Unturned News

Added:

• Climb interaction on ladder to snap without jumping.
  
• Graphics option for maximum draw distance.
  
• Options menus are available in the level editor.
  
• Quit to desktop buttons.
  
• NPC reward to override player spawnpoint.
  

Changed:

• Zoom factors use preferred field of view.
  
• Invert water mask while camera is underwater.
  
• Updated Unity from 2019.4.37f1 to 2019.4.38f1.
  

Fixed:

• Disabled specular on vanilla static materials.
  
• Not applying conditions/rewards on quest and vendor dialogue responses.
  
• Disable sky fog on water backface.
  
• Missing character limit in uGUI text chat input field.
  

• Reduced ladder interact range from 6m to 4m.
  
• Prevent interacting with horizontal/angled ladders.
  
• Fixed in-game quit button was blocked by combatlogging/Alt-F4 prevention on PvP servers.
  
• Fixed unable to decline quests.
  

After the character movement update it became more difficult to climb down ladders, so at long last you can optionally press the Interact key to mount at the point you are looking! Hopefully this reduces the number of hospital visits caused by jumping to climb down. Walking into a ladder to climb is also still supported.



You are probably sick and tired of hearing about fog adjustments with these past few updates.


100% is a balance between performance and quality. It was the intended maximum in the first of these updates, reducing the draw distance from its previous insanely high value. 50% is available for some lower-end hardware, but players at the maximum network distance will be slightly within the fog. 200% is available for higher-end systems.

Keep in mind that 2x the draw distance (radius) is 4x the area, so 100% has 4x the area considered for rendering compared to 50%, and 200% has 16x the area compared to 50%. The level editor max draw distance is separate from the in-game max draw distance, and its values are 2x as large. Landmark draw distance is automatically adjusted for the max draw distance, so for example landmarks 100% with a max of 150% is not rendering any landmarks in the fog.



Controls, options, graphics, and display settings can be adjusted in the level editor without returning to the main menu. You can also quit to desktop from the level editor or in-game pause menus, however the disconnect timer applies while playing in multiplayer.

NPCs can set a spawn location override so that the player will respawn at a marked location or vehicle spawnpoint. This override is saved between sessions. For example it could be useful for story sections or safezones.

Previously scopes and optics multiplied a base field of view of 90 degrees, whereas now your configured field of view is used.

Added:

• Mask when camera near clip plane intersects water.
  
• PvP damage penalty when client is potentially faking lag. (e.g. "lag switch")
  

Changed:

• Various minor gameplay balance adjustments. (detailed below)
  
• Render sky fog before transparent objects. Water transparency renders sky fog in forward pass.
  
• Updated Unity from 2019.4.35f1 to 2019.4.37f1.
  
• Converted hardcoded Anastasia door to text chat component + IOBS component.
  

Fixed:

• Warning when item blueprints have identical conditions.
  
• Leftover holiday chicken on Liberator. [Thanks danaby2]
  
• Capturing satellite image when assets are missing from level.
  
• Singleplayer pause menu also pauses audio globally. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte]
  

It is widely agreed that some balance adjustments are long overdue, so this update combines a variety of work-in-progress upgrades from the past few months of tuning and feedback:

Edit: these "Balance Improvements" were for April Fools. The underlying real issues here should gradually be improved upon however, for example the skill system needs a revamp, vanilla helicopter audio should be upgraded, global pathfinding would greatly help AI, etc. Hope you had a good one!

• Recoil on the Maplestrike has been decreased by 5%, and the recoil control buff from Sharpshooter has been changed from 50% to 95%.
  
• Draw distance has been further reduced down to 256m. Inflation of map sizes in open-world AAA games make it harder for us to compete, so the extremely exaggerated fog in Unturned at least makes the map FEEL bigger.
  
• Green skin color hues have been removed from the Permanent Gold Upgrade. They made it too easy to blend into grassy maps like Kuwait and Arid. Instead, they are now a complimentary benefit of the new subscription-based Platinum Upgrade DLC. Locking them behind a more expensive paywall makes them rarer, and thus more balanced.
  
• Helicopter audio volume has been increased by 220% to better convey how intimidating it should feel to see a helicopter flying toward your base. The deafening volume for passengers helps balance out how useful they are.
  
