23 changes in this update
Risk of Observation
Released
Someone is watching, can you buy back your freedom
Changes
What's changed in Risk of Observation with each update.
Added
13 changes-
The Biome: a new open-world map. A valley ringed by mountains, with fuel stops, padstals, depots, workshops and farmsteads connected by roads. Every run lays it out differently.
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Six biomes to spin for: Garden Route, Karoo, Boland, Highveld, West Coast and Jeffreys Bay. Each has its own landscape, trees, weather and building style.
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Jeffreys Bay: a surf town between the mountains and the sea. Every house in town can be entered and searched.
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Roadside encounters: roadblocks, pull-offs and padstal stalls between locations, with cover, loot and enemies.
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The Gulf: a drivable car. Bring the squad along as passengers and haul big loot in the boot.
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Fuel Run job: bring two jerrycans home.
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Grab The Case job: recover the confidential case.
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Rescue The Hostage job: free them and lead them home, on foot or by car.
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Borrowed Time: open-world runs start with 5 bonus minutes. The clock shows yellow while you're on borrowed time and red once you're spending your own.
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Furniture searching: open furniture from the inventory screen, search each drawer and door, and drag shift click or drag items into your inventory.
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Squad revive: if the whole squad goes down, the host can spend banked time to bring everyone back.
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Ambient sound for the open world: wind, cicadas, forest, rivers and surf, muffled when you step indoors.
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Minimap shows roads, the exit, your car, and the hostage once you've found them. Press M for the full map.
Improved
7 changes-
The world gets harder the longer you play and the bigger your squad, with better loot and tougher enemies to match.
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Characters have updated animations, and jumping is back.
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Rooms in a house are decorated individually.
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Distant buildings, trees and bushes stay visible to the horizon, at better performance.
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Large maps load quickly without freezing.
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The inventory makes room for big pickups automatically.
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Good loot no longer randomly spawns on the floor
Fixed
3 changes-
Shop tier no longer resets after returning from a map.
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The mouse cursor no longer comes unlocked during play.
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The Bandits threat is now readable on the spin screen.
Fixed
1 change-
Foliage shader would appear through walls
Added
3 changes-
Zombies drop ammo and broken melee weapons
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Enemy drops glow (within 8m)
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Punch/swing at the floor
Improved
6 changes-
Zombies die to headshots
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Body and head shots stagger, bigger guns stagger longer
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Armour reduces stagger
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Gunners drop guns less often
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Faster spin and doors (could be annoying if you started the game a lot)
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Faster, smoother levelling (leveling took way too long to ever feel the effects)
Fixed
3 changes-
You no longer slide/jitter when walking over corpses
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Radiation over the whole map, now only a few rooms/spots
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Pistol headshots not staggering
Added
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Gas station map, procedural, never the same twice
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Fists, punch combos, haymaker on right click, shoulder barge while running
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Dive instead of jump
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Minimap shows enemies in rooms you've been in, arrows for the rest
Improved
4 changes-
Thugs aim like humans now, they lag behind you and miss sometimes
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Squads don't all rush you at once anymore
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Way more loot, cupboards actually have stuff in them now
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Cupboard cameras are improved
Fixed
4 changes-
Kitchen corners blocking cupboards
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Knocked over enemies getting stuck on the floor forever
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Radiation following you to the next map (modifiers stayed/unintentionally)
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Grabbing a gun you already have now takes its ammo instead
Removed
1 change-
Jumping
Added
2 changes-
Zombies and Thugs turf wars
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Lazy loaded resources to hopefully improve loading times
Improved
1 change-
Thug gearing, they can now start with pistols instead of boring baseball bats
Fixed
1 change-
Modifiers did not do anything, oops (steel skulls, double trouble etc)
Added
3 changes-
Random box
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Tutorial added when you start the game
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Gun sound mixer in sound settings
Improved
1 change-
Sound peak on guns
Fixed
1 change-
Aim convergence with guns when enemies are close by
Added
3 changes-
New map apartments
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First iteration of procedural maps
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Top left corner map view
Added
2 changes-
Workbench in the gamble room
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Modding menu in the work bench
Improved
1 change-
The styling of the chronoscope tech tree
Improved
1 change-
Ragdoll networking
Fixed
1 change-
Bunch of issues surrounding ragdolls and networking on clients
Added
3 changes-
Better lobby display
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Lobby chat
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Lobby browser
Fixed
3 changes-
Prefabs were completely broken for clients
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Clients now teleport on new rounds via the host
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Clients were kicked when they loaded a map (the game thought it joined late)
Added
2 changes-
Coffee shop props and area in the gas station map
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WASD navigation between cabinets close by (loot view)
Fixed
3 changes-
On the warm shader service an error could happen if the graphics were being painted added a guard for that
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The view no longer jitters when a cabinet opens and the camera has no space
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Could only loot the documents/cache once