THE FOREST UPDATE

NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE: THE FOREST UPDATE 🌲❄️

Major Content Drop | Now Live

Brace yourselves, survivors. A frozen island of death awaits. Introducing our most intense and atmospheric update yet: THE FOREST. This isn’t just a new map — it’s a whole new nightmare.

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NEW CONTENT & FEATURES

🌲 New Map: The Forest

Explore a haunting snow-covered island located in the east Siberian Sea, an area buried in white silence and fear. You'll need stealth, speed, and precision — especially on Nightmare difficulty — to make it out alive.

👁️‍🗨️ New Enemy: The Apex Predator (Exclusive to The Forest)

Our first ever Boss-Class Enemy.

• Cannot be killed.

• Can only be stunned. (30 - 60 seconds until regaining consciousness)

• Spawns once randomly during a match

• Hunts purely by sound. (No sight capability) Use stealth to survive. Sneak... or stay frozen in place. One wrong step, and you're the prey.

🌊 Swimming & Breakable Icebergs (Forest-Exclusive Mechanics)

• Entering water rapidly drains your warmth — death by freezing is real.

• Cross icebergs to survive, but beware — they crack and shatter the longer you stand on them. Every step is a gamble.

🎵 New Soundtrack Additions

Brand-new environmental music and tension stingers for The Forest, designed to enhance immersion and keep you on edge.

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🔧 FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

• Temporarily removed flamethrower stalling mechanic — pending overhaul with new animations.

• Fixed flashlight drop bug when holding the revolver.

• Massive performance upgrades — including AI, lighting, reflections, fog, particle systems, dynamic sky, materials, and more. Huge boost for Low Island and overall framerate stability across the entire game.

• AI Navigation Overhaul — AI now:

  • Follows the fastest paths

  • Dynamically reroutes when stuck/ unable to find player

  • Can swim in Forest Map

• Fixed helicopter reinforcement spawn bug in cutscenes for clients, helicopter would appear under the map.

• Graphical fidelity improvements — decreased overall sharpness, and fog scattering effect.

• Fixed issue with missing heads when leech attacks + first-person animations were disabled.

• Accessories on skins now appear correctly in cutscenes.

• Fixed Gas Canister explosion replication bug.

• Map replay selection added — pick and revisit maps on mission failed/won screen.

• Dynamic main menu screen — updates to reflect selected map.

• Fixed Mimic barricade bug causing crash on pickup.

• Fixed GPU crashes & game/render thread stalls — smoother gameplay guaranteed.

• Hitbox system overhauled — better accuracy across all weapons.

• Fixed bullets being blocked by certain props (e.g. huskies).

• Fire system optimized — added pooling + fixed desync issues.

• Fixed snowmobiles triggering mission failed in evac zones.

• Open doors no longer block player movement.

• Photograph objective UI now displays your image during animations.

• Fixed Pickaxe disappearing bug.

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🔮 WHAT'S NEXT?

• Forest Part 2 is on the way, featuring:

  • Overhauled player models with real first-person hands

  • New enemy type: **The Cultist

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- Expanded lore and events tied to the Forest

• Additionally, our Technical Artist has wrapped another upcoming map — Facility-Based. We might sneak this into Part 2 if the timeline permits.

We’re listening closely to your feedback. This update wouldn’t be possible without the community — keep sending us bug reports, ideas, and chaos. See you in the snow, survivors. Stay quiet. Stay alive.

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*“Sound is death. Step carefully.”

• – Nuclear Nightmare Dev Team