Sons of The Forest’s cannibal-infested woods have been quiet these days. After a wildly standard early entry interval, it launched in February final 12 months, with developer Endnight Games offering frequent updates over its first 4 post-release months. Yet the studio has been largely silent since a hotfix in June, with no additional updates, bulletins, and even tweets within the latter half of 2024.
That’s all modified now. On Wednesday, Endnight Games issued a monster of a patch, including a number of main options to its survive ’em up, making quite a few systemic refinements corresponding to enhancing weapon aiming and lengthening the world boundaries, and fixing scores upon scores of bugs.
The major new addition to Sons of the Forest is “3 buildable rafts” together with a mooring put up to cease them from floating off into the ocean. In its Steam announcement, Endnight video games did not present a lot details about the rafts past the very fact they exist, however a YouTube video revealed by the unaffiliated Sons of the Forest Channel gives higher perception into these makeshift vessels. Players can construct small and enormous rafts that are uncovered to the weather, in addition to a houseboat that comes with a comfortable roofed space. All three rafts might be furnished with helpful survival gear like beds and chairs produced from human bones, whereas gamers transfer them round lakes and oceans with an connected paddle.
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Alongside rafts, the replace provides “holder” constructions for the glider and the Knight V electrical unicycle, and a brand new procedural system for putting defensive partitions. According to Endnight, this method enables you to “draw out the place you need the partitions and let Kelvin end them”. Kelvin being the sport’s affable human companion.
That’s it for wholly new stuff, however Endnight has additionally made quite a few changes to how Sons of the Forest capabilities. Aiming has been improved for quite a few weapons—particularly the crossbow, compound bow, crafted bow, shotgun and slingshot—whereas the flightpath of arrows has been tweaked to “match trajectory when capturing bows”. The map can also be sort-of bigger, with Endnight increasing the boundaries of the world in order that your freshly made rafts have extra room to drift round.
Capping off the patch is a veritable tome of bugfixes, addressing the whole lot from sleep icons to glitchy cannibal corpses. Among these are a couple of significantly enjoyable examples. “Fixed cannibal jaws generally trying incorrect throughout loss of life animation” conjures some amusing photos, whereas I wish to think about the dialog round “Fixed French localisation for ‘mind chew'”. My favorite, nevertheless, is “The participant will now not be chilly or freeze in hell cave”. Frankly, that is the least I might count on from a hell cave.
You can learn the complete record of updates right here. Perhaps it is a signal I ought to lastly soar again into Sons of the Forest. I performed a good chunk of it throughout early entry, and dug its fastidiously tangible crafting system, however by no means went again for the complete launch. PCG alumnus Sarah James made it her private choose in our 2023 Game of the Year awards, nevertheless, dropping 40 hours into the sport’s cannibal-free Peaceful mode.
