1.94 (27 April 2025)

When aiming with controller and holding RB (combo) to adjust aim height, the aiming lock-on will be more "sticky" to avoid accidentally losing the target.

Moved the workbench in Continental Rangers camp so that it can be accessed right away instead of having to wait until their armory is unlocked.

You can now kill ravens with throwing knife and explosives.

When talking to Stefan, he will not give player the quest until later when player is more "ready" for it, to avoid confusing and overwhelming the player.

Fixed some doors that ghouls can clip through.

The "Hercules" skill perk will now allow throwing knives to be thrown farther

Fixed the colliders of some thrown items so that they won't clip through the ground

Fixed an issue with Mortes not placed correctly in the player house display case
1.93-5 (31 March 2025)

You can now add a recipe note to your recipe book by dropping it onto the book. Nothing big, just another way to perform the same action for immersion.

The "grungy note" (CW1 recipe) can also be added to the recipe book

You can now hold X key to show "!" marker on dead ravens

Improved the spawn mechanism of ravens. After clearing all the ravens of a location, if you haven't been here for a long time, and then visit it again, it can respawn more than one ravens.

(This is big!) You can now create superior/premium food or serum without having to have all the relevant ingredients be of superior/premium quality. Instead, the game will calculate a "quality score" based on each ingredient, and decide on the final product quality based on an average. In other words, as long as most of the ingredients are high quality, the end product can be high quality.

If you really want to know the calculation:

Normal ingredient = 0 pt Superior ingredient = 1 pt Premium ingredient = 2 pt Avg score required for superior product: > 0.5 Avg score required for premium product: >= 1.5
1.91-6_1 (6 January 2025)

Since you can now get the garrote before starting the potato farm quest, you should be able to strangle a Legionnaire before he's aggroed. This update now allows this.

When a NPC discovers a body from his own faction, he will now alert 1-3 nearby teammates to be on high alert for some time. But he will not do that if the body has already been looted.

Randomized the "timeout" when a NPC conducts certain activities such as investigating a disturbance before he gives up

Fixed a bug where player can interact with a certain NPC after he dies

Clarified in the tutorial that ignoring a serum order will not punish the player, but declining it will hurt relationship

Visitations will no longer happen in Doownevar
1.91-5 (26 December 2024)

To accommodate players who wish to play stealth as soon as possible, I have made the "combat training" from Razor (especially the one that teaches you how to stealth kill) available earlier, right after you complete his first job. However:

You still have to pay for it

If you choose to receive the stealth kill training, when you start fighting the Legionnaires in the barn, Bootleggers will no longer come to help

Improved and fixed some small quirks with inventory

Added the "RB" glyph in the pocket items list in the HUD, to help remind controller players to hold RB (combo button) while pressing Dpad to quick-use pocket items

In any game mode, as soon as you gain the Eraser rank with Haruko, the Elm trees will start dropping Elm branches
1.91-2 (4 December 2024)

In hybrid control scheme, when you pull out a rock or grenade, you'll see the yellow arrow indicating direction of the "bowling toss" throw when you tap RMB.

Fixed the problem with stealth detection indicator flashing when there are a lot of enemies in front of player

Improved grenade/rock throwing with gamepad. Now the right stick can easily choose how far to throw it.

Fixed the aiming issue with grenade launcher when using Auto-Aim control scheme

Potion of elation recipe will now allow player to collect ingredients for potion of elation from backpack

Items will no longer collide with each other when dropped from inventory
1.91-1 (2 December 2024)

Increased NPC investigation range and duration (making it easier to distract patrolling guards)

Fixed a bug with electronics selling price

The item info panel now shows the item count

Disruptive tutorials will no longer show up when player is performing an action

When a tree is broken down, it will now generate one last piece of firewood

Fixed a bug where killing a ghoul while helping out an invasion doesn't give you relationship boost

The "Sleep" button when resting should be bound to Y button instead of A button

Fixed a bug with keychains showing up too often in NPC loot at the beginning of game progression

When pressing X button to unload a gun while on the workbench, it shouldn't trigger a Dismantle

When opening the inventory, the item info panel will not immediately show which often blocks the view of loot.
1.90-9 (26 November 2024)

Gaining reputation to reach 100% to unlock special merchandises (weapon attachments) can be a tedious process, so I added one more method to increase faction reputation: by donating demanded items to the main trader.

To do this, first talk to the main trader (such as Sidor and Filip, basically people who give you serum orders) about "Demands". The type of items they list out will be the ones you can donate. For example, if he says he needs serums, then when you trade with him, you can put serums up for sale; but instead of pressing the Trade button, you can press the "Donate" button right under it. The item will be donated to the faction in exchange for some reputation gain. The amount to gain is related to the sell price of the item.

Note that the "demands" information also dictates how much the item costs when you sell to them. Items that are demanded by the trader will sell for a better price for you.
1.89-5 (5 October 2024)

To avoid confusion, after completing the "blessed stone" quest, the game will tell player to go back to the quest giver for next step

Added cheat code for spawning high quality food, food ingredients, serum ingredients, and serums. Syntax: Incorrect syntax. Use: \n get [durability(0-1)] [superior|premium|refined|purified] (refined/purified are only for serums)

To avoid confusion, when player receives Jerry's notice about new meal order, he'll remind player to check out the chalkboard.

You can now sell medicine and grenades in the shipping bin in Ravenwood.
1.89_1 (18 September 2024)

Hello Ghoul Hunters,

It's been a while! I was working tirelessly on optimizing the game because I realized that it will only run on Xbox One at 25 frames per second lol. So I went back and reviewed pretty much all of my code and found many opportunities for improvement: duplicate function calls, inefficient data structure, workload not spread out over multiple frames, etc.

After this optimization pass, my own frame rate increased about 25%. I'd like to hear about your experience after installing 1.89 update :)

My goal is to make sure the game can run on a laptop. In the past I always thought that laptops couldn't run it smoothly due to lack of good video card, but this optimization pass told me that the bottleneck is on the CPU and not GPU (basically, my code sucked lol). So if you have a laptop you normally play games on, please let me know if Tunguska can run more smoothly now.

Finally, a few other changes included in the patch:

Increased the amount of fish you get from grenade-fishing

Planting your own garlic, potato, and barley will generate even more products

Fixed several bugs caused by German translation

New gunshot sound for AS Val and VSS Strelok! (they are essentially the same gun with different furniture)
1.88-1 (31 August 2024)

I apologize for the bugs after posting the 1.88 update. There was an oversight where the function call to convert a string to floating number didn't take into consideration of systems in Europe where the float format is "1,2" instead of "1.2", and that caused the database load to fail.

I hope this update fixes this issue for folks in Europe! Unfortunately I cannot test it with my own system (even if I change the windows region to Europe), so please let me know if it fixes it for you! There can be multiple symptoms, such as item stats not displaying correctly, guns shooting ultrafast, NPCs only shooting semi-auto etc.

