** "Official" Sons of the Forest thread! **

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Considering this is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam, I'm really surprised there isn't a thread about it already (or in fact barely any mention of it anywhere on here) :confused:




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Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Yes, it's another horror survival/crafter, but (IMO at least), The Forest (first game) was much better than most of the huge number of Rust/Minecraft etc. clones which came out at the time, due to the excellent and unpredictable AI/behaviour of the natives, and the storyline which you had to go and seek out, rather than have spoon-fed to you. In many ways it reminds me of Subnautica.

The crafting/base-building was also great fun, and me and a few mates had a dedicated server set up where we built a huge cliffside fortress (in fact I've managed to log 91 hours, and haven't yet fully completed the storyline :cry:).

From what I've seen of Sons Of The Forest, it's essentially "more of the same", but with better graphics, more enemies, more in depth crafting/building, and more gear, what's not to like?!

It releases today (yes in Early Access, but so did the first, and actually got finished) - according to Steam in ~9 hours, so that would make it ~5-6pm?

Anyone else looking forward to it?
 
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From the videos of it, the building does look cool - I like how they've added animations of actually placing the materials rather than them just "popping" into position - hoping that's not the only "revolutionary" part of, but definitely a nice touch!
 
The building system in this is so good, once you get to grips with it you can do some really cool stuff. Feels like a step forward in building mechanics in these sorts of games.
 
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The building system in this is so good, once you get to grips with it you can do some really cool stuff. Feels like a step forward in building mechanics in these sorts of games.
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Yeah, really enjoying it, it's very clever. Seen a few people complaining on the Steam forum that you can no longer just put down a blueprint and randomly throw materials at it, but personally I think the way they've done it adds to the immersion.

Not sure how I feel about the quick inventory/lack of hotkeys though, it's annoying having to open your inventory every time you want to swap between equipment - even if there was just a dedicated hotkey for the basic tools e.g. the axe, would be a nice improvement.

Found a couple of annoying bugs with the building - can't make a gate in the defensive wall, seems to be quite a common issue, so hopefully fixed soon, and also you can't destroy defensive walls after chopping the spike into the top :(
 
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