Escape The Pacific News

Hi everyone,

the summer is finally here and in this short announcement we would like to inform you about our summer schedule.

We are leaving to vacation with our families and in between we are also going to work in our full time jobs which means stress in general so we can't guarantee there will be regular updates during summer time.

The last regular pre-summer release was published on June 11th. We plan to release the next game update on September 10th (Experimental) and on October 1 (Regular). From October we plan to resume our normal schedule and will return to release an update every 8th Friday (on 5th Friday it is Experimental release day).

During the stretched interval between these releases we plan to work on some interesting and unique features that need more work and we hope you will like them. Also it is very needed to migrate our game to a newer game engine build which is much more optimized and stable (the engine itself). Another plan is to add the much awaited bigger (~3 times bigger area of the actual biggest grassy island ) islands too (but still not the biggest ones :-) ). There will be ponds, hills and big forests too. Besides the above mentioned big changes the bug fixing will be still our almost top priority.

With the help of our community we together have done a big amount of work and laid down a very good foundation to further improve our game to all our liking.

Thank you all for all of the feedback, ideas and suggestions and for the patience during solving issues!

We wish you a very nice summer and good health and we hope to continue together with our work relaxed and well rested.

Best regards,

Gamers4Gamers Team.



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Hello everyone,

A new Hotfix (1) for Alpha 56 (regular and experimental) is now available!

Bug Fixes:
01. Fixed: Sometimes Not floating Sticks, Coconuts ...
02. Fixed: Sometimes Not floating Canoes
03. Fixed: In case of Player death while having the Sailing UI open the "Death" screen buttons are inaccessible
04. Fixed: In case of Player death while having the Sailing UI open the Sailing UI is still displayed after returning to the Main Menu
05. Fixed: Sailing UI controls still reacting when the Death screen is also shown
06. Fixed: Sailing UI controls still reacting when the Map is shown
07. Fixed: Not intentional closing of Sailing UI while the Map is displayed too and the Esc key is pressed
08. Fixed: Sailing UI controls still reacting when a Hint is shown
09. Fixed: Not intentional closing of Sailing UI while a Hint is displayed too and the Esc key is pressed
10. Fixed: Entire game gets nonresponsive when the Hint screen pops in while the Sailing UI is actually shown

We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedback.

Best regards,

G4GTeam.

Hi everyone,

for this build we were mainly focusing on adding the In-game Bug Reporting system. There are collectible Wall Candle holders and a big amount of bugs were fixed too.

Our community always has been a big help for us in finding and reporting bugs. To make the process much more simpler we decided to add an in-game Bug report system. The entire process is as simple as to open the bug report screen from the menu, fill in an optional E-mail (for contact if there would be some more detail needed), a mandatory Description field and press the Send button. The system automatically collects and compresses all the needed info and uploads to our bug report server.


There is a new Collectible Candle Holder which is possible to Attach to a wall. It is small addition which makes the living more nice and comfortable. The here introduced new wall attach/detach mechanic will be added for Doors&Windows too because it eliminates all the collisions/unpleasant situations with attaching/detaching the Doors&Windows to walls (mainly on rafts).


The ground textures were improved and the vegetation models were optimized. In some reference scenes the triangle count dropped to about 25% of the original amount. This opens up the door to a sooner introduction of bigger islands.

Changelog:
New features:
01. Bug report system
02. Candle Wall Holder

General:
01. Changed: Better ground textures
02. Changed: Optimized foliage 3d models

Fixes (highlights):
01. Main menu button behavior (color, sound)
02. UI  hang up when trying to use toolbelt while dragging draft components
03. Old knife usage issues
04. Composter usage issues
05. Dew catcher usage issues
06. Bow & Arrow animations and behavior issues
For the complete list of all (~133) bugfixes please see our hotfix list (english only):
Hotfix 1 Hotfix 2 Hotfix 3 Hotfix 4 Hotfix 5 Hotfix 6 Hotfix 7

For the next update we plan to work even more on fixing more complex and hard to track down issues.  It is needed to migrate our game to a newer game engine too. The additional plans include also the Bigger islands, Ponds, Big forest, Map UI, Old Telescope, Old Pistol, Spear, Smoker, Dolphins, Simple Quests, Building modules aging ... We will work also on solving the new issues and we will recheck some older issues too. Other new features will be added as implementing the planned features and fixing issues will allow us to.

Thank you for your patience and for your constructive feedbacks helping us to get rid of the issues as fast as is possible.

Do you like our game and want to help even more during development? We look forward to every positive review posted on our Steam page and thank everyone who decides to support us along the way!



G4GTeam.

If you have any further questions do not hesitate to ask us. We will try to answer your questions in detail.



