Beta Update 3

How to opt into the Beta

In your Library: Right click You Are A Bird Click Properties Click Betas Choose beta from the Beta Participation dropdown Close Properties Wait for the update to complete. If the Beta is not working on your PC yet, just set Beta Participation back to None to play the old version. Pls let me know how it's working on Discord.

Changes

• added tutorial

• peck out rabbit guts for a nice jiggly meal

• better presence in the bird's body. your POV is matched to the bird's head now instead of being 1:1 with your IRL head

• more natural wing position instead of locking to your IRL hands

• added hunger system with starvation

• misc optimization

• added music

• deer and rabbit variety

• improved fog at all quality levels

• volumetric fog at high+ quality

• fixed missing controllers first time opening the in-game menu

• native quit button

• credits updated

• tree models updated

• trees use subsurf foliage shading

• much taller mountain and higher clouds

• fixed shadow flicker from UI

• improved ocean graphics

• sfx fixes

• lightweight shadows at low shadow quality

• first person beak

• brighter daytime shadows

• faster dives

• better quality clouds

• relative-recenter when you land to easily peck stuff on the ground

• reduce camera clipping through ground

• reduced unintentional flapping when moving your head

• upgraded to UE 5.4.1

• Vastly improved forest gen

• fixed graphics auto detect restarting menu music

• tweaked audio levels

• fixed choppy storm audio, should be properly spatialized now

• fullscreen

• tweaked weather probabilites

• tweaked day/night cycle duration