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Update v0.88.0 - Gender selection & tons of stuff!

This update is NOT compatible with old savegames!

Savegames are automatically deleted due to the different way the new version handles some core mechanics.
If you have a current game you don't want to lose, don't update now, but finish your game first.





- Added Gender selection when creating a new character:
  • Female can be finally selected at character creation screen, with gameplay, visual and audio differences.
  • Female is physically weaker than male (has less Strength/Health from Body Muscle, and slightly overall, meaning that in a muscle-less character the gender difference is subtle, but with high muscles it is evident).
  • Female consumes less calories and is comparably lighter than male.
  • Female has skills advancement decay speed HALVED, making her much better at retaining/increasing proficiencies.
  • Added "Randomize" button in character creation, allowing to fully randomize the character (both appearence and proficiencies).




- Added the ability to introduce dinosaurs on the island:
  • Added a new button in the God panel: "Add Animal".
  • Pressing "Add Animal" allows to select species and gender of the animal, and release it with LMB (left mouse button).
  • God tutorial updated to cover the new feature.




- Added birds flying off trees:
  • Birds fly when the player or an animal passes by, as well as when the tree catches fire, is struck by lightning or is chopped down.
  • Birds population is simulated via game logic, not directly (like for other animals), and depends on many variables (like number of trees, their age, energy etc).
  • Birds, for now, cannot interact with game world (just like pterosaurs), but they enrich the atmosphere and give a hint about the ecosystem health.




- Mating system and "Alpha" mechanics expanded:
  • Not all species now mate in the same season: Triceratops and T-Rex in late winter, Ankylosaurs and Troodons in spring.
  • Most animals will now mate a single time during the mating season (but this varies depending on the species, gender and Alpha rank).
  • Egg incubation time reduced to 6 ingame days (instead of 10).
  • Egg number produced by each species rebalanced.
  • Changed how Triceratops choose their alpha male, which is based now on who's the most successfull in fights (expect to see much more violent fight during the mating season).
  • Only the Alpha Triceratops can mate now.
  • Alpha male/female has slightly more HP.




- Animal combat improved:
  • Animals are now able to fight each other in many more occasions, since combat events are now "unified" in the code!
  • Added plenty of animal reactions (both offensive and defensive) to make use of the aforementioned change (more to come).
  • Animals will pick their targed based on many variables (just like when hunting) like target armor, population and action.
  • Animals are more reactive to possible threats or opportunities (more to come).
  • Damage dealt and received tweaked for balance.
  • This is still a WIP, expect more improvements to animal combat AI and potential situations!




- Added buildable Wood Wall:
  • Wood Wall requires Building skill lvl 5, as well as 5 Wood and 10 Resin.
  • Wood Wall offers the same insulation of Stone Wall, but, just like Wood Door, degrades from humidity and weather, and receives more damage from Animals.
  • Stone Wall now requires 5 Dung to be built, instead of 5 Resin.




- Structure repairing improved:
  • Structures are repairable also beyond 50% condition (in that case the action is called "Reinforce") depending on Building skill (up to 90% condition).
  • The speed of the repair/reinforce action is also influenced by the structure damage level: more damage requires more time to fix up.
  • The amount of condition increased after the repair/reinforce action is now fixed (and still scales with the quality of the components used, and the starting structure condition).




- Island size increased and map generation improved:
  • Island size increased by ~20%, also, Landmass value in new game screen now ranges from 10% to 100% (instead of 50-150%).
  • Island size and jagging are more coherent with the settings choosen in the new game screen.
  • Mountains, ponds, terrains and vegetation initial placement at island generation improved.
  • Cave generation improved to fix potential collision issues.




Important fixes and more improvements:
    - [Interface] Mouse hover texts are now shown also in God Mode (and also when the game is paused).
    - [Survival] Skill decay is now ALWAYS enabled (regardless of difficulty), but base decay speed reduced (in addition to the aforementioned 50% reduction for Female).
    - [Survival] Removed the character "angle lock" after performing an attack (introduced in the previous v0.85.0 update). This feature was annoying and served a purpose which is no longer necessary after the Stumbling changes mentioned below.
    - [Survival] Stumble conditions changed: instead of stumbling only when moving backwards after jumping/attacking, it always happens in those two circumstances (also when moving forward), and chances are higher when moving backwards/sprinting.
    - [Survival] Chance to stumble reduced globally to 50% (and is now even lower in Normal difficulty).
    - [Survival] Micronutrients renamed to Vitamins, specifically B, C and D (the 3 most important).
    - [Survival] Butchering actions (get Meat/Pelt/Tendon) can be resumed if interrupted, instead of always starting from 0% (if the carcass is eaten by an animal, the advancement shrinks).
    - [Audio] All game sounds are now timescale-dependent, meaning if the game runs in slow motion (like during Equip Mode), you hear sounds in slow motion (and vice-versa). If timescale is too fast (10x or more) sounds are silenced.
    - [Audio] Added a new ambience sounds and improved some existing ones.
    - [AI] Animals will now "migrate" to a different zone of the island when looking for a particular thing, they used to just wander randomly, now they try to evaluate which zone of the island may offer what they're in need for.
    - [Objects] Objects decay rate rebalanced and reduced globally by ~25% (some like player tools and clothes by over 50%!).
    - [Objects] Some items (like Wood/Branch) no longer decay if dry and sheltered from the weather.
    - [Objects] When a BIG Stone is destroyed, it now ALWAYS produces 2 SMALL ones with 50% condition (unless it is broken on purpose by the player, then the condition depends on the original Stone).
    - [Tutorial] General minor Tutorial improvements.
    - [Fix] MANY FIXES - Check the full changelog below...




These are only the most relevant changes, as always there are tons of other in this update, check the full changelog for the complete list!




Dan