Northern Lights

Changelog 0.1.4

• Improved overall performance and usability of world objects' user interfaces
  
• Improved animal fat harvesting and usage mechanics
  
• Improved hitboxes for picking up items (rocks, sticks etc.)
  
• Arrows can now be taken back
  
• Spruce bark is now stacking in inventory
  
• Paper stacks now show as materials
  
• Cold affliction now won't trigger randomly when outside
  
• Treatment panel buttons now pulse when the items are available for consumption
  
• There are now more pinecones scattered through world
  
• Save system now only keeps last 5 autosaves
  
• Clothing now only gets wet while outside
  
• Certain items now go into their containers when looted (bullets into ammo boxes etc)
  
• Added some missing localizations
  
  
• Balancing of hunger stat
  
• Balancing of encumperance stat
  
• Balancing of vodka hydration loss
  
• Balancing of food poisoning treatment
  
• Balancing of cold affliction
  
• Balancing of food poisoning affliction
  
• Balancing of drying and wetting speed for items
  
• Balancing of loot spawning
  
• Balancing of quest loot spawning
  
• Balancing of carcass spawning numbers
  
• Balancing of cooking recipes
  
  
• Fixed issue causing poisonous herbs to sometimes show as 0% poisonous
  
• Fixed issue causing rain coat to not be equipped on character
  
• Fixed issue causing pelts to not be takeable after placing to cure
  
• Fixed issue causing quests to not trigger credits on ending after cutscene
  
• Fixed issue causing credits to not exit to menu after playing ingame
  
• Fixed issue causing cursor to show for 1 frame when interacting with non-ui based objects
  
• Fixed issue causing snow to render on top of campfires
  
• Fixed issue causing botulism/foodpoisoning to add 0% to risk causing them to trigger wrongly
  
• Fixed issue causing canned food to not yield recycled can
  
• Fixed issue causing socks to not be placeable
  
• Fixed issue causing batteries to last 1 minute
  
• Fixed issue causing lantern light to light too high
  
• Fixed issue causing snow render volumes to break when buildings are scaled
  
• Fixed issue causing particle render volumes to break when multiple buildings loaded
  
• Fixed issue causing save manager to detect non-save file as saves causing game to break
  
• Fixed issue causing trap to spawn carcass on load even when it shouldn't
  
• Fixed issue causing tracked craft quests to display requirements multiple times in journal
  
• Fixed issue causing nature water to miss watercollision
  
• Fixed issue causing items to not dry in inventory
  
• Fixed issue causing impact particle in interiors to be red
  
• Fixed issue with weather station interiors
  
• Fixed issue with old town interiors
  
• Fixed various issues with ending quests
  
• Fixed various localization issues
  

MadGoat Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Changelog 0.1.3

• Major improvements to the performance of User Interfaces
  
• Major improvements and fixes to time simulation system
  
• Marker items are now stacking in inventory
  
• Salt items are now stacking in inventory
  
• Mending now has its own button to avoid confusion (however it still opens the same mending/shredding shared menu until UI overhaul)
  
• Crafting recipe for arrows is now simplified
  
• Increased max meat weights in cooking system from 1kg to 3kg
  
• Inventory items are now sorted newest to oldest (per category)
  
• Bridges are now always visible on map to avoid confusion
  
• Overall improvement of pneumonia risk mechanics
  
  
• Balancing of cold treatment
  
• Balancing of fatigue modifiers
  
• Balancing of weight for some items
  
• Balancing of total calories storage of player
  
• Balancing of calories for herbs
  
• Balancing of cooking duration for fish items
  
• Balancing of weather system (weather is more dynamic now)
  
  
• Fixed an issue causing harvesting yield to be incorrect
  
• Fixed an issue causing Kerosene to not generate in Jerry Cans. NOTE: If locations where Jerry Cans are available were already visited, starting a new game is required for this to work.
  
• Fixed an issue causing containers to disable after pressing E on them
  
• Fixed an issue causing meat quartering to break after the first quarter action
  
• Fixed an issue causing cooking items to not be take-able 5 seconds after cooking started
  
• Fixed an issue causing eating fish to add twice the botulism risk
  
• Fixed an issue causing hunger depletion to not work while sleeping
  
• Fixed an issue causing walking through water to not cause harm to player
  
• Fixed an issue causing interior temperatures to not work correctly in buildings with more chambers
  
• Fixed an issue causing carcass harvesting to yield invalid meat items (harvesting 0kg of meat was possible)
  
• Fixed an issue causing handheld items to be usable while placing items, causing melees to attack on placement etc.
  
