Survive the Nights News

Alpha Devblog #20 - Alpha 1.6 Preview

Hello all,

The team is currently developing the 1.6 patch. We're also working on an additional 1.5 halloween update with some spooky in game events ːsteamhappyː

[h3]Prison Island Rework[/h3]
Jos has continued development on the new prison island as well as the old. We'll be turning our old island into another small town and we'll have some screens and details on that in the next 1.6 preview blog. Below you'll see some shots of the new prison island including the draw bridge and foot bridge below it. The island isn't as large as the original but contains far more depth and detail. This detail extends underground to a sewer system, something we would like to extend to towns on the island. The prison is the largest POI in Survive the Nights so far. It features a complex maze of halls, offices and massive, multi-floor controllable cell block.

Exposed sewer line

Looking out

The island from afar

Island access road and bridge (closed)

Island access road and bridge (open)

[h3]Halloween Update[/h3]
We'll be introducing another update before 1.6, a little quality of life and halloween update. It only makes sense. We've improved some of the menu system (shown in last weeks blog) and added quite a few more loot icons. This is ready for release so we'll likely push that along with a few more Quality of Life fixes into our 1.5 Halloween Update. This update will of course also feature our halloween event! Some of you might remember last year's Christmas event. This year, we've taken some time and had some fun developing a few features that will likely stick around for other holidays. We've implemented a holiday manager which will allow us to introduce holiday content without bothering you guys with an additional download.

Pumpkins everywhere!

Pumpkin heads

New area to explore - the Drive-in Movie Theater

But will the projector still work?

Movie night!

[h3]Merch Shop[/h3]
While we're currently unable to sell merch in house which is what we would ideally love to one day do, we have opted into a 3rd party seller (Teespring) to provide those that have requested it the ability to pick up some cool merch and help out the team.

[img ]https://i.imgur.com/REE088A.png

[h3]If you're enjoying the game, please write a review or update your current one. Thank you! :)[/h3]

Thanks for the continued support and continued issue and suggestion reporting :). Below are some helpful links to anyone new and interested in the game. If you'd like to follow a bit closer, please consider joining our Discord. We're here, we're listening!

[h3]Links[/h3]
Discord: https://discord.gg/survivethenights
Changelog: https://changelog.survivethenights.net
Forum: https://community.survivethenights.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STNgame
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STNgame
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/a2zinteractive
Website: https://www.survivethenights.net
Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/a2zinteractive

Alpha Devblog #19 - Alpha 1.6 Preview

Hello all,

The team is currently developing the 1.6 patch. We're also working on the issues that have been found by the community in the initial 1.5 builds. We have just released our experimental hot fixes to our stable branch. This should solve some of the issues you guys have found with the 1.5 patch.

[h3]Patch Notes - Alpha v1.5.27 (Hot Fix) [/h3]

Fix for mental health affects being overly intense.
Fix for dying not always clearing up player from the database.
Fix for invisible fortifications
Fix for hint limiter causing black screen on startup
Mac build fix
Resolved issue which could cause servers to hang indefinitely.
Server restart times significantly reduced.
Dropped items should visible sooner.
Fixed exploitable locked doors.
Fixes for zombies respawning after being killed.
Optimisations for the enabling of world loot around the player.
Hit particles now working correctly again.
Crafting recipes fixed (Club)
Wooden log pickup weight glitch fixed.
Nail bomb particle fixed. No longer bright at night.

[h3]1.6 Patch Preview [/h3]
Inventory Changes (Coming in 1.6)
We've been listening to feedback and chatting with supporters on our forums. We've made quite a few changes to the inventory system. In the past couple of builds we've improved inventory background pictures, added icons and updated fonts. In 1.6 James has taken a bit of time to improve some quality of life issues with the inventory.

