ANAREA Update 0.1.5 (alpha)


In this update we continue the work with the new lighting system that was released in the previous patch, this patch also aims to improve the overall performance. The players feedback was not forgotten, so we are adding a few things in response.



Gameplay

- Anti-head glitch system
- Camera side swap is now available


Map & Lighting

- New Point of Interest (The lake)
- Radically improved the lake level design, loot distribution and skill crates
- Added new player spawns to the lake
- Significantly improved overall reflections of the map
- Improved lighting system related to: Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion, light temperature, shadow
amount, volumetric, dual and directional in scattering fog and source angle
- Fixed duplicated skill crates in Prison


Optimization & Graphical Settings

- Improved in-game optimization pipeline related to (un)loading, (un)drawn objects policy and objects details reducing over distance of the entire map
- Increased objects streaming efficiency
- Optimized the objects instancing of Secondary Points of interest such as :SurvivalCamps, RoadBlocks, Trains, etc...
- Decreased overall micro stutters & FPS drops / hitches
- Optimized Auto-Exposure Metering Mode
- Entirely optimized all the ShadowQuality graphical settings states
- Optimized SSAO radius scale based on its level for all PostProcessQuality settings states
- Decreased TAA samples in Low PostProcessQuality & AntiAliasing
- Decreased BloomQuality in Low PostProcessQuality
- Radically improved Visual Effects Graphical Settings:
-> Low: Disabled Volumetric Fog, Global Illumination and Lighting Function in Low Visual Effects
-> Medium (compared to low): Enabled Volumetric Fog
-> High & Incredible (compared to medium): Enabled Global Illumination



AXC Team.

ANAREA Update 0.1.4 (alpha) [09/01/2020]


In this update we will continue to work on different aspects and implementing things requested by the community. We also aim to follow the alpha roadmap precisely as possible. The most notorious change about this update will be the new lighting system that was implemented.



Gameplay

- Added anti-headglitch exploit feature
- Improved bullet impacts: increased their sizes and tweaked culling distance
- Slightly increased Beretta Damage falloff
- Increased Deagle damage to 100 for headshots and 33 for bodyshots, proportionally the bullet drop as distance increases was balanced for damage improvement
- Fixed missing bullet impacts on some surfaces
- Fixed players spawning too close to beaches
- Added new crosshairs
- Added some crosshair colors
- Added new character
- Random character selected when we start a game
- Top 10 games now displayed correctly
- Now we can move(but not sprint) when we consume a shield item
- Fall damage only reduces the heal bar now


Map

- New lighting system
- Added Scattered Houses and wood planks paths close to beaches
- Added more Pine Eastern White trees close to O'Sean Harbor, VA Prison and beaches
- New ocean water shader
- Tweaked Characters and Trees Subsurface Scattering
- Smoothed the landscape based on slope
- Fixed St Ana Town double-sided fences + VA Prison railings and doors collisions
- Fixed O'Sean Harbor level design issues
- Fixed O'Sean City rocks distribution issue
- Fixed landscape invisible collisions issues


Optimization & Graphical Settings

- Decreased overall microstutters / FPS spikes by improving optimization policy of some very small POIs (such as survival camps, scattered houses, beachs, etc...)
- Improved Temporal Anti-Aliasing performance and fixed character ghosting issue
- Improved Foliage Shadows optimization
- Disabled collisions for small rocks, rock patchs, stones, etc...
- Completely disabeld shadows in low ShadowQuality
- Fixed Contact Shadows issues at Medium and Hight ShadowsQuality
- Fixed bloom issues in Low PostProcessQuality



AXC Team.

Hello everyone, our primary objective in this update was to fix as many critical bugs as possible and readjust different points after the community feedback



Characters:

- Fixed the character collision capsule size to be able to jump through smaller spaces (like windows)
- Fixed the character bug for not being able to walk off ledges when crouching


Gameplay:

- Added bullet impacts based on physical surface
- Increased visual effects of bullet impacts depending on the distance
- Added a small delay before being able to close any skill crates, in order to avoid situations where players indirectly closed skill crates by pressing the same button 2 times
- Decreased Sniper M40 shooting delay from 2 seconds to 1 second
- Decreased AK-47 shooting delay from 0.15 seconds to 0.135 seconds
- Decreased AK-47 shooting kick delay 0,255 to 0.27
- Slightly decreased AR-15 and AK-47 bullet drop
- Increased the range of skill crates in order to loot them easily.
- Increased AR-15 recoil
- Increased the spawn rate of throwables (grenades, smokes and flash’s)
- Improved players spawns, loots and skill crates distribution
- Fixed the sniper loot distribution issues
- Fixed non-working skill crates at Roadblock’s
- Level up requirements have been decreased (less exp to level up)
- Gas release countdown was reduced


