[h2]Summer Event Shimmer Skin[/h2]
+Added Shimmer Summer Skin: Waverider by Soals and Valhalla
-This is a shimmer skin and requires unlocking by growing a Lurdusaurus to 2.0 Growth on a Life Cycle server
-If this skin is unlocked, it will be available for you to use across all servers. This includes Free Roam and Combat servers.
-The skin will be unlockable throughout the month of July
-This skin has a special barnacle layer that goes on top of the skin. If this skin is unlocked, this layer can be applied to any other Lurdusaurus skin.
-Additionally, Unlocked Overlays can now be applied/removed from characters at any time, even on dinosaurs too old to otherwise edit their skin.
-This skin has bioluminescence on the body, the spikes, and on the eyes, as well as a metallic marking.
[h3]Nesting Event Skins[/h3]
Due to popular request, the Waverider skin may be nested by owners. The skin will not pass down some special marking types in order to encourage event participation. These markings include the Bio Layers and custom surface material files such as the metallic layer.
In the future older event skins will be assessed for similar nesting compatibilities.
[h2]Achievements System[/h2]
Here is a list of new unlockable achievements:
-Survivor (3 tiers) Survive to 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 in gauntlet mode. Each tier unlocks a new achievement
-Incest Survivor (4 tiers): Survive the egg, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 in gauntlet mode.
-Mutation encounters: Discover 10 different mutations, either by receiving them or by smelling players with one or several of them. Unlocking this achievement will increase your chances to have any of the unique mutations when nesting.
-Sickness survivor (3 tiers) Survive a small, mild and hard sickness.
-For each dino: Grow to 2.5 or larger to unlock a new cosmetic, the elder eyes for this dino.
Seasonal Achievements: -New Summer Skin: Grow a lurdu to 2.0 in Gauntlet mode to unlock the summer skin.
-Old: Past Seasonal achievements can be viewed in the Seasonal Gallery.
[h3]New Achievement Interface[/h3]
-You can access and view those achievements via a brand new interface called the
Achievement Gallery, which we will complete as we add more achievements to the game! In this gallery, you will be able to see your progress on each achievement, which achievements are unlocked, and the progress on any if progress is relevant.
-You can access this gallery via the escape menu: "View Achievements". You can also access this gallery via the character screen with a new button on the middle-left of the screen.
-Most of these achievements are per-server currently, with the exception of seasonal achievements which replicate across every server.
-Certain achievements wrap sub-galleries. You can access them by clicking the achievement. Achievement with sub-galleries have a label with the gallery name under their icon.
Hovering any achievement with the mouse will provide information about the current progress on that achievement.
[h2]Mutation and Offspring Skin System[/h2]
-Entirely reworked the skin system. This includes:
-Better and more consistent skins
-No broken or misnamed layers
-Many other bug fixes related to skins
-9 unique mutations that can happen at random
--Including Bioluminescence, and improved Albino
-1 mutation that can only happen from incest
-Various client and server performance improvements tied to dealing with skin data and generating skins.
-When you have a mutation, it will be displayed on the skin editor UI. Certain mutations lock the skin completely to the mutated colors, others lock only specific layers.
-Mutations do not pass down to offspring, unless the offspring also has one or several mutations.
-Receiving mutations count as discovering them for the achievement "Mutation Hunter".
-There is a dedicated gallery for the mutations. You can access it via the Achievement Gallery, Category Cosmetics -> Mutation Hunter.
[h2]Map Updates[/h2]
[h3]Spawn Point Regions[/h3]
+When selecting a spawn point on either Isla Titania or Volcano Bay, the player will now be asked what spawn point region they wish to spawn at. There are four regions on both maps. The player will then spawn at a randomly selected spawn point within that geographic region that's appropriate for their creature type (flyer, terrestrial, or aquatic).
-The player is also prompted to select a spawn point after resurrecting or reincarnating
[h2]Titania[/h2]
[h3]New Areas:[/h3]
Titania has been expanded and added new biomes to explore:
[h3]Ashen Island & Ashen Trenches[/h3]
Located on a post-erupted volcano, the Ashen Zone features a chain of small islands and the deepest oceanic biome on the map: The Ashen Trenches. The landscape above and below is coated in a thick layer of ash, with newly growing plants making the most of the nutrient-rich soil. Players may make the journey here to this inhospitable area for its abundance of charcoal and other sickness combating elements.+Added Rideable Raft that floats around the Ashen bay area.