Thank you for your patience and support!
1.88 (31 August 2024)

Hello Ghoul Hunters,

I know I have said previously that the last feature I wanted to add was the X-ray effect, but later I realized that someone made a mod on moddb to add a weapon firing mode feature :) But the mod had some issues with burst fire so I decided to just add the feature officially.

How Weapon FIring Mode Works

It's very simple and doesn't involve any additional key/button binding. Simply take your gun out, aim down sight, and then press Interact key (F key or A button by default). The current firing mode is displayed next to the weapon icon in the HUD.

Also you will see in the weapon item's description which firing modes it supports, for example the VSS supports S (semi auto) and F (full auto).

Now with this overhaul, the following guns have additional firing modes:

AKM: S/F/B AK-74: S/F/B M16: S/F/B AN94: S/F/B

Other Fixes Included in 1.88

More fixes and improvements for German translation

To make sure the important tutorial entries aren't missed, these entries will pop up a window requiring the player to confirm it, such as the warning for landmines.

Added an improvement to faction job assignment: when player kills a NPC standing on guard, and then save/load, the game will not try to immediately fill this guard position with another NPC, because it makes the player confused: I thought I just killed that guy! Instead, the guard position will stay vacant until there's a guard-changing/relieving event, and then someone sitting by the fire will take up the post. Or, it'll get filled when the faction replenishes the dead NPCs.

Added a ladder outside Station 11 train hangar to shorten the traveling distance going between Luxury House level and Ashinaka level
1.87-9 (26 August 2024)

Fixed a bug in the main menu where controller Y button doesn't work when starting a new game until you use Dpad to move the button focus

In main menu, pressing Dpad will unlock controller cursor

Fixed the misalignment of button/key mapping for German UI

Improved the feel of controlling the quantity slider when splitting item stack using Dpad and right analog stick

Fixed a bug with motorcycle travelling

Disabled the motorcycle destination for Ashinaka Forest due to it can be exploited to skip the scripted explosion event

You can now use A/D to cycle through destinations with motorcycle
1.87-4 (19 August 2024)

I have finally found a way to implement the see-through effect that's pretty much a staple of 3D top down games! It was requested since day one of game's release, but due to technical challenges, I never found a way to do it. But now it has finally become reality!

The see-through silhouette shows up whenever player or a NPC is behind a visible wall or roof. For NPCs, you will only see the outline if the NPC is within line of sight for the player character. Different colors are used for NPCs that are neutral (yellow), hostile (orange), or friendly (green).

You can also enable or disable this effect in the game options, at the very bottom of the list under Gameplay section.

This is the last feature I want to add to Tunguska: The Visitation. I'm working on porting the game to XBOX (pain in the ass), and then start working on the sequel.

Enjoy!

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Other fixes included in 1.87-4:

Fixed the manhole cover in Lake Cheko that's really hard to interact with

Fixed a bug with Slaughterhouse mode not asking the player to skip intermission after dying in combat
1.87-3 (16 August 2024)

Much thanks to Wolfylein, Tigerkadse, falsifiability for the hard work translating 70,000+ words into German! As with any translation work, there are always opportunities for improvement, so please feel free to let us know if there are any imperfections with the translation!

Other changes included in the update:

Fixed a UI issue where you can interact with the slot behind a window

When taking off an armor while having items in the pockets, these items will drop to the ground with a warning. Once you put the armor back on, you can pick these items up and they'll automatically go back into the pockets.

Fixed a material issue where laser dot won't show up on NPCs

The motorcycle will now disappear when you first enter the game (normal mode) so that new players won't get frustrated by the lack of key. Once Lake Cheko is unlocked, the motorcycle will show up. Player will find a clue about it in Artur's death notes.

Fixed a bug where non-english UI doesn't allow player to save custom notes.

When you kill a NPC with throwing knife, bolt, or ballistic knife, when another NPC loots this dead body, he won't take away these items generated from the attack.

Larry will honor recipes recorded in the recipe book

Fixed a bug with dismantling AP ammo not generating casing

Fixed a bug with NG+ where the carry-over item locker becomes disabled if player loads the auto-save generated when arriving at Zernaskaya
1.87_1 (9 August 2024)

Dear Ghoul Hunters,

Thank you for your patience while I work on this big update! One of the most common feedback I received from players is that there are too many recipes scatters across different note papers and recipe books, making it inconvenient when managing all these recipes.

So I decided to enhance the Recipe Clipbook to include four tabs:

Serum

Food

Distiller (a crafting station added in Ravenwood DLC)

Workbench

Whenever you discover a new recipe either from loot or purchasing from traders, once you right click it to display the text, this recipe will be added to the Recipe Clipbook. The clipbook is added to player's backpack as soon as the player arrives at Zernaskaya village.

When you go to any crafting station, the game will automatically open the recipe clipbook in your backpack and display the relevant recipes, and you can click "Ingredients" button to collect ingredients from your backpack.

And here's the most exciting part: the recipes you record in the clilpbook will be now be carried over to NG+!

I also added a global map which you can open by clicking M and then select the "Global" tab. This map shows the regions you have visited along with the paths between them. It looks like this:

The German translation for the game is currently underway! Thanks to two Ghoul Hunters who have been working very hard on translating 70k+ words in the game. There are still some work left to do, and if you would like to help, please let me know by PM or joining my discord:

More Enhancements in 1.87

Increased serum ingredients stack size to 20

The motorcycle is now available for everyone! But you have to find the key first (it's in Lake Cheko somewhere!). If you have already started a new game before this update, you can use the motorcycle at anytime even if you don't have the key. If you start a NG+ game, the key will be available to you at the beginning of the game.

Some players have reported stutter when first engaging in combat. I suspect that it's due to slow IO with certain harddrives while the game tries to load the gun sounds and battlecries. In this update these sounds will be preloaded when you enter an area.

Added a condition check so that you can't bring the serum to Boris too early.

The Sanatorium stealth quest (after you get knocked out) can now be skipped. But not so easily! You would have to complete the Water Treatment Plant quest without being seen by the hostile NPCs there, in order to prevent them from setting the trap in Ashinaka.

Added a warning when you load a save that has been played with a different language.

Added an option to adjust the cursor movement speed when using gamepad.

Crowbar is now slightly better at chopping trees.

When you click the "Collect Ingredients" button during crafting, it'll also set the required temperature so you don't have to.

Slightly reduced the eyesight of enemies who are guarding or patrolling at night.

You can now climb through the window of the hangar in Station 11 so that you can avoid running into the Scythes... for now.

Made sure to check the file extensions of the MP3 music files in the Radio folder in case player puts any non-MP3 files there which can cause game to crash.

