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Thanks for your support back in the day, happy to hear you otherwise enjoyed the game!

For the desktop icon the only thing that comes to mind is if the shortcut got copied elsewhere somehow.

For what it's worth, I took a look through the codebase for places that write images to disk. It's possible something was wrong or different in the past, but at least in the current version I believe the only images written would be:

- Screenshots saved into the install folder Screenshots subfolder. Note: Steam has an optional "Save an external copy of my screenshots" option which defaults to your Documents folder.

- Level editor tools to render the "chart" and "satellite" views into the per-level folder.

- Tools for modders to export icons into the install folder Extras subfolder.

If anyone else comes across this in the future and has run into a similar issue / believes some files are being written where they shouldn't, please feel free to get in...

Sorry for the trouble! One property in common between the community event icon (a grenade in this case) and the workshop thumbnail is that they both ignore the user interface tinting options. This makes me wonder if the UI tint mistakenly loaded as transparent.

Albeit a heavy-handed option, if you're comfortable resetting all your custom settings this may be worth trying:

1. Right-click Unturned in your Steam Library
2. Select Properties...
3. Find the Launch Options field
4. Type "-DisableSteamCloudRead" without quotes

After loading into the main menu again you can then close the game and remove the launch option. (Don't load into singleplayer with this option or your progress may be lost!)

If you don't mind me asking, do you recall anything about where those files were or what they were called? The game itself should only be writing files in its install folder and to Steam cloud.

Sorry to hear you've been experiencing burnout! Definitely a good call to take a break. :) <3

Thanks! :D

Thank you! :) <3

Thank you! I completely agree planes and helicopters deserve a similar treatment - and Flodo has even emailed me several extensive in-depth documents about flight mechanics hehe - but I'm not 100% sure at the moment what my next priority will be. Things have been pretty hectic the past month so I'm mostly excited to release this update and enjoy the christmas break. ;D

Lol this is awesome! :D

Everyone's already said as much, but FWIW great work so far!

Loving all your skit videos! :)

The zombie AI is pretty silly in these spots. Game-design wise I think it'd be interesting to balance the player movement abilities and environment around what the zombies are capable of (+making the zombies more capable of course).

Thank you for your continued interest! I hope to make the future worthy of the longtime support of players like yourself.

For context, the two most recent blog posts people are referencing are:

• One Year Later (2023-06-11)
• ...

Really impressive base! Loving all the attention to detail both outside and in your armory. My sister even saw your post on her front page and sent it to me because it was so impressive! :)

Stepping in because this is (unintentionally) misleading.

The terrain is always drawn before water which means any water underneath the map will be skipped because it fails the depth test.

Since you mention memory (RAM), for most players, Unturned uses a lot of RAM when a lot of mods (including curated maps) are installed. The game pre-loads a lot of content which is undeniably problematic memory-wise, but it has its upsides, and is difficult to change at this point because it's somewhat foundational. We have a support article to help with reducing RAM usage: https://support.smartlydressedgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/12112637453076-Reducing-memory-RAM-usage

I completely agree this would be awesome! I feel like we don't hear from singleplayer folks too often - I appreciate your posting. :)

I have kind of wondered about that as an "end goal" for the maps: Something like the horde beacon to fully clear out a location. Longer-term I envision the series having a greater PvE focus and content like this, e.g., defending your base against roaming zombie hordes.

If I recall correctly, one of the main reasons for replacing the clouds was a technical one: Previously, the clouds were giant mesh particles drawn in the 3D. This meant the camera's far clip plane needed to extend far enough to cover all of the clouds, otherwise they would get cut off on the left and right edges of your screen. Regardless of graphics settings the far clip plane was something like 4 kilometers. I wanted to make it configurable so that players on low-spec PCs could cull more distance objects (think of how area increases as circle radius increases). By moving all of the sky effects like sun, moon, clouds, aurora borealis into the sky shader it became possible to limit the draw distance as close as you want. :D

Personally, I'm happy with the current clouds, but I'd also be happy to take another crack at improving their visuals further down the road. (e.g., multiple layers or styled volumetric clouds, something along those lines) The old cloud models were contr...

This is great! I especially love the multi-map transition.

Thanks for your interest in the future of the series! We're certainly overdue for a follow-up to my 2023 follow-up post.

Just in case it's unclear, I'd like to clarify that's not actually me.

Thanks for your kind words and your longtime support - all the way back to Deadzone! :O

I'm honored that it's something you've enjoyed coming back to over so many years, and I hope to make the future of the game/series worthy of this support!