• It was unfair for zombies to use navmesh pathfinding when animals cannot, so zombie AI has been replaced by animal AI. Use of flares and other zombie-attracting items is encouraged to help them get unstuck from corners.
  
• Devkit was overpowered because it had features missing from the regular editor, so two new level editors "modKit" and "BoxEd" have been added which combine some features and remove others, evening the playing field for beginners to the modding scene. Editing mods without re-uploading to the workshop first is no longer supported.
  

Edit: again to clarify, these "Balance Improvements" were for April Fools. The underlying real issues here should gradually be improved upon however, for example the skill system needs a revamp, vanilla helicopter audio should be upgraded, global pathfinding would greatly help AI, etc. Hope you had a good one!





The lower-left of this screenshot would previously have been a clear view of underwater zones, but now gets filled with the water color. This should help protect secret underwater locations and bases.



In recent weeks the exploit of artificially delaying game packets AKA "lag switching" has become more of a nuisance. To combat this, a new setting in the server Config.json file "Fake_Lag_Threshold_Seconds" has been added with a default value of 3 seconds. If there is a delay between input packets from the client greater than this threshold they will be penalized for a corresponding duration minus one second. For example if the threshold is 3 seconds and the server does not receive any inputs from a client for 3.2 seconds, they will be under penalty for 2.2 seconds.

During a fake lag penalty the client's damage against other players is multiplied by the "Fake_Lag_Damage_Penalty_Multiplier" setting which defaults to 0.1 or 10%. For example if the multiplier is 0.2 then the client will only deal 20% gun and melee damage against other players while under penalty.

Unfortunately false positives are relatively likely if the client framerate hitches, for example while loading a dense region. With the netcode rewrites of the past year these hitches should gradually be ironed out, but for the meantime the "Fake_Lag_Log_Warnings" setting can be enabled to help tune the threshold.

Added:

• "Disable" option for weather command which cancels active weather and future scheduled weather. Useful for maps like Yukon which otherwise immediately start different weather when cancelled.
  
• Editor setting to disable clouds on a map. [Has_Clouds in level asset]
  
• Button to open file explorer in workshop item's install folder.
  
• Button to open Logs folder from errors window.
  

Changed:

• Save preferred in-game player list sort mode.
  
• Increased level editor far clip plane distance back to 4,096m.
  
• Sky transition fog only starts blending in past 75% of the far clip plane. This feels less foggy than the previous update, and helps hide issues with transparency.
  
• Using weather command with currently active weather guid will reschedule rather than toggling.
  
• Gentle snowfall no longer overrides sky fog.
  

Fixed:

• Planar reflection skybox projection matrix.
  
• Hide holiday-restricted props from satellite capture.
  
• With streamer mode enabled show in-game player list using redacted names.
  

Added:

• In-game option to sort player list alphabetically or by group.
  
• Transition fog near edge of maximum render distance.
  
• New clouds and aurora borealis rendered in skybox.
  

Changed:

• Added more trashbags to the fall-cushioning blue trashbag areas under the Seattle, Washington crane, and adjusted their positioning. The changes to mid-air strafing made these more difficult to land on, and they could be difficult to see from atop the crane while in first-person. These changes make the landing easier to see and achieve.
  
• Adjusted the car parkour at Rainbridge Island, Washington to be more forgiving. The changes to mid-air strafing made it more difficult to traverse. It should now be easier to climb down without breaking bones, and easier to climb up without getting stuck.
  
• Added wild animal spawns in the wilderness near Chersky Farm, Russia.
  
• Added item spawns to the upper floor of the Kivgrad Harbor, Russia office building.
  
• Added item spawns to the interior rooms (and outdoor picnic table) of the ship docked at Kivgrad Harbor, Russia.
  
• Tweaked the Industrial Generator from Rare Rarity to Epic Rarity.
  
• Renamed the Umbrella (barricade) items from "Umbrella" to "Patio Umbrella".
  
• Renamed the Flare (barricade) items from "Flare" to "Flare Sconce".
  
• Updated the item descriptions of the Golf Club and Wreath.
  
• Updated localization of the legacy editor's transformation tools for accuracy and consistency.
  
