Hotfix #3 is here! 🛠️

Hey Survivors! ❄️

We appreciate all the feedback and information that you are providing us from the in-game bug reporter, on the forums, and on Discord. We're currently focusing on stability (especially crashes and any story blockers) and bugfixes across the board.

Stability & Crash Fixes

• Fixed a crash related to animals that was causing issues at game ending.

• Fixed a crash related to animals that was causing a crash at approaching Act 2 Gate.

• Fixed crash when destroying walls, windows and doorframes.

• Fixed a crash in Cold Wave when adding things to the totem.

• Fixed a crash in Cold Wave related to Golden Bear site selection.

If you have any crashes that are not GPU crashes, that are reproducible by doing something please get in contact with F7, on Discord or on Forums as fixing them is our top priority. Same for any blockers related to the Story mode where you need to reload, or get stuck on something.

New & Reworked

• Free Crafting Option - New option in Gameplay Settings that lets you build tools, clothing, shelter parts and other crafted items without gathering resources. Only works in Story mode. The option can be enabled / disabled at any moment. (We received a lot of feedback that some of you really enjoy the story mode and want to experience it in whole - but really don't find the gathering of resources to be interesting so providing an option to skip that part.)

• New Survival Scenario - Accident - you’re tasked with keeping a badly injured Joel alive for as long as you can. You start with generous supplies, but his condition demands constant attention, smart rationing, and addressing new threats. How long you last depends on how well you balance tending to Joel, managing your resources, and adapting to the environment’s pressure.

• Adaptation Disorder Rework - the whole adaptation disorder system has been reworked slightly to be less confusing and have less steps. As soon as you complete the challenge from the disorder - it will now automatically recover the section that you started the recovery on.

• Antipsychotic Pills - are now enabled again and let you bypass the entire recovery process. Using them immediately resolves the active challenge and recovers the disorder you had in recovery. They can also be used without a disorder challenge being active to reduce trauma by 50 (in order to avoid disorder or symptom completely.)

• Cold Wave Pioneer Tournamen t - tournament has ended, and the top five players have earned a permanent place in the world. A new in-game board now displays their nicknames for all future runs as a tribute to the best survivors of the event.

Balance

• Rope weight adjusted to 0.3 from 0.75 so it's not heavier than the ingredients it's made out of.

• Added new recipes to get Tree Bark.

• Berry bushes and plank weight changed.

• Balanced fishing of metal parts to now be able to drop in multiples instead of 1 on some of the metal pieces.

• Joel heating handling rebalanced to be slightly harder on easier difficulties.

• Changed amount of energy gained after fainting to be higher on all difficulties, to allow you to react when passing out and not just pass out repeatedly.

• Added more obsidian knives and spears on the map

• Improved selection of closest Golden Bear treasure sites.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where you could sometimes regain movement by dodging after shimmy on Wolf Spear tutorial.

• Fixed swamp island collision and IK response on track mounds.

• Fixed an issue on Truffle Pasta Quest