What are all these super-big recent changes in the changelog?

What are all these super-big recent changes in the changelog?

It almost looks like NPC stuff. I also saw something about portals. Looking around at the game though, no obvious changes. Are NPCs in? Anyone know whats been going on the past week? I’ve read over the stuff, but not sure what it means. Sure sounds exciting though!

Kevin made a thread for these.

well, for posting new features we want to highlight.
I’m not sure which changes you mean, but acidia has been working on general npc improvement and adding quests and locations, and we’ve been doing a lot of bugfixing, and a new guy has shown up and added a bunch of neat features. I have a portal branch I continue to work on, but it has a lot of detail work needed to finish it. closer to completion is an overhaul of ranged weapon handling, such that you spend time to aim instead of just firing at a certain accuracy all the time.