Caidin fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Nov 21, 2019

• The evac shelters actually have some amount of food, water, and medicine now. The food sucks, but it's filling, and the medicine means that getting a deep bite isn't the end of your run on day 1.
  
• Most houses now have a sensible amount of loot that implies that people lived there and left in a hurry. Fridges are pretty full of food, most houses have a set of basic tools like a hammer and screwdriver, and dressers are full of basic clothing that you'd expect. A single house has enough loot to keep you alive for week 1, and that's just the stuff that isn't nailed down. The ones that still don't have this are actively being worked and updated to fit the new quantity of loot, with the expectations that you'll have to compete with NPCs to gather loot pretty soon.
  
• Libraries have been given the same treatment. If you can find a library, your skillbook needs are covered for the immediate future.
  
• A few more options have been added for low end spears. The original "knife taped to a stick" can be upgraded with a drilling tool to something that doesn't break if you so much as wave it in the breeze.
  
• Monster evolution changes mean that some of the nastier special zombies (acidic, shocker, brutes, smoke, etc.) don't show up for a few in-game weeks.
  
• Default start date has been changed so that the cataclysm occurs in late spring. This means that you won't die of thirst because the water you collect is all frozen all the time.
  

• You can autowalk through overmap terrain, and regarding dangerous terrain just last week, they added the ability to mark any tile with a note as "dangerous terrain" that should not be pathed through, complete with an optional no-go radius for each tile.
  
• The autopilot feature even works for cars... sort of. It will drive on roads with reasonable ability, and it doesn't crash into things because it diverts control back to you if there's an obstacle, which sucks but at least the autopilot knows that it can't handle that.
  
• Speaking of which, the map can now be set to take notes on map extras like chopper crashes and supply drops automatically. This makes finding things that your character notices but you don't (like helicopter wrecks and radioactive craters) easier.
  
• You can crouch to hide and break line of sight if you're behind furniture.
  
• Being high up vastly increases the distance you can see. This means that radio towers are a good find. Not only will you occasionally find a sniper perch up there, but you can explore the surrounding area in an instant.
  
• You can set up base camps and assign NPCs to various tasks like farming, gathering firewood, etc. You can automate away the tedium of feeding everyone too, and even talk to NPCs with two-way radios if you have them (which you will, because they're quite common)
  

• Someone is working on fixing the inventory system such that it makes more sense.
  
• A new military base location
  
• Towable vehicles (by cable, so you can basically use a car as a morningstar I guess)
  

Inglonias fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jan 17, 2020