• Fixed an issue causing fish to be caught instantly when starting fishing
  
• Fixed an issue causing ending quests to not track automatically if general "Escape Island" quest is already tracked
  
• Fixed an issue causing max meat size to not show when selecting in cooking menu
  
• Fixed some localization strings
  
• Fixed some audio issues
  
• Fixed some ending quest related issues
  

We will continue to address the reported issues and bugs in the following days!

Northern Lights Patch 2 is now live on STEAM!

0.1.2 Changelog

• Improved performance of the game
  
• Improved stability of the game
  
• Improved loading times
  

• Empty loot storages no longer pause the player until the dialogue is over
  
• Objects that can be salvaged without a tool will no longer display the timelapse screen (planks, bushes etc.)
  
• Sun glare no longer shows through mountains
  
  
• Balancing of loot spawned on the grounds in starting region
  
• Balancing of hydration restore from drinking water
  
  
• Fixed an issue causing snowfall and blizzard effects to render inside caves and buildings when leaving a game session and loading another
  
• Fixed an issue causing severe hypothermia to not cure
  
• Fixed an issue causing arrow shaft to not be craftable with all types of knives
  
• Fixed an issue causing HUD messages to display on top of other menus
  
• Fixed an issue causing torch and candles to not find matches as starting items
  
• Fixed an issue causing salvaging to not display new item notifications
  
• Fixed an issue causing place button to not work
  
• Fixed some localization issues
  

We will continue to address the reported issues and bugs in the following days!

We are happy to announce that the first patch for Northern Lights is here, and with it comes a lot of system balancing and bugfixes!

0.1.1 Changelog

• Freezing sounds trigger less often now
  
• The Inspect Map objective now auto completes if player continues through the cave instead of opening the map. This solves the issue of breaking the questline if the player skips opening the map
  
• The Food Stats in consumption panel now display the % of hunger restored
  
• It is now possible to craft Sharp Rocks from blueprints rather than the shredding menu to avoid confusion
  
• It is now possible to shred Books and Paper Stacks into Tinder
  
• Some recipes have been tweaked to more reasonable requirement amounts
  
• Activities that do not require tools or timepassing (shredding etc) no longer require the user to look at the timelapse screen
  
• It is now possible to sleep on beds in weather station
  
• Loading list read from disk times have been greatly improved (from freezing 5-10 seconds to almost instantly). This fix does not affect the issue of the game itself loading too slow, that still being under investigation.
  
• Removed MSVO ambient occlusion and added a higher quality SSAO profile in place
  
• Disabled exclusive fullscreen mode as it causes Unity Engine to freeze on Alt-Tab (Fullscreen now acts as Borderless Fullscreen until furter investigation)
  
  
• Balancing of frostbite and hypotermia afflictions
  
• Balancing of temperatures in interiors
  
• Balancing of hunger and hydration depletion values
  
• Balancing of melee damage and AI hitbox multipliers
  
• Balancing of blisters affliction trigger
  
• Balancing of decay values for all equipment tools
  
• Balancing of some animals' behaviour
  
• Balancing of cabin fever trigger
  
• Balancing of timelapse UI duration on tool based activities
  
  
• Fixed an issue causing character to fall through map on load if due to subscenes collision not being fully initialized
  
• Fixed an issue causing interaction UI to shiver causing clicking on buttons to not work correctly
  
• Fixed an issue causing placeable objects to not work inside buildings
  
• Fixed an issue causing frostbite to sometimes trigger before risk reaching 100%
  
• Fixed an issue causing character to not recover condition during sleep and passing time
  
• Fixed an issue causing Use button to not show on bandage item
  
• Fixed an issue causing tool to still be required for tool-less item shredding (clothes etc.)
  
• Fixed an issue causing treatments to not work in afflictions (could not consume doses etc.)
  
• Fixed an issue causing pelt placing on the ground to break the game
  
• Fixed an issue causing rice and pasta to not display as burned in inventory
  
• Fixed some missing localization
  

A note about performance, stuttering, and loading game issues

Thank you again for all your support and understanding!

• Terminal difficulty was fixed.
  
• Some small graphic issues were fixed.