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Public Beta Testing: v3.0 Beta 4 Release Candidate

Added 2020-04-16 21:51:44 +0000 UTC

3.0 Beta 4 includes a public beta testing period before the official release. So, here are the links for those wanting to help beta-test this version (or just really impatient). No previous beta testing experience is required - it's as simple as playing the game normally and report any bugs you encounter.

3.0 Beta 4 Release Candidate 2 64-bit Update Only (requires v2.0 Stable or later)
3.0 Beta 4 Release Candidate 2 64-bit Full

(Update 17 April: Added RC2, allowing NPC to wear shoes and fixing a couple of minor bugs)

The beta testing period will last around 36 hours, aiming for official release of v3.0 Beta 4 (which will include the rest of the platforms and mirrors of course) on Saturday, 18 April.

My preferred channel to receive bug reports from beta testers is via Discord. But a reply here would do too.

If you're not interested in beta-testing the game and are not super impatient to try out the new content in this version, it's recommended to just wait a bit more for the final v3.0 Beta 4 releases.

Thank you for all your help!

Change Log:

- Fix many bugs that have been accumulating over the past two beta updates, with emphasis on the game-breaking ones like that one where people in your contacts randomly changing gender or appearance.

- Improve performance in terms of frames per second by optimizing the game's process of checking and applying AI packages happening in the background

- Improve performance in terms of smoother / more seamless gameplay and less and shorter freezes while the game is loading assets (furniture and clothes) or generating characters into the world, by putting some of the loading processes in the background using the multi-threading system added in Beta 1. For the loading processes that aren't thread-safe and can't be put away in the background, I'll try to change them to occur when the player doesn't feel the impact of the freezes at all or as much.

- All commissions (animations, maps and scenes) for April from patrons and contributors

- Other bug fixes and improvements

- Put simply, Beta 4 is just Beta 3 minus the bugs. It will also perform much better both in terms of FPS and less freezes from loading stuffs.