User survey
We’ve been busy planning the near and far future, but we realized that we need more of your input so we’ve decided to put up another survey so you can guide us in our future development of the game. The answers in the survey are based on things we feel would benefit the game and is based on our opinions and what we’ve seen been discussed in the forums. Some of the features, listed in the survey, will take a very long time, up to 6 months or more, for us to complete, so don’t expect anything listed there to come anytime soon. We will treat the answers, provided in the survey, as the opinion of the community, so please take the time to fill this out and tell us what you really want by doing it.

Note about filling out the survey: The questions that we want you to rank are a bit tricky. You either select a number (the “alternative” will then change place) or drag and drop the “alternative” to place it where you want it.

Click here to get to the survey

First person animations
As we’ve mentioned in several previous updates, we’re working on improving the first person animations. Since José came back from his paternity leave, he’s been tag-teaming with Hampus, so this process is going a bit faster now. They still have a lot left to do, so don’t expect it to be done too soon, since we have a lot of items in theHunter that needs special animations. The muzzle loader, for example, is one of the trickiest ones to get to look good. To give you a hint of what it’ll look like here are some screenshots:

New feature – “mirror-cam”
You can now look at yourself with the new “mirror-cam”. By pressing the F2 key on your keyboard (you can change this key in settings in the game client) you’ll get a third person view of your character. This feature only works when you’re at the lodge, or by the tent, since we want to avoid it to being used to give unfair advantages while hunting. We might use this feature for avatar pictures at a later stage if this is something you’d like. Here’s what it looks like:

New feature – player ban
We’ve added a ban option for the host of a multiplayer game. So if you want to make sure a misbehaving player won’t ruin your game again just click the brand new ban button that can be found under the admin tab, next to the kick button, in the client. It will both kick the player from the current session and stop him/her from joining your future games. You can un-ban players by going to the settings page on the website.

New feature – Sort server list
We’ve added a feature that lets you sort the server list for multiplayer games. You can now sort the multiplayer servers in order of: Country, reserve, host and distance. And you can also search for server and host names in a text search.

New Fox variations
We’ve added two new color variation of the Red Fox. You can now hunt grey and crossed Red Foxes on Hirschfelden and Hemmeldal.

Bug fixes
We’ve been fixing some bugs as well. Thanks to you, our fantastic community, an AI bug, that we completely missed, has now been fixed. We’ve made leaving the inventory in game faster, by removing a bug and you can now purchase things in the store on the web while playing without the game crashing. We’ve also crushed several bugs on the web site. See the change log for more details.

Happy hunting!

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