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Enabled skin unloading by default for everybody
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Enabled the new multibox pruning broadphase algorithm for the physics system
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Added 'gesture' console command

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Improved network interpolation time offset calculation
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Optimized the AI sensory system
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Added skin memory usage to print_loaded_skins
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Optimized the vending machine world UI (also affects the new Chippy arcade)

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Fixed

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Fixed 'Ride Horse' being visible when someone is already on the horse

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Upgraded to Unity 2019.1.4f1
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Enabled incremental GC and integrated it with the custom GC logic
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Server Browser shows wipe times
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Can order server list by wipe time
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Added in game item store
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Show when friends are on servers
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Main menu has background videos
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Sleeping bag list now scrolls
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Players automatically climb over small steps
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Added Horseback Riding 1.0

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Optimized skin unloading
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Enabled skin unloading on low end hardware by default again
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UI loads faster
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Fixed animations sometimes not being disabled
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Optimized occlusion texture memory usage
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Optimized input button updates
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Optimized chat UI
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Optimized physics timing values
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Optimized child entity networking when parented to entities with global broadcast (cargo ship)
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Optimized server browser
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Optimized font memory usage
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Optimized light LOD processing
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Added more localization
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Shader usage optimizations
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Improved CJK font rendering
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Added invisible_collider, prevent_movment_volume and gas station prefabs for map makers
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Hapis Island map optimizations
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Weapon VFX optimizations
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Weapon visual improvements
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Scope no longer scales with UI Scale
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Water jug spawns with less water
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Puzzle reset bugs fixed (can no longer camp and wait for a respawn)
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Nerfed oil rig loot
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Flashlights cast additional light in first person illuminating an area beyond just the light cone
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Lowered all research costs

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Fixed

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Fixed skin unloading texture and material corruption issues
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Fixed light from the outside bleeding into building reflection probes at doorways
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Fixed projectile LOS exploit that was abusing the player bounds forgiveness
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Fixed server side player fall through floor exploit
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Fixed IK on world space particle systems (flame thrower)
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Fixed not all servers getting listed
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Fixed crafting queue UI not getting reset after reconnect
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Fixed renderinfo command
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Fixed players parenting on the outside of Hot air balloon
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Fixed players falling out of the falling out of Hot air balloon
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Fixed a bunch of item typos
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Fixed projectiles being rejected when shot through Oilrig stairs
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Fixed players clipping through Oilrig dock
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Fixed SetDestination errors
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Fixed Launch site office building spawning too many barrels
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Fixed Watchtowers being placed under the terrain
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Fixed Rustige Egg base protection
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Fixed Water Junkpiles despawning with players nearby
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Fixed Muzzle flashes animating at low FPS in the distance
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Fixed Scope jittering all over the place when on a vehicle or the cargo ship
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Fixed viewmodels lagging behind when on a vehicle or the cargo ship
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Fixed not being able to pick up Water Barrel
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Fixed animals not playing dynamic footsteps based on their surface type
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Fixed powerline poles having lights when they shouldn't
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Fixed terrain drawing white, or undefined, at distance on shader levels 101 to 199

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Added granular skin loading (greatly reduces skin memory usage)
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Added skin unloading (itemskinunload convar, enabled by default with less than 10GB of RAM)
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Map uses less memory and can be zoomed out much farther
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New Hunting Bow model

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Optimized UI background blur shader by removing unused grab pass
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Optimized GC allocs from client entities that are waiting for their parent
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Bandit Town lighting overhauled
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Cave Large Sewers lighting overhauled
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Puzzle fuse boxes now run high voltage, and as such look more dangerous
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Reduced external wall and gate crafting time
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M39 has much more manageable recoil
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Faster right click quick looting
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Bone arrows are less expensive
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Bone arrows move faster
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Bone arrows have a larger 'radius'
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HV arrows cost metal fragments instead of stone

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Fixed

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Fixed riot hat skin preview (workshop)
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Fixed metal / spec material issues (workshop)
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Fixed cave lift parenting trigger exploit
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Fixed projectile line of sight exploit
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Fixed several graphics issues with the Linux client
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Fixed players exploiting inside large furnace
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Fixed LR300 condition being too low
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Fixed 40mm smoke grenade climb exploit
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Fixed Oil Rig keycard doors being permanently locked

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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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