• Updated localization of various console commands for typos, correctness, and missing localization.
  

Fixed:

• Explosion armor value while naked.
  
• Planting seeds on ghillie netting.
  
• Overriding material IsArable / HasOil.
  
• See-through underside of debris clipping into the unfinished building in Seattle, Washington.
  
• Bad clipping and misalignment with objects around Kivgrad Harbor, Russia.
  
• Misaligned objects at the Keryev, Russia factory building.
  
• Railway track at the factory building in Keryev, Russia that briefly travelled beneath the floor.
  
• Floating railway bridge in Germany.
  
• Spot where players could rarely get stuck atop a crate at Shelton Farm, PEI.
  
• Floating or misaligned objects in Stratford, PEI.
  
• Floating snow around the Yukon road tunnel.
  
• Bugged zombie spawn point in the Ibex Valley, Yukon where the zombie would immediately fall through the world once alerted.
  
• Usage of various deprecated item properties.
  
• Skybox tree backface depth pass on forward rendering.
  
• Not returning attached effects to pool after parent was deactivated.
  

Special thanks to MoltonMontro for the localization improvements, map changes, and bug fixes!

Known issue: with TAA there are some visual artifacts between the fog and skybox.



The "draw distance" setting affects which nearby entities are visible. Separately, the "far clip plane" is the absolute maximum draw distance for everything including terrain, water, clouds, etc. Prior to this update the clouds and aurora borealis were drawn as 3D meshes, and similarly prior to the previous update (3.22.4.0) the stars, sun, and moon were also drawn as 3D meshes. This meant the far clip plane distance had to be long enough to cover essentially the atmosphere, but as a benefit the entire terrain was visible at ultra settings. Now that the sun, moon, stars, etc are rendered in the skybox the far clip plane has been reduced to 1,024 meters which means the entire terrain is no longer visible at once, but has quite a few upsides:

• Culling is one of the main CPU bottlenecks, and takes less time thanks to the early rejection.
  
• On first impression the old mesh clouds were often mistaken for flying boulders. The new clouds are a bit flat, but look less like rocks, and might be upgraded to 3D/volume textures in the future.
  
• Skybox reflections on metallic objects include clouds, stars, moon, etc.
  
• Sky transition fog makes the level feel bigger because it cannot all be seen at once, and is visually impressive / fun / colorful on many maps.
  
• Improved depth precision within the actual level reduces Z-fighting.
  
• The improved depth precision should allow a future update to merge the first person and third person models, which will make lighting and animations more consistent between both.
  

Fixed:

• Cloud ambient lighting flash while rendering item thumbnails.
  
• Lowered airdrop plane height from so they are less obscured by the reduced draw distance.
  

Added:

• "DefaultGoodbyeResponse" per-level override for NPC dialogue in level's translation file.
  

Removed:

• Support for deprecated
• .content files. Reduces loading overhead.
  
• Support for useless devkit asset browser. Reduces loading overhead.
  

Changed:

• Improved parsing speed of .dat files by reducing redundant work.
  
• Improved sun, stars, and moon rendering, allowing increased near depth precision.
  
• Cannot purchase vehicles in bulk from NPCs, and minimum five second cooldown between vehicle purchases per-player.
  
• Renamed Silver augewehr skin to Silvered to avoid confusion with Silver trophy skins.
  
• Sort in-game player list by name rather than by group ID.
  

Fixed:

• Pump jack placement on grass accidentally disabled during physics material rewrite.
  
• Able to plant seeds on top of each other after physics material rewrite. [Thanks WWTC]
  
• Trap and vehicle bumper player/zombie/animal impact sounds missing after physics material rewrite.
  
• Sirens missing from editor-placeable police boat.
  
• Crouch to prone event passing through standing stance.
  
• Performance with many group compass markers.
  
• Performance of in-game player list with many players.
  
• Road editor material checkbox out of view.
  
• Server not immediately closing rejected connections. [Thanks D-AIRY]
  
• Queue not rejecting connections with duplicate steamid. [Thanks Rubberduck63]
  

We stand with the Ukrainian community. Our hearts go out to all of the innocent people affected by this appalling and unprovoked attack. Please keep safe, and stay healthy.