Virtual Hunter News

Here is a small patch with couple bug fixes to shelter icons. Happy hunting!

• Fixed an issue where shelter icons colors were wrong
  
• Fixed an issue where shelter icons were wrongly locked / unlocked
  
• Several smaller performance fixes
  

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While working on the next major update, we wanted to put out this small patch with more improvements, changes and bug fixes that the community has reported to us! Most notably a new icon to shelters on Bulgaria map, improved textures to the .303 British rifle, changed how animals walk on slopes and more! Read full notes below and happy hunting!

• Added more signposts
  

• Changed how animals walk on slopes
  

• Added a setting to change which eye is shown in the game view
  
• Changed Early Access notification text in main menu
  

• Added a new icon for shelters on Bulgaria map
  
• Improved high quality shadows
  
• Improved textures of .303 British rifle
  
• Improved bedding textures inside shelters
  
• Increased the harvest screen grab areas
  
• Adjusted certain LOD’s
  
• Hints are now save file specific so each new save shows all hints again by default (Hints can still be turned off from settings. This change will reset all confirmed hints from the current players)
  

• Fixed an issue where paralyzed animals didn’t register hits when shot close range
  
• Fixed an issue where wounded animals of certain species sometimes got stuck when running far enough from the player
  
• Fixed an issue where dead animals body didn’t highlight
  
• Fixed an issue where items sometimes end up inside backpack even if the backpack was closed and placed on back or left in the store
  
• Fixed an issue where the harvest screen sometimes end up too close to the terrain or even through it
  
• Fixed an issue where already confirmed hints activated after launching a game
  
• Fixed an issue where .303 and .223 ammo boxes weren’t visible in the store
  
• Fixed an issue where the ultra texture quality button was highlighted if high quality was on
  
• Fixed back slot locations
  
• Fixed floating texts on some signposts
  

We hope you enjoy these changes and fixes. Let us know what you think in the forums and discord.

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Today we bring you a huge optimization and improvements update! There are significant improvements to cpu, and ram usage and loading times. The update also includes improvements to animals, animations, ragdolls, other changes and of course bug fixes. Read full notes below and happy hunting!

• Added more environmental details
  
• Added more fallen trees
  
• Added signposts along paths and roads
  
• Added bushes on grasslands
  
• Improved leaf tree billboards
  
• Added new crossing places on main river
  

• Significant animal optimization
  
• Improved pathfinding of animals’ flee behavior
  
• Improved pathfinding of animals’ wander behavior
  
• Improvements on animals’ rest time behavior
  
• Improvements on deer species ragdolls
  
• Impvements on several animal animations
  
• Increased possibility to find eating / resting animals soon after arriving to the reserve
  

• Player can no longer walk underwater in lakes, ponds and main river
  
• Material changes on items and albino European hare
  
• Changed the shape and color of ammo item
  
• Reduced the backpack’s return distance
  
• Changed the games compression back to normal. This increases the games size on disk but updates are again smaller and faster to download.
  

• Massive memory optimization
  
• CPU optimization
  
• Improved reserve loading speed
  
• Added “ultra” texture quality. This uses significantly more RAM but improves most texture quality.
  
• Improved door’s usability
  
• Digital clock texture rework
  
• Shooting range control box texture rework
  
• Improved hunting stand textures
  
• Adjusted inventory lock button activation angle
  
• Inventory lock button’s icon is disabled when it can’t be pressed
  
• Added a delay on taxidermy confirm button to prevent accidental taxidermy actions
  
• Ammo box UI renders on top of the meshes so it’s always visible
  
• Several LOD distance adjustments
  
• All outposts except the outpost used in tutorial are locked until the tutorial is completed so players can’t accidentally travel to them during tutorial deer hunting
  

• Fixed an issue where animal tracks would sometimes float in the air at certain locations on the map
  
• Fixed an issue where pressing the inventory lock button was possible in certain situations even when it shouldn’t be
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can “fly” using stance up button when in-game menu was open
  
• Fixed an issue where ammo item UI was always on the left side of the box even when the box was placed in the left inventory slot
  
• Fixed an issue where the rangefinder snap on face setting didn’t support left handed mode and snapped always on the right eye
  
• Fixed an issue where animals might stare at player during fleeing
  
• Fixed floating vegetation in certain part of the map
  
• Fixed an issue where animal call estimate given by mobile tracker could be negative
  
• Fixed an issue where animals were pushing each others too easily when walking past
  
• Fixed an issue where animals sometimes teleported short distances during feed time
  
• Fixed an issue where some hints were activated on a new play session even when they were confirmed during the last one
  
• Fixed an issue were the old map item hint starts flashing yellow after dropping the map and player couldn’t close it
  
• Fixed an issue where callers sometimes broke feeding animals
  

We hope you enjoy this amazing update and let us know what you think. Happy hunting!

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