- Steam App
- The Outer Islands (4449470)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 28 July 2026 - 20:20:20 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Developer Journal: Building the BOB Pacifier Electrical Effect Journal Reference: DEV-0003 The BOB Pacifier now carries three readable layers of electrical presentation: short arcs crawling across its casing, occasional strikes grounding against the real floor, and a stronger discharge from the prod during an attack. Rather than place every responsibility inside one enormous particle asset, Blueprint owns positions, traces, timing and gameplay events while reusable Niagara systems own the ribbon beam, impact flash, sparks, vapour and local lighting. The same arc function drives all three behaviours with different parameters. Most importantly, the prod effect fires for every genuine discharge—hit or miss—while native gameplay remains authoritative over sight, collision, stun and knockout. The result looks dangerous without allowing presentation to invent a successful hit. Short Notice The...