Little Kitty, Big City News

Today we have fixes for save file issues, stuck bugs, Doggo Quest issues, animation improvements and more. Full notes are below!

Animation improvements and fixes
- Kitty's carry animation layer now has a bit more movement
- Improvements to Kitty's sneak animations and blends
- Improvements to Kitty's pickup and drop animations
- Updated Kitty's drag start animation to one that blends better
- Improved Kitty's pawing animations and transitions
- Improvements to eating animations
- Improvements to crouching animations and precision aiming animations
- Improvements to Kitty's pouncing animations

Save/Load improvements
- Add try/catch for invalid saves
- Fix opening save confirm menu, pressing cancel, and getting stuck w/ controller
- Player settings now validated before loading
- Improved overall save logic which fixes players unable to load the game if their save got corrupted (loss of power, etc)
-- When reading save files:
* If the save fails to validate/load, a backup will be loaded if it exists
* If the backup fails to load, or doesn't exist, the problematic save will be deleted. this should prevent on-game-start issues with bad save files. this is the worst case scenario
-- When saving to disk:
* A backup is created (ie: SaveFile_0.es3.bac)
* The game is saved to file
* The file is validated, and if it fails to validate (ie: we read a value from it) then the backup is restored. backups are also validated before being restored
logging added to any failures of the above steps

Misc fixes
- Fixed the player sometimes not teleporting to the Doggo yard (or in other cases, not at all) if their first teleport was at the dock manhole
- Added Open Inventory and Open Todo list actions to the button rebind menus
- Fixed getting completely stuck mid jump if you were jumping onto a ledge and you happened to press sprint at just the right moment mid jump

- Lots more collision fixes and improvements
- bananas now sleep on spawn
- briefcases no longer spawn rubber ducks
- fixed the Traditional Chinese showing some elements in simplified on the main menu
- fixed a bug where slomo could get stuck on if you tripped a human JUST as you were about to catch a bird (or other edge cases)
- fixed some of the Traditional Chinese files not properly getting updated
- improved collisions and fixed areas of the doggo yard where the dog balls could get stuck
- Fixed convenience store worker getting stuck in a "return the fish" loop
- fixed some ledge climb transitions which could cause an edge case where the transition didn't finish the kitty would get stuck mid climb
- fixed the trashcan in the far main street's exit being wrong which would put in the wall on exit
- slight changes to kitty's arms and look-at when pouncing on a bird and some look-at tweaks in general

• The game will now query steam achievements and stats and make sure they are synched with in-game achievements and if not, resolve it
  
• Fixed some cases where player save position could be saved as NaN
  
• Fixed DualShock4 + DualSense not working on emote wheel
  
• Fixed the right clavicle on kitty pointing weirdly when pouncing a bird
  
• Traditional Chinese translation has been completely redone
  
• Fixed the Unstick Me button text missing a character in Japanese
  
• Lots more collision bits on buildings and streets have been fixed
  
• Save games now show the percent of the game you’ve completed
  
• Fixed a case where the BANANAs were going away
  
• Fixed some potted plants disappearing
  
• Fixed bananas tripping peds when they were too far from the ped's feet
  
• Added effects to when a ped trips on a banana
  
• Removed the blue bin from the convenience store
  
• Fixed the banana not ever tripping anyone else after tripping someone once
  
• Made adjustments to the ledge climb that would get "stuck" to prevent it from getting stuck
  
• Fixed a bug in the ledge climb code that would put the climb point on step higher than it should have
  

- bones and rubber ducks will reset their positions on load unless they were used to progress "their quest"
- soccer balls now no longer save their position unless you've completed their individual net quest - if you haven't completed it, the ball will reset on each load
- slight wall jump improvements to make it harder to do them accidentally
- made it a tad easier to cling to a wall for a wall slide
- improvements to ledge climbing overall
-- ledge climbing onto a thin ledge will now no longer force you to keep moving forward and drop off the other side - you will now stop
- precision jumping visuals are now a bit more accurate and will "snap" to the legde if you can ledge climb to give you more of a visual indicator for success
- added a visual paw indicator feedback when it snaps
- updated the precision jump dot lines to be more accurate
- fixed birds getting stuck on you if you caught one and immediately got scared
- doggo balls will now reset to their spawn position on loading if they haven't been put in the hole
- the blue rooftop bin and the conv store fan will now reset their positions on load if they havent been used to complete their quest - after the quest is complete, they save their position
- fixed being able to get a prompt for crawling while pulling a bin
- lots of collision updates, fixes and improvements
- fixed a case where the construction yard failsafe for hiding the blue bin wasn't working
- fish now reset their position on load unless they are eaten
- fixed not being able to get on top of the kyoto style house
- fixed the aim paws not aiming off of tall drops
- if you precision onto ivy, you'll now auto cling/climb
- fixed a bug that caused the game to play slowly if you caught a bird and tripped a human right after
- fixed not being able to pull bins in non-english languages
- kitty will pause when sneaking now when you stop moving instead of transitioning back to an idle state

fixed some nests sliding away from their spawn point to unreachable areas
fixed collision on some fixes in the target alley