The Forest - Open World Survival Horror

RopeDrink

Currently in pre-alpha on steam. Coming out for PC and Occulus Rift.

Creepy... Very creepy... Having survived a plane crash and watched a tribal looking half naked cannibal take your son away, you rise from your blackout and set off in a bid to survive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mr4k9X6c8

It's not long before your attempt to build a wood-log fortress, or gain some comfort by a night-time fire while cooking fish, lizard or rabbit is interrupted by your first encounter with roaming cannibal parties of up to 2-8.
They spot you, and inspect you - Some even climb up into the trees and proceed to follow you from above, leaping from one to the other... And then, noticing you trying to get away after they've cornered you, they attack.

It's a mix of RUST vs 7DaysToDie vs DayZ, though replace zombies with tactful and vicious skin eating mutants, who look all too human - And, for the moment, it's entirely singleplayer.
Essentially a survival horror crafting game with open world exploration and random elements - It won't be long before you're running for your life mid "Building awesome base of survival".

It's in very early alpha (15-16euro at the moment) but I have to say, it's making a great first impression and going down well with the YouTubers. If the crafting element or surviving the night isn't your thing, then you'll have fun roaming around while hiding behind a tree as you spot your first cannibal camp, surrounded in skulls and body-part effigies.
I barely managed to survive one night, simply because of pre-alpha bugs - But the practice will definitely help!

If overcome by the cannibals, you're in for a tense attempt at escaping their cave :cool:
Here's some of my failed gameplay as night arrives and I get discovered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjvZgVSqeL0

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Played it for a bit last night.After about 10 minutes I remembered reading about saves not working so logged out to test it. Glad I did it 10 mins in as the saves don't work at the moment. Would have been pissed off if I pumped hours in, only to log in at the start again. Hopefully it'll be patched soon, although some are saying it'll be at least 2 weeks.Either way, won't be playing it again till the patch

Noxin

Looks like good fun but I think I'll be waiting until the saves work also. Something like that would make me rage big time.

john the one

Was just about to buy it until I found out about the no save. Might just put the money to watch dogs now!

Off topic when is the steam summer sale??

ShadowHearth

It looks very interesting, but I will wait for it to be a bit more mature with content.
Having no save option at this day and age is just bizarre. Are we back to Nes times? They might introduce code system again? :pac:

Wossack

watched some videos over the weekend - freaky feckin game alright. Serious potential in it imo

CruelCoin

It's amazing that the developers (all 4 of them) can create something like this. The world is stunning, really is. Trees falling realistically, birds on your hands, etc, all beautifull.

At the moment its far too easy to die. Defense is nigh on impossible, and making it past day 2-3 is pretty difficult.

I'm looking forward to the promised peacefull mode. The world is beautiful, but i feel like it is a little spoiled by the difficulty.

On my first playthrough i just strolled around, killing rabbits and building a cabin, concentrating entirely on food and shelter (as you do in a survival game). Imagine my dismay to be mauled to death 30 mins after i step out of the plane.

learning through death that "oh, i should focus on defense first" isn't really the best way to go, and i think this could have been done better by having the guy in the first cutscene brandish a weapon at you or something. Learning through failure and replaying is poor game design. A few scripted events to put the frighteners on you would go down a treat.

I've not seen them myself yet, but i hope they remove the squidhead brutes. I hope they keep it to a simple tribesmen want you dead, really dead, and that they steer clear of the whole mutant zombie thing.

Can't wait for co-op either. 5-6 people vs the world, Rust style would be awesome in a world this nice.

Sephiroth_dude

How big is the map/world?

Skerries

€9.89 here

Cravez

Gave it a go there. Game looks stunning overall, the odd low res texture (e.g Boulders) and Texture issues regarding rain etc but looks great, especially the lighting.

Encountering the natives was quite terrifying, surrounding you, observing you then one of the women ran up and smacked me in the jaw and it was gloves off at that point, full melee mode. Melee was quite satisfying knocking them about the place.They knocked me unconcious and woke up in one of their caves with the sight of seeing airplane passengers butchered and strewn everywhere.

