Sharks, rafts, roofs and bug fixes - v0.02

Hey Everyone,

Here's our first big update! This week we've worked on a mixture of new features, bug fixes and optimization.

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 0.02 Changelog (Saved games from 0.01 won't work with this version)

New features and gameplay tweaks:
  • Sharks

  • Simple raft now buildable via book (No Sail yet!)

  • Walls can now snap to form floors and roofs (experimental, can defy gravity)

  • New suprise item added to yacht

  • When being knocked out for first time you will now wake up in a random cave

  • Lowered fall damage amount

  • Birds can be killed with fire

  • Stamina recharge now takes longer

  • You can now block attacks with the red plane axe by holding down right mouse button

  • Timmy taken scene a little more dramatic, better lighting, sparks

  • Lowered intensity and range of fire light

  • Lowered health on turtle

  • Improved fish movement

  • Increased range of lighter
  • Enemies will drag downed friends out of danger again

  • Females will sometimes freak out at dying family members

Performance:

  • Improved load times

  • Reduced stutter

  • Overall performance increases

  • Big memory optimizations, should help crashing on some pc's

  • Improved cave wall memory usage

  • Dropped sticks and rocks are now pooled and shouldn't increase memory over time

  • Optimized hud rendering (10% faster on cpu)

World:

  • Improved lake water swim zones

  • Ocean swim zones now correctly rise and fall with tide

  • Underwater visuals improved

  • Improved terrain in some areas, reduced lumpiness in rocky area, fixed issues with caves poking through terrain

  • Fixed super deep ponds that could kill players by falling into them

  • Small old boat collision added

  • Plane exterior collision added

  • Improved balance on some grass textures (less bright)

  • Lowered top heavy pine tree to be easier to cut

  • Lots of small material/texture tweaks

  • Sunset/sunrise made brighter

  • Beach cave entrances made bigger and easier to enter

  • Improved world collision in some areas

  • Improved low resolution mountain textures

  • Improved terrain rendering and missing specular

  • Improved cave lighting and details (caves 4,5)

Bugs:

  • Fixed countdown timer not taking different time zones into account

  • Fixed some spelling mistakes in tutorials and in survival book

  • Fixed shelter on fire spawning infinite logs

  • Fixed bug where day count was 1 more than it should be

  • Fixed issue where sticks,rocks and logs needed could go to -1

  • Fixed not switching back to default weapon after holding lizard, rabbit or fish

  • fixed player not colliding with things tagged 'Prop'

  • fixed light leaking into parts of some caves

  • Fixed bug where you couldn't cook multiple times on same campfire

  • Fixed spear being able to cut down trees

  • Fixed ponds flickering at certain distances

  • Fixed some items not being saved in inventory when game is loaded (some might still vanish, expect more saving fixes/improvements soon)

  • Fixed log holder not saving logs on load/save

  • Fixed twinberries not having eat icon and having wrong leaf texture

  • Fixed bloody tables in cave not being cut out of nav mesh

  • Fixed lizard and rabbit skin triggers not being connected to ragdoll body

  • Removed extra set of teeth and eyes appearing behind Timmy

  • Chopping dead bodies no longer results in player flying into the air

  • Animals no longer spawn multiple copies if on fire

  • Cannibals shouldn't run underwater or follow player out to the boat (they might run a little bit into water however)

  • Fixed some bushes missing vertex colors when cut

  • Fixed birds landing in sky, improved bird a.i. and performance

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

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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.