+Ashen area has a special post processing that makes the scene appear more muted and ashy
+Ashen Area has custom music by Sachbun
+Ashen Area has 1 watersource which is not mandatory for the Watersources Visited trial.
[h3]Expanded Outlands & Outlands Coast[/h3]
The entirety of the Outlands is now accessible, including its cliffy coast line made of red clay-like stones. The coast has many small coves to explore and seek shelter from the rain.
[h3]Misc Changes[/h3]
+Updated the night shader to try and make it more visible and keep red hues better than previously (they will still be duller).
+Set up spawn regions on Titania into North, South, East, and West
-When spawning a new creature, you now are prompted which spawn region you wish to spawn in
-It also will show you the percentage of the total playerbase that exists in each region
-You also get to pick your spawn region on Isla Titania when resurrecting
+New watersources: Pristine Falls, Muddy Oasis
+Added more spawn points to Titania + Expanded the Map Borders
+Cliffs have been overhauled on Titania to have procedural rocks. They can be removed with the foliage setting like other ground foliage.
+LOD and optimization changes to various assets. Some more complex materials have been simplified.
+First pass at texture painting Titan's Rise.
Note: Some of Titan's Rise is accessible, but the area is not developed and will be drastically altered in the future. Soal's does not recommend logging off on the mountain.[h2]Other Maps[/h2]
+Bloodbath, an old and rather small map, should now be suitable for play
-Optimzed foliage assets on Bloodbath
-Added critter-possessing shrines, ambient sounds, world event nodes, AI spawners, and deity shrines to Bloodbath
-Fixed up the ocean, sky sphere, and other necessary map components on Bloodbath such that the map works properly
+Biomes and world event nodes have been added to Volcano Bay
+Fixed landscape texture tiling being too small on Volcano Bay
+Removed jungle trees from Volcano Bay
+Added the night filter and day filter from Titania onto Forest Island and FR Canvas so that it was easier to see in the dark on that map.
[h2]Other New Stuff[/h2]
[h3]Acro[/h3]
+Acrocanthosaurus has a totally new, updated set of animations
+Acrocanthosaurus now has Incest and Elder morphs
[h3]Morphs[/h3]
+Added new Megaraptor elder morph
+Added new Pachycephalosaurus elder, skinny, fat, baby, and incest morphs
+Added new Parasaurolophus elder, female-elder, incest, female-incest, elder-incest, elder-female-incest, and incest morphs
+Added Kronosaurus Elder and Incest morphs
+Added Wiehevenator Elder and Incest morphs, and improved Wiehevenator mesh
[h3]Skins[/h3]
+Added new Pteranodon Skin: Royal by KrymsonFeather & Gortys
+Added Summer Lurdu Skin: Waverider by Soals and Valhalla
[h3]Sounds[/h3]
+Updated mosa sounds for Aggro, Call, Roar, Submissive, Distress, Bite, Breath, Death, Idle, Eat, Pain low med and high
+Updated Pteranodon vocal calls, attack sounds, swimming "footstep" sound, and added new sleep idle sound
[h2]Foliage Placement Tool[/h2]
+While using the foliage placement tool, AI critter spawn points and player spawn points are now visible and show sprites above their locations
+Added MapSpawnPointInhibitor to the foliage placement tool. Place this on top of spawn points to keep them from being used for spawning
-It can be made to cover more area by adjusting its scale
-Any spawn points inside the big red bubble it displays will no longer ever be used
-Deleting a spawn point inhibitor with the foliage placement tool will automatically re-enable any spawn points previous covered by the deleted inhibitor
+Added flyer, terrestrial, and aquatic spawn points to the foliage placement tool
-Dinosaurs will spawn at the little dinosaur head sprite. The camera spawns at the target sprite icon. Be careful not to place spawn points such that players will spawn under the map
-Spawn points placed with the foliage placement tool will automatically assign themselves an appropriate spawn region on maps with spawn regions
+Added MapBorderWall to the foliage placement tool.
