0.8.6 - 4K Textures and Visual Stuff

This one has several visual updates with some nice additions on the side. If you’re running high resolution, the game now uses 4K textures. We’ve also added rrain and snow, color grading for night and rain (feels more night or rain), improved cloud visuals in puzzle stages. If you're wondering about the size - yes it's the 4k textures. The tool icons have some improvements also.

On the building side, there’s a new ‘Stone Building Construction’ skill that unlocks grey stone walls. Missing heavy handles for Iron and Steel tiers were also added. They unlock via the related Pickaxe skill and retroactively if you already have it.

One thing worth noting: the horsey no longer comes when called inside caves. It’s spooked by such places. Maybe it's better this way - the horse was a bit problematic in caves. Everyone should be happier. Almost everyone. Hopefully horsey is happy too since he won't be as scared.

There's also one not so pleasant thing: We had to change the settings save format so custom options settings need to be reset. There's an infobox at the start of the game to remind you - saves are naturally ok, this is just about the settings. There's also an upside: If you play on a desktop and on a Steam Deck the graphics options should be per device now.

Some Highlights

• 4K textures on high resolution setting
• Weapon icon drawing improvements
• Improved clouds visuals in puzzle stages
• Settings save format changes (some settings reset required)
• New ‘Stone Building Construction’ skill - grey stone walls
• Rain effects on Helos with night AND rain color grading
• Missing Iron/Steel heavy handles added (unlocks retroactively)
• New more final world map with some fancy travel viz
• Holding gamepad bumpers moves buy/sell/split slider faster
• On-kill explosion perks now only damages enemies
• Got rid of some inventory-related lag spikes
• Added time to ‘The Timed Path’ (7 to 9 seconds)
• No more calling the horse inside caves
• Terrain, spear, and crash fixes

More detailed change log inside the game! We're still working hard on the 0.9 and we can hopefully start internal testing soon.