Hey everyone, patch 2.3 is finally released! In it, you’ll find the introduction of courtship, mating, and nesting mechanics, in addition to many changes, fixes, and under-the-hood systems reworks. The introduction of these mechanics will inevitably be accompanied by new issues and bugs, so if you find them please let us know in our Discord or Steam discussions!
Thank you for playing, and we hope you enjoy it! -Urvogel Games
Added
Courtship system
Nesting system
Cinematic system for cutscenes
Dakotaraptor social status menu
AI ability to perceive and attack eggs
Scripted spawn module to send AI to attack player nests
New tooltips (mating and courtship)
New music (mating and courtship)
Fitness indicator to pause menu
Fixed
Threat call being unavailable for hatchling Dakotaraptor
Scent highlights being unreliable
Limited controls when placing nest and during scent mode
Settings and resolution resetting
Mosasaur having trouble reaching players on the edges of the map
Death menu reappearing after reloading when selecting retry
Music cutting out abruptly
Several encyclopedia bugs
Several bugs involving resolution and other options resetting
Player getting stuck when jumping on a Palaeosaniwa or Basilemys
Player bite/attack being inconsistently activated
Death menu retaining player control
Adult models showing younger stage coloration
Player getting stuck sleeping
Triceratops horns lagging behind in growth stages
Instances of food stuck in the mouth
Some tooltips failing to appear
AI stuck while trying to eat
Changed
Made scent radius bigger
Pathfinding and dynamic obstacle avoidance for animals fully replaced by new systems, with better performance and results
Some AI aggression tweaks
Physics setup on animals significantly altered, leading to different physics behavior in many contexts
AI now have some rotation assistance; they should be better at staying on track and turning towards their targets
Updated vegetation rendering system
Slight tweak in buoyancy logic
Tweaked RPR jump path correction to prevent players being stuck trying to dismount
Prey critters now drop scent nodes
Aim mode camera will no longer activate when the player has food in their mouth, instead the RMB will drop the piece of food.