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Tall fences no longer being indestructible is a very welcome change and its going to have a big impact on gameplay. Less safety is better in this game.

Tall fences no longer being indestructible is a very welcome change and its going to have a big impact on gameplay. Less safety is better in this game.

Tall fences no longer being indestructible is a very welcome change and its going to have a big impact on gameplay. Less safety is better in this game.

Hey all, a good mix of things this ‘doid.
 
Fun gameplay stuff, and a chunk of info we wanted to flag for modder-awareness and the more tech-minded amongst you. (Feel free to skip that bit to get to the more enticing gun stuff from Fenris that’s become its first application.)
 
Onwards, then.
HUNKER INNA BUNKER
Permanent underground structures are being added to the internal build’s map for testing.
 
As discussed before some basement locations will be randomised to add surprise flavour to your looting, but there’ll be plenty of ever-present locations that will likely be survivor favourites for taking over and making your own.
 
Here’s a fun example, which also very clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of B42’s tech upgrade that governs the realistic spread of light. It really is very dark down there, and with that very claustrophobic and scary…
 
 
Another aspect of the underground structures is sound, and now we’ve got more and more of these in the test build our sound team will be working to cut out wildlife sounds, add muffle, echo, drips and such. Likewise, meanwhile, another focus is adjusting the noise of ‘street level’ activity when you climb higher in buildings.
 
It’s also worth mentioning that in 42, or at least certainly its unstable release, you will not be able to tunnel or break down the external walls of underground structures. This is something it would be healthy for the engine to be able to do (although we’d never have Minecraft-style insta-tunnels in vanilla, clearly) but is probably a can of worms best opened later down the line.
 
CRAFTING
In amongst the feverish connecting of code wires from others on the crafting team, Turbo has been working on the new interface that will allow for hand-crafting items on in-game surfaces.
 
We’ve got something ready to go into the internal build, but in its current WIP form still needs some polish – and probably isn’t quite ready to show off before its rough edges have been smoothed out.
 
In essence though, this work has been to cater for crafting items that aren’t as straightforward as ripping clothing to make bandages or opening a can of beans (which will always be feasible just in your hands) but don’t necessarily need a specialized workstation either.
 
Activities like preparing a sandwich or making a nailed baseball bat logically require a handy surface to perform the work. The way it’s being implemented – any logical surface will do (tables, counters etc) but this sort of crafting will no longer be possible while standing in the middle of the street with zombies approaching.
 
In terms of changes in player habits and behaviour going from 41 to 42, this will probably be the one that’s felt most keenly. There’s a lot of muscle memory we’ll be scrubbing out here, after all. However we are doing our utmost to keep it logical, and to keep it real.
 
The current challenge has been to devise an interface that accomplishes all the tasks necessary: providing a handy way of browsing or looking up the recipes, allowing for crafting of multiple objects, allowing the use of tools to modify the quality or success chances of the crafting, and giving access to all the functionality provided in the crafting update.
 
We’re not there yet on this surface level, but functionally on the code level it’s all there and working and ready to be integrated into the game. Next steps will be to make the UI as clean and convenient as can be, improving and iterating as we go, as it’s such a core aspect of 42.
 
(Just to reiterate, however, simple crafts like ripping bandages and so on will still be craftable in the way they are in 41: right clicking the item and clicking the relevant right click menu option. This is still the most immediate and convenient way for a player to do these split second crafts in the midst of action.)
 
Meanwhile, of course, the results of all this new crafting continue to get pumped through from the art department, prepped and laid into the code. Here’s a few that popped through recently.
 
MULTIPLAYER
We haven’t heard from the MP bods in a little while so let’s go over to Andrei for a little while:

“We are very busy on the Multiplayer side of things. When Build 41 MP was first released we had three coders on our team, and now due to the success of 41 we have five.
 
As many will be aware we have been focused on anti-cheat functionality for the last several months which is now being finalized: preventing cheating with inventory and items by moving their processing from clients to the server.
 
Clearly simultaneous to this we have also been working on the integration of new 42-specific gameplay – most notably adding support for animals into MP.
 
We have also been moving the team onto the fixes, feature requests and changes we have heard from the community.
 
