We've updated the Beta Again!

Hello Everyone!

We've just released an update to the Beta Branch which adds in a new intro cutscene for the Corruption feature, rebalances the Gnarl and Corruption, as well as a whole load of bug fixes and audio improvements!

As we near the release of this patch, we'd like to ask for all of you, (especially those of you playing without the Corruption turned on) to please try out this latest version and let us know how it feels for you now!

Patch Notes:

🆕 New Features

• **Corruption Intro Cutscene - **Added a new intro cutscene for the corruption, played through Altani's conversation.

⚖️ Balancing

• The Gnarl now only appears after you have completed the corruption tutorial.

• Corruption now deals damage based on the Bravery stat.

• Cargo now degrades faster while standing on corrupted ground.

• Rebalanced the difficulty settings for cargo degradation, horse survival, and player survival.

• Custom difficulty tweaks are no longer applied on top of a selected preset.

• General polish for Gnarl combat.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed crashes when nomad camps spawn.

• Fixed the infinite fall bug in one specific location.

• Fixed rifts still becoming corrupted even under maximum protection.

• Fixed corruption tutorial conversations getting stuck on Altani or Batu.

• Fixed the health bar staying red after swapping stats.

• Fixed foals sometimes being generated with the same name as one of their parents.

• Fixed the increase/decrease arrows on horse stats being too small.

• Fixed the taming UI not appearing when starting a new taming immediately.

• Fixed difficulty options getting out of sync on the new-game selection screen.

• Fixed cargo-based coin rewards displaying incorrectly.

• Fixed the wrong name and description on the cleansing powder arrow.

• Fixed swap-stats and dismount sharing the same input binding.

• Fixed unused mission conversation options not being removed.

⚙️ Performance

• Reduced CPU cost from non-active horses for smoother performance.

🔊 Audio

• Added battle music for Gnarl encounters.

• Fixed voice-over volume and cutscene audio.

• Added more world ambience animal sounds.

That's all for this update! Again please do let us know how you feel about the Corruption mechanics now, either here on our Steam Discussion threads or on our Discord, and don't forget you can always send a bug report in game using the F1 tool!

Be Amazing Everyone!