Stuck Together News

Hello All,

We have been busy over the last few months working on various improvements and additions to the game.

Many changes not mentioned below are to setup changes for update 3 which will add interiors to the farm level with the full farm house being part of the level.

Bug Fixes

• All major particle effects have been fixed to improve performance
  
• Fixed shaders to ensure the damage effect works correctly
  
• Weapon particles have been fixed and now have better muzzle flash effects
  
• All guns now have the alternate firing mode working correctly
  
• Various changes to hit the detection system to improve the melee combat in the game
  
• Fixed various issues with the Dash effect that caused animation bugs
  
• Farm level tweaks to improve the level and gameplay experience including fixes for areas where players could get stuck (together or separately)
  

Improvements

• Our favourite fictional weapons company, The Pudli Arms Co., has now released the Si-Monsberg 500: a new shotgun that can be bought at a specific location. Can you find it and wreak havoc on your enemies?
  
• Major performance improvements have been implemented, with more on the way
  
• A new healing particle has been added for reviving players
  
• More sound effects have been added to weapons, even more coming soon
  
• Players and enemies now flash red when hit
  
• Wind has been adjusted across the map to look more natural
  

Digital Pine Studios

A small update just released addressing issues with steam remote play together, which some users have reported as not working. We have addressed this but in certain situations the guest's controller won’t detect input. If you experience this, please ask the guest/friend to simply disconnect and connect the controller again, after they have connected, to fix the issue for the connected guest/friend. This is sadly an issue from steam's side which we are trying to address with them ASAP. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We are excited to bring you our first weekly update for Stuck Together, with many optimizations and bug fixes. This patch has already been released. Here are the patch notes:

Optimizations

• Added LODs to many objects that were missing them
  
• Small foliage is now culled in the distance
  
• Landscape performance now has less detail when in the distance
  
• Optimized some character animations to use less CPU time
  
• A lot of level geometry has now been baked to improve performance
  
• Particles have now been redone in a much more optimized method (currently wind particle is missing which will be added again soon)
  
• Some internal UI performance improvements
  

These optimizations have overall increased the game's performance by 30%-50%, depending on your PC Specs. There are many more optimizations that are soon to come in the next patch, and we are also adding graphics options to allow people with weaker PCs to enjoy the game too.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare crash that can occur from the game's cache
  
• Fixed lighting in many interior areas within the farm level
  
• Fixed lighting on many individual models
  
• Fixed Collision issues in the Farm level on the second floor of the Barn and many foundations around the map
  
• Fixed many bugs with enemy AI so they will now act more consistently than before
  

General Improvements

• Added new instructions in the game to explain how to use 'Steam Remote Play Together' within Stuck Together. This allows you to play with friends online.
  
• Stable Gate in Farm level now has the correct model
  
• Minor improvements to particle effect detail
  

Our Next Update will be next week. It will contain many more improvements to the current game.

We are currently hard at work on our next big major content patch and will show off our progress on it soon.

Stuck together is officially released and we are so excited to finally have the game out there. Stuck Together will remain in Early Access for roughly one and a half years, during which time the game will be receiving weekly improvements and bug fixes. The game will also have major patches every two months that will include new maps, guns and characters.



Feel free to contact us via our steam community forums, or any of our social medias about what you think of the game. We want to hear it all the good and bad and we are still in heavy development so any changes/suggestions are welcome.

Our Steam Forums: https://steamcommunity.com/app/873000/discussions/

or alternatively contact us via our website www.digitalpinestudios.com in the contact us section, Twitter (@DigitalPineLtd) or Facebook (@DigitalPineStudios)