Unturned News

Added

• New animated hitmarkers and option to use non-animated style.
  
• Accurate range markers on vanilla scopes.
  
• Craftable Progress Pride flag jersey and pin available during Pride Month event.
  
• Transparency option for crosshair, hitmarker, and critical hitmarker colors.
  
• Accepted Artist, Hooligan, and Lime Tracksuit bundles into Stockpile.
  
• Multi-threaded asset loading with additional information on the loading screen.
  
• SpotLight_Enabled option for melee, tactical, and headlamp items.
  
• Allow_Lobby_Groups server config option.
  

Changed

• Windows dedicated server intercepts quit handler to save+shutdown when closed.
  
• Replaced Ballistic_Drop gun property with Bullet_Gravity_Multiplier.
  
• Removed Recoil_Aim gun property.
  
• Searching crafting list by name can show results without any available items.
  
• Redact certain hate speech regardless of profanity filter setting.
  
• Stop inspect and equip audio clips when the item is dequipped.
  
• Removed peripheral integrations. (e.g. long-disabled Discord integration and RGB keyboard integration)
  
• Replaced 2D cosmetic icons with 3D preview icons.
  
• Your own bullet impact audio is slightly audible regardless of distance to provide more hit feedback.
  

Fixed

• Track kills on weapons with Shared_Skin_Lookup_ID. [Thanks NickSkunk!]
  
• Phantox Timberwolf albedo and emission textures flipped. [Thanks Semidvista!]
  
• Prevent resetting gun's fire delay by clicking again. [Thanks DerEnte!]
  
• Enable HUD during red flinch overlay similar to flashbangs. [Thanks Renaxon!]
  
• Miscolored roll bar on colored offroaders. [Thanks Alex!]
  
• Sentry gun spread/misses not properly using aim direction. [Thanks PiggySvK!]
  
• Clamp terrain cut brush radius to work around an engine crash. [Thanks DanielWillett!]
  
• Terrain material brush pixel average mode not working. [Thanks DanielWillett!]
  
• NPC passive pose resetting when unloaded. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Items in nearby inventory incorrectly removed when a non-visible item is removed. [Thanks Joko!]
  
• Using lobby to bypass group member limit. [Thanks Semidvista!]
  
• Potential exploit to load assemblies from assets. [Thanks CyberAndrii!]
  
• Sync pending visibility changes when baking navmesh. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Arrow tracers getting immediately destroyed. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Ignore asset paths less than 2 characters as a workaround for material palette assets missing closing list bracket.
  
• Not applying framerate and vsync limits at startup.
  
• Fail loading of animal assets missing required game objects.
  

This doesn't make sniping easier, rather it raises the skill ceiling by giving distance estimation more use and removing scoped recoil reduction.



Before this update the markings on scopes were arbitrary whereas now they are adjusted to account for your field of view, the gun's muzzle velocity, the level's gravity, and your unit system preference.

Modders can update custom scopes to use these new features, for more details:

Sight Distance Marker Documentation



The real meat and potatoes of this update: startup loading should now be faster for most players. On average it's about twice as fast.



Previously all of the asset loading was done on the main thread. Now the vanilla content and each installed mod is assigned two threads: one to search for files, and the other to read and parse them into memory (building on the asset parsing rewrite from the last update). This leaves the main thread to focus exclusively on pairing game data with the assets loaded from asset bundles.

The majority of the main thread time is spent loading from asset bundles now. This step has to be done on the main thread, and unfortunately synchronous vs asynchronous loading doesn't make a difference here. In the future deferring some of this loading to as-needed async loading will cut down on startup time at the cost of slight delays, for example async loading a hat only when it's equipped.



Kind of ridiculous to proclaim a minor change with fanfare and an image in the update notes, but as a PSA: clicking the Close button of the Windows dedicated server should no longer be a tragic mistake.

Previously this immediately terminated the server process without giving the game a chance to save, so misclicking the Close button could result in lost progress. Now the game intercepts this event and tries to save+shutdown while sleeping the Windows routine. Using the regular shutdown command is still recommended however because by default Windows only allows up to 5 seconds before the server will be closed regardless.





Fixed

• Unable to select repair item blueprint. [Thanks Rattle189 and Renaxon!]
  
• Per-server manual workshop folder not working due to extra '/' in path. [Thanks baranmod!]
  
• Holographic reticule not visible with transparent critical hitmarker.
  
• Some hardcoded audio references not working.
  
• Not loading hitmarker style preference (oops).
  

Added

• Blueprint_#_Searchable (bool) option for debug items to hide from search results.
  

Changed

• Server reorganizes assets after loading to keep ID override order consistent with client.
  

Fixed

• Incorrectly matching closest master bundle in file hierarchy when folders had same prefix.
  
• Parse unrecognized escape sequence as '\' and log message about '/' for file paths.
  

With the addition of multi-threading asset loading the server no longer loaded assets in a consistent order, so the ID override order used by clients wasn't matching the server anymore. To fix this the server now uses the same asset remapping system as the client. Note however that content manually installed on the server is inserted before all other assets to reduce conflicts because it is otherwise not loaded on the client.

File paths specified in modded assets using single backslashes broke in the update because there was a fix to parse escaped newlines in unquoted strings. As a workaround unrecognized escape sequences are now parsed as-before and logged. Converting them to forward slashes is recommended because paths starting with lowercase T or lowercase N are being parsed as tab and newline respectively.

Changed

• Rewrote .dat/.asset parsing and made distinction between "v1" and "v2" assets irrelevant.
  
