Sierra Madre: The Wild West

Released: Dec 17, 2018
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Last updated: 11 Sep 2026, 02:21 GMT

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23 Sep 2022Developer post
Sierra Madre Dev Blog 9-23-2022
Pre-Release Content and Images Please understand that the material discussed herein is part of the unreleased CORE Release Update and does not reflect the current version of the game that is now available on the Steam store. The CORE Release Update is a complete overall of the ex
23 Dec 2020Developer post
Upcoming changes with the Core Redesign Release - Post 4
Update: We are still in the process of preparing the Core Redesign Release. We are have run into a few issues and are still putting on finishing touches. We will ship the release as soon as these issues are resolved. Thank you. Note: The Core Redesign Release has not yet been rel
16 Dec 2020Developer post
Upcoming changes with the Core Redesign Release - Post 3
Note: The Core Redesign Release has not yet been released and is targeted to be released in late December. This post focuses on the non-player character (NPC) and AI changes coming with the Core Redesign Release. Subsequent announcements will focus on other areas that the Core Re
09 Dec 2020Developer post
Upcoming changes with the Core Redesign Release - Post 2
Note: The Core Redesign Release has not yet been released and is targeted to ship in mid to late December. This post focuses on the character movement changes coming with the Core Redesign Release. Subsequent announcements will focus on other areas that the Core Redesign Release
02 Dec 2020Developer post
Upcoming changes with the Core Redesign Release - Post 1
Note: The Core Redesign Release has not yet been released and is targeted to be released later this month. This post focuses on the graphical changes coming with the Core Redesign Release. Subsequent announcements will focus on other areas that the Core Redesign Release will chan
28 Aug 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West 08/28/2019 Update
This release contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements as well as a few new features. New Features: Native Americans Warriors will now spawn as you traverse the world and help you fight off bandits. Added a quick loot ability. This will loot everything in a dead o
This release contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements as well as a few new features.
New Features:

Native Americans Warriors will now spawn as you traverse the world and help you fight off bandits.
Added a quick loot ability. This will loot everything in a dead outlaw / animal inventory. This ability is activated by holding down the Action key (F by default key bindings) for 0.5 seconds while looking at a dead enemy.
The weight limit on the player's inventory has been removed in favor of slowing the player down when carrying loads greater than 40 lbs.
Restored dual pistol aiming while in first person mode. In third person mode right mouse button will fire the right weapon; left mouse button will fire the left weapon. In first person mode right mouse button will aim one of the revolvers and left mouse button will fire it.
Changes:

Improved player grounding detection on slopes.
Improved NPC behavior.
Tweaked NPC accuracy at each difficulty level.
Increased horse sprint / gallop times.
Fixed issue where horse footprint sounds do not play.
Fixed an issue where the player could become stuck sleeping / stuck in third person mode after sleeping.
Improved NPC horse collision on NPC death (this should prevent horses from entering endless bucking loop).
Fixed issue where characters and horses could be pushed through the terrain under certain circumstances.
Switched from using animation events to timers for almost all weapon handling events. This should prevent endless readloading loops and the player getting stuck with a certain weapon.
Added additional checks to prevent crashes in some circumstances on load.
Horse now rotates independently of root motion. This should resolve issues where the horse will travel sideways.
General performance improvements that help reduce lag.
Known issues:

Occasionally, NPCs can become stuck while mounting / dismounting horses.
In very rare circumstances the player can become stuck while mounting horses or using campfires.
Both of these issues are related to how animation events are fired and we are working to resolve these issues.
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07 Aug 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Patch 8/7/2019
Changes: Upgrade project to Unity 2019.2. This delivers a number of improvements and bug fixes including fixing an issue that could lock the program in an infinite loop. Fixed scripts that were throwing non-crashing exceptions under certain conditions. Fixed issue with remapped c
Changes:

