Ravenfield News

EA30 is a general game improvement update that solves some of the oldest issues with AI vehicle usage in the game, and getting the AI closer to being ready for the game's 1.0 release. The main focus of this update has been to fix two problematic AI behaviours:
- AI drivers crashing their cars into other vehicles
- AI transport helicopter pilots just hovering over an objective while it is being captured

One of the recurring issues with Ravenfield's gameplay has been the AI's inability to see other vehicles while driving, which would usually result in vehicle pileups at level chokepoints. EA30 adds local avoidance for AI drivers, allowing them to detect and swerve around nearby vehicles. This new system detects potential collisions, and finds the closest path to drive past the vehicle. While this doesn't solve all the pileup issues, it is a massive improvement from before.



The other issue is more straightforward: Having AI helicopter pilots just hover above a flag while it is being captured makes them sitting ducks for anti air weapons, and is just not a very fun behaviour. To solve this, bots will now land by other squads that are travelling on foot and pick them up, ferrying them to their destination. This new behaviour makes for some interesting new tactics on Dustbowl and Archipelago!

Along with these two system improvements, there are plenty of new systems for modders to play around with, including controlling changing team names/colors, more control over AI movement and the ability to disable built in game features such as hit impacts/blood droplets in order to replace them with modded systems!



Full change log

Game improvements:
- AI drivers will now swerve to avoid hitting other cars/boats/landed aircraft, this should result in vehicles being stuck way less.
- Transport helicopter AI can now ferry multiple squads to their destination. After dropping off passengers, transport helicopters may pick up other squads on the battlefield and drop them at their current attack target.
- Added official killfeed mutator
- Added official team color mutator
- Added new helicopter landing zone system which generates possible landing zones across the entire map
- Added ImpactOnly option to blood particle settings in options menu. This option will only show the actor hit particle effect without spawning blood droplets. Setting this option to off will now turn off both particle effects and blood droplets.
- All built in game mode UIs are now color coded based on current team colors.
- Fixed a bug where skins would not be applied correctly to player FP models
- Fixed a bug where car downforce would apply an upwards force while reversing (Oops!)
- Tweaked AI helicopter approach while landing so the helicopter approach slightly off to one side. This makes for a more natural looking landing.
- While landing/landed on a helicopter landing zone, the landing zone is claimed by the squad, preventing other helicopters from also attempting landing at the same spot.
- Fixed a bug where explosion ranges were miscategorized by the game. This resulted in the AI erroneously not using explosive weapons as they thought they would damage nearby teammates.

Modding improvements:
- Added TextMeshPro components to whitelist
- Added VehicleAvoidanceObject component. AI will swerve around this object while it is active, which can be useful for dynamically spawned objects with colliders.
- Added "Helicopter Land At Attack Target" prefab to RFTools/Prefabs/Ravenscript - place this prefab as a child object to your transport helicopter to make it land when dropping of passengers (instead of them dropping by parachute).
- Moved HMG weapon to a new Support weapon tag, so this is the new go-to tag for putting custom machine-gun style weapons.

Ravenscript:
- Exposed LayoutRebuilder that can be used to force rebuild UI layout group.
- Exposed Actor.ForceChangeStance()
- Exposed GameManager.isNightMode
- Exposed HelicopterLandingZone querying, claiming and landing systems
- Exposed Weapon.GetProjectilePrefab()
- Exposed change team colors through ColorScheme.SetTeamColor()
- Exposed change team names through GameManager.SetTeamName()
- Exposed ExplodingProjectile explosion configuration
- Added Player.movementInputEnabled flag
- Added onPointerEnter/Exit/Click events to UI elements
- Added onTakeDamage and onDeath events to destructibles
- Added onIssueOrderMovement event to squads
- Added BuiltInFeatures class that can be used to toggle features such as blood droplets, etc.
- Added Extensions.Get() which can be used to query for game extensions EG RavenM or other DLL mods
- Added ColorScheme.GetInterfaceColor() which can be used to get UI element colors based on team colors. This replaces a few previously available functions in the ColorScheme class. Any previous functions will continue to work, but I'd recommend switching over to GetInterfaceColor() for better control over colors.
- When requesting an interface color, you can specify Default, Bright or Dark variants. Bright colors should work nicely on dark backgrounds and vice versa. Use default if you want to use a color close to 50% brightness.

