This beta update introduces many fixes and additional polish to the game. Official servers will be wiped with this update, and a wipe is recommended for community servers.
This update has many fixes and changes, so it does not fit in the Steam announcement section. For the Full Update list please visit:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/344760/discussions/4/485623406936818368/We've decided to polish the game by improving the functionality of various systems, and improving the visuals of others. We took some time to fix many outstanding menu issues, added more support for joypads, added more particles, improved shaders, and made it so the armor no longer takes up inventory space.
The animals in the game have also been polished to be much more responsive, better animations, and more dangerous if they are aggressive.
We have also spent a lot of time on different stability issues, and server issues. There were also many additional bug fixes improving many other areas of the game.
Our leaderboard system for server admins has also been improved as well. Aside from the automatic ban option which can be configured in the config file, administrators can also easily ban players directly from the leaderboards, statistics, and reports menus.
We've decided to bring our official server count down to 24 from 32 to help facilitate larger player numbers on each server, and also help give community servers a boost.
EAC has been working hard on many changes to help prevent hacking, and in the past week they have banned just over 50 players for hacking. Please remember that any hackers caught will have their access to the game perma-banned.
If you want to report an exploit, or hacker, and learn about our process, please read this thread:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/344760/discussions/4/523890528707976945/Please follow this guide for updating your community server:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=435654886We will be continuing our work with polishing, bug fixes, anti-hack, and optimizations in the game for the release. As well, we plan to start work on adding in more server-side configuration options, so server operators will have more control to modify the experience players will have on their server. We do not plan to do art modding due to restrictions we see with our games architecture (something like this is best planned from day 1, and it wasn't part of our plans).
We are now nearing the end of the beta period as we previously planned for early December. Many bugs were fixed, and our internal bug list is now getting small. We expect the next update to be the 1.0 update for the game, and we estimate it will be ready for release sometime between December 11th - 16th.
Thanks for Playing,
- The Code}{atch Team