Metal Frontier 1.05 Patch Notes

Performance Improvements

• Added Occlusion culling to only render what is in front of the player.
• Enabled GPU instancing to improve how materials are rendered.
• Reduced the texture size of various textures to reduce memory usage.
• Enabled texture streaming so that textures can be rendered at a lower resolution when viewed from far away.
• Robot pieces from defeated enemies now disappear after a few seconds which reduces the strain on the physics engine.
• Tweaked lighting and shadow settings for both PC and Quest 2 to improve performance.
• Switched bullets from being collision based to using raycasts, this should make hits register more consistently.
• Various other performance improvements

Players should notice a significant improvement in performance after this update

QOL

• Interaction lines now only appear when aiming at an object that can be interacted with
• Added an option for switching between sitting and standing mode in the options menu
• The options menu now saves between play sessions and should no longer reset

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the start menu would not face the player on start up in the quest 2 build
• Tutorial videos are no longer broken