Sons Of The Forest – Version “Patch 04” – Patch notes, changelog, download

Features

• Added new ‘Action Cam’ item and first found footage tape
• Added new point of interest discovery laptops
• Added ability to name save games
• Added kick and ban popup messages when kicked or banned from a game

Improvements

• Kelvin can now carry 2 logs at a time!
• Brighter night vision goggles
• Added snow impact effects to snow crash cutscene
• Longer Timmy fighting demon boss intro animation
• High sentiment Virginia should now visit player more often
• Added more spots in villages for cannibals to stand watch or sit around
• Muddies are now more likely to flee when scared
• Cannibals now sometimes look at each other when not fighting
• Cannibals have new animation variations for running and lunging attacks making them more evasive in combat
• Cannibal creepy and leaf armor will now be visually broken and knocked off when hit
• Female cannibals will sometimes drink blood from village troughs or from dead animals, cheer for other family members and occasionally dance to radio music
• Male cannibal will now sometimes bash dead bodies of enemies
• Skinned small animals now will have skinned visuals. Specifically the rabbit, squirrel, eagle, duck, seagull, land turtle
• Low health Deer and Moose will sometimes lay down and rest
• Add a wetness amount per character that increases when submerged in water or cleaning in water, and reduces over time when not
• Dead bodies now get washed (blood/dirt) in water
• Increased Deer bleeding and increased damage caused by hitting front body
• Bird flight speed increased by a small percentage
• Torn silver jacket added to end mutant
• Added some ducks on the golf course
• Added north arrow guide to mini map
• Ballistic impact effects from other players will now be visible in multiplayer
• Armor is now dropped if the player does not have available space for it if it’s cycled off being worn
• Grenades and bombs will now play a water explosion effect when thrown in water
• Dead cultists clothing is now bloody
• Added more flower wreaths on some dead cultists
• Added new binder prop to security rooms
• Improved some of the lighting in bunker residential
• Improved armor rack LOD
• Added binoculars, night vision goggles, wire and lightbulbs to quick select slots
• 3D Printer readouts should update more accurately now
• Fallen Log E scaled down to 65% size
• Some fixes for open edges on cliff above golf course
• New lake added to golf course
• Kelvin can now finish building shelves
• Setup LOD’s for logs in storage holders
• GPS map updated to include all current ponds and lakes
• Removed location pins from opening cutscene laptop screen

