Overgrowth Beta 5 video changelog

Here is the new Overgrowth Beta video!

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The features highlighted in the above video are just a (very short) summary of all the changes. You can find the full change log in this document.

Gameplay

• Added game difficulty presets to Top Bar → Settings → Game (Casual, Hardcore, Expert)
• Added the new Overgrowth story to the mods menu, for people who want to play it before it is complete
• Made dogs throw weapons again, but now only within a certain range to prevent player fleeing
• Several small enhancements to make stealth more interesting (harder, but a bit more effective)
• Made it easier again to fight wolves with weapons
• Added death hint support, with the particular hint chosen based on how the player died
• Added ? or ! symbol over characters that you can talk to (configurable per level/character)

Editor

• Added player invincibility setting to Top Bar → Settings → Debug
• Added setting in Graphics → Debug to disable fog, so you can more easily edit levels without messing up the fog setting
• Added "ragdoll" collision painting option, which automatically ragdolls characters that touch the painted surface
• Added per-level settings for color saturation, under Scenegraph → Level → Script params
• Added "Stick To Nav Mesh" option to characters, to keep enemies from running off lethal cliffs
• Added support for loading text and background images to be displayed while a level is loading
• Kill hotspots can now be set to only kill NPCs, only players, or both
• Added several new idle animations

Performance

• Many more assets are now pre-loaded to reduce hitching from asset loads during gameplay
• Added checkboxes to disable level shaders and GPU particle fields
• Added "simple water" option to Top Bar → Settings → Debug → Graphics, it disables screen space reflections for water

Graphics/Sound

• Improved dialogue graphics, and support for custom color/sound for each character
• Added victory/death music stings in new campaign
• Added camera Depth of Field effects to dialogues and when you take damage
• Improved choke-out, sword, and knife animations
• Added screen space refractions to raindrops, and added time-based squash and stretch

Bugfixes

• Fixed Versus camera flipping. It may look straight down at combattants, but should no longer flip upside down
• Fixed menu UI resizing when resolution is set through settings menu
• Fixed render problems for lighting/shadow of plant detail objects

New Overgrowth story

• Most levels: Added new loading screen text and loading screen images
• Most levels: Final draft of story - updated character dialogues
• Most levels: New music tracks
• Arena levels: Added crowd cheering, with cheering level based on your performance in the arena
• Most levels: Tweaked shaders, improved environment art and lighting, customized NPCs/enemies more, made gameplay tweaks

These are just a few of the changes in this beta; you can find the full change log here.

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