v0.4.6 Open Beta

Additions

• Added controller/gamepad support.
• Added Xbox controller input prompts.
• Added PlayStation DualSense input prompts.
• Added gamepad-related settings.
• Added new internal 'state system', integrated with all menus, interactions, etc.
• Added platform-integrated fullscreen fade. (prevents unintentional input when the Steam overlay is opened).
• Added virtual cursor for gamepad.
• Added virtual cursor 'friction' system to make it easier to grab stuff.
• Added virtual cursor 'lure' system to make click-heavy tasks less tedious on gamepad.
• Added new client-side code to interface with the new in-game feedback system backend.
• Added fancy new tree 'billboard' shader that closely matches the tree mesh.
• Added 'quit' command.
• Implemented new light source culling solution.
• Added new shadow optimization tool that reduces/culls shadows at a certain distance.
• Your organisation name is now displayed in the pause menu.
• Combined and optimized several buildings.
• Property contents culling is now staggered over several frames to minimize stuttering when approaching/leaving a property.
• Tweaked the LOD distances of several buildings, props, etc, to reduce pop-in.
• Created new, higher quality LODs for several buildings and props.
• Property light sources now culled when distant.
• Added new player 'visibility points' at the neck and hips to prevent cheesing NPC vision.
• Added 'stop arrow' button to the pickpocket interaction.
• Added some more grime to the police station.
• Added an option to automatically pause the game when focus is lost.
• Added 'restore defaults' button for input bindings.

Tweaks/Improvements

• The game can now be paused in any state (in vehicle, phone open, active dialogue, etc) instead of requiring everything to be 'closed' before pausing.
• Rewrote the tree shader to be way more efficient.
• Police patrols, sentries, checkpoints now assign 1-2 officers instead of 2 all the time.
• NPC data (name, appearance, voice, etc) is now all centralized to a single data container instead of spread across lots of separate components.
• Tweaked shop UI.
• Cleaned up, modularised the UI for all stations.
• Rebuilt the input prompt system to support gamepad buttons.
• Improved the audio blending algorithm for going inside/outside when its raining.
• 'Inventory empty' displayed when trying to pickpocket an NPC with nothing in their inventory.
• Improved movement animations when moving slowly or diagonally.
• Display settings now apply automatically instead of needing to press 'apply',
• Made some visual tweaks to the phone home screen.
• Optimized interaction physics checks.
• Tweaked UI alignment in the deal screen.
• Tweaked counteroffer UI.
• Optimized lots of shadow-casting lights.
• Turned off baked occlusion culling (its calculations were actually more expensive than just rendering everything).
• Adjusted the compression format of lots of audio files to minimize CPU spikes due to decompression at runtime.
• Separated out lobby logic from interface.
• Rewrote the platform integration code (achievements, lobbies, invites, etc) to be platform-agnostic.
• Increased max UI scaling to 1.5.
• Turned off shadow casting for lots of tiny meshes.
• Cleaned up weather code, moved several weather components to the core DLL.
• Removed legacy sky system.
• FOV now has a lower limit of 20.
• Converted NPC deal behaviour from schedule event -> behaviour.
• Increased how much trees/bushes obscure NPC vision.
• Pressing 'I'm stuck' will now teleport your vehicle back to safety if you are driving.
• Rebuilt the barbershop and tattoo parlour UI.
• Rebuilt the 'new mix discovered' interface.
• Stripped lots of shader variants to minimize memory use.
• Reduced the resolution of several unnecessarily massive textures.
• Optimized some UI layout calculations.
• Rebuilt the vehicle repaint interface.
• Optimized compass UI rendering.
• The management clipboard object selector mode now multi-selects by default - no need to hold 'shift' anymore.
• Rewrote a bunch of miscellaneous code to minimize GC allocation.
• Police vehicles now pooled instead of spawned/destroyed.
• Scripts using repeating checks now stagger their logic instead of running everything in a single frame.
• Implemented Linux-compatible region check (for choosing default metric/imperial).
• Optimized several distance checks to use square distance.
• Tweaked texture streaming settings to minimize excessively low-res textures for certain buildings.

Bug fixes

• Fixed suppliers not looking at the player.
• Fixed suppliers not returning to their meeting location after being interrupted.
• Fixed police sometimes not 'sharing' their player line-of-sight with other officers.
• Fixed bushes not obscuring players properly.
• Fixed cartel influence popup overlapping with compass warning labels.
• Fixed quest UI too close to top of screen on high interface scales.
• Fixed jerky vehicle movement when in 'kinematic mode' (optimization used for distant vehicles).
• Fixed baggies getting caught on the packaging station hopper lid.
• Changed some Windows-specific file path code to work for other OSes.
• Fixed z-fighting when building objects.
• Fixed weird lighting on environmental graffiti and grime.
• Fixed weird shadow pop-in for trees at sunset/sunrise.
• Fixed volumetric light beam flickering.
• Fixed environmental text causing stuttering when enabled/disabled.
• Fixed lens flare excessive CPU usage.
• Fixed CPU/memory spike due to audio sources subscribing to an event on enable/disable.