Hey!

After receiving some complaints about the game not running well on AMD processors (most notably FX8320/FX8350) combined with great GPUs (980Ti/1070/1080), i started to work on optimizations.

GPU skinning

This effectively directs the mesh skinning workload from the CPU to the GPU.

Enemy pathfinding improved

The pathfinding has been slightly optimized. The CPU workload should be about 10% less with this update.

Blend weights

I've managed to cut the performance impact a little by halving the blend weight count from four to two.

Improved lighting and shadow performance

More baked lights instead of realtime lighting. I've also adjusted the shadow resolution inside the levels to reflect these changes.

These changes should bring the overall performance boost up to 15-20 %.
The game is still heavy on the CPU so i cannot (yet) lower the minimum requirements.

As always - if you have any feedback - head over to the discussions, send a friend request or e-mail me at anton.korhonen@viversion.com

Your indie developer,
Anton