Winter Survival News

The first patch for the demo of Winter Survival Simulator with a series of bug fixes and improvements (0.9.3)

Quality of Life Fixes

• Fuel slot added to cooking items in case you wanted to Drag & Drop instead of Right Clicking the fuel items.
  
• UI fonts have been rescaled to make them a bit more readable on average screen setup.
  
• Heat Slider added to Heat in Instinct Mode to make it clearer on what our heat level is at when instinct mode is enabled.
  
• We added a slider for Camera Bob through Gameplay Options (Idle Animations etc.) in case it's causing motion sickness.
  
• We added an option disabling of Mouse Rotation Lag through Gameplay Options.
  
• We added an option to enable / disable Motion Blur through Gameplay Options.
  
• We allow disabling of Backpack Animations through Gameplay Options to help with motion sickness.
  
• We added an option to change mouse sensitivity and inversion of mouse on X/Y axis.
  
• More keys added to keybindings options to allow further customization.
  

Gameplay

• Canteen now visually shows on the slot background whether it's holding Geyser Water or Icy Water once filled.
  
• Geyser Water now correctly warms you up slightly while hurting you for drinking it.
  
• Instinct Mode had its visuals updated slightly and now slows down time while used by roughly 15%
  
• Bear tracks reworked to feel a little less magical and a bit more, grounded.
  
• We no longer allow dropping of 'important quest items' from the inventory! No more throwing of trap parts and canteens off the bridge.
  
• We added more heat on 'Find the Heat Source' objective completion to prevent an edge case where your hands would stay frozen if you left the hot springs area too quickly.
  
• Speeded up axe animations to make cutting down trees a bit more responsive.
  
• Backpack can now be picked up even if your inventory is full without dropping the item.
  
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UI

• All sounds sliders should now be working correctly.
  
• Visual added when trying to drop items.
  

Sounds

• Body movement sounds will now stop when tutorial is on.
  
• Few extra sound effects added and tweaked some of the repetitive sound effects to be less annoying. (Crows etc.)
  

Game Balance

• You will no longer get hungry quite as quickly. (About 15% slower)
  
• You will not longer get thirsty quite as quickly. (About 7% slower)
  
• All food items now feel a bit more filling. (You no longer need to eat 8 rabbits to feel like you're not starving.)
  

AI

• Minor adjustments to wolves to make them a bit 'smarter' for players who were avoiding wolves by jumping on the rocks.
  

Upcoming Changes

• Checkpoint System / Number of Checkpoints will be increased, and options to load checkpoint from Main Menu will be allowed.
  
• In some cases you can see items in Instinct Mode on a very large distance (Renders through Foliage at any distance).
  
• Keybind rebinding to 'same' key in multiple categories is still not supported - occasionally leads to some funky things when rebinding keys.
  
• Stats / Instinct Mode are not split yet on separate keybinding.
  
• Instinct Mode doesn't drain energy.
  
• If you do Shelter Repairs without having Instinct Mode enabled, the repairs don't show up until you toggle instinct mode.
  
• Cold / Freezing doesn't quite affect you as strongly as we would like.
  

We are re-running the stream of our lead programmer Mercus showcasing the Winter Survival Simulator demo. The chat is live and developers are following it to provide additional input and answer your questions.

Join our lead programmer Mercus showcasing the Winter Survival Simulator demo. While the stream is pre-recorded, the chat it live and if you have any questions you’d like to ask us, that would be a great opportunity.

No time to watch long streams or even play the demo right now? Well, maybe our small speedrun attempt will be just the thing for you. See Winter Survival Simulator's demo in 15 minutes or less.

It all started during final testing of the demo when one of the guys said he can get through the demo in 15 minutes or so. And he tried. He missed the mark by a bit and wanted to do another run. This time we figured we record it to share it with you.

As usual, we will be in the live chat, so that's a great opportunity to ask questions or voice suggestions about the game.

Join us playing the demo build of Winter Survival Simulator and answering your questions in the chat.

We'll try to answer the questions you might have about the game and give some insight into what else we have planned for the game.

We intend to do multiple streamings over the next days, some live, some repeated, some pre-recorded. That being said, even the pre-recorded ones will have a live chat we will follow to answer your questions.