Updated game to Unreal Engine 5.5 for better performance
Added muffle sound effect when too close to grenade explosion
Added major improvements to infected movement and attack animations
Added slow movement to player when in water
Added sleeping bag item that can be placed outside of base level to change time
Added color shift for trees based on the season
Added new locations and improvements to District 36 and Bandit Hideout levels
Added post FX settings that allows the player to customize the look of their game
Added weapon parts that can be obtained by dismantling weapons that aren't badly damaged
Added NPCs to Bandit and Remains base levels
Added better animations for all vendors
Redesigned name input UI when creating a new game
Improved faction select UI and faction descriptions
Made Plague Walkers immune to radiation zones
Fixed issue where video settings were not loading on game startup
Fixed issue with location messages not showing up
Fixed radiation intake depleting from player when NPC walks out of radiated area
Fixed NPCs not shooting other NPCs when at low health
Fixed NPC weapons not alerting others nearby
Fixed wrong names showing up for some furniture
Fixed weather being set randomly
Fixed creatures health being bugged
Fixed NVGs being too dark
Fixed local temperature not being properly displayed on PDA
Fixed handguns going into the wrong position when at low ready
Adjusted all shotguns' fire distance
Adjusted NPC movement speed
Adjusted creature shout attenuation
Adjusted all creatures' health
Changed audio for when NPCs melee attack
Decreased the speed at which time passes
Decreased headlamp brightness
Decreased weapon damage falloff for all weapons
Decreased all reticles' brightness
Decreased damage caused by infected
Removed motion blur entirely
-To fix any item related bugs go to C:\\Users\\{UserName}\\AppData\\Local\\ASHWAKE\\Saved/SaveGames and delete InventorySave.sav
-If you encounter a Fatal Error crash, that is due to a corrupt save, caused by the new update. The update includes a lot of changes/fixes so it may cause some old saves to break. To fix the issue you need to create a new game and the game will fix itself.
Please leave bugs in discussion area or game bug report channel in the discord so they can be fixed.