Some highlights of this are as follows, but please note that our list is long and not everything will be mentioned! If you’ve felt it or found it annoying in your MP play then it is probably on our list:
 
Privacy and Anti-Cheat work. We are improving our anti-cheat functionality, and adding various new mechanisms. Improving synchronization of characters between clients. We are debugging and fixing issues where zombies appear unexpectedly for the player, or players teleport instead of walking. PVP animations and logging. Current hit reactions in PVP lead to unfair and unfun behaviours, likewise there are issues with disconnecting during PVP. We are planning to fix this and extend PVP logging. Safehouses. As players will be aware, there are various issues related to exploits and safehouse raids that we need to fix. We also have a lot of things in mind for nice-to-have improvements that we hope to share with you in future blogs.  
Thanks to Andrei for his thoughts and, again, to underline – this isn’t the only stuff that’s on their ‘to do’ list. It is, however, what’s in their sights over the month ahead.
 
While we are talking MP, however, it would be remiss to not mention another side project that’s gone into the game recently.
This is disguise option for multiplayer which, if enabled by the server admin, will allow players to disguise their username by wearing a combination of lower and upper face coverings, or indeed full face coverings.
 
The hope is that these will create some interesting dynamics for RP and PVP servers, and indeed for general banditry purposes.
 
(Clearly there’s also a few failsafes having to be built into this! Admins will be able to can also disguise themselves too if enabled and will always see right through disguises, there’s an option to disable disguises inside safehouses, and the system can be disabled entirely on servers that don’t want anonymity to be a feature).
 
OTHER FUN STUFF
Okay, before we get to some of the more in-depth stuff some quickfire smaller nuggets of interesting things that have gone into the game recently.
We are making some character traits have more direct gameplay implications – with a case-in-point being character builds with vision-related issues. Likewise, helmets and headgear that limit what your player can see will get similar, but not identical, effects.
 
(PLEASE NOTE: effect seen in the following video is WIP. It was an internal video, but is too fun not to share)
 
 

The Event Zone’s Wild West tourist attraction is now in testing and open for business – now featuring a new game item that is the wooden coffin.
 
 
Our good friend Ash from TEA has been working with us to integrate Bink into PZ, which is some cool middleware that grown-up games use to play videos, cut-scenes and the like.
 
We’re primarily getting it integrated for some cosmetic changes you’ll discover when you boot up the game that’ll be seen at a later date, but it also means that we can now show tutorial videos and such in-game.
 
In future it also makes moving images on TV screens, cinema screens etc. a possibility – although that’ll be a luxury that comes about long after 42 unstable.
 
 
Finally, in the Fun Stuff section – Fox’s 4K-ification mission continues. In fact, it’s nearly done and higher-resolution UIs for 4K players will shortly become available in the internal test build.
 
With higher resolutions, meanwhile comes higher resolution screen furniture. So bid a hearty hello to some of your new, newly detailed, moodles. Friendly folk, aren’t they?
 
PROF’S PROC-GEN
ProfMobius, he of Minecraft heritage who we brought on board towards the end of last year, has been working on the procedurally generated wilderness to exist outside the map borders to allow for a not quite infinite but huge world outside the main map.
 
Currently he’s working on automatic blending between hand crafted content such as the edge of the map with the generated wilderness biomes, to allow for a smooth and seamless transition between them without visible borders.
 
This will also be invaluable for modders, as currently it’s a rather difficult task to blend the edges of a modded map with the vanilla map, which often results in an ugly sudden border of trees or vegetation changes as you transition.
 
The new system will blend in the procedural elements gradually into the vegetation that exists on a modded map, so the border will be less jarring.
He’s also looking into generating roads so they continue from the borders of the main map, which will massively expand the canvas for modders to position their modded maps – what with them now being able to space them out amongst a huge game world instead of overwriting or extending the main map which will vastly reduce the potential for conflicts.
Definitions for biomes, as well as template for road styles will be creatable in lua, allowing for easy modding to provide more diverse and new biomes with different vegetation, different road styles, and ultimately modders will also have access to the building stamping functionality provided by the basement system and could well extend that to place buildings in the world too.
 
The full wilderness map will have a different set of biomes to choose from, allowing less realistic but more varied biomes to be feasible: travelling an hour down the road to get from a desert to a tundra, for example.
 
For obvious reason, however, the extension of the main game map borders will be restricted to sensible Kentucky biomes, but may be able to include stuff like farmland as well as forests and plains.
 
