Happy Halloween, everyone! To celebrate the spooky season, weve just released a game update and a DLC update for Barotrauma. Read on to find out more!

The Halloween update: Creepy Creature Feature

This update brings a selection of creepy creatures, with a few other additions and improvements. Here are the highlights, and youll find the full changelog at the end of this post.

• Remade watcher, an old legacy creature born anew. While suitably spooky for Halloween, this one is a permanent addition. Avoid eye contact!
• Pets. Did you already try your hand at the downtime activities that the previous update added? Taking care of your onboard pet is the next level of things to keep you busy when its not too busy. Enjoy!
• As a temporary bonus, the pets come in Halloween costumes, and there is one pet that is Halloween-only. Can you guess which one?
• Undo/redo for the submarine editor for many, this is probably the real treat in the update, and were very happy to finally have this functionality!
• Server browser profanity filter. Tired of bad words in server names? You can now choose not to see those servers at all, and customize your list of unwanted words.
• AI gets new skills: bots can now be ordered to put items back into cabinets.
• New lights and animations to indicate device states, such as when a pump or a fabricator is running.
• Several new sounds and music tracks.

As always, be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers!

DLC update: The Europan gets a new volume

The Barotrauma Supporter Pack has been updated: there is a brand new volume of The Europan newspaper now available! Weve also updated the soundtrack included in the DLC, and there are a couple of new wallpapers too. Which one do you like best?

Official Halloween mod

For some extra Halloween textures, dont forget the Trick or Trauma mod that we made for Halloween last year! Its still available on Barotraumas Steam workshop and compatible with the most recent version of the game.
We wish you all a peaceful Hallowtide!

