SCUM News

Hello everyone!

Happy Monday and hope you all had a good weekend. Today we have a special contest just for you. Yes you! All of you! Everyone is welcome to participate. You all had time to have fun with female characters by now and it is time for you to show your worth! We will be hosting a Miss SCUM island contest and the winner will receive a special prize. Don’t worry fellas we haven’t forgotten about you, as there will also be a Mr. SCUM island contest as well. That is right Mr. and Miss, the perfect couple, the dream team, the ones we all aspire to be… or you know hunt down and cannibal them…. whatever works.

So, here are the rules:

1)Only one entry per person

2)Only in-game screenshots apply. We know you are all beautiful but some of you are more beautiful than others so we have to balance it a little.

3)The contest will run from today 8th of July till Thursday 1st of August.

4)All profanity images will be automatically disqualified. We still have rules and we live in a society.

Now you might be wondering what the prize might be? Well winners of Mr. and Miss Will both receive a SCUM deluxe edition steam key, each. That’s right the whole shabam, shaboose… uhm kazam? Anyway you can activate it yourself or if you already have it gift to a friend. Or sell it to some key seller site, if money is all you value.



Good luck everyone and let the best man and woman win!

Hi!

Here we are again, with another round of bug fixes, some optimizations and some more extras. So let's get into it!

• Fixed most of the exploits for duplicating items in singleplayer and multiplayer. Which also caused crashes to happen.
  
  
• Fixed female skeletal body parts and bra.
  
  
• Fix for lead plate usage for crafting advanced fortifications.
  
  
• Fixed area damage (grenades, car explosions) not working on base elements.
  
  
• Fixed the inventory size of the weakest variant of the Recurve Bow "Scorpion #40".
  
  
• Fixed the bug where deer meat was not eatable.
  
  
• Chest and car container GUI should not clip through holster/quick access (there's a horizontal scrollbar, right click and drag to scroll)
  
  
• Fixed the bug where right click on an item in menu would not open the container.
  
  
• Corrected animations for anticipate draw montage.
  
  
• Adjusted bow 3 and 5 pin sights to 200 grams weight.
  
  
• Fixed the bug where items in quick access where not saved after relogs.
  
  
• Fixed the issue with round glasses falling through floor on "drop" function.
  
  
• Fixed crashes relating to weapon attachments.
  
  
• Improvised toolbox now requires nails and bolts for crafting (before only one of those was needed)
  
  

• We did some small optimisations from the client side.
  
  
• Animals won't try to attack the player if he's in/on a vehicle.
  
  
• Players won't take melee damage if inside the vehicle.
  
  
• Removed Christmas items from the spawning pool. - Grinch NOOOOOoooo
  
  
• Workshops that contain drill press machinery are no longer lockable (doors cannot be claimed anymore)
  
  
• Barbed Wire can now be crafted (nails, metal scrap and wire). Barbed Wire Barricades for base building now require barbed wire as an ingredient.
  
  
• Increased base render distance do 1000 meters.
  
  
• Disabled building platforms on other players walls
  
  
• All bullet crafting now requires advanced survival skill level, lead plate usage increased to 5 from 1. You will be able to craft 20 bullets per lead plate (down from 100)
  
  
• Large toolbox rarity decreased from common to uncommon, Small toolbox rarity decreased from abundant to common.
  
  
• Big animal fat weight decreased to 1 kg so it can fit in most clothes.
  
  
• Now you can repair base build elements with just a toolbox, and it repairs all elements in a 1m radius.
  
  
• Increased base element full decay time to 4 weeks.
  
  
• 10 new songs on the radio!
  
  
• Adjusted forks, now you can open cans with them, also you can chop the wooden fork into tinder.
  
  
• Can't gain experience/fame points inside safe zones now.
  
  
• You can now gather the crew and enjoy some fighting matches in safe zones. We have in each safe zone a boxing ring, and here is how the rules work:
  
  You can only kill/get killed while in the ring.
  
  People in the ring can't do harm to players outside the ring.
  
  Everything is allowed in the ring.
  
  You DO NOT talk about the ring.
  
  
• For all server admins now when you go through the logs you will be able to read all unicode characters as they are.
  

• Weapon durability no longer influences it's attack damage.
  
  
• Handles and blades of sharp weapons now have the same armour penetration values. (To balance out the melee fighting experience)
  
  
• Reworked all melee weapons stats ( all have increased damage,
  blunt weapons now have a knockout chance per hit, added sharpness/penetration values to all sharp weapons,
  weapon hits should produce correct sound based on their material now )
  
  
  • New damage system explained:
    
    Total weapon damage is calculated by the following formula:
    Weapon damage x Melee skill x STR modifier. Some numbers to crunch:
    
    Sledgehammer, Melee Max Skill & Strength Max Value
    ( 0.4 x 0.6 x 1.2 = 0.288 or 28.8% health damage)
    
  
  
  
• Increased puppet max health by 0.1 (now the values are 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 and 0.4 depending on the puppet type)
  

• One of the bigger things to come in these notes is the flag system that will be the new way of handling base element owners.
  