With this system in place, and the huge swaths of wilderness with convenient road networks to utilize, it’s our hope that a heavily map-modded game could have a truly huge gameplay area 100s of times bigger than currently, with potentially miles of wilderness between major locations added by modders
IMGUI DEBUGGING
Okay – this is the technical bit for modders I warned you about. There’s some fun gun-related stuff afterwards if you make it through.
Finally, we expect this to be more of interest to modders than general players, but it will also impact the ease of future development of the game so is good news all around.
 
For the ease of integration of various aspects of Build 43 we took some time to implement a debug gui library known as imgui into the game which replaces our somewhat time- consuming lua based debug interfaces. We realised that it would likely benefit Build 42 content too, and as such it became part of its glorious whole – and indeed started giving us results the very next day.
 
Imgui is, essentially, the industry standard for providing powerful easy-to-implement debugging uis into game engines and it’s already paying dividends.
If you are bored at this point it’s fine to skip to the guns.
First of all, before anyone gets excited about this being used for mod UIs for gameplay, we’re strictly only allowing this to be enabled when debug is activated in the game.
 
This is because the way imgui needs to be rendered is extremely detrimental to our rendering multithreading since it doesn’t support it on opengl, as well as this the entire point of the system is to provide extremely quick to implement debugging UI that favours ease of implementation over performance.
 
As such we need to put our foot down on restricting the new UI to debugging otherwise we’d quickly see our performance gains eaten up dramatically by modded games. We do plan a big UI overhaul in future but want to use UI middleware suited for actual end user gameplay, with all the performance, swishes, fades, pulses and slickness the UI finally deserved. ImGui is not that.
 
In debug mode, the game can now run with more a ‘development IDE’ feel, with various inspectors and dockable windows to examine the bowels of the game and the game viewport as a dockable and resizable window. For example you can inspect all the game UI elements active to allow for easier UI work and debugging within the game, and you can inspect variables on a plotted graph to help balance values over time. Otherwise you can inspect in-game textures and other assets, and numerous other helpful things which should really aid in demystifying the game’s innards for our modding community.
 
 
Modders will be able to dive in and look into the guts of lua and java at runtime to inspect anything they like: navigating through characters, items, or anything else to inspect them.
 
Imgui also contains a fully functional text editor. We plan for this to be completely integrated for lua editing within the game itself, as well as a more robust debugger to replace the slightly ropey F11 one we currently have, however this is also a challenge due to the way lua executes so will come later.
 
In the meantime, for a nice Build 43 behind the scenes, here is the in-game AI behaviour editing UI with breakpoints, stepping and watch window:
In terms of more imminent usage for game-improvement, meanwhile, let’s move over to Fenris at the gun range.
 
GUN IMPROVEMENTS
From the second imgui was made available Fenris, he of ORGM mod vintage, leapt at the opportunity to use its features to do some intensive firearms work: making them more useful at lower skill levels without breaking balance, while also providing for more tweaks for accuracy based on the player’s actions.
 
Here he is on the firing range, with imgui active.
 
 
Here, the graph shows a new AimingDelay mechanic (the blue line) first initially dropping after the player starts to stablise their aim, then rising with each shot – then overlaid with the recoil delay and animation states. We see him taking timed shots and waiting briefly so his aim stabilises again. The effect can then be seen across the different skill levels, and how the rate of fire changes.
 
Fenris’ work on improvement here is extensive, but aspects of his commits to the game these past two weeks have included:
 
Rebalance of how hit chances and recoil are calculated, and general RoF with firearms. Improved the target highlighting which was previously misleading, with the colour shifting to green shades with lower hit chances than expected. This is now corrected to go green closer to 80%. Previously only aiming & reloading skills, the distance to target and how long ago you stopped moving had an effect on the highlight. Now Strength helps with recoil, Dexterous and All-Thumbs impact on shouldering the weapon, and Eagle-Eyed and Shortsighted can change the optimal sight range. Rates of Fire have been increased to more realistic expectations, but it now takes a bit of time to stabilize your aim when initially shouldering the weapon or after each shot. This time is reduced by aiming skill and various traits and conditions. Firing as fast as possible is less accurate then taking your time and lining up the shot. The lighting of the target square is also now taken into account.  
FINALLY
We saw this pop up on the YouTubes and thought it was a great run-down on what we’ve been working on. Our thanks to CosmiicSteem for the vid!
 