Fixes

• ‘I Dream of Sushi’ achievement is once again achievable
• Fix for players game hanging when switching from empty slingshot to another ranged weapon that has swappable ammo
• Player should no longer get into a bad state if they are spamming a weapon hotkey while opening a door with a keycard
• Animal Hide and tech mesh will now be greyed out on the grab bag when interacting with an armor rack
• Removed rebinding for back action
• Fixed lone life jacket floating in sky
• Fixed issue where option menu could be opened at the end of loading screen
• Fixed some missing player disconnected notifications
• Fix for not being able to drink from deep bodies of water
• Crafted spears no longer fall through cave floors
• When a storage structure is destroyed and stored pickups are spawned, it is now spread over multiple frames to ease the performance overhead and create less frame stutter
• Fixed issue where the left side UI notifications would stop showing up after the player has died
• Trying to equip your left hand item light is now blocked when the player is in another action
• Fix for collider not being enabled on dynamic pickups sometimes
• Fix for pause menu continuing to add force to players on ziplines
• Fixed some initialization issues causing DLSS to not be enabled by default / after reset settings
• Added harsh slope limitation to block riding knight V up steep slopes
• Added localization credit names and fixed font for fallback characters
• Fix for player crouching while riding Knight V
• Fixed being able to dismember dead cannibal without destroying armor on the limb first
• Fixed big hut destruction sometimes leaving a floating corpse and standing walls with no collision
• Fix for the quick select bag getting stuck in the players hands or getting stuck in a bad state if it is triggered at the exact same time as the player begins swimming
• Fixed Kelvin carry radio position
• Fix for clients in multiplayer sometimes seeing muddy cannibal hit reacts have standing glitch frames
• Fixed muddy cannibal leaf piles sometimes not showing for multiplayer clients
• Fixed multiplayer clients not seeing Kelvin carried arrows properly
• Fixed multiplayer clients sometimes doing first note long animation on first interact with Kelvin
• Fixed a case where clients could see and interact with a “ghost” Kelvin not at his real position
• Some fixes for Virginia washing in waterfall, and will now occur at more waterfalls around the map
• Virginias GPS will now retain the assigned icon when given to her
• Fix for Virginia or Kelvin sometimes getting stuck in sitting animation
• Fix thrown small rocks falling through ground when bouncing
• Fixed silenced pistol shot being heard as regular shot by other players
• Fixed case of player getting stuck in skinning action
• Shovel attack will now slow down when low stamina
• Fixed wrong ceiling panel in bunker entertainment
• Fixed destroying defensive wall log with spike not using the right model for the spawned pickup, also solved the scaling issue
• Fixed cutting defensive wall spike not working in some cases
• Fixed scaling of destroyed rock reinforcement pickups
• Fixed destroyed defensive wall spikes of quarter Logs not working properly
• Destroying ramps a solar panel is on now spawns a pickup
• Placed solar panels now have collision
• Fixed a specific case where connecting Electric Wires would not work
• Fixed bug causing incorrect count of light bulbs and solar panels received on pickup
• Fixed case that allowed placing a Beam connecting two structures from unaligned grids, resulting in a degenerate stretched or compressed Beam
• Fixed Lookout tower placement being blocked if there is a Defensive Wall underneath the overlook
• Fixed One sided apex blocking placing Pillars on top of Ramps
• Removed switch mode UI prompt that didn’t do anything when placing a Defensive Wall Gate
• Fixed an issue that would result in multiplayer clients unable to build anything or receive construction updates from the host
• Fixed case where snow & wetness occlusion as well as solar panel initialization didn’t work for tree structures
• Fixed case where removing an electric wire didn’t work properly and could prevent the underlying power grid system from splitting in two and behaving as expected
• Fixed case where a leaning beam snap point would be invalid (arrow in red) when it should be allowed
• Fixed issue when loading a save that could prevent other features such as placing ramps from functioning properly
• Fixed a case where a free pillar in middle of a grounded beam grid would cause degenerate leaning beam placements
• Fixed destroying solar panel support not cascading to the solar panel
• Fixed issue where drinking while holding multiple log planks could result in broken animation state
• Fixed case where non log items spawned by construction system would fall through the ground
• Fixed destroyed log pickups ending up with oversized collision
• Fixed destroyed non log element pickups not matching physics with the visual in some cases
• Fixed structure collapse applying delay between elements even if it doesn’t spawn a pickup, resulting in weird behavior when destroying the fire wood stack for example
• Fixed some issues with Beams leaned down slopes from Walls, which were incorrectly displaying the lift preview prompt and placing awkwardly
• Fixed issue causing some missing Beam snap points after removing a pillar supporting a beam that is also supported by a Wall
• Fixed multiplayer issue where players enter a broken state if killed while starting to climb a rope
• Fixed multiplayer issue where placing a stick or rock path would wrongly show up for remote players while placing it, which could lead to game breaking issues
• Fixed multiplayer issue with physics doors that could prevent clients from locking it if it was stuck open on host side
• Fixed players able to remove chairs and benches from under seated AI or remote players
• Fixed destroyed defensive walls built with non-full Logs reverting to unsharpened state
• Fixed element collapse order for apex & one-sided apex, ensuring top elements break before lower ones
• Fixed one-sided apex behaving oddly when hit with a repair tool
• Fixed issue preventing placing a Beam from a Pillar to the top of a Leaning Beam if there is another Beam linked
• Fixed case where Leaning Beams were not being repaired properly
• Fixed issue with Beams supported by a low Ramp that would prevent removal of the Beam and add a degenerate Pillar placement
• Fixed multiplayer issue where players could dismantle a Log from a Wall and add a Wall Beam simultaneously, resulting in a floating Beam

Audio

• Fixed some sounds in multiplayer having a very low precision location
• Fixed other players hearing double impact sounds from shovel and repair tool
• Cannibal armor now has impact audio when hit
• Pistol no longer doubles up on its reload audio
• Tuned terrain and motor levels of Knight V
• Fixed fade time on gunshots in opening crash sequence
• Added gunshots to the Demon Boss sequence
• Demon Boss attack audio and hurt audio for intro and added new music sting audio
• Tuned waterfalls large and small, and water spots