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Hello everyone,

A new Hotfix (7) for Alpha 55&56.E1 (regular and experimental) is now available!

Bug Fixes:
01. Fixed: Not displayed maximum/original Nutritious values of Dried Meals in Inventory Details info
02. Fixed: Not possible to add Stones (Tiny and Small) to the Sun Dial just after it was crafted
03. Fixed: Sometimes not possible to place down the Sun Dial blueprint (when some objects are near)
04. Fixed: Not able to Pick/Move the actually Detached Candle Wall Holder to Backpack
05. Fixed: Sometimes a ghost Small Stick appears in hands during Crafting/Building
06. Fixed: Incorrect equip animation for Tiny Rocks
07. Fixed: Missing "Dead" text for Dead Plants while looking at them ("0" was displayed only)
08. Fixed: Not displayed (only as "???") Recipe name for some Build recipes in Quick Build screen
09. Fixed: Not possible to Build Doors&Windows (not the Door and Window Wall Modules) using the Quick Build screen
10. Fixed: Not Possible to Craft Cooking Recipes in Quick Craft screen
11. Fixed: Not displaying the Name (only as "???") of some Liquid ingredients in Quick Craft screen
12. Fixed: Not completely displayed/cut off Name of the Recipe in the Detail section in Quick Craft screen
13. Fixed: Not possible to detach Raft modules attached on the very side of the Biggest Raft
14. Fixed: Raft sometimes sinks when there is a Trunk Holder attached to it with added Sticks in it

We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedback.

Best regards,

G4GTeam.

Hello everyone,

A new Hotfix (6) for Alpha 55&56.E1 (regular and experimental) is now available!

Bug Fixes:
01. Fixed: Incorrect functionality when trying to Holster the equipped tool from the Toolbelt but the first toolbelt slot is empty
02. Fixed: Invalid Hand animation when a tool is equipped from the Toolbelt and the player press an empty Pocket's hotkey
03. Fixed: In Strong wind/Big Waves sometimes the Fishes get out out of the water (too deep wave)
04. Fixed: Not possible to get Sand into buckets directly from the Shore
05. Fixed: Not needed "0" displayed in description of an empty Waterholder
06. Fixed: Not needed "Cup" icon displayed in description of an empty Waterholder
07. Fixed: Missing Weather Building properties for Basic Plank Window and Basic Plank Window 2 in Inventory
08. Fixed: Missing Weather Building properties for Ramp Wood and Ramp Narrow Wood in Inventory
09. Fixed: Not disappeared Food Detail info in Inventory when the food in hands was eaten by using the 'Eat' button
10. Fixed: Not actualized Item Detail info in Inventory when started a drag&drop operation
11. Fixed: Not actualized Item Detail info in Inventory when finished a drag&drop operation - and made Inventory buttons work incorrectly
12. Fixed: Not able to add Trunks to Trunk holder after being crafted (After save/load it worked)
13. Changed: More precise free position estimation in Trunk Holder when adding trunks (Solves most of the Jumpy/Incorrectly placed trunks in there)
14. Fixed: Not attached Trunk Holder sometimes begins to lift up/tilt after trunks were added (or taken out)
15. Fixed: Sometimes the actually Added trunk/stick to an Almost full Trunk Holder was kicked out of the Trunk Holder
16. Fixed: Young Hemp plant had too small Billboard LOD distance
17. Fixed: Young Hemp plant Billboards had not needed Color variation
18. Fixed: Typos in FRA texts (Alpha 56.E1 only)
19. Fixed: Biome Grass data not loaded (Grass "regrows" after being cut and after save/load)
20. Fixed: Invalid grass on some islands after returning from far away islands (Grass on the shore and/or missing grass on green grass textured areas) (Alpha 56.E1 only)
21. Fixed: Incorrect/reversed Green/Red colors in Basic Palm Door 3 blueprint
22. Fixed: Incorrect/reversed Green/Red colors in Basic Palm Half Door 3 blueprint
23. Fixed: Not possible to Ignite/Extinguish candles already placed in Candle holders
24. Added: Possibility to add all Green Bananas to Composter
25. Added: Possibility to add all Green Coconuts to Composter
26. Added: Possibility to add all Green Papayas to Composter
27. Added: Possibility to add all Corn Corbs to Composter
28. Added: Possibility to add Hemp Buds and Carrot Flowers to Composter
29. Fixed: Not displayed maximum/original Nutritious values of Meals/Liquids in Inventory Details info
30. Fixed: Missing failure Notify text when Not acceptable seed (e.g. Corn to Plant boxes) is tried to add to Plant Place
31. Fixed: Missing failure Notify text when trying to Add Seed to a Not cleaned-up Plant place

We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedback.

Best regards,

G4GTeam.