Update 1.0.6F: General Fixes, Optimisation, Residential, Nav Fixes, and Vendors.

Update 1.0.6F

General Fixes, Optimisation, Residential, Nav Fixes, Vendors, and much more below.

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• Leaving Elevator Areas (Bio-Habitats, Storage Floors), has a Fast travel UI.

• New Earth Hallucinations were tweaked to depict the 'user' as Yvan Mortis.

• Elevator HUD is now dynamic, and improved substancially.

• Elevator now goes to the 'Insertion Zone', a Survival based area,

• This area provides access to all the Beta 6 Elevator areas.

• This area allows Demons to randomly drop loot when killed.

• Older Elevator areas from Beta 5 and prior, have been removed.

• Optimised Demons (GPU) to better use LOD techniques*.

• Optimised Demons (GPU/CPU) to use Animation Sharing techniques*.

• Optimised Demons (GPU/CPU) to use Animation Budgeting techniques*.

• Optimised Demons (GPU/CPU) to cut down vertices and bone data*.

• Optimised Demons (CPU) to cut down runtime distant sound code*.

• Optimised Demons (CPU) to cut down runtime nav calculations*.

• Demon skins slightly limited to favour performance (for now)*.

• Demon animations slightly limited to favour performance (for now)*.

• 3+ Legged Demons have been removed, they will be optimised and return later*.

• *These increase idle demon counts in levels from 70 to 200, matching fps.

• *These increase chasing demon counts in levels from 40 to 100, matching fps.

• UE Navigation has been re-integrated with stable behaviour in certain areas**.

• **Prior Nav Technique was saved for certain Demon Types, and most older areas.

• **Navigation type is toggled at runtime, using new features added to AI Systems.

• **UE Navigation Areas/Demon Types have added Crowd Control/Mass Avoidance.

• **UE Navigation is recalculated at runtime, (in thoery) this allows modded maps to work.

• Music has been fixed since the last patch, no tracks are still muted or have issues.

• Blood and Death effects have been modified, improved, and slightly optimised.

• Gameplay has been improved in 'Survival Mode' areas. With new UI, Sounds and Notifications.

• Survival Mode code and logic has been improved substancially, it's both more clear and stable.

• Manufacturing Vendor 'Artisan' moved to 'Insertion Zone'. Type is dynamic, 1 daily bill to use all.

• Manufacturing Vendor 'Orders' moved to 'Insertion Zone'. Type is dynamic, 1 daily bill to use all.

• Manufacturing Vendor 'Trader' moved to 'Insertion Zone'. Type is dynamic, 1 daily bill to use all.

• Manufacturing Vendor's have different coloured UI speech (I will apply this to other UI later).

• Getting killed while talking to a vendor will now force the UI and Vendor to cancel.

• Chance to spawn Construction Parts as loot increased by 5% for all Container Types.

• Every 3 rounds, the Survival Code will wait a random time between 60/120s for you to access vendors/loot.

• Bio Habitats now have UE Navigation support, both Standard and Combat Versions.

• Storage Floors now have UE Navigation support, both Standard and Combat Versions.

• Storage floor floating doorways removed for now, may return, a bigger fix will come later.

• Teleporters on Bio-Habitats better sligned to level and terrain floor.

• New Vendor 'Dreamcatcher' added to the 'Insertion Zone', doesn't need payment.

• This allows 'trading dreams with anothers'. Changes your next dream when sleeping.

• 1 dream added to the 'Dreamcatcher', there will be more added as updates get finished.

• Dream is Nyxandria's/Lyreath's history, an emotional and heavy sequence, a twist of perspective.

• Added tech behind the scenes which allows a male protagonist, but it's not ready yet***.

• ***This is a less perfect solution, but otherwise i'd need to re-make thousands of animations.

• Character Creation HUD has been tweaked slightly, improving wording for Female/Male body types.

• Main Menu tweaked to rename "New Game" to "Story Mode", these buttons also have new descriptors.

• Main Menu tweaked to allow new "Survival Mode", a less forced and faster ruleset with no Intro/Ending****.

• ****This will be enabled later, it will be based on the "Debug - Skip Intro" button already present.

• Recoil is now 50% less for all weapons.

• Vendors having wrong UI assigned, or wrong trigger sizes, has been fixed.

• UI Overlays for Locations now have a second indicator for loot. Only used in 'Insertion Zone'.

• Old survival mode locations (Storage Combat Floor, and Bio Combat Floor) handle spawn types differently.

• Old survival mode locations don't use the new HUD overlay, that is preserved for the 'Insertion Zone' only.

• Pause menu dev teleport button changed, now goes to 'Insertion Zone' instead of "Floor X".

• Total NPC Spawns for Bio-Habitats and Bio-Combats limited to 250, and 150 respectively.

• Bio-Habitats and Bio-Combats now use Unbound Navigation, and Ground Demon Types can spawn.