Were finally ready to introduce the new changes and fixes into the game! But not just yet -- if you own the game, we invite you to take part in playtesting the beta version of the update. Participate in beta, share your feedback and lets make The Wild Eight better together! New Mechanic - Food Spoilage Get used to it - Food wont last forever anymore! ...at least in the beta, for now. All of your food items now have three conditions - Fresh, Spoiled and Rotten. Your foods Freshness is portrayed by the bar in the lower part of the item - if it reaches the end, the food will become too rotten to eat! The condition of your food is also shown in the item description and is indicated by the color of the bar - Green, Yellow, and Red respectively. The status of your foods Freshness is portrayed by the bat in the lower part of the item - if it reaches the end, the food will become too rotten to eat! You can also slow down the spoilage by:

• Storing food items in the Chest
• Keeping food in the snow, which makes it Frozen - and lowers the spoilage rate.
• Eating it as soon as you find it!

Were still working hard making sure this feature is implemented properly - so make sure to leave your thoughts about this system! That way well make it better in no time - especially if you fill out the Survey, conveniently placed right in the Open Betas Main Menu. Animals Following the updates to pathfinding, all animals now also have higher movement speed. Also, the Wolves received a visual update and have new, rebalanced stats. Balancing Faster melee. Melee combat now has faster swings. Weapons rebalance. Toned down overall power of melee weapons due to faster swings. Overall power of melee combat should remain roughly the same, but it now feels more responsive. Ranged Weapon Control Change Guns and Bows now both control differently. With Guns, you now hold RMB to aim, and then press LMB to fire. Bows control similarly, except for one major element: you have to charge the arrow by holding LMB - and then release LMB to fire it. Pistol rebalance. Pistol now has a more reasonable level of power. Visuals and UI New UI. While its still a work in progress, player HUD and all main windows got a new look. Camera shake. We are introducing the camera shaking effect for more visual feedback. World visual update. The in-game surroundings received some little tweaks to their visuals resulting in better image quality. How to participate in beta: This beta testing will be available for all players who own the game. All you need to do is follow these steps:

• Click with your right mouse button on The Wild Eight in your Steam Library;
• Select Properties in the drop-down menu;
• In the opened window select BETAS tab;
• Choose from the drop-down list thewildeightbeta and close the window;
• Wait until the game downloads the update and now you can play the beta!

NOTE: Beta version of the game will contain its own save files. All progress made during beta does not carry onto the main game and will be wiped when the test period ends. Your save files from the main game will remain completely untouched. Here's hoping you'll have fun with the Beta - and as always, please don't forget to leave any feedback, ideas or just thoughts about The Wild Eight in the official Steam Discussion forums, or join our Discord Channel to hang out with other fans! Thank you, HypeTrain Digital

[ 2019-04-16 20:03:56 CET ] [ Original post ]