Wasteland 2 backer beta major update goes live

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inXile has put out a major update for the early beta, with a long list of major and minor fixes and tweaks. All Steam builds will automatically update though they've warned the build will likely break all existing saves and may well introduce new issues as they update the engine. High-profile fixes:

High Profile Fixes

Updated to Unity 4.3 which may introduce new issues not previously seen. Please report on the Early Beta Community Site.


Implemented hardware cursor


Major combat and weapon balancing (1st balancing pass).


Eliminated a variety of crashes related to saving & loading in combat.


Eliminated a variety of infinite loading occurrences during scene transitions. (Specifically Ag Center and Highpool loading crashes)


Eliminated a variety of crashes related to Highpool & Ag Center.


The game will no longer be autosaved and a duplicate party will no longer be generated when going to the main menu from gameplay.


The name of a snapshot portrait should now be set when it is created.


Custom portrait filenames should now be retained when saving/loading.


Optimization: Pre-allocate animstates for decreased load time.


Removed XP exploit for perception.


Improved individual dropsets.


Improved overall loot distribution and balance.


Eliminated circumstance of loot drop returning no items.


Clicking on a player portrait to switch to a different speaker in conversations should now work correctly.​
 
Just a reminder, you can turn off any auto updates for any Steam game by going into your library, right clicking your game, proprieties and go into update and change the setting.
 
So I don't mind starting over again (for the 5th time) to test the new build and all, but all the characters I created will still be there right?
 
All your characters are still there. I was even able to load my save(only did a single combat before quitting).
 
Kilus said:
All your characters are still there. I was even able to load my save(only did a single combat before quitting).
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Pretty sure my last save is incompatible. Was experiencing a game-breaking bug that wouldn't put Highpool or Ag Center on my map. :P
 
Wasteland 2 OST preview should now auto update for people. Find it here:

..Steam\steamapps\common\Wasteland 2\Soundtrack\Wasteland 2 OST - Unmastered Arizona Preview
 
I should probably not have gone to the Rail Nomads camp this early. I don't seem to have a lot of the skills necessary to complete these tasks. Even though my Surgeon skill is at level 3, I made a critical failure performing it on an NPC and nearly killed him. Level 3 surgeon and it's not good enough. I even, during one random encounter, killed one of my teammates by performing Surgeon on him post-battle. WTF? >_<
 
FearMonkey said:
I should probably not have gone to the Rail Nomads camp this early. I don't seem to have a lot of the skills necessary to complete these tasks. Even though my Surgeon skill is at level 3, I made a critical failure performing it on an NPC and nearly killed him. Level 3 surgeon and it's not good enough. I even, during one random encounter, killed one of my teammates by performing Surgeon on him post-battle. WTF? >_<
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That sound too hash to me...
I guess skill level 3 mean he or she has skill of normal surgeon
and many situation are not easily solved with that? too harsh.. what a brutal wasteland...
 
Lexx said:
Well, 3 is rather low.
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Sduibek said:
Harsh is good, Wasteland never held hands either.
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My teammate went down in a random encounter. He had 0 Con. Only way to make him conscious was to do Surgery apparently. Yet with a 3 in the skill (My characters are only level 2 right now), I killed him with one attempt. There's harsh and then there's harsh.

Didn't matter really anyway, since I just reloaded a save. But still... *shrug*
 
Fair enough. I'd let inXile know; more info is always better than less, for purposes of balancing and difficulty scaling.
 
Yeah, I'll pass it on as a suggestion using codecenter at some point. I'm compiling a list of other bugs to submit as well. It's pretty buggy even after the latest patch. Way more stable at least, but still pretty buggy.
 
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