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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.

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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.

Added

• Arid Scout and Tourist cosmetic bundles.
  
• Always_Spawn_Full [bool] option for fuel items.
  
• Affected_By_Agriculture_Skill [bool] option for farmable items.
  

Changed

• Teleporting causes a complete culling volume update immediately rather than time-slicing.
  
• Limit max horde beacon item drops to 256. Previously a misconfigured drops multiplier could overwhelm the game.
  
• Prevent using single quote ' and double quote " when stricter built-in name filter is enabled.
  
• Support NPC hint reward in multiplayer.
  

Fixed

• Discard loaded barricades if type has changed to avoid savedata compatibility problems. [Thanks Jdance-Media and joeymisfit!]
  
• Exclude uninitialized objects from level save, for example volume components inside Unity prefabs.
  
• Rubble hit collider can be any depth, not just direct children.
  
• Exception/kick when walking into a just-destroyed vehicle. [Thanks warren39 and DiFFoZ!]
  
• Barricades on surface of vehicle not working with child explosion armor multiplier. [Thanks Molt!]
  
• Flickering textures on atlassed meshes with original UVs exactly at 0.0 or 1.0. [Thanks AdamDN!]
  

Fixed

• Slightly increased texture atlas UV padding for larger textures.
  

The developers of Arid have added two new locations, new items, vehicles, quests, and improvements to the progression, balance, performance, and more!



To host a server running the map add its workshop file ID (2683620106) to the File_IDs list in WorkshopDownloadConfig.json, and set the map to Arid in Commands.dat.

This project was created by Renaxon, dug, danaby2, and clue. If you enjoy the map and would like to support them, consider checking out the new Scout and Tourist bundles on the Stockpile:
Arid Scout Bundle Arid Tourist Bundle

Added

• Option to use the classic crosshair shape.
  
• "Manual Object Culling" volume type which replaces/improves old per-object-asset LOD area settings.
  
• Instantiated_Item_Name_Override and Instantiated_Attachment_Name_Override options to simplify workarounds for animation component.
  
• Exclude_From_Culling_Volumes [bool] option for objects.
  
• Exclude_From_Level_Batching [bool] option for objects and trees.
  
• "-DisableCullingVolumes" command-line flag. Not recommended.
  
• "-UseLevelBatching=true/false" command-line option.
  
• Valentine's day holiday condition for secret admirer note quest on Liberator.
  
• Per-location option to hide from map UI.
  

Changed

• Improved and re-enabled batching of level objects and trees.
  
• Assets with duplicate guid are now skipped during registration rather than assigning a new guid.
  
• Use same collision height (2 meters) for all zombie types.
  
• Slightly increase zombie vertical attack range by 0.1 meter.
  
• Slide while standing on zombie's/animal's head.
  
• Allow masks to work as underwater breathing apparatus with backpack.
  
• Semi-auto repairing melee items play an impact sound.
  
• Terrain tool weight target option can be used with auto foundation option.
  

Fixed

• Stereo not
• playing* the tracks not installed on the server, rendering the change in the previous update pointless. [Thanks Timmy!]
  
• Teleport animals that fall out of the map to a valid spawnpoint. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Pooled effects getting prematurely destroyed. [Thanks Gamingtoday093!]
  
• Transparent pixels in supersampled screenshots. [Thanks Tiway!]
  
• Some inconsistent skin/cosmetic emissive intensity values. [Thanks diddlyono!]
  
• Animal collider not getting disabled on server. [Thanks surv0013!]
  
• Misaligned UVs on player/zombie ragdoll neck. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Extremely small network positions off by one. [Thanks Gamingtoday093!]
  
• Some inconsistencies when enabling/disabling crosshair. [Thanks KarmaWSYD!]
  
• Interior culling size of several objects.
  
• Loading screen not appearing between clicking exit and reaching the main menu.
  
• Legacy airdrop/location node conversion not assigning instance ID.
  

Fixed

• Holiday object collision not disabled on server. [Thanks AdamDN!]
  

This update should bring a noticeable performance increase on vanilla maps, and curated/modded maps too if/when the map creators opt-in. There was a similar update several years ago, but it had to be disabled because it used too much memory (RAM) for some players - actually reducing performance and/or crashing. According to the Steam hardware survey ~96% of players have 8+ GB of RAM now, so with some useful improvements it has been re-enabled. As a precaution it can be disabled by default on the backend if the update goes poorly, and you can disable it with this command-line option if necessary: -UseLevelBatching=false

For more information there are two new articles intended for map developers:

Level Batching Manual Object Culling