game-play and provide a few calories:

* Atom Junkie – Atom sized candy and atomic sized power! Increase explosive damage 50%.
* Covert Cats – Be a cool cat and have it made in the shade with Covert Cats. Deal 50% more sneak damage.
* Eye Candy – Find that sparkling treasure easier with a drop of Eye Kandy. Find much better loot.
* Hackers – These tasty treats give you 20% more harvest when salvaging.
* Health Bar – Increases your max health and adds 50% resistance to critical injuries, recover from critical wounds faster.
* Jail Breakers – Be the daddy to that stubborn lock. 100% success chance to pick a lock.
* Nerd Tats – Channel your inner nerd powers! Stun batons stun nearby enemies on charged hits.
* Oh Shitz Drops – Be prepared for those Oh Shitz moments! Fall damage immunity.
* Rock Busters – Jawbreakers got nuthin’ on us! Gain 20% more resources mining ores.
* Skull Crushers – Rock hard candy that gives you a rock hard punch. Increases melee damage 50%.
* Sugar Butts – If ifs and butts were candy and nuts every day would be Christmas! Well now it can be with one tasty Sugar Butts Candy. Get a 10% better deal buying and selling.

### **New Perk Books**

We’ve added three new book sets, Bar Brawler, Spear Hunter and Tech Junkie!

#### **Bar Brawler**

* Basic moves – Adds 10% damage.
* Drop a bomb – Sprinting power attacks can knock down your opponent.
* Killer Instinct – Gain 5% damage with each kill up to 15%.
* Finishing Moves -Do extra damage to knocked down opponents.
* Adrenaline Healing – Recover extra health with each punch.
* Rage mode – Attack and move faster after getting hit.
* Boozed up – Drinking beer no longer blurs your vision and your buzz lasts twice as long.
* The 7th Curse – The 7th unarmed strike in a short time deals 300% damage.

#### **Spear Hunter**

* Damage – deal 10% more damage.
* Maintenance – Spears degrade 20% slower.
* Steel Spears – Craft steel spears.
* Strong Arm – Spears travel faster and further.
* Rapid Strike – Thrust spears 10% faster.
* Punctured Lung – slows your target.
* Deadly Combo – Hits scored in quick succession do 10% more damage up to 30%.
* Kill Move – Power attacks to downed opponents do 50% more damage.

#### **Tech Junkie**

* Robotic Damage – Robotics do 10% more damage.
* Maintenance – Robotic weapons degrade 20% slower.
* AP Ammo – Craft AP ammo for robotic weapons.
* Robotic Turret Shells – Craft shotgun ammo for robotics.
* Stun Repulsor – Craft this mod that sends enemies flying on charged hits.
* Charged Strike – Increases chance to get an instant charged strike.
* Hydraulics – Increase the fire rate of robotic weapons.
* Bulk Crafting – Craft all robotic ammo in bulk.

### **Perk Balance**

We have restructured existing perks and removed others so auxiliary perks don’t always have 5 ranks, as well as reduced some attribute requirements for auxiliary perks. This was changed to give less desirable perks more bang for the buck.

#### **Perception Perks**

* Lockpicking, The Infiltrator, Animal Tracker now only have 3 ranks.
* The Penetrator has 4 ranks instead of 5.
* The treasure hunting ability of lucky looter that reduced dig radius has now been removed from Lucky looter and is its own 3 rank perk that reduces the new treasure hunting radius ring.

#### **Strength Perks**

* Sexual Tyrannosaurus has 4 ranks instead of 5.
* Heavy armor was moved from Fortitude to Strength and now only has 4 ranks.

#### **Fortitude Perks**

* Well Insulated, Living off the Land, and Rule #1 Cardio now only have 3 ranks.
* Healing factor is nerfed but still quite powerful, and now heals the new critical injuries faster with each rank.

#### **Agility Perks**

* Run and Gun, Flurry of Blows now only have 3 ranks.
* Light Armor and Parkour now only have 4 ranks.

#### **Intellect Perks**

* The Daring Adventurer, Charismatic nature and Physician now have 4 ranks. Yeah Science is removed and its perks are merged with various other perks.

### **AI Improvements**

#### **Enemy Break-through System**

We have added a new Enemy Break-through System that gives enemies random animation probabilities when enter the scene after breaking through a door, 2-meter opening or monster closet. These entrances improve the overall immersion and break the normal cadence of game-play improving the combat. Entrances include:
***Ragdoll Entrance'*** – The enemy will ragdoll through the opening and then get up
***Stubble Entrance*** – The enemy will stubble through the opening before pursuing the player
***Lunge/Boost Entrance*** – The enemy will lunge and boost through the opening towards the player

#### **Enemy Falldown System**

We have added a new Enemy Falldown System that gives enemies random animation probabilities when enter the scene when falling from heights of 2 or more meters. These entrances improve the overall immersion and break the normal cadence of game-play improving the combat. Entrances include:
***Falldown Ragdoll Entrance*** – The enemy will ragdoll after landing and then get up
***Stubble Entrance*** – The enemy will stubble after landing before pursuing the player
***Lunge/Boost Entrance*** – The enemy will lunge and boost after landing towards the player

#### **Enemy Pain Stun Lock**

* AI Pain resistance has been improved. It still builds up over time, but has been adjusted to be harder to stun lock enemies. We fixed pain reactions not always triggering. Pain now uses a new hit blending system, so different strengths and durations of pain are shown and can happen while AI is attacking.

#### **Head Tracking**

* We have added head tracking to zombies, NPCs and animals. They will now turn their heads to look at their target.

#### **Enemy and Animal Swimming**

* Zombies and animals are able to swim in water and at a faster speed than they moved before, so be careful in the water. Zombies and the bear now have swim animations. AI pathing still generally follows the bottom of a body of water, but when they near their destination, they can swim upwards.

