Bug fixes:

• Removed trees on the road near a lodge on Timbergold Trails
• Fixed issue with tracks disappearing

In progress:

• Shooting Ranges preparing to open
• Investigating patching issues

Misc.

• Localization update

Discussion

Live Patch 2016110101

Bug fixes

* Fix for pink texture error and crash near the reserve borders on Timbergold Trails
* Fix for Bighorn sheep odd animations on very steep mountains
* Fix for rare crash that can happen on client connection on certain reserves
* Issues with patching system that caused infinite download loop
* Crashes while patching to a newer launcher version
* Disabled the Halloween version of the Elk
* Disabled spook an animal contextual help

In progress:

* Shooting Ranges preparing to open
There are more (way more) things in progress but here we only state what is close to completion within the next week(s)

Misc.

* Localization update

Discussion

Features

• New reserve – Timbergold Trails
• New species – Grizzly Bear, Bighorn Sheep, Rocky Mountain Elk, White-tailed Ptarmigan

Bug fixes

• Fix for a not-so-frequent crash of player animation
• Fix for the crash related to Ptarmigan in multiplayer
• Minor performance improvement on all the reserves
• Fix for the bug in the third tutorial with missing audio clue
• Fix for the group ID tracking issue
• Fix for the multiplayer bug with animal not being dead for all the players
• Fix for the wrong animal hits reaction animation

In progress:

• Possible pink texture error and crashes near the reserve borders
• Bighorn sheep can have odd animations on very steep mountains
• Some trees might have too big collisions
• Missing collision on some lodge’s tables
• Animal may have issue when fleeing into dense vegetation
• Shooting Ranges have not opened their ranges yet

Misc.

• Localization update

Discussion

Hello Hunters,

we hope you are all doing well and enjoy the hunt! We just uploaded a new live patch and here is what it contains :

Features

• Updated Ptarmigan behaviour for fleeing and migrating

• Heavy Recurve Bow – Instinctive Archer (made by design of our community member Instinctive Archer – follow his process of building this bow IRL in this thread)

• Traditional Bow Missions – Designed by community members Exanimis & Instinctive Archer
• Traditional Bows Bundle & Instinctive Hunting Bundle

Bug fixes

• Fixed missing experience points from tracking animal clues
• Fixed bug in the Sitka mission “The Smell of Fear”

Misc.

• Localization update

Let us know what you think in the Discussion.

Changes

• Added new feral hog attacking sound
• Cable-backed bow now packs a little more punch
• Added flying death variation to Rock Ptarmigans and Pheasant
• CSS score fix for Whiterime Ridge animals and ptarmigans
• Leaderboard and achievements for Polar Bear added

Bug fixes

• Added missing breathing sounds
• Dog should not be falling through bridges anymore
• Deployable structures should now have a wobble factor
• Now possible to give a dog treat after “Come here” command
• Sound fix for the Cable-backed bow
• Fixed the bug that made it possible to have the same scope on two rifles (though no model for the scope was visible)

Dog Treat sound fix

• Sound fixes (Including Ptarmigan)

Misc.

• Localization update

Discussion

Important: If you have the community suggested crash fix installed – read THIS before downloading the patch.

Bug Fixes

• Pulsar Bow reloading fix
• Sitka Scoring fix
• Fix for animals freezing on Bushrangers Run (hopefully maybe perhaps)
• Fix for missing climbing gear
• Alt+Tab crash fixes

Changes

• Large aware address flag added (= hopefully maybe perhaps a fix for the most common game crashes)
• More efficient sound memory management
• Score for collectables should now be received faster

Discussion

Features

• Dog GPS

Bug fixes

• Turkey and Pheasant spotting bug – spotting information about score didn’t reflect the final one
• Tree stand crash fix
• Pulsar bow reloading fix
• Dog command window fix

Changes

• Faster server side inventory updates
• Reworked multiplayer game list to be ordered and filtered by the launcher
• Removed crash command

Misc.

• Localization update

In progress

• Increased security by enforcing secure connections
• Moving game data (kills, etc.) to a faster database
• Improving performance for checking missions
• Better cache logic for getting more recent data when performing actions
• Ordering events in the client code
• Better query system for competitions

Discussion

Features

• Football Jamboree T-shirts (Special for the Football Jamboree 2016 Event)

Bug fixes

• Random crash fix when tracking with the scent hound
• Multiplayer games where host is inactive for more than 30 seconds are no longer invisible in multiplayer list
• Games where creator of the game is inactive for more than an hour is no longer ended automatically

Changes

• When walking backwards, the dog will heel next to the player better
• Some scent hound sounds updated

Misc.

• Localization update

In progress

• Turkey scoring-spotting bug

Discussion