Looking at the constantly growing changelog for the upcoming update the team has decided
that misery 2.2 would be a more appropriate version title.
The list below is a sneak peek to share some light on what to expect
from the upcoming update (most recent changes ARE HIGHLIGHTED in orange).
As always the team will be hiding some surprises up our sleeves,
but rest assured that some interesting and creative ideas are being tested in our dev. forum.

IMPORTANT: Changelog and features are subject to tweaks and updates.
We only add changes to this list as they are acknowledged by the team.
We are testing many other things, besides what is listed here.
You can expect some cool surprises to be added prior to release.

NEW GAME START: You would be surprised by how the X-Ray engine
demands a new game start even for some very basic edits or tweaks to take effect.
This is not always in our control and designing an Update that has to be savegame
compatible is setting up a very serious restriction to what we choose to put in it.
We add so much stuff with each Update, so having to start a new game is something
that you should always expect from an update to MISERY.

NOTE ON RELEASE: The MISERY 2.2 Update will be released
when it’s finished and properly tested in the semi-official MDT Testing Lab.
We will refrain from giving any specific date on this as we are all
working on this for free, in our spare time, and all subjects to real life circumstances.
We thank you for understanding and for showing us your support and interest.

MISERY 2.2 CHANGE LOG (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

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REALISM
• Added a slight health bonus for all clean and high quality food and drinks (class depended)
• Made all actor classes slightly more resilient to bullet damage
• All actor classes have to eat more to be fully satiated but also get better stamina bonus from satiety
• All classes carry weight / stamina factor lowered (which means that stamina is depleted at slightly slower rate overall)
• NPCs eye_range set to 250m
• NPCs vision capabilities at nights reduced significantly
• All suits now have camouflage effect (no longer just Ghillie)
• Stealth aspects are enhanced
• NEW: Camouflaged weapons and helmets give stealth bonus (in addition to suits)
• NEW: Heavy weapons and shiny firearms (gold/silver) give penalty to stealth

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FIXES & OPTIMIZATION
• Several big and small bugs are crushed (still working on more)
• NEW: Memory-saving scripts optimization
• NEW: Optimized CPU and memory usage by 4-9%
• NEW: Reduction to global stutter

• NEW: Overall performance of later stages of the game should be significantly improved due to new script which clears all non-story squads on offline maps (thx to kcs)
• NEW: Weather no longer switches rapidly after loading of savegame (thx to kcs)
• NEW: Game should no longer crash at the end of the kindergarten story phase in Pripyat when actor was supposed to talk to the soldier hiding in the closet (thx to kcs)
• NEW: Second piece of remote explosives get spawned in Pripyat in unremovable backpack to ensure that player gets it despite the corpse decay (thx to kcs)

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USER INTERFACE
• Added missing camo text update
- Leadbox icon position fix
• Updated installer
• Now game start date will be 2015
• Added “Class proficiency”texts for all container items
• Implemented real Ukrainian names by _Tamas_)
• Fixed dot color for SVU silencer
• Cooking UI: fixed the displayed number of cooked mutant parts
• NEW: All UI’s are now much more responsive to players actions, with unified mouse/keyboard input
• NEW: All UI’s got legibility tweaks, like providing hints, cooking UI generates bonus info dynamically

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VISUAL
• OTs-33 TT33 bumpmap fix
• Added missing bumpmaps for wpn_colt1911_alt1 and wpn_svu_nimble
• Texture optimization of dds format, mipmap and bumpmaps (reduced texture size by 32 MB)
• Fixed icon_equipment.dds (clean-up the back ground, sharpening for wpn_svu_nimble)
• Optimization for all consumables and prop textures
• Optimization for some weapon textures
• Reduced texture data size by 55 MB

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LOCALIZATION
• Added BETA version of German translation (Thanks to Tamas)
• Added Japanese translation

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BALANCE
• Artifact container value reworked
• ”Kevlar sheet” count matches the class diversity
• Weight bonus of artifact with containers will change based on your class
(only artifact effect itself, container’s bonus will not change)
• Medic and bartenders now sell also partially depleted consumables and drugs
• Bartender sells stuff he specializes in cheaper than weapons vendor
• Reduced bread cost by 1,000 RU
• Made most mutant classes slightly less resistant to damage (species & body part specific)
• NEW: Minor changes in starting equipment for classes due to equipment updates

