I Shall Remain - 0.9.3.0 Update

Third Beta update is here. This took a little bit longer than expected but there are hundreds of fixes and adjustments that went in, towards making I Shall Remain more stable and overall a better game. The complete change of the main character animations wasn't possible at this time, will have a go at it at a later time, probably after 1.0 Release.

Here there are the key elements of this update:

• Teammates redone (meshes, animations, textures, portrait icons). Teammates fight unarmed and melee now.

• More animations for the main character added (more will follow)

• More weapons added (swords, chainsaw)

• Stealth play adjusted and improved (night vs day vs underground, walking vs running, using silent vs powerful weapons), Detection UI gadget added

• More mutations (Ram, Protector, Pierce armor) and mutation marks for infected, Mantis aberration third attack added

• Fonts and UI adjustments for lower resolutions

• Number of effects on a weapon (unique excluded) increased by 3 (by doctrine)

• Map exits marked clearly

• Brightness slider in Options

• Added achievements finishing the game with each perk

• Added achievements for bosses and aberrations

• Fix for a crash that happened after a bad load when we wanted to show lighting

• Added 2 new quick events in Staten Island maps

• Aura for mutations added to infected

• Added Brightness slider and UI logic

• Fixed issue with camera panning while in pause mode

• Fixed issue with sliding before we stopped, when we walking/running

• Fixed issue with having the character use the wrong walk animations when we hold the middle mouse button (in second controller)

• Changed inventory backpack icons

• The new human materials added optimized to load faster (for all the new characters we added)

• Weapon Sword added

• Fixed badly adjusted human CJ material

• Added support for Katana and Sword.

• Fixed issues with aura and casting shadows

• Some conditions for new animations to fix compile errors.

• Brightness tooltip adjusted

• Added chainsaw weapon

• Adjust Backstab doctrine to apply for swords and Katana also.

• Added new doctrine for chainsaw.

• Fixed Sanctuary QE text too long issue.

• Adjust Civilian and Chieftain perks.

• Fixed for si1 minimap/map showing wrong player position

• Fixed to have the intermediary player FOW (this will help see where you have been in the map recently)

• Fixed goons units revive sign appearing

• Adjusted survive bosses level and mutations.

• Reduced the loot chance for medical kits and water.

• Increased the ammo damage bonus value.

• Small adjustments to the survive map

• Fix an issue where the score in survive mode would cause a crash

• Now we can increase skill level using serum (via trainers) for teammates also.

• Ram mutation implemented

• Adjusted Flatiron Shelter quick event.

• Adjusted "Fixed camera" tooltip.

• Adjusted some quick events text.

• Adjusted MKSC tooltip in world map.

• Changed "Road to Ellis Island" to "Ellis Island Bridge" in game map.

• Adjusted position and size for attributes and skills levels in character window to correctly show 3 digits numbers.

• Antidote serum value set to 0 and make it stack-able.

• Do not show travel infection penalty after the use of the antidote

• Fixed "instant heal and instant refresh" behavior (heal/refresh the correct amount now).

• Adjusted a bit the baby explode effect (they burst into flames before they explode and there is blood when they explode)

• Adjusted Backstab doctrine.

• Fixed the issue with the empty space on the map on different resolutions (top and bottom)

• World map size adjusted for lower resolutions (decreases for res < 768), otherwise it will be like before. Fixed the issue with empty spaces on the map

• Fixed "options screen can't be moved, the window bar is too high" issue.

• Adjusted the research points info in doctrine widow regarding resolution.

• Implemented teammates evading leg kick and ram

• Adjusted quest info position in world map regarding resolution.

• Adjusted Encumbrance tooltip for lower resolutions.

• Adjustments to uess1

• Fixed latest mutations not saving

• Taunt will alert units on a large area now

• Added unique plank.

• Changed the font for subtitles.

• Changed the font in attributes, skills and bonuses windows.

• Added a pistol by default to Thomas.

• Formated the sleep time.

• Minor adjustments in trainers quests text.

• Distance to evade zombie's projectiles/special abilities increased

• Teammates evade themselves (this avoids the cases where teammates would stay too close to each other)

• We cannot reload while carrying stuff

• Physics for trees in cp1 added

• Reduced projectile avoidance radius to 3

• Fixed a crash in ht3 where a spawner would spawn zombies outside map

• Teammates cannot regroup if they are fainted

• Increase the QE Linger timer.

• Added new doctrine "Cat Walk" (walk/run noise reduction, increase noise inhibitor weapons damage).

• Started adding the missing storyboards

• Teammates' AI adjusted so they find a way to hit an enemy if they cannot see it from where they are

• Traders have 5 weapon bonuses for sale now

• Adjusted "Body hardening drills" doctrine.

• Fixed the issue with trouble talking to Goons

• Removed continuous regeneration mutation on Aberrations (they were too powerful)

• Adjusted starting/ending storyboards to have the storyteller in, hinted and exposed at the game's end.

• Adjusted trainers quest to make it that you need to come back to them to finish the quest.

• Crawler aberration adjusted (we were killing it too easily since it doesn't attack)

• Fixed the issue with the boss music playing after an aberration died

• Adjusted progress bars position in inventory and infected to look correctly on every resolution.

• Kramer attack speed adjusted so it doesn't stuck in attack animation

• Improved the way teammates approach enemies (fixed a few cases where they stayed aside even if the enemy was nearby)

• Improved the way they avoid aberrations special attacks

• Adjustments to teammates AI

• Fixed "Freddy quick event won't trigger" issue.

• Andrea's perk (Nurse) also have + 30% chance to not use Medical Kit when healing.

• Change the font for storyboard and make it look good on smaller resolutions.

• Antidote is now a normal item, we receive 3 of them when resolve chain quest and consume them when cure or give to Megan.

• Switched Muramasa and Steve Blaner's Repeater rewards.

• Added new boss : Carrie

• Added new unique weapon: Stinger.

• Teammates should shoot though other teammates (in the past they didn't attack if teammates where between them and the enemy).

• Adjustments to storyboard texts

• Added new quick event in Alphabet City (Kill Carrie).

• Flare's fire effect frequency/size increased

• If we set fullscreen the game will automatically set the monitor resolution (to overcome the issue with a different fullscreen resolution which on Alt+Tab will make the game crash)

• Heal squad when talk to medic.

• Teammates react regarding your position (in a radius given by the current command reaction distance - regroup and attack). They won't stray too far and will always attack enemies in your range

• Halfling aberration Scream distance decreased by 2

• 'Need help' messages from teammates appear in red now

• Maximum number of teammates you can have in your squad via doctrines, perks and CJ ability is 5.

• When talking with a trader now we can show all teammates portraits.

• While in panel mode selecting a teammate portrait will open inventory for that teammate.

• Research points quest rewards are now gained by teammates also.

• Cathy Castellan confession document re-written

Since announcements accept only a finite number of characters, more information about the release notes can be read at Scorpius Game's site : http://www.scorpiusgames.com/?p=1693