-This, combined with using the Map Spawn Point Inhibitor, allows players to partition a piece of a map they wish for players to be able to access. It could allow players to make smaller servers where only a smaller part of the map is accessable. This should make the Volcano Bay map significantly more attractive for usage by map editors due to being able to use only part of this huge map
-Creating a complete wall enclosing a collection of spawn points that are not inhibited will automatically form a closed playable area, which means eggs, carcasses, and fat plants will only spawn within the playable area.
-If this does not work, make sure all spawn points outside the playable area you wish to partition off have been inhibited with spawn point inhibitors
+Actor mode can now be used on Isla Titania
+Players will always have 100% complete on the Shrines Visited, Water Sources Visited, and Biomes Visited Trials if the playable area of the map contains none of the relevant map destinations that trigger these Trials
+The Biomes Visited, Water Sources Visited, and Shrines Visited Trials should now automatically exclude water sources, shrines, and biomes that are outside player-placed map borders when considering the requirements of these Trials
-The Trial requirements should automatically update when border walls on the map are placed or removed, and should automatically update when spawn points are added or removed
-In order for this to work, the border wall needs to form a complete circuit around all of the spawn points on the map that have not been blocked with spawn point inhibitors
+World event nodes outside the playable map area will automatically disable and no longer be considered for world event generation
+Added Titania Kelps (Seaweed3) to the foliage placement tool
+Added Titania's little green seaweeds (Seaweed2) to FPT
+Replaced Orange and Lemon trees with optimized variants, plus added younger tree versions (Lemon and Orange Bush)
[h2]Steam Deck Fixes[/h2]
+SteamDeck should now load optimized settings for it
+SteamDeck now uses it's keyboard when writing in chat
+Proton compatibility layer no longer applies the Steam Deck's resolution's aspect ratio wrong
+Updated several UI texts such that they should read easier on Steam Deck
+Beasts of Bermuda now has its own, thematically appropriate glyph that shows up while using the mouse as an input device. This can be turned off in the gameplay options menu if the player wishes to use the default mouse cursor instead.
[h3]Default Controller Config[/h3]
-Under the default controller configuration for Steam Deck, the following should now be true:
-Swim Strafe Left/Right is bound to D-pad Left/Right
-Crouch is bound to the B button
-All vocal calls such as Distress Call should be accessable through the emote action menu, which opens up when the player holds the D-up down button
-Chat, Autorun, Toggle HUD, Toggle Group Tags, Talent Screen, Screenshot Mode is accessed by pressing D pad up and then pressing Y
-Character Menu can be accessed by pressing the menu button and selecting the Character Menu option on the escape screen
-Yes / No are also bound to D-pad left / right
[h2]Mechanics Changes[/h2]
+Mechanics: Charcoal now grants a lot of comfort bias if you have the Food Poisoning status condition
+Mechanics: Charcoal now grants a lot of water satiation if you have the Water Poisoning status condition
+Mechanics: The talent Sneaky now makes sniffing sounds quieter
+Mechanics: Babies no longer play the 2 call when picked up by a friendly group member
+Mechanics: Good parent now affects the chances of passing your skin genes by up to 15% if the difference between your points and your mate's is 3 or more.
+Mechanics: The amount of depth pressure you can resist now caps at 1.2, rather than continuing to get deeper as you grow larger+Mechanics: Adjusted the Pressure debuff such that it is reached at 80% the depth it was reached at before for all creatures other than Kronosaurus
+Mechanics: The talent Out of Element no longer applies two stacking damage increases if it is raining and in a situation where the talent would otherwise also activate
+Mechanics: Reduced speed of the Arganodus fish
+Mechanics: Anemones and shellfish now count as the fish food type
+Mechanics: Increased rate at which foliage or other edible objects flash while holding scent
+Mechanics: Carcasses dropped inside Death's Blessing world events are now 50% their regular size
-Note that servers that wish to enable or disable auto-revives during a server's runtime can do so by using the SetDisableDeath console command instead if they're currently doing so by using the Death's Blessing world event
+Mechanics: The power deity blessing now lasts one hour, up from 30 minutes
+Mechanics: Being larger growth no longer makes pteras take less additional injury while in flight
[h2]Quality of Life Changes[/h2]
+QoL: The delete dinosaur button is now red with a danger icon on it
+QoL: The egg HUD now flashes and remains red if you take damage to eggs you are gestating
+QoL: When sturdy is used or it's not active because health is lower than 90%, the red outline around health is active
+QoL (public): The prompt that appears when you're deleting a saved creature now shows the growth and slot name of the creature
+QoL (public): Improved Ptera's roar second variant sound
+Pressing the delete key while selecting a creature on the save select screen now initiates deletion of the creature
+QoL: Improved the use key interaction with velo when ability key climbing is enabled. Eating, drinking and grabbing should work as good as with ability key climbing disabled.