This week’s foggy safehouse from Rick Grimes, though presumably not the real one. A full round-up of everything confirmed for Build 42 can be found here. A changelist of all our pre-release and post-release patches since the 41 beta began can be found here. The Centralized Block of Italicised Text would like to direct your attention to the PZ Wiki should you feel like editing or amending something, and the PZ Mailing List that can send you update notifications once builds get released. We also live on Twitter right here! Our Discord is open for chat and hijinks too. Experienced games industry gameplay coder and want to join Team Awesome? Jobs page here.

If I remember correctly, basements are randomly assigned to buildings. Or maybe I'm thinking the TYPE of basement is randomly asigned. Or both. Its in one of the thursdoid posts.

If you think its tough for dedicated players like yourself and myself (around 1200 hours now) to have to wait this long for the next big patch release....imagine how hard it is for TIS staff who work on this more hours than we play it, having to wait to get all their hard work out to the public for everyone to enjoy. OP, you need to get over yourself and take a break from PZ. Play something else for awhile. Come back later. The game will still be there, and you'll be in a better headspace or the game will have been updated bringing about many of the updates and fixes we're all waiting for.
 
As a lifelong gamer who really crashed hard into it on the original NES as a kid in the late 80s, and spent a stupidly large amount of time playing games since then, I can easily say that PZ represents one of the top three games that allows players to create their own narrative in a really open ended fashion. Its one of the best narrative generators I've ever come across. And the game only gets better when you embrace it as a story creator driven by you the player. Morrowind is the other game that comes easily to mind in this regard. 

If you think its tough for dedicated players like yourself and myself (around 1200 hours now) to have to wait this long for the next big patch release....imagine how hard it is for TIS staff who work on this more hours than we play it, having to wait to get all their hard work out to the public for everyone to enjoy. OP, you need to get over yourself and take a break from PZ. Play something else for awhile. Come back later. The game will still be there, and you'll be in a better headspace or the game will have been updated bringing about many of the updates and fixes we're all waiting for.
 
As a lifelong gamer who really crashed hard into it on the original NES as a kid in the late 80s, and spent a stupidly large amount of time playing games since then, I can easily say that PZ represents one of the top three games that allows players to create their own narrative in a really open ended fashion. Its one of the best narrative generators I've ever come across. And the game only gets better when you embrace it as a story creator driven by you the player. Morrowind is the other game that comes easily to mind in this regard. 

If you think its tough for dedicated players like yourself and myself (around 1200 hours now) to have to wait this long for the next big patch release....imagine how hard it is for TIS staff who work on this more hours than we play it, having to wait to get all their hard work out to the public for everyone to enjoy. OP, you need to get over yourself and take a break from PZ. Play something else for awhile. Come back later. The game will still be there, and you'll be in a better headspace or the game will have been updated bringing about many of the updates and fixes we're all waiting for.
 
As a lifelong gamer who really crashed hard into it on the original NES as a kid in the late 80s, and spent a stupidly large amount of time playing games since then, I can easily say that PZ represents one of the top three games that allows players to create their own narrative in a really open ended fashion. Its one of the best narrative generators I've ever come across. And the game only gets better when you embrace it as a story creator driven by you the player. Morrowind is the other game that comes easily to mind in this regard. 

If you think its tough for dedicated players like yourself and myself (around 1200 hours now) to have to wait this long for the next big patch release....imagine how hard it is for TIS staff who work on this more hours than we play it, having to wait to get all their hard work out to the public for everyone to enjoy. OP, you need to get over yourself and take a break from PZ. Play something else for awhile. Come back later. The game will still be there, and you'll be in a better headspace or the game will have been updated bringing about many of the updates and fixes we're all waiting for.
 
As a lifelong gamer who really crashed hard into it on the original NES as a kid in the late 80s, and spent a stupidly large amount of time playing games since then, I can easily say that PZ represents one of the top three games that allows players to create their own narrative in a really open ended fashion. Its one of the best narrative generators I've ever come across. And the game only gets better when you embrace it as a story creator driven by you the player. Morrowind is the other game that comes easily to mind in this regard. 

OP has a valid concern and point and its driven by love of the game. I also have very similar concerns. I understand that we of course don't know everything in the works behind the scenes, but I have high hopes, given the great and passionate history of development of the game so far, that our concerns are ultimately not warranted. 
 
