Update 1.17 - Lantern Festival

Hello Hunters,

During the last few months, we’ve been hard at work on integrations of our branches, which will allow for faster development and releases of new content in the future. While this is going to improve the experience for all players, our push to get it done has also meant a recent break in our continuous rollout of PC patches.

With this work mostly done, we are now aiming to once again pick up the pace with more frequent PC updates. This patch will lay down the groundwork for everything that is on the horizon.

This first update mainly focuses on changes “under the hood” in order to get ready for the next updates, including the previously announced Jackrabbit. That being said, some issues will be addressed in this patch already. Animal teleportation has been a big focus for us, and this patch aims to solve the “zipping” of animals. We will continue our work on areas that affect this unwanted animal behavior and aim to have more updates going forward.

All outposts now feature interiors and can thus be entered. This was already possible in Medved-Taiga and is now also available in Layton Lake and Hirschfelden. Enjoy those cozy log cabins!

This update also takes in improvements for user interface that have only been available on the console version so far.

Last but not least we invite everyone to celebrate the Lantern Festival with us on March 2. The Lantern Festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year spring festival period and is traditionally celebrated with family, friends, and of course, lanterns! For a limited time, you can find decorations at every outpost in the game, and we wish everybody good fortune!

As always you can find all changes below and do let us know your feedback!

Happy Hunting
theHunter: Call of the Wild Team

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KNOWN ISSUES:

Tents are appearing in the wrong locations in-game (too high/in the ground). We are currently working on a hotfix to address that, apologies for the inconvenience caused.

For the Chinese localized version of the client text is displaying incorrectly, this too is currently being addressed.

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Features

• As a part of Lantern Festival celebrations statues and lanterns can be found in the reserve. Limited time.
• All Outposts now feature interiors that can be entered to rest

Gameplay

• Animal teleportation and pathfinding has been improved. This should alleviate the current problem of “zipping” animals. We are continuing the work so expect further updates on this in the future
• All weapons have their zeroing set specifically for their ammo. This is most noticeable on bows where 300gr arrows would hit higher and 600gr arrows would hit much lower on the zeroed distance.
• Significantly reduced the amount that wind affects arrow trajectories
• Added new outpost to Layton Lake - Balmont Railroad Outpost
• Default selection of starting reserve has been changed to Layton Lake
• Tritium sights - Fixed models and tritium sights not attaching first time, or staying attached to the weapon after switching equipment or holstering the weapon.
• Animals should no longer spawn in front of players
• Improved sound mix for Coyote and Red Foxes
• Sound Fix for Brown Bear warning calls

Missions