The Latest Sons of the Forest Update Adds an Exciting Twist to Kelvin’s Personality

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Sons of the Forest Patch 12: Kelvin Gets a Personality Makeover

Endnight Games has released Patch 12 for Sons of the Forest, the highly anticipated sequel to their indie horror survival game. This latest update brings a host of new features and improvements, including a personality makeover for the beloved companion, Kelvin.

What’s New in Patch 12?

Added pick axe
You can now mine the Solafite mineral found in caves

Added new cave
Added second ??? item
Added 2 new findable book items allowing you to build two new structures

New upgrade system for weapons
New hanging cross, gore props, and cave roots were added to Cave A and Cave F
Added hanging skeletons to some trees in the world

Added Ranged aiming sensitivity option
Cannibal leaders or village guards once alerted to a player can now call for quick backup from others in the area
Implemented more Kelvin emotes: Nod, Thumbs up, Confused, Shake Head, Hit Head, No, Happy, Sad (If the player quickly nods at Kelvin he will nod back)

Implemented more Virginia emote actions: Laugh, Nod, Shake Head, Happy, Confused, No, Sad

Improvements and Fixes

Animal heads now can be hit with a golf putter
Virginia will now laugh if she sees an animal hit a spring trap or a full-health Kelvin get hit with a small rock

Kelvin will now react to animal heads
Improved look of volumetric light from sun and work lights
You can now carry up to 3 Turtle Shells

Spawn location for skinned animal heads will now be at the head of the body
Burning player, torch, molotov, and spreading fire now react to sprinklers
Improved sprinkler performance in bunkers

Sprinklers will clean blood off players and held weapons
Improved positioning of free wires extremities when placing on beams and pillars
Electric wires can now be placed on three-quarter-high pillars

Moved the ramp placement arrow up slightly so that it is easier to see when targeting from the bottom of the ramp
The player no longer slides when standing on ramps
Placing planks on ramps is now easier to target when standing close to it

Physics collider cleanup and optimization on a few Items
Various environment fixes
Food Bunker tree base collisions synced in multiplayer so AI interact with them

Lighting transition improved in food bunker water
Improvements to driftwood physics
Some optimizations to characters and AI update

Kelvin’s Finish Structure order will no longer stop after one structure, will now finish everything he can before completing the order
And more…

Balance Changes

Creepies are more resistant to bullets and have slightly increased general health

Puffies when high health won’t get dismembered
Add a two-second hit react cooldown to lower the stun lock on Puffies
Fingers and Twins now have more aggressive behavior

Reduced max late-game outside creepy count by 20%
Reduce the likelihood of creepies taking overpopulated villages
Spear melee stab damage reduced 15->10

Fixes

Fixed Frank sometimes trying to do revenge attack on himself after lighting himself on fire
Players can no longer be killed during any cutscenes
Fixed missing spittle in bunker entertainment

Fixed small rock not spawning when digging
Fixed some issues with Sluggy sound in Cave C
Fixed light bulb getting visually culled too early

Fixed supported screw structure getting destroyed when adding a strut to a beam
Fixed sharpening a defensive wall log playing audio of the player swinging his weapon
Fixed corner ramp beam on ground placement able to place against off-grid structures which would typically create degenerate corner ramps

Fixed placing strut underneath leveled beam unlinking the forward support in some case
Fixed placing strut underneath leveled beam inverting the beam visually sometimes
Fixed pressing shift while placing a stick or rock path leaving the player in a broken state

Fixed lifting beams causing the renderer rotation to pop after lifting it
Fixed case where beams supporting a concave corner ramp beam would block placement of floors on the wrong side of the beam
Fixed case where placing a strut under a leaning beam wasn’t possible

Fixed issue when placing walls over floors that would break floor linking with its support beam
Fixed own shadow leaking slightly on wall and pillar logs
Fixed issues with grass and leaves from the fake ground covering up some items in the inventory

??? pieces will no longer respawn if the player already collected them
Added missing equip UI to wire in inventory
Fixed bug where other players would stash items when a networked player triggered the Puffton cutscene

Fixed missing knife in tree crash cutscene
Fix for molotov smoke alpha clipping
Fixed Armsy sometimes not setting off traps

Fixed Greg’s carried effigy type not matching on clients
Fixed floating spittle sometimes appearing on destroyed huts
Fixed bullets fired from ultra-close range sometimes going through the enemy

Fixed issue with player block and parry where hits got through during animation transitions
Fixed player-held severed head scare not working properly when done by clients

Audio Enhancements

Updated fire events for built fires and standing fires

Retimed skinning animals sounds
Tuned audio on burning stick and molotov events
Added new physics interaction SFX object for small batteries

Changed a sluggy event to be 3d
Changed distance settings on sluggy emerges event
Turned down vista sting a little

Added some sounds for skeletons and falling rocks

The Sons of the Forest Patch 12 update is now available for players to download. With the addition of new materials, tools, structures, and improved gameplay, this early access survival game continues to evolve. Endnight Games has promised more massive patches in the future, ensuring that players have plenty of content to look forward to.

For the full patch notes and developer’s message, visit the official Steam page.

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