+QoL: Pachy now blinks and closes its eyes when it sleeps
[h2]Compass and Player Scent[/h2]
+Compass: Added a compass that shows up in the top-center of the screen while you are holding the scent key
+The compass has several different point of interest icons that show up. This includes icons for:
- Fresh water bodies within 250 meters
- Non-empty Carcasses that you have interacted with previously if within 500 meters
- Fat plants within 250 meters if a herbivore
- Nests belonging to you or players in your group if within 2000 meters of the nest
- Burrow entrances that are yours or your group-mates if within 250 meters
- World events within 10000 meters
- Major shrines show up from 1000 meters away. Minor shrines still show up from 250 meters away. Major shrines have a decorator on their compass icon image
+Compass: Objects further from the player will show up as a smaller icon on the compass
+Player Scents: Players now accumulate scent continuously at their current location. This scent is categorized by the species they are playing
-Large growth players accumulate scent more quickly, and players below 0.7 growth accumulate no scent
-Multiple players of the same species type all stack on top of each other, all accumulating and contributing scent of their species type simultaneously
-As players change location, the scent contribution they're generating will shift around as well
-Scent in a geographic area will collect and show up as one large scent of that species type on the compass. As scents accumulate in different parts of the map, they will collect into separate scent hotspots that are automatically calculated and clumped into regions. This is what shows up on the compass as creature scent hotspots
+Player Scents: A 1.0 player will accumulate enough scent to show up on the compass after about 10 minutes of staying in the same location. When they show up, they can be smelt 63,000 UE units away. If they stay in this area indefinitely, it will make them smellable from 94000 UE units away
+Player Scents: Areas with very large growth creatures or large groups of creatures may become easily detectable across the entire map in relatively short periods of time
+Player Scents: Creatures who are swimming, flying, or in a burrow do not accumulate scent that shows up on the compass
+Player Scents: Stronger creature scents have a more defined border on the compass
+Player Scents: Creature scent is vague, and when a player is relatively close to the location of a creature scent, it will move to the center of the compass, indicating the player is surrounded by the scent of that creature and can no longer tell which direction it's coming from. This is not a system that pinpoint's a player's location.
[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
[h3]General[/h3]
+Balance: Grab immunity and grab diminishing returns now lasts for 40 seconds, up from 30
+Balance: Having the Pressure status condition now reduces the rate at which your Ability Power and Stamina regenerate
+Balance: While beached, ability power now drains twice as fast if you are grabbing another player
[h3]Apato[/h3]
+Balance: Apato can now kick while grabbed by a mosa
[h3]Elasmo[/h3]
+Balance: Elasmo now gets its ability power refunded when eating fish, crystals, sponges, or other edible objects
[h3]Ichthy[/h3]
+Balance: Ichthy's walk speed is now 450, down from 525
[h3]Lurdu[/h3]
+Balance: Lurdu's weight stat is now 1100, up from 1000
+Balance: Lurdu's base health is now 1150, up from 1000
+Balance: Reduced Lurdusaurus eat hitbox size by 50%
+Balance: Increased Lurdusaurus growth rate by 11%
[h3]Mosa[/h3]
+Balance: Reduced Mosa's grab range by 20%
[h3]Ptera[/h3]
+Balance: Ptera now takes 50% more injury while in flight
+Balance: When in flight, reduced injury resistance growth scaling by 100%
+Balance: Increased the influence injury has over flight
+Balance: Reduced Aerial Acrobatics' speed boost to 1800, down from 2213
+Balance: After being hit while in flight, flyers now must wait one second before re-entering flight
[h3]Tropeo[/h3]
+Balance: When in flight, reduced injury resistance growth scaling by 100%
+Balance: Increased the influence injury has over flight
+Balance (public): After being hit while in flight, flyers now must wait one second before re-entering flight
[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
