Prehistoric Kingdom update for 25 December 2021

Welcome, park managers!

With Christmas officially upon us, we felt there was no better way to close 2021 off with a festive holidays content patch!

Additions

• Animals

• New Animal Enrichment: Blood Pumpkin
• New Animal Enrichment: Frozen Fruit Block
• Buildings & Scenery

• New Guest Facilities: Modern Table (x4)
• New Props: Table Umbrella (x2)
• New Official Prefabs: Shaded Table Modern (x4)
  
• Lamp Decorative Hanging (x2)
• Lamp Decorative Straight (x2)
• Lamp Decorative Vertical (x2)
• Foliage

• Alaskan Yellow Cedar (x3)

• Douglas Fir (x3)

• Alpine Bearberry (x3)

• Alpine Currant (x3)

• Biomes

  • Added the Boreal Biome with all its substrates: Snow, Withered Grass, Gravel & Rock

• Audio

  • Speeding up time will now play time-specific sound events for better feedback

Changes

• Buildings & Scenery

  • Introduced collision checks for bins, benches, and tables
  • Decreased default scale for Wheelbarrow

• Foliage

  • Updated icons for Scrubland foliage

• Rendering

  • Reduced bright blue hues in the screen-space reflections
  • Reflection probes now account for clouds
  • Generally improved water rendering, particularly sky color reflection accuracy
  • Improved underwater graphics

• Audio

  • Certain entity sounds now remain audible when time is sped up e.g. animal growls, calls, etc.
  • General mix adjustments for when the game is sped up

Bug Fixes

• Critical

  • Fixed power node refreshing events to trigger at the expected times - previous performance improvements had accidentally messed this up
  • Should have fixed a critical selection error that caused double clicking to lock up player input

• Buildings & Scenery

  • Fixed saved light coloring resetting on new placement

• Rendering

  • Resolved distant atmospheric flickering
  • Fixed downscaled resolution for underwater effects
  • Fixed animal outline popping up on demolition actions

• Construction

  • Fixed flashing grid on modular action end

• UX

  • Fixed weather transitions not applying correctly on different timescales

Performance

• Slightly improved performance of rain particle effects
• Improved water CPU efficiency

The team will take a short winter vacation, but we'll be back in full swing come early January, so see everybody then!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!