If player crouches when leaving an area, after loading the new area, player will stay crouched

Fixed a bug with the journal entry not popping up when you wake up in the Sanatorium. Also you will automatically crouch when you wake up.

Added more perks for reaching 100% reputation with factions, including more trader money, lower prices, and rare ammo.

The news story from Haruko about her father will no longer be required for the Pulitzer achievement.

Fixed a bug with workbench buttons not enabled correctly when you add more ammo to the stack for dismantling.

NPCs will pause bleeding when player is very far from them, because at that point their AI is paused too and can't self-heal.

Fixed a bug with holding G to throw a throwing knife doesn't display the throw angle indicator.

Travelling with the rail car will allow player to press A/D/Dpad/Arrow Keys to cycle through destinations.

Fixed an inconvenience with the player custom notes, where as soon as you click on the notes it'll highlight the entire text.
1.86-2 (27 July 2024)

You can now repeat "Shift + Right click " (or on the controller, RT + X) to continue taking items from the stack it was split from.

Fixed a bug where Venkat will sell you furniture before you have obtained the house

Now you can navigate the entire main menu with just the Dpad of the controller - no longer need to use the left stick to move the cursor.

Fixed a bug where a human NPC hugging a wall might see through it

Fixed a bug with F1 grenade sometimes falling through the ground

Added "Danger Mines" signs in various places where players might expect landmines
1.85-9 (20 July 2024)

I apologize for creating a new bug a day ago, which causes the Boris quest to be stuck when you get his note. This patch will fix this issue. All you need to do is to go to anywhere in Ashinaka and bring the note with you. Right-click to read the note and then close the inventory. In a few seconds you'll see the journal being updated.

Thank you for your patience!

Also, a couple of other fixes included:

Moved the Editor Office scene to its own scene without all the other unrelated assets. This is an attempt to speed up the loading time when you start a new game.

The Oblenska munitions bunker door will be unlocked when you give the key to Vladmir, just in case you forget to check it out before losing the key.
1.85-7 (18 July 2024)

Added an option to disable sprint-toggle

Added an option to allow right-stick to turn camera while holding melee

In motorcycle, while selecting destination, a "Via:" label is shown to clarify the path it'll take

Fixed a bug with soul crusher not charging a soul stone when strangling a friendly NPC

Fixed a bug with falling through floor when entering the ravenwood crypt from the church's door

Moved the ravens near Sanatorium further away so that player doesn't accidentally aim at them during combat

Fixed a bug with kicking doors sometimes pushes player into the wall

Fixed a null pointer error when picking up plants with a full inventory

Fixed an issue with normal map on terrain not showing very clearly over distance or angle

Fixed an issue with medkit/ingredient jar window stays open but the game believes they are closed

When hovering over the medkit or ingredient jar, the weight will now show its own weight plus the weight of all the contained items

Ensured the flour generated by the mill will not fall through floor

Allowed Invert Y axis option for ARPG/ARPG2 control schemes

Humans will now stumble if you melee them from behind while they are not aware of you, giving you enough time to strike him again

Allowed zooming in and out when sitting at the campfire (ARPG/ARPG2)
1.84.2 (8 June 2024)

NPCs resting at the campfire will now randomly switch duties with guards and patrols. This will help when you are try to assassinate a friendly target. You will get a notification about it when you are not too far from them.

Improved the animations for the mutant Rush Attack

Added a notification after killing Valentin in Slaughterhouse to remind player to pick up his key

Fixed a scripting issue with Artyom so that he won't accept serum until it's time to.

Added a new style of melee attack for all the ghouls: the Rush Attack. Makes them a little more dangerous now. Watch out.

Added two new option settings: camera draw distance, and frame rate cap

Fixed a bug with scrap cloth spawning too many in loot crates

Fixed a bug with player falling through terrain when cancelling travel at the exit towards the old mill
1.84.1 (7 June 2024)

Added a new style of melee attack for all the ghouls: the Rush Attack. Makes them a little more dangerous now. Watch out.

Added two new option settings: camera draw distance, and frame rate cap

Fixed a bug with scrap cloth spawning too many in loot crates

Fixed a bug with player falling through terrain when cancelling travel at the exit towards the old mill
1.84 (4 June 2024)

Woohoo! I'm excited to announce the second part of graphics upgrade - this time, terrains are finally looking better!

I have always struggled with the thought "why does the game look so bad during rain and overcast?" I got a lot of suggestions from fans and other game devs to improve the looks of terrains, in order to make the map look less boring during those non-sunny weather. But I was hesitant because, being not very good with visual art, I had no idea how to do it.

Eventually I figure out a way - I added three new textures, and after a week of clicking away with my mouse, we now have jagged roads, rocky cliffs, and puddles for you to splash on.

I also added a little hut by the Barn in Zernaskaya, because that area is just too empty. The hut has... some interesting surprise in it :) (If you have completed Haruko's assassination quests you'll know what it's about)

And finally, I fixed some issues with the water and got a nice new normal map for them. Looks a lot better now!

Other fixes included in 1.84:

Fixed a problem with terrain normal map not showing up

Fixed a bug with ghouls not investigating player's footsteps

After completing Sidor's quest to take back the barn, as soon as you turn in the quest, the Bootleggers will occupy the barn... For now.

Slightly spread out the enemies around the trailer house in Lake Cheko

Made sniper lens effect a little brighter

Shooting dead crows will no longer leave a bullet hole in the air

Fixed the weird lighting inside windmills
1.83-4 (20 May 2024)

Hello Ghoul Hunters,

I'm proud to introduce to you the first batch of facelift for Tunguska! In this update, I added the following eye candies:

Volumetric sunlight. Now you can enjoy beautiful sunrise and sunset, as well as some haze after the rain! This can be disabled in the options.

Cloud shadows during overcast weather. Gone are the boring, washed out overcast environments; you will now see realist, moving cloud shadows that spices up the map! This can be disabled in the options.

Increased moonlight and mist at night

Rain mist and water splashes when you run during rainy weather

Blood spatters! When you injure any NPC, there will be blood flying out and landing on the ground and the wall behind (if the gun is capable of exit wounds)

During toxic fog in Lake Cheko, you will no longer see the boring, hazy static fog. Instead there will be yellow-green mist.

When you kick anything, not just door/crates, you'll hear the thud and see dust coming out. Also added camera shake for kicking. Feels much better now!

And there are a lot more updates and fixes in this patch:

Fixed a bug with some assault rifles with PSO scope not able to aim at the head

When you use mouse wheel to zoom in, you can also raise the camera angle to see further

When you climb the silo in Ravenwood valleys, you will hear a different set of environmental sounds

Fixed the problem with trees not being affected by fog from afar

Fixed a problem with throwing mines/grenades and it lands right under player's foot

You can now cancel the grenade aiming (holding RMB) by clicking LMB

F1 grenade will properly cook when you are holding it in your hand and using G to aim

The throwing bar indicator for F1 grenade and throwing knife will now say "Fuse" and "Rotation" to be more clear

Fixed a issue with crossbow firing above the aim point

Fixed a bug with NPCs not fading properly

Fixed a bug with the Kraikretten house key disappearing if you drop it on the ground

If you are trying to deliver a food order, and for some reason the customer is no longer there, the game will try to respawn him if there's an appropriate faction in the vicinity.

Fixed a bug where if you refuse to help Jacob, you'll still get the journal entry to talk to him after marking all the anomalies

Fixed a bug where your visibility while sneaking doesn't change by your movement
1.83-2 (7 May 2024)

I finally figured out why running around with controller feels so awkward: it only has 8 directions. Now there are infinite directions!

Fixed the HR1 recipe for Spanish

Fixed a bug with journal page flipping when you type on the notes

Added an audio distortion filter on each gun to make the gunshots more bright and punchy

Now if you have unsuitable attachment installed (looking faded), the character no longer keeps on pulling out the weapon when you close the inventory

Fixed a bug with Spanish language show displayed correctly for campfire dialogues

Fixed a null pointer exception when mutants get hurt by anomalies
1.83-1 (5 May 2024)

Revamped the repair kits. Now it should have a minimum of 25 points of repair value. Also extended the repair amount to 100% instead of 25%, but only newly generated repair kits will have this value. Sorry about the inconvenience! I'm making this change because the repair kits don't really do well with items with low maximum durability, such as armor insertions.

Also, when repairing with wood and metal, it'll also have a minimum of 5 points of repair value.

Fixed a bug where the rock of rejuvenation disappears

Fixed a bug where if the secondary sidearm is showing up and you want to repair it with the kit, it tries to repair the primary sidearm instead.
1.83 (4 May 2024)

Dear Ghoul Hunters,

Thank you for your patience! I have been working on a huge list of improvements and upgraded the engine to Unity 2019.1. Please let me know if you notice any problem after this update, since I added a lot of changes. Thank you!

Fixed a bug with unread tutorials not showing up if there's already a tutorial being displayed. You will now see an icon flashing if there are unread tutorials.

Added a "Auto Aim Threshold" option in the game if you want more challenge with auto-aim modes.

Added new mutant animations reacting to injuries

Improved the blood spatter of shotguns

Ravens and bullet holes will no longer be lit by your red laser

Reduced jitter on the arrow when using melee weapon with controller

The visual recoil (camera shake) is now dependent of weapon types. Shotguns should feel more "punchy" now

When you are reloading, you can jump to cancel it.

Sniper rifles will more likely to knock the enemy back

Weapons now have different critical hit chance

Fixed a bug where if you hit a mutant, he might still hit you back even though their attack was interrupted by your hit

When you transfer items to containers and stashes, they will stack when the container is filled up

The whirlwind anomaly will emit a few flying leaves every once in a while to help you see them

Added a sound effect when you are hurt by the whirlwind anomaly

You can now use A/D left/right or mouse wheel to flip pages in the journal, orders, and discovery page

When using the motorcycle, it will now list you destinations one map away, so you can at most skip two maps at once.

When you injure a standing human/mutant when he's not aware, he will stumble

Revamped the animations for throwing grenades with the quick throw key (G) to make them faster, and fixed a bug with character being stuck when trying to quick throw while holding melee weapon

Fixed a bug with crouch-thrown grenades flying out from the wrong spot

When using the controller, you have to hold Combo key to adjust the aim height (which now plays a clicking sound) so that you don't accidentally fix the aim to the head and miss a lot of shots.

When using controller to craft, you can now put the cursor around the temperature slider and use DPAD left/right to adjust temperature

When opening the serum lab, if you don't have the recipe clipbook yet and just have some recipe papers in your backpack, it'll automatically open one of them and you can use the arrow to cycle through them

You can now use DPAD to cycle through tutorials when you open the tutorials page
1.82-5 (26 April 2024)

Made blood spatter effects more prominent, added exit wound blood, and each type of weapon will have different intensity of blood. For example, rifles will always have exit wound blood while pistols will only show that if there's critical damage

Added a cheat code for unlocking all Slaughterhouse DLC rewards (contact me if you want it)

Fixed a bug with controller melee combat, where the player will turn unexpectedly after stopping from movement

Quick-saving will no longer require you to confirm.
1.82-4 (24 April 2024)

Upgraded engine to Unity 2018.4

When using mouse cursor to aim, if the enemy is very close, it'll be easier to lock on to the enemy. This will help when you are doing close quarter combat with low rate of fire weapons.
1.82-3 (20 April 2024)

While using Auto-Aim or Gamepad control scheme, if you aim down sight and locks onto an enemy, you can adjust how high you are aiming using mouse wheel or Right Stick up/down

Improved the error message for when you try to save while near enemies.

Armor insertions will now have a durability of 20 instead of 10

When shooting at mutants with silenced weapon/melee while undetected, different mutants will behave differently. Bigger mutants or NG+ elite mutants will alert team mates, and smaller ones will not.
1.82-2 (18 April 2024)

Revamped the object selection process for Hybrid, Auto-Aim (previously "ChaseCam") and Gamepad control scheme. Now, when you are in front of multiple objects, you will see arrows on the nametag instead of the "(More)" text in the name. You can use mouse wheel or gamepad Right Stick to cycle through the objects.

Added a dead body at the entrance of Zernaskaya Barn level, to help the new players out with a double barrel and a grenade.

Also, in normal difficulty modes, once you start fighting the Legionnaires at the barn, a few Bootleggers will show up to help you out.

Updated the human NPC behavior when you shoot at them with a silenced weapon while hidden. They will act differently depending on whether the person getting shot is near the teammates. And if the NPC is killed with one shot or one strike, the team will not be notified.

The Fireaxe will now cut trees a little faster than the wood axe.

Jacob will now sell Mortes while he remains in the Ranger camp.

Due to the way the levels are set up in Ashinaka, the motorcycle will see two destinations with identical names, one being the Ashinaka Forest map. I attempted to make it more clear in this update. But you can still waste gas by selecting a destination you are already at. It's just a very awkward level setup due to limitations wayyy before game was released, that I can't easily change at this point.

Removed Gunther's "heavy" attribute so that he can be strangled.

You can no longer kick NPCs through walls.

Fixed a dorky behavior of patrolling NPCs, where they would run to their next patrolling destination if they are disturbed. They will just walk instead.

Fixed a bug with switching ammo type for high capacity LMGs that results in oversized ammo stacks in the backpack.

Also, now when you unload these high capacity LMGs, you can only unload up to one stack of ammo at a time instead of generating an oversized stack of ammo item. For example, when unloading a 100-rn PKM, you'll first unload 40 rounds, and then another 40, and then 20.

Fixed a bug with player getting stuck after closing the inventory if they swapped armor and used bandages at the same time.

