Anomalous Update

AI - Overall AI has been improved significantly.

• Stub characters have the ability to jump to set location for quicker access to player or to get away from gunfights. They can also do both melee and projectile attacks.
• Crawlers have a pouncing ability when near players.
• All enemies use circle strafe tactics occasionally
• Enemies that throw projectiles with an arc have had the physics reworked to prevent the varying speeds that was casued ( short throws were slower speed, long throws were faster speeds)
• Fast zombies are much more agile and use jump movements often to move around

Visuals - Weapon and character enhancements

• Characters that throw fireballs at you as well as the two armed lazer shooters have been changed to a “Stub” - a Kosolov Industrial science division atrocity. Featuring brand new models and updated animations
• Weapon Materials improved. You will notice more details as well as object ‘shininess’ appearing. Specular map intensity reduced throughout to improve the look of a “retro 90s rendered in modern style”.

Animation - overhauled animation for a lot of weapons

• New set of animations for Stalker character
• New set of animations for zombies
• New Grenade Launcher animations
• New Rocket launcher animations
• New Crossbow animations
• New Machinegun animations
• New Pistol animations
• New Super shotgun animations
• Capsule / Hit box of Stalker increased in size
• Crawlers now have ragdoll physics

FX

• More chonky gibs from enemies on general
• New blood particle FX
• Enemies have a finisher sound effect added on death
• Sounds improved. Levels balanced and some gibbing soundfx added
• Prevented multiple player hit effects in a single frame causing stacked hurt sounds. This may have been noticeable when getting hit by Shotgun soldiers when the hurt are significantly louder
• Turrets have new shooting sfx

Balance

• Grenade Launcher fire rate slowed down
• Self damage adjusted
• Shotgun and Super shotgun uses a spread pattern rather than random directional offsets
• Zombie stagger animations cut to 2 seconds. Fixed idle-ness after staggering
• No walking anymore. Only running. Who even walks?

Levels

• E1m2 Combat encounter before going into the facility modified to make the zombie fight more varied and interesting
• E1M8 had ammo types for unimplemented weapons removed
• E1M8 old types of zombies removed
• E1M1 has a secret that can be accessible from the room underneath it. Fixed
• E1M3 control room textures updated

BUG FIX

• Enemy soldier animations are now playing when firing weapons
• Various updated menus for slightly more compact menus and easier readability
• Changing FOV settings save
• Projectiles with AOE have had logic reworked. AOE is wider with no damage falloff currently.
• Fixed broken Volume classes again
• Rocket projectile explosion sound effects fixed
• Enemy soldier weapons hide on death. Can confuse player as they look like pickups
• Stub Shooters balancing. More health slightly slower
• Graphics menu populates settings on opening fix