Trigger System:
- Added trigger component for UI button clicks
- Added TriggerChangeStance component
- Added IsNight condition to TriggerCondition compopnent
- Added TriggerOnKey component that sends a signal whenever a key is pressed

Coming Up
For EA31, I'm planning on introducing full support for custom game modes. If you're a modder who wants to try out making your own game mode, please keep an eye at the game's beta branch where I regularly post updates, sometimes even multiple times a week. Do however keep in mind that the beta branch tends to be quite buggy at times :)

As always, you can always see what I'm working on as soon as it happens on the official Discord server

I hope you'll enjoy this update!

/Johan (SteelRaven7)

Here are the patch notes for this first EA29 patch:

- Fixed a bug where vehicles would sometimes crash into the player collider, resulting in issues like aircrafts colliding with an invisible collider while taking off.
- The game now uses '.' as the decimal point character across all regions/languages. This change solves multiple bugs related to configuration of mutators and ingame map editor values not being interpreted the same on different player computers.
- Fixed a bug where mutators saved using ',' decimal point would not load properly. Now these values will load correctly and when saved, will be converted to a '.'

EA29 is finally here! While a lot of my time since the last update has been spent working on campaign assets (which are not quite ready to be shown yet), I have been polishing up the base game with quality-of-life fixes and improving Ravenscript and the Trigger System. This should get the two scripting systems ready for the planned addition of custom game modes which I hope to get working very soon.

IMPORTANT: If you're running into any weird main menu or ingame bugs that prevents you from playing the game after updating to EA29, make sure you remove any mods that modify the original game files such as RavenM.

One of the new features in EA29 is an enhanced instant action preview screen, where the background will change based on the metadata tags of the map that is currently selected. Map metadata could previously only be changed via the RF modding tools for Unity, but is now also available through the ingame map editor (via Level Details -> Metadata). In addition to tagging levels, metadata also allows map makers to control other map information such as display name and recommended bot count.



The dynamic instant action preview screen may seem like a superfluous feature at first, but the data that drives the preview screen will be exposed to Ravenscript in a future update. This will allow modders to find maps with specific tags (City, Desert, Airport, Coastline, etc) and load them - essentially allowing modders to create custom campaigns spanning all maps that are currently subscribed (moddable conquest mode on custom maps, anyone?). For this reason, I highly recommend that you tag your custom maps using the new metadata features.



I would also like to highlight one of the new Ravenscript/Trigger features, the addition of named trigger signals. Named signals are sent from a sender component to a receiver component just like regular Trigger System signals, but the modder does not need to directly connect the sender to the receiver inside the map tools. Instead, the modder assigns a name to the sent signal, and any receivers that are listening to signals of the same name will receive the signal. Named signals can be sent between maps/game modes/vehicles/weapons loaded from different files, including different mods, allowing for easy inter-mod logic. Before this addition, this type of communication was difficult to do inside Ravenfield.



Finally, you can check out a few improvements to the citadel story mission such as a more detailed destroyed hangar area. This in an example of the power of the trigger system, where you can dynamically change areas of a map based on story events. Unfortunately I have not been able to implement the remaining cutscenes for the citadel mission yet, which is something I was planning on doing for EA29. Expect these to come in the next one or two updates, finishing up the first story mission in the official campaign.


-- Full change log --

Game improvements:
- Added camera smoothing to player movement while on foot. This should prevent jittering when running close to bots or when playing the game at high refresh rate displays
- Various updates to level geometry in the citadel mission.
- Data container component preprocessing, will now only run once per data container asset at load time instead of once for every instance in Awake().
- Non-actor-collision layer will now produce impact decals correctly
- Objective indicator now fades in/out based on what you're currently aiming at.
- Target seeking missiles now have a grace period of one second after thruster ignition, during this time period the missile can never lose tracking of the target. This allows target seeking missiles to track targets that are behind them on some custom vehicles.
- Vehicles can now be assigned a driver halt strategy, which allows the driver to stop when a passenger is engaging a target according to the passenger weapon's halt strategy configuration.
- Squad leaders can now halt when engaging preferred targets.
- Razorback MG will now halt when engaging preferred targets with the turret
- Prowler quadbike will now halt when the passenger is engaging a preferred target
- Some slight terrain updates to dustbowl near Raven controlled airport to make it easier to get up onto the tarmac for bots.
- Updated occlusion culling data on dustbowl to fix some props turning invisible when standing inside certain areas
- In spec ops mode, the bot count will set the number of teammates directly when the balance slider is set fully to the player team.
- When leaning to the right while standing, the camera will now move slightly less to better align the camera to the third person animation.
- Sped up third person stance changing animations slightly
- Added spawn point offset values to vehicles. This value can be used for large vehicle to offset the spawn position to prevent the vehicle from clipping into the ground.

Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug where changing a missile target via RS would not cause the targeted vehicle to register the new missile (and thus not warning the pilot)
- Fixed bug with custom skins selected from the instant action menu would sometimes not be applied to the first person arms
- Fixed a bug where TriggerVolumes would sometimes not initialize correctly, and not be able to detect actors.
- Fixed game mode "no flag config" value not having any effect.
- Fixed a bug where bots would sometimes get stuck when following scripted path groups. This bug typically happened on the citadel mission where teammates would sometimes get stuck near the gate.
- Fixed a bug where spec ops mode would not end when the exfiltration helicopter could not fit all teammates as passengers.
- It is no longer possible to lean while dead
- Fixed a bug where bots would get stuck when trying to go to a ScriptedPathGroup. This would sometimes make the bots get stuck outside the citadel gate in the citadel story mission.
- Various misc AI improvements and fixes

Map metadata updates:
- Added biome/terrain/decorator values to map metadata. These values are used to display a custom configuration background in instant action mode. Additionally, these values will be available for modders to query inside custom campaigns in the future.
- Map metadata now contains information about the precense of ground/naval/air vehicles in maps, this will be made available to custom campaign modding in the future.
- It is now recommended to always generate map metadata and set up map type and theme so the exported map can be categorized correctly. Therefore, the mod tool will warn you if you export a map that doesn't have metadata and instruct you how to create metadata for your map.
- Map biome/terrain/decorator metadata values can be automatically fetched from steam workshop tags for maps that do not have them assigned.
- Added metadata editor to ingame map editor.

Ravenscript:
- Exposed LandHelicopterAtPosition(), CancelLanding(), TakeOff() and related landing status bools to the Squad class. This makes bot helicopter landing controllable from RS
- Exposed Player.allowAutoWaveRespawn, set to false to stop player from being able to spawn in the automatic wave respawn system used by most game modes.
- Exposed GameManager.sceneName and GameManager.mapDisplayName that can be used to get names of the current scene/map.
- Exposed Time.systemTime fields
- Exposed ConfigurableJoint
- Exposed ReflectionProbe
- Exposed Rigidbody interpolation/collision detection values
- Exposed MountedStabilizedTurretClamp to RS
- Exposed new Actor values to RS: hasHeroArmor, isInvulnerable, canBeTargeted and attackersIgnoreRulesOfEngagement
- Added Random.RangeInteger() to RS to randomize integer values (previously only floats were available)
- Added OnDestroy RS callback to ScriptedComponent
- Exposed global named signal sending from using TriggerScriptedSignal.SendGlobalNamedSignal("my cool signal")
- Cleaned up API for MountedWeapons and MountedStabilizedTurret which previously contained lots of unneccesary functions and properties
- Updated the online Ravenfield documentation categories, the API reference is now split up into Ravenfield and Unity type categories, which should make it easier to navigate
- Updated the online Ravenfield documentation's auto-generated links to the Unity documentation for Unity types so they are no longer 404