#### **Added**

* AI that fall when target above or unreachable side will also increase nearby zombie’s destroy area chance
* AI partial path picking may choose lower paths if lower AI intelligence and less dumb AI will pick higher paths over time
* Bear pain resistance, moved pain to an anim layer, so can still move and doubled health
* Pain resistance on all animals and anim layer on boar, deer, mountain lion and wolf
* Zombie Hit layer
* Create Bear Swimming animations
* Swim state to deer and wolf
* Trader head tracking
* Zombie random move speeds based on difficulty
* Blood moon spawner will instead spawn a radiated vulture 50% of time if target is in a vehicle
* Blood moon zombies will 50/50 teleport closer or die if target player is far away
* Blood moon zombies have an increased loot drop rate after every x have spawned
* Blood moon vultures always see and chase at any distance
* Blood moon vultures chase vehicles at 250% speed
* Vultures can now attack blocks when chasing their prey
* Sleeper pose material and low res texture
* Zombie rage chance scales based on hit damage
* Zombie rage duration does not count down while stunned
* Ai rage console command
* Crawler’s climb will exit anim early at destination, moves same as anim motion, disables tilt to ground and reduced snap speed
* Zombie normal/fat attacks are faster right handed and slower with left
* Zombie hits are triggered by anim Hit events
* Zombie random attack anim blending and additional anims
* Zombie mirrored wall attack anims
* Fat zombie attack anims

#### **Changed**

* AI that fall when target above or unreachable side will also increase nearby zombie’s destroy area chance
* Reduced AI rage chance base damage to 40
* Zombies have more pain resistance and will attack even if playing pain animations more frequently
* Lowered non bashing pain threshold to 6 damage
* Removed bashing attacks randomly not causing pain
* Reduced blood moon zombie corpse despawn time to ⅓
* Increased radiated vulture damage to 150% entities and 400% blocks
* Improved vulture attack reposition duration
* Increased vulture attack anim speed
* Greatly reduced zombie alert times when hurt or after chasing a seen target
* Increased health of dire wolf and mountain lion dramatically, zombie dogs and wolves marginally
* Increased boss Grace’s health
* Aggressive animals in the forests only spawn at night
* Direwolf now shares assets with regular wolf and uses new scale code instead of a scaled prefab
* Removed all old direwolf assets
* Removed start of crawler climb up anim

#### **Fixed**

* Zombie attacks are triggered too early by charging towards and then back peddling quickly
* Hostile animals attack while electrocuted
* Spider zombies can still jump while being shocked (and mountain lions)
* Zombie crawler shock effect displays as if walking
* Rabbits are digging when idle
* Wrong name for IsAnimalEntity property making AnimalCount stat always zero
* GetMoveToLocation raycast not using origin and giving wrong height
* PhysicsSetMaxHeight was adjusting the first animal large collider
* Animal larger colliders would shift to wrong offset depending on facing direction
* AI rage chance above the base damage
* AI digging when blocked and above but only a short horizontal distance
* AI sliding down steep slopes that player can use
* Movement slowing when attacked was not removed with pain resistance
* Jumping after a fall due to blocked time accumulating during fall
* Vultures could wander instead of attacking
* Vulture attack origin too high, gliding while attacking and excessive repositioning if blocked
* Animal attack anims skipped when rapid attacks
* Wandering horde zombies seen sliding and not walking on dedi and P2P
* Zombie controller decreasing AttackAnimation, UseAnimation and SpecialAttack2 playing times when base already does

### **Random Gen Improvements**

Random world generation has undergone a few changes to help improve generation.

* **Biome generation** – We have made biomes random in placement and size to allow for less predictable layouts.
* **Trader World Placement** *– Trader world placement was separated from regular wilderness POI placement so it could be made more predictable.*
* **Player Spawns** – Initial player spawns were changed to make starting out easier for new players.
* **POI Distribution** – We have improved Random Gen in to use every POI possible in the game so players will see the breadth of content like never before. Random Worlds can now have over 500 unique POIs that can spawn!
* **Pregen Maps** – We re-created 3 brand new alpha 19 pregenerated maps to play

#### **Animation Improvements**

* Added rigs and content created for support on new weapons and tools including: Impact Driver, Auto Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Sharpshooter Rifle, Double Barrel Shotgun (reworked model), Junk Drone, Junk Sledge, and Ratchet.
* Added fall/land animations to support new fall-down system. Also added additional stumble animations when breaking through obstacles.
* Added zombie swim animations to support new swimming system for zombies.
* Updated 3rd person locomotion lower body update and upper-body update that supports up/down aiming and firing for new and existing melee weapons.
* Updated various zombie characters and player arms with new models.

### **Dynamic Resolution**

A dynamic resolution system has been added that allows the game to draw 3d graphics at a lower resolution than the main game window is running at. This can increase FPS while allowing the UI to run at full resolution.

Dynamic resolution is disabled by default. It can be enabled in the Display tab of Video Options. There are three settings:

**Dynamic Resolution Mode**

* **Off** – Disables
* **Auto** – Enables it and will change resolution based on your FPS. This uses some video memory.
* **Scale** – Enables it at a fixed resolution. Useful if you are trying to hit a specific FPS value like 60 and prefer a constant resolution. This uses less video memory than Auto.

**Dynamic Resolution Min FPS** – When Mode is Auto and running below this FPS value it will decrease the 3d resolution.
**Dynamic Resolution Scale** – The percentage to scale down 3d rendering when mode is Scale.
Lowering your screen resolution will only increase FPS if your video card (GPU) is the bottleneck. If your CPU is the bottleneck, a lower resolution will not increase FPS.

### **Vehicles**

We have done a number of improvements to vehicles listed below.

#### **Added**

* Vehicle collisions with entities uses their mass ratio and hit angle for damage, velocity reduction and ragdoll threshold/chance
* Vehicle collisions with entities during blood moon slows vehicle and is harder to ragdoll
* Vehicle damage by entities during blood moon slows and pushes vehicle
* Vehicle cosmetic slot that accepts dye (this is not functional and will be used for some type of modding in the future)
* Players exiting vehicles retain most velocity
* Vehicles keep full velocity when driver exits and no wheel on ground
* Vehicle driving increases food consumption

#### **Changed**

* Increased vehicle damage from entity collisions
* Removed vehicle parent\_part from xml
* Entities killed by vehicle hits would have little ragdoll force or play an anim and improved ragdoll hit force
* Vehicles that are supposed to be up on blocks are in them
* Vehicle damage amount to entities did not use actual relative motion
* Vehicle ragdoll force on entities was inverted
* Removing vehicle mods did not update item
* Vehicle physics not transferred when client or server took control
* Vehicle engine would not stop if broken
* Controls break when hitting esc at the same time you enter a vehicle

### **Server administration and multiplayer**

**config changes, console commands, etc**

* Added support for whitelisting and admin permission levels via Steam Groups. For instructions check the serveradmin.xml and the console commands “admin” and “whitelist”
* Added optional “display names” to admin / ban / whitelist commands to make it easier to remember who the entries in the XML belong to
* Added command “camera” to allow locking the camera in place or saving/loading exact camera positions, e.g. for screenshots
* Added the ability to search for commands with “help \* <searchstring>”
* Added the command “getlogpath” to easily find location of the current log file
* Available buff names are now listed when using the “buff”/”debuff” commands without arguments
* Fixed the “buff” console command recognising all valid buffs
* Changed the “debugshot” command to also save the list of currently bought perks as CSV next to the screenshot
* Changed the “chunkreset” command to work when run by clients too
* Changed the “chunkreset” command to take block coordinates instead of chunk coordinates
* Fixed games hosted as “Friends only” could be joined by random people through the Steam profile page if you had not set your profile to private
* Changed the “Terminal Window” window name to include the server name and port
* Fixed the game logging errors when the executable was called with non-GamePref command line arguments
* Client side cached map view no longer persist between different servers with the same world a player connects to
* Added a note about port ranges for servers to show up on the LAN tab of the server browser to the serverconfig.xml template

