as promised before, here's what we've been working on.
So, as you probably now, the game was playable but didn't have too many features yet. We're building on that base now and are improving many aspects, while adding completely new ones. The overall experience should be improved, the game looks and feels way better now. With increased population of the world, the game feels more alive and things like horses you can use as mounts, or a generally better AI makes the gameplay more enjoyable. The performance got better and many errors are fixed.
We are also already working on our next update focused on adding more longtime motivation for the people who are in for a story, rather than having nothing to do but to hoard resources.
Here's a list, of most of the changes. Have fun and stay tuned!
Features
New Main Menu
New Settings Menu
New High Quality Animation System
New Character animations with better transitions
New Riding system added
New swimming system
Better Splash Effects
New underwater rendering
More realistic Character movement
New foot Ik for more realistic movement
Added Footprints to enable tracking
New Dynamic Animal AI
Added Animal Childrens
Aging of Children and Animals
New animals in all regions (water, ground, air)
New deer species , man woman and childrens
New bear species , man and woman
New pumas species , man and woman
New rabbits species
New wolf species
New animals Animations (water, ground)
Replaced old animals with better models and animations
Advanced AI damage system
Way more life across the map, with increased animal spawns
Better performance and lighting
Added LODs for all objects
Improved spawning in players surrounding
Improved networking of characters and weapons
Fixes
Fixed armor amount
Fixed where weapon animations didn't work for clients
Fixed equipment not loading on newly connected clients
Fixed weapons not attached for new clients
Fixed save system loading duplicated grids for new clients
Fixed full auto shooting not updating location
Fixed shift click moving of items to convert component
Fixed grids not loading properly
Fixed sounds not playing at weapon location
Fixed crafting at full weight not dropping item
Fixed weapons not saving correctly
Fixed empty fire sound not playing
Fixed weapon attachments & condition not saving
Fixed players can now build in plot pole zones
Fixed resource saving
Fixed weight displaying zero
Fixed inventory slots error
Fixed outline highlight after death
Fixed crafting at full weight not dropping item
Fixed badge at max health
Fixed death bag desync
Fixed new client foliage not being removed
Fixed doors not opening on new clients
Fixed ammo in weapons when looting corpses
Fixed equipment adding to loot bag
Fixed single player using 2 ammo per shot
Fixed Door networking issue
Fixed take damage disabled not working
Surprise, we're back!
Hello Friends,
this might be a little unexpected and sudden, but here we are, back again, telling you what's happening with "Survive the West", and boy, do we have news for you!
So, as you might know, it's been quite some time since our last update and we won't go into too much detail about why that is (for now), but it also means we were able to work on a bigger update.
We took months to work on the new features that are coming your way and we hope that you will like them as much as we do. In the next few days we will create a whole new post telling you about what you can expect and also release the update for you to try out.
As always, your feedback would be appreciated and help us out in terms of finding out, what you guys miss and think should be changed.
Feel free to use the community discussions or contact us directly.
Stay tuned, the Deverinos
Update 1.02
Hello wild survivors,
This is our Second big update in only 12 days.
We changed many general things which wasn't tested well or been missed. We worked on the map and the NPC’s. Sounds been fixed and the hole menu is reworked. You can communicate with other players by voice and text and the saving system is improved.
added singleplayer (different save system)
added the possibility to find friends on servers
added in the new mexico villages loot
added wild horses (harmless) (in future updates you can tame and ride with them)
added snake (Aggressive)
added a Map (key
M*) (will be reworked in the next updates)
added a chat system (press
Enter* to open)(will be reworked in the next updates)
added a voice chat system (key
T*)(will be improved in the next updates)
added refilling of your thirst when you jump into water and gives you on top of your normal thirst 10 points more
added more fiber plants to farm
added more lakes
added more roads
added new Civilian animations (reactions) and sounds
added more Buildings
added destructible effect for fort wall, fort door, door frame, wooden door
added more random respawn points near the starter cities
added key bind mapping under options and controls (actually now you can’t change)
changed melee attack sounds for knife
changed dog attack hit sounds
changed scorpion attack hit sounds
changed Chicken AI attention
changed Skeleton AI
changed the hole Menu
changed the loading screen
fixed the volume settings
fixed some lightning issues
fixed ping error
fixed the random damage of harmless NPC's
fixed saving problems
fixed names in the crafting list
fixed the scorpion (takes range damage now)
We worked as well on the dedicated Server System, but we are still having view issues which we need to improve, we will bring the Dedicated Server with Community Servers asap out.
News about the next updates
Hello western fighters,
We bring in few days our next big update 1.02 out. We reworked the hole main menu, fixed many sound bugs and added many new animals. The update will bring a better saving system and lightning fixes and more.
We are working still on the dedicated server system, we will bring the dedicated server system probably in the 1.03 version out, we had many other things to fix that's why we are so late with the dedicated server system. We apologize for the late update of the dedicated server system.
We’re working very hard to bring more content out, we are using assets which we need to rework for our game, many things are changed or completely modified, 3D models don't include gameplay mechanics or are not ready to use. We made as well many things on our own, we had to rework the hole character system, the buildings and more. We are a small team, and we try our best to use our resources for optimizing the game. Each big Studio is buying 3D models to spend more time for programming and optimizing the game.
We are not a big studio, and we need to apologize for issues which we are doing, and we will try to fix the price soon as possible.
Update 1.01 Update
Update 1.01
Hello Western Fighters,
we are giving our 1.01 update out.
added new Ai System
added more NPC’s
added skeleton (aggressive rare)
added added chicken (harmless)
added wild dogs (neutral)
added boar (aggressive)
added scorpion (aggressive danger)
added loot to dead body of animals
added scorpion meat, other animals have normal meat for now
added melee fight sounds (changing sounds soon)
added chicken sounds
added melee damage (right now you are making more damage when you click separately on enemies with your left click)
added a block zone for the end of the map
added the possibility to collect water in the water tower, which you can craft
added deko cactus
added new cage system
added more lootable places
added two new farm areas
added more mines
added one new town
added a higher spawn rate for random loot in houses
added more loot boxes - they have higher loot
fixed spikes
fixed projectile and effect bugs in build block zones in towns
change stand torch renamed and now only have 2 fuel slots
change torch lightning
change equipment Icons
changed bench icon
change bar man animations
Survive the West is as early access available !
We are happy to announce the early access release of survive the west.
Survive the West is an open world survival game, which is playable with friends and other community members, you can craft your stuff, build up your base, farm resources, fight with other players, loot western places and explore the open world.
We want to involve your suggestions and ideas in the game. Feel welcome to comment and communicate with us about the next steps of Survive the West.
We will push probably in the next days many updates. We are working right now on a dedicated server system and on a train which is driving around the map.
With dedicated servers you can set up your own server and change settings for your own needs. We will set up official servers for the community.
Right now you can host a game, set the slots and friends can join you, as well other people from the community can join.
We will keep you updated with our progress. Please give us your ideas and suggestions. It is important for us to know what is for you important We are flexible, and we want to fix things first which are in your eyes important.