Trigger system:
- Added TriggerDamageVehicle component
- Added TriggerShowInputPrompt component
- Added TriggerOnVehicleDestroyed component
- Added TriggerNamedSignalSender and TriggerNamedSignalReceiver components. These allow sending named signals to all child receivers of a gameobject, without having to explicitly set a destination trigger component. Named signals can optionally be sent/received globally.
- Added TriggerDebugMessage component that can be used to display a console message from the trigger system along with an activation counter and the signal context.
- Added CancelLanding to TriggerLandHelicopter component
- Added "pick random squad from team" and team filtering to squad references
- Added optional actor credit to TriggerKillActor
- Added total actor count greater/equal condition to TriggerCondition
- TriggerSpawnVehicle can now use TurretSpawners.
- TurretSpawners can now be set to Scripted spawn mode, which allows them to be controlled from Ravenscript/The trigger system instead of their default behaviour
- TriggerSpawnPrefab signal propagation to the prefab instance can now optionally use a named signal in the same way as TriggerNamedSignalSender.
- Renamed TriggerScriptedSignalSender and TriggerScriptedFunction to TriggerRavenscriptSignalSender and TriggerRavenscriptFunctionCall in order to differentiate them from the named signals. This is just a visual change in the mod tools inspector. The Ravenscript class name is kept the same as before, so no need to update any existing code!
- Added per-signal context documentation to trigger components. This can be used to see what parts of the signal context a trigger component sets.
- Fixed default paramters values for TriggerSpawnSquad/TriggerSpawnPlayer components
- Fixed a bug where the player would sometimes not get the correct weapon arm skin when spawning from triggers.
- Fixed OnActorEnterSeat LeaveSeat signal not being sent
- Fixed an issue where OnActorDeath trigger squad filtering did not work as intended
- Fixed an issue where squad conditions would sometimes return fale positives.

Dialog system improvements:
- Added rich text support for the ingame dialog system. Rich text supports Unity's built in rich text tags such as , , and the following custom tags:

- Prints the player's steam username
- Prints the map's display name
- Changes the icon actor pose to something else
- Changes the grain amount on the dialog portrait
- Pauses for duration seconds
- Changes the print speed of the dialog text, default is 1.0
- Stops the actor mouth animation and prevents blip sounds from playing
- colors text using the team color
- Prints the team name

Valid team parameters are:
team0 - Team 0, default Eagle
team1 - Team 1, default Raven
teamf - Friendly Team (same as player)
teame - Enemy Team


I hope you'll enjoy this update!

/Johan (SteelRaven7)

Here's a patch fixing some issues in EA28:

- Fixed a bug where bots would sometimes ignore all enemies for a while.
- Fixed an issue with data containers weapon entry prefabs not being initialized correctly, which could potentially lead to various related bugs.

IMPORTANT INFO If you're having trouble with menu buttons not working and mods not loading correctly, this is because you're running the game with the RavenM mod installed. RavenM is currently not supporting EA28. You can either remove RavenM entirely to use EA28, or switch to the RavenM compatible branch, found by going to your steam library -> right click Ravenfield -> Properties -> Betas -> Select ravenm-compatible in the dropdown.

Please keep in mind that DLL mods such as RavenM and other mods that need to be manually installed have no official support inside the game. This means that any updates to the official game will cause these mods to break!


Hey all,

Here's the latest Ravenfield update, featuring loads of improvements to the modding tools, including the new ability for modders to create their own story missions.

One of the goals with Ravenfield's official campaign is to bring the same tools used to create official missions to the modders, and with this update all of the existing tools are now available for modders to use! The main bulk of this update comes in the form of new Trigger System components. These components can be linked together using the Ravenfield mod tools for Unity to create story driven experiences or even entire new game modes - all without having to code anything. If you're interested in creating your own story missions, now is a great time to jump in! You can find everything you need on the official modding page.

Here are a two halloween-themed custom missions that have been created by Ravenfield's modding community thus far:

Penumbra by Sofa

Isolated by Hans, NefariousDrH, RadioactiveJellyfish, LeDiegue3 and Aspel

There are even more missions to try out under the workshop Scripted Mission tag.

You can also check out the new and improved Island, featuring an all new quarry themed capture point with multiple new paths. While most of the level layout remains intact, there have been minor tweaks here and there to improve sightlines and to create more natural paths between capture points.


Oh and don't worry, you can find the old island map on the workshop.


[h2]Full change log[/h2]

Game changes

• Updated steamworks.net to latest version, which should solve an issue where the steam api could not be initialized on Apple M1 systems, resulting in the menu not appearing correctly.
  
• Capture points take slightly longer to neutralize due to the respawn logic change.
  
• Made the distance you can fall before ragdolling consistent between different gravity settings.
  
• Mouse look is now enabled while dead.
  
• Added a very fast acceleration when starting moving/changing direction. This makes it easier to get into exact positions by tapping movement keys.
  
• Fixed an issue where benchmark mode didn't work
  
• Added healing/resupply sounds to the new ingame ui, and the healthbar/ammo heading bar will now blink when resupplying or healing.
  
• When restarting a rfc map, the file is no longer unloaded and reloaded first, resulting in much shorter load times on reloads
  
• Kicking an upside down vehicle that is light will now cause it to flip over, allowing you to recover crashed vehicles more easily.
  
