[img]http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/18966105/145a751ad4f572b5e7bae6d330ee0cf1cf45b047.png[/img] Howdy folks! Hope the past month has treated you well! Many of you may be wondering.. "hey, when are we going to get another update". Well for those of you who haven't been following the devlog, we've got a progress update for you today. Work has been underway for Update 52, what is shaping up to be easily the largest and most complex update the game has yet gotten. Firearm sound is being 100% replaced, and a (correctly setup) mixer system is being built into the game. Sound will be significantly more reactive to the environment you're in, and many issues and artifacting that occurs in the current system will be going away. With the scale of modification involved in all of this, Update 52 is taking a good deal longer than our updates in the past have (due to having to tear apart, and as such _break_ large parts of the game to do this work). So instead of racing back to functionality, we will doing a series of limited alphas over the next month or so. The first of these Alphas has just been pushed to a new branch on Steam. To access the alpha branch: [list] [*]Right Click on the Game and go to 'Properties' [*]Click on the 'Betas' tab [*]Click the dropdown and select 'Alpha 1' [/list] Steam should now download it. Things you should be aware of regarding the state of the current alpha [list] [*]Only a few scenes are active (Indoor Range, Warehouse Range, Arizona Range and Friendly 45) [*]Large sections of the Item Spawner are currently disabled as those items are not yet migrated to new systems [*]Some items in the item spawner may not function correctly [*]Relative sound levels are still very much still WIP. Some things may be louder or quieter relative to each other than they should be. [*]PLEASE DO NOT post bug reports for this alpha. I'm aware everything it broken. I am not tracking bugs in this build yet, so it's not helpful to be spammed with mentions about what is broken. [*]There is a new treat hiding around in a few scenes that some might describe as... moist [/list] If you'd prefer to wait until the game is more functional to try out the new content, you can always follow the devlogs on what's being worked on, listed below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmZrbm1Ebts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yVbMEGBEhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mfvqgjGBpE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ-sUSU52rA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yPFNqWQdiY Hope you enjoy the progress so far! Peace, Anton