EA Patch #17: Major engine upgrade

Greetings overseers!

Today we are releasing our major engine upgrade to UE4.19! This will help us continue to develop the game with the new features and improvements in the engine, as well as bring some major upgrades to you, the players!

In particular, we now have VXGI 2.0 integrated, which should make basic VXGI functionality much more accessible to the average PC! If you have a reasonably recent GPU, try the game with VXGI on low or medium to see some new lighting FX that should be much more performant!

Also, Ansel is now available in our game out of the box, meaning you can take those high res 360 screenshots of your sweet base and all your bots!

We have a number of additional bug fixes and changes listed below.

Engine

Updated engine to UE4.19, fixing various rendering and settings related issues
Updated VXGI to VXGI 2.0 bring major performance improvements
Updated Ansel to latest versions allowing ansel to work out of the box

Game

Activate cataclysm mode on all servers on a 2 week timer.
Cataclysm mode will not be activated on SP or Hosted games.
Wiped all save files for SP, Hosted, and Servers
Fix for scrapping stacks - scrapping will give you the stack amount of resources
Fixed cheat access in SP and Hosted games
Hot-swap key (T) will now properly swap back and forth between handy and main hand weapon
Night time will now be a bit darker
Fix the "fell out of world" detection to properly catch you and teleport you back to where you fell from
Major optimization pass for UI
Major optimization pass for SP
Fixed a crash bug in server list

Major optimizations to map and compass icons
Added a confirmation box to delete save
Map icons will now refresh position in realtime so there's no lag while scrolling/zooming
Dead bots corpse icons will now be properly labeled with their names
Updated main menu newsmessage to pull from a place that can be more easily modified

Bots will no longer be able to store non-liquids into liquid containers
Populated all the proper bot audio from some that were missing
Fixed Mauler collision size

Structures

Turrets are now properly counted towards colony value
Fix triangle ceiling attach points
Fixed corner support issue
Fixed dome support issue
Fix a support issue that was causing ceilings, and anything attached to ceilings, to hover forever after all foundations are removed
Fix wall light material and light settings
Fixed a bug where charging station sometimes wouldn't work in SP after reloading
Players can now open auto-doors while mounted on a vehicle
Increase HP of long pipelines by 2x

Happy holidays from all of us at Symmetric Games, we can't wait to share what we're working on in the new year!