Upgrade project to Unity 2019.2. This delivers a number of improvements and bug fixes including fixing an issue that could lock the program in an infinite loop.
Fixed scripts that were throwing non-crashing exceptions under certain conditions.
Fixed issue with remapped controls not working in the map UI. Note: this requires rebinding custom key bindings for the map UI.
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31 Jul 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Core Stability Update
This update is primarily focused around fixing issues that were created in our creation of the core rewrite. We did, however, add birds that fly over head around the map. Changes: Collision detection improvements. Third person perspective melee hit detection improvements. First p
This update is primarily focused around fixing issues that were created in our creation of the core rewrite. We did, however, add birds that fly over head around the map.
Changes:

Collision detection improvements.
Third person perspective melee hit detection improvements.
First person perspective melee animations improved.
Improved IK alignment for feet when going up steps on terrain.
Fixed exception caused by pooled objects.
Fixed issue with NPCs not successfully mounting horses.
Fixed issues with NPCs flying sideways across the map.
Improved lipsyncing for NPCs.
Improved wagon turning animations.
Improved Aiming IK for the player's character in third person perspective.
Improved sprint animations in first person perspective.
Fixed an issue where the camera can become wrongly aligned while riding the horse in first person perspective.
Fixed an issue where towns people NPCs did not deal damaged consistently during fist fights.
Fixed issues with the state system not always working as expected.
Improved navigation with gamepads / keyboard in the inventory.
Fixed issues with accessing items in the inventory.
Fixed issues relating to IL2CPP compilation and runtime stability.
Fixed issues where cloud quality settings did not apply until a restart.
Fixed an issue where the player would become forced off his / her horse when taking damage.
Fixed an issue where the player would jitter after being forced off of the horse.
Improved horse auto steering.
Improved an issue where punching when moving would leave the player unable to do anything.
Tweaked horse and player stamina values.
Increased the amount of time where the player can go without food and water.
Fixed damage not always being applied when the player was out of food / water.
Improved horse riding dismount reliability.
Improved horse collision.
Improve wagon driving.
Improved NPC perception with better hearing.
Add birds that fly around the map.
Why somethings have not been seen to:
Issues related to lighting have not been addressed in this update. Fixing shadow flickering issues on the current map requires making large compromises between the accuracy of shadows and the reduction of flickering.
In a future update we will be bringing a world generation system to Sierra Madre that will allow us to better solve this issue. Although the engine behind this world generation system is fully functional, the world that it generates (the output) is still being designed. Once the world generation system is integrated we will upgrading Sierra Madre to use Unity's Scriptable Render Pipeline, which will give us much finer control over the graphics in the game.
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20 Jun 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Core Rewrite Update
Disclaimer: This update constitutes an overhaul of roughly 90% of our game's core source code and is a large change to the underlying systems of the game. Many of these changes are not aesthetically apparent. Over the next few updates we will be fundamentally changing the game's
Disclaimer: This update constitutes an overhaul of roughly 90% of our game's core source code and is a large change to the underlying systems of the game. Many of these changes are not aesthetically apparent. Over the next few updates we will be fundamentally changing the game's world (terrain, environment, etc), Core Gameplay, Rendering System (Lighting), and NPC behavior. This update, while rough in some areas, offers a new basis for the future development of Sierra Madre: The Wild West. The important thing is that this new core empowers us to provide more features in a much more manageable way.
Note: This release may not download immediately.
Changes:
Improved Character Controller
We have fully switched over to an advanced event-driven character controller. This character controller is more modular and is a huge improvement from a developer’s point of view. There are some rough edges. Animation transitions and blending require some tweaking and polish. These issues will solved in a future update. This controller is used to control the main character, NPCs, and horses. We will likely extend it to wildlife in a future update as well. This makes it easier for us to write behaviors that both the player and NPCs can utilize.
Improved Animation System
We started this project as a first person shooter and as a result offered poor parity between first person and third person mode. To solve this we have introduced a new animation system that allows us to use the same animations between the first person and third person perspective. This new system also lays the groundwork for character customization (character customization is NOT in this update) by allowing us to easily swap out the rigs being used for the first person perspective. The third person and first person perspectives should now behave very similarly.
Improved Gamepad Support
We have integrated a third party native control system that allows us to support many different gamepads. Most gamepads should work, but we have primarily targeted Xbox One controllers for this update.
UI navigation has been improved for use with gamepads. The map UI has been tweaked to be controller friendly, but will be overhauled completely in a future update. The inventory UI has been completely overhauled. It has been designed with gamepad support in mind and has an acceptable amount of usability with a gamepad, but definitely needs some tweaking.
Menu UI has been tweaked both aesthetically and to better support gamepads, but some settings menus do not play nice with gamepads. The current Menu UI will be replaced in a future update.
New Inventory System
We have overhauled the inventory system and replaced it with a robust, categorized inventory. The inventory now tracks all player possessions including weapons, ammo, horses, etc. The inventory can now be filtered based on category and can be used to call horses, access camp craft tools (bedrole, campfire), eat food, drink water, and equip weapons. Food and drink have been converted from using calories and fluid ounces as measurement units to being based on items. Where you used to have 64 fluid ounces of water, you now have one unit of water. Where you used to have 2000 calories of food, you now have 1 unit of meat (either raw or cooked). We will be expanding food groups to include more individual food items in future updates.
New Interactions
New Interactions are discussed in this development blog.
New Horse and Wagon Mechanics
We have replaced our old horse and wagon mechanics with new ones that are designed to require less direct steering. Horses and wagons will now try to avoid obstacles on their own. Instead of having to hold down a key to keep horses and wagons moving forward, you adjust speed by hitting the forward and backward movement keys (or moving the movement joystick in the forward or backward axes). This new system does have some issues on rough terrain, but this will be resolved when we overhaul our game world (which is one of our main focuses and we hope to have in the next feature update).
Horse Breeds
We now have different breeds of horses which can be bought at trading posts (will be moved to being bought at a livery stable in a future update).
General Changes:

