I figured I would make a thread for it since we've been mentioning it a lot. The Forest updated today! Old save files are once again incompatible so we all loose all of our progress, but oh well.

Voice chat was added to the game itself so we don't have to use Skype and the Forest now for co op.

They've added rope climbing, and made a lot of the caves inaccessible without rope. They also replaced Treehouse steps with climbing rope. I really hope the rope climb mechanic is well planned because otherwise this is really going to suck. Not that the treehouse stairs were useful.

Some buildings now have platforms so you can have them flat and adjust their heights.

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Tweaked enemy density in caves

This scares me.

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New creature added! - Check the caves.

This scares me more.

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Re-worked save game system so future updates will (likely) not erase save games to work!

Good.

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(multiplayer) default player cap increased to 8 along with option to go up to 128 players (for adventurous players only! not recommended)

FE, LETS HAVE AN ADVENTURE!

This update added tree bridges! You can build bridges from tree to tree. That's cool. I built a basic treehouse and the rope worked fine, but it still required all the lumber for the stairs. I found a few other new bugs, but the new foundations for certain buldings look really cool (but take an insane amount of logs)

Oh men, sounds awesome. Especially up to eight players. More of you should get this game so we can play together

Have they not fixed mutliplayer saving? That sux. They really need to let us make save files

Drr what's your video card?

Wondering if the new laptop I ordered will be able to run it.

Oh men, the tree bridge stuff is awesome! Would it be possible to have a settlement in the trees without worrying about the Cannibals?

Moose @ 1/12/2014 18:59

Oh men, the tree bridge stuff is awesome!

Boc buy this

I would but my laptop probably sucks too much. :( I'll be getting a much better computer in a month or two tho

I'll think about buying it if it's still on sale.

Worst glitch I've found so far with the new update involves the rope. When you go into the rope climb, if you're currently shivering from the cold, the shivering animation seems to override the climbing animation and you get stuck there. Happened to me and I couldn't save so I lost some progress

The update is cool though. Tree stands and bridges could get really fun. There's some new areas available too and new types of terrain which is nice. I found a really really cool area that I'm building a huge camp in right now

I feel like I wouldn't be able to play the game alone. Those cannibals freak me out too much to try to survive on my own!

Patrick @ 1/12/2014 19:38

Drr what's your video card? Wondering if the new laptop I ordered will be able to run it.

NVidia GeForce GTX 560

There are lower graphic settings and adjustments. I haven't tried them, but they're probably alright.

I did have a memory leak problem once a while back, which is a common-ish problem. My FPS dropped to about 6 eventually right after I tried cave diving. I think its because I was attempting to burn down the forest on that save just for the hell of it.

A great way to get used to the game if you're afraid of dealing with the things is to use veganmode. Type veganmode in the main menu and they won't spawn. I like it for when I'm trying to finish buildings from coop.

Played for a bit last night with Curtis and then continued the save in single player. we built a Log cabin on a huge platform and connected it to a tree platform. It was pretty nice.

Tree bridges weren't working for us in co op but I got it to work in singleplayer. Really glitchy to put down, and they require a lot of logs, and I THINK I had to have both platforms it connected to built, but once the blueprints were up it went smoothly as any other building project and turned out pretty nicely. I didn't have any glitching with actually using it. I was pretty surprised how well it worked since it was at a weird angle.

I think there's a huge amount of new possibilities with the new patch. I'm also really curious how long the bridges can be before the game tells you to go fuck yourself.

OH SHIT I JUST REMEMBERED!

My mom gave me an old Visa pre-paid card with 19 bucks on it a few months ago, and I just found it. Guess who's about to buy The Forest?

Just found a map someone posted somewhere. It's the most up-to-date/accurate I've found. Not quite right after the new patch but the closest I've found.

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