Virtual Hunter News

With this latest update we have reworked the entire inventory systems functionality to fix most issues and to make interactions with it more consistent. For the players it works the same but without the issues it previously had. We've also improved loading times, fixed several issues with animals and much more!

[h2]Inventory system rework[/h2]

• The whole inventory systems functionality was reworked*
  
• More consistent interactions
  
• Fixes most issues players have encountered with the inventory interactions
  
• All fixed issues are listed in the Improvements section
  
• All item locations had to be reset for this change so visit the store to get your things again.

[h2]New Features[/h2]

• Added a reset button for grab offset settings
  
• Added a Short version of the latest patch notes to the main menu
  
• Separated the scope rail and the scope for .303 rifle. You can now set the scope to different positions on the rail. The rail is only visible when scope is attached or held in hand.
  

[h2]Animal Changes[/h2]

• Fixed several issues related to animal need times
  
• Fixed issues where animals would stand and walk in place before / during / after need times or when they were spooked
  
• Fixed several issues with animations
  

[h2]Improvements[/h2]

• Fixed an issue where loaded ammo wasn’t saved when quitting the game
  
• Fixed an issue where items could swap to inventory or backpack on their own
  
• The backpack can now be grabbed only from the top to improve its functionality
  
• Fixed an issue where animals could run behind the map border where player can’t reach them
  
• Fixed an issue where weapons would play several sounds at once
  
• Fixed an issue where toggle grab type would also affect usable objects like .303 bolt and scope zeroing knob.
  
• Loading to the Bulgaria map and back to the lodge takes significantly less time and resources. This should also solve crashing issues on these instances.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where shotguns ammo box would disappear
  
• Fixed a lag spike when grabbing optics in Bulgaria map for the first time
  
• Fixed an issue where books wouldn’t ungrab when traveling between outposts in the Bulgaria map while holding a book
  
• Fixed an issue where the .303's scope’s camera was on when loading to game with the rifle on your back.
  
• Fixed an issue where loading another save without quitting wouldn’t reset properly and both saves would be loaded simultaneously
  

* We have reworked the whole inventory systems functionality. This means that it is now more consistently working, fixes most issues and bugs players have faced with the current one and gives us more flexibility for the future.

Hope you guys enjoy this update! Let us know in the forums or our discord what you think. Happy hunting!

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We have another update ready to go! In this update we are finally (hopefully) asking Santa to take his flying animals back to the north and fix the issue. We also have a fix for optics which didn’t work properly with snap on face and added a couple new options to improve immersion!

[h2]New Features[/h2]

• Added an option to turn off item highlights
  
• Added an option to mute mobile trackers notifications
  

[h2]Improvements[/h2]

• Fixed an issue where optics wouldn’t work with snap on face turned on
  
• Possible fix for flying animals*
  
• Fixed an issue where some bushes would disappear too soon
  
• Visual improvements to the lakes
  
• Renamed HP Reverb G2 SteamVR keybindings
  

[h2]Misc[/h2]

• Updated known issues in Steam forums and Discord
  

* This should finally fix the flying animals bug that has been in the game for the longest time. It was very hard to track and fix so we are not 100% sure that it is so please report any sightings of land animals in the skies!

Your feedback is very important to us and we like to hear it. Thank you all for playing and happy Hunting!

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This is a small hotfix to fix tutorials performance issues.

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• Fixed an issue where tutorial scene had partly wrong vegetation and too much clouds which resulted in poor performance
  

Happy hunting everyone!

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In this update we are bringing improvements that have been requested and asked for since the game was released. All vegetation and environment has been improved with unified shaders that adds more realism to them, better performance and gives us more tools and flexibility for later. The nature comes more alive with ambient wildlife and headlight helps you to track your pray in the dark. With all these changes the game looks better, runs better and is more immersive than ever before!

[h2]Environment And Vegetation[/h2]

• All environment and vegetation have been improved with new shaders
  
• Vegetation reacts to wind more realistically
  
• Vegetation reacts to light more realistically
  
• Player interacts with vegetation when moving through them
  
• Crossfade has been added which eliminates most of the pop in
  
• Vegetation and environment gets wet when it rains
  
• Improved weather effects. More cloud variety has been added.
  
• Improved daytime lighting
  

[h2]New Features[/h2]

• Ambient wildlife has been added (birds, rodents)
  
• Buzzing flies added to droppings (you can tell the droppings freshness from the amount of flies)
  
• Headlight has been added that can be used at night (touch your forehead to toggle on/off)*
  

[h2]Animal Changes[/h2]

• Animal render distance has been increased from 300m to 500m
  

[h2]Improvements[/h2]

• Game has been significantly optimized**
  
• MSAA 4x anti-aliasing eliminates most of the vegetation edge shimmering
  
• Fixed an issue where mixed forest biomes ground was mostly rock
  
• Fixed an issue where mobile trackers map is blur with low texture resolution
  
• Tutorial vegetation biomes has been changed to use same from Bulgaria map
  
• Scopes resolution has been increased for better view
  

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• Light shafts have been disabled since they didn’t work properly. They will be improved and added back to the game later.
  

* Some leaf trees won’t catch the headlight properly at night. This will be fixed later.
** Graphics has been greatly optimized to use less gpu and cpu. We will optimize it further as promised. There is still a performance hit when using scope and optics since they use an additional camera. But performance should be a lot better. Please let us know how the game runs in the Steam forums or in our discord

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Here is a little sneak peek to our next update! We have overhauled all vegetation and environment visuals. Trees shimmer and grass waves in the wind, environment comes to life with ambient wildlife and performance will increase. All of these have been highly requested by the community and this will improve the experience and immersion even more. Update coming very soon!

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