Replaced tent with bedrole.
Towns people now say greetings when approached.
The player character now verbally indicates when they are hungry / thirsty.
Added a Scoped .45-70 Breechloader.
Added a Livery Stable to the tutorial.
Improved blocking rain while inside buildings.
Rewrote weapon mechanics.
Temporarily removed bullet drop.
Temporarily removed hiring of lawmen.
Added aim assist that automatically activates when a gamepad is in use and deactivates when the keyboard and mouse is in use.
Added control hints that show which controls map to which functions. This can be disabled in the gameplay menu.
Simplified gameplay settings options.
Tweaked how long it takes to get hungry / thirsty.
A direction indicator now indicates where attacks are coming from (only if cross hairs are enabled).
New control remapping UI.
New FPS arms model.
Updated Tutorial to reflect changes.
Known issues:

Horse speed and stamina values will show up with dollar signs in the inventory.
Horses will buck and rear when ridden on unstable terrain.
Horses can start bucking uncontrollable when on really rough terrain. Dismounting the horse when it is in this state sometimes results in death.
NPCs will sometimes become unresponsive. Sometimes NPCs will be found floating in mid air while on horse back.
NPCs may become stuck on the edge of steep cliffs.
Shadows will flicker when near the edge of the map (this will be resolved with the new world system).
At certain times of day, faces that are not in direct sunlight will appear completely black (this will be addressed with the new render pipeline).
Attempting to mount a wagon on the side of a cliff can result in the player becoming stuck. Rapidly hitting movement keys and the use key can sometimes unstuck the player.
Exiting the inventory can sometimes result in the cursor being stuck on. Going back to the inventory and hitting escape to exit will resolve this.
If you have the resolution of the game below your monitor’s native resolution, the native resolution may be restored when changing scenes. This may or may not be indicated in the graphics options.
What’s next?
We will now being focusing our development for the next feature updates on four key areas:

