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Over the weekend NovaTech Industries will be announcing a new building material which is in it's last phase of research as well as a new server event which will be released simultaneously and shortly.

Changelist:

• Fixed double containers in Northport.
  
• Fixed the Underground Bunkers in the Arctic.
  
• Fixed the missing road / ground in Metropolis
  
• Replaced all items in rad-towns with LOD items, this will give better performance.
  
• Fixed containers in radtowns with missing Lootpoints, there is now a lot more lootpoints in general !
  
• Fixed all the vehicle spawners which will increase the rate and areas where Roaches and Goats spawns by tenfolds !
  
• Fixed and greatly improved the Highway!
  
• Added staircases to city-buildings.
  
• Removed Green ore from Yellow desert
  
• Removed some Green/Blue ore from Volcano, they only spawn close to the mouth of the volcano.
  
• Finished up the Geyser area and made a lava river to further separate the map.
  
• Added NoBuild-zones at The Volcano, Slimy Lake, Northport, Lighthouse and some other OP hotspots.
  
• Added slight radiation to Tunnels - but kept the Build zone for now.
  
• Added dead Alpha Six Robot infantry units, with loot..
  
• Moved some freshspawns closer to beach, out of Rad zone.
  
• Added more spots for Gasoline. - Open oildrums now give you various amounts of gas, they're spread around in radtowns etc.
  
• Added a bunch of big jumps! it's Kanga time soon!
  
• Added new mystic area! The Temple of Doom
  
• Added new gasoline area! The Resistance Camp
  
• Added new stone areas! The Drilling Camps
  
• Added new mineral areas! Arctic Research Camps
  
• Added new coal area! The Coal Factory
  
• Added new lethal Hazard: Quicksand!
  
• Added a beautiful Aurora Borealis to the arctic skies.
  
• + Lots of minor and various fixes and tuning of resources and objects in different areas throughout the map

While it is still a 'work in progress' - and probably will be a continuously updated project. It just went public on the workshop.

It's been a nine month long learning-by-doing project for my part. And it's been as frustrating as it's been fun. Lots of people to thank for helping out: Icepick912, Sionn, Cowtrix, Jynxs, Fablitos, Vukly_Aura, Break, Sans, Myth, Noviets, Id3ntyD, Spencer, Wulf ... The list could go on. Thanks for all your help and patience! :)

Hopefully the effort has been worth it, and people will enjoy the map.

This update has focused on optimization and improving fps. It will most likely be the next-to-last update before the map goes to live in the workshop.


The balance (aka difficulty finding and farming resources) is still very interesting to get feedback on. Full endgame for ELITE players should be at least 25-30h game-time.


Changelist:

• Added LOD groups to almost every custom item
  
• Added A glacier to the Arctic Biome
  
• Added some new rock and mountain assets
  
• Added radiation to all the craters in and around the Army Base
  
• Made farming area (around glacier) a bit less cold. You should be getting minimum half a day (daylight) of farming before freezing in full end gear.

On-going issues:

• Navmesh not working. -> Devs. please look into this..
  
• LOD groups for some standard assets not preset, will have to be created.
  
• Terrain texture splatmap could be improved.
  
• Freeway collider is acting weird when on foot.
  
• No animation or sounds because of game memory leak.