Hot Fix & Optimizations

The latest patch introduced some performance regressions and issues that we are rectifying in this hot fix. Additionally, we were able to perform a shader optimization pass and free up about 2GB of RAM while the game is running; enjoy!

• Reverted Unity Engine to the previous sub-version to address a number of performance regressions, mainly:

  • STP should again work on MacOS.

  • Physics colliders should no longer cause framerate issues in certain scenes.

• Fixed shader compilation issues on macOS and Linux causing visual artifacts with some vegetation.

• Fixed an issue with the targeting reticle not showing on vegetation and rocks for Windows clients.

• Adjusted border vegetation LOD bias in Highland Basin/Hills to improve performance.

• Performed third party shader optimizations reducing the game's memory (RAM) footprint by ~2GB.

• Added tooltip for Ley Pylon to the map icon highlight (upper right).

• Allow shift+click to replace ranged ammo items for Strikers wanting to swap a weapon in.

• Renamed "Graphics" options tab to "Display".

• Added a new "Performance" options tab. Which now includes:

  • Enable Cloth Sim

  • Rain Collision

  • Shadow Casting Lights

  • Thread Count

  • Rendering Budget (previously "Overall Quality")

  • Cloud Quality

  • Volumetrics Quality

  • Humanoid Textures Quality

  • Vegetation Density Quality

  • View Render Distance

  • Shadow Render Distance

  • Vegetation Render Distance

  • Tree Billboard Render Distance

• "High Quality" tree billboard toggle has been removed as it is now the default.