Hello again, everyone!
Patch 1.2.2 begins a celebration of The Good Dog's favorite holiday—Halloween! The update includes a new free Progression Pass with skins for dog breeds, ROV-R, the drone, and more, as well as new objectives for the Fetch game mode and a new respawn mechanic for the Entities.
A Good Dog Halloween
Progression Pass #3 releases today, completely free of charge! The pass includes the first wave of skins for the drone, as well as Halloween skins for a few dog breeds, ROV-R, and more.
There's a skin for the Dachshund that I'm particularly happy about. Go check it out!
Entity Hives
Entity Hives are the newest feature added to The Good Dog. Hives will spawn in random numbers around the map depending on your selected difficulty, and will only spawn nearby Points of Interest. When an Entity is killed, it will respawn at a randomly selected Hive after about a minute or so.
To counter this, you can now collect a torch from the Home Base campfire. While the torch is lit, you'll be able to burn down any Hive you touch with it. Be quick, though—the torch will burn out after 90 seconds, or if you drop it on the ground. Torches will respawn fairly quickly at the campfire if you need another one.
Destroying Hives isn't just strategic, though. This update brings a range of new objectives for Fetch as well, including destroying a specified number of Hives.
New Fetch Objectives
On that note, you might be tasked with a few other new objectives during your Expedition.
ROV-R Rescue tasks you with retrieving ROV-R from a random location somewhere out in your territory. While this objective is fairly simple to complete, it might force you to switch up your plan. This objective may be made more difficult in the future based on your feedback.
You may also be tasked with killing Entities out in your territory before successfully completing your Expedition. You will either be asked to kill a specified number of any Entity type, or a specified number of one specific Entity type. With the new Respawn mechanic in place, you won't have any problems finding the right number of Entities.
Halloween Event
Patch 1.2.2 brings with it the game's first community event. While on your Expedition, you'll find pumpkins spawning around Points of Interest in your territory. Destroy them to increase the community quota. Work together to reach the pumpkin quota before midnight on Halloween to unlock a permanent Halloween-themed item!
For some extra fun, each territory has a set of five special pumpkins hidden inside and around your Home Base. Destroying all five will grant you a bonus 25 points to the event quota. This can be done every time you load into an Expedition!
New Game Art!
I'm very excited to reveal that I have commissioned new artwork for The Good Dog! The game's store page was in much need of a visual overhaul, and a new set of high quality assets were created by a very talented artist from my Discord server. Check out the full size artwork below!
As always, thank you all for your feedback. I hope you enjoy the update! Happy Halloween!
Early Access Patch 1.2.2
Features
New Progression Pass: A Good Dog Halloween
New dog breeds
Samoyed
Updated model and coats for the Great Dane
Another mystery dog arrives before Halloween...
First set of Drone skins, as well as Halloween-themed skins for dog breeds, ROV-R, and more!
New Mechanic: Entity Hives
Hives will spawn near Points of Interest
Killed Entities will eventually respawn at a random Hive
Hives can be destroyed with a lit torch
Torches spawn within the Home Base campfire and will burn out after 90 seconds, or when dropped on the ground
New Fetch objectives
Destroy Hives
Hives appear as small orange smoke clouds in Scent Mode when within range
Territory Protection
Kill a specified number of any Entity type, OR of one specified Entity type (Kill Spiders, etc.)
ROV-R Rescue
ROV-R has been left behind on a previous Expedition. Retrieve the robot to complete the objective!
New Global Event
Destroy pumpkins as a community to reach the goal before Halloween ends and permanently unlock a mystery item!
Destroy five pumpkins hiding in and around each level's Home Base to get an additional 20 event points per Expedition!
Balancing
Slightly lowered Entity spawn rates to counter new Hive respawn mechanic
Fixes & Other Changes
Fixed an issue where a few specific radio towers would not spawn correctly
Added Halloween decorations and music to some levels, and Halloween-ified other tools and game objects
Adjusted Scent Mode cloud sizes and colors
Fixed bug where client players couldn't see the Fallen Dog on the dog bed after finishing the objective