  
• You will be able to craft a flag and every base build element in a radius of 50m from the flag will belong to the flag owner.
  
  
• Every base element outside a flag influence will not belong to anyone and everyone can interact with it (open, close etc.)
  
  
• Different colours are used as indicators when building in the influence range of the flag. Green is when you place a blueprint under friendly influence, and yellow is when you try to place a blueprint with enemy influence which means if you build there, that item will belong to the player that has the flag.
  
  
• A flag can be destroyed with any chopping tool via interaction.
  
  
• When a flag is destroyed, all base elements under its influence become ownerless.
  
  
• We will have a transition period for flags so your existing bases don't get claimed by random people placing flags. The flag mechanic will currently apply only to new base elements - all existing pre-patch base elements will have the same owner as before and ignore the flag mechanics. In short, flag will not override owners of existing pre-patch base elements and flag will not clear owners of pre-patch base elements when destroyed. Next week we will push one more patch with all of the flag mechanics enabled so make sure you build flags in your existing bases.
  

Comic time! For those who just tuned in, here is a list of the previous issues:

• Comic page #1
• Comic page #2
• Comic page #3
• Comic page #4
• Comic page #5
• Comic page #6
• Comic page #7
• Comic page #8
• Comic page #9
• Comic page #10
• Comic page #11
• Comic page #12
• Comic page #13
• Comic page #14

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Thanks for reading! Take a day off, hydrate, and above all, do some stretches!

Love, Sippy

Guess what, people!

It's your girl T with YET ANOTHER HOTFIX. A HOT FIX. A FIX THAT IS HOT.

Here's what the Gamepires team did today:

• Fixed the corrupted chests and endless loading times
  
• Changed projectile relevancy distance and made projectiles fired from far away stop simulating on other clients (better client performance!)
  
• Added the Improvised toolbox to the base building resources
  
• Improvised Toolbox is now a bit harder to craft
  
• You can now fuel the fire with oil!
  
• We fixed a bunch of little issues on the female body meshes, as well as female clothes
  
• Stone arrow tips used to show up as safety pins on the ground, but we fixed them
  
• Added new animations for the character creation menu as well as the idle menu
  
• Added owner and HP info for base elements when hovering as a drone
  
• Fixed issue where team members wouldn't see all wall segments in a blueprint
  
• Admin commands will now work even if they contain spaces!
  
• Removed claim interaction on bases
  
• Local chat history saves to database
  
• All craftable ammunition and can suppressors now need the Drill Press (Machinery) in the vicinity for the recipe to function
  
• Significantly decreased the amount of steaks, fat and bones that chopped animals drop (steak and animal fat weight has been increased to 1kg and 2kg respectively, and they have more charges to compensate, the total calorie intake should remain roughly the same)
  
• Goat head can no longer be chopped
  
• Fixed a bunch of collisions
  
• 1H_Stone_Axe and 2H_Stone_Axe moved from tier 3 sharp weapons to tier 2 (they now have a lower multiplier for resource gain when chopping/cutting , etc.)
  
• Fixed some typos in item descriptions
  

Thank you for joining me again today and talk to you soon™!

Dear Scummunity,

we hope you had a nice weekend and managed to get some sleep!

We're back with yet another hotfix and some QoL changes for you guys, so let's jump right into it:

Bug fixes


• Adjusted some achievements when checking time played on character
  
• Doubled the time it takes to grow hair and beards
  
• Item duplication exploits have been fixed
  
• Various LOD fixes (e.g. female gloves)
  
• Removed the option to gain fame points by infinitely refilling water containers
  
• Optimized base element rendering performance (improved client performance)
  
• Reduced placement bounds for all base elements by 20 cm
  
• Made "Open Inventory" default interaction for inventory items
  
• Fixed other inventory related issues
  
  QoL additions
• Adjusted tree chopping recipes
  
• Removed small wooden logs and wooden sticks as loot from chopping large trees
  
• Increased ToolBox spawn rate
  
• Lowered the cost of using the toolbox for base building elements
  
• Increased the amount of metal scrap you gain from searching wrecked vehicles (not the ones you wreck yourself unfortunately)
  
• Sped up the log pick up animation
  
• You will now be able to carry logs faster than before
  
• Adjusted car repair cost (1 toolbox use repairs 10%)
  
• Added the ability for admin drones to be able to destroy base elements
  
• Added a new item - Improvized toolbox
  

Thank you for the patience and talk to you Soon™!

Hey guys, here is the update. We are releasing a small hotfix today that should fix server crashes, and some extras!

- Fixed disappearing locks on base doors
- Base building walls now require half as many resources
- Fix for chests sometimes not saving their inventory
- Fixed possible dedicated server crash on client connect
- Fix for chest duplication and server crash
- Not spawning exit effects in projectile impact effects
- Added Cal45 to loot table of the spawners
- Reduced sound range of non-suppressed weapons by 35%