Winter Patch Status

Hey Survivors,
Here is an update for the status of The Fun Pimps’ 1.2 Crossplay Patch, 1.3 Japanese Patch and the 2.0 Storms Brewing Patch. Read on for more information.

As we near the holiday break and TFP thought they would take the time to update the community on the status of their Winter Patch plans.

Version 1.2 Update

The Fun Pimps have passed cert for the version 1.2 patch on consoles and just released it to PC experimental for further testing. The patch will go stable on PC before the Holiday Break and then pushed to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S as soon as possible assuming no critical bugs arise. See the full release notes below.

Version 1.3 Update

They have made significant progress on the Japanese PlayStation 5 version but expect it to go into certification after the holiday break and are targeting a release in January 2025 barring any critical bugs and CERO approval.

Version 2.0 Storms Brewing Update

Their earlier estimates for the timing of the Storms Brewing update were optimistic. The update is going great but they expect it to land late Q1 2025. Although it is later than anticipated the 1.2 features from it will come sooner. Storms Brewing will Include:

Full new weather survival system that has unique environmental damage types, remedies and challenges per biome
Cross play on Dedicated servers
Advanced New Radiated Game staged Zombie enemies
Updated Trees for Performance and some new biome looks
Updated handheld Drinks and Food Item meshes
New Sub Title System
New belt message priority system
New zombie spawning tool optimization for high tier POIS.
New player Wardrobe system that allows player to keep their outfit protection but change their outfit appearance.
New Player DLC outfits
Twitch Drops
A ton of bug fixes, balance, optimizations and quality of life features. Too many to list now.

V 1.2 Official Release Notes

RWG for Consoles

They have enabled usage of random world generation for consoles which will generate worlds with sizes up to 8192

Crossplay for PC and Console Peer to Peer (NO dedicated servers yet!!!)

PC (Windows, Mac, Linux) and PS5 and Xbox Series consoles can host and join peer-to-peer multiplayer sessions with the other platforms.
Device restrictions on player counts for hosting multiplayer sessions still apply.
Easy Anti Cheat must be enabled for PC clients to host or join cross-play enabled sessions.
Added support for blocking players from other platforms
Console clients can join world sizes greater than 8k (even though they can not create or host them).
They are currently not setting any hard player count limitations for crossplay, however the player experience will vary depending on the client/host hardware and situation. For example if you have more than 6 players all in the same area on a blood moon it can be challenging on some hardware.

Rendering Performance Optimizations

Overall general rendering performance has been improved by reducing overhead due to rendering multiple cameras in the first person view which is a significant performance optimization on all platforms

Rendering Quality Enhancements

First person player avatar is now influenced by environment shadows and reflections for all platforms.

Graphics Options for Console

Added performance and quality graphics presets for each platform. Performance presets prioritize higher framerates and quality presets prioritize render resolution.
AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) up-scaling can be enabled in performance or quality mode

FSR Improvements

Reduced blurry artifacts when looking at trees with FSR enabled
Improved overall clarity of FSR output.
Upgraded FSR version to 3.1.

Bug Fixes

Game will remain paused (where possible) when opening the bug report window
Improved recovery of cases where the player falls through the world due to missing world geometry

V1.2 b24 Changelog

Added

Cross platform block lists
Implemented console Performance/Quality graphics modes, selectable through the video options UI.
New vulture model
New rabbit model
New chicken model
Biome spawner delays have a 10% random variation
CRT TV emergency broadcast sound (*enables with light)
Sleeper volumes reset the available spawn points when finding one if they have all been used
Deco manager tree grouping with async loading and work spread out more evenly
Additional flame prefabs to burning Zombies
SFX for nerd outfit extra crafting skill point perk
Missing spark textures for mines
Blood moon party maximum active enemy count with increased game stage scaling based on the full count

Changed

Revised first person rendering to use a single camera
Disabled the old resolution scaling and enabled FSR in Performance mode on all console platforms
Enable RWG menu items for console
Allow opening of chat window when communication blocked
Implement show user profile for PS5
Optimized entity effect groups by removing duplicate setters from ancestors
Improved biome entity spawners to run timers independently of counts and better track counts so they can’t spawn over the limit
Re-balanced biome entity spawner counts and delays
Removed sleeper spawning at farthest position ground check if using min script
Improved active sleeper despawning rules to allow more distance and time
Optimized material cleanup
Optimized object pooling and containers
Optimized chunk wall volume containers
Video brightness setting darkens interiors and night when set below 50%
Decreased darkest range of moon light slightly
Helmet light mod to have less range
Optimized FindInChildren
Optimized entity spawning model type lookup
Updated Screamer sounds
Solar Cells can no longer be scrapped
Grace is no longer zombie food
Optimized vehicles to not use a container object
Increased blood moon party distance to add players

Fixed

Iron Gut does not apply on login
Xbox/PS5 Friends not working in Server Browser
RWG previewer not removing some of the button handlers on close
Server doesn’t log chat sender names
NRE and loss of controls when sign or storage crate is destroyed while writing in it
Copy+paste kills tabs/linebreaks
Error loading prefabs with ExcludePOICulling=true due to outdated ins files
Effect groups do not extend from ancestors in the correct order in entityclasses xml
Vehicle manager respawns vehicles repeatedly if a non vehicle entity has the same id
A biome zombie type spawner could have a permanently disabled timer if they aged out before a player ever killed one (old data is removed and they will start spawning again)
Biome spawners could conflict and use the same status data
Arrow LOD issue zooming in and out while bow is pulled back
No respawn on min script sleeper volumes if entity despawned
Player drop time delay was affected by frame rate
Simple prefabs like part_streetlight_single generated an empty imposter mesh
Chunks being copied to Unity could rarely have the wrong object and block all copying
Primitive outfit has a read/write issue
Occasional Exception and NRE when exiting to Main Menu
Wall volumes were added to chunks they did not overlap and had unneeded padding
Sleeper and trigger volumes were added to chunks they did not overlap
Battery and solar banks beep when relogging
Player placed torches had a duplicate Audio Player
Audio sources with doppler could make squeaks or dropouts on player teleport or world origin shifts
Audio manager would still track many sounds after they were destroyed
Loot abundance settings below 100% would give less loot than it should
Hordestone Twitch Event should not auto respawn.
Tactical Assault Rifle missing reflex sight model
Headgear morphs won’t spawn in when in first person view now.
Drone inventory can roll back as client while using drone healing mod
Drone can’t heal player while on vehicle
First time the drone heals the player after a debuff has been healed, it fails to heal the player
Invisible character when being transported out of trader on vehicle
Vehicle camera position glitches when origin shift happens
EntityFactory GetEntityType warnings from missing types