Alpha 1.5.2 now live featuring a major performance boost — Badiya: Desert Survival Steam update #449854

Hello everyone, Alpha 1.5.2 is now live and it features a major performance boost along with bug fixes and gameplay tweaks: * Performance: Major performance boost across the board including enemy POIs with encounters. You now have the ability to turn off shadows completely. You need to go to Shadow Quality and set it to "OFF". This could help with performance on lower end machines. This is a step toward the main optimization release Alpha 1.6 * Gameplay Tweaks: You don't have to equip a knife in order to skin an animal. If you have it in the inventory it will work. Added Bird Flocks above points of interest that has water sources. Add an option to turn on/off Screen overlays "frost, blood, rain" to Game Menu. Eating raw meat will not deduct points from your health bar anymore. Weapon Crosshairs are now dynamic, as you move while aiming or move the camera the crosshairs will spread out to...