Spirit of the North 2 News

[h2]Greetings, Guardians,[/h2][p]Thank you for you patience and ongoing feedback. We’ve been listening closely, reading every report, and working hard behind the scenes to deliver a more stable, immersive, and beautifully optimized experience. Today, we’re rolling out Hotfix #3 the Month 1 Update - live now![/p][p]Here’s what’s included![/p][p][/p][h3][/h3][h3]🔄 SAVE SYSTEM UPDATES[/h3]

• [p]Backup Save System: The game now automatically creates a backup save every 25 minutes (max 10 backups). You can rollback to these if your main save is corrupted or soft-locked. Access this via Manage Save Data menu.[/p]
• [p]Save Game Naming: Simplified save file names (no special characters); Names are shorter to fix issues caused by file names becoming to long for some devices.[/p]
• [p]Save Name Auditing: Long or invalid save names are now automatically corrected to conform to new system.[/p]
• [p]Save Copy Fixes: Copying an original save multiple times during different play sessions no long causes new copies to overwrite existing copies. New save names are now unique.[/p]
• [p]Offline Achievements: Now properly tracked.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][h3]💆 QOL UPDATES[/h3]

• [p]Keybinds on PC: "M" opens map, "Esc" opens Exit Menu. "Tab" still returns to your last visited tab.[/p]
• [p]Panning Map: Smoother and no longer clamped.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]🕹️ GAMEPLAY & UI BUG FIXES[/h3]

• [p]D-Pad Input Adjustments: D-pad up/down are no longer zooms the camera as these inputs are mapped to Fat Travel Home and Photomode. Zooming remains a PC-only feature (mouse wheel).[/p]
• [p]Pressure Plate Fixes: Now reset properly if associated objects despawn or reset, fixing several soft-lock issues.[/p]
• [p]Lava River Platforms: now spawn properly when you load game already in proximity.[/p]
• [p]Destructible Ram Door: Now retains its broken state after being destroyed.[/p]
• [p]Stormy Home Key Fix: No longer unlocked by unlocking Stormvale Portal.[/p]
• [p]Tomb of Heilda: Stone elevator fixed.[/p]
• [p]Ashlands Snake Shrine: puzzles fixed.[/p]
• [p]Statue of Eona in Fox Island Cave: No longer overrides Home location when activated if main story is completed.[/p]
• [p]Map Waypoint Fix: Waypoints now correctly place on grave icons.[/p]
• [p]Scroll Pop-up: Scroll count display fixed.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]🔧 OPTIMIZATIONS[/h3]

• [p]Reflection Quality Fix (Low Settings): PC visuals now look as intended. Low settings can now enjoy better visuals with no performance impact.[/p]
• [p]Adjust World Position Offset Disable Distance 100s of game actors (Hazel Bushes, various plague meshes, flags, etc). These actors would invalidate shadow cache a extreme distances.[/p]
• [p]Static mobility now applied to non-moving components (chests base, door frames, standing stones, etc.). Prevents Shadow cache invalidation.[/p]
• [p]Static mobility now applied to non-moving actors (Destructible pottery, Audio/trigger/blocking volumes, VFX, Spline paths (wisps, rivers, slides),Flag poles, hero skeletons, etc, etc). Actor that need mobility override this. Prevents Shadow cache invalidation.[/p]
• [p]Rogue and hidden foliage cleaned up to improve performance.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]🌿 ENVIRONMENT & LEVEL FIXES[/h3]

• [p]Trial of Elders, City of Mosswood, Ashlands Snake Shrine, Mulfara Falls, Fox Village, and more cleaned up.[/p]
• [p]Glide Cavern: Collision and mesh fixes.[/p]
• [p]Pine Forest Rock and other Misc Meshes: Now has proper collision.[/p]
• [p]Player home misc fixes.[/p]

• [p]Skylight and Dungeon Hole Fixes: Closed off areas accessible via late-game abilities.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]✨ VISUAL POLISH [/h3]

• [p]Unique NPC Foxes: No more unintended tail glow during the burning village scene.[/p]
• [p]Grimnir Encounter Visuals: Light particles and FX improved.[/p]
• [p]Spirit Antlers & Fox Tail Embers: Now match your Light Essence colour for better visual consistency.[/p]
• [p]Thorned Plague Vine Attacks: Now respond visually to Thorn Walker Rune.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]🎵 AUDIO POLISH[/h3]

