OUTBRK: Development Outlook (June 2025)

[p]Hello, Chasers! This month is a massive one, we’re releasing 0.3.0 tomorrow, streamers are already playing the update today and we’re showing what's coming next ![/p][p][/p][p]It’s finally time! After months of hard work, the highly anticipated major update 0.3.0 is dropping tomorrow, Tuesday, July 1st! The full patch notes will be published alongside the update, but here’s a quick summary:[/p][p]
[/p][p]☁️ WEATHER[/p][p]Updated rain to behave dynamically & interact with environmental winds.[/p][p]Improved rain shaft VFX quality & behavior significantly.[/p][p]Improved dust cloud visuals and blending with rain.[/p][p]Upgraded lighting and volumetric quality to get a much better sense of depth in the storms[/p][p]
🏎️ PERFORMANCE[/p][p]Refactored weather data to improve RAM usage & stability.[/p][p]Refactored weather rendering to improve fps.[/p][p]Optimized main menu navigation & resource usage.[/p][p]
MISC[/p][p]Light on vehicles has been fixed.[/p][p]Available seat indicator. (Never forget your friends again.)[/p][p]Improved look around in the vehicle.[/p][p]
[/p][h2]STREAMER EVENT[/h2][p]To show the update in its full glory, we partnered with a bunch of streamers to showcase 0.3.0 today Monday June 30th from 12 PM to 8 PM EST. [/p][p][/p][p]
AND MORE ![/p][p][/p][p]Our developers are hard at work developing features for the following updates and are already making excellent progress.[/p][h2]DAILY CONTRACTS[/h2][p]Angeline is putting the finishing touches on the daily contracts feature, including an option that allows players to reroll one contract of their choice each day. Here’s a preview of it in action in-game:[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]PROBE GAMEPLAY[/h2][p]Mathieu has begun work on the probe gameplay rework. This feature will introduce different stats for each probe, such as point capacity, deployment speed, upload speed, and more. We are also redesigning how points are displayed to make them easier to understand for new users, while providing additional information during the upload process, for example showing the wind speed recorded during the intercept.[/p][p]Here are some design mockups illustrating the direction we are taking for the probe module interface:[/p][p][/p][h2]TIV2[/h2][p][/p][h2]CHARACTER ASSETS[/h2][p][/p][p][/p][p]You can follow our progress on all our tasks here: [/p][p]https://trello.com/b/nsBmMfIa/outbrk-game[/p][p] [/p][p]
[/p][p]That's all for this development update ! Thanks for all your support, consider leaving a review on the steam store to reach more potential future chasers ! [/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p][/p][p]Till next time,[/p][p]-The OUTBRK Team[/p][p]

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