There is a lot of development time and effort going into systems/art/etc to flesh out late game survival in the wilds which helps makes the game more realistic and opens up options that a lot of people would likely take IRL. While that does have its own difficulties, what we've gleaned from the thursdoid is primarily logistical and time management in nature. The hope is that playing PZ in that style doesn't just turn into stardew valley / riftworld where the core narrative and game play functions of having to survive ZOMBIES doesn't just disappear. There are many ways to deal with this including things like more in-depth migration, events, and antagonistic NPC interactions that reintroduce this core element into gameplay with some regularity. There are other challenges like robust sickness/injury/weather systems that would provide greater difficulty surviving in the wilds also. Bottom line, OP, myself, and certainly other players just hope that all this time/effort by the honestly fantastic dev team at Indie Stone on these systems will help address keeping the mid to late game not only more fleshed out but also just as risky and dangerous as early/mid game but in different ways.

OP has a valid concern and point and its driven by love of the game. I also have very similar concerns. I understand that we of course don't know everything in the works behind the scenes, but I have high hopes, given the great and passionate history of development of the game so far, that our concerns are ultimately not warranted. 
 
There is a lot of development time and effort going into systems/art/etc to flesh out late game survival in the wilds which helps makes the game more realistic and opens up options that a lot of people would likely take IRL. While that does have its own difficulties, what we've gleaned from the thursdoid is primarily logistical and time management in nature. The hope is that playing PZ in that style doesn't just turn into stardew valley / riftworld where the core narrative and game play functions of having to survive ZOMBIES doesn't just disappear. There are many ways to deal with this including things like more in-depth migration, events, and antagonistic NPC interactions that reintroduce this core element into gameplay with some regularity. There are other challenges like robust sickness/injury/weather systems that would provide greater difficulty surviving in the wilds also. Bottom line, OP, myself, and certainly other players just hope that all this time/effort by the honestly fantastic dev team at Indie Stone on these systems will help address keeping the mid to late game not only more fleshed out but also just as risky and dangerous as early/mid game but in different ways.

OP has a valid concern and point and its driven by love of the game. I also have very similar concerns. I understand that we of course don't know everything in the works behind the scenes, but I have high hopes, given the great and passionate history of development of the game so far, that our concerns are ultimately not warranted. 
 
There is a lot of development time and effort going into systems/art/etc to flesh out late game survival in the wilds which helps makes the game more realistic and opens up options that a lot of people would likely take IRL. While that does have its own difficulties, what we've gleaned from the thursdoid is primarily logistical and time management in nature. The hope is that playing PZ in that style doesn't just turn into stardew valley / riftworld where the core narrative and game play functions of having to survive ZOMBIES doesn't just disappear. There are many ways to deal with this including things like more in-depth migration, events, and antagonistic NPC interactions that reintroduce this core element into gameplay with some regularity. There are other challenges like robust sickness/injury/weather systems that would provide greater difficulty surviving in the wilds also. Bottom line, OP, myself, and certainly other players just hope that all this time/effort by the honestly fantastic dev team at Indie Stone on these systems will help address keeping the mid to late game not only more fleshed out but also just as risky and dangerous as early/mid game but in different ways.

The animal system looks amazing! Hopefully animal sounds will be attracting zombies too and zombies will kill animals if they catch them.

Holy cow indeed. The vastness of scope this update hints at is tremendous and really exciting.

Bike condition affecting speed and sound is a great idea and definitely in line with the reality of the situation. 
 
Hadn't considered mountain bikes for offroad use, but given the amount of farm and undeveloped land, definitely seems useful. Mountain bikes and their tires could handle offroad at normal levels of durability wear and speed, while a roadbike would lose durability faster and go much slower. And using mountainbikes on road would be slower and louder than road bikes.
 
Besides the various parts, there could even be oil/lube items that help reduce sound from a bike, and keep it faster over time.

Any plans to include bicycles in a future build? They would be a very welcome addition to fill the transportation gap between vehicles and walking/running and would fit into the game world very easily. They have some pretty self evident pros and cons, and could utilize a similar but much reduced form of parts/maintenance that cars do (essentially just tires/tubes, brakes, and frame). You could even have 2-3 levels like cars do, from kids (slow and sturdy) to adults (average and heavy)  to professional (fast and light, but maintenance/parts).
 