Map:

- Improved the level design of St. Ana Town, Vilar Factory and Nera (next to the police station)
- Slightly increased rock’s size
- Decreased the sand saturation
- Slope adjustments on the landscape (the terrain looks smoother)
- Fixed the lighting and reflections issues inside Main City interiors
- Fixed floating objects on Roadblock’s
- Fixed bugged objects (weapons, meds and others) below the ground
- Fixed the objects that weren’t bonded to the map
- Fixed houses, trains, rocks, trees and other objects collisions
- Fixed foliage’s and rocks position on the landscape and their distribution
- Fixed the wall collisions all around the map (so players can now shoot through)
- New material for the gas zone


Sounds:

- Fixed footsteps sound issues (landscape, trains and the prison)
- Fixed Skill crates pitch sounds variations
- Character footsteps have been reduced (in response to the community feedback)
- Punch sounds have been added


Server side:

- Fix for the issue where the player was unable to join a match by the end or near the end of lobby phase
- Fixed the spawn issues that were blocking other players from filling the spawn zone
- Fixed the crash that was occurring when someone drops an item on the server
- Fixed the crash that was occurring when trying to return to the main menu


Client side:

- Fix a crash that occurred when the game unload a sublevel
- Fix a crash that was occurring a few times when the player leaves the map
- Fix the crash when setting the game to Fullscreen
- Fix a crash that could occur when the player is nearby to the item’s detector initialization
- Fix a crash that was occurring when the player focuses a specific mesh type
- Improved Playfab logs for connection failures, in order receive precise details


Optimization, Game Graphics & Settings:

- Improved interiors and surroundings in Vilar Factory, Depot, O'Sean Harbor, VA Prison in order to prevent micro-freezes and fps spikes/hitches
- Foliage Density is now set to medium by default
- Trees have been readjusted, wind reaction was modified for optimization purposes
- Sampled Light Shafts Factor reduced at low and medium in PostProcessQuality states
- Light Bloom Quality was decreased at low and medium in PostProcessQuality states
- Ambient Occlusion Level was decreased at low and medium in PostProcessQuality states
- Grass won’t use dynamic shadows at low and medium in FoliageQuality states
- Light functions + contact and dynamic shadows are now off at low in ShadowQuality states
- ShadowQuality have been reduced in low state
- ShadowQuality Maximum Resolution have been reduced in low & medium states
- Decreased road details over medium and far distances
- Grass density and size were slightly decreased over distance
- The density of foliage types like flowers, small stones, reeds, ferns, bushes and debris on the ground are now adjustable in Graphical Settings
- Radically decreased the maximum drawn distances of trees, rivers, wooden barriers, energy poles, roads and rails all around the map
- The maximum drawn distance of translucent materials was decreased
- Vilar Factory and Depot Trains collisions prisms have been optimized
- Fixed some crashes related to the CPU (Allow CPU Access for necessary objects)
- Roadblock geometries have been simplified



AXC Team.

ANAREA Update 0.1.2 (alpha)


Hello everyone, we are aware that the crashes/bugs are very frustrating. However, we are working as hard as we can to be able to fix them as fast as possible. Here are some fixes and tweaks that have been implemented this patch (0.1.2) that should make the game more enjoyable.



Gameplay:

- Increased AR-15 and AK-47 bullet drop curve at longer distances
- Proportionally increased M40 bullet speed and decreased its bullet drop
- Gas shrink time & Starting gas are slower now


Map:

- Smoothened the terrain based on slope
- Fixed landscapes and level design issues
- Fixed O'Sean Costa loot spawning below the ground
- Fixed Residential Roses terraces collisions
- Fixed metal fences collisions (working now as double-sided) and hit sounds
- Fixed bug exploits


Sounds:

- Decreased skill crates volume
- Decreased lake ambient sounds volume


Optimization & Settings:

- Updated the game and network code
- Improved POIs optimization to avoid micro-freezes, fps spikes / hitches
- Dynamic Shadows are now set to Disable by default



AXC Team.