'Outcast 1.1' Update: 1.1.5 Patch Changelog Revealed! Graphics Enhancements, Gameplay Additions, Peformance Improvements, Bug Fixes And More

"Outcast 1.1" has been updated to 1.1.5 and the devs revealed the full patch changelog on the official Steam page of the game.

Graphics Enhancements: 

• new: unlock camera constraint in 1st person and 3rd person 
• new: unlock resolution limitations 
• new: support 21:9 resolution 
• new: extend the visibility range, reduce distant view poping artefacts 
• new: properly tweak the fog to comply with the mood of the original game 
• new: extend the skyes according the new camera range 
• new: extend the NPC visibility and activity range (together with the new camera settings and the extended view, this should let you discover some unseen aspect of the AI) 
• new: tweak the 3rd person camera settings to provide a new strategic view point 
• new: add the ability to pause the dialog to read the subtitle (by keeping pressed the main button)

Performance boost: 
To compensate the unlocking of the resolution, the camera freedom and the extended visibility range, we had to focus on various optimisations which results in a noticeable performance boost specially on multithreaded machine. 

• new: multithreaded fog and water post-process 
• new: multithreaded polygon rendering 
• new: rewritting rasterizer to take advantage of SSE technology instead of MMX and making it thread independent 
• new: improved thread affinity and dispatch

Gameplay fixes 

• fixed: potential stuck in dialog (ie with zeo or zagrad) 
• fixed: transmission of the 4th mon could fail 
• fixed: minimap scaling was not resolution independent 
• fixed: can't use E character in savegame name

Graphics fixes: 

• fixed: sometimes background disappeared on specific camera angles (mainly in 1920x1080) 
• fixed: highly reduce visibility popping 
• fixed: remove artifacts related to zbuffer precision (ie visible on Cutter helmet in 1920x1080)

Crash fixes: 

• fixed: potential crash while changing world 
• fixed: potential crash while rendering shadows in 1920x1080 
• fixed: potential crash when leaving the Okaar map 
• fixed: steamCloud issue: the name of the savegame was discard by SteamServer since the file was empty