• [p]Various music stinger and layers that were broken on PC are fixed. This include "Kulning" vocals in Misthaven.[/p]
• [p]Mossy Home Portal & Outro Music polish.[/p]
• [p]Volume Slider SFX: Now affects raccoon and tortoise sounds.[/p]
• [p]Console Music Bug: Fixed audio cutting in and out.[/p]
• [p]Game Ending: Footstep SFX fixed.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]⚔️ GRIMNIR ENCOUNTER BALANCING[/h3][p]General[/p]

• [p]Grimnir's plague projectile cooldown increased (2.5s → 4s).[/p]
• [p]Knockback reduced by 50% and removed during dashes and targeted jumps.[/p]
• [p]Ram Phase:[/p]
• [p]Grimnir's Melee cooldown increased to 4s.[/p]
• [p]Lightning visuals now match Cleansed Ram.[/p]
• [p]Grimnir's Plague "Cage" resized and given a visual upgrade.[/p]

[p]Sun Wolf Phase[/p]

• [p]Roots now deal only Thorn damage and no longer cause rapid multiple hits.[/p]
• [p]Knockback behaviour adjusted.[/p]

[p]Moon Wolf Phase[/p]

• [p]Platforms now appear when gliding or walking underneath with Sunken Rune.[/p]

[p]Bear Phase[/p]

• [p]9 fireflies instead of 3. Platforming redesigned to be a recovery/breather phase.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]🐾 MISC CHANGES[/h3]

• [p]Special Main Menu: Look for changes during the Light Weaver Event. 🦝[/p]
• [p]Stag Temple Gate: Spirit vines now activate after unlocking Spirit Form Rune. This help guide player to use Spirit Form and progress in this area before leaving.[/p]
• [p]Glide Cavern: Slight redesign to better guide player at start.[/p]
• [p]Light Essence Icons & Descriptions: Updated to better reflect lore and Guardian themes.[/p][p]
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[p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]If you'd like to participate and help this game continue to become better, please join our active community on Discord. Many thanks to everyone who’s sending in bug reports, sharing feedback, participating in discussions, and supporting our journey. Your continued love for Spirit of the North 2 helps us make the experience better for everyone! [/p][p]Stay tuned for more updates; and we’ll see you in the glades, on the cliffs, and beneath the stars. 🦊✨ [/p][p]Infuse Studio & Silver Lining Interactive[/p][p]

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[h3]Greetings, Guardians,[/h3][p][/p][p]We’re thrilled to share something special from the development den: a brand-new Dev Deep Dive video has just gone live, and this one is all about the heart of Spirit of the North 2: the fox.[/p][p]In this behind-the-scenes look, Tayler walks you through how we brought the new fox mechanics to life and improved upon the first game's movements![/p][p][/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p][/p][p]Be honest - have you ever heard anyone compare a fox to a kite? 🦊🪁[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p]

[h2]Greetings, Guardians![/h2]

We are excited to announce that we are supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Ocean Day!

The WDC World Ocean Day Sale starts today and runs until 12th June, 10am PDT 2025, and you can save a fin-tastic 40% off Spirit Of The North 1&2 Bundle! We will also donate 10% of our net profits from this bundle to WDC to support their conservation work.*

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World Ocean Day Sale Page

[h3]Who are WDC?[/h3]
WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation are the leading global charity dedicated to the protection of whales and dolphins.
Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear, pollution, captivity and hunting and whaling. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.
Their mission is to reverse the global decline of whale and dolphin populations by creating safe seas for these majestic beings. And their vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

[h3]What is ghost gear?[/h3]
Ghost gear is fishing gear that has been lost or abandoned at sea. It’s a deadly menace to whales, dolphins and other marine life.
When a whale or dolphin gets tangled in it, it can kill them in the most horrific way, by preventing them from getting to the surface to breathe. Or they can carry it for days, weeks or even months suffering a slow and painful death as it cuts into their skin, restricts their movement and hampers their ability to hunt and feed.
But it’s difficult and expensive for fishers and other ocean users to dispose of gear they find at sea, or even to responsibly get rid of their own gear at the end of its life.
Did you know that about 1/3 of marine litter found in European seas is discarded fishing gear? That's estimated to be over 11,000 tonnes entering the sea each year!
It is a massive problem and so WDC are working on some innovative solutions. 

[h3]How you can become a real-world Guardian![/h3]
By purchasing games from this year’s World Ocean Day sale, you will help WDC continue their global conservation work, as well as their ghost gear removal project, funding 10 missions for divers to remove lethal entanglement hazards to marine life (and scuba divers) from reefs, seabed and shipwrecks in UK seas.

Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring, intelligent beings. The ocean produces more oxygen and absorbs more carbon than all of Earth's forests combined, and whales help it flourish. Yet 300,000 whales die in fishing gear every year.

If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here!
Keep up to date with all the awesome gaming activities WDC does by signing up to their mailing list here.

*10% of our net revenue from this sale (after Steam platform fees) will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. WDC is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705).



Thank you for joining us and supporting this heart-warming initiative!



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[h2]Greetings, Guardians,
[/h2]

We just wanted to check in to let you know working hard behind the scenes.

There’s a lot currently in progress, and while not everything is ready to show just yet, we wanted to give you a quick peek behind the curtain.


[h3]Backup Saves[/h3]
One of the bigger features we’re focused on right now is backup saves - this will let players roll back their save file in case something goes wrong (power outages, etc.). It’s been a common request, and we're making good progress on it!

[h3]Soundtrack[/h3]
The official stand-alone soundtrack is also coming together beautifully. It’s still a few weeks out, but it’s getting close, and we think it’ll be definitely worth the wait!

[h3]Fixes[/h3]
We’ve been working through many of environmental fixes: we're patching between 5 to 50 issues a day! That includes miss aligned meshes, collision bugs, holes in map, etc. Thank you for reporting these when you find them!

We’re also adding key binds for specific menu tabs, like pressing “M” to open the map directly. This was one of the most requested features, and we’re happy to be implementing it.

There is a bug that disable reflections when the player uses Low Settings. It honestly looks horrendous and was not intended. If you've been playing and everything has a strange white glossiness to it, this is why. We've fixed it and it is queued for the next update. This will make LOW quality look like a 100x better in many situations.

Low Settings - Before (with Reflection Bug)

Low Settings - After (as intended)

Here's a handy slider comparison!



We’re a small team, and every bit of feedback, encouragement, and patience from all of you truly means the world to us. Your support helps keep us going: it’s what makes this journey worthwhile. Thank you for being here and for believing in what we’re creating.

More concrete updates are coming soon, and we can’t wait to share more when the time is right.

Infuse Studio & Silver Lining Interactive

PS Did you meet a very special friend on a Saturday yet? 😉

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[h2]Greetings Guardians! 🦊 [/h2]

We’re excited to share that Hotfix #1.3, CL 12895, now live on PC, with the console update arriving in just a few days! This patch brings a host of important fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and community-requested changes. Let’s dive in:


[h3]🔧List of fixes[/h3]
Collection Removed At End Of Game. Fixed issue that caused players to lose their collection(Relics and Keys) after finishing game if they died before reaching a Statue of Eona.
Save Game Repair. We implemented a script that audits and repairs your save file that runs automatically when you select a save game to play. Currently this includes fixes for those who's Relics and Keys were deleted at the end of their game. The game will re-add them when you relaunch your save game. This script also attempts to re-add your Raven companion if you have a Glide Rune but no Raven.
Landscape and Cliff meshing around Misthaven Northern gate. Waterfall and pond added to prevent players from accessing Highlands with a torch.
Jump Gate in North Misthaven now uses standing stone for activation(requires spirit form).
Stag Temple now traps player inside to force them to use Spirit Form. Many players were obtaining Spirit Form and just leaving.
Progress Lost issue #1. The Ram Encounter would continue to block autosave if the player abandoned it. This lead to player losing progress if they continued to play for a long time and then dying.
Progress Lost issues #2. Some puzzle involving hiding wisps and cutscenes would not stop blocking autosaves. This lead to player losing progress if they continued to play for a long time and then dying.
Removed rogue lever in front of Bear Guardian Temple.
Various fixes to Fox Island behavior and appearance when returning after end of game. ie Killbox under wooden bridge will not be present. Also plugged hole leading to portion of cave that is intended to be inaccessible.
Lighting changes for Lumen on Xbox Series S
Mosswood Foliage Cleanup.
Added ext triggers for some Stormvale structures.
Internet Time Events now uses our own website. This should fix the issue of events like the Light Weaver not being blocked in countries like Russia. We will continue to test and work on this and thank you for you ongoing patience.
Added Bear Roar SFX to end encounter.
Added missing lava SFX
Misc fixes for environment holes and and misaligned meshes.



Thank you all for your continued feedback and support for our small team. Your reports and suggestions help make Spirit Of The North 2 the best it can be. As always, we’ll be keeping an eye out for your thoughts and suggestions!


Infuse Studio & The Silver Lining Interactive Team