The Forest VR Beta

Hey everyone,

This release adds a first pass of VR Support to The Forest. This release supports both Vive and Oculus Rift.

Some of the highlights of the VR version include: Full bow aiming. Throwing flares by breaking the tops off them. Lighting molotovs with your lighter, full 3d inventory, and 3d book, and of course chopping down trees with touch controls, but our favourite part of this release are the caves. The caves feel claustrophobic and terrifying and the creatures at scale take on a new life. 

We’re releasing this as beta as we see VR as something really exciting but also very new. We’re trying a ton of ideas with how selection works, with how cutscenes work, with our inventory and want everyone’s ideas and feedback so we can make this the best VR experience possible.

As it is beta, expect some bugs and technical issues. We’ll be updating this branch regularly. 

Note: First release does not have multiplayer support but that’s coming soon. 

Note: Some users have been experiencing issues with their controls not working when running the SteamVR Beta. Rolling back to the public version of SteamVR should correct this issue.

As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub 

v028c- hotfix

Here's another small hotfix to last night's v0.28 release, this time fixing some saving/loading issues with map and manifest and improving balance on new dynamite cannibal (Sorry guys if he destroyed your bases!!)

 

V0.28C

v0.28b - hotfix

Hey Everyone,

 

Here's a small hotfix for two issues that turned up in last night's v0.28 release

 

v0.28B hotfix

 

v0.26d - balance pass

 

Hey everyone,

 

Here's another small patch, mostly focused on improving some balance issues, along with fixing some bugs.

 

v0.26c - hotfix

Hey Everyone,

 

here's another small hotfix, this time fixing a small issue introduced in previous hotfix!

 

v0.26c

 

v0.26b - Fix for missing mp kick menu

Hey Everyone,

 

Here's a small fix for the missing multiplayer host menu, which allows host to kick/ban players and which got lost in last update!