Core Gameplay
Fixing NPC behavior
Upgrading to using the Scriptable Render Pipeline
New World System
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30 Mar 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Development Blog 03/29/2019
Moving to the Improved Character Controller, Input Our integration to the improved character controller and input module is fully underway. Game-pad support is being vastly improved with the new input module and controls reporting is more aesthetically pleasing. The improved char
04 Mar 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Revised Roadmap 03/04/2019
Roadmap Thank you for your feedback. This roadmap is an overview of planned features for the game based on user feedback. Please note that this is not finalized and is subject to change. Improved Core Architecture and Input System Migration We are working to migrate to a superior
Roadmap
Thank you for your feedback. This roadmap is an overview of planned features for the game based on user feedback. Please note that this is not finalized and is subject to change.

Improved Core Architecture and Input System Migration We are working to migrate to a superior input module as well as improving the game's core architecture. The new input module should improve game-pad support.
More Complex NPC Interactions We are working on adding meaningful interactions between the player and NPCs. These interactions will include simple dialogues and will vary by scenario.
Factions and Public Opinion We are working on shaping the game to be based off of factions and a form of public opinion. We want your actions in the game to shape how NPCs react to you. We are also planning on allowing the player to choose / shape which faction they are a part of.
Native Americans Native American artwork and NPC behavior is under development.
Road Networks and Travelers We are planning on adding clearly defined trails to the game with wandering travelers, bandits that rob people, etc.
NPC Recruiting / Hiring We are planning on allowing the player to hire NPCs to assist them in their adventures.
Better Survival Equipment and Interactions We are working on adding more survival items. This will include individual foods, more tools, and more inventory items. We are also designing new interactions for existing and future tools. For example, we want to make tasks such as lighting a fire or cooking more interactive.
Weapon Variety We will be adding more weapons / weapon variants to the game.
Pick Your Own Adventure We want to give the player greater choice in what role they do in the game. We will be adding various activities or jobs that will shape the player's role. We would like to add tasks like farming, shipment escorting, ranching, buying properties, etc.
More Activities and Scenarios / Missions We are planning on expanding the number of activities in the game. We would like to add activities such as rodeos, ranch management, farming, gambling, etc. We are also designing various scenarios / additional missions.
Character Customization We are planning on adding some form of character customization to the game.
Improved Graphics and Lighting With the release of Unity 2019.1, we will be migrating to a new and improved graphics rendering module.
Injury Mobility Limitations Currently the player decreased vision when hurt. We would like to extend this to include limitations based on injuries to certain body parts. For example, if the player is shot in the leg they should move slower.
Saddle Bags, Stashes, and Inventory Improvements We are planning to add features such as saddle bags, saddle holsters, and loot stashes where gear can be stored.
More, better sound effects We are planning on improving our sound effects and adding more sound effects.
Mac & Linux (Debian) Support We would like to have full Mac, Linux, and Windows 10 cross-platform support. Note: we only intend on supporting x64 versions of these operating systems.
Better Wildlife Better wildlife are under development to ensure a more realistic experience.
Better Artwork We are currently overhauling our animals, character art, and other game assets to be more realistic.
Better In-game UI We will be making the user interface easier to use, more aesthetically pleasing, and more compatible with game-pads.
More Maps We have a series of maps planned that are currently under development.
Being Researched, To Be Determined
These features are being researched as possible additions to the game.

A Separate Multiplayer / Co-op Game Mode The addition of a multiplayer mode depends on a lot of factors and will only be done after we have created a solid single-player experience. Any addition of multiplayer / co-op would be treated as a separate game mode and will not effect the single-player game mode. That being said, the changes we are making to the game's core architecture have been designed with networking in mind. We are designing the game to allow for the addition of a separate multiplayer mode.
Basic Modding Support Mods support is under research and the extent of what kinds of mods could / should be added to the game is still being determined.
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28 Feb 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Build 3605021 - New Building Art, IL2CPP, Texture Streaming
Changes and Improvements Started adding new building art, props, and town layouts to towns. Added adjusting day / night lengths to the Gameplay settings menu. Switched to IL2CPP. IL2CPP is a scripting backend by Unity Technologies that offers a 3x speed up (CPU only) in some case
Changes and Improvements