Pros:
No fuel needed
Max speed a bit more than a characters sprint but at half the exertion/fitness.
Fairly quiet and nimble
Light enough to pick up and move
 
Cons:
Just as physically vulnerable to zombies as being on foot
Crashing can cause injuries
Cannot run over/damage zombies (but zombies can cause crashes)
Not as fast as cars nor storage capable.

Yep, this would be super helpful. It would function just like curtains. Click once to drop, click once to pull up. Just need a graphic for it coiled below the window when its pulled uip.

I know it must seem thankless to put out huge updates and then have a lot of criticism from the player base, but honestly love how this dev team takes it all in stride and continues revising/updating based on their own internal roadmap and the feedback they get from the community! Looking forward to testing out this new version and hearing the sound adjustments!

I know it must seem thankless to put out huge updates and then have a lot of criticism from the player base, but honestly love how this dev team takes it all in stride and continues revising/updating based on their own internal roadmap and the feedback they get from the community! Looking forward to testing out this new version and hearing the sound adjustments!

I know it must seem thankless to put out huge updates and then have a lot of criticism from the player base, but honestly love how this dev team takes it all in stride and continues revising/updating based on their own internal roadmap and the feedback they get from the community! Looking forward to testing out this new version and hearing the sound adjustments!

41.55 Patch
 
NEW

- Added new 3D items + fixed some.
- Added a context menu for choosing which CD/VHS to insert into the device (when using a controller)
- Display CDs and VHS tapes in the Training Materials UI
- Updated main-menu credits.
- Updated community translations.

ANIMS
- Changed climb fence success anim to a quicker finish  
- Tweaked climb fence fail  
- Shaved off a few frames from Bob/Bob_StaggerBack_3m  
- Adjusted Bob_AttackPistolWhip02.X to same length as shoves  
- Tweaked head of Bob_WalkBwdAimHandgun.X to better blend with other anims  
- Shaved off some frames from Bob_StaggerForward.X  

MODDING

- Added optional vehicle.passenger.showPassenger=true|false parameter for iBrRus.
 When true, the player model isn't hidden when entering, exiting or sitting in that particular seat.

BALANCE

- Player running through a horde will now have greater chance of falling
- Full helmets less likely to fall from zombies attacks.
- Gave vehicles more engine force in first gear.

TRANSLATIONS

- Added translations for Boredom/Stress/etc notification text above the player's head.
- small delay when switching cd/tape on/off
- bzzt-fzzt and zap sound when switching on tape

SOUNDS

- re-balanced the whole reverb/direct signal mix
- tweaked the music volumes of individual tracks a bit (though there might still be more minute things to tweak)
- adjusted player and zombie footstep loudness 
- new scratch lacerate and bite assets with mix adjustments to make them stand out more
- new window thump sounds with 70% chance of additional window "squeak" layer
- first set of new door thumps, we're planning to add a condition parameter to change the sound based on door condition
- some mix adjustments to wind/rain 
- added some fake occlusion for the zombie voices based on their character inside / outside states relative to the players inside outside state until the occlusion system rework
- adjusted balance of finish sound to make them pop out more
- "fixed" the timing issue of the stomp -> head smash delay by delaying the stomp sounds 200ms in general
- turned down drink from sink sound, that was too loud
- fixed the glass breaking sound being too low
- adjusted ambient bed mix to reduce general air backdrop loudness
- made birds / wildlife a bit more sparse
- tweaked the standard car engine a bit
- reduced the volume of the car damage layer
- Added multistagebuild.CompletionSound, the sound that plays when a wall is upgraded.
- minor tweaks and balance
- Fixed some ambient sounds being controlled by the Sound Volume slider instead of the Ambient Volume slider.
- Play the Painting sound when painting signs.
- Added optional ISBuildingObject.completionSound which plays when finishing a carpentry or metalwork action.
- Allow a food item's CustomEatSound script parameter to be an empty string to play no sound instead of the default eating sound.
 This can be used when the animation will play a sound at the right time, instead of starting the sound at the beginning of the action.
- Smoking cigarettes plays the Smoke sound once during each animation loop.
- Updated scripts with BuildMetalStructureXXX and BuildWoodenStructureXXX sounds (they are not implemented yet).
- Play a breaking-object sound when picking up furniture fails.

