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Osiris: New Dawn (2016)

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Explore Lutari, Moonshrooms, Moon Mantis, Infinity Terrain, and lots of Stability fixes.

https://www.osirisnewdawn.com

While half our team focused this week on data stability and multiplayer, the other half focused on adding a new moon, creature, and lots of polish and bug fixes. We also added dedicated quality assurance testers to our team, which has allowed us to really stress test data and multiplayer and has already proven to be worth the cost ten times over.

Lutari

The second moon of Theseus Prime is Lutari. Lutari is positioned very close to the Theseus Prime ring system, giving a beautiful look at the “hot Jupiter’s” rings. Similar in appearance to our own moon, this world features reduced gravity, strange “Moonshrooms” and is rich in rare minerals.

Infinity Terrain

We also added back in our “infinity terrain” system and improved it greatly. Added first to Lutari, the infinity terrain will generate in all directions at huge distances, completely removing any end of the world. We optimized the system from previous versions and improved the visuals to allow for parallax mapping and detailed shader system, the same shader system on the primary terrain area, which gives a nice cohesive look.

All the other locations will be getting the Infinity Terrain in future releases.

Moon Mantis

The first discovered Lutarian is the Moon Mantis, which appears to be some sort of predator that roams the surface.

The Moon Mantis takes advantage of our new IK Creature Animation system which allows math drive IK for traversal and feet planting while using expressive key framed animations in the attack sequences. We’ve had a lot of players ask for this, which has also been on our roadmap, and now it’s here. Other creatures will be receiving this animation treatment as we go.

Moonshroom

Not completely desolate, there seems to be a strange iridescent shrub called a Moonshroom on the moon’s surface.

Changes to Slipping

The controversial and much debated foot sliding mechanic has been tweaked in this version. When attempting to jump at the highest peak incline the slip now has a very small chance of causing a suit breach. The sliding duration has been drastically reduced to allow for quicker interaction after sliding.

User Interface Transitions

Something we’ve always wanted to add in and finally had a chance. We started with some nifty zoom transitions when going from menu to menu.

Lots of fixes and improvements

Huge focus on furthering the data stability since our change to the cloud file system. Countless bugs were fixed this week around these features. We also fixed party member ownership, building, and other control issues.

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