New Features
- Get ready to go the distance with the addition of 'Distance Run' as an Official Steam Stat, which works towards the new Marathon Runner Steam Achievement & Leaderboard.
- Stay on top of your fitness goals with the addition of fitness stats to Your rucksack.
- Enhance your gaming experience with Quick and Slow select options on buttons for improved usability.
- Challenge yourself to become a marathon runner and unlock the new Steam Achievement by running a Marathon (42195 metres) in the game.
- Punch your way to the top with the height-adjustable punch bag and the new Boxing system that comes with an XP-increasing Punch Bag feature.
- Keep track of battle progress with the health hearts added to injured enemies.
- Compete against other players and prove you're the best with the addition of a Leaderboard for Top Runners in the game.
- Enter the newly added Castle and test your boxing skills with its own boxing system.
Improvements
- Feel the immersion with the improved look & feel of the saw & the bow.
- Get more realistic gameplay with the improved Creature AI. Creatures will now only chase you if they are not already aggroing on another creature, and fleeing enemies won't continue to flee indefinitely.
- Get better performance with improved NPC player performance to help with frame rates.
- Get a better gameplay experience with the addition of a more realistic pickaxe.
- Get a more immersive experience with the improvements made to aggressive creature behavior AI and the addition of photo-realistic skyboxes.
Bug Fixes
- Get a smoother gameplay experience with the fix to enemy rage. Stronger enemies will only continue chasing players from a distance for 10 seconds.
- Get a better gameplay experience with the fix to the bug where distant rocks would not always appear, the bug where middle distant creatures would fail to animate, and the bug where walking NPCs were not animating correctly.
Game Balance
- Get ready for a more challenging gameplay experience with the increase in aggro/awareness distance for creatures from 15 metres to 20 metres.
Audio
- Get a more realistic gameplay experience with the addition of crafting sounds when crafting items, Fear sounds when Rabbits and Chickens are scared by players, and more realistic sounds for Eagles, Chickens, Wolves, and Spiders. All creature types now have their own personalised sounds.
AI
- Get a more realistic gameplay experience with the addition of a hurt delay between creature hits to stop unrealistic mass hits.
- Get a more immersive gameplay experience with the addition of a rule where creatures can't be swarmed by other creatures.