Started adding new building art, props, and town layouts to towns.
Added adjusting day / night lengths to the Gameplay settings menu.
Switched to IL2CPP. IL2CPP is a scripting backend by Unity Technologies that offers a 3x speed up (CPU only) in some cases.
Switched from Facepunch .Steamworks to Steamworks .NET.
Tweaked hunger / thirst settings.
Minor tweaks to HUD.
Inventory items and weapons can now be purchased at the general store in towns.
Textures are now asynchronously streamed. This reduces memory usage and should help prevent crashes related to memory allocations.
Reduced clothing sticking through on gunslingers.
Fixed gunslinger jackets having a low-poly look.
Fixed an issue where piano music was heard at the wrong side of town.
Added a sheriff star to the marshal's chest.
Tweaked lighting setup.
Known Issues

When switching quality settings, restart may be required before full changes take effect.
Dusk / Dawn may have blackened shadows when loading certain saves at certain locations.
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21 Feb 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Development Blog 2/21/2019
We have been working on a number of internal improvements to the game's architecture to facilitate new features. New Character Art We are overhauling all character art in the game. A preview of this character art has already been rolled out to the gunslinger NPCs. New Town Layout
09 Feb 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Build 3551795 - New AI System & Character Art Preview
Build 3551795 Changes: Reworked the Steam client initialization process to report when problems occur with the app's connection with the Steam client. Build 3548967 Changes: Hugely reduced texture memory usage to mitigate crashes where some systems would run out of memory. Build
Build 3551795
Changes:

Reworked the Steam client initialization process to report when problems occur with the app's connection with the Steam client.
Build 3548967
Changes:

Hugely reduced texture memory usage to mitigate crashes where some systems would run out of memory.
Build 3546173
We would like to thank the community for all of your excellent suggestions and feedback. Your feedback is being used to shape the game and as a result we have begun redesigning some of our subsystems to better incorporate your ideas. One of these subsystems was our AI module.
New AI System
We have reworked how the AI work internally to be more flexible and better able to handle the necessary changes to incorporate your suggestions.
Our old AI Module consisted of the following:

A civilian subsystem.
An animal subsystem.
A gunslinger subsystem.
Each of these subsystems were disjoint and used a minimum level of connectivity in order to interact with each other. This system was not flexible enough to support the new activities and interactions that we have been designing based on your feedback.
We have reworked the AI System into a new one that will allow for diverse and interesting scenarios created through context aware behavior as we continue to develop the game. The new system has only been implemented for the gunslingers (outlaw and lawman) for this build, but will be coming to animals and civilians in the future.
The new system is extremely modular and changes to behavior can be implemented with ease.
Currently the new gunslinger AI behaves very similarly to their predecessors, but after we migrate all NPCs and animals in the game to the new system we will make the gunslinger's actions based on your actions.
Character Art Preview
In this build we are previewing our new character artwork. This artwork has a few known issues that we will be addressing in the future.
Lawmen are now dressed in lighter colors.
Outlaws are now dressed in dark colors.
Civilians have been left alone for the current build, but will receive new artwork after we have migrated them to the new AI System.
Changes

Corpses should now only de-spawn after the player has walked a great distance away from them.
Gunslingers are now controlled by the new AI system.
New character artwork is now being used by gunslingers.
Known Issues

Clothing sometimes sticks through gunslinger jackets.
Gunslinger jackets can have a slightly low ploy appearance in some lighting.
The game now uses slightly more memory than before so you may need to increase your page file size if you run into any problems. Future updates will reduce the game's memory usage. Let us know if you run into any issues.
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24 Jan 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Build 3495898
Note: We recommend resetting your control bindings if you use customized key bindings. Improvements Fixed jagged edges in the terrain. Fixed snow texturing issues. Added deciduous trees to parts of the map near water. Improved AI combat behavior. AI now try to maintain their dist
Note: We recommend resetting your control bindings if you use customized key bindings.
Improvements