Hovering over items in the inventory now only changes an items description area on mouse idle, this will reduce the constant changing of the left inventory page and makes the experience much easier on the eyes.
Weapons can now be cleaned from the description (left side) page, you'll find the clean button right near the condition readout. This will also allow the player to clean weapons they don't have equipped.
We've removed the crafting recipes for sharpening in place we've added a sharpen option in the item description much like the cleaning option above for weapons. This has been requested for some time and it's a great suggestion.
Improved ammo area layout making it easier to read.
You can now search for appropriate attachments right from the weapons description area making the attachment system much easier to understand overall.
The sort button for the inventory now looks like an actual button.
The entire search bar is now clickable in the inventory. Previously only the left side was clickable.
We've introduced a 'Quick craft' option as per community request.

Descriptions change on idle only

Attachments from description window

Cleaning from description window

Quick craft menu :)

[h3]Merch Shop[/h3]
While we're currently unable to sell merch in house which is what we would ideally love to one day do, we have opted into a 3rd party seller (Teespring) to provide those that have requested it the ability to pick up some cool merch and help out the team.

[img ]https://i.imgur.com/REE088A.png

[h3]If you're enjoying the game, please write a review or update your current one. Thank you! :)[/h3]

Thanks for the continued support and continued issue and suggestion reporting :). Below are some helpful links to anyone new and interested in the game. If you'd like to follow a bit closer, please consider joining our Discord. We're here, we're listening!

[h3]Links[/h3]
Discord: https://discord.gg/survivethenights
Changelog: https://changelog.survivethenights.net
Forum: https://community.survivethenights.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STNgame
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STNgame
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/a2zinteractive
Website: https://www.survivethenights.net
Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/a2zinteractive

Patch Notes - Alpha 1.5.27 (Hot Fix)

Hello all,

We've released the Hotfix (Alpha 1.5.27) to our default branch on Steam. You can find our patch notes below. Please report bugs and issues in game using the F1 menu.

[h3]Patch Notes - Alpha v1.5.27 (Hot Fix) [/h3]

Fix for mental health affects being overly intense.
Fix for dying not always clearing up player from the database.
Fix for invisible fortifications
Fix for hint limiter causing black screen on startup
Mac build fix
Resolved issue which could cause servers to hang indefinitely.
Server restart times significantly reduced.
Dropped items should visible sooner.
Fixed exploitable locked doors.
Fixes for zombies respawning after being killed.
Optimisations for the enabling of world loot around the player.
Hit particles now working correctly again.
Crafting recipes fixed (Club)
Wooden log pickup weight glitch fixed.
Nail bomb particle fixed. No longer bright at night.

[h3]Links[/h3]
Discord: https://discord.gg/survivethenights
Changelog: https://changelog.survivethenights.net
Forum: https://community.survivethenights.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STNgame
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STNgame
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/a2zinteractive
Website: https://www.survivethenights.net
Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/a2zinteractive

Experimental Patch Notes - Alpha 1.5.27 (Hot Fix)

Hello all,

The team is hard at working on player found issues with the 1.5 update. We've released the Alpha 1.5.27 hotfix on our experimental branch via steam. This build will be moved to the stable branch shortly if no major issues are found by players. You can find our patch notes below. Please report bugs and issues in game using the F1 menu.

How to get into experimental branch:

Open Steam and go to your games library.
Right click on STN and select "Properties"
Navigate to the "Betas" tab and select "experimental" in the drop down menu.
Close the properties window.

[h3]Experimental Patch Notes - Alpha v1.5.27 (Hot Fix) [/h3]

Fix for mental health affects being overly intense.
Fix for dying not always clearing up player from the database.
Fix for invisible fortifications (Confirmed)
Fix for hint limiter causing black screen on startup
Mac build fix

Experimental Patch Notes - Alpha 1.5.26 (Hot Fix)

Hello all,

The team is hard at working on player found issues with 1.5 update. We've released the Alpha 1.5.26 hotfix on our experimental branch via steam. This build will be moved to the stable branch shortly if no major issues are found by players. You can find our patch notes below. Please report bugs and issues in game using the F1 menu.

How to get into experimental branch:

Open Steam and go to your games library.
Right click on STN and select "Properties"
Navigate to the "Betas" tab and select "experimental" in the drop down menu.
Close the properties window.

[h3]Experimental Patch Notes - Alpha v1.5.26 (Hot Fix) [/h3]

Fix for invisible fortifications
Fix for hint limiter causing black screen on startup
Mac build fix