WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition News

Five wolf coats are coming to WolfQuest soon! In the next update, you'll be able to choose from coats based on some of the past and present ambassador wolves at the International Wolf Center. The IWC has been a key partner in the development of WolfQuest from the very start in 2005, and we're delighted to feature five of their beloved wolves in the game. Today's devblog gives a preview of three of these new coats, based on Aidan, Boltz, and Grizzer. The two others will remain a secret until this update is released -- it's coming soon, along with Slough Creek!

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Learn more about IWC’s current and past ambassador wolves on their website!

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WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition is available now for PC/Mac on Steam and itch.io, as Early Access. The game currently includes Episode 1: Amethyst Mountain, Lost River: Classic, and multiplayer mode in both maps. Slough Creek is in development! The mobile version will come after the game (including Slough Creek) is completed on PC/Mac platforms. The next episode, Tower Fall (DLC) will follow. We do not announce specific release dates. We will release them when they are ready!

Patch 1.0.5f2 - released 16 December 2020

IMPROVEMENTS:
* Improved debugging if game cannot save to disk.
* Added fallback method for saving games if game cannot save to normal location on disk.
* New alert when game detects that OneDrive is blocking the game from saving to disk.
* Reduced food value of meat chunks.
* Increased volume of Squeak emote audio.
* Snow does not accumulate on animals in warmer months (April to October). (Was in 105e but forgot to include it in patch notes.)

BUGS FIXED:
* Several significant glitches in multiplayer.
* Delay when click-holding right mouse button to orbit camera when wolf is moving.
* Animals are frozen when loading a very old single-player game save.

Released for Windows on Steam now; Mac patch coming on Wednesday.
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IMPROVEMENTS:[/h3]
* New alert when game detects that OneDrive is blocking the game from saving to disk.

[h3]BUGS FIXED: [/h3]
* Several significant glitches in multiplayer.
* Delay when click-holding right mouse button to orbit camera when wolf is moving.

It's time for the monthly contest to win a free copy of WolfQuest! Lucky winners will receive a free copy of WolfQuest 2.7 (and PC/Mac users will also get WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition Early Access for PC and Mac)! Winners can choose to get any version of the game (Mac/Windows, Android, iOS, Kindle). Or you can also choose the WolfQuest Soundtrack and Music Extras if you already own the game.

[h2]This Month's Contest[/h2]
Email your username (any username is fine, we just have to know what to call the winners) and your answer to the question: "What are three interesting facts about wolves?" to the email address [email protected]

[h2]Deadline[/h2]
All entries must be received before midnight (Eastern Daylight Time) on Monday, December 21, 2020.

[h2]Random Drawing[/h2]
Winners are selected randomly from complete entries. Please enter only once in each monthly contest. Each complete entry will be assigned a number. We will then use a random-number generator to generate three numbers. The entries bearing those numbers will each win a free copy of the game.

We are releasing v1.0.5e! It's available now for Windows , and coming later today for Mac (Sorry for the delay on Mac.) and Mac now as well.

[h2]NEW: [/h2]
* On Wolf Customization, a new readout indicating if the selected wolf coat and tint value makes it a gray or black coat, in terms of K locus genetics.
* Hotkeys for Emote Favorites, using 1-7 numbers on your keyboard. (Press-hold on an Emote to add or remove it from the Favorites panel.)
* If game is unable to save to the Saves folder (for unknown reasons), game now offers option to collect more data to submit with bug report, which may help us solve the problem.
* Quest icons on each quest intro/completion panel.
* Family snapshot is saved after completing Find a Mate (or loading a game in the final quest in Amethyst). This will let you start a new game in Slough Creek (once it's released) without loading into Amethyst.
* On World Map, territory hexes now have a thick outline when above 50% strength, and opacity begins to drop at 70%.
* Added emotes: Woof and Squeak (these will be pup commands in Slough Creek, no effect in Amethyst).
* Added Camera Slope Auto-Adjust toggle in Game Settings: Gameplay. Disabling it will stop the camera from finding its preferred position above the ground on slopey terrain.

[h2]IMPROVEMENTS:[/h2]
* Changed Pickup Object input from double-tap spacebar to press-hold spacebar (or A button on controller).
* The Y-Invert toggle for normal camera and headcam have changed to standardized game setting. The game should remember which way you prefer it, but if not, please open Game Settings: Controls and click the Y-axis toggles on or off.
* Controls Remapping: Alert appears if you try to map an action onto a key which already has an action mapped.
* For double-tap W for Gallop/Trot toggle: reduced the time window for the second tap, to make it less like to trigger gallop inadvertently.
* When kicking wolves with their front legs, ungulates will not kick quite as quickly in succession, giving the wolf a chance to get away.
* In multiplayer, hares and meat chunks should stay closer to wolf when dropping them to ground.
* In multiplayer, probably some reductions in teleporting during hunts and wolf fights.
* Snowshoe hare: Tweaked AI so it should react sooner to predators.
* Music now plays during scene loading.
* Wolf releases bite-hold on prey if prey runs into water.
* Reduced frequency of eagle cry when flying.
* Changed audio file loading method to reduce excess memory usage.
* Made snowshoe hare more wary of predators.

[h2]BUGS FIXED:[/h2]
* In Amethyst in early November, you dream every time you sleep.
* Boulders sometimes have snow when they shouldn't.
* Carrying food in mouth plays dinnertime music.
* Camera lags and jitters when targeted during strafing.
* Snowshoe hare label is inconsistent.
* Autosave schedule progresses when game is paused.
* Some issues with controller support and navigating the main menu UI.
* Line break typo in Lost River mission intro.
* Photo Mode icon doesn't disappear when it should.
* Mouse wheel doesn't zoom on map.