Free Company VR Patch #13: Physics Update

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[h3]Physics/Combat[/h3]

• Completely remade the player movement system, allowing for sprinting and physics-based jumping/ climbing
  
• Significant improvements to the interaction system. Grab positioning is much more reliable and problems with miss-aligned grab points have been fixed
  
• Weapons now have a greater sense of weight and drag. Added the new option "Weapon Physics" in settings, allowing switching between "Default" (new physics) and "Arcade" (old physics)
  
• New hand physics
  
• Bow has been remade to be fully physics-based. Held arrows now have collision
  
• Doors are now physics-based
  
• Many adjustments to NPC physics
  
• Improved colliders in all maps
  
• NPC damage reduced by 75% when attacking another NPC, lengthening battles and increasing the impact the player can make in battles
  
• Adjusted NPC HP and attack scaling. HP has been reduced overall for high level NPCs
  
• Weapons now apply bleed damaged while the enemy is stabbed
  
• Removed movement speed variation based on hand height
  

[h3]General[/h3]

• Added a main menu. Sandbox Mode and Free Battle have been moved to the main menu
  
• Game can now be closed from the main menu
  
• Changed default player skin. Options to change skin is not yet available
  
• Added equipment options and god mode toggle to Free Battle
  
• Added a grip angle setting
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Minor UI changes
  
• Fixed floating ragdolls
  

[h3]General[/h3]

• Major performance improvements
  
• Improved player physics stability
  
• Increased player acceleration
  
• Increased the maximum number of active ragdolls, helping with cases where NPCs would not react properly to hits
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed NPC weapons not properly colliding with player's
  
• Fixed a case where weapons would behave strangely after being dropped by an enemy and picked up by the player
  

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• Changed held weapon alignment. Weapons are now held with a "handshake" grip and are tilted more forward than before. This can be adjusted with the "Grip Offset" setting
  
• Strengthened hand rotation speed, making lighter weapons much more snappy and less floaty
  
• Holstered weapons are now always be grabbed by the handle
  
• Made it less likely to accidentally damage friendly NPCs
  
• Lighting and post processing changes. Game is now slightly brighter overall. Additional lighting changes to be coming shortly to brighten up nights and indoors
  
• Made it easier to remove axes and the spiked mace from flesh
  
• Slightly increased NPC blocking frequency
  
• Increased poise damage done by player
  
• Added a one-time sprinting prompt
  
• Made props in the tutorial intractable
  
• Minor player physics improvements
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed AI Armies charging too early, causing them to trickle in instead of as a group
  
• Fixed smooth turning jitter. Greatly increased smooth turning speeds
  
• Disabled snap and smooth turning when commanding units
  
• Enemies now ragdoll properly after being hit during a death animation
  
• Fixed issues with the dagger on the camp table after completing the unit commands tutorial
  
• Fixed tree colliders in forest arena
  
• Fixed renaming units in camp and sandbox mode
  
• Fixed cases where bow users would hit teammates
  
• Fixed bow users having perfect accuracy regardless of archery skill
  
• Fixed cases where NPCs would play the fallen struggle animation before fully on the ground
  
• Fixed dead NPCs not dropping weapons properly
  
• Fixed issues with picking up some dropped weapons
  
• Fixed floating arrows when hitting NPCs in certain states
  
• Fixed grabbing quivers from holsters