People Playground News

• Lagbox
• Cathode lights
• Laser sentry turret
• Limb status view
• Limb crush sensitivity setting
• F1 opens control screen
• Added an option for detectors to only trigger on detection, instead of triggering on undetection as well
• Limb status (toggle with S by default)
• Detailed inspection of limbs (right click a limb, select Inspect)
  • Attempts to combine all information of selected limbs (from different people as well) and display useful information regarding all of them.
• Some more ambience

• Tank fire sound
• Humans don't paint the floor with blood when they're drained
• Firearm damage is now affected by distance
• Firearms are more powerful at point blank range
• Increased global bullet speed
• Halved firearm impact force
• Decreased bullet speed and damage of the M1
• Clamped impact particle sizes
• Slight blue tint
• Increased health of certain limbs

• Major firearm ballistics model bugs (especially exit wounds registration)
• Minor crushed limb bugs
• Dismembered limbs reacting to fire
• Damaged androids not sparking anymore after 1.2.2
• A few spelling errors
• Scherbenwerfer launching point
• Zombie issues
• Fixed a bug to do with deleting an object while having the context menu open
• Fixed an activation propagation problem

• UI scale setting (it now resets to 100%)

• Glock 17
• Desert Eagle
• PPSH
• M1 Garand
• Vector
• Stielhandgranate
• Disassembler gun
• Decimator
• Total limb crushing (toggleable in settings)
• Physics iterations slider in the settings menu. Higher values for a more accurate simulation. Lower values for a better framerate.
• Adrenaline
  • Humans will get a slight increase in strength and consciousness in response to intense pain
• Changed default jukebox texture
• Added a new texture to the jukebox
• Added jukebox context menu options

• Updated sniper rifle sound
• Improved bruise look
• Smoothed out the slanted map
• Crystal sprite
• Scherbenwerfer sprite
• You can now hold wrenches
• Humans bleed out 1.5x as fast
• Humans and androids can now hold objects with both hands
• Objects held by humans and androids will now drop on death (of the arm)
  • This also means objects will immediately be dropped when you attempt to pick something up with an incapable arm
• Firearm performance improvements
• Increased head joint strength
• A little extra logging info

• Fixed the slanted map devouring sharp objects
• Animation override is now correctly preserved when saving/loading
• Zombies will no longer remain cowered forever
• Fixed minor ragdoll problems
• Fixed incorrect jukebox thumbnail

• AK-47
• Bus
• Bus chair
• Laser pointer
• Knockout syringe
• Metronome
  • This item is basically a clock. It sends an activation signal every second (unless modified)
• An industrial size piston
• The lightning tool will now charge anything even when no lightning bolt is fired
• Sit pose

• The truck's container is now fully transparent
• Simplified animation names
• Worm Staff worms are a little more floppy
• Piston heads are no longer conductive
• Television is heavier
• Thinner fixed cables
• The android no longer appears before the human in the menu
• Increased clarity of tool tooltips
• Text renders a little better now
• Lowered water flaying intensity
• Humans are a little more durable, but they are also more susceptible to falling unconscious
• Androids are no longer as weak
• Androids spark underwater
• Androids no longer make organic noises when their bones break or when their limbs detach
• The lightning tool should be easier to use
• Changed television noise to an actual test card
• Increased drown death time from 2m to 4m
• Drastically improved performance of wires and cables
• Certain context menu options are now hidden unless useful
• Darkened toybox panel

• Frozen ragdolls will no longer attempt to stay upright
• Wrenches will now repair androids more effectively
• Sometimes, humans would be considered alive even when they are obviously not
  • Alive status is now based on the condition of the Head limb.
• Limbs will now lose blood when the skin is burnt off
• Androids are no longer immune to blood decals
• Clamped muscle strength
• Fixed human head texture having a thin white line appearing sometimes
• A lightning bolt will no longer remain on screen after switching between tools during use
• Rebind keys button is a bit larger and darker to make it stand out

• Sentry Turret no longer emits electricity upon targeting
• Deafening audio volumes
  • There is a setting to turn it back on if you enjoyed it as much as I did

Last update had a few issues following the rewrite, this is a quick patch.

• Humans are now more sensitive to impact damage
• Limbs now no longer function when their skin is damaged enough
• Androids don't drown anymore
• Severe head wounds are no longer survivable
• Humans have their randomised sizes back
• Humans once again panic when drowning
• Arms are no longer super strong so you can move them manually again
• Fixed sharp items phasing through the universe after stabbing humans
  • If you still encounter this bug, please report it to me.
• Fixed bug where joint limits would be always enabled when flipped
• Humanoids no longer have a 0.1% chance of fainting when bleeding
• Humanoids now take twice as long to bleed out
• Humans slowly drop to the floor in case of intense blood loss instead of just dying abruptly
• Acid hurts again
• Fixed bug where humanoids would stumble backward indefinitely
• Fixed bone breaking sound being repeated a little too often
• Lowered cooldown time for the lightning tool from 500ms to 100ms
  • Changed the cooldown time to be independent of slow motion
• Fixed humanoids hovering after pasting/loading them in
• Fixed other minor bugs