Rust — Explore, Build and Survive

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Features

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Added SaveList diagnostics to dump command
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Added in game bug reporter (F7)
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Added grass.displace (1|0)
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Added network cache (better server performance)
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Added bullet ricochet sounds
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Added small stash dig sound
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Added building upgrade sounds
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Added large wood gate sounds
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Added prefab preprocessing step to loading screen (prefabwarmup 1|0)
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Added mesh batching to pumpjack and quarry
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Added diagnostics to server spawn handler report
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Added socket mod names to the socket placement fail messages
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Added test radiation zone to CraggyIsland
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Added seasonal lanterns
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Added shadow settings to options menu

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Improvements

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Rivers match ocean
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Fogged rivers and lakes
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Reduced the likelyhood of being kicked by VAC timeouts
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Improved SQLite performance
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Improved AI performance, allocations
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New construction sounds
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New melee cloth impact sounds
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New melee grass impact sounds
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Salvaged icepick deploy sound polish pass
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Super distant gunshot sound polish pass
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Rock sound doesn’t sound as much like a landslide
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New survey charge sounds
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Console text only refreshes if the console is visible
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Console receives messages that have been logged before it has been opened
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Ambient sounds load in a background thread
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LOD grid no longer logs errors when objects move their cell
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Switched building colliders to the new, more accurate collision system
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Enabled server side collider batching by default
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Switched server side line of sight / distance checks to the entity API
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Updated EAC
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Invalidate network cache properly when looting
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server.save ccommand does a clean save (skips caching)
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Server shutdown saves skip caching
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Moved F2 options menu to main menu

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Fixed

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Fixed phantom playermodels
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Fixed NRE when using give commands
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Fixed EAC errors
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Fixed pool sometimes not setting recycled pointer to null
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Fixed doors not shutting clientside on first use
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Fixed random “Look rotation viewing vector is zero” warnings
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Fixed DDraw shader (old one was deprecated in Unity 5.2)
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Fixed foundation pickaxe exploit
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Fixed rocket and grenade damage against structures
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Fixed mining quarry / pump jack sounds not turning off properly
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Fixed mining quarry / pump jack sound pitch modifiers not being applied
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Fixed radiation overlay never stopping its most recent sound
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Fixed barricade / spikes / compound wall damage trigger effects
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Fixed barricade placement on terrain being a pain in the ass
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Fixed lantern sound errors
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Fixed lantern spawning in the lit state
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Fixed various sound issues when using prefab pooling
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Fixed various sound issues related to voice limiting
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Fixed grass hovering slightly above ground
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Fixed forest grass texture stretching
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Fixed supply signal effect instantiation errors
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Fixed sound template serialization errors
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Fixed various inaccurate building deploy volumes
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Fixed building part rotation exploits
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Fixed foundation cupboard exploits
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Fixed server side batched colliders not refreshing after building part rotation
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Fixed client not updating building block grades / protection properties locally
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Fixed various building stability weirdnesses
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Fixed furnace light shadows not fading out
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Fixed potential NREs in server RPCs
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Fixed trees being impossible to gather from if not standing at their base
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Fixed certain situations that could spawn incorrect decals / particles
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Fixed server DDOS by creating RPC errors
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Fixed stability not always updating when placing new blocks
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Fixed UI disappearing after pressing F4 or F9

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Added server side collider batching to work around the Unity collider limit
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Added prefab pooling to effects, decals, dynamic decor, building blocks and sounds
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Added pooling support to all LOD components
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Bean can & f1 grenades - Added hold state & anim while aiming
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Added correct AI obstacle shapes to building pieces
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Added deploy volume that uses the newly added unified entity OBB

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Improvements

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Roof blocks are cheaper
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Roof blocks are tougher
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NPCs die of starvation more
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Completely reworked entity visibility queries, fixing various issues along the way
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Server time warnings show whether it was caused by a garbage collection
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Server console show garbage collection count
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Optimized dynamic memory allocations when refreshing grass meshes
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Objects created by the protobuffer system use a pool
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Protobuffers write directly to the network stream, instead of creating a byte[]
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Increased calorie consumption
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Hammer - smoothed out anim speeds
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SMG - dryfire fix
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Sound volumes use a scale that is closer to how humans hear
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Set up third person reload sounds again
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Toned down wounded heartbeat sound
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Gunshots and explosions duck other sounds slightly
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Rocket flight is audible from farther away
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First pass at silenced gunshots
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New thunder sounds
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New door impact sounds
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New tree impact sounds
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Bush rustle sound tweaks
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Calmed reverb tail wander on gunshots and explosions down a touch
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Sound templates are pooled
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Arrows, spears and sign world models gibs
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Auto saves are every 10 minutes instead of every 5
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Developer 1 only works if you're a developer/admin
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Updated EAC
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Errors/Exceptions are highlighted red in the server console
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Errors/Exceptions on server log the stacktrace too
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Improved gib performance
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Impact effects now get the exact terrain material at impact (sand, dirt, …)
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Fireballs use better sound balancing (client side performance)
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Run the garbage collector in the loading screen (join, respawn)
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Clamp AF between 1 and 16 (fixes silent errors)
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Updated CraggyIsland (dev test map)

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Fixed

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Fixed some effects not being recycled
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Fixed ragdolls not inheriting effects (blood disappear on death)
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Fixed arrows being almost impossible to fire through window bars
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Fixed cliffs never switching to lower LODs
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Fixed being able to loot a corpse from far away
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Rocket Launcher - Fixed snapping when going to ironsight, added dryfire sounds
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Made bow viewable, fixed popping on idle loop, improved transition when cancelling shot
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Salvaged sword - fixed snapping on hit reactions
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Fixed query throttle not working
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Fixed crash in status console command
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Fixed building stability issues caused by collider batching
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Fixed entity collision event not resolving batched colliders
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Fixed water level test for entities with zero bounds
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Fixed terrain alpha cutoff range being too far away