### **In-Game Commands**

* Networkclient and networkserver console commands each with latencysim and packetlosssim commands to enable latency and packet loss simulation
* Screenshots are saved as tga when pressing left shift + F9
* Gfx graph #, cvar, pe and stat console commands
* Gfx graph fps and gfx graph dr console commands (type gfx for help, example “gfx graph fps 200”)
* Chunkreset console command f parameter
* Teleport to POI window, triggered by console command “tppoi”

### **Modding Support**

* (In game) Localization from mods now pushes to clients
* Added: Support loading prefabs from mods
* Added: EntityClasses can be hidden from spawn menu with the property “HideInSpawnMenu”
* Added: Target health bar visibility can be configured from XML
* Added: Support XUi binding of CVars with specified formatting
* Added: XML driven on-screen icon system
* Added: Worldglobal config file
* Changed: World file processing is no longer based on file timestamps but rather actual content changes
* Fixed: XPath insertAfter patches inserted elements in reverse order
* Fixed: Multidim blocks were only interactible on one end

### **Level Editor Improvements**

* Added: editor only command “sleeperreset” to reset sleeper volumes for quicker testing without reloading level
* Added: Disable biome spawns in playtest mode
* Added: Screamers will not spawn in playtest mode
* Changed: Light editor max range to 40 and step to .5
* Changed: Light editor to remove tile data when saving with defaults
* Changed: Increased light editor min/max spot angle
* Changed: Updated default spectrums for POI editor
* Changed: integrate standard localization handling for Light Editor properties
* Fixed: Light editor Esc key cancelled, but left the visible changes
* Fixed: Light editor changed tile entity color when only save should
* Fixed: Light editor not removing all changes on cancel
* Fixed: Reduced fog in POI editor
* Fixed: Can not create a world using World Editor and receives an NRE
* Fixed: DirectoryNotFoundException from Prefab Editor from non-existing maps

### **UI Improvements**

* Map popup for creating waypoints can now be dismissed by clicking on the map
* Added UI scaling option
* Added a refresh button to the server browser
* Added support to paste “IP:port” combinations into the IP field in direct connect window and automatically extract the port to the port field
* Added a warning on the New Game window when the selected world was created with a different major version of the game, mostly as the world’s prefab list could contain outdated entries
* Fixed: Scoreboard admin star can no longer get covered by player names
* Fixed: The last letter of some tooltips was below the tip box
* Fixed: Hovering over a blank slot in a container showed item tooltips from items in another container
* Fixed: Hovertext on lootable/harvestable items was displaying two messages
* Fixed: XUi tool tip backgrounds ghost on main game screen
* Fixed: Fog of war covered parts of the map were actually transparent
* Fixed: Quite a bunch of missing localizations

### **Audio Improvements**

* All new weapons have supported audio
* Lockpick sounds
* New Trader Jen VO

#### **Other Visual Improvements**

* Cloud moon glow and darkening at lower heights
* Atmosphere ground plane below horizon
* Sky color alpha scales outside ambient sky color
* Clouds are darker at lower heights at night
* Specific moon phases every 7 days
* Separate moon size, color and phase when blood moon
* Background cloud layer
* Moon phase and color effect moon glow
* Sun punch through of fog
* Color spectrums blend between colors
* Worldglobal ambient night values
* Interior ambient light scaling
* Antialiasing Low, High and Ultra options
* Sun shafts on moon
* Underwater fog

### **Analytics and Telemetry**

We have partnered with Super Nimbus and GameSparks to capture game analytics from Alpha 19 to Gold. We plan on capturing many things to help balance the game and improve the overall experience only generic game-play data all of which is already been covered in our EULA. For Alpha 19 we are capturing the most important data for balance and progression.

Some things we are capturing include:

* Game simulation settings
* How XP is earned
* How players die
* How players kill enemies
* The speed of player leveling
* Loot Progression at key points

We are ***not capturing*** and storing any personnel information from users such as

* IP addresses
* Names
* Steam usernames
* Device Names
* Anything that can be used to identify any particular user

## **Alpha 19 b1-b180**

### **Added**

* Buffs’ icons caused by an outside source, not by an item action triggered by the player, will blink for the first 3 seconds
* Intersection block shapes
* Added a Critical Hits journal entry
* Block shapes that play nice with the new counter mounted sink mesh
* Entity physics rigidbody uses the actual mass
* Block model entity enables LOD fading
* Trader to Trader quests at each quest tier.
* Expand the LootQuantity passive to affect whole containers
* Super corn can be used to craft glue
* Current POI to player section of debug panel
* Biome node system
* Trader Hugh now specializes in firearms, gun parts, and ammo
* Trader Rekt specializes in food and seeds
* OptionsGfxResetRevision to allow resetting on startup
* Hotzone settings for Nav Object Compass settings
* Dimming of sun and moon light from high fog and moon phase
* Worldglobal xml fogPower
* Journal entry for stealth
* New polished hardwood floors
* EntityProjectile to allow syncing of spears between server and client as well as allow saving and loading of spears in chunks
* Journal entry for the Activity Map
* Anim controller SetFloat change threshold and idle time change threshold, but removed for zombies
* Stone axe hit organic sounds
* Custom toolbox and toolchest sounds
* Allow hay bales to scrap to plant fibers
* SetTransformActive updates reflection probe
* Console command gfx st budget 0 disables streaming and >0 enables
* Writable Storage Box
* American Flag Version Flagpole
* Chair versions of plaid and leather sectional couches
* Player stats UI shows values using tags if set
* Night is darker when the moon is not full
* Added POI name to dbs command screenshots
* Option to change size of FPS display
* Old Wild West Coffins
* Tough Guy Sunglasses that boost your fortitude. Found in loot and for sale at traders
* Allow XUi list ComboBoxes to be initialised with ints/floats from XML
* Allow enabling/disabling XUi SimpleButtons from XML/bindings
* Allow XUi controllers to react to binding changes at runtime
* Mem obj and mem objs console commands to list and shrink the object pool
* HD Biker Zombie
* Chainsaw/auger flesh impacts for melee & harvest.
* Added hits/grazes to all 3 tiers knuckles.
* Visual clue for text orientation on player storage crate
* Radiated vulture vomit attack sfx.
* Gfx st discard console command
* Setup xml, localization, and icons for Gas Pump Remake
* Updated localization for Wild West Coffin helper
* Setup xml and localization for Bleachers Set
* destroyed concrete material
* “gfx graph tex mem” and “gfx graph tex stream” console commands
* “gfx st reduction” console command
* “gfx st” b/d/f/r console command abbreviations
* woodCross3x1, rustyIronCrossCtr3x1, and scrapIronCross3x1 3,1,1, multiblock variants for towers (solves issues with SI or not falling on collapse)
* tppoi window can be opened from ESC menu, also autofocuses search box now
* HD Office Chair (no new icon yet)
* Writable Storage Box Insecure to match textures when Writable Storage Box is downgraded
* New gun fire effects for weapons that had been sharing with others
* Missing tooltip for buffArmSplintedTooltip
* Added new icons for new inventory management buttons
* Create digging animation for crawlers
* Rusted Metal Roof Material
* “gfx texlimit” console command
* Move items buttons for containers<>inventory
* High quality water depth transparency and improved edge transparency, edge foam, waves and undulations
* Utility\_celltower\_02
* Allow the complete freezing of zombies within the game (ctrl-num\* toggles)
* Add chunk boundary markers that look like the land claim bounds box (Shift-num+ toggles)

