Dev Build - Save System (v1)

Here's the new Development Build for you to test.

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Download link: (Google Drive): Download (2.03GB)

Feedback: All feedback is good to have, but this dev build is designed for testing how the save system for items and containers work. Most valuable thing to debug/break/test is the save system, so the goal is to try to find out if there's a way to break the system, meaning you lose items or gear when some bug happens.

FEATURES:

Updated Main Menu

There's now New Game and Load Game buttons on the main menu. New game options gives you a small warning first and then if you continue it deletes the save file on your PC which is linked to the shelter system. Load game uses an existing save file and restores all the items and containers to their previous state when you last visited the shelter.

Save File Encryption + Permadeath Formatting

All the save files are encrypted with AES encryption and there shouldn't be any "easy hacks" to manipulate the save files. Permadeath uses an additional formatting method so once you die in Vostok (Public Demo 2) there shouldn't be any "easy hacks" to recover the files.

Save System

Shelter (CDS) uses an advanced save system that saves each container, item and object that is linked to the save system. This system also recognizes modded weapons, rail positions and so on. Save system performs a save loop each time when you exit the shelter, die inside the shelter or return to main menu. Loading happens each time when you enter the shelter, whether it's through main menu or shelter entrance.

Shelter (Civil Defence Shelter)

If you want to learn more about the shelter that is featured in this dev build, I highly suggest watching the latest devlog. In summary, this shelter will act as base for Public Demo 2 and you can access every room that it has with this build. There's interactive lights, movable shooting targets, containers, storage space and features that will be unlocked in Public Demo 2 (like trading, weapon wall, sauna etc.)

Updated Item Placement

Item placement [G] [RMB] [SCROLL] has been updated in order to minimize potential physics based bugs when colliding with other object. This new version tries to minimize accidental "chaos" that happens when multiple physics-based items are close to each other and you grab a item in the middle. The system also now automatically rotates items to logical base rotation and offsets the pivot so the item isn't above or below the screen. If you are not familiar how the placement system works, there's Public Demo 1 v2 Items billboard for that inside the Sandbox area.

New Weapons

- PM5-K + weapon audio
- PM5-SD + weapon audio
- PM7-A2 + weapon audio
- PP-91 Vita + weapon audio
- KA-12 + weapon audio

New Attachments
- KA Navy (PM5 suppressor)
- Micro 2 (RDS)
- Patrol PRO (RDS)

Updated Fire Rates

Nearly all automatic weapons got a small fire rate increase in order to mimic the IRL fire rate. This should be noticable especially with some of the new weapons added to this build like PM7-A2.

Updated HUD

HUD elements have been updated in order to provide all the necessary info in a single HUD-element. All character stats and vitals like Health and Body Stamina are now numerical values and there's also small icons (WIP) that indicate different medical conditions. Only active conditions currently are Bleeding and Overweight.

Updated Hover Tooltip

Hover tooltip can be opened with [ALT] and it shows item info when you are hovering items. The update part is that the tooltip now provides item type specific information, for example how much hydration each consumable restores or how many health units each medical item regenerates.

Carry Weight

Inventory system use now a carry weight which determines the max carry weight for your character. You can increase the carry weight by equipping gear that has logically increases carry capacity like backpacks, rig and jackets.

Medical System (WIP)

The first pieces of the medical system have been implemented and there's now Health regeneration through medical items (like Medkit) and medical conditions like Bleeding and Overweight that affect the character.

Medical HUD Slot
You can now equip medical items to a dedicated HUD-slot and use them with a linked hotkey [5]. This allows you to use medical items as without opening a Main UI / Inventory.

Overweight (Condition)

Cause: Carry Weight
Symptoms: -25% movement speed, +25% Increased inertia, -40% Jump height, 200% Stamina consumption
Cure: Reduce inventory weight or equip more gear

Bleeding (Condition)
Cause: Gun shot wound
Symptoms: Health degeneration (1 unit per 5 seconds)
Cure: Emergency Bandage / Medkit

Debug Damage + Vitals Reduction

In order to test how the medical related UI-elements and features work, there's now a debug button [L] which causes damage to the character and lowers hydration and energy. This debug button can be also used for simulated death situation inside the shelter and how the save system handles that.

Context Menu (Item Actions)

Each item has now a context menu, which allow you to Use / Equip / Transfer / Place / Drop items. You can open the menu with [RMB] when you hover on top of the item. Context menu updated automatically based on you item type or UI status. Consumables and medical items can be used through this context menu.

Have fun testing!

- Antti (Developer)