AI Chase Buff and Stability Hotfix: v0.14.5.4

This is a gameplay balance patch to increase AI chase power and to resolve a few issues.

➡️ Changes

• NPCs are allowed to mantle up and drop down 3 times the distance to increase their chase potential

• NPCs will now mantle down from small obstacles such as salvage crates instead of being stuck on top

• Police are now allowed to mantle as well

• Sprinting Axe and Pickaxe attacks damage increased

• Music will loop less often throughout the open world

• Improved terrain around a Rune hut near Kazai Village to not require jumps

• Improved hitbox of salvage object

• Increased damage of knife heavy attack and adjusted first hit timing to be more accurate to animation

• Placing item in your own inventory will no longer display notification

• Droppables no longer collide with the player

• Removed water from East side of desert for aesthetic reasons and added a rune

• Flat 10 player XP bonus on new item discovery changed to give item price divided by 2 instead

• Dojo and Hill shop plots now have police

🛠️ General Fixes

• Fixed cases of droppable resources floating and going below water lines

• Fixed rare exception related to cutting trees

• New Bedstone Innkeeper dialogue now gives the correct location of Captain Latch

• Fixed issues with clients' items being visible in containers when they shouldn't

• Fixed trees and rocks enabling physics when touching water

• Fixed Zena's Stronghold bunker walls disappearing and removed stray fire VFX

• Removed player XP gain from sales as it was not intended

• Fixed issues with loading tree data that would cause trees to revert back to their original map state

• Fixed dialogue response count not updating total players properly

• Fixed inventory deserialization error which could have potentially caused random weirdness such as cutscenes not playing properly in multiplayer