The Day Earlier than will get two updates after a rocky launch.
Maybe unsurprisingly after wanting again on the sport’s troubled highway to launch, The Day Earlier than will not be doing effectively in any respect on Steam. Folks have been enjoying it, certain, however these individuals have additionally been hammering the sport with damaging opinions to the purpose that it is already entered into Steam’s unofficial “Corridor of Disgrace” which homes the ten worst-reviewed video games of all time. Amid all these damaging opinions and criticisms directed in the direction of the sport since its launch this week, developer Fntastic and The Day Earlier than’s writer, Mytona Fntastic, have remained largely silent on the mess of a launch other than refuting rip-off allegations and sometimes responding about potential options down the highway.
What Fntastic has completed, nevertheless, is put out a hotfix that launched shortly after the sport itself, one which addresses one in all gamers’ main complaints with the gameplay itself. The Day Earlier than is supposed to function tons of zombies (known as “Contaminated” right here), however upon enjoying The Day Earlier than, gamers discovered that these zombie encounters had been surprisingly scarce. Whether or not there was a problem with the best way that these zombies had been spawning or if the spawn charges had been just too low is not recognized, however Fntastic’s newest (and solely) hotfix for the sport since its launch has since addressed that downside.
The patch notes for the “Huge Efficiency Hotfix” in query additionally speak about efficiency itself with the replace supposedly making the sport run higher total alongside an improved taking pictures expertise. These patch notes for the replace launched this week will be seen under:
The Day Earlier than Patch Notes for Replace 1.0.2
Improved sport and web code efficiency
Improved the mechanics of the spawning of the contaminated to extend the possibility of encountering them on the planet
Improved first and third-person taking pictures efficiency
Elevated job rewards from 1000 to 5000 Woodcoins
Adjusted the quantity of ammo that may be discovered from the lifeless contaminated
Added possibility to vary the keys for tilting the character left and proper
Fastened varied methods of duplicating objects
Fastened that the alarm sound may play indefinitely
Fastened that one of many backpacks may disappear when swapping backpacks
Fastened that after going to the principle menu from the tutorial, it was doable to look in Leonard’s room whereas the present quest goal was already out of the room
Fastened that GPS Map management was not carried out with the identical buttons as character management
Small fixes to the Storage to forestall objects from being misplaced
Small fixes to forestall spawning exterior of Leonard’s room
Small fixes to decision settings
Small sound enhancements
Small localization fixes
Fntastic shared an announcement by way of Twitter and different socials this week to inform gamers that this replace was out. Over within the sport’s Discord channel, one other replace was shared with two adjustments listed in some temporary patch notes
The Day Earlier than Server-Aspect Hotfixes for December 9
Server-side optimization replace that was rolled out a couple of hours in the past – each new server after this replace ought to have a greater server FPS
Fastened challenge that prevented the sport from enjoying on Linux