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[Sgt.Asher]

Another first person survival game.

 

[PianistaMacabro]

The first one is a great game to play with a friend, specially if you have someone to explain a few things before you play it, which I wish I had.......the game have so many problems and bugs that it damage your experience.....if I knew before hand some stuff I would enjoy it alot more.

Was excited for this one almost as a remake to fix all the problems of the original but now Iooks like the devs are doing the same mistakes all over again

 

[hlm666]

This looks like it would be fantastic in VR.

first one has vr mode, maybe it will come down the line like how it was done with the first.

seeing someone already beat me i'll leave this here incase your interested in the first one in vr.

 

[DryvBy]

The Forest was already one of the best survival horror games and this looks like its going to top it. I'm sold.

 

[CrustyBritches]

My youngest son really wanted to give this a try, so I bought 2 copies and we're going to do co-op tonight. I was watching a couple dudes on youtube play this and it looks really fun.

 

[Macattk15]

There's nothing to fucking do in the game .... what are these 2 million people doing???

 

[Rambone]

There's nothing to fucking do in the game .... what are these 2 million people doing???

Chopping tree's, lots of them.

 

[bitbydeath]

There's nothing to fucking do in the game .... what are these 2 million people doing???

What’s missing from it?

 

[hlm666]

Put about 90 mins into it today, will get back to it later tonight. First impressions.

- I think there is some shader comp stutter, it's not as bad as some of the major offenders but you get the odd stutter here and there.
- You can hold the mouse button to chop trees now, don't have to keep pressing it each swing like the first. It's still slower than chopping trees down in VR in the first one, can swing the axe like your dicing carrots in VR with the motion controls.
- map seems way bigger than the first
- not a fan of the new free form building mechanics.
- This is a big one for me, the light sources seem to light caves up MUCH better than the first. I couldn't play the first one during the day (real daytime, as in my room was bright in reality) and go into caves because I just couldn't see a damn thing.
- Every camp I saw had cannibals going about there day, so it's not as easy to scavenge from their camps as it was in the first.
- I havn't got a gun or bow yet so i'm not sure if we get any kind of reticle for them, there was none in the first.
- It has dlss, not sure about other reconstruction methods.
- graphically it's solid, performance seems fine.
- I'm not sure exactly whats going on with the story yet or if it provides any more info on the end of the first, i've really only come across a note on a corpse that mentions site 1 from the first game. I'm being a bit vague here as to not give any spoilers for either game.
- Finding places of interest is much easier with the new gps thing.

If you liked the forest you'll probably enjoy this, if you don't like survival games and get this because it looks pretty your probably wasting your money.

 

[nemiroff]

Another first person survival game.

This is what you do? You go into threads saying it's another _______ game? You must be busy person..

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Anyway, I didn't want to buy this game as an EA, but I'm happy that I did because I can feel the potential of the game, so I don't mind supporting the devs. I might wait to when it's closer to v1.1 before I continue playing though.

 

[Umbasaborne]

Sons of the Forest sold over 2 millions copies in 1 day

Honestly, not really deserved after the shit they pulled with this early access launch. At least they were honest, but man, announcing that the full game was getting a substantial delay barely a month before launch was shitty, early access is fine, but we were expecting a full game

 

[Bo_Hazem]

 

[EviLore]

There's nothing to fucking do in the game .... what are these 2 million people doing???

Looks like there’s plenty to do.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Enjoying this game so far, need more

 

[Sleepwalker]

Bummed theres no VR yet but since I havent played the first one, ill start with that.

 

[Spukc]

Looks like there’s plenty to do.

i want to get it i know it's in EA but i am can't help myself

 

[ryantetric]

Purchased blindly after my brother asking if I wanted to play it. Really glad I did because I love it so far. And I barely every play survival horror games. The coop experience alone is just so much fun. We laughed, yelled in fear, got the shit scared out of us, got serious and tried crafting some stuff. Excited to get back into this after that first 4 hour run.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Will wait for stutter-free superior console port with god tier VR support

 

[Macattk15]

What’s missing from it?

A story? A reason to build a base? Being able to craft anything meaningful (nope sorry you can't build a shovel, you gotta find the ONE in the map)? Fun combat? Any amount of "scares"?

This is coming from someone who was hyped AF for this.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

A story? A reason to build a base? Fun combat? Any amount of "scares"?

This is coming from someone who was hyped AF for this.

EARLY

ACCESS

I have been finding stuff to do

 

[Macattk15]

Looks like there’s plenty to do.

Have you played it?

There is largely nothing of substance to do. Most of the caves in the mountain are basic and empty.

Map is LARGE but mostly empty and devoid of anything fun to explore.

I guess sledding down the mountain is cool.

Also I am AWARE it's Early Access. Good foundations for a game, but right now it's just obviously unfinished.

I will revisit it when it actually releases.

Rocks, sticks, rocks, sticks, rocks, sticks....oh some rope!!!!!!!

