The first full week of Sprint 33 is wrapping up and we have a lot planned for the next 30 days. We’ll be focusing on: polishing up current systems and features, adding better player communication so you can coordinate with your group better, and getting things ready for our first set of players. We’ll also spend some time building out some more world spaces, creating a crash logging system, and improving drone performance.
We’ve done a lot of work making the drones better already. The team has added camera support to keep attacking and attacked actors in focus better, and rules to keep actors in a group in frame. The drones can zoom in better now when they notice a player is ADSing (aiming down sight) to try and see what they are looking at. They notice smoke and loot drop beams from farther away, and we made some improvements to the drone HUD to make it more readable and include info like server FPS data.
We also nabbed a few lingering bugs including: A mesh visibility bug when reloading while ADSing. A problem with item hotbar selections not working properly after a player dies. An issue with throwing multiple pieces of food in a row, and sadly, pressing the right and left mouse button together will no longer launch a player into Death Blossom mode with endless melee weapon attacks.
The team added a bunch of new animations. We included proper sprinting animations, and updated drawing and holstering your bow when prone. Players will no longer pull their bow through the Earth while trying to keep a low profile. In addition, we added new throwing animations for food and small items, injection animations for syringes, and updated eating and drinking animations.
Speaking of eating, players will be able to enjoy the spicy-salted flavor of SSHAM for meals now. Lahaina’s favorite processed meat product joins other iconic brands like Alohagistics and Manimal on the map to remind players of the thriving world that existed before The Great Fracture. We’re adding our own touch to other generic items too. Below you can see our treatment to a medkit and what a can of SSHAM looks like.
