New update coming the 21st!

Hi everyone!

It's been a long time without any news so here it goes. The 21st of April Darkenstein 3D will be 6 months old!

To celebrate, a BIG update will be dropping on that day. While this is not a content update, there are a few new things coming that you asked for, some more QoL features, and many, many fixes.

I will, of course, add the full changelog when the update drops, but I do hope this will make many people happy. As a teaser, one of the main focuses has been performance, and this is what that section looks like:

PERFORMANCE:

• Game size reduced from 18GB down to 9.4GB.

• Optimized performance in all levels.

• Reduced CPU cost for all enemies and combat events.

• Better overall CPU performance game-wide after switch to Forward+ rendering.

• Reduced the duration of stutters that consistently occur in the same spots.

• Lightmaps now take up to 80% less RAM while maintaining original quality.

• Many more settings tied to general Graphics Preset for better gains on slower PCs.

• Reduced computational cost of some materials and reduced number of materials.

And here's another of the sections, so the scope is more clear:

Controls & Input

• More robust weapon switching mechanics.

• Better weapon selection with MouseWheel.

• Weapon wheel for M&K now works via cursor selection.

• Weapon wheel now shows weapons without ammo greyed out.

• Weapon wheel no longer allows selecting weapons without ammo.

• Removed extra field from weapon wheel to avoid confusion.

• Aim assist for controllers (default on).

• New option to disable weapon auto-switch.

• Better weapon auto-switch.

...and so forth. There are about 5 more pages of this. :D Are you ready for it?

Catch you all soon. ^.^

Rowye