Hey Survivalist,

We’ve just released Alpha 15.2 with some critical fixes. For this and other news read on!

Concurrent Player records set

In January of 2017 we had our highest monthly concurrent player average of 12,833 players always on line and a concurrent peak of 22,977.

Alpha 16 update

Folks were trucking along with Alpha 16 work which could last through the end of March. Main planned features include:

Electricity system with generators, battery banks, solar banks, lights, switches, relays, trigger system, melee traps, aranged traps and more

Painting system that allows every main architectural block in the game to be painted on every side with up to 128 unique textures.

Random Gen Beta Version which includes city, town and rural zoning, rivers, caves and a shit ton of new locations

Sleeper Zombie System where locations have sleeping zombies inside

Distant Location rendering system where you can see buildings miles away.

New and updated Animals with fur system support

There are a half a dozen extra features that could make it in if all goes well.

See the Dev Blog for the latest news and updates

Alpha 15.2 Release Notes

Fixes:

Horde difficulty does not adjust correctly for a party with multiple players together

Player planted corn disappears immediately

Using a bow results in multiple arrows being visible from another Player’s perspective

User login phase updated, including fixes for users of Steam’s family sharing as well as improved kick feedback

Cancelled arrow does not visually unload from bow

Custom modded UMA zombies not using external atlas

Known issues:

Several duping issues

Terrain clipping to see underground buildings and caves

UMA zombies are missing the HeadGore bone, this needs to be added to correctly show the flesh cap on the neck when the head is removed

Auger, chainsaw and nailgun use the Gun Smithing crafting skill and the blunderbuss Weapon Smithing.

Known Crashes

OSX: Game crashing on startup if multiple monitors are attached and not set to mirrored

Linux: Graphics corruption on some GPUs

Windows: Game crashing after entering a game on old NVIDIA drivers (34x series)

Possible solutions