XERA: Survival News

Starting today through December 16th, enjoy double xp for the entire weekend! This is a great time to earn those extra skin boxes for Season 1!

We will also be hosting a few admin run events through out the weekend with prizes and giveaways!

Join the our discord at https://discord.gg/xera for more information on when our admin run events will go live!

Greetings Survivors!

The following are the patch notes for Hotfix 5.9. During internal testing, we noticed an improvement with overall FPS as well as fewer FPS drops outside of normal expectations. Please continue to send us any feedback on FPS drops at [email protected]. We are still investigating some server crash issues as well and are continuing to work towards identifying the root cause for the recent issues after the engine upgrade.

Thank you for your continued feedback and support!


Moved character movement speeds to a new system
Implemented slower movement speed while ADSing
You now run faster with fists and melees out

Developer Note: These changes to the movement system assist the movement lag prediction system with moving players. This prevents unfavorable rubber banding when changing from various speeds (E.g Strafing, moving backwards, moving forwards). Implementing this system also gave us a chance to look at how fast the player moves when they are aiming down sights and when they have no weapon and when it's not equipped. Both balance changes which can be adjusted based off feedback. These ADS change may be quite intense at first, so let us know how these changes feel after you've played with the new speeds for some time.


Optimization pass done on client rendering

Developer Note: We’ve carried out a general optimization pass on the game, including utilizing some new features in Unreal Engine 4.23 to optimize the landscape. We also enabled some rendering options which may help FPS on lower-end hardware.


Reduced time to open to 1 second (was 3 seconds)

Developer Note: We felt that cash registers are often forgotten, a small buff to the open time to less time out of your exploration.


Optimized AI behavior tree

Developer Note: Some small optimizations carried out to how the AI see players, this is to help with server performance.


Fixed an issue causing ATV to not de-spawn properly


Fixed take off time displaying when helicopter has already taken off


Fixed a bug causing other players' reloads to sound closer than they actually are

Greetings Survivors!

We have a small hotfix that was deployed tonight. As a development team, we are continuing to monitor for server issues as well as ATV performance issues. We cannot thank everyone enough for your patience, support, and feedback that you have sent over the past week as we've been working through the back end issues non-stop. Please continue to report any bugs/server crashes, etc to [email protected] so we can continue to track what is happening. One of the bugs we've been working on and have made progress but need more community feedback on has been the ATV Network Lag Detected bug with the ATV despawning. Please continue to send us video and reports if you continue to run into this issue on the atv.
Thank you again for you support, and we look forward to having a content update in the upcoming weeks featuring our Winter Event.


Removed Autumn crates from shop
Changed main menu back to default
Removed Autumn Event
Fixed an issue causing Chinese Characters to not display correctly


Fixed an issue allowing unlimited boost
Fixed an issue causing ATVs to not despawn inside the safe zone
Fixed an issue causing ATVs boost to go on cooldown forever
Fixed an issue with ATV unflip system to not work correctly
Fixed an issue causing the ATV to sometimes get an initial speed boost when getting on it


Added NPC that shows Helicopter landing ETA time at the helipad - This is still being tested and there are a few bugs with the timer that we are working through.

Greetings Survivors!

We will be performing server maintenance in approximately 15 minutes at 12:45 AM CST.

The expected downtime should last no more than 30 minutes.

Hello Survivors!

It's that time of year (in the northern hemisphere at least) where the leaves are falling and winter is quickly approaching. It's also time to give thanks, we would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who has supported us in the last 6 months of Early Access - time has really flown by!

It seems like our spring cleaning efforts did not last and it's time to clean up those humanoids from Redwood Valley in this years' Fall's Robo-Purge event!

We have 25 new Autumn themed skins to unlock. You can collect the Autumn 2019 Skin Crates simply by taking out humanoid robots in the world. Crates are also available in the cosmetics shop.

We will be running our Autumn event from November 26th until December 3rd, alongside a 40% discount on the game.

Thanks,
Spotted Kiwi Interactive





Killing robots will have a 5% chance of dropping an Autumn 2019 Skin Crate


Additional fixes to prevent ATV getting stuck


Added Autumn 2019 skin crate to cosmetics shop