Our drone work continued this week, while we add that last bit of polish to the autonomous cameras that fly around Lahaina filming the action. In addition to smoothing out their flight patterns, teaching them what’s worth filming, and improving their HUD, we fixed a bug that would occasionally see them spawn under the map. We also worked out a problem causing them to be unable to see projectiles or their trails. They can now properly follow a firefight and are spawning where they should. You can see all the progress we’ve made by checking out the drone feed on YouTube or Twitch.
The team has made a number of crafting improvements as well. We’ve added red to items missing ingredients, restored the green color to quantity counters, and crafting recipe images will now be desaturated when not enough ingredients are present, to make it easier for players scanning their piles of components. In addition, sorting has been added to the crafting list, details have been added to the crafting slider widget, and we’ve added “favorite” functionality back in so you can crank out items quickly and easily.
We’re just beginning a large audio push across the entire map. Ambient sounds have been added to the respawn level, as well as a number of wild areas in the game. The team has also improved the attenuation to gun sounds, so the twang of a ricochet just missing your head, sounds more realistic. We’ve also made a pass over damage values and updated damages for bows and crossbows
Lastly, we’ve been doing a bit of play testing to work out any issues with gameplay and find bugs. We’ve found issues with players getting stuck in a throwing animation when they were downed, and fixed a problem with players being able to execute throwing attacks while prone. We want to keep an army of axe throwers crawling on their bellies from taking over the island if we can. If you’d like to help us work out the kinks join our discord server and follow the directions at the top of the “Testers” channel. Below you can see a shot from a recent session, where we started a failed mutant tumor piercing service.