### **Changed**

* Rough adjustment for loot drops. QL6 primitive items drop at GS 30. T1 start dropping at GS 12, T2 at GS 60, T3 at GS 105. You will always start seeing low qualities of a “new” tier first.
* Auger no longer has a low priority to be for sale at traders
* Cooking pot land mines cannot be picked up
* Added dysentery chance when eating rotting flesh and raw meat
* Radiator only drop radiators when harvested with a wrench
* Reduced snow storm particle saturation and opacity
* Hop seeds are now found in loot
* Food poisoning is removed, but some foods can now cause dysentery. Cooked foods now buff your max stamina varying degrees based on the tier of the food, up to 40 max stamina
* Acid barrels now have a chance to drop acid when harvested with the wasteland treasures perk
* Game credits are updated with new folks from the team added
* Splints can not be used (wasted) when you don’t have a broken arm/leg. Plain bandages can not be used without bleeding. Sewing kits not without bleeding/laceration
* Improved Light Manager light registration
* PerkHealingFactor heals less regular health but heals critical hits up to 2x as fast
* Put skinny eaves on Canyon Mine building
* Replaced old flaming barrel effect
* Replaced old charged baton effect
* Updated bullet\metal impact effect
* Adjusted some blood particles that were too bright
* Replaced old first person pipe bomb fuse effect
* Optimized Chunk OnDisplay
* Improved lights console command
* Improved dynamic light fading
* Light view distance to larger of MaxDistance or 150% of range
* Merged the rod&spring and auto trigger group mods
* Removed old unused biomes: city wasteland, wasteland hub and city
* Instead of starting the game with “over eaten” food/drink stats, stamina regen costs less food/water up to level 5
* Gunpowder crafts much faster
* Improved RandomPositionGenerator funcs to allow points in water if not found on land or are swimming
* Healing factor now heals critical wounds 20% faster with each rank
* Scaled existing weapon recipes to accommodate three tiers
* Changed navezgane prefabs.xml and rwgmixer.xml to new names
* Improved how in water, swimming and water level is updated
* Improved water movement slowing and added slower turning
* Burnt forest friendly animals are now identical to the pine forest
* Burnt forest no longer spawns vultures and the burnt forest difficulty is on par with the pine forest
* Removed unused biome entries for legacy cities
* Scaled chicken bigger so it’s easier to target and find
* Optimized some chunk code
* Improved pickup collider for dropped torches
* Updated snow tree sizes and replaced second stage growth stage with prefab variant
* Upgraded old plaid and leather couch models
* Updated snow trees
* Reduced sun saturation and intensity in snow biome spectrum
* Buried treasure loot guarantees dukes and ammo
* Armor items have less base durability. Armor perks increase durability more
* 30% of the armor value of a piece of armor is generated by the quality level
* Food/Water consumption converted to ISS v2.0. Both food and water stats increase up to 200 along with HP and stamina. There is no overeating/drinking but the first 20 points you eat above the cap will tick down more slowly
* Backpacks have a chance to disappear (improved logging to show id, player id, removal reason and entity unload)
* Books, schematics, and recipes show in Mods tab at trader
* Added commercial sink proxies and fixed sleeper fall setups
* Improved map rendering
* Ammo piles, food piles and workstations to LOD fade
* Dart trap placement orientation hard to see in dim light
* Audio Sources for body impacts to a much smaller radius
* Body impacts audio source to custom rolloff
* Roll times and play probability are calculated from daily allotted
* Snowstorm to GameParticleLit shader and increased particle transparency
* PerkHeavyArmor moved to the strength attribute
* Quest is now tracked before showing the toolbelt message about new quest
* Smokestorm particle to GameParticleLit shader and improved color, emission, velocity
* Updated Fir Large and Fir Medium with modern frond techniques
* Lights are fully disabled when turned off
* Updated flashlightDecor, lanternDecor and porchLight01 lights
* Lens flares use less light intensity, dim with ranges less than 4 and disable at distance
* Adjusted streetLamp\_Classic defaults
* Did a rough pass on Fall Behavior variables
* Baseball bat is the T2 club, the steel club is T3
* Increased BulbFlare size
* Street\_light01 to shadow casting point light and dimmed
* LanternDecor to cast shadows
* Improved GameObjectPool
* Linear Color Space tree balance
* Melee weapon 3rd person upperbody locomotion sets integrated
* Linear Color Space balance
* Turret camera view to normal color with a little static
* Renamed water jars for consistency
* Magnum ammo is cheaper and has increased stack size
* .44 Magnum invoked the Rule of Cool and has increased range, damage and rate of fire
* Graphic quality preset FOV values
* Optimized BlockValue
* Spears are armor piercing
* Spears benefit from perkPenetrator
* Increased sneak attack damage on blades and bows, lowered on sledgehammers
* Video gamma option is now brightness
* Improved default concrete material
* Night clouds and fog now have a subtle blue tint
* Moon to phong shading plus ambient lighting and supports all phases and new fog
* Updated blood moon spectrum to correct fog density and color modifications
* Shifted blood moon sprite color to fix the pink hue
* Sun horizon light spreading and tinting
* The table saw can not be crafted and is no longer needed to craft any recipes
* Wood shape blocks like poles or stairs that were in odd places on the crafting menu are now found in the wood frame variant block
* Biome affects player threat level
* Modified spectrums to support new horizon fog gradient
* Magnum model updated, points to new prefab, weapon anims, 1st person anims
* Reduced player spawn in effect duration
* Reduced global sky ambient saturation
* Spawning screen effect starts brighter
* Linear color space texture updates
* Updated Pine, Snow, Desert, Burnt Forest, and Wasteland Spectrums
* Improved cloud rendering
* Linear color space texture updates
* Material optimization and cleanup
* Linear color space Post Processing updates
* Cloud shader settings and source art
* Height fog shader settings
* World global ambient settings
* Pine Forest spectrum updates
* Reduced star frequency
* Latest interior ambient balance
