Radiation, Leather bags and UI goodness
There hasn't been a client update yet today, leaving us eager beavers turning our walls different colors as we watch the twitter feed in the background. No updates does not mean no progress, however, so here are several highlights from Twitter to take note of.
Radiation
Naked Newmans with rocks are no longer the only thing to watch out for when trekking around those big wolf monuments. For the past few weeks you may have noticed a little radiation icon appear above your health bar when visiting a wolf landmank. You probably also realized, even though the icon sticks around, it doesn't actually start draining your health. This will no longer be the case as it appears that radiation now works. Will there be the infamous clicking sound? Will our screen fuzz up? Will it still be 500 rads till you loose health? I will be sure to post the details tomorrow as soon as the update launches.
Leather sleeping bag
Xavier pushed up some some new bag models, textures mats and more to the /main branch. What’s really cool is there appear to be models for when the bag has someone in it! I don't know if this update means the bag will be in tomorrow or weeks from now. I'm also not sure if this bag will replace the current cloth one or just be another option in the Rust sleeping arsenal. Either way, I personally can't wait to find my first sleeper cozily snuggling in his leather bag. I won't even bash him with a rock; I'll probably just cozy up next and drop a piece of wolf meat on him...
UI rework
It looks like Garry has been focused today on reworking the user interface for the vitals system. He has made the vital notices more significant, made health / calories bars more like legacy and moved the warnings to a different block. I'm excited to see what the fully reworked UI for this looks like!
Stay tuned in the morning because, from my experience, no update one day means and early update the next day. I'll post the details as soon as the update drops.
Server info: The above updates are not active on our server until the next client update comes out. Last wipe was 9/25.