This update includes an area expansion to the outer island of Tautini, it also introduces significant load time reductions.
The new area is reachable by heading north from Kapiti or boating across from Hianga. It includes an inland waterway with a swamp like area that goes into a river. Connected to this area to the west are other work in progress areas which will be finished in future updates. Below are screenshots from this new area.
In addition to the new area is optimizations to the loading times through changing how the game is packaged. We've tested our changes on a range of hardware, including some low-end SSDs, and various old disk based drives. For a low-end SSD that would load the game in around 4 minutes previously, this has been brought down to around 30 seconds, and an old disk based hard drive that took 6 minutes, is now able to load in just over a minute.
Faster more typical SSD's useful for gaming worked out between 20 and 30 seconds. M.2. drives were also tested, but these were already pretty quick before the changes, but on different hardware loading times was brought down to between 10 and 20 seconds.
These times are for first time extended loads or after a major update. In order to undertake these changes a one-time large update was required to restructure game files (why this update is just over 2gb in size compared to our regular size ones).
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Patch Notes:
Environment
- Added significant area expansion to the Island of Tautini, including one additional area and other areas work in progress.
- FIxed some coral above water near Matira.
General
- Added improvement to load times through restructuring of game files, this will be a one-time redownload but should see significant load time reductions.
- Added new achievement for discovering and unlocking new area.
- Fixed an issue with Shadows on Pontoon Boat in medium or low settings.
- Fixed an issue where if entered photo mode in singleplayer when swimming, upon exiting photo mode you wouldn't return to a swimming state.