* Adjusted Water Distant Surface shader to look like the near shader
* Removed SSR due to visual artifacts
* Ambient levels
* Updated fog spectrums
* Default sun saturation
* Updated world global XML values
* Adjusted default interior light prefab values for linear color space
* Linear color space texture balance
* Chandelier prefab alignment to ceiling center for 2.5cm pillar compatibility
* Yongha’s New Hunting Knife model integrated
* Reduced ground ambient
* Linear color space spectrum balance
* Split destroyed concrete shape into N,S,E,W segments for painting
* New Stone Axe model integrated
* Temp removal of fog to prepare for ‘s new exponential fog
* Improved Reflection Manager fix for when probes refuse to render
* First pass sun intensity adjustments and weather fog reduction prep for new fog
* Updated post processing to v2
* Lowered amounts of prepared food and drink at traders
* Enabled linear color space
* Disabled post processing options until we can get this swapped out with 2.0
* Entity damage buffs store the damage remainder and use next tick
* Optimized 15 avatar controller parameter names to use hashes
* Optimized World GetEntity to do one dictionary lookup
* TerrDesertGround has more hit points and clay harvest
* Rotations are now working on doors
* Consistent LOD distance on all player lights
* Updating house\_modern\_06, small fix to sleepers in the master bathroom closet
* PerkMasterChef, moved ingredient bonus to T4
* Balancing and clarification on fore grip and bipod mods
* Removed animator from steel sledgehammer and created new box collider
* Chemistry station no longer uses wood or burning barrels in the recipe. Instead, they use forged iron, more short pipes, and 5 acid
* Steel axe plays heavy woosh sounds
* Moved chili dogs, beer and Yucca Smoothies to rank 3 of Master Chef
* Removed tree seeds from seed loot and traders
* Salvage Operations now affects ratchets and impact drivers as well as wrenches
* Improved entity speed replication difference check
* Ranged weapon AutoReload property to effect one shot weapon reload
* Blunderbuss to not auto reload
* Set hunting rifle and crossbows to not auto reload
* Explosion resist is another random armor stat
* No side effects on steroids/recog
* Clothing and armor pocket mods are named differently
* Increased base water drain. (was less than food)
* Fixed inconsistent rotation on metal railing
* Updating streetLight01 mesh and textures
* Changed army truck to mesh collider
* Burning shaft mod adjustments, can only installed in weapons and tools with a long shaft or blade
* Animal remains collider size increased
* Working Stiffs crates drop a minimum of 1 tool
* Removed harvest and craftable clutter from working stiff loot crates
* Removed paper, polymer and junk from construction supply crates, buffed quantities of glue, duct tape and scrap iron
* Updated beverage list in the game to include more drinks. Removed empty jars from beverage loot list
* Chunkreset x1 z1 x2 z2 to not require last two parameters and check for huge area
* Default daily allotted for dynamic music system
* Removed item Sound\_harvesting prop
* Lab equipment piles drop gunpowder, not nitrate/coal
* Bullet casings in “junk” loot drop as brass
* Increased ammo count in loot groups, ammo piles and hero chests drop an additional, guaranteed “ammo” group
* Cheap wooden chests or desk safes have less storage capacity, large storage boxes are tougher, gun safes have the same capacity as large boxes
* Cube storages boxes show up in the “building” crafting tab with the other relevant crafted storage containers
* Replaced particles on third person “on fire” effect
* Coal burns longer than wood
* Added testosterone extract to cigar recipe
* Price of paper is consistent with other ammo supply costs
* Reduced chance for drink in refridgerators and increased chance for food. Increased quantity of eggs that spawn in fridges
* Unlocked End reward chests in T1 and T2 POIs
* Gamestage diminishing returns to a scale and set to .5 and difficulty bonus to a single number and set to 1.2
* Lucky Looter adjusted to be in line with the loot quality distribution
* Blunderbuss ammo only requires 2 gunpowder instead of 3
* Adjusted steel hatch colliders to improve ladder climbing.
* Reduced AI 1m jump distance
* Zombies have a faster/shorter jump land anim
* Decreased chance to find workstation schematics in destroyed workstations
* Reduced Blur shader samples by half
* Gas\_station5 linear lighting and new art pass.
* Replaced flame effect on burning arrow & bolt
* Improved first person hands lighting when using burning arrows & bolts
* Reduced amount of painkillers in loot
* Quests per tier changed from 5 to 10.
* Removed unneeded small signs, street lights and trees from rwg poi list
* Linear color space balance on ammo display cases and gun racks
* Changed primative colliders to mesh collider on all cars
* Tier 1 quests no longer offer Armor, Weapons or tools as a reward
* Party size from 6 to 8.
* Store\_clothing\_02 new clothing wall racks.
* Utility\_celltower\_01 remade
* Replaced tree helper with dead tree & smoothed navazgane terrain
* Sounds.xml better tactical AR fire sound playback with auto trigger mod
* Utility\_celltower\_01 navazgane terrain painting
* Updated flame effect on first person and wall candles.
* Updating old barrel fire particle effect.
* Campfire and forge tools have a small icon to show that they belong to a workstation
* Barrels are containers.
* Removed Texture Streaming video option and made streaming always on
* Ammo drops are less abundant in the early game, blunderbuss ammo and iron arrows can be more common.
* Closet rod and clothing piles destroy on loot
* Neon “Open” sign emits light now
* Loot probability templates normalised to 1 to make them usable in more situations
* Demoted exception to error (no console popup) when country can not be retrieved
* Item Type Icon to workstation tools.
* Items that cure a condition show 100% instead of an unspecified amount
* Updating steel club icon to match mesh changes
* Zombie bears drop testosterone extract
* Yucca juice recipe no longer needs water but is boiled in a cooking pot
* The stamina buff from cooked food does not count down while your food bar is full.
* Put a small weapon bag in survivor\_site\_02
* Bullet casings now partially visible in iron sight aim for AK47
* Reworked laser attachment effect for desert vulture
* Boiled water does not cause dysentery
* Reduced excessive food value on super corn
