A build is now live on Steam for Windows. A Linux update is currently on the staging beta and will be pushed live later today.

Aiming Changes

While aiming with weapons down the sights, the amount of weapon movement has been vastly decreased. This makes it feel a lot easier to shoot enemies, and makes the aiming a lot more useful in combat.

Varied Infected

The infected characters can now have varied limbs along with the existing variations of clothing and hair. I would like to be able to support a larger set of infected humans from all walks of life eventually.

New Cheats & Weapon Previews

There are more cheats to play with in-game, which can now be accessed using the (re-bindable) backtick key:

• spawn rabbit
• spawn infected
• spawn guard
• spawn rifle
• spawn shotgun
• spawn pistol

The weapons are not finished and not available in the main game, but are fun to play with!

Nvidia Ansel Support

Ansel is now fully supported in Estranged for taking high quality screenshots! Hit Alt + F2 in-game to enable to Ansel UI.

Full Change List

• New: AI can now open doors
• New: Nvidia Ansel support
• New: Infected variations
• New: Added rifle and shotgun implementations
• New: It is now possible to spawn characters using the cheat "spawn guard/rabbit/infected"
• New: Bindable cheats key (default is ` backtick) which focuses the cheats input box
• New: The specimen count puzzle now counts live specimens only
• New: Impact effects are now delayed depending on how far the bullet travels
• New: Ragdolls now keep their exact bone positions during save/restore
• Fixed: Blue highlighting around edge of level in storage/parking area
• Fixed: Movement buttons being held down when loading screens disappear
• Fixed: Some doors not being locked in the Arque quadrant offices
• Fixed: Cameras being able to see through walls
• Fixed: The turret can no longer see through walls
• Fixed: Picking up pillow causing physics issues in sleep/wake scene
• Fixed: Re-sampled some audio to fix sound issues on Linux for certain configurations
• Fixed: Getting stuck in the parking garage
• Fixed: Turret batteries not being saved/restored correctly
• Fixed: Water fog not clearing after a save/restore
• Fixed: Infected variations are now saved/restored
• Fixed: Sprinting is no longer permitted whilst scoping
• Fixed: Idle movement of weapons now reduced while scoping

And localisation updates thanks to the Estranged translation community! There is a known issue with a hang on load for certain machines. There are also a couple of minor bugs around save/restoring, where your ammo count might not persist properly, and AI may duplicate when restoring. I would especially like to thank the Discord community for suggesting a bunch of features for this build, and for helping to find and report bugs before it was released. Any feedback you have, I'm available at alan [at] alanedwardes (dot) com and on Discord! https://discord.gg/estranged Thank you for playing Estranged! Alan

[ 2018-09-22 12:24:03 CET ] [ Original post ]