New Features
- TruRACS is now enabled for the Lesser Kudu!
- Inspect feature for mission items: The mission items that users pick up are now placed in the Mission Item Codex and can be inspected. These items can hold valuable information!
Improvements
- Made FPS improvements to boost performance;
- Massive overhauls to animal update threading
- Improvements to population distribution on reserves (WIP)
- Increase LOD granularity across species needing LOD improvements - Made fur quality (shader) improvements for all animals;
- Improved Feral Pig's model and textures;
- Improved Black Bear’s model and textures;
- Retouched visuals for water in lakes & rivers;
- Did a visual overhaul for some of the input icons and buttons;
- Updated feeding clue meshes for predators (nor more blood splatters)
BUG FIXES
Critical & Featured
- Fixed the issue of various Weapon Packs and Parque Fernando DLC missing from Xbox players’ libraries;
- Fixed the broken Fast travel issues across a number of reserves;
- Dog collision with player’s character is fixed;
--- Animals & Environment
- Radio towers across various reserves no longer defy gravity;
- Animals will not become un-harvestable if there are too many corpses unclaimed;
- Fixed the problem of EU rabbits not fleeing into their burrows as they should in Hirschfelden reserve;
- Sounds will not persist anymore after walking through bushes;
- Standardized fur rarity tier weighting for all species;
- Did a naming pass on all fur variations, all should have string names now (not ‘common’);
- The European Rabbits now run to their burrows when spooked;
- Corpses are no longer unharvestable when there are a large number on the ground;
--- Weapons, Gear, & Character
- Fixed the issue where Turkey callers were not included in Rancho Del Arroyo reserve;
--- User Interface & Multiplayer
- Multiplayer - Fixed a crash that could occur when showing waypoints to another player;
- Discovering a new need zone no longer causes the previously discovered need zone to disappear on Map UI;
- Fixed the issue of not being able to input certain symbols and special characters into the Password field when creating an Avalanche Apex Connect™ account within the game;
- APEX friends list is not displaying friends either online or offline;
- EPIC players will not be able to play Steam player games if they do not have all the same DLC as the Steam host. This issue also affects Steam /GamePass players in both directions.