FIXES

- Fixed hotdrink not working with some mug + double recipes. (Reminder: you need a mug with water to start a hot drink)
- Fixed the selected container in the Loot window changing due to the player turning while transferring items.
- Fixed untranslated Perk names in halo text when a new level is attained.
- Fixed endurance not being drained due to running during "Walk To" movement (or any automatic movement).
- Fixed Lua error trying to play a CD/VHS with the controller.
- Fixed the hotbar remaining hidden after unplugging player #1's controller and reverting to keyboard and mouse.
- Fixed (hopefully) random textures appearing when displaying corpses for the first time.
- Fixed a Lua error with commit 7143 "Fixed the selected container in the Loot window changing"
- Fixed auto-zoom while in a vehicle not respecting the enabled Display zoom options.
- Fixed attaching trailers to vehicles that were removed from the world after being replaced by smashed versions.
- Fixed missing comma in FertilizerEmpty item script.
- Fixed collision properties of stair pillars not being set properly after constructing stairs.
- Fixed "Index -1 out of bounds for length 8" exception in FliesSound due to negative z corpse coordinates.
- Fixed the position of the rotate-item prompt in splitscreen.
- Fixed IsoStove.doSound() exception that happens when a running stove is destroyed by fire.
- Fixed rotate-item prompt appearing when using a controller.
- Fixed the tooltip for the farming cursor and wall-upgrade cursor not being hidden after shoving.
- Fixed missing Tooltip_item_StackWeight (got lost in community-translation update).
- Fixed the Survival Guide being displayed when using a controller; it doesn't work with it currently.
- Fixed the Training Materials button overlapping other text with 3x font size and many traits.
- Fixed missing "/" characters in the Log Wall context-menu tooltip.
- Fixed crafted double-door objects losing some properties when opened (in particular, the thumpSound).
- Fixed missing Tutorial zombie noise, but temporarily using old TutorialZombie sound
- Fixed replacing roofs_accents_xxx sprites with the wrong burned-roof sprites.
- Fixed the Smash Window action being immediately cancelled due to the controller B button being pressed.
- Fixed displaying a context menu of CD/VHS choices when dragging an item to the Device Options window. It is only needed when using a controller.
- Fixed being unable to wash a single bandage in a bag (it wasn't transferred to main inventory first).
- Fixed Joypad tutorial
- Fixed various aspects of tutorial where people were going wrong
- Fixed inventory pane no longer stuck open after nullify mouse drag in tutorial
- Fixed right click menu working after nullify mouse drag in tutorial
- Fixed duplicate issue in more places, when dropping on other locations (ISInventoryPane + ISInventoryPage) in tutorial
- Fixed inventory pane no longer stuck open after nullify mouse drag in tutorial
- Fixed right click menu working after nullify mouse drag in tutorial
- Fixed bandanas providing far too much head protection
- Fixed some containers being rendered high off the ground after being moved by the player.
- Fixed zombies rotating to face the player during hit-reaction and stagger-back animations. This usually happened when hitting zombies from behind.
- Fixed zombies climbing through windows that are behind them. This sometimes happened after the player shoved a zombie into a window.
- Fixed a Lua error in the main menu after deleting the last savefile. The Continue and Load buttons were hidden but still accessible using a controller.
- Fixed some wrong calcul when doing multistage building, ending doing a lvl1 wall, upgrade to lvl2 having more health than a "pure" wall lvl2.
- Fixed placed 3D items being removed by the SandboxOptions WorldItemRemovalList 
- Fixed furniture not appearing when in a stationary car - this was caused by an optimization. Furniture will now only disappear if cars are moving at a middle-high speed.
- Fixed the "infected" flag on body parts not being set to false after a wound heals.
- Fixed an issue placing 3D items with the Double-sized Textures option turned off.
- Fixed the hotbar remaining visible after hiding all UI elements.
- Fixed item container being set to nil in some cases.
- Fixed 1-frame delay before corpse textures appear.
- Fixed the stove-running sound not stopping sometimes with two-part stoves.
- Fixed ingredients not going back to their original container when using the Crafting window.
- Fixed ingredients not going back to their original container sometimes when doing "Craft All".
- Fixed duplicate context-menu "Rest" options for tents.
- Fixed some instances of zombies turning while lying on the floor - needs further feedback.
- Fixed (hopefully) an "invalid direction" exception in BrokenFences

The heart shakes so much that you can actually miss clicking on it as it swing so far left/right. A UI element should not require that much precision, esp in a game where one misclick can spell your doom. Please reduce the amount of shake. It just needs to vibrate a little or scale up then back to normal a little.
 
