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

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.