Latest Hotfix OUT NOW

Greetings scientists,

We have just sent out a hotfix. Here is what's included:

ADDED:

• Added foundations for the Dynamic Combat Difficulty system.
• The game can now evaluate combat difficulty more dynamically, including new combat skill rating logic and combat-related evaluation systems.
• Added additional internal logging for vitals issue tracking.

CHANGED:

• Improved placement performance by reducing excessive overlap checks while moving or placing objects.
• Optimized Garden interiors, catwalks and central location areas.
• Optimized Infected Garden content.
• Optimized Workshop content.
• Optimized Overgrown Lift content.
• Optimized Overgrown Ruins (biome 2) content.
• Optimized Wind Farm content.
• Optimized New Nature content (biome 3) buildings, fallen leaf and Waterlily landing leaf.
• Optimized support pillars, ruins, containers, garden elements, crane elements, lift elements and Power Generator areas through draw-distance adjustments.
• Reduced texture sizes on selected assets.
• Reduced material complexity by sharing normal maps, using flatter normals where appropriate and replacing duplicated materials or meshes.
• Improved several meshes and materials so they use fewer draw calls.
• Converted scaffolding meshes into instances to improve rendering efficiency.
• Fixed major FPS drops when moving or placing selected objects, including the Mossy Table, Mossy Double Shelf and Festive Dioramas.
• Fixed the placing ghost performing too many overlap checks in a single tick.
• Fixed planter and sprinkler Actor Placing Tool HUD repeatedly checking placement overlaps more often than necessary.
• Changed radar guidance so quest-related locations can be found more reliably even before the exact location has been generated.
• Fixed Power Generator location progression in Overgrown and New Nature biomes so it no longer incorrectly progresses a side quest intended for the Silent City biome.
• Covered up an unattractive vine near the hypothermia flower in the first Underdust area.
• Adjusted draw distances across ruins, support pillars, containers, garden elements and other world objects.
• Improved visible meshes in the Overgrown Lift and Workshop areas.
• Improved settings navigation by fixing wrap navigation across all settings views.
• Each settings view now uses its own scroll box for clearer navigation.
• Removed a misplaced difficulty option from Gameplay Settings.
• Updated Freezer and Fishing Rod textures.
• Updated textures for Automatic Deck Extractor, and Mine assets.
• Removed distance fields from selected items where they were not needed.
• Simplified collision for selected pipe assets.
• Changed how Object Infos and Item Descriptions are loaded to avoid asset registry-related crashes.

FIXED:

• Fixed Crustpede spawners not saving their state correctly.
• Fixed a co-op issue where the Weather Device’s weather selection screen showed only “Note” for clients.
• Fixed a Colossal Lifeform Swimming location (biome 1) issue where clients had no passage.
• Fixed an issue where the player could not unlock/discover the Luciferin-related location on the radar.
• Fixed storms still appearing when Storm Frequency was set to “None” in Custom Difficulty.
• Fixed Memory Cards granting crafting recipes for ship modules directly instead of requiring players to obtain them from laptops.
• Fixed a missing passage in the Colossal Lifeform Swimming location (biome 1) for clients.
• Fixed a wall blocking the entrance of the UD2 location.
• Fixed the player being unable to reach Luciferin flowers location in the Overgrown Ruins (biome 2).
• Fixed material issues on Wild Habitat landing Leaves.

Thats all for today, thank you for all of your reports and feedback so far.

Team FFH