* Merged heavy/light armor, all melee weapon and all ranged weapon loot groups for better performance due to fewer probability table lookups
* Schematics scaled in loot. Early on you will find more immediately useful ones like for a forge, basic recipes, seeds or medical bandages.
* Physics push to not angle down and if not on a ragdoll use x5 force
* Traders sell tech 3 weapons in the higher secret stash inventories
* Robo sledge YawRange changed to 170°, making it easier to place in tight quarters.
* Reduced entity damage on robo sledge. Increased block damage and perkTurrets affects it.
* Loot abundance to effect each item in the container instead of the master count
* Tech 2/3 guns are not autounlocked by the weapon perk. Go find yourself a schematic.
* Chainsaw and auger are not unlocked by perkAdvancedEngineering
* Slower recovery of the dynamic crit resistance that occurs when taking multiple hits from zombies
* Added more friendly animals to all biomes
* Enemy animals can spawn during the day in forests
* Chickens can spawn in forests now
* All animals respawn much faster than before
* 10% less resistance against stun and bleeding
* Blade trap hits don’t prime the demolition zombie
* Food max stamina buffs will not overwrite if an existing higher value buff is above half duration.
* Stone block destruction doesn’t fire heat events like wood or iron blocks
* Auto shotgun cannot use scopes for now
* Improved sleeper volume noise response
* Boars, coyotes, dogs, mountain lions and wolves can attack while moving forward
* Temporarily disabled reflex sight as a visible attachment on the auto shotgun
* Increased amount of small animals spawning in the forests and decreased larger animals.
* All small game (rabbits and chickens) and large game (boars, and deer) spawn every day or night at any time. Small game has a high chance to spawn, large game has a low chance to spawn.
* Enemy respawn time is reduced in the wasteland. At night, Zombies will respawn immediately, making the wasteland harder to survive at night
* Shotgun damage and auto shotgun rate of fire reduced.
* Added floats so spawning of zombies and predators are less predictable.
* Reduced stamina cost on iron harvesting tools
* Bandolier mod increases reload speed by 15%
* Removed candy tins, hub caps and air filter items from the game.
* Land mines no longer use candy tins, hub caps or air filters in their recipes. Land mines now need duct tape to craft. Candy tin mine can now be crafted in a backpack. Hub cap mine uses a nail instead of a spring
* Deprecated candy tins and other redundant items
* Cooking pot mine is also crafted from basic resources
* Normal entities load their prefabs and meshes on demand instead of during world load
* Reduced distance to backpack after death if no respawn point is set
* Block entities to load on demand using the object pool
* The object pool large pools to active pools which will fully remove pool objects and non active prefabs over time
* Added various scales to zombies so they are different heights
* Texture streaming to only use the main camera
* Store\_autoparts\_01 updated to commercial standards.
* Updated lots of oldwest POIs with new art
* Art and new block update for house\_old\_abandoned\_07
* Large Predator animals such as bears and dire wolves only spawn at night in the forests. Wolves have a very small chance to spawn in forests during the day
* Increased push up motion when player is stuck
* Increased chance of getting criticals on the 2nd hit
* Nerfed water cooler loot to drop 12 pure waters instead of 1 to 4.
* Player shader name to Game/UMA and removed 10 unused properties
* Increased chicken and rabbit run speed
* Command “killall alive” no longer kills turrets
* Biome generation now allows biomes other than pine forest to be in center
* Optimized Arlene texture sizes
* Optimized Big Momma texture sizes
* Optimized Biker texture sizes
* Renamed Arlene emissive to proper name and readded missing texture
* Blade trap repair cost reduced to not be more than its crafted cost
* Optimized Boe texture sizes
* Optimized Crawler texture sizes
* Optimized Darlene texture sizes
* Optimized Fat texture sizes
* Optimized player hand texture sizes (AO only) and fixed filtering
* Optimized Joe texture sizes
* Optimized Marlene texture sizes
* Optimized Mechanic texture sizes
* Optimized Moe texture sizes
* Optimized Steve texture sizes
* Optimized Yo texture sizes
* Optimized ammo piles texture sizes
* Optimized dropped backpack texture sizes
* Optimized Brute trash can texture sizes
* Updated officeChair01 icon
* Optimized loot container texture sizes
* Optimized vehicle texture sizes
* Optimized non HD zombie textures
* Optimized animal texture sizes
* Optimized appliances texture sizes
* Optimized commercial texture sizes
* Optimized crafting texture sizes
* Optimized decor texture sizes
* Optimized door texture sizes
* Optimized electrical texture sizes
* Optimized furniture texture sizes
* Optimized gore texture sizes
* Optimized industrial texture sizes
* Optimized outdoor decor texture sizes
* Optimized plants texture sizes
* Optimized plumbing texture sizes
* Optimized resources texture sizes
* Optimized remaining entity texture sizes
* Optimized UMA texture sizes
* Updated existing weapon effects
* Light from gunfire now has smooth fade in\out rather than abrupt click on\off
* Gun fire light adjusted for the new brighter first person lighting
* Removed cntSuitcase from RandomLootHelpers
* Sleepers always ragdoll on death
* Block ExcludeWalkType uses a name
* Bulk updated the POI imposters after concrete pass.
* Increased duration of the Charismatic Nature buff
* Improved sky fog sun punch through and to work with dark fog colors
* Console command “weather fogcolor” to use red for green and blue if those params not given
* “gfx st budget” to disable streaming before setting budget
* Separated sort button on inventory/containers from the window icon
* “Water Particles” video quality option to “Particles”, which now also decreases world particle count
* Deleted chunk water depth object creation, mat and shader
* Improved Low quality water transparency, waves and smoothness
* Worlds’ splat maps support PNG again to reduce world sizes
* Replaced collider and shadow caster on car parts ramp
* 40 prefab materials to use the crossfade shader
* 100+ block entities to consistent LOD culling heights
* Top tier foods sell for more dukes, and no longer have economic bundles of 5 but 1, so single meals can be sold

