Changelog 0.28.0: Guns and women!

New character models and animations

• Recreated players' characters to support new gear, armor sets, female gender and different AI driven NPCs that are scheduled for the upcoming updates
• Remodelled male bronze sets for better visual experience
• Added custom female sets (leather + bone, bronze, steel, pirate)
• Female model includes face, skin and hair customization
• Male starting gear will be remodelled by the next update to better fit the new pirate theme
• Removed old 'Harness' item as a first level of bronze and bone armors
• Added missing 'Bronze helmet II' and 'Bronze helmet III' items

New sets of animations
- recreated old ones and added new ones, among others:

• Hit, smash and slash animations for better 1v1 duels
• Interrupt anims when weapon hits the target
• Impact anims when targeted character or a shield receives damage
• Different walk, run, strafe and crouch anims that required custom slash animations for every kind of weapon but give better visual experience during duels
• Added reworked move animations including diagonal directions for walk and run
• Layer-based character animator to make adding more animations possible
• From now on, it's possible for every action to affect multiple parts of the character's body as well as be affected by engine's so called Inverted Kinematics so that the future additional animations are '2017 ready'

Decal blood system - stage 1

• Remade blood sprays when slashing opponents
• Added prototype blood stains on body, clothes and parts of environment
• Works on these damage effects will continue also in the next updates

Flintlock pistol

• Added flintlock, pirate-style pistol available to buy from merchants on pirate ships
• Pistol requires gunpowder to shoot, has long loading times but high range and damage
• Prepared other ways of obtaining guns or ammunition for the next update: random ship wrecks and NPC camps

Added and improved sounds

• Including: human fighting sounds, better range weapon sounds, gun sounds, battle stance music
• Added storm and rain ambient sounds to the volume bars in the sounds options
• Refactored sounds' code, added engine's mixer features and prepared backend for sound improvements in the next updates

Private/Local server:

• Added an in-game option menu for local servers to customize server rules and modes
• Added option to switch on/off the 'Area Control' mode from the web console and in-game Escape menu
• Added option to wipe server data from the web console and in-game Escape menu
• Fixed hunger and stamina not being stored on player disconnection, in the 'Local server' mode
• Added Creative mode - which makes it possible to build and craft w/o resources
• Fixed local servers that could be started only from the 'Servers list' menu
• Buildings' decay system for 'Local servers' is now disabled by default

Gameplay:

• Added gold coins as a reward for a clan that won the weeklong territory claiming event
• Added mouse scroll between TPP and FPP view
• Improved zoom dynamic and aiming effects when using range weapons with RMB
• Added TPP spawn camera as a default option and shortened respawn animation

Other fixes and improvements:

• Players with AMD graphic cards having artifacts on water surface can now use 'Water Reflections' option without any problems
• Possibility to rotate and zoom in/out in the customization window by mouse
• Fixed perspective view issues in the character's customization scene

Known issues:
- Women characters still don't have proper FPP representation. OoR wasn't design to change characters at the beginning and that's why we need some more time to make FPP view handle female hands:)
- Women customization window lacks proper hair colors and hair type icons. It will come in the next hotfix

If you happen to find any bug, especially related to this version, please let us know at [email protected]. We will be working on including every possible fix in the next update.