Hello everyone! This year’s Spring Update is just around the corner now, to be released after Easter. It will be a substantial collection of fixes, changes and improvements, with a bit of new content sprinkled throughout. Here are some hand-picked highlights from next week’s Spring Update:
Reworked Tier 1 submarines
The Barsuk, Dugong, Orca, and Camel submarines have received long-overdue reworks.
Look forward to cleaner and more detailed visuals, gameplay improvements to wiring setups and layouts plus a bunch of fixes to waypoints and other issues.
The Camel and Orca will now make use of the pipe weakpoints and valves system we introduced in the Winter Update.
Notable changes and improvements
You will be able to deconstruct characters and monsters. No more wading around in mudraptor guts, and you can finally dispose of that suffocated assistant in the ballast!
Glowsticks and flares have more health, making them more useful as a monster distraction.
Additions and improvements to the vanilla item assemblies.
Many fixes to creature pathing and item targeting.
Reduced the default respawn timer from 300 seconds to 30 seconds.
Characters no longer drop items when the player disconnects. No more losing precious tools!
Another attempt to fix reported freezes at 80% in the loading screen.
Characters that respawn in a flooded hull will now spawn with diving gear.
Support for custom event-based missions
Modders can use this functionality to make a mission trigger a specific event which can control the success/failure of the mission using MissionStateAction.
We have added a couple of “speedrun” missions as an example of this system.
DLC news in the Triple-I Showcase next week
Some of the features in this update will function as groundwork for the upcoming DLC, which we are very excited to share more information about soon… actually as soon as next week, when we have new video featured in the Triple-I Showcase. Don’t forget to tune in to the Triple-I Initiative on Thursday 9 April at 6pm CEST/9am PDT to find out more about our upcoming Home & Harbor DLC!