 

[CrustyBritches]

We've put about 7hrs into the game and it's been fun so far. I never played the first game, so it's been a novel experience. Started a new game and this time it put us on the beach instead of the mountain. We built a big ass base on a platform near the edge of a small cliff. Just finished it tonight and added beds, chairs, and some shelves. I think tomorrow we'll do a staircase to the roof. Probably gonna do a wall and a courtyard area. Then spikes around the outside.

Today we were just letting the 4-legged mutant girl hang around the camp and not attacking her. She gave my son some aloe and I was able to give her stuff from my pack. I was watching videos today and I guess she's a real powerhouse when you give her firearms. It appears she gets unlimited ammo and just smokes packs of cannibal motherfuckers like nothing.

 

[Mephisto40]

It seems like the game has shipped without an ending, something the first game also did

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

We've put about 7hrs into the game and it's been fun so far. I never played the first game, so it's been a novel experience. Started a new game and this time it put us on the beach instead of the mountain. We built a big ass base on a platform near the edge of a small cliff. Just finished it tonight and added beds, chairs, and some shelves. I think tomorrow we'll do a staircase to the roof. Probably gonna do a wall and a courtyard area. Then spikes around the outside.

Today we were just letting the 4-legged mutant girl hang around the camp and not attacking her. She gave my son some aloe and I was able to give her stuff from my pack. I was watching videos today and I guess she's a real powerhouse when you give her firearms. It appears she gets unlimited ammo and just smokes packs of cannibal motherfuckers like nothing.

She is quite OP and you can give her a pistol and shotgun at the same time

Without watching the video as it may have gone into detail about her but once you befriend her she kind of reacts to enemies the same as you do.

I too have put a lot of hours into this and its my style of game, loving it so far can't wait for more content

 

[OverHeat]

Game is crack love it!

 

[.Pennywise]

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Patch 01 - Hang gliders, Binoculars, Balance tweaks, Bug fixes and lots more

Hey everyone,

For our first patch we have added a new mini-boss battle, new binoculars pickup, hang gliders, defensive wall gates and door locks as well as lots more, for the full list check below:

Features

• Added Binoculars
• Added Hang Glider
• Added Defensive Wall gate
• Added mid game boss fight into food bunker
• Added Settings Reset in the Options screen
• Added missing Virginia leather suit pickup to world
• You can now lock doors with a stick placed on the interior of the door
• Built small structures (furniture) can now be grabbed, while grabbed it can either be placed again somewhere or thrown to collapse it and get back its resources
• Some additional story elements added
• New headshot death animation variations added for cannibals
• Angry regular cannibals can attack now by jumping out of trees
• Small birds will now land and eat/gain fullness
• Added option to hide player name tags
• Added option to hide projectile reticle and trajectory
• Fish trap should now work and catch fish (every 5-10 minutes) as long as it's placed in water and the current season is not winter
• Added lookout towers to some cannibal villages
• Story Paper pickups will now show UI to "Zoom" in
• Added new structure type: One Sided Apex. Fills the space between a leaning beam and its supporting beam. Aligns automatically based on the leaning beam orientation. Fits quarter log variations to the right length automatically.

Balance

• Added sleep cooldown
• Set rest drain from hunger and dehydration to 0
• Muddy Cannibals will now get less angry (from player proximity and in late game)
• Added possibility of Player Sleep Interruption events from nearby enemies that can reach player
• Tweaked fire drain rate to make using firewood more important
• Tweaked berries to give slightly more fullness
• Tweaked energy drink to give half as much hydration and less energy buff
• Tweaked amount of fullness and hydration all herbs and mushrooms give
• Hard enemy health setting reduced to 1.25x health
• Increased cannibal armor health by 1.5x on hard
• Kelvin catch fish order will end after a time
• Fixed opening a cave in late game having too many enemies
• Adjusted some player melee events and ranges for better A.I. responsiveness
• Halved shotgun damage
• Boosted seat rest amount from 0.3 to 0.7
• Added regular Puffies to dining hall
• Increased health on creepies depending on amount of multiplayer players active

Improvements

• Improved red cannibal animation and blends
• Fixed sleeping animation for female cannibal
• Set up player effigy struggle/idle for multiplayer
• Fixed ‘bouncy’ logs when deep in water
• Performance speed up for world locators
• Added Logic to allow hatches and doors to be forced open when player is spawned inside
• Fix for some LOD’s sometimes not switching correctly
• Fixed error caused when quitting while in death wakeup
• Unique/Story items are now force equipped when they are collected
• Door orientation is now determined by the position of the player when placing it, the face in front of player is the interior face
• Adjusted Deer and Moose locomotion for better pathing
• Prevented placing bench so close to objects that player could be stuck when standing up after sitting on it
• Added more small prop setup for melee impacts and collision
• Added LODs/optimization for the wall torch
• Destroying screw storage now spawns stored items as dynamic pickups
• Beach greebles regenerated with coral rock sizes reduced
• Bunker food fixed some small lighting issues
• Added radio to bunker food
• Turned the table cards for Mr. and Mrs. Puffton into story pickups
• Updated DLSS dll to version 3.1.1