Fixed a bug with SVD with suppressor still getting heard by NPC from far away

Fixed a bug with "Breast of Nachtkrapp" armor falling through floor

Fixed a bug with NPCs ghost-sliding when they are supposed to be crouch-walking

Fixed a bug with Mad Mechanic not able to repair armor insertions
1.82 (12 April 2024)

The Spanish localization has finally arrived! This work took three translators over one year of time to complete, a monumental achievement for these Tunguska fans :) I would like to thank these heros of the Zone for their hard work and dedication:

dso Khorne07 marcado

Let's keep in mind that there are in total over 70,000 words of text in the game, and even with the translator's scrutiny and cross-checks, there might be some issues. Please let me know if you notice any thing :)

Now, a few other fixes/changes included in 1.82 udpate:

Now you can use SHIFT+Click (or RT + A on the controller) to equip armor, primary weapon, sidearm, helmet, and headgear from backpack onto the body slots, as long as no other containers are open.

Added NPC reactions when one of their teammates are shot by a silenced weapon at night. The reactions depend on how far teammates are from the person who's shot. Sometimes a bunch of NPCs will go search for you, and sometimes they will chicken and hide behind covers.

Fixed a bug where if you crouch still and just tap SHIFT, the character would stand up

Added some additional hints in the journal for the Boris/Kirill investigation quests

Made some improvements to fall damage detection. If you sometimes stumble upon an object and end up with airborne -> fall down, you won't take fall damage from these hiccups.

Improved obstruction detection/notification when your gun is pointing at an object at point-blank
1.81-2_1 (8 April 2024)

Tutorial now shows up on the HUD without interrupting gameplay. You can hide it by pressing SHIFT+Enter, and you can go to options menu and press Tutorial button to show all unlocked tutorials

Added water splash when doing a dive roll while in water

Fixed the bug with player sometimes slide when entering a new area or loading a save

Now each weapon's description will show its skill class

NPCs will ignore explosions caused by friendly NPCs including player

Updated Razor's armor description to avoid confusion during Venkat's quest

Slightly reduced motorcycle gas cost

Fixed a bug with player not able to step into the smoke caused by smoke grenade

Fixed a bug with shooting RPG while crouching

Fixed a bug with game not loading properly if Amir dies after he's revived
1.81-1 (5 April 2024)

You can now assign a key for the "interact" function. If you reset key binding to default, it'll be F. And kicking will be Left Alt by default

You can now cycle through objects near you using the mouse wheel up/down

You can now use the Dpad on your controller to cycle through character models during character creation

Added a tutorial for door kicking

Tunguska Syndrome and Radiation will display at the same time on the dosimeter - no need to switch between them any more

Added an indicator for the acoustic sensor so you know when it's turned on

Added some sandbag barriers at player's house which will show up when you hire guards from Larry. If you already have the guards, you can disaband and rehire them to get the sandbags

Fixed a bug with keybinding buttons not reflecting the current keybinding

Fixed a bug with dead wolves jumping up when you get near them

Fixed a bug with player unintentionally swinging the melee weapon when you close a window by clicking a button
1.80-6 (2 April 2024)

In this update I am attempting to add some flanking behavior for the enemies who are fighting the player. Flanking has always been a major challenge even for AAA games - check out this funny post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision/comments/bfgzqq/its_not_flanking_when_the_enemy_runs_straight/

That's exactly the reason I haven't been able to simulate flanking. Sure, the NPCs can choose another cover and sometimes it leads them behind the player, but most of the time they will just run straight towards the player like idiots. For flanking to work as intended, the NPC would need highly complex multi-path pathfinding and prediction. What I'm doing in this build is not fancy at all, and it's very subtle, and only applies to certain locations in the game where flanking makes sense. The end result is, once in a blue moon, an enemy will show up behind you and surprise you while you are camping and cheesing.

Other fixes included in 1.80-6:

Fixed a bug that prevents the Klemens' Teeth quest to be completed

Added detailed crafting instruction on the right panel when you open a crafting station, until you open a recipe to hide it

The Armor Locomotion Unit will reduce flinch while getting shot, and it stacks with the flinch skill perk

Added a few journal entries that remind player that the quest item is no longer needed so they can be sold/thrown away

Replaced the icon for the Silenced Makarov with a PB
1.80-4 (25 March 2024)

Human NPC's "searching enemy" behavior had been pretty bland. I made some improvements for this behavior:

Each NPC will have a "courage" value determined by his squad's condition, his health condition, and weapon

When this NPC decides to search for an enemy that vanished from his sight, depending on the courage value, he might: -- Rush to the last know position of the enemy -- Wait there and aim at the last know position of enemy for some time -- While aiming, walk towards a random position to search -- While aiming, crouch-walk towards a random position to search Overall, making NPCs less "dumb aggressive".

When NPC is crouch-walking while out of your sight, you won't see the noise circle until he's very close.

Added more "SHIFT+Click / RightTrigger + A" usage in the inventory: -- To move item from backpack to planting UI's seed/fertilizer slots -- To move an item back to the trader -- To move an item into motorcycle's fuel/scrapmetal slot -- To move an item into an interactive object's slot And now when you quick-move items into a slot, it'll move 1 count of it each time you shift+click. For example, with the grain mill, which needs 4 seeds, you just shift+click 4 times to move 4 seeds.

You can now quick-move a tool item in the backpack into the TOOL slot and replace whatever is already there.

Fixed some bugs with the jumping/rolling animation. It used to cause player to hop into the sky whenever the frame rate is low. After some coding overhaul, jump and falling feel a lot more natural now and is no longer affected by frame rate.

Fixed a bug with applying bandages while crouching which caused player to be visible to enemies.

Added better error prompt when player tries to use G to quick-throw a non-grenade item such as the stink gourd. G for Quick Grenade is only used for grenades, to prevent player from panic-smashing G and wasting an item when they don't have a grenade equipped.

Forced an achievement check for "Pulitzer" achievement whenever the game loads, in case the API somehow missed it.

The Blessed rock and rock of rejuvenation in Ravenwood will no longer make item disappear if you put an invalid item in it
1.80-3 (21 March 2024)

Fixed a bug with the motorcycle consuming all of the gas you put in the slot even when there's more than it can hold

If you have a serum recipe book in your backpack, when opening the serum lab the book will be opened automatically

Added a Makarov with limited amount of ammo to the player during the Soviet border mission. Player can choose to use the gun or the crowbar. Updated the tutorial text for this too.

If player dies at the Soviet border, the game will ask whether to skip this map (and give up the weapons and money) and go straight to Zernaskaya

Improved gamepad handling: if you release the left trigger while aiming and if your right stick has input, the right stick will be slowed down for a second so that the camera doesn't accidentally spin around

Also improved the gamepad auto-aim threshold when the enemy is very close.

