Hello, Village Elders!
The big day has arrived!
Today, the gates to the Oxbow finally open, and you can explore the new land 🗺️
Experience new adventures in the Oxbow, discover beautiful and exciting new places and build your own settlement in this wonderful neighbourhood. Set off solo or with your friends, and don't forget to personalize your appearance in the character creator.
The Oxbow launches on Steam today, 7 December 2023. The version for the PS5, Xbox Series X/S and other PC platforms will be released in Q1/Q2 of 2024. The update includes the Co-Op mode for up to 4 players, and several other features like the aforementioned new map, character creator and a playable female character.
In the near future, we will continue to improve our game to give you the best possible experience. However, as we reached the Co-Op Mode Update launch on Steam, it's a great moment to look ahead and update our Road Map.
🎮 Our next goal is to launch the Co-Op Mode Update on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and other PC platforms in Q1/Q2 of 2024.
🛡️ Then we will fire up our forges for the Armours, Crests, Shields, and More Update which is coming next year.
🤐 But that’s not all! We will have another surprise coming for you, but more on that later. 😉
Patch 2.0.0.0
Added
- Co-op mode (Oxbow exclusive)
- New map - the Oxbow (Oxbow exclusive)
- New storyline (Oxbow exclusive)
- New side quests (Oxbow exclusive)
- New generic quests (Oxbow exclusive)
- Character creator (Oxbow exclusive)
- Playable female character (Oxbow exclusive)
- Female player's husband can take care of an infant (Oxbow exclusive)
- Ability to romance and marry men as a female character (Oxbow exclusive)
- New flirting dialogue lines (Oxbow exclusive)
- New gifts for men (Oxbow exclusive)
- "Notice board" quests in the main village in the Oxbow (Oxbow exclusive)
- Chat - accessible by default under the Y key on the keyboard and in the emote menu
- Emotes
- HUD settings with the ability to toggle parts of the UI
- 21 new songs (also for specific villages)
- 17 new notification sounds
- UI sounds and animations
- NPCs chatter with audio during gameplay
- Facial expressions for NPCs
- Lipsync for NPCs
- Over 400 new NPC names
- Over 50 new NPC presets
- Cradle for infants in houses
- 42 New Furniture and Decorations
- 4 New Gates
- 5 New Fences
- 3 New house decorations
- 3 Tablecloths as table decoration
- FX for building and destroying Fences
- FX for building and destroying Gates
- FX for building and destroying Furniture
- FX for building and destroying Buildings Modules
- Listen mechanic for dialogues in co-op (Oxbow exclusive)
- Reading letters and notes mechanic (Oxbow exclusive)
- Unique basic dialogue trees for every resident of the Oxbow (Oxbow exclusive)
Fixed
- Player can change tabs when sorting selection
- Player can change item/management category and book tab when sorting selection UI is open
- Fixed inspector mode bug sound effect
- Fixed bellows mesh in the smithy
- Sound effects fixes and improvements
- Animals stuck in building entrances
- Wild animals ignoring players
- Bleeding of a farm animal decreases reputation
- Donkeys not sleeping
- Owl hoots are now removed from the forest wind sounds
- Improved sounds of roosters and chickens
- Potential crash when waiting for all async tasks to end
- Incorrect descriptions in the game configuration menu
- Some standing torches do not have flames
- and many more...
Updated
- Quest items now have separate quest inventory in the inventory tab for better clarity
- Village economy rebalance
- Items parameters rebalance (price, durability and etc)
- Wild animals' stats and loot rebalance
- Husbandry animals rebalance
- Farming rebalance
- Talents rebalance
- Technology rebalance
- Costs of fast travel reduced
- Reworked behavior of wild animals
- Reworked behavior of husbandry animals in NPC villages (Oxbow exclusive)
- Reworked animal collisions, animals can be pushed, characters do not get blocked on them
- Reworked mount controls
- Optimized animals
- Improved animal animations
- Terrain colour correction
- Numerous tweaks and improvements to the terrain
- Improved terrain quality with high FOV
- Redesigned temperature system
- Fog colour correction
- Sun angle depending on season
- Improved wind effect on vegetation
- Redesigned Main Menu
- Character in inventory - quality improvements, optimizations
- Radial menus improvements - new category division, category markers, larger icons, empty slot first. Costs in fences and gate, level icon only visible in specific buildings.
- Capacity of furniture has been added in the description section in the construction window
- Improved player's visibility on the map
- Containers show status when empty
- Pots show status with flower names
- Flowers (Pots, Items) change their appearance according to the season
- Tutorials won't show during combat
- Tutorials (some got added and some got changed)
- Sounds for chickens (chirping, damage, death)
- Sounds for picking eggs and feathers from hen's nest
- Sound attenuation for rivers and waterfalls
- Replaced gloomy night songs
- Reworked models of Log Table, Log Stool, Log Bench
- Reworked model of Simple Wooden Table
- Reworked models of Plan Fence, Plan Gate
- Reworked material of the stone walls (building modules)
- Reworked animation synchronization system between workers and workbenches
- Encumbered multiplier now stops and 50% speed reduction until max weight is reached
- Some food give additional benefits (like temperature tolerance)
- Maximum health potion now also increases current health
- Goats now use a bucket during milking
- Excavation Shed can extract copper ore
- Failure to complete the tax task reduces reputation by 100 points
- Increased penalties for killing livestock
- All Racimir's clothes replaced with a new starting equipment (The Valley exclusive)
- All languages updated
Known issues that will be fixed post launch
- Herald is not available for quests so king can't be changed, nor his relation be improved.
- No events right now.
- Players can continue crafting after the building was destroyed by someone else.
- The client in building radial menu cannot see a proper value of fences that are already built.
- Missing the red ghost in destruction mode on an unfinished foundation for the client.
- Players can see the "Free up workstation" option when another player is using a workstation.
- The “Listen to conversation” mechanic is work in progress.
- Fences have some replication issues when a player joins a game.
- Player's husband has pregnant icon.
- Two players can interact with same plot elements at the same time.
- A client gamer can't give more than one gift to an NPC per session.
- If client leaves a session this player is shown in management as [none].
- Quest journals sometimes have no text client side.
- Building's modules can sometimes unattach itself from a building on client side in ghost mode.
- Items from a quest reward goes always to the host.
- Player can die while waiting in bed for day/season change.
- Problems with interacting with furniture at Sedowin's hut as a client.
- Different numeration of fields for each of the players in the management.
As always, feel free to send us your feedback and questions here or on our social media channels!
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Have fun in the Oxbow; A warm welcome to you!
The Render Cube and Toplitz Productions teams
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