Project Winter Update: Let's Role Play

Project Winter v1.1.9248 Feature Set - Let’s Role Play! (BUILD v1.1.9248_Prod)

Welcome to Project Winter 1.1! We have an exciting update this month, which will include new player roles for both the survivors and traitors. These new roles will give the players special abilities unique to their role, such as healing other players or crafting certain items for a lower price. This update also includes animated emotes, a craftable backpack to increase the player’s inventory size, and a number of polish improvements such as a new hydro power station. Checkout the build notes to see all of the new content and fixes!

NEW FEATURES:

Expanded Player Roles Game Mode: A new gamemode is being introduced that will include expanded player roles for both the survivor and traitor classes. Each role will include a special ability that can be charged by achieving certain tasks in-game, such as opening crates and helping fix the objective.
- Players now have the ability to choose between a classic game mode (Traitors and Survivors only) and Expanded Roles game mode.
- Expanded Roles mode is now the DEFAULT game mode. In this mode, the players spawn into the game with a small chance of being one of four new roles.
- Medic (Survivors): Able to craft medkits with only two herbs, and can heal other players once their ability is charged. This role has a 20% damage reduction against other players.
- Defector (Survivors): A survivor with the ability to open a traitor crate or airdrop once their ability bar is charged.
- Stitcher (Traitors): Able to craft medkits with only two herbs, and can heal other players once their ability is charged. The stitcher does not suffer a damage reduction like the medic.
- Saboteur (Traitors): Energy drinks will reward traitor credits instead of increasing stats. Unlocks an ability to craft landmines with traitor credits.
- A new clipboard with descriptions for all the new roles has been placed on the south facing table inside the cabin.
- Hovering over your ability charge icon will pop up a short description of your ability.
- When creating a new lobby, players have the ability to click a box to enable Classic mode if they do not want to play games with expanded roles.
- When browsing available lobbies, players can differentiate which game mode the lobby is in by looking for the “Classic” mode icon on the far left of the lobby’s info row.
New Global Event: Loot crate storm! A roar of a low flying plane, thunderous crashes... you know that one of those crates might contains gear, food, and survival. But there’s a catch… check out the event in game to find out what it is!
- New randomized global event added to the mix.
- Find the crate with all the loot in the allotted amount of time.
Additional Inventory Slot: Craft a fifth inventory slot from in-game resources to carry all those hearts you’re collecting! (Recipe available from the crafting table menu)
New Emote Animations: Characters now animate when emotes are triggered! Two brand new emotes have also been added, a pointing emote and a beckoning emote, which increases the total amount of emotes to 8.
New Power Station Variation: The power station has received a makeover! The hydro station will serve the same function as the power station, but with a new aesthetic. Each game will randomize between the previous power station and the new hydro station.
New Falling States: When falling from a certain height, the player will now play a falling animation. For shorter falls you will be able to move immediately upon hitting the ground, for higher falls you will be briefly immobilized while a landing animation plays.
Better Traitor Picking: The weighting system is now based on the amount of consecutive times a player has been a survivor.
Discord Rich Presence: See which of your friends are playing Project Winter from their discord profile. You’ll be able to see if they’re in-game, how many players are in their match, and what their reputation badge is!
Outfit Randomizer: When selecting an outfit for your character you can now select the option to randomize what your character wears.
Slope Speed Slow Down: Players now move slower when going uphill.
New Cosmetic Crate Items: 50 new in-game crate items to unlock!
Lobby Search Filter: Find specific lobbies easier by using the new search filter in the lobby browser.

BALANCE CHANGES:

Medkit crafting recipe has increased to 4 herbs instead of 3 herbs
Mass hysteria event duration has been reduced by 30%
Being reported now has a bigger impact on your social rating
The power station and truth serum lab now have a greater minimum distance for placement to prevent them from appearing directly beside each other
Poisoned crossbow now applies a more potent poison effect which will cause vomiting faster

OTHER CHANGES:

Animals now drop a fur pelt item in addition to meat
Adjustments to the text wrapping for various UI elements so they look better in other languages
Player report menu is now accessible from the game over screen again
Various graphical optimizations to improve performance
Players not joining a rematch will no longer be kicked out of the game over screen when the rematch timer expires
Added an indicator for the cabin safe zone to the UI
Added VOIP status, reconnect button and monitoring button in the settings menu to help with troubleshooting voice issues
Cooldown for ghost teleport is now a circle timer instead of a text timer
Various visual improvements for the in-game text chat
Location indicators that appear around the edge of the screen are now fixed to the main outdoor camera and won’t reposition for alternate camera angles
Campfires no longer lock when targeted, and can now be refueled if other players are targeting them already
Improvements to ranged weapon aiming visuals
Updated Vivox libraries to the latest version
Event items can now be recycled for 200 survivor points each

BUG FIXES:

Fixed several UI text elements that weren’t localized
Fixed player names with non-English characters appearing invisible in the lower left proximity chat indicators
Fixed certain Japanese hiragana and katakana characters appearing as squares
Fixed various issues on the maps where players could get stuck or visuals weren’t correct
Fixed case where fewer animals than expected could spawn for the animal wave console
Fixed several rare cases where the player could become broken and unable to use items after switching items while aiming a gun or aiming a thrown item
Fixed one instance of the fulton spawning inside an ice wall
Fixed blizzard visuals resetting when switching in and out of the cabin map camera during a blizzard
Fixed a case where lobby names were being considered invalid while containing no profanity
Fixed gloves for mountie jacket being stuck as black
Fixed crate announcement reward giving only the first crate and not properly setting the badges
Fixed region name being cleared when entering the settings screen while the lobby browser is opened and “best region” is selected
Fixed case where escape vehicle sounds could continue to play after object was destroyed
Fixed camera getting stuck when taking an escape pod near a yellow flag
Fixed cases where camera could get stuck when entering and exiting bunkers
Fixed case where player could get stuck on closed helipad by jumping off the plane’s wing
Fixed positioning of wires from lab console to prevent the player from getting stuck on them
Fixed certain escape pod drop locations being very near the truth serum lab
Fixed case where players could be left on black screen during load if host disconnects
Fixed animals losing aggression when targeted player enters small hot springs
Fixed case where player could get stuck behind crates in a geo bunker
Fixed player scores briefly appearing as 0 on the game over screen results tab when other players select the stats tab
Fixed case where players could place fires underwater
Fixed issue where traitors leaving early would receive points for survivors stopped when the survivors were still alive
Fixed bonus objective for being exiled twice incrementing when other players get exiled
Fixed “Home Run” achievement unlocking by throwing an item at a dead animal
Fixed case where item icon could get stuck on UI and break a ghost ability if an item was being dragged when the player died
Fixed flickering blood particle effects in some cases when equipping the raw animal or human meat items

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