Early Access Feature Update #9.7 - 'Tis But A Scratch

Changelog:

[Gore]



• Bullet holes, slash wounds and blunt trauma now have gore textures in addition to blood
  
• Wounds are now dynamic and not decal based
  
• Blood on bodies and the environment can receive more details (no longer completely bloody or not bloody at all but has blending instead)
  
• Gore and blood textures don't disappear from body parts after dismembering
  
• Improved blood puffs (now also receives lighting)
  
• Custom blood color is now applied to gore and particles as well
  
• Slashing now causes directional blood sprays
  
• Improved blood textures to take advantage of the more detailed shaders
  
  
  

  [Features]

  
  
• Improved and more dynamic slashing (feels more impactful and controlled)
  
  
  

  [Changes]

  
  
• Changing blood color is now reflected in real time (no need to reload the level)
  
• Changed the way slashing damage is calculated (now depends on the length, strength and velocity of the slash)
  
  
  

  [Weapons]

  
  
• Added a Scimitar
  
• Added a Naginata
  
  
  

  [Performance]

  
  
• Improved blood painting performance
  
• Improved performance of firearms that aren't currently active in the scene
  
• Removed the ability of dismembered body parts to receive new blood stains which improves dismemberment performance and reduces VRAM usage
  
  
  

  [Fixes]

  
  
• Fixed force grabbing disabling hands from time to time
  
• Fixed disabling armor in sandbox mode
  
• Fixed modded bolt-actions
  
• Fixed impact sounds for modded weapons, props, and maps
  
• Fixed dismembered hands with melee weapons continuing to swing (fly) at you
  
• Objects that don't have an impact sound tag applied should now rely on fallback tags (hopefully no more silent impacts)
  
  
  

  [Hotfixes]

  
  
• Fixed pointy zombies
  
• Fixed prop and map loading