Preliminary patchnotes for 0.12 patch. There will be full wipe.



Added

    The project is transferred to the Unity engine version 2018.4
    Redesigned, optimized and added new third-person animations.


New game feature - Hideout

    The big feature that includes building and upgrading of various zones in the hideout, each with its bonuses
    Ability to produce different items
    Improving the basic stats of the character (off-raid treatment rate, acceleration of skills leveling, etc.)
    Ability to increase the size of your stash (if you do not have the EoD version of the game with the maximum stash size)


New functionality - off-raid treatment

    Now the character retains health status after raid
    Health, energy, and hydration now regenerate when out of raid
    You can use food, water, and first aid kits to instantly restore the character's condition when out of raid
    After death, character's health is restored to 30% and begins to regenerate at a rate determined by the various improvements in the hideout


New functionality - Weapon presets

    Ability to create weapon presets from any parts that are known to your character
    Ability to quickly find and purchase missing parts for assembly of the custom preset


New location - RosReserve Military base (Rezerv)

    The largest map in terms of indoor area and exploration potential
    New exfiltration mechanics
    Stationary 12.7 mm heavy machine gun NSV " Utes"
    Stationary 30 mm automatic grenade launcher AGS-30 with PAG-17 sight
    New constraints on the locations: snipers and minefields
    Unique loot
    Scav boss Glukhar with his special tactics

Trader service "Tactical clothing"

    Available from the Ragman
    5 unique sets of lower and upper clothes for USEC and BEAR
    It will be available under different conditions (the level of the character, loyalty level with the Ragman, and money price)

New trader Jaeger

    He will be locked at the start of the game, and you will have to complete a quest to unlock him He will have his own branch of quests
    His range of products will have a large number of unique items
    He will also have a minimum margin on the goods price

New boss Glukhar

    His area of action is located on Military base
    He believes this territory is his property and he will protect it by taking defensive positions in one of many fortified locations
    He has 6-men team, each member has his own role. Guards are always close to the boss, stormtroopers can move forward to attack the enemy at another point, the head watch are the first to notice the enemy and impose a fight on them
    Boss and his team strive not to leave protected positions, they will attack from windows and other fortified places, they use advanced tactics of fighting indoors and have a special model of behavior on more open terrain
    They can use stationary weapons, they may attack or retreat to protect the boss and hold their ground. As the train approaches, the boss and his team will try to occupy the landing platform
    They use all available weapons, often wear heavy body armor and helmets

New boss Shturman

    He operates in the area of a sawmill on Woods
    He has a “common funded stash” with the valuables. He usually keeps the key to himself
    He prefers covert tactics, tries to attack from a distance, from cover, outplays the opponents by taking a better environment, lets players get closer into the distance of effective fire
    He has a team of two guards
    Boss and his guards use long range weapons

Added over 160 weapon parts and modules

    An assortment of new 12 and 20 caliber shotgun cartridges
    Assortment of new cartridges 4.6x30 and 5.7x28
    New equipment
    New mechanics of treatment of blacked body parts with surgical kits
    Thermal imaging device T-7
    New barter items
    New consumable items type - alcohol
    New fracture sound effects
    New weapons: AsH-12, FN P90, M9A3, FN Five-Seven, TX-15, MP5 Kurz

New quests for old traders (+reworked some old ones)

New Graphics Additions/Fixes and Animations

    New TAA (temporal anti-aliasing) full-screen antialiasing post effect
    New HBAO shading post effect
    Terrain now casts shadows and has self-shadowing
    Texture streaming to reduce RAM consumption
    New grass with a long-distance rendering + grass shadows option
    New explosion effects
    Added variable animations of first aid kit treatment
    Added auto sorting of goods by groups in merchants menu
    Added "transfer all" button for items transfer screen
    Added context menu for first aid kits "cure all" when out of raid
    Added the context menu for weapons “disassemble”
    Added "Presets" button to bottom panel for quick transition to presets mode
    Added auto-fill items checkbox when selecting merchants offers
    Added stimulant properties to some of the food and beverages
    Added display of health status before raid on the character selection screen
    Added new sounds for different surfaces when crawling

Optimizations:

    Optimization of rendering and display of grass
    Optimization of animation system
    Optimized spawn of loot items on location
    Optimized icon generation
    Optimized the Ambient Occlusion effect
    Optimization of Volumetric Light
    Added “use only physical CPU cores" option (it is recommended for everyone to enable this option)
    Various optimizations of the load on the CPU
    Added optimized contact SSAO effect algorithm
    Some optimizations of optical sights
    Additional optimization of the locations
    Optimized physics in offline mode
    Optimized ragdoll
    Optimized physics of thrown loot and grenades
    Fixed a large number of causes of freezes and stuttering related to rendering, physics, animations, inventory, combat logic, etc.