Fixes

• Should no longer be able to get through locked doors with a stick (Sorry speed runners!)
• Fixed Kelvin cutting down trees with player structures attached
• Fixed keycard guest not opening the two doors in bunker entertainment and not being needed to get into bunker residential
• Fixed ghost blueprints not rendering underwater (for example fish trap)
• Fixed some stream underwater rendering glitches
• Fixed some potential issues on multiplayer disconnect
• Fixed multiple issues with input bindings
• Fixed player stuck after dying while climbing rope
• Fixed being able to place paper target on tarp collision
• Fixed place defensive wall option available on non grounded pillars, often resulting in invalid placement that gets rejected
• Fixed placing a defensive wall log against a pillar made of log quarter variation causing an invalid placement that gets rejected
• Fixed destroying the small animal deadfall trap getting its resources yielded back twice
• Fixed some issues occurring when a fire is destroyed while interacting with it
• Fixed lifting tarp with stick sometimes not detecting stick being equipped properly when auto equipped resulting in a unnecessary delay before performing the action
• Fixed adding log planks to ghost blueprint structures by splitting logs automatically not consuming the log properly
• Fixed case where some elements from some unbuilt outlines could be removed
• Volume fix for cave visuals disabling when navigating into some corners of caves
• Fixes for various open rock / cliff edges in terrain
• Fixed case where Virginia grab bag interaction could trigger at same time as pickup, leading to bad player state
• Fixed case of player stuck attacking with spear after revive
• Fixed enemy armor setting not working
• Fixed animal count setting not working correctly
• Fixed player able to trigger actions while doing ground attacks, fixes some possible temporary stuck states.
• Fixed some cases of small birds not being scared of player
• Fixed some incorrect keyboard icons for keypad inputs
• Fixed music not playing in title screen after leaving a multiplayer game
• Autumn ground leaves shouldn’t pop on visually as much now
• Player will no longer get into a broken state when trying to equip an item that they are already holding and have maxed out in inventory
• Fixed a transition to move with Tactical Axe which was preventing attack/block/parry from activating during it
• Fixed case where removing a beam supporting a pillar wouldn’t re-link the pillar properly with its new support, resulting in wrong pillar position calculated after the cascading repositioning process
• Fixed wood stack loading from saves as an apex (non retro-active)
• Added player saving system for cutscenes
• Fixed the cave shark eating severed limbs looking broken
• Fixed some cave entrance bat scare spawn locations
• Fixed some eagle perch landing / takeoff issues. Add a perch spot to tall dead stump
• Fixed issue where walking over entertainment bunker could cause trees and other world objects to disappear.
• Cannibals should no longer snap long distances to climb into windows
• Fix for clients no longer loading into the correct season when rejoining a saved game
• Players held items at time of knockout are now remembered upon being revived
• Tutorials will no longer be force closed when opening the pause menu and are instead just visually toggled. This should fix some tutorials such as the pick up construction element tutorial from completing before the player has actually done it
• Player will no longer slide down slopes when either utility book is held or when the player is in their inventory
• Can no longer attach both the laser sight and flashlight weapon mods to the crossbow at the same time
• Fixed some cases of multiplayer client able to duplicate logs
• Fixed repairing wood stacks not putting its elements back in correct position
• Fixed floating log when chopping down a tree with tree shelter attached to it
• Fixed Screw Structures being broken apart have no audio
• Tagged auto jumps off on portable light
• Fixed Kelvin dropping radios destroying the radio
• Fixed weapons given to Virginia not being returned with correct amount of ammo and weapon upgrades
• Modified fade distance on icons slightly to make them more visible
• Fixed for player able to be pushed through terrain if another players stand on their head
• Fixed opening hatches removing weapon upgrades from currently held weapon
• Made sure player correctly aligns to death marker when dying at high height
• Removed floating life vest
• Fixed displacement digging visuals breaking on some quality settings

Audio

• Improved audio CPU overhead
• Improved some cannibal audio/vocals
• Reduced audio stuttering issues
• Reduced intensity of high wind audio to reduce performance impact
• Reduced max instances of footstep audio to reduce CPU cost and improve performance
• Changed the audio ringing effect on explosions and grenades to lessen as you are further from the explosion to avoid it cutting out with distance
• Spittle audio added to first spittle nest in entertainment bunker
• Added fadeouts to physics sounds
• Tuned player rock footstep when running, waterfall and surf levels
• Added gun fight audio before door opening to “Get down son” cutscene
• Updated triggered and reset audio events on flyswatter, bone maker and small animal traps
• Prevented repair tool from spamming SFX causing performance and audio issues
• Fixed audio loop not ending when climbing down ropes