Fixed jagged edges in the terrain.
Fixed snow texturing issues.
Added deciduous trees to parts of the map near water.
Improved AI combat behavior. AI now try to maintain their distance and seek cover rather than charging the player.
Added a long barreled double barrel shotgun.
Renamed short barreled double barrel shotgun to Coachgun.
Dead enemies can now be looted for supplies (tonic, animal hides, food, etc.) and will only drop ammo and weapons.
Added a stone tomahawk.
Added a torch that can be used for both lighting and bludgeoning (you have to purchase this at a trading post).
The player can now carry multiple melee weapons. Hitting the melee select key (4 by default) will cycle through melee weapons.
The player can now put away a weapon by hitting the associated select key again (with the exception of melee weapons; hitting the melee select key will cycle through your owned melee weapons).
Increased the cost of items in stores.
Decreased the value of items being sold at stores.
Fixed an issue where the player could activate a light on the Coachgun in third person perspective.
Fixed an issue where the O key was double mapped. The O key is now mapped to bring out the torch (you may have to reset your control bindings if you use customized key bindings).
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14 Jan 2019Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West - Third Person Perspective Update
Build 3465972 Third Person Perspective Note: If you have customized your controls you may have to reset your control bindings. Due to all of the requests we have been receiving for a third person perspective, we decided to add a third person perspective mode to the game before ou
Build 3465972
Third Person Perspective
Note: If you have customized your controls you may have to reset your control bindings.
Due to all of the requests we have been receiving for a third person perspective, we decided to add a third person perspective mode to the game before our NPC behavior / character art update. The new third person perspective can be activated by pressing the "v" key by default.
Changes and Improvements

Third Person Perspective
Reworked horse follow mechanics: Your horse no longer follows you all the time, but will stay where you have left it. Now, when you call your horse it will approach you and stop as soon as it reaches you. If you are a great distance from your horse it will be spawned behind you and then approach you.
Sleeping at your tent: You can now approach the entrance of your tent (look at the poles) and sleep until dawn or dusk depending on the current time of day.
Increased spawn rate of deer and bears.
Added an Auto-Run key [CAPSLOCK by default] for horses and wagons.
Added a work around which should mitigate (if not resolve) crashes on exit.
Known Issues

Firing while not aiming in third person mode can make the player character model twitch.
Switching to prone while reloading in third person mode will cause the reload animation to cease playing (but you will still reload).
While riding a horse in third person mode, muzzle flash and cartridge ejections may be out of sync with the firing animation.
Third person horse mounting animation is not always perfectly synced.
In confined spaces the third person perspective camera may pass through the player mesh.
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29 Dec 2018Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Feature Update 1
Build 3436240 Note: We did some reworking with the default keybindings and added new key commands. You might need to reset your controls if you set custom mappings prior to update. New Features and Improvements Difficulty Settings under the new Game Play Settings Menu New Invento
Build 3436240
Note: We did some reworking with the default keybindings and added new key commands. You might need to reset your controls if you set custom mappings prior to update.
New Features and Improvements

