OpenXR & Major Improvements Update

Welcome Back Hunters!

Long wait is over and the OpenXR update is here! This massive VR overhaul brings support for the majority of the headsets with better performance and smoother inputs. Just make sure that the right OpenXR runtime is set active before launching the game. We have pinned instructions on how to do this in the forums!

The update also includes a lot of changes, improvements, long awaited bug fixes and much, much more! To highlight a few there are visual changes to the Bulgaria map with more texture variations, surrounding mountains, faster terrain rendering with new shaders, herd idles to all animals, improved animal idle and flee behavior and improved audio.

Support for majority of the headsets with OpenXR
Reworked all inputs and interactions to support OpenXR
Updated Unity engine and all related plugins and assets
Vive cosmos and controllers should work now but needs confirmation

Added herd idles to all animals. This means that animals will stop as a group for longer periods of time. This breaks their constant walking, makes their behavior more natural and helps players catch up to them while tracking.
Improved animal idle behavior by adding more variation
Animals will catch up to their herd by trotting if they fall too behind
Improved general herd movement and behavior
Improved animal flee behavior. Animals' flee direction has more variation and they won’t flee directly away from the player anymore. They can also change direction while fleeing
Higher bleed rate will leave more blood tracks
Reworked Red Deer’s piebald fur textures
Reworked animal footprints
Animal footprints scale based on the animals weight
Improved deer air sniffing animation to be more clear
Improved wild boar’s trott animation
Decreased Hares and Pheasants walking audio volumes
Improved highlight visibility of animal’s tracks by adding more consistent outline to it
Improved animal pathfinding to prevent them from getting stuck
Decreased the pheasants health slightly
Adjusted animal hearing values (mostly lowered so players can sneak up to animals easier without them spooking from far away)

Replaced Oculus Audio with Steam Audio to improve audio spatialization, quality and performance
Improved and added more terrain texture variation in Bulgaria map
Replaced terrain rendering shader with better and faster one
Added surround mountains to the Bulgaria map
Added branches, leaf piles and moss patches to the biomes
Added distance shadows to the trees
Shadows off setting will now completely disable shadows in the game
Reworked all highlights in the game (items, tracks, animal highlights etc)
Books will now open when they are grabbed
You can grab the top of the ladder to help climbing
Adjusted binoculars sharpness to match the scopes
Removed footstep sounds when the player is falling
Improved the .223 rifles bolt’s grab area
Reworked the 3D deer target
Changed audio to start at 0% volume when opening the game
Lowered the rangefinders price
Bullet path thickness on x-ray view and targets are now based on the bullets diameter
Several adjustments to the fog during daytime, early mornings and general improvements
Reworked all ammo boxes with new design and look
Added a visible bullet when chambering a round with the rifles
Ammoboxes will close when the weapon your holding is full and opens if they are not

Adjusted terrain to reflect light properly when looking towards the sun instead of being completely black
Removed an outline from several vegetation when looking against fog or other light background
Improved optics stabilization
Added more moss to the mountain biome
Added a sound effect when walking over branches
Improved audio spatialization when walking through vegetation
Added sounds to few plants when walking through them
Improved animal tracking by decreasing the distance when animals leave tracks and with herd idle players should have an easier time catching up to them.
Improved locking check of bolts and sliders in rifles to prevent empty shots if bolt wasn’t fully down

Fixed a major issue where animals could hear the player beyond their hearing range after getting spooked
Fixed a major issue where animals would by default walk towards the north and over time move almost all animals to the northern parts of the map
Fixed an issue where shotgun barrel switch rotated around wrong pivot point
Fixed an issue where you can drop ammo from your hand with Valve Index controllers
Fixed an issue where wrong info board would open when purchasing the 3-9x50 scope
Fixed an issue where the arrow wasn’t pointing to the right save slot button
Fixed an issue where pheasants gave full integrity with rifles when shot on the ground
Fixed an issue where fireplace sound was heard far away
Fixed a major issue where animals left too little blood tracks
Fixed an issue where an animal could stop leaving blood tracks even if it was still bleeding
Fixed an issue where several rocks and objects didn’t have colliders
Fixed an issue where item highlight would stay on after touching the item
Fixed an issue where the map could get stuck on the left hand when dropping it
Fixed an issue where trophy mounts were placed slightly inside the fireplace (You have to move them to place them correctly if they currently are misplaced)
Fixed an issue where game audio could be really low after loading to the Bulgaria map
Fixed an issue where animals would flee very short distance if player was far enough
Fixed several issues with animals idle animations and behavior
Fixed an issue where the stick in pheasants mount poses would disappear
Fixed an issue where game audio was on while loading
Fixed and issue where player would spawn inside the outpost in the tutorial and fade would turn off before player was moved to the right position outside
Fixed an issue where animals would not continue looking around if it was stopped once
Fixed an issue where players could move during load times
Fixed an issue where you couldn’t place a scope back on the weapon
Fixed an issue where you could grab a weapon from the backpack on your back after first loading in to the game
Fixed an issue where pheasants had super hearing

Happy hunting!

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Virtual Hunter update for 15 March 2023

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