If you have a superior stink gourd, you can summon 1 more spider per gourd; and if you have a premium one, you can summon 2 more.

Fixed a bug with summoned spider not causing any explosive damage after it dies

Changed the rate of receiving radiation when your radiation protection is not enough to cover the radiation in the environment. The rate is now exponential - meaning if there's just a little bit of radiation, you will gain radiation poisoning much slower.

Got new icons for F1-F5 pocket on the HUD for gamepad

Added a tutorial for cooking
1.80-1 (18 March 2024)

Now, for both mouse and gamepad controls, the cursor will highlight the body equipment slots by proximity - i.e. you don't have to put the cursor directly on the item or slot in order to select it. This will make inventory management feel better for both mouse/keyboard and gamepad (especially gamepad!)

When using gamepad to select a topic (the vertical list of buttons on the right during dialogue), after selecting, the cursor will stay where it was so you don't have to keep moving the cursor down the list each time you select a topic

Fixed an issue with player getting stuck behind the mill in Zernaskaya

Added a [X] button for mouse and keyboard to close the inventory/journal/etc. with a click

Fixed a bug with selecting item quantity using mouse wheel or Dpad when there are only 2 items in the stack

Fixed a bug with the mill not giving an error message when you put the wrong ingredients in it.

The "trick or treat" topic will be hidden until Halloween day (every 7 days in-game)

Added a background for the buttons during intro slides to make them look more like buttons

Fixed a bug with the Destroy button (while looting dead body) not closing the inventory when pressed using gamepad.

Fixed a bug with dialogue option tooltip not showing text for other languages
1.80 (13 March 2024)

This is something I had planned to do ever since I was working on Slaughterhouse DLC. Now that the DLC is released, I have finally taken two weeks to dedicate on improving inventory management for controllers.

If you use the left stick to move the cursor over any of the grids, you'll see a "LT" icon popping up. Then, if you hold down Left Trigger, you'll enter the "Tetris mode" where your left stick will move a block cursor inside the grid, and it will be confined within the grid until you let go of the Left Trigger. This will make item selection and placement much easier. If you need to move an item from one grid to another, just let go of the left trigger, move the cursor over to the other grid, and hold LT again to enter its Tetris mode. It actually feels like playing Tetris, haha.

Moreover, I added several improvements for controllers:

When you enter the game the very first time, you'll see a black "Press Any Key" screen. If you press a keyboard/mouse button, you'll be assigned the Hybrid control scheme, and if you press a controller button, you'll be assigned the Gamepad control scheme.

You can now use the Up/Down DPAD to select a save game slot and then press Y to load it.

When at the Options page, if you hover the cursor at a line of option anywhere, you'll see the value of the option becoming bold. Now you can use Left/Right DPAD to scroll through the values. You can do the same with selecting body type and previous job at the character creation page.

I hope these changes make your experience better, and I'm still going to explore more improvement opportunities!

Now, other fixes/changes in 1.80:

If you hover the cursor over the response option buttons in the dialogue, you'll see what the player will say if this button was clicked. This will help you know more about the choice.

Fixed a null pointer bug when trying to place a repair kit in a pocket slot.

Made Pyro's health random between 350 and 600, instead of always at 550

Excluded Angel of Fire (armored Pyro) in Slaughterhouse, except at the boss fight

Fixed a bug with the Ammo trader in Slaughterhouse only selling one stack of ammo per type later on. Now it's randomly between one stack and two stacks per wave.

All seeds will have a chance to be high quality. If you plant a high quality seed, it'll contribute to the chance of the plant yielding high quality products. Premium > Superior

Turning in high quality food or serums will also improve your relationship even more with the trader's faction.

Fertilizer will also contribute to the chance of yielding high quality products.

Fixed some of the small houses in Ravenwood where you get pushed up to the roof if you try to jump over furniture.
Update (Oct 13th, 2023)

When aiming under Gamepad/chasecam mode, the crosshair will now be on the point of the target's body where the gun is aiming at, instead of the feet.

Swapped the default controller button mapping for Radial and Sprint. Now you can hold left button to sprint, and hold left stick to bring up the radial menu.

When shooting at an enemy with a shotgun (with buckshot) at very close ranges, the penetration capability will increase dramatically. This is because with very tight grouping, the shots act almost like a slug.

Rebalanced the shotgun accuracies

Increased the damage and accuracy for slug rounds. You can now achieve a 2-shot kill against armored humans.

When cooking/crafting using the wrong crafting station and fails, the game will hint you that you are using the wrong tools

Fixed the wording of class specialties for the Drug Cartel to be more accurate
Patch 1.67-8 (May 16th, 2023)

Increased the size of colliders for the buttons in the character creation page

Fixed a problem with NPC able to stand on top of some trees

The old mill can spawn humans

The rangers and mongols will now hide inside buildings during visitation

No-flinch perks are a bit overpowered. Made it so that you'll still flinch for 30% of the time. This is to balance for when NPCs have that perk - they become way too powerful

The helmets and armors with special effects will become less effective as durability goes down.

Fixed a bug where money spent via guides is not counted in the accomplishments
Patch 1.67-7 (May 13th, 2023)

Added a new container: Ingredient Jar. You can store serum ingredients in it. It will be a quest reward from Haruko after you get her recipe book back (requires new playthrough if you have already completed that quest)

Fixed several bugs related to my code refactoring for the Dead Zone DLC. Symptom including essential NPCs having lower health, the border patrol guards having too much health, and DLC items showing up unexpectedly

With all the code change I committed, there might be other (hopefully not!) issues. Please let me know if you notice anything unusual. Thank you for your patience!
Patch 1.67-6 (May 10th, 2023)

Fixed a bug where if you manage to duplicate the tooth before Larry/Jian Jun asks you to, you can't complete their quest. Now you can just go back to the rock and duplicate it again to finish the task.

Fixed a bug with picking up an item while holding melee weapon. If backpack is too full, you could cause inventory to be stuck because it was trying to open the inventory while you swing the weapon, but since you can't open inventory while swinging, the inventory thinks there's a selected item and won't open.

Improved the walking animation while holding melee weapon

Lighting bolt that strikes you should disappear when you teleport away (like when you enter a portal)

The RPD will now require 130% arm strength to use. This is to balance with the new DLC weapons that require (a lot more) arm strength

Added a armored ghoul model with a little bit of armor
Patch 1.67-5 (May 5th, 2023)

I noticed that during the Soviet border patrol scene, the patrol guy tends to get stuck by the boom barrier until you distracts him. The issue seems to be Unity's pathfinding algorithm. I made some changes to the boom barrier and now the patrol no longer gets stuck there.