Difficulty Settings under the new Game Play Settings Menu
New Inventory, store, and map U.I.
The Quick Interaction Menu is dead... and has been replaced with the Quick Interaction HUD Bar. This new HUD bar has keys mapped to each interaction, such as heal, eat, drink, place tent, etc. (toggles with TAB by default).
A new HUD (that can be turned off) with health stats, stamina, and a mini-map.
Gamma correction settings under the Game Play Settings Menu.
Invert Mouse under the Game Play Settings Menu.
All around improved loading times.
Replaced the next generation experimental vegetation rendering system with a more stable one. The next generation experimental vegetation rendering system was likely causing crashes on older CPUs.
New MSAA Setting
Cloud Settings
Lighting Settings
Difficulty Settings allows users to tweak difficulty of the game's enemies and survival elements.
Mini Map that shows player location and direction
Hitting a single key [M by default] brings up Main Map
Fixed Inventory loading saved data loading when starting a new game
Clamped horse speed to mitigate incorrect fast movement across map
Eating and drinking now heal the player
Hot keys for eating, drinking, heal
Predators now detect player when attacked
Hitting the Use Key will now dismount player from Horse / Wagon without pointing at the ground
Fixed player foot sounds not affected by audio mixer
Enemies might act wounded when shot
~~Enemies dropped weapons can no longer be picked up by player~~ Enemy weapons can now be picked up again.
AI spawning improved to make it more organic
Added bridges
Added loot chests around the map
New wagon
Added tutorial map
Upgraded the mine
Minor terrain fixes
Fixed weather effects not triggering
Added dedicated audio settings for saloon music.
Fixed an issue where getting on a horse while too close to another horse could cause unfortunate side effects such as flying around the map.
Known issues

Some buildings may have smudged lighting appearance on some walls when close up.
~~Animals are now overly shiny / more reflective.~~ Should have been resolved in Build 3436240.
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21 Dec 2018Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West User Feedback Update 1
Build 3418701 This update incorporates some minor improvements and a new feature suggested in user feedback. Wood Chopping Gathering fire wood no longer consists of searching the ground looking for sticks. Now you can gather fire wood by simply walking up to a tree and chopping t
Build 3418701
This update incorporates some minor improvements and a new feature suggested in user feedback.
Wood Chopping
Gathering fire wood no longer consists of searching the ground looking for sticks. Now you can gather fire wood by simply walking up to a tree and chopping the tree with your knife or hatchet.
The knife will gather a stick of wood for every third hit to a tree and can gather up to three sticks of wood per tree. The hatched will gather a stick of wood for every hit to a tree and can gather up to nine sticks of wood per tree.
Improvements

We have added some more steam achievements. Note: if you are currently on one of the missions that has one of theses achievements, the achievement will not take effect until you have completed the mission a second time.
The enemy AI is now way less aggressive, doesn't jump around as much, deals less damage, and has lower accuracy.
The enemy AI now loses sight of the player more quickly and forgets the player sooner.
Increased enemy loot lifetime.
The player's health now auto-regenerates up to 66% a few seconds after being damaged instead of only regenerating up to 25%.
Ambient audio is now always controlled by the ambient audio slider.
An issue where water splashes were heard for no reason should now be resolved.
Player now gathers wood using chopping of trees instead of picking up sticks.
We reduced the brightness of sun shafts and toned down the overall brightness of the sun.
Horses now have greater stamina and can gallop for greater distances.
The player's horse now has twice the hit points and is harder to kill in combat.
Tweaked spawning of enemies to reduce instances were huge mobs of outlaws are attacking the player.
Increased piano's volume in the bar and tied the piano's volume to the music audio channel.
Fixed the pianist's rag doll to not fall through the bench when killed.
The Next Feature Update
Things discussed below this point will be in the next feature update to the game and are not in today's update.
The next feature update will focus on improving the user interface, making in game interactions more intuitive, and improving the game play aspects of the game.
The next feature update will include the following improvements:

An improved and simplified inventory / store system.
A better in-game map.
Game play related settings options including gamma correction, mouse invert, enemy AI difficulty, survival difficulty, a difficulty preset, and in game HUD settings.
An optional HUD that will include things such as a mini-map, horse stamina read outs, and other things to help you navigate the world and survive.
A new 3D, interactive tutorial. The current tutorial is, in a word, bad. We are going to replace it with a tutorial that actually has you do things to learn how to do them.
New enemy AI spawning rules that will make the game more interesting and less repetitive.
Better game play elements.
Introduce graphics settings to help with flickering in buildings.
We value your opinions and feedback, so please let us know how we can improve the game and things that you would like to do in the game.
Please post any feature requests for the next feature update as well as any issues with today's update in the comments below.
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18 Dec 2018Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Cumulative Hot fixes
Hot fixes After the initial release we have been working to resolve problems as they come up and respond to feedback. Yesterday we released a few hot fixes to solve issues related to crashes caused by certain gamepads. Today, we have released a new hot fix designed to tackle some
Hot fixes
After the initial release we have been working to resolve problems as they come up and respond to feedback. Yesterday we released a few hot fixes to solve issues related to crashes caused by certain gamepads.
Today, we have released a new hot fix designed to tackle some of the issues that have been brought up in user reviews.
We have just released Build 3409937 (should automatically download), which has the following attributes:

