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EAC SDK update
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Added debris system to block placement of new walls and doors immediately after destruction

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Optimized item skin list loading when selecting items in the crafting menu
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Stripped several client only components from the server
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Optimized player mesh rebuild (players coming into view or ragdolls spawning)
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Added pooling to several clothing items that did not support it before
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Added pooling to player corpses and ragdolls
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Optimized player model bone remapping (ragdolls spawning)
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Optimized player model bone lookup (particularly during continuous gunfire)
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Added oilrig to Hapis
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Added super potato mode
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Codelocks now stack to 10
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Barricades now stack to 10
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Updated scientist visuals
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Tweaked waves: longer, less frequent & softer foam
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Improved water buoyancy performance by 35%
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Optimized water rendering across the board
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Improved performance for gunfire muzzle lights
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Backpacks now float
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Underwater crates untie twice as fast
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Fuel access on Minicopter restricted to pilot when in use
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Can recycle empty cans in recycler
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Water Jugs can be placed in fridges
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Salvaged Axe harvests more animal flesh
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Improved laser visuals
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Reduced flashlight shadow bleeding
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Thompson can now take Flashlight or Lasersight
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Minicopters now slowly decay when indoors
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Explosive ammo can be heard much farther away
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Explosive ammo causes weapons and silencers to lose condition faster
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Improved tracer visuals
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Compound bow in line with Hunting Bow when not charged (and cheaper)
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Muzzle brake reduces damage by 20%
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Added fractional reloading
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Can no longer use weapons in deflated hot air balloon canvas
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Can no longer see through deflated hot air balloon canvas
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Fixed FOV zoom bugs when using a non default FOV
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Pistols + Shotguns have less zoom
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Added Grenade Launcher
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Added Combat Knife
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Sam Site now requires electricity
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Fixed Sam Site targeting bugs and shooting through walls
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Improved muzzle flash performance and visuals
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Improved Simple Sight crosshair
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Holosight provides an accuracy bonus and 2x zoom factor
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AI takes less damage when mounted
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Heavy Plate Armor provides more explosive protection
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Heavy Plate Helmet obscures vision less
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Added "Admire" animation button to workshop
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FOV clamped is now 70-90

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Fixed

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Fixed censorship pixelation sometimes getting enabled even though underwear is enabled
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Fixed exploit to spawn explosive ammo impact entity through walls
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Fixed exploit to circumvent certain server side LOS tests
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Fixed water junkpile save / load
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Fixed a problem with corpses spawning partially inside stuff
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Fixed stash hide / unhide sound playing whenever they spawned on the client
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Fixed ores spawning inside hilltop rocks
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Fixed entities unregistering from the entity registry too early (cargo ship parenting issues when picking up arrows)
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Fixed vehicle seat clipping exploit
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Fixed colored nametag exploit
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Fixed anti hack false positives after projectile reflection and refraction
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Fixed fall damage exploit with global.free and debug.stall console commands
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Fixed anti hack exploit in elevators
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Fixed minicopters having hitmarkers
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Fixed Hapis vending machines reset
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Fixed shelve stacking
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Fixed vending machines placed inside rocks
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Fixed dropboxes being repaired
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Fixed Oil Rig distance flares not turning off during day time
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Fixed Oil Rig lights pulsing intensity after toggled
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Fixed water near-clipping issue
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Fixed water artifacts on macOS/Metal
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Fixed wave crest foam not disabled on water quality 0
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Fixed boats sinking into rivers
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Fixed some flares not disappearing during day time
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Fixed minicopter collision shape being too large
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Fixed missing first person projectile 'spheres'
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Fixed muzzle brake not properly applying recoil reduction to all weapons
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Fixed sleeping/wounded players hovering in mid air
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Fixed invisible shell casings
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Fixed incorrect scope zoom levels and naming

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Disabled graphics jobs on Linux due to crashes

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Linux uses Vulkan graphics API (-force-vulkan to use Vulkan on Windows)
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Mac uses Metal graphics API
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Deep sea waves with crest foam affecting floating physics
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Water interaction disturbance foam
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Restored world reflections option

