# People Playground 1.27 preview

- Product: People Playground (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/people-playground)
- Vendor: mestiez
- Date: 2023-08-12
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1118200/view/6488050834169053628
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/people-playground/releases/2023-08-12-1.27-preview

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- **added** — New map: Reactor A5
- **added** — Decoupler
- **added** — Office Chair
- **added** — Office Desk
- **added** — Office Computer
- **added** — Office Monitor
- **added** — Naval Mine
- **added** — Chain
- **added** — Mute context menu option to the Lagbox, Metronome, Missile Launcher, and Timed Gate
- **added** — Blunt impact can now emit blood particles
- **added** — Blunt impact have a chance to cut the skin open
- **added** — Sound effects for bullet cracks and whizzes
- **added** — Grid and angle snap size settings with optional keybinds
- **added** — Bus window can shatter
- **changed** — Casing ejection particles no longer scale with the weapon
- **changed** — Made tempered glass shatter quicker
- **changed** — Increased default physics iterations to 32
- **changed** — Increased maximum physics iteration count to 256
- **changed** — Increased minimum physics iteration count to 8
- **changed** — Made it easier to select objects inside other objects by prioritising the smallest object under the cursor
- **changed** — Improved fragmentation explosion crushing behaviour
- **changed** — Organisms can now fully restore their blood levels on their own
- **changed** — Missile Launcher missile will now explode when shot with a sufficiently large round
- **changed** — Increased headshot fatality rate
- **changed** — Slightly increased bullet knockback force
- **changed** — Made sentry turret AI more consistent
- **changed** — Doubled the lethality of the landmine
- **changed** — Changed water surface explosion sound effects
- **fixed** — Mods occasionally failing to upload
- **fixed** — Rewrote significant parts of the control scheme system, fixing a few inconsistencies, bugs, and unexpected behaviours
- **fixed** — Humans could live having all their blood replaced with a tasty beverage
- **fixed** — Zombies healing wounds
- **fixed** — Cardiopulmonary bypass machine collision serialisation working incorrectly
- **fixed** — Attachments detaching when weapon is activated using activator electrode
- **fixed** — Incorrect servo description
- **fixed** — Immobility field - sentry turret interaction weirdness
- **fixed** — Heartrate monitor showing 70 bpm when it shouldn't
- **fixed** — Broken plate debris not showing up when flipped
- **security** — Closed suspicious mod rejection loophole
- **security** — Fixed EscapeRichText loophole

Preview 1.27 is now live on the preview branch.
[Please report any bugs here](https://github.com/studio-minus/ppg-bugs-and-requests/issues) and follow the instructions carefully.

Note that this build does not include the activation rewrite.

##### This is a preview branch. It is a work-in-progress. Do not play on this version of the game unless you are accepting of potential bugs, lag, and possibly permanently corrupting your save data.

##### Added

- New map: Reactor A5

- Decoupler

- Office Chair

- Office Desk

- Office Computer

- Office Monitor

- Naval Mine

- Chain

- "Mute" context menu option to the Lagbox, Metronome, Missile Launcher, and Timed Gate

- Blunt impact can now emit blood particles

- Blunt impact have a chance to cut the skin open

- Sound effects for bullet cracks and whizzes.

- Grid and angle snap size settings with optional keybinds

- Bus window can shatter

##### Changed

- Casing ejection particles no longer scale with the weapon

- Closed suspicious mod rejection loophole

- Made tempered glass shatter quicker

- Increased default physics iterations to 32

- Increased maximum physics iteration count to 256

- Increased minimum physics iteration count to 8

- Made it easier to select objects inside other objects by prioritising the smallest object under the cursor

- Improved fragmentation explosion crushing behaviour

- Organisms can now fully restore their blood levels on their own

- Missile Launcher missile will now explode when shot with a sufficiently large round

- Increased headshot fatality rate

- Slightly increased bullet knockback force

- Made sentry turret AI more consistent

- Doubled the lethality of the landmine

- Changed water surface explosion SFX

##### Fixed

- Mods occasionally failing to upload

- Rewrote significant parts of the control scheme system, fixing a few inconsistencies, bugs, and "what the hell" moments

- Humans could live having all their blood replaced with a tasty beverage

- Zombies healing wounds

- Cardiopulmonary bypass machine collision serialisation working incorrectly

- Attachments detaching when weapon is activated using activator electrode

- Incorrect servo description

- Immobility field - sentry turret interaction weirdness

- Heartrate monitor showing 70 bpm when it shouldn't

- Broken plate debris not showing up when flipped

- EscapeRichText loophole