SCUM News

[h3]Hello everyone long time no see with one of these![/h3] We are constantly getting questions from you guys about the development status and how it's going so we have decided to bring the Development updates back! These will release every week giving you fresh updates on what the team is working on! So without any further lollygagging check out what we have been up to this past week as I ran around the office trying to sneak out some photos for you fellas!

Also important announcement! As you will, and already have, see we have been working hard on optimizations and removing the issues in the game. This not only showed more time consuming than expected but also still requires work on the issues. Considering that we had a team meeting and decided to push the 0.7 update to Q1 2022. We did not take this decision lightly as we know you were hoping to get 0.7 as an early Holiday surprise. But the decision has been made to rather take more time to polish it and work on it further so we can provide you the best survival experience out there in the best state possible. Thank you all for understanding and do not worry, we still plan to release you a little something for the holidays.





Programmers have been hard at work this week, here is what they have:

• Further work on the master/game server communication, reducing the lag and disconnection issues of players.
  
• Resolving RPC issues, resulting in decreased lag between the player and the server.
  
• Further work on the inventory rework, crucial for the 0.7 update and decreasing the strain on the servers.
  
• Further work on the crafting system rework, resulting in a better experience and less crashes in the game.
  
• Further work on streaming optimizations, resulting in less lag while traveling in the game.
  
• There has been further work on the planes. We've created the fueling/draining system for planes and the ability to take off/land. Bailing out with a parachute is now also possible and actual collision detection and health system has been implemented.
  
• Trader UI is in high production
  
• Prototype for the Metahumans implementation has been finished.
  
• The parachuting system and is waiting for testing feedback.
  
  
  
  
• Resolving the issues with the vehicle inventory.
  
• Temperature system rework has been finished and is awaiting testing.
  
• Tweaking the traders and working together with the level design team about implementing them on the island.
  
• Working on the Russian roulette feature. (yep you read that right)
  
  
  
  
• Working on DLSS 2.0 implementation.
  
• Bug fixing.
  

• BB elements optimization, decreasing streaming strain when approaching bases.
  
• Optimizations for items and textures, decreasing streaming strain and stutters when approaching POIs.
  
• Optimized the textures, resulting in less lag and occurrences where textures are not rendering or popping up.
  
• Creating the HLODs for the new outposts and landscape blending for the airplanes.
  
  
  
  
• Merged the saloon assets.
  
• New props and distant landscapes.
  
• New buildings and new outposts.
  
• Working on the new airfield.
  
• Finished the outpost armory.
  
• Finishing the boat shop.
  
• Bugfixing.
  

• Creating the new double barrel mesh and animations.
  
  
  
  
• NPC animations.
  
• Airplane animations.
  
• Finishing new cars 3D models.
  
• New 0.7 trailer.
  
• Finishing work on the plane model.
  
• Creating collision mesh for the new motorbike.
  
  
  
  
• New clothing items.
  
• Further modeling of the VHS rifle.
  
  
  
  
• New concept art.
  
• New digital anemometer item.
  
• Bugfixing.
  

• New motorbike sounds.
  
• Optimizations.
  
• Bugfixing.
  

• Stress testing the server/client communication for further optimizations and tracking the situation of lag on servers.
  
• Testing the new features.
  
• Forwarding bug reports from the community.
  
• Banning pesky cheaters.
  
• Creating new promo material.
  
• Working with the community on community events.
  
• Responding on forums. discord etc.
  

• Developing new features.
  
• Streamlining the pipeline process.
  
• Further balancing of the damage, health items and everything else that needed balancing.
  

See you next week with another update!

[h3]Another hotfix, so many hotfixes that you can't really complain you are cold this winter. Check it out! [/h3]

• Fixed the issue where the render resolution would be set at 10 for some users.
  
• Fixed the bug where lights on vehicles would turn off after you exit the vehicle.
  
• Fixed the bug where suicide puppet would continue laughing and beeping after he was killed and detonated.
  
• Fixed the issue where the motion sensor detonator and laser detonator wasn't possible to be placed on mines.
  
• Fixed the issue with lockpicking where on initiating the lockpicking it would cause the screen to go dark and cause lock to be invisible when inside the lockpicking minigame.
  
• Fixed the bug where initiating eat or eat all options would make the item disappear completely. - If you're still having issues with this, please try deleting your local SaveFiles folder.

[h3]Hey everyone we are back with the hotfix, we are continuing the optimizations streak. Here is what we got and we will have more news for you soon! Check it out - > [/h3]

• Fixed the bug where it was able to place multiple cabin doors on one location.
  
• Fixed wrong caption on desert ghillies.
  
