Meadow News

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Another week, another premium skin pack. This time it's the Streaked Tenrec & Leopard Cub Skin Pack.

The lowland streaked tenrec, also known as the Madagascar hedgehog shrew, is as bizarre looking as it is endearing. Its most distinguishing features are the black coat with yellow streaks, its long nose and the black and yellow quills. It’s also the only mammal known to use stridulation, something that’s more common amongst insects and snakes. This means that they rub the tips of their quills together to generate a high frequency noise, thought to be a way for mother and babies to communicate. Unfortunately, they don’t come in blue and they don’t wear running shoes.

The leopard cub doesn’t need an introduction, surely. They’re kittens, but cooler since they have gorgeous spots and grow up to be beautiful and fearsome predators large enough to take you down in single combat. At Might and Delight we’re not afraid to break your heart, though, so here’s a sad fact for you: it’s estimated that less than 40% of leopard cubs survive their first year. Now, you may be curious about why the survival rate is so low, but we didn’t have it in us to research it. It could be leopard cub eating monsters for all we know. You go find out, if you really want that knowledge.

This pack contains two skins, one for the Hedgehog and one for the Lynx Cub.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2615980/Meadow_Streaked_Tenrec_and_Leopard_Cub_Skin_Pack/

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We hope you're all well! We are great, and ecstatic to finally be able to say that our very own merchandise store is now live and operational. This is the first time we’ve been able to offer premium quality items with Might and Delight prints but it’s been highly requested by fans for a long while now.

Click here to visit the store page.

On day one we offer a selection of t-shirts, tote bags and mugs – but we have mouse mats and notebooks on the way, and we’re going to listen closely to what our community would like us to expand our assortment with. The t-shirts currently on offer are labelled “First Edition” on the neck tag and there are only 1000 of them available for now. We might not produce these particular prints again once they’re gone, so don’t miss out!

And oh, the Steam Autumn Sale is now on, and most of our games are currently discounted - a good time to fill upp any gaps you might have in your MaD collection. With that we wish you a very pleasant day and holiday season. Talk to you again soon!

Best wishes,
Oliver & the team at Might and Delight

[h3]Hello![/h3]

Today we're launching our third set of premium skins for Meadow. Welcome the Lemming Family Skin Pack to the game!

The lemming is a feisty rodent (the real ones, not the video game ones), about which there are lots of misconceptions. The most enduring one is about their tendency to jump from cliffs simply because the leader of the pack steers them towards it, the truth of which has been rigorously disputed by experts - but this phenomenon still inspired what is called the “lemming effect” in psychology, meaning that people sometimes exhibit certain behaviours just because the majority amongst their peers behave in that way.

What is indisputable, however, is that they are wonderful creatures that have been documented to stand up to predators many times their own size rather than running away, causing animals looking for an easy meal a fair bit of confusion.

The Lemming Family Skin Pack contains two skins, one for the adult Badger and one for the Badger Cub.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2615950/Meadow_Lemming_Family_Skins_Pack/

[h3]New features[/h3]

Server refresh button is now added to the lobby screen

• Fixes
  

• Players no longer have access to the animals they do not own
  
• Game no longer crashes when you can't connect to a server
  
• New fixes to help players connect to servers have been implemented
  

[h3]Known issues[/h3]

• Pointer being visible when using the radar
  
• Some meshes in the tropical region being distorted on some GPUs
  
• Funghi and crystals are not detected in the sense mode
  
• Some of the cloud models being rotated vertically
  
• Some people experience issues with connection and for some it still takes a few attempts
  
• Mac not supported
  

[h3]Meadow Classic[/h3]

For anyone who wants to play Meadow as it has been before this update, and any future update we apply, we've created a separate branch of the game that we call Meadow Classic. You can view it as Meadow frozen in time. Players on Classic will inhabit the same space as players on the regular branch, but won't get the benefit of new updates and won't see new skins or be able to engage with any new features. It's for those of you who want Meadow to stay exactly the same.

How to join Meadow Classic:

• Right-click the game in your Steam library
  
• Go to Properties
  
• Go to Betas
  
• Choose "meadow_classic"
  

[h3]New features[/h3]

• Initial support of HTTPS servers to avoid antiviruses blocking connections. The initial test server for this solution is called “Europe Beta”.
  
• Project is now updated to the newer version of Unity
  
• Sense mode now highlights flowers and puzzle pieces
  
• Analytics are now added to improve the current and future experience for the players
  
• The default setting of the camera for all new players will be the camera following the player; the existing players can pick this setting for camera behavior in the settings
  
• The settings now include the option to set culling to “eyesight” mode, that is supposed to reflect differences between the capabilities of different animals in the real world
  
• The eagle now has a smaller collider to ease the navigation while flying through the forests
  
• Remote config has been implemented to the project; for more information please check out this video
  
• News pop-up is now connected with the remote config tool and will be displaying news after each update
  
• New lobby screen
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• News popup: if there's no news, the game no longer hangs/crashes at boot
  
• The server ping reports are no longer unreliable, and do not falsely report server status
  
• Reworked network code in an attempt to make connections more reliable.
  
• Changes in network infrastructure
  
• The Den now displays the correct amount of essence on startup
  
• Spawning of collectables in the Jungle is working as intended - the abundance now becomes the new Jungle reality. Fruit and flowers enjoyers - rejoice!
  

[h3]Known issues[/h3]

• Some meshes in the tropical region being distorted on some GPUs
  
• Funghi and crystals are not detected in the sense mode
  
• Some of the cloud models being rotated vertically
  
• Some people experience issues with connection and for some it still takes a few attempts
  
• Mac not supported
  

You're very welcome to report bugs and give feedback on your Meadow experience on our Discord server.