This update introduces a new music radio station, playable in your vehicle and other locations, featuring music from top South African bands such as Not My Dog, Ruff Majik, Fuzigish, Hog Hoggidy Hog, The Slashdogs, The Narrow, Boo!, Worsie van Wyk, Shameless, Kamikaze Test Pilots, ATFN, Hunter Kennedy, and more! With over an hour of voice acting, virtual ads with game tie-ins, and other surprises, this addition enhances your experience alongside the existing talk radio station, and even more on the way!

Radio Changes:

• The radio now features two stations instead of one, with more coming soon.
  
• Radio now has 3 states. Talk Radio, Music Radio & Off, which you can flip between using the reload button while driving.
  
• Radio stations can now also be heard inside other places such as caravan and bar as opposed to only while driving.
  
• Radio now has its own volume control in conjunction to game music and master volume controls.

Details:

• Increased texture quality of player arms.
  
• Improved poacher death animation as well as ragdoll reliability.
  
• Removed some trees growing unrealistically on slopes near far ends of the reserve.
  
• Increased detail of character #2 hair in character selection screen.

Fixes:

• Minor environment detail fixes.
  
• Fixed missing colliders on some metal structures.
  
• Fixed flashing shadows on arms.
  
• Fixed potential subtitle/voiceover overlap when activating drone recharge station before mission. briefing is finished due to loading a saved game near the drone station before activating it.
  
• Fixed rare issue where the end level stats popup could cause trees to turn into low quality billboards if player finished a level near an outskirt.
  
• Fixed a small inventory system issue that might cause player to select the wrong item when dragging quick.
  
• Fixed a rare error that could cause sometimes cause an armored poacher wearing a hat to become invincible to headshots if head shot with a shotgun due to the engine not being able to add a rigidbody to a component twice when making the hat fall off the poachers head.
  
• Fixed custom mouse cursor turning back into normal windows mouse cursor when the game is Alt+Tabbed.
  
• Fixed issue with next enemy waypoints not always working properly if a game was loading midway through dispatching an enemy wave.
  
• Fixed some other issues with enemy count when loading a saved game midway through an enemy wave that could possibly not load the correct remaining enemy count or score stats.
  
• Fixed new overlap of secret "time length" slider activated by cheat code since the menu had been adjusted.
  
• Fixed missing flag animations in ostrich racing caused by accidental deletion of blend shapes during optimization update.
  
• Fixed bug allowing player to pick up an ostrich.
  
• Fixed issue with HUD scale parameter not resetting properly when selecting default settings.
  
• Fixed issue where armor UI could display over the vehicle garage U.I.
  
• Fixed mouse cursor showing during "Sleeping" overlay screen.
  
• Fixed issue with HUD scale not loading correctly.
  
• Fixed a memory leak caused by asynchronously loaded fish remaining in the fishing hole when leaving the area.
  
• Fixed small issue that caused your weapon to be stuck in zoom mode if you got into a vehicle with the aiming button held down.

New Achievements:

• Crafting A Successful First Aid-Kit
  
• 100% Mission Accuracy
  
• Curing a snake bite on "Hard" Difficulty

Optimizations:

• Fixed memory leak issue with enemy bullets holes.
  
• Made normal maps for very small shell casing ejections much smaller
  
• Fixed more shadow casters that didn't cast shadows that were visible
  
• Removed unnecessary content size fitters on saleable U.I. elements.
  
• Removed 10 unused transforms from end level/death camera module.
  
• Replaced some more mesh colliders with box colliders in instances where it made no difference.
  
• Removed trees that were stuck inside rocks and not even visible yet still using memory.
  
• Removed unused tags from game system.

Balancing:

• Slight price increase on first-aid kits.
  
• Decreased max shotgun ammo holding amount.

Controller Support Changes:

• Added full controller support for vehicle garage.
  
• Fixed issue with main menu continue button staying highlighted when navigating menu with a controller.
  
• Game now auto selects "OK" button when tutorial popup opens when gamepad connected.

And as always, various other small polishes, fixes and optimizations and more importantly some things I simply just don't want to mention due to spoilers.

In this update, we unlock a new feature that can be used for customizing your vehicle by accessing the garage via the caravan PC.

Please note, that this is only the beginning of the garage and while you can only customize engine, tires, and paint for now - many more options are on the way, including improvements to the actual Garage U.I.

Main features:

• A new vehicle garage is now available through the PC in your caravan.
  
• 24 different paint jobs can be purchased for your vehicle.
  
• Tires can be upgraded to special anti-slip tires that improve grip by over 200%.
  
• The engine can be upgraded to level 2, increasing maximum torque.
  
• New accessories, decals, and other unlockable items will soon be available for purchase in upcoming updates.
  
• 2 new achievements are available to unlock.
  
• Various vehicle-related fixes and general quality-of-life improvements have been implemented.

Improvements:

• Increased poacher perception radius in locations with large flat planes and less dense vegetation for more realistic battle scenarios.
  
• Enemy hearing improvements.
  
• Improved poachers ability to hear which direction a shot came from if one of their teammates is killed with a sniper rifle from a distance, to prevent making it possible to camp and take out an entire squad with little to no effort.
  
• Improved poacher ragdoll death animation.
  
• Improved sniper rifle sprint animation position.
  
• Improved quality of rendering material for garbage bin found outside caravan.
  
• Improved drone charging station metal material appearance quality.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the vehicle would shoot into the air when crouched on while stationary.
  
• Fixed goat/zebra ragdolls going invisible if you get too close as a result of a previous optimization.
  
• Fixed animal and poachers getting stuck when accidentally walking into your vehicle while it is stationary.
  
• Fixed another small issue with an invisible cigar collider causing the legendary ostrich to not run smoothly.
  
• Fixed a major issue with ragdolls that caused ragdolls to shoot up in the air if physics collisions occurred. A side effect of this is that dead animals/enemies can no longer be dragged, however since there is no stealth mechanic related to enemies seeing other dead enemies - body dragging is not required.
  
• Fixed issue with Field Of View preview not updating properly when first loading into main settings menu pre-game.
  
• Fixed reverse issues with vehicle that made it easier to get stuck after a head-on collision with thin static geometry such as tree trunks.
  
• Fixed issue that can cause the sniper scope effect to be overlayed onto a different weapon (even the radio) if the player zooms in as a weapon is switching.
  
• Fixed an issue causing leaderboard in main menu to not load since upgrading scripting backend to IL2CPP

Detail additions/Fixes:

• Fixed ugly terrain texture seam located near shebeen/bar.
  
• Improved smoothing appearance of arcade machine in shebeen.
  
• Improved shebeen electrical outlets.
  
• Removed some intersecting bushes stuck in a rock that looked ridiculous.
  
• Improved appearance of white borders around certain grass textures.
  
• Did some more work on covering exposed tree mesh bottoms with terrain detail where applicable.
  
• Did some more texture painting work on various parts of the terrain for better blending and realism.

Optimizations:

• Improved rendering framerate inside shebeen/bar.
  
• Optimized the (now rare) Combat Shotgun normal map.
  
• Removed an unnecessary basket detail from main menu scene.
  
• Fixed garbage collection issue caused by vehicle tail lights that aren't even being used but was reallocation a new material instance every frame while using the truck.
  
• Changed ranger walkie-talkie radio to a new radio model that isn't 2 million vertices, this is temporary while re-topologizing the old model but by reducing a model from 2 million vertices to 4,000 we not only improve rendering performance but general application memory pressure.
  
• Converted more animator strings into integer hashes for optimized animation state calling.
  
• Updated SteamWorks.NET library to a later version.

And that's all for now! I'll be back on the 24th with a new surprise that I am very excited to launch.
Happy hunting/driving, and speak soon!