Update 15 Sons of the Forest: Comprehensive Review of Innovations

This is the last patch before the final release of the game. Endnight Games deserves gratitude for systematic updates Sounds of the forest. Patch 15 brings new features, numerous fixes, and some balance changes.

Official statement from Endnight Games regarding changes in Update 15 for Sons of the Forest

Welcome everyone!

This patch gives Kelvin three new commands: repairing buildings, sharpening defensive walls, and maintaining a base. If you ask him to maintain your base, he will fill all holders to capacity, complete all unfinished buildings, repair damage and improve established defensive walls.

New outfits and blueprints discoverable in the game have also been added. There is a new female cannibal type “Eliza”, armed to the hand, as well as many details in the various cannibal camps and villages on the map. The number of points of interest to explore has also been increased. Players can now build weapon racks and wood stands, as well as create small structures such as birdhouses or torches directly on trees.

A number of memory optimizations have been implemented to improve overall stability. A new visual style called “Found Footage” has been added, available in the graphics menu. The game also now supports FSR 2.0. Various other issues have also been fixed and improved, as listed below.

As always, don't forget to share your bug reports and feedback in our community's Discussions section.

Update 15 Sons of the Forest: full list of changes

Functions

• Added new abilities and animations for Kelvin for: base maintenance, sharpening walls and repairing buildings.
• A new type of female cannibal "Eliza".
• Added freestanding and wall mounted weapon holders.
• Added firewood stand.
• Three new types of hanging blood have been added to trees around the world.
• More cannibal villages, bridges, paths and ponds have been added to the world.
• More details/props and blood have been added to the cannibal villages, and more new points of interest have been added to the map.
• Added a new low-lying fog effect.
• Added new decorative pieces of paper around campsites and some new story collecting items.
• The Color Correction setting has been renamed to Style and a new Found Footage style has been added.
• Added FSR 2.0 and added maximum performance setting for DLSS.
• Added new dead worker poses and tactical body poses.
• Added a new discoverable blueprint to the world.
• New searchable. outfit added to the world

Improvements

• Cannibals will now eat dead deer.
• More animal areas have been added to increase the island's coverage.
• Torches, birdhouses, trophy heads, and weapon holders can now be attached directly to trees.
• Reduce the terrain player's hill walking limit so you can no longer walk straight up steep mountains.
• Bloody clocks are now always positioned vertically.
• Increased the distance between the fog hemispheres to prevent them from bouncing.
• Improved the appearance of the final saucepan animation.
• Connection to multi-user servers has been accelerated.
• The pause menu is now locked in dead camera mode.
• Improved the albedo value of the wooden box.
• Optimized. reflection probes for less memory usage.
• Optimized dead tactical staging in caves and the world.
• Optimized and improved collision for Cannibal Bonfire.
• Rocks have been removed from rock greebles.
• Improved some sections of the beach layout.
• Added Grass Remover to Dead Cultist prefabs.
• Added support for fluttering fabric on some grave crosses.
• Improved detail levels for small ponds.
• Adjusted the ocean and wave material to reduce the appearance of repeating patterns.
• The location of the fluttering cloth in villages has been removed.
• A held spear no longer flips around on screen when not equipped.
• As optimizations are added Support actor merging for cannibal types.
• The bridge rope can now be placed by targeting either side of the beams.
• The bridge rope is now always on the side that was shown in the preview UI.
• The second bridge rope placement preview now shows more accurately where the rope will be.
• Second point rope bridges can now be placed a little further out to make it easier to reach tall buildings.
• Partial collapse of bridge slabs included.
• Enabled the appearance of pickup trucks for the destroyed bridge floor. elements
• Bridge floor planks will now be positioned as close as possible to where the player is aiming.
• Removing bridge floor boards now removes those that are being looked at.
• Improved table placement logic.
• Improved the length of the lag spike when loading huge saves with multiple overlapping superstructure meshes.
• Improved calculation of placement of spotlights and other furniture on a log post when pointing at its sides.
• Ghost structures will now always be oriented towards the player rather than the default world axis.
• The player will now remove light from glare.
• Added frame latency check when playing audio. in a layout group so that adding multiple elements to a group no longer results in audio event spam. (This speeds up the appearance of items in inventory)
• Tabs will now remain open while turning pages, so the player won't have to pull them out again for subsequent clicks.
• Shock Particle effects with arrows are now locked to their target.
• Added special stippling to the places where stones appear.
• Suppressed players' idle animation when the grapple bag is open to make it easier to interact with items on the bolt.
• Improved material instance and mesh clearing logic.
• Optimized billboard calculations.
• Configure user defaults when a Steam Deck or low-level computer is detected.
• Added pooling of some objects. improve performance and memory usage
• Some tactical bodies have been converted to posers to save memory.
• Improved tree function activation logic to improve performance.
• Improved memory and performance of Beach Wave.
• Set a new reference size to match the screen resolution when it changes.
• Season manager has been optimized to improve performance.
• Changed some sensors to use primitive colliders.
• World Locators data has been optimized. to improve memory usage
• Various texture memory optimizations

Balance

• Added a 1,5 second delay for the player to trigger all traps after reloading, except for spring traps.
• Added tons more ammo to the end of the hell cave to help prepare for the final boss.
• Added a basic noodle soup recipe and added buffs to some lackluster recipes.
• Cave D added more bandages to make the path clearer.
• Increased Kelvin energy recovery during rest.