v0.10.6.2 changelog

Changes and additions: - Reworked Watcher. - Added pets (can be obtained by buying eggs from outposts). The pets produce items that can be used for crafting if they're kept happy and well-fed. - Added a new AI behaviors: Observe, Follow and Freeze. - Added toolbelt (a wearable container with a capacity of 12 and it's own dedicated slot) as a replacement for the toolbox. - Improvements to the effects caused by psychosis: the affliction icon is not visible to the psychotic character, the fake fires and floods are a bit more convincing, the affliction plays random sounds and can cause other characters to become invisible. - Added capture group support to RegEx component. - Added black and white paint. - Added optional "forbidden word filter" to the server browser. The filter is off by default. The list of forbidden words can be modified by editing the file "Data/forbiddenwordlist.txt" in the game folder. - Increased the damage of 40mm grenades. - Misc improvements to the tutorials. - Added undo and redo functionality to the submarine editor. - Added animations and lights to pump, fabricator, deconstructor and engines. - All explosions now inflict explosion damage instead or in addition to lacerations. - Nerfed the mudraptor slightly: the head and the tail armor should now break more easily; increased the cooldown of some attacks. - Mudraptor's armor now explodes when destroyed. - Added an unarmored variation of mudraptor. - Bonethresher's head is now vulnerable to gunshotwounds and lacerations. - Adjusted the appropriate jobs for bots. - Changed the automatic crew selection logic for orders. - Only show either electrical or mechanical repair order for the contextual selection, depending on which skills the item requires. - Previous order icons of the same type are no more created, no matter if the target was different than the current. - Tigerthreshers can now attack inner walls of the submarine. They still need help to get inside. - Changes to the Tigertherthresher's main collider that should improve the overall movement. - Option to make particle emitters modify the color of the particles. - Set a limit to how many bots you can hire in the campaign (currently 16). - Explosions caused by sodium, potassium, magnesium and lithium being exposed to water don't trigger additional explosions (e.g. oxygen tanks don't explode if they happen to be next to a sodium explosion). - Pumps and relays placed in the sub editor are on by default. - Added sounds for the nausea affliction. - Nausea now inflicts a minor stun and internal damage when the character throws up. - Monsters now stop fleeing after a while, if they are not being chased and can't perceive the target anymore. - Implement spread, speed, and rotation for the spawn item status effects. - Minor damage (less than 1 hp) doesn't spawn particles anymore. - Rebalanced upgrade parameters, allowing for more noticable benefits. - Allow closing the splash screens with esc. - Added more copper to chalcopyrite and bornite deconstruct recipe. - More calcium for aragonite, adjusted prices. - Made large monsters immune to paralyzant (mudraptor is the largest affected monster). - Use player name instead of server name for the server owner when hosting a server. - Don't draw turret range indicators in the sub editor when the turret isn't selected. - Adjusted Hammerhead's posture. - Minor adjustments to Mudraptor's animations. - The number of monsters now increases the event intensity more than previously, which should spawn monsters less frequently. - Added some unarmored mudraptors to low-difficulty levels. Modding improvements: - Added Scale and Offset to Light Sprite's parameters. - Fixed the Constant Torque parameter not working right. - Allow to enable/disable tail angles per limb. Previously the angle was only applied to the first limb of type Tail. - Added per limb multipliers for sine animations (fish tail movement). - Exposed the fleeing and avoiding times on the monster AI parameters. - The Light Sources on characters can now be defined with conditionals. - Added HealthMultiplier parameter that can be used in StatusEffects like SpeedMultiplier. Character Editor improvements: - Fixed a number of issues with the joint limit widgets. Also allowed to set a joint to rotate clockwise, which inverses the widget direction. Useful for heads or other limbs that extrude right from the main body. - The colliders of the hidden limbs are now hidden in the game view. - Changed the hotkey for toggling the parameter editor from "Tab" to "F1" and fix the inability to toggle the editor when a text field is selected. - Fixed load and save interfaces being broken on lower resolutions. Sounds: - Added 2 new background music tracks - Added a new, separate sounds for opening and closing the alien doors - Added a new sound for medium-sized fires - Added new heartbeat sound for suffering from low oxygen - Added new sounds for the hull creaking - Added a new sound for a broken pump - Added a new sound for tinnitus after an explosion - Added a new sound for alien artifacts - Added a new sound for electrocution - Added a new sound for husk footsteps - Added new misc. UI sounds - Added a new variations for some existing sounds - Improved some existing sounds - Exposed GUI sound definitions in the sounds.xml file AI improvements and fixes: - Added a new AI behavior and order: cleanup items. - Fixed severe performance hit when damaging outpost NPCs with a weapon that does continuous damage (for example a flamer). - Reworked the contextual "Wait" order: the order now targets a position instead of an entity. - Bots are now allowed to more things even they are not inside the player sub. For example they can be told to extinguish fires in the outpost or rescue crew members inside a wreck (when they are at the same place). WIP. - Bots now try to put oxygen tanks to oxygen tank containers, before the oxygen generator or supplycab. - Bots now re-equip hats, helmets, and other clothing that they have unequipped for being able to wear diving gear. - Bots now use the underwater scooter when they have one in the inventory. - Bots should now be slightly smarter when putting off fires. - Bots don't anymore retaliate if they are being shot while there is an enemy around. - Fixed a number of cases where bots would get stuck or fail to fix a leak. - Fixed bots with steering order targeting the shuttle nav terminal instead of the main nav terminal. - Fixed NPCs getting aggroed by certain drugs (e.g. anaparalyzant). - Fixed bots not prioritizing the wall mounts for containing the extinguishers. - Fixed monsters targeting inner doors when they shouldn't. - Fixed outpost guards attacking the player for defending themselves against the aggressors on the event "mediator". - Fixed NPCs not reacting when the player is attacked. - Fixed AI considering characters on the opposing combat mission team as friendly. - Fixed some steering issues where bots would return to the last