The team finished up a lot of drone work, and made a bunch of improvements to the autonomous cameras that record the game action high above Lahaina. We’ve added improved decision logic to help them decide what’s worth following and what isn’t. We added a time limit to how long a drone can be in non-playable area before it heads back to find something worth recording. In the past, they would occasionally end up trapped inside a building or teleporting underground, but we’ve improved their stuck detection and teleportation logic, so hopefully there will be no more “subterranean exploration mode”. In addition the team added: Improved panning, lighting support, a new spotlight mesh to make them easier to spot by players, basic search patterns, sub. object focus when viewing multiple targets, and the spotlight can now move separately from the camera.
With the drones working better than ever, we took to imgur to talk about the game’s co-stars that share the spotlight with players, the animals and mutants. We made a lot of progress on AI last year to make the game’s enemies challenging and unique. We’ve added pack behavior to our wolves. If 2 or more happen to meet up they will form a pack and start hunting together. If a wolf finds prey or is aggroed it will howl for help, attracting all those around it. Our cannibals can smell blood from a fresh kill and will come to investigate, so players will have to clean up after themselves if they go on a rampage in the jungle. Below you can see some early concept art of one of our cannibals.
You’ll need more than your fists and wits to survive the dangerous wilds of Lahaina. While there are many different weapons in the game, players can always count on having one weapon/resource gathering tool in their inventory, a shark toothed pan. A tongue-in-cheek homage to the numerous shark toothed (leiomano) weapons in the game, the pan isn’t the best weapon, but it will do the job in a pinch, and is easy to clean with some coarse salt and elbow grease. Here’s a good look at what the pan looks like before being used in the field.
Finally, were giving away another XFX AMD Radeon RX 570 RS 8GB. There are multiple ways to enter, including joining the Fractured Veil discord server and reserving your player name. It’s the perfect thing for viewing the deadly beautiful wilds of Lahaina. Our previous winner sent us some pictures of his prize installed in his system and ready to go. The contest ends February 13th just in time for Valentines day.
