The Sons of the Forest group lays out a few of its replace plans for the horror survival recreation because it solutions questions from the neighborhood, and it seems like there’s loads of welcome additions within the works. Since its launch by way of Steam Early Access, the Sons of the Forest participant rely has confirmed simply how excessive demand is for the cannibal-infested sequel, and there are heaps extra coming for followers to stay up for.
The Sons of the Forest Discord organised a Q&A session with the event group at Endnight Games, and had loads of inquiries to ask. While the group is clearly reluctant to present all its future plans away and emphasises, “We don’t need to promise options that may not make it,” it did give us some glimpses at what we will count on within the coming months.
Companion enhancements are first on the playing cards – each Kelvin and Virginia in Sons of the Forest are already useful, however there’s extra coming. The group is engaged on extra doable duties for Kelvin, together with “having him assist assemble a wall round your base, or fortify/restore the bottom when wanted.” As for Virginia, the group needs her to have “extra bravery if she has a weapon, and likewise relying on what number of mutants and cannibals she has killed.”
Endnight needs these Sons of the Forest mutants and cannibals to have extra persona, as nicely. It’s planning “extra ambient actions for the cannibals to do round their villages,” together with “extra kinds of constructions they will reside in to present the completely different camps extra selection.” There’s “not less than one [enemy] character that wasn’t prepared for the primary launch” within the works and potential for extra “together with variations on a number of the present enemies.”
Dedicated servers are a much-discussed subject, and Endnight says, “This is one thing we’re engaged on within the background however we don’t have an actual date but.” As for instruments to cope with griefers, the group admits, “This is at all times actually tough, our hope as builders is that individuals simply be good to one another however sadly that isn’t what occurs.” It provides that the group is trying into choices to assist restrict griefing dangers for the long run.
One frequent criticism is simply how highly effective the Sons of the Forest GPS locator is – with its potential to find your entire story instantly, some gamers fear it’s detrimental to the sport’s pure pacing. “We do agree it’s a problem and a few gamers are simply operating all the way in which to the ending as an alternative of residing/current on this planet,” Endnight says, “now we have a bunch of concepts internally however don’t but have an ideal answer.”
The neighborhood asks about the potential for sooner transportation instruments, and Endnight says, “We do have what we predict is a extremely cool concept for this.” However, it says it’s cautious of revealing extra particulars for now “in case it isn’t as enjoyable as we predict it may be, or doesn’t work nicely with the setting.”
What about log sleds, although? The much-loved instrument from The Forest isn’t at the moment a part of its sequel, however it seems like a return may be on the playing cards. “This is without doubt one of the actually cool issues about early entry,” Endnight says, “Internally we didn’t realise how a lot individuals actually preferred the log sled, and as a result of quantity of bugs it had within the first recreation we weren’t certain if it was value placing again in or not, however it’s grow to be clear that it’s one thing gamers miss.”
Among the opposite enhancements mentioned within the interview are expanded crafting, new constructing choices and ghost blueprints, and “a extra superior cooking system” that the group says is at the moment in a prototype state and can “probably come into the sport in a future patch.” As for the potential for extra wildlife, the group says, “we don’t at the moment plan on including bears or wolves [which were mentioned in the question], however probably different animals.”
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