• You can no longer phase through level geometry when getting on a ladder
  
• You must now look towards a ladder to be able to get on it
  
• Fixed an issue where you would sometimes not be able to get off ladders if you were spamming the use button
  
• Fixed a bug where melee weapons would not hit rigidbodies etc on the default layer
  
• Fixed a bug where the first person camera would sometimes be zoomed out when aiming down sights. This is now fixed by clamping the ADS FOV value so it's always slightly lower than the current default FOV
  
• Fixed a bug where the spectator camera was rendering 3d hud objects.
  
• Fixed player actor Accessory rendering when switching between first person/third person cameras.
  

Respawn logic redesign

• The game will now cluster contested spawn points and regular spawn points into regions.
  
• Whenever an attacker is inside any spawn point region, the capture point will be considered under attack.
  
• Each region is penalized for having an attacker or a defender that is taking fire inside.
  
• When spawning, the region with the lowest penalty score is picked.
  
• When a capture point is not under attack (or if no contested spawn point container is assigned), the regular spawn points will be used.
  
• Due to this change, only non-moving spawn points are allowed when using a contested spawn point container. For modded special cases with moving spawn points such as flags attached to large vehicles etc, you can still use moving regular spawn points by not assigning a contested spawn point container.
  

Map changes

• Island has received an overhaul, completely redesigning the old fort area into a quarry. This area still retains most of the old layout, but with a new theme and a couple of new paths. The old Island map is no longer available ingame, but you can find it in the workshop as "Island (2016)".
  
• Other parts of the island has also received slight redesigns, making paths/lanes more clear.
  
• Minor updates to river delta sawmill area
  
• Made citadel tree vis colliders slightly bigger so they block AI views a bit more than before
  
• Added more sawmill modular props for use in the ingame map editor
  
• Added new island props to the ingame map editor
  
• Added "Show Objectives" key prompt to the start of the citadel mission
  
  Modding changes
  
• Added source mod/source bundle tracking to all prefabs, which allows proper shading reloading etc if needed, should solve some rare cases of pinkeye on Mac/Linux.
  
• Added SpriteActorDatabase and IngameDialogActorDatabaseProvider component that are used to bundle custom sprite actors for the ingame dialog system. To use, just instantiate the IngameDialogActorDatabaseProvider component pointing to your SpriteActorDatabase anywhere in your map/mutator. As long as that object is alive, you can reference your custom actors by name through the TriggerDialog or via the RS ingame dialog API.
  
• Added the following components to the whitelist (meaning they can now be loaded from custom maps/content mods):
  Cloth, Legacy water components, Rigidbody joints
  
• Added full support for RFL metadata, allowing modders to change the display name, loading screen background image/decoration 3d model, visibility on instant action mode etc.
  
• Added Actor imposters, these are characters that can follow predefined ScriptedPathGroup paths but lack all AI, Colliders, Hitboxes, Ragdolls etc. These imposters can be used for cutscenes or could be placed in the background in inaccessible areas of a map/mission to fill out the battlefield with more action. Because they don't have AI and related features, they are more optimized than regular actors.
  
• Fixed a bug where boat navmeshes would not generate on water planes.
  
• Terrains inside RFLs exported with Unity 2020.3 will keep the original materials unless a shader reload is requested due to platform incompabilities. This allows modders to freely change the terrain materials.
  
• Fixed a bug where modded vehicle weapon names would not be assigned correctly and instead throw an error in the console.
  
• ActorSkinData assets used in TriggerSpawnSquad/TriggerSpawnPlayer/TriggerSpawnImposters will now be preprocessed and retargeted based on the unity rig version. This means they are now also compatible with skins made for the Unity 5 rig, but you need to set up the correct rig version in the skin's Rig Settings.
  
• Added mod save data, and exposed to RS (see ScriptedBehaviour.modSaveData). This is used to save and load values between game sessions. Each mod has its own save data, meaning that maps/mutators/etc in the same mod can access the same values.
  
• Save data is found in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\SteelRaven7\RavenfieldSteam\SaveData\Mods*mod_name*.save (on windows) in plaintext xml (so it's easier to debug).
  
• Added Destructible takesMeleeDamage, takesSplashDamage and takesImpactDamage (damage from being rammed by vehicles or other rigidbodies), all default to off.
  