This update also contains a LOT of hidden code changes for the Dead Zone DLC. These code doesn't apply to the base game, but potentially I might have broken something.
Patch 1.67-4 (April 27th, 2023)

Added the 7-shot Nagant M1895 revolver as the entry-level revolver. You can buy it from higher tier traders or find it in the Priest's safe (requires a new playthrough). The 44 magnum is going to be a high tier revolver. You will find one in Station 11.

Sidor's ammo box on his balcony is going to be locked. You will find the key from the dead body next to the old mill. The ID for this key is "sidorammoboxkey"

To improve PC performance during large battles, if there are more than 15 human NPCs around, flashlight shadow will be disabled temporarily.

To avoid peripherals interfering with the mouse input in the main menu, mouse input by left stick is disabled until you press any of the buttons on the controller.

Fixed a bug with Shamil keeps respawning when you activate the hangar door in Oblenska.

Moved the submit button for character creation page to prevent situations where it goes out of screen.
Patch 1.67-3 (April 22nd, 2023)

Fixed a bug with player "limping" after using two-handed melee weapon

Mongols will no longer respawn at Jian Jun's house if you kill them. Rangers will spawn there instead.

Making landmine with the Jackhammer now requires a grenade fuse.

Fixed an exploit where you can get unlimited XP by repeated telling Larry about the Potion of Elation recipe

Fixed a bug with Ravenwood script that advances your progress too far ahead

Fixed a bug where the keychain Jacob gives you triggers the journal about Jacob's death.
Patch 1.67-2 (April 21st, 2023)

Added two-handed melee animation. Currently only the dirty shovel is two-handed, but more will be introduced in the Dead Zone DLC.

Added a task entry to help player not get lost after asked by Jacob to find his son.

Added a lateral force to the ravens when they are shot, in order to avoid geting stuck on its perching spot

Fixed a bug where the building roof doesn't disappear when you aim at a character inside the building.

Fixed a bug with mystery candies not saved properly

Fixed a bug where PPSH41 can still be fixed (with no actual increase in durability) when it's at 90%.
Patch 1.67-1 (April 15th, 2023)

Fixed a bug where you are allowed to right click items from trader's inventory and just drop them on the ground

Jacob will now give you his keychain when you give him the potion of elation

Fixed a bug where the repair kit's repair amount restores to 25% when you go to another area
Patch 1.67 (April 13th, 2023)

You can now perform a running slide when you press the Crouch key while sprinting, which ends in crouching stance. You can basically sprint towards a cover and then press Crouch to quickly get behind it.

NPCs will now heal themselves (with a little animation) AFTER they decide that there is no more threat around them. They will not do this during combat. This helps preventing friendly NPCs from slowly dying from bleeding.

Each NPC will now have an intrinsic shooter skill stat. This stat determines how well they lead the aim at a moving target. The higher the NPC's tier, the higher chance they have good aiming skill.

Added Drop and Drop All button to the menu when you right-click an item, for quickly discarding them from the backpack. They will drop onto the ground.

Added separate mouselook rotation speed setting, which is independent of the Q/E or mouse wheel camera rotation speed.

Improved sprint handling. You can now cancel the sprint by aiming down sight, and while aiming down sight, you can sprint to stop aiming.

Fixed the aiming inaccuracy for various shotguns

Stashes will now prepopulate their contents when you first enter the map. No more easy save scumming, and no more losing a good roll from loading previous save.

Increased the height of dive-roll motion so that you can cross the same kind of gap as jumps.

Alkevier will stop accepting your potatoes as seeds (since he already has potato plants growing), and will only take one seed per stack when you turn in seeds, to avoid accidentally selling everything to him.

Fixed a bug with rolling/jumping spending too much stamina.

Balanced the amount of XP you get from traveling to areas. You will get a big boost of XP when you travel to a place you haven't been to before, but when you go to somewhere you have been to before, you'll barely get anything.
Patch 1.66-4 (April 11th, 2023)

Fixed a bug with throwing rock/grenades with the Mouselook control scheme while underground, causing the throw to be very close

Flattened the grenade trajectory while indoors or underground to avoid hitting the ceiling

Explosive skill can now be slowly increased by dealing explosive damage. The more damage you deal, the more skill you learn.

When holding LMB to run while in Panned/Fixed control scheme, when you release the LMB, the player will now immediately stop

Fixed a bug with stacking when Shift+Click moving product items from crafting screen to backpack

You can now tap SHIFT to start or stop sprinting instead of having to hold the key

Fixed a bug with crafted high quality caviar not displaying the arrow

Fixed a bug with crafting lard not affected by the Party Catering perk

Fixed the stash note for the stash near the anomaly in Zernaskaya village
Patch 1.66-3 (April 6th, 2023)

Fixed a bug where NPCs can detect dead bodies on the second floor

Now melee weapons have different swing speeds

The wolves in the mill at the beginning of the game will cause less bleeding

Increased the distance where you can engage dialogue with NPC

When loading save or travelling through guide, the screen will fade out instead of just freeze there

Added audio cue when hovering cursor over the skills

When hovering cursor over the + sign for upgrading skills, the perks display will be updated to the current skill

Added an icon for the "Take All" button when looting chests and bodies, showing that the button can be activated by pressing Space key

Moved the Take All button to the bottom of the page to accommodate large size containers.
Patch 1.66-2 (April 4th, 2023)

This is just a couple of small bug fixes:

When console log is over 5000 characters, it will get truncated to prevent the UI erroring out when it gets too long

Fixed an exploit with the repair kit where you can restore its repair amount value simply by right-click using it and then close the workbench window

Fixed a bug with repair kit disappearing when you close the workbench window without using it
Patch 1.66-1 (April 3rd, 2023)

You can now complete Sidor's potato farm quest by offering 1000 rubles - but this option only shows up if you actually have 1000 rubles at the time. After which, you lose the money, and after turning the quest in with Sidor, Legionnaires will become hostile.

You can now Shift+Click the product in crafting window to quickly move it to backpack

When using the repair kit as workbench, you can now use it to dismantle as many times as you want, as long as you don't close the window. After which the kit is gone.
Patch 1.66 (April 2nd, 2023)

I've realized that I've been really missing what I did back in Skyrim and Diablo: poisoning the sword :) So I decided to add a poison item that you can drop onto the equipped melee weapon. The poison will give the Melee weapon 5 poison hits, and each hit delivers a varied amount of poison damage over time.

So where can you get the poison? You can either find it (sometimes, if you are lucky) with Cheslav after he becomes a travelling merchant, or if you manage to lift your relationship with the Lake Cossacks (Grigori in Lake Cheko), he will sell it to you as well. I'll also introduce a way to craft it in Nightmare or Dead Zone difficulty mode in the DLC.

Speaking of Dead Zone DLC, I just wanted to provide a quick update on my progress. I have just finished working on all the TEN new weapons, and started working on the SIX new weapon attachments. Then I'll need to figure out how to start a new playthrough after ending the game and place those new weapons in the map only for high challenge levels. Could get pretty messy, so I need to figure it out carefully.