In short the game is looking very promising with the premise and roadmap but since it's pre-alpha there's obviously bugs that need ironed out so that depends on whether you want a buggy game at the moment or to wait a while until things get more stable.

Sephiroth_dude

Can you craft weapons and beat the crap out of the natives? or stalk them in there own camp and take them out one by one ?

Noxin

haha, well I bought it.

My first run wasn't very productive. As soon as I got outside the plane there was 3 locals on me. Killed two, the third ran off.
So I started to gather to try build a hut. Looked up after a while and 6 locals were standing around me, including the chick who ran off.

I got owned

Trying again

sweetie

Skerries wrote: »

€10.20 here

anyone buy from here? Is the G2A shield necessary or how does it work?

BTW should the two threads be merged?

Yeti Beast

Yeah, this thread should assimilate the one in Games.

Robert ninja

This is one of the few games I'm thorougly looking forward to completion. I haven't bought the alpha and don't plan to but I've been watching a lot of videos and this is definitely seeming like an instant purchase when finished, especially at such a low price because it's indie.

Adding The Forest to my list of games to get hyped for. It's now

Hitman 6
The Forest
The Witcher 3
Batman Arkham Knight

Noxin

The game really has a way of making you crap yourself.

My second run was slightly better than my first but not my much. I got a hut of sorts built but apparently all my tree chopping was pi$$ing the locals off to no end. They were around me fairly quick.

Got knocked dafaq out again.

Rezzed in a cave. So was running around flicking lighter on and off when that music to say: "You are screwed" kicked in.
Bricked myself and randomly fired a flare gun in all directions. Hit some naked bloke who set ablaze and ran around like a... well, a man on fire really.

Eventually escaped the cave, made my way back to the plane and where my hut was. Continued towards the hut marker through a bunch of dense bushes only to fall off a rather high cliff, plunging right to my death.

All that said and not surviving for more that one in game day, this game has great potential.
Lovely graphics (bit buggy but that'll fix in time)
Mob's that seem to think somewhat. At least it felt like they were deploying tactics against me when fighting... (watch out for those feckers who climb trees) this meaning you can't just swing wildly at them. You'll quickly run out of energy if you do anyway.
It's definitely on my watch list and for the current price, it's well worth a purchase.

Cravez

Noxin wrote: »

Mob's that seem to think somewhat. At least it felt like they were deploying tactics against me when fighting... (watch out for those feckers who climb trees) this meaning you can't just swing wildly at them. You'll quickly run out of energy if you do anyway.
It's definitely on my watch list and for the current price, it's well worth a purchase.

I was hiding in the bushes outside the plane as I knew a few of them we're going to come investigate. I saw them but before I could do anything they started running and then climbing the trees chasing something, jumping from one tree to another. I started hacking down a tree with one of them on it but before I could one of them sneaked up behind me a clocked me. Had a brawl but ended up unconcious and woke up in cave again.

I imagine it's going to be very difficult when there's a group including the mutants, I guess thats why you'll need so many traps.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Can you craft weapons and beat the crap out of the natives? or stalk them in there own camp and take them out one by one ?

You can chop them up and use their leg as a weapon . Basically you can beat up one of them with their buddies leg.

Wossack

looks like they take far too many hits with the axe imo, be better off hitting them with a wet newspaper

if they want to go the route of very tough normal enemies (a good thing imo), it would be better if the natives dodged, or deflected blows, instead of the current face tank. Could be planned though..!

Noxin

Wossack wrote: »

looks like they take far too many hits with the axe imo, be better off hitting them with a wet newspaper

if they want to go the route of very tough normal enemies (a good thing imo), it would be better if the natives dodged, or deflected blows, instead of the current face tank. Could be planned though..!

I agree with this they do take too many hits. And even when they are down and you are two handed smashing your axe into their skull, they still tend to get up for one or two more swings.

But again, this is still pre-alpha. Tweeks will happen.

