v0.3.0-alpha

Description

We're proud presenting you our new alpha release with a lot of smaller and bigger changes. You can now swim and dive, use your backpack like in the original Gothic, and fight with our first melee version.

Changelog

Added

• Status & HUD — Status menu showing live hero stats and guild name; health, mana and
  oxygen/air bars on the VR player.
• Lockpicking — interactive chest/door lockpicking with haptic feedback and lockpick
  consumption from the inventory.
• Melee combat — First iteration of melee fights. Using original Gothic attack window (left-right combo).
  Monsters can't hit you (#godmode). Expect huge clunkyness.
• VR weapon tracking — velocity-based attack recognition with weapon trail and woosh sound.
• Swimming & diving — water-level detection between feet and head, dive via controller
  grips, underwater screen fade/colour shift, swim head-bobbing, and dedicated swim/dive
  sound effects.
• VR inventory & backpack — paginated VR backpack with category selection
  (key items / melee / misc), grab-to-load items, holster and waist slots, and menu sounds
  on open/close.
• Five Finger tracking — five-finger tracking via Unity XR Hands (Valve Index controllers).
• NPC loot — grab a dead NPC to open and loot their inventory (first draft).

Performance

(technical shenanigans...)

• World load times drastically reduced — World mesh caching cut from ~50s to ~3s,
  and overall world load from 30–300s down to ~10s.
• Rendering — SRP Batcher–compatible single-mesh shaders, cached texture-array
  composition, foveated rendering (FFR) with symmetric projection, and TMP font-atlas
  pre-warming on startup.
• Culling — distance-band NPC culling with hysteresis and off-screen routines, plus
  improved VOB sound/mesh culling.

v0.2.0-alpha

Changelog

Changed

• Upgraded to Unity 6 (LTS)

Added

• SpeechToText - After downloading and storing local LLM to the game, you can speak the dialog options with NPCs. More details at: Wiki: SpeechToText

• VR tutorials can be activated inside MainMenu and In Game Menu. Simply click on the pulsating Gothic-UnZENity logo (stretch your arms to select).

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-alpha...v0.2.0-alpha

v0.1.0-alpha

Description

Hop into a more interactive VR world with NPC interactions and dialogs. Explore new hero capabilities like sitting and eating animations with dramatically improved animations and faster loading times.

Changelog

Added

• Interactions
  • Sit on bench
  • Eat/drink items
• NPCs
  • Dialogs
  • Dialog subtitles
  • Custom NPC AnimationSystem
• PreCaching scene to speed up normal game loads (by about 30 seconds)
• Spectator mode with less jitter on a PCVR game recording
• Menu
  • Load Gothic Menu from Daedalus scripts
  • VR settings menu for accessibility features (Snap turn, Seated mode, ...)
• Improved logging framework for debugging purposes (additional filter for Categories in GameSettings.json)
• Save setting changes to Gothic.ini file

Changed

• Backpack model (jute sack)
• Async Loading based on device performance (no jitter when in loading screen)
  • PreCaching + World loading + VOBs + NPCs

Fixed

• Glyph support for non-english characters

Full Changelog: v0.0.1-pre-release...v0.1.0-alpha

v0.0.1-pre-alpha

Description

Enjoy the colony with ambience and items in VR. Expect anything and nothing.
Here be dragons: It's the very first pre-release to check on the games stability in general.

Changelog

Added

• Main Menu to enter some settings and start the game
• Walk, Jump, Crouch, Run (see Controls for more details)
• Interaction with items, chests, and doors
• Music and transitions between music zones