Other changes included in 1.66:

Tree cutting is balanced. Now the amount of damage you do to a tree depends on the type of weapon, how you swing it, the weapon's durability, and your melee skill perk (whether you have the increased damage perk)

Enabling the control scheme tutorial at the beginning of the border-crossing quest, to remind players other options

Fixed a bug with not able to add a two-row backpack upgrade if only one row is space is left. Also, After unlocking all your backpack space, if you find further backpack upgrades, they'll just increase your max weight.

Added an option setting to adjust the UI size. Please don't use - and = any more.

Fixed a bug that doens't allow player to craft serum or cook immediately when the Visitation ends

Fixed an exploit where you are able to access Sidor's locked up cupboard while standing on the stairs

Added the missing collider to the locker in Ashinaka lab

Adjusted the 9x18 ammo weight

Fixed a bug where you can see the floor below if you aim a gun at the wall of the first floor, when you are on the second floor

Changed the label of "Auto" for auto save to "Quick", and the label of "Save" for manual sleep save to "Sleep"
Patch 1.65-2_2 (March 27th, 2023)

Fixed a bug with equipping shield causing null pointer error

Added a mechanism to reset player action state, if the state is stuck for over 10 seconds. If you ever get stuck into action state race condition, this will be helpful

Reduced the price of firewood

Added an command to the console (Backspace): "unstuck". If you ever get stuck inside a geometry, just enter that command to lift yourself up
Patch 1.65-2 (March 26th, 2023)

The throwing knife has been added to the game, but since it's a DLC weapon, you can only access it by using the console. So if you are interested in trying it out, open the console with Backspace and type "get throwingknife 10". Equip and use it like a grenade, but you have to figure out how to make it "stick" to the target. Try throwing it at wooden objects like wooden fence.

Attempted to optimize the interactive object selection code for mouselook/chasecam/gamepad control modes

Fixed a problem with player back into a wall after strangling

When aiming a rock/grenade, you can now see the distance in meters

Kicking hostile human enemies will now cause some melee damage

Several water-related infrastructures can now be looted, and they contain respawnable water bottles

Fixed a script error in Ravenwood where you get to complete the final quest before you get it

The radiation of Mad Mechanic anomaly will now vary from day to day. If the radiation is too high for you, come back in a day or two.

Your base speed of receiving radiation is reduced. it was too fast previously

Fixed a problem with NPC doesn't drop loot that he looted from another dead body

Fixed a problem with silenced 44 magnum not playing reloading sound

Each salt crafting now produces 10 salt

Fixed a problem with not able to rebind quick-save key

Reduced the level of noise produced while strangling someone

Added a raycast blocker on the second story floor of Sanatorium

Fixed an issue with player immediately alerts the enemies when the Sanatorium stealth quest begins

If you close a notebook, and open the same one again, you will automatically go back to the last open page. If you open another notebook, the page memory resets.

Fixed an issue with player stopping for a second while sneaking and toggling always-walk

All smashable crates no longer have physics. this should prevent them from flying away.
Patch 1.65-1 (March 22nd, 2023)

Beer will now give you a short and big buff in arm strength, which results in significantly higher melee damage. Drunken brawls!

Traders will pay a better price if you sell them a gun with better durability than all of his same items

Kicking crates by clicking them will force player to face the crate

Added a console log history page, accessible from the Tasks page

Tamed the clinking sounds while running/sprinting

If your melee strike first hits a wall before hitting the target, the hit will now properly register. But not if you try to hit someone through the wall

Player walking speed is increased with new animation

Added some task descriptions/steps to Sidor's first two quests to avoid confusion

Crafting during visitation is no longer allowed

Fixed a bug with crooked aim after throwing grenade with G key

Fixed a bug with crooked aim and spinning while sneaking

Fixed a bug with UI being stuck in menu page with message "there's still selected item"

Added yield quantity info in food recipes

If gun has laser, then the yellow arrow will not show while aiming with ChaseCam mode

Flipping pages key will now be A/D or left/right arrow

Respawn announcements will not show if there was a recent one in the same location

Rebalanced medicine prices

Rebalanced food calories for meat dishes

Visitation is less frequent in Normal mode

Radiation and bleeding indicators will flash to indicate the severity

Radiation given by mad mechanic anomaly will vary depending on its state

Reduced energy consumption speed, which wasn't meant to be this fast.
Patch 1.65 (March 18th, 2023)

Dear Ghoul Hunters: First of all, thank you everyone for the support! It's an honor for me to present this game to you, and I hope you get many hours of fun time from it :)

As a small token of gratitude, I'm releasing a free gear that you might find useful: a wooden shield. You can equip it on either of your primary/side arm slots, and when you pull up a melee weapon, the shield will be moved to your left arm. The shield will provide 100% protection from head-on melee attacks - if you keep it in good condition (and no it doesn't block bullets). Attacks from the side has some chance to be protected as well. It will definitely help when you tackle a group of Scythes!

You can find this shield at the barrel on the small pier by the Zernaskaya church (if you start a new playthrough), or buy it from any traders who sell melee weapons (except Sidor, his level is too low).

Also, I know many of you folks are eagerly waiting for the Dead Zone DLC. I apologize for the delay; I just had to fix some of the technical debt that got piled up. I'm almost done with making all the new weapons. I just have a couple of things left, such as the throwing knife - it's going to be the most realistic throwing knife you'll see in modern gaming, might even be as tricky as real throwing knives :) After this, I will start making some "boss ghouls" for the high challenge playthroughs.

Other changes included in this update:

NPCs will sometimes loot dead bodies they see. Not all of them, which would be frustrating for you. They would equip the new weapon if it's better than their, and save the rest of the loot in their inventory, and put them on sale if you trade with them.

The main menu now supports up/down arrow or Dpad navigation

When you click on "Continue" in the main menu, it'll show a "load save game" page where you can choose which save to load.

Balanced the sound effects in the main menu.

Increased the F1 Grenade and Makeshift Landmine's damage drastically to make them more desirable and useful.

A new icon for the potato bread so it's no longer confused with the Rye bread

Fixed some issues with strangling with Garrotte. Hopefully now you will no longer encounter problem with your victim sliding away when you strangle them.

Fixed a bug with NPCs detecting dead bodies even when they are out of their sight. This could cause your silent takedowns to go haywire when you kill one of them, and immediately the guards would notice the dead body

Fixed a bug with Ashinaka sanatorium spawning human NPCs who just stand there like idiots

Added a chest in the car in the army cordon level. Now you can find all three gasolines required in that level, not having to go back to town to get it.

Sidor will try to remind you about Hans's detector project before you head to the train station

Siren and mutant spawning sounds are cached, hopefully to reduce some micro-stuttering

Added error handling of failure to connect to local database, which can be caused by putting the game