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Environment Update

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Howdy Hunters!


Today we are kicking the environmental immersion up a notch with a massive amount of details! More tree variations, big rocks, grass interactions, optimizations and much more! This makes the game's landscape much more interesting to hunt and provides more cover for you and the animals. This update improves the game's graphical fidelity so we hope you’ll enjoy it!



  • Added more tree variations to all biomes
  • Added dwarf pines to the mountain region
  • Added more medium sized vegetation to all biomes
  • Added more rocks of different sizes to all biomes
  • Added big rocks that are visible for longer distances
  • Added more smaller objects like plants, ground rocks, branches etc
  • Added more height variations to the grass
  • Added contact shadows to the grass
  • Added interactions to the grass when player moves through it
  • Added rustling sounds and ability to hide inside tall grass around the fields
  • Optimized several vegetation assets
  • Reworked some of the vegetation spawning




  • Improved shadow intensity
  • Lowered all roads and paths to prevent them from hovering. Some roads might clip through the terrain which will be improved.
  • Changed the meadow audio to a new one which was already in use at the trophy lodge
  • Added a pier and sunken boat to the Bulgaria reserve
  • Changed plants fluttering in the wind
  • Adjusted the wrist slots to avoid accidentally grabbing the mobile tracker and to prevent it blocking view while aiming
  • Fixed an issue where tutorial notification in main menu opens too early and stays over another view
  • Fixed an issue where rocks and other objects were too shiny when wet
  • Fixed an issue where occlusion culling would disable parts of the world when climbing the mountains
  • Fixed an issue where whistle hints confirmation-button was over the text
  • Fixed an issue where back-button didn’t work from the quickhunt menu
  • Fixed an issue where some of the info boards clipped through shelves
  • Fixed an issue where mobile tracker highlight wasn’t visible
  • Fixed an issue where cliffs and boulders didn’t have proper sounds when walking on them
  • Fixed an issue where video clips on info boards didn't play
  • Fixed an issue where in certain situation the backpack didn't load items properly

Thank you all for playing and happy hunting!

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Fallow Deer Antlers Update

Greetings Hunters!


In this update we add a completely new set of antlers for fallow deer, more adjustments to weathers, improvements, bug fixes and more!

  • Adjusted cloud transition speed
  • Adjusted ambient lighting change speed
  • Adjusted rain sound start and end transition
  • Added a new set of antlers for fallow deer
  • Improved textures on the current fallow deer antlers
  • Added a setting to change weapons rotation when holding it with two hands*
  • Changed pheasants and fallow deers info book images
  • Changed bullet chambering with bolt action rifles
  • Changed the selection pointer to follow controllers instead of hand models
  • Clarified several tooltips and namings in the menu
  • Fixed an issue where fallow deer antlers were rotated slightly wrong
  • Fixed an issue where weapon would fire when pressing trigger while in in-game menu
  • Fixed an issue where doors could be pushed with the info books
  • Fixed an issue where tutorial couldn’t be completed if it was started from the store-chapter

* This setting can be found from interactions and is primarily used to adjust weapons rotation when holding with two hands. Useful for players with physical gunstocks.

Thank you all for playing and happy fallow hunting!

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Weather Update

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Greetings Hunters!


Immerse yourself in our new weather system! The new system uses weather maps with reworked weather profiles and adds new ones such as foggy, light rain and new cloudy weathers. Clouds are more dynamic and affect the lighting more realistic than before. Update also has several improvements, bug fixes and more!

  • Reworked weather system
  • New weather maps blend weathers more realistically
  • Reworked all weathers
  • Added several new weathers including foggy, light rain and different cloudy weathers
  • Speed and direction of clouds is based on wind
  • Clouds affect the overall lighting
  • Improved fog densities and behavior based on time of the day and current weather


  • Changed the default anti-aliasing to MSAA x2 from FXAA to improve clarity
  • Improved door grabbing and opening
  • Memory optimization in game and during loading
  • Optimized info books
  • Optimizations to several models
  • Optimized several biomes
  • Optimized red deer antlers
  • Improved the waterfall by the trophy lodge
  • Improved wetness on several models when it rains


  • Added new info book models
  • Reduced the amount of branches on the ground
  • Added “Game paused”-text to in-game menu
  • Changed new UI style to item hints
  • Fixed an issue where the player could grab items from the backpack on their back
  • Fixed an issue where one travel-button didn’t close when closing the map
  • Fixed an issue where animals answered the caller without delay
  • Fixed an issue where weather audios in trophy lodge didn’t use sound settings
  • Fixed an issue where lightning would cause frame drops


Thank you for all for playing and enjoy the new weather system! Let us know what you think

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