waypoint instead of continuing with their current path when they should. - Test changing the assignment logic for maintenance/operate orders: if the player doesn't specify the target character, use the bot who already is following the same order. The intention is to make it easier to change the target item of the order. The draw back is that ordering multiple bots to man the turrets now requires an extra step: specify the target character. Misc fixes: - Fixed clients always getting the generic "could not connect" error message when connecting to a server fails, even if there's a specific reason to the connection failing (e.g. disallowed symbols in the player's name, mismatching content packages or game version). - Fixed yet another cause for "missing entity" errors. Occasionally happened in monster missions when a monster happened to get assigned the same ID as an item in a player's inventory. - Fixed clients spawning a respawn shuttle in non-campaign missions even if the server has disabled respawning, leading to "missing entity" errors. - Fixed planters dropping removed seeds after a save is reloaded. - Fixed plants not updating the health after being fully grown in multiplayer. - Fixed decal syncing working unreliably in multiplayer. - Fixed "level doesn't match" errors after leaving a shuttle/drone behind in the multiplayer campaign. - Fixed painted/dirty walls going to full opacity when transitioning to a new level in the campaign. - Fixed crashing when trying to render a light whose range is less than 1 pixel. - Fixed crashing when using a repair tool causes an explosion (e.g. when killing a terminal cell with a plasma cutter). - Mudraptor: Adjusted and fixed the animations. - Fixed irrelevant damage modifiers (like bleeding) affecting the damageemitter's particles. In practice, this caused damagemodifiers with bleeding modifier 0 not spawn any particle effects when the limb was hit. - Fixed extinguish fires not working with extinguish fire orders if the room has not enough oxygen. - Fixed the user set state of the crew list not being respected; autohiding/showing shouldn't change the state set by the player. - Fixed significant lag spikes at outposts with many NPCs. Caused by too frequent pathfinding calls, when an NPC can't find a path to the target. - Fixed AIState.Protect throwing exceptions when an attacker has been removed. - Fixed status effects targeting nearby characters/items failing to launch, unless they used the "Active" effect type. - Fixed crashing when trying to crouch while swimming in the character editor. - Fixed pause menu being togglable during level transitions, causing errors if quitting the game during a transition. - Fixed wire disappearing from the character's inventory and from the walls when getting shocked from attaching the 2nd end of a wire in multiplayer. - Kastrull: Fixed the airlock waypoints not being linked to the doors, causing the bots not being able to operate them. - Fixed airlock warning light in Kastrull not turning off when the airlock door is closed. - Made plants non-combineable. - Fixed random submarine selection setting for servers occasionally selecting non-submarines. - Fixed dedicated servers still showing up as "playstyle-less" in the server browser. - Fixed sounds defined in affliction status effects not working. - Require at least 1 kick vote before kicking someone, no matter how low KickVoteRequiredRatio is set to. - Fixed gaps being misplaced on certain wall structures, preventing certain walls from leaking in some subs (for example the wall above Typhon's junction compartment). - Fixed "Select Matching Items" crashing in the editor when used with submarines with a linked submarine. - Fixed hull above Kastrull's drone not being connected to the rest of the hulls, preventing oxygen from flowing between the drone and the sub when docked. - Fixed junction boxes' signal connections passing power/load information. - Fixed crash when trying to clone a linked sub that you don't have the submarine file for in the sub editor. - Fixed incorrectly scaled items in the diving gear cabinet/locker assemblies. - Fixed inability to sell faraday artifacts when the condition of the artifact is 0. - Fixed monsters not fleeing if the attacker is a bot. - Fixed OnImpact statuseffects not launching if the impact was negative (e.g. when a moving sub hits an item that's below the sub). - OnDamaged status effects now launch only when there's any damage. Not when the damage is zero. - Fixed health bar pulsating even when no damage is done by an attack/status effect. - Fixed affliction probability not having any effect when used in status effects. - Fixed event intensity going down immediately when the situation gets less intense instead of gradually returning to normal. Should make it happen less that more monsters are spawned soon after the player survives the previous wave of monsters. - Fixed EventManager crashing if there are no event sets configured for the current location type (only affected mods that add new location types without adding any events for them). - Fixed items held in the left hand being drawn in front of the characters. - Fixed ability to drag and drop items into outpost reactors. - Set terminal's maximum message length to match maximum chat message length (otherwise chat-linked terminals work differently in multiplayer). - Fixed diving suit's low oxygen warning beep not following the player wearing the suit. - Fixed "propaganda" and "clown outbreak" outpost events never triggering. - Fixed "clown brutality" event getting stuck after the NPCs have been spawned. - Fixed "impromptu engineering" event giving only one coilgun ammo box despite the text saying 2. - Fixed "black market" event always giving the player the alien pistol. - Fixed incendium bars exploding when pressing the Use key while holding one. - Fixed outpost security not reacting to players throwing items that explode on impact (e.g. flash powder or nitroglycerin). - Fixed outpost security reacting to raptor bane extract injections with lethal force. - Fixed mantis' animation. - Fixed multiple wire nodes occasionally getting placed with one click when rewiring. - Fixed fire and water flow sounds staying active when returning from a multiplayer session to the main menu. - Fixed previously discovered map tiles becoming undiscovered when saving and loading a campaign. - Fixed 1st shot from SMG magazines spawned with console commands doing nothing. - Fixed calyxanide not damaging huskified humans or crawlers. - Fixed explosives exploding when combining them results in one being removed. - Fixed items that don't flip horizontally being positioned incorrectly in mirrored subs. - Fixed bots having difficulties in entering/exiting the airlocks. - Fixed doors not obstructing waypoints after docking. - Fixed occasional "velocity invalid" error messages when a character gets hit by a very fast projectile (e.g. coilgun bolt).

[ 2020-10-29 17:08:58 CET ] [ Original post ]