• Fixed the bug where quick access was not saved after relog.
  
• Fixed the bug where sound wouldn't stop playing after exiting to the main menu.
  
• Minor fixes and improvements for settings menu.
  
• Fixed the bug that could cause player to get stuck when opening/closing vehicle door.
  
• Fix the bug where resolution was being displayed incorrectly in the settings menu.
  
• Fixed the bug where voice chat volume slider would not show up.
  
• Fixed the bug that prevented prisoner from dropping an item in hands while drinking from some water containers.
  
• Wells can now be damaged with all damage sources.
  
• Further server optimizations.
  

[h3]Known issues: [/h3]

• If you try to equip a backpack whilst sitting inside the vehicle and having a backpack equipped, your backpack will disappear.
  
• If you try to drop a chest out of the vehicle by using the "Drop" interaction or dragging it out of the vehicle while sitting in the vehicle, the chest will be inside of the car. To temporary fix this issue move the vehicle a bit, and drag the chest around while near the vehicle you removed it from.
  
• Some players might experience lower render resolution on startup and will need to increase it again in settings.
  

• 9mm ammo can now be stacked up to 30 bullets per stack
  
• Reduced damage to footwear.
  
• Reduced energy and water consumption rates.
  
• Removed unusable items from the spawn pool.
  
• Disabled interaction while aiming down the sights and scoping, preventing player to get stuck in some cases.
  

[h3]Hello everyone we have an announcement for you. [/h3]



As another wave of optimizations for the game we have decided to increase the frequency of server restarts on the official servers. The times are showed locally for each server region:

Restart times are now:

• 04:00/4am
  
• 10:00/10am
  
• 16:00/4pm
  
• 22:00/10pm
  

See you soon in the hotfix!

[h3]Hello everyone, guess what? Yep time for another update. We have some new content for you and another round of optimizations. Check it out! [/h3]




So we are doing another round! We heard your feedback and did another round of optimizations. Won't bore you with the technical details and boring nerd stuff, but you should be seeing a much better performance after this update. As always we are constantly monitoring your feedback and adapting it to development. Oh and it might've been crucial for something in the future but who knows.



Let's start with the new POI. What is a civilized area without all the junk. And that junk needs to go somewhere.







This new POi situated in the B0 sector is a perfect place for scrap junkies, hoarders or just people that love that ominous feeling during the night.







Right you all always have new things to request don't you? Fine we are here to please. You've got your gun racks to store your weapons but it still didn't satisfy that gun nut aesthetic itch. Well here are some wall mounts to hang your items on. Feel free to hang that shotgun right at the front door just so no visitors don't get any funny ideas.



Smooth , slick and cool it is time to put your own deadly flair on your walls.



Here is the big one. We have completely revamped the settings system. The first thing you will notice is the new UI.



It is much more streamlined and better looking right now and makes the access to your settings easier.
As for the settings themselves we have added a bunch of new options, streamlined the others and had a little tinkering in the back end of things. The result is not only better performance on the client side, but gives us more control over the graphics to optimize the setting variability depending on the quality you want to set on your PC.

• Fixed wrong names on some items.
  
• Fixed the bug where the clouds would not update on weather change.
  
• Fixed the bug when splitting stack of bullets would show incorrect ammo count.
  
• Fixed the bug where blurry textures would show.
  
• Fixed the bug that prevented players to claim kills if the victim already respawned.
  
• Fixed the bug on the M1 Garand clip when dropped.
  
• Fixed the bug where the whit dot was shown in 3P when aiming the bow.
  
• Fixed the bug where damaged inventory items would not display damage correctly.
  
• Fixed the bug where painkillers and food repulsion would sometimes not load properly.
  
• Fixed the bug where sometimes other prisoners would not be visible.
  

• Increased text contrast on photo mode UI.
  
• Repair interaction is no longer shown as selectable while the player doesn't have a repair tool available.
  
• Raincoat water collector now has more health.
  
• Baseball bat with spikes can now be made with the Blazebat.
  
• Tweaked the materials needed for several BB elements.
  
• Tactical gun holsters will now drop rags instead of animal skins when cut.
  
• Tweaked the firearms damage.
  
• Construction gloves have been swapped with Insulating gloves in cargo drops.
  
• Inventory can now be accessed in vehicles by pressing TAB.
  
• Oysters are now edible.
  
• Improved the vehicle camera performance on low fps.
  

You might've seen that we are on sale right now with the ongoing Steam sale. Well we have also been nominated for the labor of love category, so if you could head over here and vote for us we would really appreciate it. Enjoy and see you in the next one.