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Floating Fences and GPU Giveaways

The team spent a good portion of the extended holiday weekend fixing bugs and smoothing out systems in the game. We cleared the ziplines so players won’t get stuck in the sections that come too close to trees with no escape other than waiting to die of thirst. We nabbed a bug that wouldn’t spawn loose items in houses, and one that was causing water containers to be undrinkable, which is really the most important part of a water vessel. Fences across the map will no longer float a few inches off the ground, and will finally give gravity the respect it deserves as a fundamental force.

The largest portion of our time, however, was spent on drone improvements. We fixed some drone camera jitter when it was rotating around a target, or moving too fast to get back to the refueling station. The team smoothed out drone movements when switching between camera modes, and filming an actor at a long distance. We also worked out some issues with the drone getting stuck on tall structures and not filming properly when it was high up in the air.

With all of these improvements, the drones flying around and filming Lahaina have never looked better. To help you appreciate all of our hard work and the beautiful landscapes in the game, we’re giving away a brand new GPU. One lucky winner will get an XFX AMD Radeon RX 570 RS 8GB. There are multiple ways to enter including letting us know your five favorite features in survival games. The contest ends in less than two weeks so don’t wait to enter. Below you can see a few scenic shots that would look great on some new hardware.

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