Advanced Graphics Options
Estranged now offers the following Advanced Graphics options under Options > Graphics > Advanced:
- Enable Highest Model Detail - Turn off distance-based level of detail transitions for models
- Enable Highest Shadow Detail - Don't scale dynamic shadow quality with distance
- Enable Super Sampling - Render at 2x resolution
Other Quality of Life Changes
Several quality of life changes are now available, including:
- Supply crate tweaks so that if no resources are needed, nothing is spawned - see thread
- Save/load fixes in the prelude & epilogue sections
- Ukrainian translations contributed by the community
Official Estranged Wiki
There is now an official Estranged wiki available at wiki.iamestranged.com which contains all lore to date sourced from in-game materials (with some bonus extra information). Some notable pages to get started with:
- Arque Corporation is a multi-national corporation responsible for Deep Sea Operations, Logistics and Chemical Research according to its website, with significant presence on the Island in the form of multiple research facilities.
- The Fisherman is the main protagonist and playable character in the Estranged game series.
- Infected are enemies in Estranged: Act I and Estranged: The Departure. They are humans, presumed to be previous inhabitants of the Island.
The original idea and inspiration for a wiki came from the existing Fandom Wiki (I based the structure of the official wiki on this one). The official wiki is not open to contribution, but if you see something that is missing or not quite right, please let me know and I'll fix it.
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Finally, if you're interested in a peek behind the scenes of the in-game update news feed The Departure had while it was in development, I recently posted a writeup: Update News Presentation Markup for Games.
That's it for now - I hope you enjoy this update, and find the wiki interesting!
Alan
