Northern Lights News

[h3]Greetings everyone! We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas![/h3]

We are happy to announce that our new Roadmap is here! As we promised in the previous posts, we have created a new roadmap containing our development plans for Northern Lights!

[h3]Full roadmap and details available below.[/h3]

• Improvements to character animations - Released in 0.5
• General UI and UX Improvements based on current feedback - Released in 0.5
• New quest based tutorials to get players through some of the basics of the game - Released in 0.5
• New game languages - Released in 0.5
• New and improved ambient sounds and soundtracks - Released in 0.6
• New and improved character action sounds - Released in 0.6
• Improvements to existing interaction sounds - Released in 0.6
• Improvements to sound balancing and mastering - Released in 0.6
• Controller support - Released in 0.7
• Custom difficulty settings - Released in 0.7

• Brand new Story Mode focused on exploration and lore, with re-written escape ending! - Released in 0.7
• Improvements to Character Dialogues & Voice-Overs - Released in 0.8
• Steam Achievements for both Story Mode and Survival Mode - Released in 0.8
• Brand new Side Quests for the notes collectibles system
  

• New drivable Snowmobile vehicle - Released in 0.8
• Improvements fauna hunting - Released in 0.8
• Improvements fauna AI
  
• Improvements small and filler locations
  
• Improvements to nature level design
  
• Improvements to existing locations
  
• Improvements to some graphics elements of the game
  
• Improvements to overall game performance in open world locations
  

• Everything else that's left for the game to be considered finished!
  
• The long awaited CO-OP Survival mode
  

We will keep this Road-Map updated with any new additions or changes! Thanks to everybody for reading and for the ongoing support!

We Wish you all a Happy New Year and we hope to see you all Well and Safe Next Year!
- MadGoat Team

- Fixed an issue causing player-built fires to not load when loading game
- Fixed an issue causing cooking spots to lose preview graphics when loading game
- Minor fixes and tweaks to various aspects of the game

MadGoat Team Wishes You a Merry Christmas!

[h3]Hello everyone! With the Winter Holidays around the corner and 2021 coming to an end, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas, and all the best for 2022![/h3]

We appreciate all the support we've received from you throughout this year and we are looking forward with excitement to what 2022 will bring!

If you haven't had the chance to buy the game yet, you can now do it at 30% OFF! Northern Lights will be on sale for the whole Steam Winter Sale!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090800/Northern_Lights/

[h3]We hope you will enjoy playing Northern Lights during this winter holiday! [/h3]

Best wishes,
MadGoat Studio

- Wanderer and Resourceful difficulties now start with journal affliction treatment entries revealed from the beginning
- Added mouse sensitivity setting
- Added ability to take items from world slots by double clicking instead of dragging
- Improved backpack to world interactions user experience
- Improved balance of cabin fever affliction risk
- Tweaked animals audio rate
- Tweaked plants colors to fit better the setting of the game
- Tweaked warmth drop values

- Fixed an issue causing unexpected behaviors with graphics settings that was affecting some users
- Fixed an issue causing Game User Interface to stop working after changing resolution or idling the game alt tabbed for too long that was affecting some users

- Added missing sounds to interactions (these are meant as placeholders and will be improved with further updates)
- Tweaked visibility of HUD health alerts
- Tweaked triggers for health stat tutorials
- Tweaked footsteps audio
- Tweaked mapping mechanics

- Fixed bird carcass not applying decay to harvesting tools
- Fixed some languages having missing controls in tutorials
- Fixed watch missing beeping alarm sound on low stats
- Fixed an issue causing some equipped clothing graphics to be glitched
- Fixed house stoves having too low burning time
- Fixed an issue causing adding wood sticks to contribute too little to fire burning life
- Fixed missing locked doors hints
- Fixed an issue with hallucinations in interiors
- Fixed issue causing furniture storage slot to display in wrong screen position