Rectification

• Fixed some cannibal types (Frank, Henry, Igor) sometimes walking and attacking without a limb.
• Fixed normal cannibal search parties sometimes going to where the foul people have seen the player.
• Fixed rag dolls with corpses. the clash was still going on in dismembered parts.
• Fixed the Heavy Cannibal getting back up after being shot in the head by a Status Shock Projectile.
• Fixed some carried corpses not visually matching when picked up, and increased the stability of ragdolls when thrown by the player.
• Fixed missing material on Virginia Gear sneakers.
• Fixed some duck behaviors not working correctly.
• Birds that have a hide no longer spawn feathers when hit.
• Improved the stability of the Cannibal Ragdoll female and fixed her occasional distortion.
• Fixed an issue where Cannibal Woman's 180 attack would not play.
• Fixes various cases of trees and bushes appearing in large saves.
• Fixed missing fonts in the book and server browser for some languages.
• Translated the arrow update type in the ammo cycle pop-up message.
• Texture resolution has been renamed to "Ultra/High/Medium/Low".
• < li>Fixed some problems with saving games in multiplayer mode.
• Fixed incorrect/stretched blood map on some dead workers.
• Fixed one-sided tarp on tree stump.
• Added no collision to some barrels.
• Added collision to the wrecked boat object.
• Fixed some rocks having open and exposed edges on rocks.
• Fixed dark density volume in Ice Cave C.
• Fixed duplicate renderers on the raft.
• Stone removed. collections from interesting places.
• The propane torch is mounted on a support layer to prevent it from falling through the base colliders.
• Fixed some broken weapon crates.
• Fixed a small popping sound during the bag idle animation with the player being grabbed.
• Fixed Kelvin's standing reaction if hit while sitting.
• Fixed the spotlight wire connector not allowing the wire to run into it.
• Fixed the placement of the wire between the floodlight and the solar panel.
• Fixed the animation of the plant pillar not facing anything forward. return down
• Fixed bridge cable placement on grounded beams sometimes making it difficult to target.
• Fixed the lifting cable attachment point taking up space from the bridge cable attachment point.
• Fixed multiplayer clients being able to activate the spear trap while it is empty.
• Fixed an issue where in multiplayer clients the last spear would be shown in frame after being thrown.
• Fixed the left side of the "lean over" text; a structure that has an anchor point to span a sloped beam over an existing one.
• Fixed very fast door plank placement in the multiplayer client resulting in multiple instances of the door appearing from the client's perspective.
• Fixed broken placement of radio stations on round tables.
• Fixed projectiles flying through round tables.
• Fixed an issue where placing bridge floor planks when searching in the void between ropes would not work.
• Fixed message about needing to add floor planks to a rope bridge with only one rope.
• Fixed dismantling the bridge cable and then canceling it. before he passes the visual movement of the rope far.
• Fixed placement of wall-supported furniture appearing to be offset from the support when hovering to the side.
• Fixed an issue where in older saves ziplines associated with trees would sometimes be associated with the wrong trees.
• Fixed changing cartridges in the shotgun. Now, when ammo is replaced, the player receives the remaining ammo back into the weapon and is then forced to reload the weapon with new ammo.
• Fixed removing the 6th log in the defensive wall not working.
• Fixed numerous collision errors that occurred in various elements.
• Fixed null links when building the base log section. This will fix the magazines in the base sled not disappearing when moving away from the sled.
• Fixed LOD group distances on wristwatches.
• The shotgun will now correctly load one round if the player cancels the reload action.
• Fixed issues where the crafting gear would not display the correct interface. depending on what is on the mat and if the player's inventory is full.
• Fixed issues with the Log Sled allowing the player to place both types of items in the side racks after switching LODs or completing the game. loaded from save
• The player's bag now correctly displays the different types of arrow upgrades.
• Fixed an issue where arrows would result in a null link in multiplayer when shooting at an item storage container.
• Fixed a bug where the host would sometimes get a null reference when the client completed the structure by clicking the build button.
• Fixed clients sometimes receiving incorrect updated arrow types if they spammed them by retrieving them from storage.
• Fixed null link on destruction for Collision Proxy.
• Fixed errors when attaching to ziplines.
• Fixed a null link error when synchronizing the state of structures from the server before receiving all the data.
• Fix to allow the player to perform actions when opening hatches.
• Fixed the reload UI appearing if the shotgun reload is canceled after adding one shell.
• When adding an item is rejected on a structure node, only the player adding the item will now create a fake item.
• Fixed sometimes getting into a bad state if the player tries to eat using the hotkey at the very moment they start drinking water when they have a slow unequipped item.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the player to re-equip their weapon into water if they slipped into the water while filling a flask or drinking water.
• Reduced the state of the mixing animation when eating an oyster so that it does not pop into the player's hand as quickly.
• Fixed an issue where the first look at a melee weapon would not play if a melee weapon was picked up for the first time while having a ranged weapon.
• Fixed book cover sometimes appearing in low resolution.
• Fixed an issue where inventory items were not always shiny when new.
• Removed the "Fighting Demons" tattoo feature on the hands of cultists.
• Fixed freezing of raft area calculation.
• Fixed some plants popping up too quickly.
• Added missing excavation indicator to shotgun grave.
• Fixed the order of cereal in the bag to avoid floating cereal boxes.

Audio

• Added sound for small birds and hummingbirds flying.
• Added the sound of cracking ice in ice caves.
• The shots from the silenced pistol became louder.
• Expanded panorama of the squirrel's steps.
• Added a new sound event for Hummingbird.
• Added a mouseover event to story pages, and mouseovers on the crossbow and tactical bow occur from the same position.
• Added closing sounds for several traps and improved explosion sound.
• The sound of deer, the sounds of birds and the sounds of jumping on mutant trees have been adjusted.
• Added a footstep event for a player landing in a metal jump< /li>
• Fixed issues with spatial audio when using fire arrows.
• Added blood sound to Grind Trap.

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