• Added discount triggers to bartenders trade configs, which means that they
no longer become generally less beneficial than weapon vendors later on in the
game (trigger activates when player is recognized as affiliated with any of the factions)

Reduced the weights of IAM and AAC (Now IAM and AAC are not only for poor stalkers)
- IAM (low tier) 2.82 kg
- AAC (mid tier) 3.74 kg
- 
AAM (high tier) 4.63 kg
All containers have same weight bonus, difference is actual weights
and antiradiation effects


Artifact weight bonus (as a positive effect)
- Recon: 100% pure artifact effects
- Sniper: reduce to 85%
- Assaulter: reduce to 70%

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A-LIFE
• Enabled spawns of civilian zombies (from original game concept)
• Lowered appearance chance of all supplies of Zaton’s medic to 33% to lower the value of loot he drops after committing suicide
• Increased spawn rate of human squads by 33%
• Taking part in either Shevchenko raid or Arms Deal results in permanent alliance,
which triggers neutral / hostile squad spawn switch
• Both factions have a slight chance to spawn a hostile squad even if they are
overall neutral and neutral squad even if they are overall hostile
• Tweaked actor relation properties with Stalker and Bandit factions
• It’s now easier to make friends / enemies with Bandits and Stalkers

• Neutral squads of the factions have access to entire map (in terms of where they can go
in their activity), while hostile squads are restricted to factions zones of control
(with the exception of elite squads which can still venture to enemy territories at nights)

• If actor’s standing with Bandits is neutral – also the neutral Merc squads start to
show-up. These squads are allowed to go to Skadovsk and Yanov
- tweaked smart
terrains properties so that hopefully Skadovs / Yanov is more filled during resting hours
(regardless of player faction alliances)
- enhanced randomness of a-life by making more
s_ts available to conflicted factions and introducing ‘tasked squads’

• Squads which can get randomly spawned instead of regular ones and have a specific
mission, like assaulting certain specific location (usually base of oposite faction or other
dangerous place such as Jupiter plant)

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GEAR AND EQUIPMENT
• Armors are 25%-33% more protective against mutant attacks
• Armors degrade from 1.33x (lighter armors) to 2x (heavy armors) faster from mutant attacks
• Sci helmet now has 2nd tier NVD
• Increased odds for batteries available at vendors
• NEW FEATURE Memo ‘Equipment Conditions” to give instant insight on the condition of everything you have on you

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WEAPONS
• Increased ammo power for handguns
- weapons are now 2x more prone to jamming
on all condition levels
- weapons become somewhat less accurate with condition lowering
• All pistol ammo types deal 33% more damage

New weapons:
- SVD Ghillie
- NEW: AK-47 with several variants
- NEW: AKM-S with several variants
- NEW: MP-412 Rex
- NEW: Freedom AKM
- NEW: Duty AKM

New weapon textures:

Alternative Beretta, All Colts, Worn and White Desert Eagles, Both Groza rifles,
Nimble’s SVU, Alternative SIG550, Strelok’s SIG550, Custom SIG220,
Custom Walther, Zulu’s PKM, VSK94 and UMP45.

Misc weapon updates:
- FAMAS: New iron sights
- SVU: Proper world model which shows whether the silencer is attached or not
- IMI Galil: New Iron sights
- STG-44: New iron sights
- VSK-94: New model similar to the vanilla, proper iron sights with glowing marks.
- UMP-45: New iron sights + added the ability to attach Acog scopes.
- SVD alternate: proper world model which shows whether the scope is attached or not.
- NEW: SIG-550 : Mirrored models
- NEW: GSH-18 : New model
- NEW: AKM : New models
- NEW: AKS74 mirrored model + new attachments models

New weapon animations:
Abakan, AKS74, AKS74u, Beretta, Colt, Desert Eagle, FN2000, Fort, G36, Groza,
HPSA, L85, LR300, Mossberg500, MP5, PB, Makarov, Protecta, SIG220, SIG550,
USP45, VAL, Vintorez, VSK94, Walther, Winchester1300, APS, OC33, PKM,
Scorpion, SPAS12, Dragunov, Tokarev, UMP45 and Karabiner 98.
NEW: Gsh-18 + AKM