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

V1.0

Hey Everyone,

Today The Forest moves from early access into a full release.

Pre-release patch 04

Hey Everyone,

Here’s a fix for some issues that came up last night.

  • Put back in launcher to make switching resolutions easier and switching which monitor launches

Pre-release patch 03

Hey Everyone,

Here’s another pre-release patch fixing some issues that have come up since this mornings patch release along with some key binding and other fixes and improvements

 

Pre-Release Patch 02

Hey Everyone,

Here’s another pre-release update fixing some issues that came up in yesterday's patch.

  • Fixed some issues with repairing some structures

Pre-release patch

Hey Everyone,

This is our first pre-release patch, expect a few more in lead up to release as we try and fix up the last remaining issues.

V1.0 release date

Hey Everyone,

Today we are officially announcing April 30 as the release date of the PC version of ‘The Forest’

It’s been a long journey and we’re really excited to show everyone what we have in store.

V0.73 and Release Plans

Hey Everyone,

We wanted to share our plans for moving The Forest out of early access and into a full v1.0 release.

V0.72b

Hey Everyone,

Here’s a hotfix to address to some issues that came up in last nights v0.72 release.

For the full list of yesterday’s v0.72 patch notes, please visit:

V0.72

Hey Everyone,

For this patch we focused on bug fixing and polish, as well as adding in a couple long requested tweaks (the log sled can now carry a full 12 logs!)

V0.71b

Hey everyone,

Here are some fixes and improvements to last weeks v0.71 release. Including some balance of the new calorie system.