NOTE: Game saves ARE backward compatible with the last released patch, v2.0.0d. But multiplayer games are NOT backward-compatible, so you can only play with those who have this beta.
See bottom of this page for instructions on opting into the beta.
Beta 10 - 25 January 2025
IMPROVEMENTS
* Pups of the year in a pack that the player joins are now boldfaced in Known Wolves.
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Beta 9 - 24 January 2025
IMPROVEMENTS
* On Known Wolves panel, player-wolf's offspring and siblings are boldfaced.
* Made the Family Tree snap regenerate automatically when mate dies.
* Made subheadings on Pack Info (Mate, Pups, etc.) larger and boldfaced for better readability.
BUGS FIXED
* Packmate's peaceful death notification has placeholder tags.
* Ear and other customizations don't appear on NPC wolves in Scent View.
* The "K" key opens Known Wolves panel but doesn't close it.
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Beta 8 - 23 January 2025
IMPROVEMENTS
* Added "Hexes Claimed" readout below World Map.
* Set Notification History scrollbar default position to the top, now that recent items are at the top.
BUGS FIXED
* Mysterious pups are shown on Family Tree sometimes after joining a rival pack.
* Sometimes tutorial tips disappear too soon.
* Music: SC Exploration Fingerstyle track restarts when switching between moving and idle variations.
* Multiplayer: Can be difficult to bite NPCs when non-host.
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Beta 7 - 22 January 2025
BUGS FIXED
* Player-wolf cannot target or bite snowshoe hares.
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Beta 6 - 21 January 2025
IMPROVEMENTS
* Recent Notifications now shows most recent notifications at top of list.
* Set max weight for pups in Growing Pups quest (to prevent anomalies if player never sleeps).
* Made GP and YH pups' growth affected by hunger (as younger pups are)
* Added tip to Find New Mate subquest: "First, ensure that your Pack Affinity is well above 25% before looking for a new mate, or courtship will fail immediately."
* Prevent regular "Death" music from playing after peaceful death.
BUGS FIXED
* Lost River: Mutt with pointed ears has no animation when doing bite-hold while running.
* Recent Notifications: Some notifications that should be displayed are not.
* Wolf can end up underneath a grizzly when biting it.
* Switching between young and old versions of a coat triggers genome coat randomization.
* World Map sometimes doesn't match season.
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Beta 4 - 20 January 2025
IMPROVEMENTS
* Added some additional texture detail on High Terrain Quality levels in non-winter seasons.
* On Setup New Game, added tooltip about Pup RNG deaths when player changes that selection.
* Prevent NPC wolves from aging up when player is not allowed to age up anymore (i.e. if player ages-up their wolf, then reloads a save from before aging up).
BUGS FIXED
* Game hangs on black screen when recording den memory at end of Raise Pups.
* On World Map, season readout in first half of Growing Pups says Late Spring instead of Late Summer.
* Bison can spawn too close to homesite.
* Multiplayer: Pups not going into the den automatically when the last player at home with them logs off.
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Beta 3 - 17 January 2025
NEW
* Added a few things to help players understand elk seasonal migration: World Map now indicates current season; new common notification in May and December when elk begin their seasonal migration to uplands or valleys, respectively; and Seasons entry in Game Help.
* Pup RNG Death pulldown now displays a green dot indicating how it's set in the current game. (Since the pulldown only affects the next litter, the checkmark can be misleading, so now the green dot makes it clear what is currently in effect.)
IMPROVEMENTS
* Made rival wolf health persistent if despawned and respawned.
* Made pups stop for a few moments. when an adult approaches.
* Made lost pups look at the adults that found them longer
* Added more non-creek names for rival packs and dispersal origin packs on each map.
* Increased the odds that a subordinate becomes a pack leader after the leader dies, preventing the pack from disbanding.
* Known Wolves: Update pack name when meeting them again, in case name has changed since first meet (I.e. useful for packs that player joined, renamed, then also left).
* For Survival of the Pack quests, the difficulty level is now reset when pups are born (so if you want to get the achievement on a different difficulty than you've been playing on, you now can, as long as you switch it before pups are born.)
* Refactored some persistent pack mode to make it cleaner and more robust.
* Added info about elk migrations to Raise Pups and Young Hunters quest tips.
* Allow dispersals to respond to player howls even when in rival territory (50% of the time).
* Increased subordinate dispersing in December if there are many pups of the year.
* Do not allow new rival packs to select locked hexes as initial hex or home
* Only trigger Bloodlines achievement on player offspring, not siblings.
* Reduced volume of new hex sound effect.
BUGS FIXED
* Multiplayer: Forever Favorite achievement doesn't unlock when it should.
* Multiplayer: "Host Transferring" alert can get stuck onscreen, preventing the transfer.
* Step-siblings from one player-parent's old family also triggers achievements that involve siblings unless they were raised by a player.
* Rival wolves do lurking behaviors right next to the player. (They got mixed up about the type of fight they're engaged in.)
* Chain barking by packmates when player barks.
* World Map legend doesn't display den types on maps other than Slough Creek.
* Starting a new game with a wolf that just aged up lets them age up again in their first year.
* Adult packmates eat pups' food when moving to a new homesite.
* When rival wolves chase you to an empty hex, they immediately take it and then decide you're still intruding, causing them to chasing you across the map.
* Player can get "Guard Dog" achievement (gained for repelling an invasion) for a fight in neutral territory without invasion icon, at a time when you don't even have territory.
* Error interferes with file sync process.
* Carcasses in shallow water often unreachable to NPC animals.
* In July, game can freeze for a few seconds periodically due to an error from a elk calf scent particle.
* Player can age up again when starting a new game with a wolf that already aged up in another playthrough.
* World Map sometimes doesn't update after change of season.
* Pups don't do contact interactions (wrestling, jaw sparring, etc.)
* Bloodlines achievement breaks after moving maps.
* Den Memory perk doesn't work on dens off current map.
* Steam version of game doesn't remember DLC purchases for a few weeks since last account login.
* Multiplayer: Wrong text on Establish Territory quest intro.
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TO GET THE BETA BUILD
1) In the Steam app, go to your Library, then right-click on the WolfQuest: AE name in the left column and choose Properties.
2) Then go to the Betas tab and select the WQ current Beta option in the pulldown. No password is necessary. Steam should then start downloading it. Later you can switch back to the public version in that Betas tab, by selecting NONE in that pulldown.