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Fixed effects dying when target object was removed

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Added holosight weapon mod
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Added admin.mutevoice <player>
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Added admin.unmutevoice <player>
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Added admin.mutechat <player>
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Added admin.unmutechat <player>
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Added indexes to databases
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Added global.streamermode <0|1>
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Added flags for client side effects and attacks to projectiles
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Added memory usage/garbage collections to perf 2/3

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Improvements

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Upgraded to Unity 5.2.0
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Updated how we define ironsights to be more accurate
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Can wear hats with bandanas
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Unified viewmodel FOVs
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Can drop weapon attachments on weapons to equip
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Weapon slots shown on icon
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Weapon attachment sounds when attaching
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Weapon attachments now lose condition
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Admin give commands can take a partial item name
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Show last death info on server join (if there is one)
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Improved screen overlay shaders (normal mapping, dynamic lighting)
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Improved deferred decal system (ambient light, reflection probes, emission maps)
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Improved non-authoritative client side projectile prediction
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Disabled small furnace smoke because it looked weird
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Made building LOD switches more accurate
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Increased the LOD and batching grid size (faster LOD refreshes, less draw calls)
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Optimized UI event system (saves 1-2ms per frame)
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Wood type gate ingame
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Improved external wall stone visuals/barbwire on top deals damage
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You can do "spectate @<name>" to spectate non player entities

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Fixed

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Fixed various mid-gameplay stuttering issues (some improvements require 64bit)
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Fixed allowed to put any item inside weapon slots
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Fixed signs sometimes having no image
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Fixed weapon attachments disappearing after walking a long way
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Fixed NRE disconnect in NetworkDestroy
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Fixed a condition where the player could get stuck in a wounded state
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Fixed arrow disappearing in bow viewmodel
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Fixed pumpkin falling through world
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Fixed death screen sometimes not showing
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Fixed menu music playing over loading music
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Fixed projectile tracers ending one frame too early
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Fixed certain far objects being temporarily invisible between spawning and batching
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Fixed airdrops being allowed to drop on powerlines
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Fixed beartrap looking unarmed when it was armed
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Fixed opening chat when typing in the console
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Fixed holdtype could be wrong on initial encounters

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Features

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Added frosty breath when temperature drops
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Added weapon attachment: Silencer

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Improvements

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New SavasIsland_koth no-build map
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Hapis Island finally spawns barrels again
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Improved large furnace VFX
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Improved small furnace VFX
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Lowered field rocks
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Reduced waterside rock scale
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Tweaked per-biome forest shape, size and frequency
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Cliffside topology (to be used for new object spawns)
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Support for empty topologies (relevant for custom maps)
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Wood barricades can be penetrated by certain rifle bullets and shotgun slugs
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Twig building parts can be penetrated by all bullet types
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Increased health of twig building parts from 5 to 10
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Reduced the penetration power of arrows and throwables
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Improved sky reflections
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Smoothed server/client time sync
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Censor shader no longer falls back to a black rectangle on low shader LODs
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Server events like the airdrop are no longer always triggered after a server restart
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Spectating first person now views through target's eyes
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Pressing F4 will take a screenshot with and without the HUD
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Pressing F9 will take a screenshot 5x your resolution (buggy as hell tho)
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Raid camera automatically hides the HUD and has smoothing
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Tweaked viewmodel aiming to reduce jitter at lower framerates

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Fixed

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Fixed muzzle flash positions on some weapons
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Fixed worldmodel collisions for some dropped weapons
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Fixed player eye brightness
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Fixed dropping blueprint on item sometimes combining/stacking them

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Features

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Added news feed to menu
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Added server history to menu front page
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Added friends who are playing to menu front page
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Added player stats to menu
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Added global stats to menu
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Added server info popup (instead of viewing in panel on right)
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Added inventory screen to menu
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Added store screen to menu
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Added server.headerimage (url to image, 512x256)
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Added server.description (shown in server info panel)
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Added server.url (shown in server info panel)
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Added bandana
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Added balaclava skins
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Added lazy aim
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Added new and improved hit detection
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Added projectile penetration
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Added a small sound when raising/lowering iron sights

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Improvements

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Reorganised server list
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Connection screen shows info about the server
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Kill suicides instantly instead of being wounded
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Server history join date is recorded properly
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Boots require leather instead of cloth
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Longsleeve TShirt requires more cloth than shortsleeve
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SQlite handles database corruption better
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Ladder placement no longer ignores building permission
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Ladders health increased
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Improved projectile ricochet
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Item skins now work (ie the one sleeping bag skin)
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Updated item descriptions
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New c4 explosion sound
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New beancan grenade sounds
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Reverb tails wander more naturally
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New building gib sounds
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Changed cupboard building zone shape
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Location based voice limiting for sounds
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Crossfading between more than two distant sound variations is supported
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New super distant gunshot sounds for all guns
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New leaf rustle variations for different plants
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Cleaned up pie menu sounds a little bit
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Rocks have spec reflections again. (Maybe a bit too much.)
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Trees have branches again
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Improved terrain reflections
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Color grading reworked from scratch for upcoming changes
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Glossy mushrooms slightly reflect light (!)
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Elephant grass (near water) animation no longer acts all buggy
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Made pumpkin plants slightly harder to keep alive
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Tweaked weather parameters

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Fixed

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Fixed error reporting (was reporting too much)
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Fixed connection exploit
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Fixed pumpkin plant colliding with players walking

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