v0.06b

Improved enemy pacing and world population (along with some small bug fixes and performance enhancements).

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 0.06B Changelog:

  • New spawning system for enemies, better world population, better pacing and progression over time

  • A.i has more chance to venture to expected areas (ie cannibal villages)

  • Optimized sky light occlusion performance

  • Fixed birds getting faster and faster over time
  • Fixed fog showing through ocean water

  • Improved ssao!

  • New camping prop added

  • Improved ocean sound effects

  • Improved Bow and arrow sound effects

  • Fixed yacht lod bug where it would vanish for some players

  • Added sound effects to timmy dragged away scene

  • New improved cave drips and cave wind sound effects

  • Fixed some dynamic objects flying up in air on spawning (boxes, suitcases)

  • Fixed bug where skinny enemies would switch to default shading when injured

  • Cave ambient track added

  • Enemy combat theme/suspense themes added (rough)

  • Lowered (4x) damage and speed of arms and legs when used as weapons

  • New first class passenger model added

  • Skinny woman made blood less shiny

  • Fixed bug with inventory light at night being too bright

  • Balance tweaks : Increased fall damage, lowered how much health meds heal you

  • Turtles can now be killed by repeatedly hitting shell (although hitting them in head is much quicker)

  • Fixed brightness of standing fire (same as regular fire now)

  • Fixed fire stick enemy too bright

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.