• Vehicles placed in maps will no longer be removed when the map loads. This means you can now have one-off vehicles placed in your map, which is useful for story missions etc. Vehicles spawned like this can be referenced in the trigger system by using the VehicleInstance reference type.
  
• Fixed a bug where navmesh would sometimes not generate through terrain holes on custom levels
  

Added SynchronizeEditorTransform component.
This is a component that is only available in test mode (by testing a map via the Unity RF Tools). With this component you can synchronize the gameobject transform and all children with renderers from the game to the editor. Here's how to set it up:

• Place the component on the gameobject you want to synchronize (typically a vehicle). Only once synchronized game object is allowed at a time!
  
• Run test mode on the map to load it up ingame. Press play mode in the editor so both the editor and the game is running at the same time.
  
• Press Q ingame to connect to the editor. After a few seconds the two should be connected, any the component's gameobject and children will be synchronized. (The game may freeze for a few seconds while the connection is being set up)
  
• One use case for this would be to record yourself driving a vehicle ingame. You can use the Unity Recorder package to record the synchronized vehicle movement keyframes as an animation, which can then be used as a cutscene in a scripted mission.
  

PLEASE NOTE: The SynchronizeEditorTransform component is very naively implemented, only allowing one gameobject and children to be synchronized and using quite a high data rate. However it should work well for recording individual vehicles, which is the use case I had in mind. As this component is very niche, I'm not planning on expanding or optimizing it.


New Trigger components

• TriggerEquipWeapon, used to equip weapons on actors
  
• TriggerEndMatch, triggers the victory/defeat sequence and optionally returns the game to the main menu.
  
• TriggerExplosion, simulates and explosion effect, damaging and pushing all nearby actors and vehicles
  
• TriggerEffect, can play screenshake, fades, audio events directly from triggers
  
• TriggerChangeScene, can load a new map from the trigger system (by specfying the .rfl or .rfld name), or return to the menu
  
• TriggerOnSquadRequestsNewOrder, sends a signal whenever an AI squad requests a new order. Having this component in your map prevents the AICommander from automatically issuing orders.
  
• TriggerFireWeapon, used to force fire a weapon from triggers
  
• TriggerHelicopterLanding, causes a helicopter to land at a specific landing zone (or take off again)
  
• TriggerSquadRecalculatePath, forces a squad to recalculate the path to their current order destination. Useful for cases where other triggers modify the map and the navmesh, and squads must now take alternate paths.
  
• TriggerUpdateVehicleInfo, used to update the vehicle stats
  
• TriggerExitVehicle, forces actors to leave a vehicle
  
• TriggerDeployParachute, forces actors to deploy their parachute
  
• TriggerSpawnImposterActors, used to spawn actor imposters that follow a predefined ScriptedPathGroup.
  
• TriggerChangeGravity, change the gravity of all objects in the scene
  
• TriggerChangeSpawnpointContainer, change the spawn points of a capture point from triggers.
  
• TriggerUpdateFog, change the scene fog
  
• TriggerUpdateAmbientLighting, change the scene ambient lighting
  
• TriggerChangeMaterial, changes a renderer material or the skybox material
  
• TriggerHideUI, hide elements of the built in UI
  
• TriggerShowInputPrompt, used to display a key prompt
  

Trigger System improvements

• WeaponState data for TriggerSpawnSquad and TriggerSpawnPlayer can be used to control the ammo/etc of individual weapons when spaning.
  
• Added lots of new conditions to TriggerCondition
  
• TriggerDialog now has actor blip sound overrides so you can change the character voice audio clip
  
• Fixed a bug where triggering the same TriggerDialog component multiple times would sometimes cause the dialog system to stop showing up.
  
• Fixed a bug where TriggerOnActorDeath would trigger before the game had fully registered that actor's death, potentially leading to misleading results in TriggerCondition and similar systems.
  
• TriggerIssueSquadOrder can now be used to issue an AI command order (basically letting the game auto-assign a new order that makes sense)
  
• TriggerDelay can now optionally block signals if one is already being delayed.
  
• Added WeaponReference to Trigger System, this type is now available as a signal context.
  
• Added TriggerUsable tooltip interaction values that control how the tooltip is shown/hidden when used.
  
