Virtual Hunter News

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Immerse yourself in our new weather system! The new system uses weather maps with reworked weather profiles and adds new ones such as foggy, light rain and new cloudy weathers. Clouds are more dynamic and affect the lighting more realistic than before. Update also has several improvements, bug fixes and more!

• Reworked weather system
  
• New weather maps blend weathers more realistically
  
• Reworked all weathers
  
• Added several new weathers including foggy, light rain and different cloudy weathers
  
• Speed and direction of clouds is based on wind
  
• Clouds affect the overall lighting
  
• Improved fog densities and behavior based on time of the day and current weather
  

• Changed the default anti-aliasing to MSAA x2 from FXAA to improve clarity
  
• Improved door grabbing and opening
  
• Memory optimization in game and during loading
  
• Optimized info books
  
• Optimizations to several models
  
• Optimized several biomes
  
• Optimized red deer antlers
  
• Improved the waterfall by the trophy lodge
  
• Improved wetness on several models when it rains
  

• Added new info book models
  
• Reduced the amount of branches on the ground
  
• Added “Game paused”-text to in-game menu
  
• Changed new UI style to item hints
  

• Fixed an issue where the player could grab items from the backpack on their back
  
• Fixed an issue where one travel-button didn’t close when closing the map
  
• Fixed an issue where animals answered the caller without delay
  
• Fixed an issue where weather audios in trophy lodge didn’t use sound settings
  
• Fixed an issue where lightning would cause frame drops
  

Thank you for all for playing and enjoy the new weather system! Let us know what you think

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Today we have an update where we fix a lot of reported issues, improve the performance with vegetation shader changes, improve opening doors in the lodge by shooting at them and more!

• Changed all vegetation shaders to more VR optimized ones, improving performance across the board without losing graphical fidelity
  
• Optimized several vegetation that caused high gpu usage and performance drops when standing near by
  
• Added wood chips hit effect when shooting inside the lodge and at doors
  
• Added ground hit effect to the terrain in the lodge scene
  
• Optimized red deer caller’s model
  
• Optimized wild boar’s upper tusks

• Fixed an issue where mounted trophy would disappear when trophy manager was closed (restarting brought the mount back)
  
• Fixed an issue where whistle hand pose would get stuck if the other hand touched mouth too
  
• Fixed an issue where player could end up with two left hands if grabbing the rifles bolt while taking it from the wall
  
• Fixed an issue where trophy statue plaques didn’t have proper coloring
  
• Fixed an issue where player could grab two arrows at the same time and not put them away
  
• Fixed an issue where “yes” and “no” buttons didn’t stay on saves page when deleting a save
  
• Fixed an issue where player could fall through the ground
  
• Fixed an issue where some items could push doors off their hinges
  
• Fixed an issue where doors in the lodge didn't close if they were shot open
  

Enjoy the update, thank you for playing and happy hunting!

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This is a small update with several fixes for the lighting, reflections and other issues in the new trophy lodge. Thank you for the reports and happy hunting!

• Added collisions to tables in the lodge

• Improved lighting in the trophy lodge
  
• Improved reflections in the trophy lodge
  
• Improved door handling
  
• Improved fireplaces LODs
  
• Improved fireplaces texture tiling
  
• Lowered brightness of white paintings
  
• Optimized mobile trackers model
  
• Optimized shop signs and objects in the store

• Fixed an issue where living room and the showroom in the lodge didn’t have proper lights on and placed trophies were shown very dark
  
• Fixed an issue where trophy mount would disappear (not deleted) when moving it from room to another
  
• Fixed an issue where you could push doors the wrong way with the revolver
  
• Fixed an issue where revolver didn’t collide with other items and walls
  
• Fixed an issue where info book highlights were on by default
  
• Fixed an issue with small beds LOD change
  
• Fixed an issue where bushes in the grasslands didn’t change LOD properly
  
• Fixed an issue where money view would close when closing trophy manager inside the store
  
• Fixed and issue where money view would close when leaving the store while trophy manager was open
  

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In this update we replace the old lodge with a brand new one with more rooms to add your trophies in, new beautiful surrounding landscapes and a reworked archery course nearby. The new lodge is over three times bigger than the old one with over 200 trophy areas, better performance, improved lighting, textures and working doors. We can’t wait to see how you will place your trophies around so share them in socials and tag us! The update also includes overhaul to the UI graphics, improvements and optimizations.

Important! Your current trophies are safe but you need to place them again to the new lodge since this is a totally new building.

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• Replaced the current lodge and it’s surroundings with new one
  
• Reworked ambient sounds to this scene
  
• Reworked 3D archery range
  
• Added interactable doors to the lodge
  
• Added new loading image for the trophy lodge

• Overhauled UI graphics for more professional look
  
• Improved UI usability
  
• Improved text clarity
  
• Optimized the UI for better performance

• Added instructions to the mobile tracker how to open the trophy manager
  
• Added “This game is in early access” - notification to the main menu

• Improved lighting in outposts in Bulgaria map
  
• Improved outposts performance
  
• Improved fire in the fireplace
  
• Improved hunting stands textures
  
• Optimized several items including binoculars, rangefinder and callers
  
• Optimized trophy statues in the trophy room
  
• Optimized archery ranges 3D targets
  
• Optimized several materials
  

• Fixed an issue where you could grab ammo when in-game menu was open
  
• Fixed an issue where European hare would twitch after dying
  
• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t use in-game menu when trophy manager was open
  
• Fixed an issue where mobile trackers screen was rendered over the trophy manager
  
• Fixed an issue where low and medium graphic settings would turn volumetric lights and clouds on, making the game heavy to render
  

Enjoy the new lodge, share your trophies with us and Happy hunting!

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