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Avatar Physics and Sound Update

Did you find the avatar a bit too floaty or the soundscape a bit too overwhelming? This release has a lot of minor fixes and polished details. We hope you'll enjoy it!

  • Overhauled avatar physics
  • Added gravity slider in the gameplay menu
  • Reorganised menu
  • Press 'X' on the controller or 'e' on the keyboard, to emote like the creature you have taken the shape of.
  • Sound adjustments and bugfixes
  • Camera adjustments
  • Misc bugfixes


Feedback

Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please, ​Let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing [email protected]

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya

Gallery & Collection Mechanic



Never loose track of which animal forms you have absorbed! Click avatar in the menu and it will take you directly to the brand new gallery.

This is a medium sized feature update, focused on the collection mechanic, though it also has a bunch of other improvements:

  • Avatar gallery
  • Slowmotion and a sound when you encounter a new animal
  • The game no longer plays music or updates game logic if backgrounded
  • Improved logic so in-game music finishes playing if started (exceptions exist)
  • Music ambience in caves
  • Wings now sound differently underwater from when flying
  • Help text and menu can no longer be occluded by animals and terrain
  • Fixed bug where camera controls was not saved correctly to preferences
  • Mac: Fixed crash on Intel GPUs
  • Linux: Fullscreen now working
  • Linux: Bug where window kept resizing itself fixed
  • Windows: Fixed steamworkshop missing thumbnails for avatars
  • Windows: Flat shading in the avatar editor fixed
  • Windows & Linux: Massive performance increase
  • Misc bugfixes


Feedback

Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please, ​Let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing [email protected]

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya

Underwater Update!



Fly high, fold your wings and dive head first into the water!,

This is a major content update, focused on the underwater experience, though it also has a bunch of other improvements:

  • Underwater
  • Fold your wings and dive!
  • Swim physics for the avatar
  • New ground movement
  • Freelook camera
  • Improved ragdoll when crashing
  • HDR rendering effect
  • Improved sound, incl. reverb with animals in caves / underwater
  • New frost biome with new animals (reindeer, anyone?)
  • Swim animations for underwater animals
  • Improved behaviours for animals


Feedback

Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please, ​Let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing [email protected]

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya

Linux Terrain Engine Beta Update

Hi All,

For a long while the linux version has lagged behind, and didn't have the set levels. This has been corrected in this release. If you are on linux, please let us know about any issue you might encounter, and we'll do our best to fix them fast.

The full list of fixes for this release is
  • Linux terrain engine beta update
  • Fixed missing landscape on some intel and older AMD/ATI cards
  • Fixed crash related to particles
  • Fixed rare crash on graphics menu
  • Fixed birds dividing into strata
  • Fixed crash on computers with 2 or fewer cores
  • Morph fixed when not in automatic mode
  • Added menu option for enabling/disabling thermals
  • Misc avatar fixes
  • Other small fixes


Feedback

Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please, ​Let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing [email protected]

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya

Wind Effects

We have been focusing on wind effects for this update, besides the usual optimisations and bug fixes. Here is a non-comprehensive list:

  • Contrails from the bird wings
  • Thermal winds
  • A lot of fixes to the avatar editor
  • Updated in-game avatars (tails & legs)
  • Fixed the bug where the bird could be in slow motion
  • Overhauled the multi-threading system to keep single cpu-cores from being overloaded
  • PS4 controller support fixed


Feedback

Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please, ​Let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing [email protected]

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya