To start out the week the team made a few campfire improvements. Everyone knows how busy a House leader can be running through the jungle, and keeping their members alive all day. Cooking for all of them takes time and can be a hassle. However, now thanks to the amazing new meat stacking feature we just added, a House leader can cook a delicious dinner for everybody in seconds. Simply stack your meat by kind, and with the touch of button you’ll be making mounds of deer loins and rabbit by the platter. It couldn’t be easier!
We’ve added an ingame bug reporter, and are working out a few issues before we roll it out. The weather after the fracture is unpredictable enough without us inadvertently creating an irony vortex with excessive bug reports about our bug reporter.
Some big improvements were made to Big Bob, our favorite cannibal overlord. We adjusted his speed, gave him a ranged attack, and did a lot of animation work. We created charging and death montages and gave him a taunt animation so he can properly convey his disappointment that a player is not in his cooking pot already. We adjusted a few of his default animation play rates as well, so they look more realistic.
Of course our drones got some love this week too. We’ve added a refueling sequence to the drones, giving players a brief respite from having their movements tracked, and allowing them a window of anonymity. We included some basic wind effects and a dashed line ring to the HUD that rotates according to the cameras current FOV. They will slightly prefer to film animals, mutants, and players from the front now, as there was an issue with them locking onto something’s butt and then filming it all day. It was at the very least, unprofessional. We also fixed a few more issues with them getting stuck in poisoned areas, and excessively circling a target if a tree was anywhere nearby. You can check out the latest round of drone improvements on our YouTube page, and see how good our procedural foliage system is working in these shots below.
Lastly, there’s only 8 days left to win a XFX AMD Radeon RX 570 RS 8GB in our contest. The giveaway ends February 13th. There are multiple ways to enter including joining the Fractured Veil discord server, and reserving your player name.
