Resettable traps, more cannibal-like cannibals, better looking and faster shadows.

Hey Everyone, Here's our latest patch adding a new tribe type that will not only try and eat you, but also eat it's own fallen comrades. Along with a bunch of visual, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and improvements.  

As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub or send them in to support@endnightgame.com.  

Version 0.06 Changelog:

  • A.I. - New tribe type added - starving cannibal! Will eat fallen comrades

  • A.I. - Different tribes will now interact with each other, hunting, stalking, killing and eating each other

  • Shadows Improved! Fisheye shadow distortion gives higher resolution shadow up close and now uses a single cascade (experimental, maybe cause some glitches)

  • 2 New cave systems added near geese lake

  • Fixed missing light on crafted torch

  • Real caustics added to water

  • Lighting effigies uses the lighter correctly now

  • Fixed issue where cannibals could get stuck after being knocked down

  • Creepy mutants and animals no longer get stuck in noose trap spinning forever

  • Improved look of noose trap when sprung but empty

  • All traps can be reset

  • Player will set off traps if he touches trigger

  • 5x new plant types added

  • Fixed (Unity fix) issue where grass would cause slight framerate hicks

  • Hint to NVIDIA driver that it should use the discrete GPU in Optimus chipsets. (Unity fix - should help laptop performance)

  • Added press space to skip tutorial to opening plane crash

  • Fixed bug where arrows could get stuck in sky above fires

  • Fixed rockpit floating slightly above terrain

  • Moving forward, crouching, jumping or pressing e will make player stand up if sitting on bench

  • Better bench model

  • Fresnel effect applied to specular and fixed specular leak around backside of objects

  • New props added: washed up packages and shipping containers

  • New prop added : Orange tent

  • New improved opening plane crash sound effects

  • Fixed marigold and dead rabbits overlapping in inventory

  • Improved plane interior textures and resolution

  • Added icon to remove ghost structures, fixed issue where add icon could sometimes stay on screen after removing ghost. Limited ghost removal to only if no resources have been added. New crunch sound effect for when removing ghost structures

  • wall built can now be destroyed by hitting it with axe, giving you back resources

  • musical sting added to player waking up on plane

  • Improved terrain spec and (finally) fixed water accumulation when raining, added new sharp rock terrain texture to under lakes

  • Improved pond water distance settings

  • Crafting:  Fixed issue where you could remove feathers before crafting arrows and still craft the arrows. Fixed issue where you could sometimes not craft items depending on order of items placed. Adding an item to a craft that isn't needed will stop you from crafting until it's removed again. Fixed bug where you could lose medicine by crafting the same item multiple times

  • Lots of collision issues fixed in caves

  • Improved cave lighting! Better looking settings for skull lights and less light popping on/off

  • Sped up rabbits

  • Lowered brightness of click to place buttons in survival book

  • You can now save your game at a shelter without sleeping

  • Fixed bug where coins could vanish after adding them to a craftable item

  • Fixed bug where day counter wouldn't increase correctly

  • Fixed bug where crickets would continue to play during the day

  • Fixed issue where cave sounds would sometimes vanish when walking between connecting caves

  • More combat balance and a tweak on weapon settings

  • Performance and memory improvements

Note: Some reported bugs may be due to old save games! To ensure your game is fully up to date start a new save game every couple versions.

The Forest is out on PS4

Hey Everyone,

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

Hey Everyone,

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

Hey Everyone,

 

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

Hey Everyone,

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

Hey Everyone, 

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

Hey everyone,

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

V1.07

Hey Everyone,

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

V1.06

Hey Everyone,

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

V1.05

Hey Everyone,

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