Hey Everyone,
We’ve thought for a long time that effigies are cool. It’s really fun to kill an enemy, chop him up and make some art out of his body parts on the beach. However it’s been limited to preset designs - we thought giving people total freedom in what they can construct would be a great feature, especially in multiplayer where you and a friend can create something unique together. So this patch we’re introducing Custom effigy building! To start, select the Custom Effigy, it replaced the old Simple Effigy *(prebuilt effigies are still available for those not interested in designing their own) Once the basic custom effigy is constructed, find an enemy, chop his limbs off and bring the parts over to start building. Note - Even torsos work with this new system, and you can use sticks to further increase size of effigy.
This patch also introduces our new ocean. It’s based on a new unity asset store plugin, however the creator has joined the team here and has been customizing it and helping us implement it. For those with lower end pc’s we’ve included a ‘Flat’ ocean type in options menu which will let you switch to the simpler looking old ocean.
Audio has seen some more improvements and additions, most objects now react and have sounds when pushed.
For multiplayer we’ve changed the network interpolation delay and tweaked packet settings to (hopefully) smooth out the multiplayer experience. We’ve also fixed some additional bugs. Suitcases are much smoother to push as client, the metal doors are now working in mp, and breakable crates should now sync between players.
Enemies now have lod’s added to them and we’ve improved how they use motion blur hopefully improving performance drops caused by enemies being near by.
Along with this there are also a load of other fixes, changes, gameplay balance and small art tweaks, for the full list check out: http://survivetheforest.com and https://www.facebook.com/SKSgames/posts/1161386663875442
As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub