Sons of the Forest has released a hotfix with several improvements. These 5 changes are included.
What is the current status of the game? The survival game Sons of the Forest (SotF) was released a week ago, on February 23, in Early Access on Steam and was a huge success at launch with over 269,000 active players. The first players have already completed the game after 10 hours.
What is this hotfix? On March 1, Endnight Games, the developer studio behind SotF, released hotfix 3, which aims to fix some minor issues with the game. The patch contains a total of 5 changes. (via Steam).
Here you will find an overview of the changes:
- Fix: Bottles assigned to a hotkey are no longer removed after use
- Arms and legs are equipped first and no longer eaten immediately when you use the corresponding hotkey
- Fixed the issue where the labeling of hotkey buttons in the inventory view didn’t match for some keys
- Fixed: The hotkey icon displayed the first hotkey for all unassigned items.
- ‘The collision calculation at the door to hell has been fixed. Certain interactions were not blocked there.’
In a previous hotfix on February 28, Endnight Games made some improvements. For example, the patch introduced the hotkey system and all associated hints, which received further improvements in the latest hotfix.
What was the problem at the entrance to hell? The patch notes include a fix for an issue with the entrance to hell. Certain interactions were not blocked there.
These “unblocked interactions” may refer to a known exploit that speedrunners used to access hell. For this, players had to drive sticks into the ground in front of a door at a specific location to glitch through the door during the animation. The Twitch streamer Dhalucard used the exploit in his speedrun.
It is therefore quite possible that the usual speedrun method no longer works due to the hotfix.
Are there any reactions to the hotfix? Yes, on Steam players can rate the hotfixes (thumbs up or down) and leave comments. The hotfix received over 7,400 “likes” and over 860 comments (as of March 2, 10:30).
Many of the comments are very positive and appreciate the work of the developers. However, some players are also asking for improvements to other issues – performance is mentioned repeatedly.
Additionally, players are addressing a bug with the AI companions’ GPS. It sometimes shows an incorrect or even multiple positions on the map where they are supposed to be. However, some players found a trick to respawn Kelvin or Virginia.
Sons of the Forest: Respawn trick for Kelvin and Virginia – What to do when they are dead?
