Hey everyone! 🙋♂️
As always, I've carefully reviewed all the comments and requests on Steam and YouTube. Therefore, this update addresses virtually all requests regarding jumping accuracy and losing horses.
Update 1.0.6 contains the following improvements:
Precision Improvements
- Increased precision when jumping: In higher levels, it could happen that the following horses would jump off with a 1-2 pixel difference compared to the lead horse. This difference has now been reduced to 0 so that all horses jump off at exactly the same location.
- Improved ground contact: When going downhill quickly, horses sometimes slip and fall, briefly losing contact with the ground. To make jumping easier in such hectic situations, ground contact has been improved. Now, contact is only briefly lost on steeper edges.
- Improved jumping off slopes: At very high speeds, when the herd is falling more than running, it was sometimes difficult to make the jump. Now, it's easier for the lead horse to jump from a slope. The following horses can now also more easily make jumps that were otherwise too close. This makes jumping more predictable, and it's less likely to lose horses.
Technical Improvements
- Dynamic animation & sound: Previously, the horse animations were not adjusted to the horse's speed. The animation and sound when galloping now dynamically adapt to the speed of the herd – slower and quieter at low speeds and faster at high speeds.
- High refresh rate support: As before, the game runs at 60 FPS by default and should run smoothly on 60 Hz monitors and those with FreeSync or GSync. If you want to use your monitor's full 144, 165, or 240 Hz, you can now use Ctrl+U to toggle uncapped FPS. This will increase the FPS to your monitor's maximum refresh rate.
- Improved camera movement: The vertical camera movement now automatically adjusts to the speed. This means the camera remains steadier at slow speeds and better follows the path at high speeds, even during fast downhill sections.
- Improved landscape generation: When generating the landscape, there were sometimes small edges between different biomes or after bridges. These areas have been fixed to make the landscape look more natural.
- Further performance optimizations: The game's memory usage and CPU load have been further reduced, requiring even fewer resources. This keeps your PC quieter and extends your Steam Deck's battery life.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know in the discussions.
Thanks for playing! 🤗
Mat