Update 0.3.0 is live

There are fresh tracks in the dirt. Update 0.3.0 for Way of the Hunter 2 has arrived, and it brings new additions to the game. Three new species roam the reserves, new missions to chase them through, and a wave of improvements built directly on your feedback.

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This update expands the wildlife roster with three new species:

• Rocky Mountain Pronghorn in New Laurentia

• Central European Wild Boar in New Laurentia

• Southern Common Warthog in the Kilimaya Reserve

Throughout Early Access, your feedback has helped us shape and refine the hunting experience. Update #3 introduces a number of highly requested improvements, including a reworked Taxidermy screen, new Hunting Map filters to keep your information organised, a more realistic damage system so high-calibre shots that land outside the vitals now deal proper damage, new optics and callers, plus continued stability work, performance optimisations, and a long list of bug fixes - please check the patch notes below for the details.

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We've also shared a new roadmap outlining where Way of the Hunter 2 is heading further. We'll keep releasing patches and updates that expand the game further over the coming weeks. There's a lot still to come.

And one more thing, multiplayer testing recently went live on the Experimental Branch, and we pushed a further update to it just a couple of days ago. If you'd like to try the first version of two-player co-op and help us shape it, you can opt in on Steam. Full details are in our dedicated multiplayer post.

(Way of the Hunter 2) Update 0.3.0 (Version: 199567) - patch notes:

Animals:

• AddedAddedRocky Mountain Pronghorn (New Laurentia)
• AddedAddedCentral European Wild Boar (New Laurentia)

• Added: Southern Common Warthog (Kilimaya Reserve)

• Tweaked: The Primos Big Bucks Rattling Bag now also calls Pronghorn

• AdjustedTweakedImproved the damage system so high-calibre hits outside the vital organs now deal more realistic damage, addressing cases where animals could survive shots that should have been lethal
• AdjustedTweakedUpdated bird spawn data in Kilimaya Reserve

• Fixed: Animals continue fleeing toward the world border and stay stuck in a running animation in Kilimaya Reserve

• Fixed: Nile crocodile's spine doesn't register damage as a separate organ, registering it as bone instead

• Fixed: Cape honey badger has a broken ragdoll

• Fixed: Animals have broken ragdolls at higher levels of detail

• Fixed: Female Spotted hyenas are displayed as males on the Claim screen

• AddedFixedAnimals can get stuck in a rocky area in New Laurentia

• Fixed: Birds keep flying toward the map edge while trying to reach their need zone

Mallard hunting refinements:

• Fixed: Mallard territories now spawn at higher density with living zones closer together, for more intense calling and decoying

• AdjustedTweakedImproved calling and decoying behaviour for the Mallard

• Tweaked: Senses tuned to support calling and blind usage

• Known Issue: Kill damage from shot is a work in progress

New Missions:

• AddedAddedTwo new campsite missions in Kilimaya Reserve
• AddedAddedTwo new campsite missions in New Laurentia

Performance & Stability:

• Fixed: The game could randomly crash after 2-3 hours of play (GPU-related crashes in various locations)

• Fixed: The game could crash when walking further away from the lodge

• Fixed: Significant FPS drops near the water at Popobawa Vlei in Kilimaya Reserve

• Fixed: Low FPS in the main lodge in Kilimaya Reserve

• Fixed: An error message could appear repeatedly after starting the game

• Tweaked: Hunting history now loads in pages, so it opens much faster for players with a large number of kills

Gear:

• Added: Primos Mountain Quail caller

• Added: Primos Hog Squealer caller

• Added: Zeiss DTC 3/25 thermal clip-on

• Added: Zeiss DTC 3/38 thermal clip-on

• Added: Zeiss V8 1.8-14x50 scope

• Added: Zeiss V8 2.8-20x56 scope

• Added: Zeiss Conquest HDX 15x56 binocular

• Tweaked: Placing placeable gear now generates noise that animals will react to

• Fixed: The peep sight on the Terra Fractal TR bow doesn't align with the ZOOMXD Triumph sight

• Fixed: The Mallard decoy can't be placed on some water surfaces

• Fixed: Certain placeables can be placed below the surface of the water

• Fixed: Players are sometimes unable to pack up their own blind

Environment:

• Fixed: Trees have very obvious and unappealing level-of-detail transitions

• Fixed: Bear taxidermies placed in the large head stand float in front of the stand

• Fixed: Elk and bear taxidermies placed in the medium wall stand float in front of the stand

• Fixed: Elk taxidermies placed in the small wall stand float in front of the stand

Hunting Map & UI:

• Added: Filters to the Hunting Map

• AdjustedImprovedReworked the Taxidermy screen for a smoother experience

• Fixed: Subtitles are missing in the tutorial for dialogue spoken while in the harvest screen

Gameplay:

• AddedAddedNew music for Damian to dance to

• Fixed: The "Get rid of water pollution in Lake Sasquatch" challenge doesn't complete correctly

If you run into bugs, please report them via THQN Redmine - ideally with your saved files attached - details on how to report a bug and attach your saved files can be found HERE.

Thank you for your continued support, and happy hunting!

More info about Way of the Hunter 2:

• Website: https://wayofthehunter2.thqnordic.com

• Discord: https://discord.gg/wayofthehunter

• Road Map for Way of the Hunter 2 in Early Access

• FAQ for Way of the Hunter 2

• Dev Diary - Why Early Access?