• Added SpawnBehaviour values to VehicleSpawner, can be set to only spawn vehicles from scripted events (RS/Trigger system). This will prevent the game from automatically spawning/respawning the vehicle.
  
• Added VehicleInfo values to TriggerSpawnVehicle, used to configure spawning health etc.
  
• Added canDeployParachute to spawn ActorInfo
  
• Added FireWeapon modifier to ScriptedPaths, use this to control the firing of weapons on actors or imposters following the path.
  
• TriggerUpdateActorInfo can set/increment current health value.
  
• TriggerSpawnPrefab can optionally propagate the signal to the first TriggerReceiver component on the instantiated prefab's root GameObject. This is used to more easily run trigger logic on a spawned prefab, and keeps the original signal's context.
  
• Fixed a bug where TriggerSquadFormation was not working
  
• Added player seat change rules for TriggerSpawnVehicle
  
• Added spawnSource field to TriggerSpawnSquad which can be used to control whether or not dead actors can be used for spawning (which is the default settings), or if a new actor should always be created (this can be useful if you want to spawn an actor for a specific map-related purpose but don't want to interfere with the actors in an existing game mode)
  
• Added per-signal documention of all trigger system signals. This includes when the signal is sent, and what context it provides to the receiving trigger component.
  
• Added WeaponEntry hidden flag that can be used to hide a weapon from being pickable in instant action mode (It can still be spawned in via trigger/Ravenscript)
  
• Added automatic signal canceling if a signal has been propagated through more than 200 components. This also logs an error with the last component the singal passed through. If this happens, you most likely have an infinite signal loop in your map/mod.
  
• Deprecated TriggerUpdateVehicle as it is functionally the same as TriggerUpdateVehicleInfo. The component will continue to work but will not be distributed with future RFTools packages.
  

Ravenscript changes

• Exposed Joint to RS
  
• Exposed Exposed spawnpointContainer/contestedSpawnpointContainer to RS
  
• Exposed TriggerVolumes to RS
  
• Exposed ScriptedBehaviour.modSaveData to RS
  
• Added new TriggerScriptedSignal.Send(name) function call (without signal context argument) that generates a signal with an empty signal context.
  
• Exposed GameManager.gameDifficulty to RS
  

RFTools additions

• Added metadata file system. Metadata are .json files next to the mod files that can either be manually edited through a text editor or changed via built in metadata editors.
  
• Added RFL metadata editor window that can be used to change level display name, loading screen background image, visibility in instant action mode and more. (Access via Ravenfield Tools -> Map -> Metadata Editor in the top menu bar).
  
• Removed unintended animation that was previously included in RFTools which wasn't used by the project
  
• Maps using the Trigger System will now automatically be tagged as such on the workshop. This allows players to more easily find maps with extra functionality on top of the built in game rules.
  
• Updated all trigger component classes to be up to date with the main project, so more documentation should now be available.
  
• Updated the workshop item upload window, it now shows an error message if it fails to connect to steam
  
• Updated the workshop item file labeling system, now metadata files such as .json, .png and .obj are visible, and also any files that aren't allowed which prevents the item from uploading.
  
• Added browse buttons to the workshop item file labeling lists, this opens the corresponding folder in your file explorer so you can more easily see the files
  
  
• Added Trigger Prefabs (found in RFTools/Prefabs/Trigger Prefabs. You can drag and drop these into your map to add cool predefined behaviours:
  
• Area Secure Bark Trigger Group: Triggers a dialog when all enemies inside the supplied trigger volume die IF the player is inside the same volume trigger. This is useful for making your pals go "Area Secure" and say other very tactical one-liners.
  
• Force Vehicle Pilot Look Direction: Hook this up to a vehicle to force the pilot to look in a certain direction when not engaging targets.
  
• Spawn Player Squad Reinforcements: When triggered and the player has less than 2 squadmates (the number can be configured), will spawn reinforcements that automatically join the player squad.
  
• ZOMBIES!: Provides basic zombie behaviour to the enemy team, making them rush towards the player at all times. You can activate/deactivate this object to dynamically turn this behaviour on or off during gameplay.
  
• Trigger Spawn Vehicle Airdrop prefab: spawns a vehicle in a parachute, and causes the closest AI squad to try to enter the vehicle when it lands
  

As always, I hope you'll enjoy these new features and look forward to seeing more cool story missions designed by the community!

/Johan (SteelRaven7)