Exoplanet: First Contact - Update #9

There is a new update available for Exoplanet: First Contact, with information about the roadmap:

ROADMAP

We also updated OUR ROADMAP, and you can find something new there (you can easily track changes with Menu button on the right) as well as take a sneak peek to some screenshots from our draft storyboard for Exoplanet intro cinematic.

You can learn more about our roadmap HERE.

The addition of a crash reporter and  a changelog:

WORLD

• All terrain was repainted from scratch using multiple textures
• Improved design of Outcast Camp, added many new buildings, new Big Hat cave in a high mountain

CAMERA

• Revamped the camera so it should no longer feel wonky and should feel super smooth
• Added a slight camera shake effect when firing weapons (togglable in game options)
• Fixed camera getting inside character models in some cases
• Fixed camera micro stuttering

VISUALS

• Added hit effects for some mobs that didn’t have them
• Turned off Jack’s head tracking in some corner cases that resulted in weird neck angles (shooting, aiming, hitting, using items, sleeping, resting)
• Prevented most cases of dialog participants playing identical talking animations one right after the other
• Added new outfits for abori Scalphunters

GAMEPLAY

• Jack can now fall from ladders when he is heavily damaged (more than 10% of his health in one shot) or if he is weak due to being low on health (has less than 20% health)
• Jack should no longer fall from ladders without reason
• Adjusted ladder starting and finishing positions to be more precise
• Poisonous alien cactus bat now must be crafted from a cactus head and a stick (or firewood)
• Added a tutorial hint for crafting the alien cactus bat
• Automatic reload (togglable in game options) now triggers on firing last ammo cartridge and on equipping a weapon with an empty magazine
• Automatic reload sequence can be interrupted
• Fixed not being able to shoot immediately after automatic reload ended
• Rewrote the resting and waiting time skipping system
• All guns automatically unload ammo from their magazines on pick up
• Only equipped guns visible on Jack’s model are allowed to keep ammo in the magazines
• Removing guns from visual slots on Jack’s model unloads ammo from the magazine into inventory
• Holstering weapons equipped from the inventory or the hotbar assigns them to the corresponding visual slots (and keeps ammo in the magazines)

QUESTS

• Added a new NPC Carry The Stone with a brand new quest “Scan It”
• You can now also talk with Carry The Stone about “K’Tharsis is a harsh mistress” quest
• The “Family relic” quest has a suitable ending now
• Zak’s whistle should no longer just disappear from Jack’s inventory on quest finish
• Fixed arphant Molly’s focusing issue and tweaked her dialog to reflect Jack’s knowledge about her

and a lot more....