New sounds are really hit and miss. Some are great, some sound weird and not in relation to the old sound just weird on their own, some are much too quiet, some are much too loud, and others simply seem to be missing or don't differentiate enough.
 
1. Outdoor nature sounds, esp animals, have too much reverb/echo on them. There should literally be 0 unless you're inside a canyon or a tall alleyway.
2. Hitting a standing zombie with a car sounds like almost nothing at all has happened. Rolling over a body similarly is almost no different than the already too quiet hitting a standing zombie sound.
3. Killing blow to a prone zombie sounds almost no different than any other hit to a prone zombie. Players rely on the obvious sound that the zombie you're stomping or swinging on has received a killing blow, which while weird sounding in the old sound system, was at least very obvious so you knew you could switch your attention to something else. 
4. Car engines just don't sound right. Hard to describe but they now sound buzzier, like an flying insect.
5. Jesus the jumpscare sound is turned up to volume 100 compared to other noises. Overall, another pass at mastering sound levels seems to be needed across the board....or give us more options under Sound tab to fine tune the levels.

Another issue with the new sound system, if there is a zombie thumping on something directly to character left (looking straight ahead by say a zombie at a door directly to left), it plays in both left AND right headphones. Granted the right headphone is lower volume but its also slightly delayed so I hear a loud thump on my left THEN immediately after a quieter thump on my right. This is confusing and unrealistic and will lead to a lot unnecessary player death.

The heart shakes so much that you can actually miss clicking on it as it swing so far left/right. A UI element should not require that much precision, esp in a game where one misclick can spell your doom. Please reduce the amount of shake. It just needs to vibrate a little or scale up then back to normal a little.
 
New sounds are really hit and miss. Some are great, some sound weird and not in relation to the old sound just weird on their own, some are much too quiet, some are much too loud, and others simply seem to be missing or don't differentiate enough.
 
1. Outdoor nature sounds, esp animals, have too much reverb/echo on them. There should literally be 0 unless you're inside a canyon or a tall alleyway.
2. Hitting a standing zombie with a car sounds like almost nothing at all has happened. Rolling over a body similarly is almost no different than the already too quiet hitting a standing zombie sound.
3. Killing blow to a prone zombie sounds almost no different than any other hit to a prone zombie. Players rely on the obvious sound that the zombie you're stomping or swinging on has received a killing blow, which while weird sounding in the old sound system, was at least very obvious so you knew you could switch your attention to something else. 
4. Car engines just don't sound right. Hard to describe but they now sound buzzier, like an flying insect.
5. Jesus the jumpscare sound is turned up to volume 100 compared to other noises. Overall, another pass at mastering sound levels seems to be needed across the board....or give us more options under Sound tab to fine tune the levels.

The heart shakes so much that you can actually miss clicking on it as it swing so far left/right. A UI element should not require that much precision, esp in a game where one misclick can spell your doom. Please reduce the amount of shake. It just needs to vibrate a little or scale up then back to normal a little.
 
New sounds are really hit and miss. Some are great, some sound weird and not in relation to the old sound just weird on their own, some are much too quiet, some are much too loud, and others simply seem to be missing or don't differentiate enough.
 
1. Outdoor nature sounds, esp animals, have too much reverb/echo on them. There should literally be 0 unless you're inside a canyon or a tall alleyway.
2. Hitting a standing zombie with a car sounds like almost nothing at all has happened. Rolling over a body similarly is almost no different than the already too quiet hitting a standing zombie sound.
3. Killing blow to a prone zombie sounds almost no different than any other hit to a prone zombie. Players rely on the obvious sound that the zombie you're stomping or swinging on has received a killing blow, which while weird sounding in the old sound system, was at least very obvious so you knew you could switch your attention to something else. 
4. Car engines just don't sound right. Hard to describe but they now sound buzzier, like an flying insect.
5. Jesus the jumpscare sound is turned up to volume 100 compared to other noises. Overall, another pass at mastering sound levels seems to be needed across the board....or give us more options under Sound tab to fine tune the levels.