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Improvements

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LOD, batching and foliage grids now support twice the terrain size (custom maps & oil rigs)
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Asset loading is now much faster (total loading time 10% faster on SSD, potentially much more on HDD)
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Entities are now ordered by distance from the player when they are networked
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Game log is now always written to output_log.txt in install folder
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Shore water transition quality
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Higher-quality high-frequency ocean waves
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Performance on light-heavy scenes using culling
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Water junkpile foliage animation now wave-based instead of foliage/wind-based
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Added instancing to deferred mesh decals
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Saved 115 MB of system and video memory by reducing some textures

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Fixed

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Fixed muzzle flash positions
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Fixed client side corpses sometimes clipping into things
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Fixed foam showing up near player
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Fixed flickering on shore, including cases related to TSSAA
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Fixed overbright caustics and specular occlusion on shore
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Fixed some occlusion culling frame delays on players, NPCs, ragdolls and impostors
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Fixed light beams not hiding when lights are distance culled

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New Hemp Plant Refresh
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New Palm Trees in Arid Biome
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Iterative entity networking (fixes frame rate drops when moving around the world)
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Custom garbage collections (fixes frame rate drops when moving or in combat)
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Added Mini Helicopter
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Added Flasher Light
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Added Siren Light
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Added Audio Alarm
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Added RF Broadcaster
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Added RF Receiver
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Added RF Transmitter
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Added RF Pager
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Added Player Sensor
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Added RAND Electricity Component
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Added Chinese New Year items

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Improvements

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Unity 2018.3.3
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EAC SDK update
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Clear Log.EAC.txt on server start
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Send delta snapshots instead of full snapshots when spawning (faster respawn)
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Optimized memory allocations when applying skins to items on the client
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Optimized rigidbodies on various entities on the client
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Optimized memory allocations when building blocks are spawned on the client
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Optimized client and server relating to buoyancy performance
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Enabled entity pooling on ceiling lights on the client
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Enabled multibox pruning broadphase (client and server physics performance)
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Disabled rigidbody interpolation on HAB and CH47 (server physics performance)
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Strip various client only components from the server (server memory usage)
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Military Tunnels exit route balance
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Enabled Fullscreen Exclusive by default
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Optimized GunTrap/Autoturret/FlameTurret CPU usage
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Increased SAM Site Lethality
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Added 'Toggle' input to Memory cell

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Fixed

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Fixed chat / player name "rich text" exploits
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Fixed entity not taking damage when explosive was attached to lock
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Fixed deployable rotation via R key when deploying on terrain at an angle
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Fixed being able to see through floors on reconnect
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Fixed sometimes receiving fall damage when respawning
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Fixed toggling censorship option enabling worn light source
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Fixed netgraph not working
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Fixed entities sometimes missing when spectating
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Fixed lens flares flickering in some cases
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Fixed dive site tugboat windows visible over water
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Fixed multiple Hapis out of bounds exploits

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Improvements

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Removed large double caves [Hapis map]

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Fixed

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Fixed snowmachine blocking cave entrances
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Fixed upkeep consuming more resources than intended

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Removed Christmas events

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Enabled Christmas content
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EAC SDK update

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Fixed

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Fixed some M39 sounds not playing
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Batteries have less capacity but higher charge efficiency
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Fixed batteries not being able to be wired in series
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Batteries must have at least 5 seconds of juice to begin discharging
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Root combiner can be chained with other root combiners
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Added short circuit detection to root combiner
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Lowered solar panel power output to 20
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Solar panel power output scaled by health
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Fixed branch/combiner showing the title 'blocker' when aimed at
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Updated and improved a few electrical item descriptions
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Updated ceiling light sounds to be less loud and annoying
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Fixed broken monument puzzles
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Bucket Helmet cost reduction
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Removed Charitable Rust Jerry Can
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Fix for workshop ADS simulation
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Fixed Force-Feature exploit

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