Optimization Pass

Privy to some feedback (and personal experience), I did some work to make the game more accessible to a wider range of hardware. As I do not have much hardware to test on, let me know how the game performs with these new changes.

Gameplay/quality-of-life changes:

• Improved loading screens, with a progress bar
• Graphics presets for quickly tuning your game
• Max framerate limiter option
  • This seems to work best when set to 60 Hz so it aligns with the physics tickrate
• Jump-cancel window for slides is now a consistent 0.3 seconds after slide begins
  • This was originally based on the duration of the slide, which was based on your landing velocity. This should make slides much more predictable and feel less risky
• Made jetpack fuel gauge a little more readable
  • People aren’t seeing it, but I’m not sure if I want a HUD element. Feedback is appreciated (use in-game survey link)
• Potential crash fix, but it is very elusive. Please let me know of any crashes/freezes via a bug report

Optimization changes:

• Heavier use of distance-culling for more efficient rendering
• Many more available graphics options at user’s disposal
  • I forgot to add an anti-aliasing option before… oops! This option is particularly helpful
• Some of the rope simulation is now run on a separate CPU thread
  • Hoping this does not impact game stability. Seems to reduce the physics thread workload
• Halved the amount of simulated collision points for rope
  • Temporary solution, but shouldn’t really impact gameplay anyhow
• Minor optimizations for commonly-used code
• Fixed the Renegade’s ear jigglebones taking an absurd amount of computation time

Thank you all who have tried Abyss! Happy scavenging!