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Week Goals:

This week our goal is to wrap up 1.2 on experimental expect a few days of bleed over possibly if any fatal bugs/issues are encountered. The next 2 days will be Rioting/Non-Lethal Weapons in the form of the Bean bag Shotgun. Then Dynamic Civilian Groups will form that hate you if you ignore their rioting when a zone enters yellow status for too long or you declare martial law for to long. (Up to Wednesday-Thursday) The following 2-3 days will conclude 1.2 with Civilian Automation & Evacuation. If a zone is set for intake based on ROE the zone will follow a preset template you can customize. You will be required to station a scientist at the zones Civilian Admin structure with the detection weapon or build detection towers at these points to determine infection status if research allows. Base templates: Unknown -Cage -Wait (Wait 8-16 minutes to determine if infected) Infected -Euthanization -Shoot on sight -Turn away Not infected -Holding area (Till Helicopter arrives) -Helipad

Patch Notes

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• Further Optimizations to the Anim Blueprint based on profiling data
• Removed all bodies and blood decals from Treasure Island Levels. (To Prepare for Dynamic placement in the future)
• Converted 12,873 assets to removable clutter; on Angel Island and Treasure Island, so far. More conversions to follow.
• We now turn off Infection Structures ability to hear and see via a new thread to save performance if no CERC unit is within 20k UU. This should improve the reliability of vision and framerate improvements in mid to late game.
• Fixed up some AnimInstance_Base C++ logic in relation to mob units, as well, so Mob Units properly recognize which unit is their owner, instead of being 'unowned' and thus always standing still or walking
• Evac load fix to try to stop some civvies from going to the wrong evac pad when loading saves and getting 'stuck'
• Melee Expliot for Infected fixed that could cause them to double melee
• Rioting system improvements
  • Suppressing a riot via stamina damage (right now, only way to do this is with sandbag shotgun) will now lead to Riot Suppressed for that Civvie Spline: it will not resume rioting until 10 real life minutes pass (accounting for slo-mo, etc.)
  • Rioting civvies will harm your reputation in a zone. This stops when riot is suppressed.
  • 'Last riot suppression time' (for the 10 min cooldown) saved/loaded
• Fixed CERC solider aimnode being to "responsive" at times

Please note the following going forward (Restart your game/steam to get the update if needed [/expand]

General Development Updates

[expand type=details] https://youtu.be/7hdBPmUtFb8 https://youtu.be/GV3YOssGEfs

Letter from the Producer

https://steamcommunity.com/games/979640/announcements/detail/3718325557390407190

New Roadmap system

We now have a new system for our community to follow along on development. This website will break down all the major systems that are coming each patch. It will not include hotfixes/bug fixes. Sections inside TBD can be included randomly if we are ahead of schedule https://www.notion.so/cepheusprotocol/Cepheus-Protocol-31f1b25ce00148d6844825f4a0c0bc08 [/expand]

Ways to Support Development

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First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWbDibGMrU [/expand]

[ 2023-07-20 05:26:55 CET ] [ Original post ]