Hey Survivalists!
We have an update that's just landed on the experimental branch, which is an a version of the game where you can try new changes early.
New Animals
This week we have three new animals!
The Wolves, Tank Bird and Flock Birds!
We hope you have fun find these creatures with new patterns, behaviors and attacks! Let us know what you think of these furry and feathered friends in the comments below.
Labyrinth Overhaul
We've updated the Labyrinths to better reflect their themes! The Cat Labyrinth has big cats inside, there's more bats in the Bat Labyrinth, boars in the Boar Labyrinth and extra spectres in the Ape Labyrinth!
We hope this will both make the Labyrinths thematically more interesting but also offering different new challenges to each. Please let us know your thoughts on the Labyrinths and if you feel this has improved them at all below!
Quality of Life Tweaks
- We've removed collisions from bushes to help with the common complaint that people felt they were constantly getting stuck in the environment.
- We've also tweaked combat so that actions can be interrupted, you don't need to wait for the whole animation to play before dodge rolling for example.
That's it for this update, we hope you like these changes and look forward to hearing what you think about them! More animal themed updates will be coming soon...
If you don't have access to the Experimental Branch yet for The Survivalists and would like to try upcoming changes to the game you can do some by following the information below...
Installing the Experimental Branch
Warning on save data
If you access the Experimental Branch you risk your save data. We highly recommend backing up your save data before accessing it. Your save data default should be here:
You can just copy this to another folder for safe keeping.
Your current save will be compatible with the new Experimental Branch but likely you will not be able to go back to default with that save. The Experimental Branch will be kept up to date, so you could in theory just play the new branch going forwards. Also you will only be able to play online with other experimental branch players as the default will be incompatible.
Steps to enable Experimental Branch
First right click the game in your Steam Library and select Properties.
Then select the ‘Betas’ tab.
From here select Experimental from the dropdown list.
Once you next try to open The Survivalists on Steam you should automatically download the experimental branch!
Experimental Branch Feedback
Let us know all your thoughts and feedback in the ‘Experimental Branch Feedback’ section on the Steam forums and feel free to report any issues in the ‘Report Experimental Branch Problems’ area.
Thanks again for all your support and feedback so far, we can’t wait for everyone to try out all of the tweaks and new changes!
We'll keep everyone up to date here on Steam when all of the new changes roll onto the new branch and live.
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May your loot be plentiful and your monkeys well fed!