#STRANDED DEEP TRAINER 0.19 UPDATE#

Undiscovered areas of the world will remain shrouded in the atmosphere until you discover them, lifting the fog and revealing the area.Every other method of travel – swimming, life raft and sail raft should all be much nicer. This is because they are the fastest means of travel and we need to tweak the system based on that. At this stage, traveling via a raft with a boat motor may still cause some hitches. Loading in a new area is spread across multiple frames to lower the performance hit.Added new Progressive Loading functionality!.Disabled toggling Fullscreen mode in-game.Changed collision layers so animals now avoid large cliff rocks.Changed collision layers for building to allow placing on terrain details like rocks (use with caution).Added a dialogue to select existing or random world on New Game.Added large Cliff Rocks generating on larger islands.Adjusted Cliff Rock texture to blend better with other rocks.Revised mechanics for Water Collector to pick up to remove attached object instead of interact.

Revised mechanics for Spit to pick up to remove attached object instead of interact.Revised mechanics for Fruit to pick up to remove from trees instead of interact.Reduced overhead when connecting raft pieces.Reduced overhead when loading back interactive objects.Reduced overhead when creating items when loading back a zone.Reduced overhead for detection of a Custom Map when loading a zone’s objects.Improved creation and loading times of Worlds and Maps significantly.Reduced the game’s Memory footprint by almost half.Fixed Stingray hitboxes when spearing or shooting.Fixed Intro end sequence explosion audio.Fixed no feedback animation when drinking from a Coconut.Loot containers will 100% spawn an item now. Fixed door spawning inside wall on Sea Fort.Fixed unable to drag capsized Rafts on rare occurrence.Fixed Dragging and flying on Rafts, Logs, etc (not including Sharks).Fixed player walking and floating on fish while swimming.Fixed Sun reflections not aligning with Sun when moving away from starting zone.Fixed Sun appearing as a ‘cone’ at certain times of the day.Fixed objects ‘moving’ incorrectly when picking off Spears.Fixed Raft crafting ghost knock objects around.Fixed dynamic Terrain Billboards not unsubscribing from zone owner when pooled, causing some distant billboards to turn off incorrectly.Fixed dialogue input fields accepting a seed value larger than supported.Fixed chance of getting stuck in menus when a dialogue window would obscure another dialogue.Fixed dialogue buttons going off screen from map loading error messages overflowing.Fixed Custom Maps loading physics objects incorrectly.Fixed Custom Map objects not loading correctly.

We know work on these core systems is admittedly not as exciting as general content, but the end result is that loading hitches are minimal and islands don’t pop in anymore - That’s a huge improvement and we’re pretty happy about it :) When playing this build hopefully you will be able to see why we’ve been working on the things we have been – The new terrain billboarding system, the new discovery fog and the new progressive loading all work together for a much nicer and more polished experience overall. We’ll still be keeping islands on the smaller size as that was our plan, but the overall experience of traversing between islands is much smoother now. This had been getting worse as time went on as more objects were added and particularly as island sizes got larger - something that we hadn’t really planned for or ever intended. You will see a small decrease in fps as some CPU power is used to load in all the new objects progressively, but this is still much better than the single large hitch. This drastically reduces the loading hitch when approaching an island. Loading an island is now spread out across multiple frames to minimize the performance hit. One of the large new features is the new Progressive Loading system! This is a huge feature.

#STRANDED DEEP TRAINER 0.19 UPDATE#

Update 0.19.00 is an update for Stranded Deep released on November 23, 2016.

Stranded deep trainer 0.19