Mini-Patch 0.04B - Performance optimizations and some small bugs

Hey Everyone,  

Here's a small performance hotfix. We've added an option to disable skylighting occlusion as it was causing performance issues on some PC's and also added more terrain rendering options to help speed up performance on slower cards.  

  • Added graphics options for ambient Skylighting (will be off by default)

  • Terrain settings added to graphics options (Parallax, Relief, Simple, Classic)

  • Fixed grass distance not changing correctly for different quality levels

  • Optimized greeble physics use

  • Optimized sound detect system on player weapons (less colliders)

  • Fixed issue with shadows light leaking

  • Fixed plant rendering glitches

  • Fixed missing small rock pickup

  • Fixed issue where plant triggers would sometimes make book items impossible to click

  • Fixed bug where houseboat blueprint wouldn't appear or couldn't be placed in world

  • Fixed held arms/heads registering attack even if not swinging

  • Held arms/legs behave like axes not sticks

  • Tennis balls no longer infinitely bounce

  • Fixed Player sometimes being killed in one hit by enemies

  • More Accurate player fall damage

 

Hidden new features:

  • You can remove placed blueprints by pressing C

  • You can press space to skip opening plane crash

The Forest is out on PS4

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The Forest for PS4 releases today on PlayStation. It’s available to download right now on the PSN store, priced at 19.99 USD.

v1.09

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This patch focuses on performance and bug fixing.

We’ve also been working on a much larger content focused update and should have news we can reveal about that soon.

VR beta patch 3

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This patch adds multiplayer support to the VR version of The Forest and also adds some fixes and improvements to the regular 2d version of the game.

 

Patch 1.08

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This patch fixes an issue where some PC’s could hang for a long time on starting a new game.

VR Beta patch 2

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This patch implements some of the suggestions and ideas we’ve received since releasing the VR beta version last week.

VR Beta hotfix 1

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Here is a patch for some of the issues that have come up in today’s VR beta release.

We also saw people asking for smooth rotation and so added that option in, and changed how to drop logs/bodies.

The Forest VR Beta

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

V1.07

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This patch fixes an issue with crashing that could occur when building tree based structures. 

V1.06

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Today’s patch fixes some more issues that have come up since release.

V1.05

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Here’s an update, addressing some of the bugs that have come up recently and also adding in new brightness and contrast sliders.