Hour Zero - Horror Survival

Devlog

• HOTFIX
  June 17, 2024 by Rhazul

  -fixed missing variable -changed centipede state machine... Continue reading
• LIGHTING REVAMP, STATE MACHINE CLEANUP
  June 16, 2024 by Rhazul

  -fixed item glow appearing ontop of player when standing on loot -replaced the individual background npc sliders with a general threshold slider. amount of npcs now scales with performance -improved p... Continue reading

  
• BUGFIXES,OVERHAUL
  June 12, 2024 by Rhazul

  -fixed npc's messing up the render perspective -fixed glob (again) -some stuff... Continue reading
• QUALITY OF LIFE FIXES
  June 05, 2024 by Rhazul

  -improved the render pipeline -rewrote the "glob", similar to 0.10.5.3, fixed some edge cases -fixed and improved fire spread / flamethrower -lava reacts to explosions -fixed some mesh issues... Continue reading

  
• MAJOR PERFORMANCE UPDATE
  May 31, 2024 by Rhazul

  -Split the walls into two seperate systems for collisions and rendering results in overall higher instance count but less colliders active and more control over shadow occluders (20+ % performance gai... Continue reading

  
• NEW CORRUPTION ENEMY TYPE, HUD OVERHAUL
  January 23, 2024 by Rhazul#Horror, #2.5d, #survival

  -made the HUD elements blend out dynamically, general HUD overhaul -added new enemy type -gameplay tweaks, quality of life improvements... Continue reading

  
• FRIENDLY PLANTS
  January 10, 2024 by Rhazul

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  plants have feelings too! and im having a hunch this one hates your guts... -minor tweaks/fixes -debree when shooting walls -added a lil friendly plant... Continue reading

  
• TEXTURE IMPROVEMENTS, FIXES
  January 09, 2024 by Rhazul

  -added debree when shooting walls -improved fire visuals -distinct venomous (lime green) / general ground animals -fixed some sprite stacking issues -fixed some animations/movement being synchronous... Continue reading

  
• DYNAMIC SHADOWS, LIGHTING REVAMP
  January 08, 2024 by Rhazul

  -toned down the line of sight shadows -added support for full dynamic shadows for every lightsource -reworked fire visuals -added occluder mesh for chairs -fixed fire healing you... Next up: Normal ma... Continue reading

  
• HOTFIX, NPC INTERACTION FIX
  January 06, 2024 by Rhazul

  adressed some issues that can lead to a game crash, aswell as npc-inheritance related render/despawn issues overall the game should be more stable... Continue reading
• MISSING VARIABLES FIX
  January 05, 2024 by Rhazul

  added two missing variables to the dynamic entity main class. this resulted in a crash in combination with turrets... Continue reading
• IMPROVED FIRE SPREAD & HUD INDICATORS, BUGFIXES
  January 04, 2024 by Rhazul

  The fire spread mechanic is now way more predictable and consistent. Hud indicators got a rework and now thruthfully represent the state of the player. Being on fire is now a real thing for the charac... Continue reading

  
• V0_10_4_0 FIXES AND ADDITIONS
  December 30, 2023 by Rhazul

  - Various bugfixes - Added laser-turret - Added poison to worms, aswell as spiders (lime green) - Added wall mounted lights... Continue reading

  
• CHAIRS, BETTER BLOOD & BUGFIXES
  December 27, 2023 by Rhazul

  -added chair prop -fixed randomly dying to loot -more gory blood on highest gore setting... Continue reading
• NEW OCCLUSION CULLING & ANGRY LAVA
  December 24, 2023 by Rhazul

  Middle of the test chamber now thrones a geysir straight from hell. The big change this update lies in the render system, and we can hope for a 50% performance increase aswell as less spikes. - Fixed... Continue reading