Colonists, please enjoy this L update and enjoy some impending exciting news!

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Changes

• Updated Warehouse setpiece
• Lockboxes now take 3 minutes to unlock
• Adjusted Blizzard timings so a blizzard will last 30 s to 4 min max.
• Prevented a Blizzard from being immediately followed by another Blizzard
• NPCs can now use axes and all types of pickaxes for melee combat
• NPCs now have a simple fight-or-flight response to combat; they will run away if they have very low health but not their opponent, or if their opponent has a firearm and they don’t, or if they’re completely unarmed
• NPCs will now open doors during combat and while fleeing
• Updated smelter sounds, tuned volume
• Railgun has an updated projectile and an updated sound
• Default volume for Music and Ambience lowered slightly

Bugfixes

• Fixed several issues related to lockboxes unlocking and syncing in multiplayer
• Fixed an issue that could cause a repeating exception when a lockbox is added to the world, causing a steady framerate drop as more lockboxes generate
• Fixed issue with certain heavy laser projectiles not showing in multiplayer
• Fixed issue that caused the current weather and Blizzard countdown not to be seen when a client joins mid-event
• Fixed issue that could cause a stuck Blizzard to block all other events, such as colonist spawns, from occurring
• Fixed “Waiting for area to load” still showing up for a long time after you first reconnect to an online game
• Fixed issue that could caused toppled plants to get launched into the air
• Fixed block-break animation issue that would cause you not to see destruction animations when blocks are destroyed by other clients
• Fixed issue with colony spawn point not “sticking” after resuming a game in The Mode
• Fixed issue that would cause the spawn point item not to be awarded to the first member of a faction
• Fixed issue that would cause new members of a faction not to respawn at the colony spawn point
• Fixed NPCs being given the wrong tier of equipment on some setpieces
• Fixed some laser weapon projectiles failing to display when shot by a NPC

Social Media

Can’t get enough Outworlder? Itching for the next colony? Try one of our communities and social media platforms!

Our Discord is our main community hub: If you’re a playtester, you can join and get a special playtester role. Also look for people to play Outworlder with there!
Discord: https://discord.gg/Asntr8e

Our other spaces are regularly updated
Twitter: @playoutworlder

Forums: https://forums.playoutworlder.com/index.php
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Outworlder/
Outworlder Site: https://playoutworlder.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playoutworlder/