Cravez

yeah I'd say it's more a tool to be used (chopping, cutting etc). The axe found in the cave looks alot larger and probably does more damage.

Sephiroth_dude

Cravez wrote: »

You can chop them up and use their leg as a weapon . Basically you can beat up one of them with their buddies leg.

Lmao brilliant

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Really impressed with how quick they're knocking out hotfixes and patches.Also really lovig the crafting, even though it's limited and the way your base is always indicated on the screen. I'm getting old and forgetful, so it's always nice for there to be a bit of direction for old ****s like me.

Yeti Beast

It absolutely amazes me that this is made by just four people.

Overheal

Looks kinda like Stomping Land in a way.

Stomping Land is in early access also. Build a dwelling, kill dinosaurs, etc.

Noxin

Annoyed me a bit. Every time I start a game I get owned by muties quite quick.

One game yesterday I managed to survive for slightly longer than normal. I grabbed a few bits around the plane and ran off, knowing they would be coming soon enough. But it seems no matter what direction I go, I run into a patrol of 5-6 and get destroyed.

Once I only managed to run into 2 of them. Killed one while the other tried to run off to her buddies. Caught up and killed her too. All good, perhaps a little breathing space. NOPE. Another 4 standing around me within a minute. Awww poop.

Wetbench4

Noxin wrote: »

Annoyed me a bit. Every time I start a game I get owned by muties quite quick.

One game yesterday I managed to survive for slightly longer than normal. I grabbed a few bits around the plane and ran off, knowing they would be coming soon enough. But it seems no matter what direction I go, I run into a patrol of 5-6 and get destroyed.

Once I only managed to run into 2 of them. Killed one while the other tried to run off to her buddies. Caught up and killed her too. All good, perhaps a little breathing space. NOPE. Another 4 standing around me within a minute. Awww poop.

Their vision can be ****e though so i usually run for a bit and lose them. I'm finding the game is crashing my gpu though and running it about 4 degrees hotter than any other game i've ever played, but its alphaphapha i know.

Cravez

New update is out:

Version 0.03 Changelog:

Features/improvements:

• No enemies mode! Type “veganmode” on title screen to activate (without the “”)
• Player head added! And held items now correctly cast shadows
• New suprise item added to plane
• Yacht location is now random
• Bats now correctly fly out of cave entrances
• Partially built structures are now saved
• Fixed water not accumulating on terrain when raining
• Cassette player can now be turned off by clicking it a second time if it’s already playing
• Log Cabin now has a floor, a door with hinge and a sleeping/saving spot
• Birds will now land on window ledge of your built log cabin
• Molotov will extinguish if in contact with water
• Improved sunset/sunrise lighting
• Two new effigies buildable, simple head on stick and arms pointing to sky
• House boat buildable (Warning : buggy!! - especially with sharks. Also, may sink)
• Stick marker added to custom building, quickly build yourself waypoints
• Coral and seaweed added under water (rough)
• New buildable item : Stick holder
• Inventory can now carry 1 additional stick (to make shelter construction easier)
• Small texture tweaks/improvements
• Shadow distance increased for High and mid settings
• Improved motion blur on held items
• Hanging rope pick ups added to deep in caves
• New cave lighting prop: Laptop
• 11 new filmic inspired grade options added to graphic options menu
• Bench now buildable via book section ‘Furniture’
• Single bat prefab added to parts of caves
• Improved lilypad pop-in
• Med pickups now go direct to inventory instead of being eaten on pickup

Sounds:

• Improved cannibal village track implementation
• ‘Lake’ track added to Geese Lake
• Bash pass at all ambient sound implementation, better transitions, better positioning, fall off and ranges
• Thunder and rain sounds randomized
• Cave audio pass, adding reverb and echo, better balancing
• Underwater sound filter added
• Water footsteps sounds now play when you walk into water

Performance:

• More memory optimizations should improve stability
• Lowered memory usage further if 32bit windows is detected, should fix crash on opening if less than 4gbs of usable memory is available (note: 4gb usable is still recommended)

Bugs:

• Head no longer pokes through collision!
• Fixed some items missing from inventory when game was loaded
• Fixed collision where you could wall walk out of plane
• Fixed can’t carry more raw fish message that would appear when you had too many rocks.
• Fixed pond covered in logs
• Fixed left hand held conflicts between lighter, torch walkman etc
• Removed gleam on inventory coins and flares
• Fixed floating garden
• Fixed leaf vertex colors on small leaf hut
• Fixed flare gun falling through yacht
• Fixed log going to -1 if you died whilst holding a log
• Fixed small effigy construction shader being too faint
• Removed grass cutting from opening inventory (was causing crashes on some pc’s)

Cravez

New patch out!

Version 0.04

Features and changes

• New A.I. behaviour, mutants will sometimes go home to sleep during day along with other new routines.
• Distorted mutants can now be killed with regular weapons.
• Distorted mutants more aggressive and deadly in combat and have expanded actions.
• Better ambient lighting. Trees and large objects diffusely occlude skylight. (experimental)
• Pause menu now actually pauses game.
• Enemies use rocks more often to jump attack at player.
• New female enemy type added.
• Better distribution of enemies throughout the world.
• Constructed bench now works and players can sit to regain energy or watch sunset.
• Increased axe damage against enemies.
• More variation to female cannibal models, added procedural breasts size system.
• Improved Rabbit/Lizard distribution and optimized CPU usage.
• Improved sky and sun look.
• Improved dead cave lighting and cave 2 lighting.
• Better cave textures and rock look.
• Dead cave prop fixes, fixed some incorrect rock placements.
• Improved load times and added loading percentage amount.
• Re-balanced hunger drain.
• Better cave ground with flowing water and more detailed textures.
• Enemies will now push small items out of the way instead of getting stuck on them.
• Dead sharks now ragdoll.

Bugs:

• Fixed rain sound never going away even after rain stops.
• Fixed bug where some partially built structures couldn’t be completed after loading a saved game.
• Fixed animals sometimes disappearing in regular and vegan mode.
• Fixed issue where you could still shoot flare gun or use other weapons when pause menu was open.
• Yacht random position won't change now or get lost when saved game is loaded
• Fixed all effigies turning into arm effigy on load
• Fixed E to add icon showing up if holding a rock or stick even if items not needed in building
• Fixed cave drips continuing to play even when not in cave
• Fixed fish swimming outside of pond near cliff section
• Fixed fullness always starting at half when loading a saved game
• Fixed moonlight sometimes missing completely
• Fixed stick marker vanishing on loading saved game
• Fixed missing collision roof of cabin
• Fixed player flying in air after chopping dead bodies
• Rain effigy effect should now work and will wear off after time
• Cannibals spawning in villages no longer ‘pop’ when waking up
• Fixed creepy female model attacks sometimes not hitting player
• Fixed bug where bird landing on hand would sometimes stop axe from working
• Fixed enemy head and leg pickups sometimes appearing as arm pickups

Justwinginit

Noxin wrote: »

Annoyed me a bit. Every time I start a game I get owned by muties quite quick.

One game yesterday I managed to survive for slightly longer than normal. I grabbed a few bits around the plane and ran off, knowing they would be coming soon enough. But it seems no matter what direction I go, I run into a patrol of 5-6 and get destroyed.

Once I only managed to run into 2 of them. Killed one while the other tried to run off to her buddies. Caught up and killed her too. All good, perhaps a little breathing space. NOPE. Another 4 standing around me within a minute. Awww poop.

This was pissing me off too, but at last I can type Veganmode, and no cannibals annoying me while I build away to my hearts content. When I have multiple traps set and a nice fortress I may let them back in the game:-D Let them come....

BeerWolf

Pft, it's only Minecraft v2 :P

Sephiroth_dude

On sale atm, worth a tenner?

john the one

I have about 15 hours in. Bit of craic. Own the game a few months and paid full price. Will go back again soon after far cry.

Mind you, the room is 5 bucks at the moment and its wonderful so have a think! If you had 15 euro, get both and get at least 20 hours fun from both