• Removed April Fools' terrain materials because they were widely reported as annoying.
  
• Temporarily ban players kicked by BattlEye for 60 seconds. [Thanks Alex!]
  

Fixed

• Potential workaround for reaching audio channel limit while loading. [Thanks Animatic!]
  
• Infinite loop if animated NPC dialogue was missing a closing angle bracket. [Thanks NSTM and Dug!]
  
• Blowtorch LOD1 incorrect UVs. [Thanks ItsRodrigoAl!]
  
• Respawn button disabled label out of sync. [Thanks ItsRodrigoAl!]
  
• Outdoors skill description missing increased drops. [Thanks P9nda!]
  
• Shared_Skin_Lookup_ID not working with ragdoll effect or kill counter. [Thanks NickSkunk!]
  

Previously there were separate code paths and file formats for older and newer assets. This has been rewritten into a unified code path and unified file format. It doesn't sound particularly exciting, but there will be a variety of future benefits, and in the meantime:

• Modding is a bit easier without the separation between "v1" and "v2" assets, and now with better error messages.
  
• Parsing asset files is a bit faster. Rather than copying the entire file in memory multiple times it is parsed+hashed as it is read.
  
• Cleaned up significant "technical debt".
  
• All of the new code is unit-tested to help avoid accidental bugs.
  

View Merged v1/v2 Asset Documentation View Data File Format Documentation



Molt has recently finished upgrading all of the documentation for a dedicated Unturned docs website. It is still a work-in-progress, but already has a much better UX / UI, built-in search functionality, offline downloads, and the option to switch between release (stable) and preview (latest) documentation. The new docs are written in reStructuredText, built with Sphinx, and hosted by Read the Docs.

View Documentation Site





Fixed

• Lasers and night vision not parsing color blue channel. [Thanks DiFFoZ and DanielWillett!]
  

Minor important update. Released 2023-05-04.

Edit on April 2nd: although this map is real and playable, it was created as an April Fools' joke by Renaxon, danaby2, Animatic, clue, and Timo987 in only 4 days! All the thanks goes to them for this fun event. Who knows, perhaps the feedback from this project will be useful for an actual curated map in the future?



Antarctica- the newest map by Renaxon, danaby2, Animatic, clue and Timo987, has released.
... The final frontier in terms of tough, legitimately survival based mechanics is ready to be explored and conquered.
Featuring every single item in the game, every single crafting recipe, and all the hardcore classic methods of survival you've come to love.

A seriously harsh, desolate, and uncharacteristically detailed landmass, Antarctica is an Insane sized map- 4x bigger than the Russia map, and 16x bigger than the Yukon.

Included in Antarctica, is the most detailed depiction of wilderness Unturned has ever seen. You'll want to watch your back for packs of this fierce land's defenders.

Also included, is a revised radiation and immunity system. Due to a severely changed world, the air on Antarctica is toxic. Maybe a smarter survivor out there could help find a cure...

Now, stop reading, and get going.
It can't explore itself.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Watch the Antarctica Trailer Here

To host a server running the map add its workshop file ID (2954631626) to the File_IDs list in WorkshopDownloadConfig.json, and set the map to "Antarctica" (without quotes) in Commands.dat.

Added

• Compare workshop file timestamps when joining server instead of asset bundle hashes.
  
• LogMemoryUsage command for server owners to get a high-level view of what exists on the server.
  

Fixed

• Tracked quest title in HUD too short for some non-English characters. [Thanks nemukopic!]
  
• Pegasus Empire skin incorrect attachment color. [Thanks Yadaven!]
  

Added

• Gameplay config for third-person recoil and spread multipliers.
  

Changed

• Holding primary/secondary input will start item action as soon as possible.
  
• Allow bulk-reassigning material index/palette in editor.
  

Fixed

• Ambient audio never playing if audio channel limit was reached during load.
  
• Exception when loading culling volumes on dedicated server.
  
• Garbage generated on server when filtering relevant connections for RPCs.
  
• Placeholder partial fix for spamming shoot inputs, however rate of fire is still lower than full auto.
  
• Item drops falling through narrow gaps when using raycast rather than spherecast. [Thanks Ghosticollis!]
  
• Vertical alignment of Masterkey when aiming. [Thanks MediumPlayer!]
  
• Remove warning for objects with legacy ID now that it is unused. [Thanks LocoCZ!]
  
• Valentines quest condition was applied to wrong secret admirer note dialogue. [Thanks GG_Gabr!]
  
• Miscellaneous Washington visual fixes. [Thanks AdamDN and Firecynical!]
  
• Missing distance check for barricade/structure salvage. [Thanks Ghosticollis!]
  
• Zombie detection radius while prone was too low for the newer collision. [Thanks JimmyDeluxe0 and Ms.Yawhaw!]
  

When the third-person recoil and spread debuffs were added there was a lot of debate about making them configurable versus keeping the game experience more consistent between servers. The configurability argument is that the game should be as moddable as possible to encourage creativity and enable players to do whatever they find most fun, whereas the consistency argument is that it is confusing and disorienting to run into wildly different movement, gunplay, difficulty, etc. on every server.

2x recoil and spread in third-person is the intended vanilla experience. By requiring it for a while it became the consistent baseline, preventing reactionary servers from immediately disabling the change. (Unlike the movement changes which many servers immediately reverted.) Now that it has been the default, servers can choose to customize and raise and lower the multipliers as they see fit.

Was this a good approach? We will see where it might make sense with future gameplay changes.