Fixed a bug where enemies would spawn too close to the player.
Fixed a bug where enemies would fire multiple shots for one shot.
Spawns of friendly lawmen, enemy outlaws, and skirmishes between lawmen and outlaws now play a short piece of music.
Fixed an in issue where the piece of music played on death was too loud and did not respond to sound settings.
Tweaked gunslinger spawn rate.
Increased the damage of player weapons.
Decreased the health of civilians in towns.
Improved gun shot sounds for both player and gunslingers.
Removed tracers from player weapons; they did not accurately follow the path of the bullet.
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17 Dec 2018Developer post
Sierra Madre: The Wild West Release Announcement
Sierra Madre: The Wild West is now available on Steam! If you have any issues with crashes on launch: We have issued a new hotfix, which should resolve this issue. Please let us know if it does not. You may have to exit and reopen the Steam Client for it to download. However if y
Sierra Madre: The Wild West is now available on Steam!
If you have any issues with crashes on launch:
We have issued a new hotfix, which should resolve this issue. Please let us know if it does not. You may have to exit and reopen the Steam Client for it to download.
However if you continue to experience the issue:
Let us know.
Some players are experiencing an issue related to having a gamepad plugged in. If you unplug the gamepad and relaunch the game, the issue should be resolved.
Another work around is to double click the Sierra Madre.exe in the install folder.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Thank you for your interest and support. We hope you enjoy the game.
Release Notes
Features

Three mission modes: Delivery, Outlaw Hunter, Town Liberator. Play these missions to earn in game cash to buy supplies and new weapons.
Horse ownership: the player will own a horse which can be called to the player. The player can buy new horses.
Survival Elements: hunting, cooking, gathering, thirst, hunger, and a really simple crafting system are part of Sierra Madre: The Wild West.
Weapons: the player will have access to six unique weapons.
Weather, Dynamic Sky, Day Night Cycle: The weather, sky, and time of day changes as time progresses.
Towns and Trading Posts: Sierra Madre: The Wild West has unique towns and locations to explore. Towns are filled with towns people that react if mistreated.
Outlaws and Lawmen: Fight outlaws with the help of fellow lawmen. Watch your fire as lawmen attack traitors.
Known Issues

The game must be launched with Steam in Online mode and with an active internet connection for the game to run.
Some cacti in the desert may not be fully on the ground.
The mine in the game may render with a black texture depending on your system.
Wagon horse (on the wagon only) can pass through trees and buildings.
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Updates & announcements

Pre-Release Content and Images

Changes to Gameplay

Changes to the Map

Changes to Character Assets

Changes to Weapons Artwork

Changes to Core Systems

Gameplay changes and improvements

When is the release launching?

New Features:

Changes:

Known issues:

Changes:

Changes:

Why somethings have not been seen to:

Changes:

Moving to the Improved Character Controller, Input

Better, Simpler Interactions and Controls

Reworked Weapons animations

Affliction Based Needs

Cool, can I try this out in the game now?

Roadmap

Being Researched, To Be Determined

Changes and Improvements

Known Issues

New Character Art

New Town Layouts and Building Art

New Factions and NPC Behavior

New Character Controller and Other Foundational Improvements

New AI System

Character Art Preview

Changes

Known Issues

Improvements

Third Person Perspective

Changes and Improvements

Known Issues

New Features and Improvements

Hot fixes

Sierra Madre: The Wild West is now available on Steam!