Bot improvements and fixes:

    Improvement of the AI behaviour when out of combat:
    Bots rotate their heads to increase the field of view
    Bots can greet each other, show gestures and transmit information
    At the request of the player-scav, AI in case of negative reaction will respond to him negatively or show a gesture
    Bots can come close to loot containers
    At the points of " idle " bots look around, crouch



Improvement of the AI combat behavior

    Improved grenade throwing algorithm
    Improved algorithm for calculating the rotation to the target at different distances
    AI fixes
    Fixed a number of bugs when bots did not react to taking shots from a long distance or when using a silencer
    Fixed some bugs in shooting through some fences, bushes and trees
    Fixed a bug of selecting an incorrect target when the bot ignored the nearest threat
    Fixed a number of bugs with bots getting stuck
    Fixed a bug where the bot could not aim if you crouch close to him
    Fixed a bug where bots shouted threatening voice lines phrases to player-scavs
    Fixed a number of bugs on interaction with doors

Fixed

    Bug in which it was possible to install the PSO and thermal sight and the PSO lens worked as a thermal sight
    The bug with disappearing weapons when you move the object in the stash after folding stock (bugged cells)
    The items didn't disappear from the stash if you click "put the goods on the flea market" during the sending of the previous queue commands
    Error 228 after transferring items and completing the quest
    Error 228 when placing weapons on the flea market, if the flashlight was installed in different slots of the weapon
    The interface allowed you to put the same product on the flea market several times. As a consequence of error 228
    Error 228 when trying to make split into one cell twice
    Error 228 when selling two samples of weapons on the flea market
    Error 228 when moving money and then using it to repair weapons
    Error 228 when deleting item from sender in incoming messages
    Fixed disappearing of messages after re-login
    Fixed a bug on the flea Market when the durability filter did not take into account the total wear of the item
    Fixed a bug where a party member saw a "bad backend matching" error while loading into a raid
    Fixed a bug where a new loyalty level was not opened, although all conditions were met
    Fixed a bug where the "pick up all" button displayed not all items that were returned by insurance
    Fixed a bug where some bots could not spawn on location
    Fixed bug showing killer in the session end screen if the death was from a barbed wire or fire
    Fixed UI shaking at non-standard resolution
    Fixed a bug that stacked up the effects of painkillers
    Bug in which the time of the effect of painkillers increased when reopening the inventory
    Bug, in which the sound of heavy breathing of the character from the third person did not stop
    A bug when, upon killing your own character, you could see PMC kill in kill list
    Bug in which the character in the menu twisted the left hand
    Bugs related to incorrect processing of picking up items
    Bug when broken lamps would light up again if you step away and approach them again
    Bug in which the interruption of the application of the item occurred without animations
    Bug when interaction didn't work after throwing out equipped melee weapons
    Bug in which the pain and tremor did not disappear after removing the fracture
    Fixed delay in applying negative effects
    Fixed a bug which happened when you turn your head and hits in the head could be counted incorrectly
    Fixed a bug with the sound of a shot cutting off when changing weapons
    Fixed a bug not displaying a cartridge in the chamber at the start of the raid
    Fixed a visual bug displaying glasses lenses visible through fog, smoke, etc.
    Fixed too bright reflections in the lenses of sights, or lack of reflections on them in general
    Fixed cropping of merchants assortment if there are too many goods
    Fixed error spamming bug when throwing smoke grenades
    Fixed various bugs with matchmaking
    Fixed bugs related to old quests
    Fixed various bugs and glitches that lead to crashes of the game
    Fixed various bugs on locations and culling issues (over 300 different fixes)
    Fixed background sounds of locations when loading on it
    Fixed various interface issues and bugs
    Fixed some bugs leading to incorrect post-raid statistics
    Various network fixes and improvements related to the transition to Unity 2018.4
    Various localization fixes in the texts
    Fixed various issues with clipping equipment
    Other minor bugfixes

Changed:

    Now all body armor cannot be worn with plate carriers
    You can no longer put certain containers, weapons, rigs and backpacks in secured containers
    Now some keys have a number of uses. As soon as the key resource ends, it is removed from the inventory
    In traders menu, when redeeming items, they are marked as "out of stock"
    For locations Customs and Shoreline fixed position and trajectory of the sun
    Now you can completely delete the conversations in the chat
    Added the option to fold the stock when transferring items from the Scav to your inventory
    Rebalanced 9x18 cartridges
    Rebalanced some of the stocks, magazines and other weapon parts
    Updated equipment pool that bots and player-scav can have
    Changed cell configuration for Blackrock and AVS vests (now AVS has armor plates)
    Added dropdown with filters "All offers", "only from traders", "only from players" for flea Market
    When you receive an item by mail same items are now combined into stacks
    Weapons on locations now spawn with small number of ammo in magazine
    Modified occlusion system for the sound on locations
    Improved the recoil system and the impact of skills on the recoil
    Reduced bonus to the speed of running from the strength skill
    The sound of movement while prone is now more quiet
    Reworked and changed loot tables of containers
    Redesigned and added new loot points on locations
    The variety of goods of all traders was reworked
    Changed lighting in item inspector window
    Improved font readability in interfaces
    Overall quality changes were made to the spawn system
    Removed the option to set the priority lot at the flea Market
    Increased chance of fracture and damage when falling from a big height
    Other minor QoL changes


We all (and personally I) want to say sorry for the delay. Amount of changes is huge and right now we are fighting with bugs. Every single time when we approve a patch release date some critical bug happens and we are forced to shift the date and fix it, cause we don't want you guys experience what needs to be fixed and polished. Give us little more time - I don't want to say it will be super soon soonish soon to scare away luck!

Thank you for your patience!

BSG Dev team