### **Fixed**

* Backfacing issue on road signs
* DrugVitaminsDesc needs to be updated to reflect fatigue cure
* Replanted missing ground under Rekt’s stairs
* Added support to the waterwork’s fence, car removal no longer makes it collapse
* Wood Black Overwritten with Wood Painted 3
* OnSelfDestroyedBlock && onSelfDamagedBlock were not yet functional with block tags
* Add storage pocket mod and cargo storage pocket mod to inventory crafting clothing tab
* Treasure quests no longer spawn underwater
* ToolsB linear color space balance
* Animals are not always removed after harvest
* White lines on edges of UI graphics.
* Collider hinders player movement saw horse block shape
* Impact particles have material color overwritten when spawned
* Handheld torch no longer burns underwater
* Unable to harvest animals and collide with zombie corpses
* Chemstation emission light blinks in and out while moving around it
* AudioManager Play using wrong origin pos for SignalAI
* Trader Bob profile pic missing from UI Atlas.
* Handheld junk turret does not get the rate of fire increase from the perk
* Some objects have extremely small render distance
* Cars pop up when you harvest them
* God mode speed hotkeys not working for x and z movement
* If you catch a vulture on fire, the fire stays in one place while it flies around.
* Fixed don’t allow attacking while falling or while playing a forced root motion anim(landing behaviors)
* Particle scale on flaming zombies.
* ERR RemoveChunkTransforms !zone
* Stained glass albedo and transparency
* Incorrect shadow caster scale for Fir Medium
* Emissive light handling of block lights
* LightLOD overwriting original shadow strength
* Electrocuted zombies still attack while being electrocuted
* Fire anim is not seen when setting zombies on fire
* Destroyed blocks during join game process cause NRE on connecting client.
* Slow lens flare fade
* Street\_light01 collider blocking flare
* List of glass blocks that are black
* Two paint textures are incorrect
* Solid plane showing in candle prefab.
* Upgraded wood planks seem to be too shiny
* Glass Pane is way too reflective including the frame
* Grass and trees not spawning on many sloped areas ()
* Players could still be immune from a previous death at next blood moon
* Trees have some color issues since linear lighting update
* Trees change colours when falling.
* Removed 2 incorrectly placed blocks
* Global UVs, face hiding\collision on destroyed concrete set.
* Edge alignment on destroyed concrete set.
* Using turret inventory changed player camera when in 3rd person view
* Player model jumps forward of the player camera when accessing an auto turret inventory
* Shocked buff not following ragdolled bones
* You can have a splinted and sprained leg at the same time
* Collider tags using the same name for upper and lower arms
* Treasure quests now use Nav Objects.
* On perks like perkGunslinger you do not gain hit counters or benefits for hitting dead enemies
* Removed artifacts from plaster material
* The Iron Gut perk increases buff duration by 100%, not 50%, and the description on food/water is too vague.
* Sun shafts turning off early on sun
* Updated JoelRagdoll prefab with the new Joel2 model
* Fixing shadow casting error.
* Moon sprite distance so same as sky for correct perspective/horizon clipping
* Chandelier needs a bulb material
* Moon has wrong orientation
* Scale up basketball hoop
* Set roughness, metalness, and ambient occlusion textures to sRGB off for Autodesk Interactive assets
* Missing faces on some placements of destroyed concrete.
* Rockets using car explosion particle effect
* PerkFromTheShadows updated, stealth rules explanation improved on perkHiddenStrike. May end up doing a Journal entry on it but it’s a lot more consistent now so may be overkill.
* Barbed Wire block has buff issues, too large area affected
* Damage based camera shakes now working again
* Moon light intensity staying decreased from lightning
* Removed large scratch texture artifact
* Multiple Black glass materials caused by incorrect texture settings
* Being able to look under a water plane when above
* Wall light prefab set to wrong mode
* Green ambient values
* Broken leg buff resets on relog.
* Listed water cost on drugs fortbites and recog is incorrect
* Black industrial glass
* Clients on mp games cannot turn weather survival off
* God mode enabled message shows on joining game when god mode is not enabled
* Kicked while in camera screen spams errors and warnings in console
* Reduced grass saturation
* Dark cotton and Chrysanthemum materials in shadow
* Create window store set that has unbroken full panes of glass
* Foliage brightness fix for linear color space
* Tree branch brightness fix for linear color space
* Fixed tree trunks using incorrect internal speed tree shader to use speed tree standard shader for linear
* Spear stuck in ground disappears when player dies or relogs
* Stone arrows showing as generic bag
* SMG turret clips into block above it.
* Bike digging/destroying terrain on horizontal path and loses hp (new wheel colliders)
* When in god mode and continuing game you are still in god mode
* Rotations on some car components.
* Distant gun sounds not working
* Replaced old supply crate landing effect with new one.
* Electric fence wire causing PhysX errors in console
* Several more weapons had no sound if modified to auto fire
* Missing explosion on cars.
* Offset car explosions.
* Wood particles getting stuck on surfaces.
* Changed Item Compare to use Base Values.
* Show colored values for modded values in ItemInfo when not comparing.
* Ranged damage not updated in modify window when mod is installed.
* Fixed incorrect sound effect and visual in acid impact effect.
* Fire particles appearing in acid puke particle.
* Forge tool slots arranged in a logical order
* Fixing broken import scale on farm\_plot fbx
* Trees grow on dedicated servers while the server is empty
* Illumination issue with iron and steel spears.
* Another Junk Turret/Mod dupe
* Motor tools too prevalent in their quest loot group because there is no padding
* M60 now has a custom collider box
* Wooden Bow does not require string tension
* Burning shaft mod isn’t toggling emissive on materials of their weapons
* Microsplat bleed issue on garage\_5 in the wasteland
* Player getting stuck digging
* Zfighting on broken tile custom shape
* Player fall impact triggering on speeds of 0
* Steel harvest exploits on safes
* Changing spectate mode did not send the change to other players
* Artifact in charred meat icon
* Breaching slugs destroy blocks just as fast as doors
* Allow POIs from towngroup to spawn in wilderness, if they have that tag
* Increase transparency of turret and motion sensor vision cones.
* Better Barter works on player vending machines.
* Spear vanishes on dismemberment
* Skill screen and quest screen now both are fully localized
* Stun Baton charge lost on missed attack
* Players can use flashlights to attack again
* Redo dead grass texture (hay bale)
* Brick\_destroyed03 custom shape doesn’t show bottom face
* Filled back faces on animal remains
* Skill point cost tooltip does not always use localisation keys.
* Corpses starting with damage by attacks that do multiple hits
* Buried supplies quest do not fail if another player destroys the chest.
* Traders can be affected by knockdowns
* Fixed items sticking through the other side of some shelves
* Corner\_round\_plate shape makes adjacent wall faces disappear.
* Steel exploit with broken vending machine
* Wrench doesn’t have any glancing blows on power attack
* Linear color space balance on remaining ore models and terrain textures
* Iron and Coal boulders and terrain textures updated for linear color space
* Fixed mismatched knobs on versions of white house door
* Reinforced wood is not as shiny anymore
* Mac with AMD GPU has a chaotic screen blur effect
* Reflections on Mac cause wild issues
* Loot room sleepers don’t wake up until volume is triggered
* Zombies left standing after death for clients
* Open/close radial option texts for doors are now properly worded
* Some window header backgrounds not respecting background opacity
