Pine (tuxdb.com)

Update Notes - Patch 8 is here!

Dear players, Its finally time for a big patch! Its been a while since the last update, but weve been working hard on improving Pine in some major areas. We listened to your feedback, revamped some systems on a deep, technical level and upgraded the engine Pine was built in. All of this took a bit longer than expected, but hopefully it was worth the wait! The update is big in filesize too, but the games disk size has shrinked a whopping 700mb (from 3.3GB to 2.6GB on disk)! Some update highlights:

Performance gains and big stutter reductions from garbage collection through upgrading Pines engine and implementing incremental garbage collection
Combat is smoother and much more responsive: added dodge cancel, kick out of any move and fractional directional control
Camera tweaks: added auto steering settings and removed aimed smoothing
Platforming is more forgiving due to the addition of coyote time
Two new languages added (Dutch and Korean), two more coming soon

Full patch notes:

Additions

Auto camera steering setting added (as requested in https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278502008174/)
Support for separate inversion settings on ranged and normal camera aiming (as requested in https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278494122220/#c3166519278502635095)
Separate sensitivity for ranged aiming (as requested per https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278498709635/)
Added coyote time for smoother and more forgiving platforming (as requested in https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278509097215/)
Dodge cancelling for more responsive combat (as requested per https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278500833248/)
Added a loading screen bar to see the progress
Fractional directional control in combat so that you can choose your direction in some parts of some moves, making combat much more responsive
Scouting Lens map radius now showing Key Graphite pickups
Dutch language support
Korean language support

Changes and tweaks

Removed smoothing from camera aim (as requested/mentioned in https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278496513950/, https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278495094333/?ctp=2#c3166519278498570260, https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278495239567/)
Kicking and sliding is now always possible (also in ranged and when nothing is equipped)
Changed quest start and end sound (is now different)
When leaving an interior (cave or Vault) with your Scouting Lens deployed inside, it will automatically return to you
You can now roll and jump out of crouch
Slow motion effect on combat moves tweaked to make it more responsive (as requested in https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042780/discussions/0/3166519278498709635/)
Camera collision redone for smoother camera movement, particularly in interiors

Fixes

Garbage collect stutters reduced through implementation of incremental garbage collection, giving a much more consistent framerate
UI revamp with many fixes (such as overlapping quest text, long string overflow, etc.)
Fixed text appearing with a few frames delay
Improved lock-on/focus camera (was often glitching and disorientating)
Improved dialogue camera
Fixed Hue floating up (as if standing on a box) in certain locations after jumping
Fixed interacts with certain context (such as ignite and enter) using incorrect string
Metal and wood footstep parameters added for Hue
Fixed The Crossing cutscene part 2 audio, because it had Alpafants sniffing through it
Cave entrance now drawn behind fog
Fixed a bunch of unlocalized strings, among others in the map menu, Vault title cards and main quest tutorials
Localized controls rebinding menus
Footstep speed parameter now scaled with animation (crouching)
Only footwear covering feet gives boots footstep sounds now
Fixed totem village information UI missing after raiding villages
Grounded several floating assets
Numerous fixes for wrong speaker roles in dialogues
Various questing bug fixes and stability improvements
Numerous optimizations on all fronts
Fixed status modifiers overflowing and being unclear in effect in equipment UI
Fixed broken night visuals on village lanterns
Fixed waterfall and torch particles not being LODed

We hope you enjoy these changes. The engine upgrade in particular has been time consuming, but we hope that it stabilizes Pine and gives you a better experience. As always, please let us know if something isn't right or isn't to your liking, so that we can keep improving Pine.

Until next time!

[ 2020-06-24 10:29:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Pine
Twirlbound

Developer

Kongregate

Publisher

2019-10-10

Release

Indie RPG Adventure Simulation Singleplayer

A Story of Humans

Pine is an open world action adventure simulation game. Set in the beautiful world of Albamare, you take on the role of Hue, a smart young adult who will have to explore, trade, and fight his way through a vibrant world filled with creatures much smarter than humans.

Their Story Becomes Yours

As you're looking for a new home for your tribe to settle in, you'll have to engage with the large-scale ecology of Albamare. Prepare by exploring, bartering, talking, crafting and fighting in six different biomes, with and against a diverse cast of species that will not simply help you.

A Struggle for Survival

In Pine, things will happen across the open game world even without your involvement. All organisms are alive and will try what they can to survive. You can choose to befriend a species, fight alongside them, or you may also to attack them, steal their food or force them to abandon their current habitat. All of this will make the species move across the ecological spectrum.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: 64-bit OS
Processor: Quad Core 3.0 Ghz or equivalentMemory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent
Storage: 5 GB available space

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