0.40 Discussion Thread

any way to switch to the og part selector visuals? thx

 

Why did you remove "Replace current vehicle"?
These are not UI improvements, these are UI changes. Nobody's user experience is improved by the removal of features. Nobody's user experience is improved by being forced to relearn how to interact with every single menu in the game. No other game completely redesigns the UI from the ground up every few months, doing this just wastes dev time and aggravates players. You had a working UI, and threw it away for nothing - just like the last time you made a new UI. I don't know who these UI changes are intended to please, but clearly it isn't your playerbase. At least involve the community if you insist that the game MUST have a brand new interface every 4 updates. Show us two different versions, and let us vote on which one we like more. Give us a form to fill out where we can request additional features, layout changes, etc. User feedback is what builds early access games - making random changes and then ignoring all the complaints you receive about them gets you nowhere.

 

im... pretty sure the replace current vehicle button disappearing is unintended behaviour, since its there for me, but did disappear a few times. i guess just wait for a hotfix?

 

I found my old dynamic reflections settings before updating:

"dynamicReflection": {
"textureSize": 128,
"detail": 0.400000006,
"enabled": true,
"facesPerUpdate": 1,
"distance": 500,
"debugEnabled": false

Since those options have unfortunately been simplified, what would the closest preset be to that and what would be different about it versus that?

 

Yes! The new update looks great and performance is very smooth, too.

EDIT - I also just noticed a small tuning error. On both the city bus (which has a nice bouncy suspension seat now) and the school bus, exiting the driver's seat places the player outside of the left side of the bus, instead of the right side next to the doors.

I also noticed that the look behind command now looks over the left shoulder out the car window rather than over the right shoulder into the interior; not a good or bad thing, but an interesting change.

 

Devs like none others. Seriously, who checks if mods they are not even responsible for function with the latest game update? I challenge anyone to find developers who are actually this active and caring for their community more than Beam.

 

@AgentMooshroom5 @Agent_Y do you know if it's on the team's radar to restore the "Version 0.39 highlights", "Version 0.38 highlights" menu options to Quick-Start Experiences? These were very helpful for returning players to try out scenarios from past updates, and I can attest that it was easy to launch them with a controller.


The 0.40 menu looks like a step back, since its simple scrolling list with (seemingly) random missions looks less thought-out and is less organized:


If the highlights are re-introduced to the Quick-start Experiences menu, then the new menu overhaul will be a big improvement overall. It will also help maintain player numbers when new updates come out in the future. Putting these update scenario categories under "View all" or "Gameplay Selector" doesn't have the same level as polish as the pre-0.40 approach.

 

Only hotfix that would make me return is a revert to .38's UI. The missing features might be unintended, but the decimation of the ease of use of the menus was deliberate. They didn't make these layout changes accidentally. The point stands that a working UI was replaced with a UI that doesn't work, just like the last time they completely remade the UI from the ground up for no reason at all.

 

Can this not be a thing/toggable? Because I was able to go up to 5, if not more with this in Photo Mode on 0.39, yet the game thinks that I'm running out of VRAM, when I'm not..

 

it works fine in my game lol