* Drawbridges are no longer suffering excessive amounts of explosion damage
* Blade and turret traps causing standing AI on owner client
* Paint issue in treasure room of modular\_06
* Corner cupboard incorrectly deleting faces
* Several inconsistencies with visible shotgun attachments
* Gamepad doesn’t index trader inventory pages using right joystick
* Disabled K menu when not in world or POI editor
* White River Citizen quest shows 0m and points to 0,0,0 if trader is not found.
* Nailgun reload sound doesn’t play.
* Backpack loot bypasses the progression scaling
* Player’s own turrets will shoot player’s own robotic drone
* Junk turrets fall through stairs and any solid blocks below them when placed from a distance
* Business\_old\_08 upside down bookshelves.
* Prevent players from loading existing RWG worlds as they will be broken for A19 due to missing traders
* Business\_old\_05 upside down bookshelves.
* Corner cupboard culling faces incorrectly
* Prevent server DDoS
* The perk HealingFactor works while player is supposed to die from hunger or thirst
* The Repulsor mod is now working
* Steroids add 50% run speed instead of the stated 10%
* Missing documentation for how the “soft cap” on overeating works.
* Wrong oven paint in apartment\_brick\_6\_flr
* Falling window pieces in modular\_03
* Replaced faucet with showerheads in fire\_station\_02
* BuffElementCold, buffElementFreezing, drinkJarRedTea, perkSlowMetabolism have no effect on food.
* Put proper shelving support in vic\_13
* Removed windowsidings from vacant\_lot\_05
* perkTreasureHunter and/or Lucky Goggles are not speeding up treasure radius reduction
* Armor not resisting bleed buffs
* Factual and grammar errors in the Dysentery and Survival journals
* Wrong ingredient count on ammoBundleBlunderbuss
* Both robotic turrets/sledges jitter while aiming at their targets
* Trader setups have nonfunctional item quality parameters
* Robo sledge displays an ammo counter
* Several items state wrong recipe unlocks.
* Molotov now applying burning when entering the flames
* Fast Food 2 has suitcase poke through bathroom hiding spot
* Added missing bock to cemetery\_02’s surface building’s ceiling
* Pure mineral water cures dysentery?
* Candle light not illuminating surfaces when standing too close to them
* wood texture seams on frames when upgraded are not lining up properly
* Better Barter 5 incorrect description
* False Max Stamina Buff from Healing Items
* Underground airpocket in Ranch03
* Collapsing railing in fire\_station\_01
* Z fighting with trimblocks and paint issue in modern\_07
* Applied paint to block behind comfy chair in modular\_05
* Adjustment to zombie footstep sound playback
* Knuckles harvest too quickly ( use attack speed )
* Breaching rounds do not work on the Shamway safe
* Ratchet, ImpactDriver, SteelClub must now be crafted at a workbench
* Steel spear shows proper unlock info
* Scope mods are now visible on tactical assault rifle
* Robosledge does not display a ammo count anymore
* Beer sign does not have a white line on texture
* Chest in funeral\_home\_01 now has loot
* Create world feature is functional again
* Can now place blocks around all lockers
* Identical look for XP bar and food/water bars
* Shovel hold animation is no longer used for all weapons and tools
* Upside down door frame in apartment\_adobe\_red\_5\_flr
* Bar\_sm\_01 no longer has false cabinets
* Animals can not die from infection anymore
* Weighted head mod is not compatible with blade mods on machete.
* Food does not heal after you eat broken glass. Also, please reconsider your diet.
* Fixed chainsaw and auger reload sound playback.
* Some farm plots cannot be planted due to stability
* Crate\_storePrefab renderer was in TerrainCollision layer
* Gas\_station5 billboard SI issue.
* Carlot\_01 has beams that block entities
* Graph value updating on non repaint events
* First person weapon brightness values don’t match third person
* Player hands brightness adjustment due to auto exposure fix
* Back side of both flags have an alpha issue
* Prefab editor Ctrl modifier shortcuts overlap with other shortcuts
* “Path node otherHeight bad” warnings by allowing a small overlap
* RWG only generating 1/4 maps on dedi
* Tree poking through in vic\_03
* SI issue with entertainment center in house\_old\_ranch\_01
* Removed the cabinet texture from the backside of the wall oven
* House\_pyrimid\_05 has si issue with loot crate in garage
* House\_old\_modular\_08 has an SI issue with trim around the farm plots
* House\_old\_modular\_08 kitchen cabinet helper blocks facing wrong way
* Chair clipping in medium junkyard
* House\_old\_victorian\_03 chandelier is floating
* Si issue house\_old\_bungalow\_02 attic furnace loot cover
* Salvage operations harvest amount does not scale as stated. (removed salvage harvest if the same resource is also on general harvest)
* NRE when trash and car share the same space
* Missing loot timer on store freezers
* Prefab Editor Able to place blocks above workbench helper block
* Marksman and Sniper aim to idle transition fixed
* Spear attack updated to prevent screen artifacts
* Timed Charge goes to unholster anim if ammo is available
* Prefab editor update imposter function causing NRE when prefab is loaded from mods folder
* Crits trigger differently for clients and hosts
* Misspelled credit fixed
* Change right side header text info color to white
* Backpack disappears again
* Ratchet localization says wrong scrap material given
* Adjusted meshes on trim01.fbx for woodHalfPlate painting issues
* Molotovs no longer explode when dropped.
* Particle System is trying to spawn on player mesh with zero surface area (player arms)
* The description for Lucky Looter Volume 5 is very unclear,
* Remove magnification wording from reflex site
* Localization wrong for inventory on fill (middle choice) button
* CntStoreShelfElectronicsDoubleBottomGoods04 is not lootable and has no hitbox (missing TBlock Tag)
* Building floating base on rockResource block
* All 3 bows polished reload anims, blend times and weapon/player is in sync.
* Sniper, Tactical, .44, Desert Eagle, Pistol and M60 with fixed blends from ADS to reload.
* Crossbows default to a “no ammo” idle after fire.
* Particles in snow and desert cause major FPS drops
* Bombshelter\_01 rwgmixer.xml update
* It is not possible to scrap yucca drink and coffee
* Copy sleeper volume’ misspelled in Prefab Editor Menu
* Low quality water was drawn too high in the world
* BurntWoodBlock4 wad unpaintable
* Running, reloading or changing weapons would not zoom back in while holding the aim button
* Aiming while running would briefly try to aim
* Missing sign backface on street barricade
* Client view distance setting ignored for player render distance
* Blocks with simple rotation enabled cannot be reversed with R key
* Prefab editor client does not render terrain sometimes
* Z-fighting and missing block in modern\_01
* Z-fighting in modular 7
* Clipping tree in cabin\_15
* Z-fighting on house\_burnt\_02
* Loot containers and store shelves aim\target fighting
* Zombies “popup” after knockdown stun while electrified
* Zombie electrocution anim starting late
* Zombie electrocution anim playing too long
* UpdateNPCStatsOverTime not playing damage effects (electrocution) if total health change was positive from regen
* POI Diner\_01 shelving collider interrupts loot container
* Biker cannot fit under chain link pole in utility\_waterworks\_01
* Cigar on Hotbar Adds Extra Str and Bartering
* Blunderbuss animates a flare from the muzzle when equipped
* Hands invisible when wearing Military Gloves
* Sticky projectiles prevent hitting blocks/zombies
* Perks that increase fire rate do not work until modification screen is opened and closed
* Steel armor parts are using same description as weapons and tool parts
* Journal updated for Treasure Map Journal Entry
* Arrows and bolts are not showing in weapons and not sticking to zombies properly
* Spears do not follow the entities they are stuck in
* 3 zombies can’t go through cabin\_11’s doorway
* Zombies get stuck on trapSpikesNew

## **Other Alpha Logs**

* Alpha 17
* Alpha 18