Survive The Forest

rwm24 said:
I've been waiting months for this game and I'm a bit disappointed to be honest.

Pros:
- Graphics are good
- Animations are good
- Crafting system is nice, but a bit lacking at the moment.
- Mutants look cool and are dangerous in groups.
- Melee combat is fun, really feel like you are hitting them.

Cons:
- You can't save the game - I assume this will be fixed asap.
- Cliffs are the biggest killer. Try and walk down some hills (that you could easily do irl) and you'll fall and die.
- No keybinds or quick slots to quickly switch between items.
- Mutants are to be feared, but only because they take about 20 hits with an axe to knock them down then another 5 hits when they are on the floor to kill.
- A lot of buggy areas. Clipping through floors, fish floating in the middle of the land. Big holes in the world.
- Water is bugged, you walk along the floor of lakes. You can also see straight through water, as if it's not there.
- No collision with lots of stuff. Your axe goes straight through a lot of objects.
- The only cave entrance I can find is the one you end up in (not spoiling anything).
- I ended up clipping through cave walls several times, then as I got deeper I went under water, despite it being in the middle of a cave and couldn't go any further.
- The world is not big enough. A lot of empty space. Played for about 2 hours and I know the map fairly well. I kept stumbling across things I'd seen before, quickly ran out of new things.

I know it's only early access, but I was hoping to be able to sit down and play all evening/night, but that's just not the case at the moment.

It has potential, but needs another few months of development.
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Don't think it's fair to give it such a big pros/con list for a 0.01 alpha made by 4 guys! Seeing as it crashes less than BF4, has better foliage than Skyrim and the animations are great! Look how Rust was when it was first released (and how it still is). At least you actually see the trees fall down when you fell them.
 
wow this has sooooooooooooo much potential.

even in its current state its genuinely scary during the night.

I figured id stick to the shoreline and work my way around, came across a washed up shark carcass on the beach and what looked like a tribesman village, figured good place to make a camp :D

Made my shelter and figured id hit Z to get some sleep, bad idea when i woke was surrounded by tribals lol.

Then they knocked me out and i woke in a cave, found a flare and dropped it on the floor only to see about a dozen bodies hanging from the roof.

Trying to find my way out of that cave with a lighter was genuinely scary and the sounds of the tribes folk when you stumble across them.

So much potential from this, glad i bought it more value than DayZ standalone thats for sure :)

This gave gives me the impression of a movie called The Descent.
 
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Quite amazing for 4 guys, very basic idea but so well designed so far. I've not put it down since 7 oclock. I'm genuinely excited to see its progress. Now if only they can sort out save issue, my camp will actually flourish
 
Looks like it has potential. Ill add it to my list of games I wish never had early access, seriously when is the early access trend going to end?

Anyways.... Ill hope the developers actually keep motivation to develop the game all the way through to release and Ill check it out again.
 
Played it for quite a few hours earlier and I am truly impressed overall, such a good game for the very first stage of public alpha mode - I haven't had a single crash, performance is decent (and excellent for an early alpha build) and the gameplay is exciting and tense.

This has such good potential, I will be following this game right from the start to the finish, the developers deserve to be successful from this title :)
 
My play through is turning into Cast Away, although I don't have a volleyball to hand...

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Enjoying this, the animations of the inhabitants are stunning as are the environments. Shame 3d doesn't work properly..although the intro sequence does and is well worth checking out. Looking forward to this evolving, the addition of coop will give it longevity.
 
A sort of semi fox for the no save issue.. Basically if you die you will respawn in the caves. I am not sure how it works when you reload the game, I doubt it will save your position, but at leats you can enjoy a nights gaming/building!

All you have to do is copy Assembly-CSharp.dll: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Iw0RYBuMN2dFF4ckMtSHp1NUU/edit

to: Steam\SteamApps\common\The Forest\theforest_data\Managed
and overwrite the existing one. But please do a backup of the old one if anything goes wrong.
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Got half way to building the log cabin last night but it got late and I've got a busy day today...Mission for tomorrow. lol
 
This game looks so good that I am going to skip it until a few more features are added. I used 2d > 3d conversion on my monitor and it looked great, can't wait to see what it looks like in oculus rift.
 
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