+Fixed: Console commands such as setspeedincrease now work while using the observer camera
+Fixed: Eggs no longer get negative inherits more often than they should
+Fixed: If both parents have either survival blessing or great nesting site buff the eggs do not receive the random negative inherit
-This doesn't protect the egg from incest or egg damage negative inherits
+Fixed: ToggleLookUp and AutoLookUp control settings now work properly
-AutoLookUp will automatically shift the camera to sitting on the player's shoulders while they're holding the look up key if they are also looking up with the camera
-ToggleLookUp will automatically snap the camera to sitting on the player's shoulders if the look up key is held down
+Fixed: HUD icons no longer get stuck when they are moved to the top left of the screen
+Fixed: Velo should no longer fall through the map when exiting ory burrow
+Fixed: You no longer leave and re-enter world events you're inside while digging as an Oryctodromeus
+Fixed: Eggs now count as Meat in Pachy's diet
+Fixed: Updated Apatosaurus and Lurdusaurus information on the dino select screen to reflect them having neck sweep, kick, and charge, rather than stomp
+Fixed: Ptera no longer stretches after being grabbed and released while swimming
+Fixed: Several map bug reports on Ancestral Plains and Rival Shores
+Fixed: Footsteps not playing properly on muddy terrain
+Fixed: The dinoselect camera and got rid of some of its animations. Reset location now snaps it back to its default point in a frame.
+Fixed: Wiehenvenator scent now properly shows up as Wiehenvenator, not Megalosaurus
+Fixed: Shelters on Titania now properly block mesh bites
+Fixed: HUD icons turning into meat icons should no longer happen even if player hasn't reset the HUD after update
+Fixed: Velo now drops the carried item while in the air by double tapping the use key instead of tapping the use key just once
-This allows players who are not using ability key climbing to jump and start climbing while holding something in their mouth without dropping the item
+Fixed: Velo can now eat broken eggs in a burrow
+Fixed: AI now properly deactivate when no players are nearby, improving server performance
+Fixed: Abandoned aquatic eggs now always spawn below the low tide mark, ensuring you always spawn underwater
+Fixed: Exiting chat window with escape key should now close the chat window properly
+Fixed: Aquatics/Semi-Aquatics are no longer able to regen AP in the air after darting by trying to sniff
+Fixed: Velo no longer falls through the ground when force closing the game while climbing
+Fixed: Situation that would cause signficant server log spam when players would stand on objects such as stumps, trees, or certain rocks
+Fixed: Elasmo no longer auto-targets empty carcasses when the player tries to eat
+Fixed: The carcass and meat leg bones no longer have a scent prompt
+Fixed: When you do not meet the full cost of resurrection, the UI for sacrificing creatures no longer implies it resurrects your creature anyways
+Fixed: After getting picked up and dropped by another player while in mid-animation between standing and sitting, player should no longer get stuck in the sitting animation while being able to move
+Fixed: "B, A and S grade Text does not appear" Friendship events on the UI should now display for every friendship event instead of getting stuck after C.
+Fixed: Velo is now able to use sprint key while climbing to stop toggle sprint from draining the stamina while climbing
+Fixed: Game settings should now show correct title text when switching tabs and closing and reopening the settings
+Fixed: Player is now able to stop sprinting during autorun when toggle sprint is enabled
+Fixed: Aquatic creatures no longer get jammed after trying to stop resting when the water level had gone below the creature's body level
+Fixed: Eggs can no longer duel
+Fixed: Velo should no longer play a running animation while jumping right after eating/grabbing
+Fixed: Certain species cap values no longer cause the Full Group debuff to show when the group is exactly full
+Fixed: Entering flight while biting or doing a vocal call after jumping into the air no longer results in a state jam where you cannot attack or do vocal calls as Ptera and Tropeo
+Fixed: Sit, Stand, Lie Down, and Wake Up sounds now reliably play when they should
+Fixed: Ptera now rotates properly when held in another creature's jaw
