Schedule 1 has a Halloween update live, v0.4.1, which brings a brand new sewer network under Hyland Point, a climbing and ladder system to change vertical navigation, several new NPCs and a stack of small performance fixes.
The developer, Tyler, apologizes for the slight delay and says the build was briefly beta tested before public release. Multiplayer bandwidth and connection issues remain a focus, and a targeted patch to address network traffic is planned before the upcoming Shrooms update.
The update claims a roughly 10-15% framerate improvement thanks to a bunch of small tweaks and reworks – mostly moving calculations off the per-frame path and trimming unnecessary updates. For the full official post, see the update on Steam.
Patch Notes – v0.4.1
Additions
- Added sewer system.
- Added climbing system.
- Added ladders to various buildings.
- Added sewer maintenace office property.
- Added sewer access key.
- Added 2x1m plastic table.
- Added trash crown.
- Added garbage throne.
- Added water step sound.
- Added ‘sewer king’ NPC.
- Added ‘sewer goblin’ NPC.
- Added meth LODs.
- Added new ‘replication queue’ system to help stagger network traffic when a player joins a multiplayer game.
- Added loading dock to west Gas-Mart.
- Added 5 more graffiti locations.
Tweaks/Improvements
- Refactored the environmental FX and post-processing system to support transitioning between different visual zones.
- Changed fog color and density to be controlled by day-night timeline instead of a basic curve/gradient.
- Tweaked occlusion settings for more aggressive culling.
- Tweaked shadow cascades.
- Tweaked various LODs.
- Disabled vehicle FixedUpdate calculations when vehicle is static.
- Optimized compass rendering.
- Disabled a light optimization technique that wasn’t actually providing any performance improvement.
- Changed a lot of calculations to be on-demand instead of every frame.
- Disabled additional light shadows when quality is set yo medium or below.
- Changed various cooldowns to use global time (Time.timeSinceLevelLoad) instead of manual time tracking.
- Removed unnecessary update loops from a number of scripts.
- Replaced some MeshColliders with primitive colliders.
- Cached animation string hashes on start instead of recalculating on use.
- Turned off shadows for a bunch of small objects.
- Tweaked graffiti surfaces to only generate texture data when required instead of when the game starts. This was causing a ~1s hitch and unnecessary memory allocation whenever loading a game.
- Reorganised the structure of the main scene. This shouldn’t have any visible impact but makes my job easier in the future 🙂
Bug fixes
- Fixed police global vision events not working properly (this allows police to ‘share’ their knowledge of where a wanted player is.
- Fixed a bug where NPCs would shoot at the player even when not visible.
- Fixed some duplicate GUIDs.
- Fixed police officer vision getting bugged if killed while searching for the player.
- Fixed ‘cuke effects’ and ‘energy drink effects’ utility items being usable in item slot filters.
- Fixed not being able to pickpocket unconscious NPCs if you have recently failed a pickpocket.
- Fixed null reference error that occurred when inserting cash into a storage entity.
- Remove some unnecessary Player.log spam.
If you want the developer notes in full, read the official update on Steam.
Source: Steam
