What's new?

Rendering

• Switched to Deferred Rendering. New features including:
  
• Screen Space Reflections
  
• Screen Space Global Illumination
  
• Lumen Reflections
  
• Lumen Global Illumination
  
• Contact Shadows
  
• Distance Field Shadows. Increased shadow coverage at distance.
  
• Hardware Raytracing
  
• Path Tracing (works on desktop version, VR keeps invalidating the scene because of headset movement)
  
• Parallax Occlusion Mapping
  

Gameplay

• Real time 24 hour Day and night cycle
  
• Better destructible physics
  

VR

• Frame rate independent smooth turn. It used to slow down when performance fluctuates. You can turn at the same speed independent of your FPS now
  
• (Fix)Grabbed objects and weapons could be attached to the player character outside of allowed holsters. Should be fixed now.
  

UI

• New and improved menu
  

Optimization

• Smaller game size. Switched to different compression method. Loading speed should be the same or a bit slower.
  
• Reduced flower variation for better instancing with minimal visual impact.
  
• Shader and material tweaks.
  
• More optimization work. Performance should be even better now.
  

Worldspace

• Enabled World Partition to handle open world loading/unloading. Now I can start expanding the map without worrying too much.