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

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