Launch Day & Free Week

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Fear The Wolves Early Access Improvements

• Added the possibility to start a match with fewer players using a smaller map
  
• Spectator matchmaking
  
• Improved shooting
  
• Improved wolf behavior
  
• Rooftop extractions
  
• Unified mode (Duos as default, with friends or strangers / Solo available)
  
• New pre-match system (enter the map immediately & vote to force starting a match while waiting for the minimum number of players)
  
• Anomalous lockdown areas
  
• Wolves can break doors
  

• Three new customization sets
  
• Lot of new or improved points of interest and environments on the map
  
• New weapon, the SOK-94
  
• Hidden stashes around the map with high tier loot (treasure map system)
  
• Axe item allowing access to boarded up rooms with high tier loot
  
• Vaulting
  
• Voice chat available for squad
  
• New deployment system
  
• On boarding elements: Dynamic tooltips and tutorial loading screens added
  
• Artifact system
  
• A new mutant: the Wolf Matriarch
  
• Wolf Matriarch Heart
  
• Spore Artifact
  
• New point of interest: Stadium
  

• Updated anomaly effects, weather effects, and a variety of new shooting VFX
  
• Improvement of heat VFX weather
  
• Improved textures on specific elements
  
• Reduced texture quality difference between level of settings
  

• Client performance improvements
  
• Auto settings
  
• Various client crash fixes
  
• Performance optimization: huge work on LODs
  
• Sounds improvements
  
• Improved server capacity and reworked server re-partitioning
  

• Added Ultrawide support for 21:9 monitors.
  
• Rebalanced the mouse sensitivities, allowing players to better manipulate their settings.
  
• A lot of new settings
  
• Compass added
  
• More sounds
  
• Nvidia Highlight feature
  
• Auto attachment
  

• 13 new languages (Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, French, Italian, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish)
  

Change log

• Anomalous Lockdown areas:
  
  
  
  • When you don’t collect all Spore artifacts in Anomalous Lockdown areas, you will be hit by the permanent radiation ( 3-5 DPS, depending on the radius to an artifact)
    
  • Fungal Anomaly:
    
    
    
    • Will attack players trying to find a Spore artifact:
      
      
      
      • Largest radius will attack players who are sprinting
        
      • Medium radius will attack players who are walking
        
      • Smallest radius will attack players who are crouching
        
      
      
    • Anomaly needs some time to recharge after attacking a player
      
    • The damage and range will be affected by player’s radiation protection
      
    
    
  • Spore Artifact:
    
    
    
    • You can collect up to 3 Spore Artifacts in a stack.
      
    • It allows you to see hidden players through walls and landscape for 7 seconds. (Note that you can’t use any weapons during these 7 seconds.)
      
    
    
  
  
• Wolf Matriarch:
  
  
  
  • Wolf Matriarch is the leader of several wolves and will spawn near the end of the match
    
  • Can summon new wolves
    
  • The Wolf Matriarch will keep her distance from players. If you manage to get close, she won’t hesitate to defend herself and will begin attacking you
    
  • The Wolf Heart Artifact can be collected once the player defeated a Wolf Matriarch. The Wolf Heart Artifact has three functions:
    
    
    
    • Protect its owner in a passive mode (You won’t be detected by wolves, except for Wolf Matriarch.)
      
    • Apply passive mode to teammates in a limited radius
      
    • Can summon a pack of wolves (2 charges)
      
    
    
  
  
• Wolves knocking down doors:
  
  
  
  • If a player hides behind a closed door, a wolf will knock it down.
    
  • After being knocked down, the door will be broken and can no longer be used.
    
  
  
• New customization set: Airborne Forces, including 11 items
  
• Revamped UI
  
  
  
  • New Inventory
    
  • New in-game Map
    
  
  
• Added 22 Steam Achievements
  

• New dynamic tooltip (Spore Artifact, Heart Artifact, Fungal Anomaly, Anomalous Lockdown, Pre-match, etc…)
  
• “Hide/Show items highlight” option is available in settings for more advanced players who would like to lighten the UI of the game
  
• New Loading screens (Wolf Matriarch, Anomalous Lockdown)
  
• New background for Loading screen with Wolves
  
• Credits are now available in the Lobby
  

• Optimized the Evacuation stage
  

• Following new standard of map size, the number of vehicles has been reduced by two
  

• Added a new point of interest: Stadium
  
• General polishing of all new points of interest
  

• Fixed an issue where if the door has been opened during the pre-match, it would stay open, and players would be able to pass through at the beginning of the match
  
• Fixed an issue where the game would be blocked if the player presses the button "Open one more for 500$" without enough money
  
• Fixed an issue where Alive Counter didn’t work properly
  
• Fixed an issue with grenades not landing in the targeted place
  
• Fixed an issue where even if the “Force Start Accepted” message has been displayed, the countdown would restart
  
• Fixed an issue where the weapon would shoot automatically if the player presses the shoot button while opening the map
  
• Fixed an issue where loot boxes would fall through objects on which players were standing
  
• Fixed an issue where the UI would still remain on the screen if the item tooltip has been displayed in pre-match, and then the match started
  
• Fixed the “twitching” effect of rivers
  
• Fixed an issue where players wouldn’t receive any “kill” credits when a player in knockdown state used the “EXIT TO LOBBY” button
  
• Fixed an issue where the head position while vaulting was unnatural
  
• Fixed an issue where some rocks all around the map didn't have any collision
  
• Fixed an issue where the DOWNED debuff icon would stay on the screen after a player has been revived
  
• Fixed an issue with equipment not displaying properly when a player exchanged a piece of armor for another one
  
• Drinking Vodka now adds a layer of fun to the player's screen
  
• All menus should be functional now
  
• Fixed an issue where squad members that loaded slower would spawn far away from their teammates
  
• Fixed an issue where squads were made with existing players in a game and not new players connecting to the game
  
• Fixed an issue that the keybind didn’t display properly for "You have low health, press "J" to use your medkit"
  
• Improved the in-game map
  
• Fixed an issue where if the character fell from a higher place while reloading, the reloading animation would continue
  
• Fixed an issue where the deployment map didn’t adapt to resolution changes that prevented players at lower resolutions from picking villages on the right side of the map
  
• Fixed various localization and UI formatting issues
  
• Fixed an issue that players staying in a vehicle were not able to click on the deployment map during pre-match
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the background to flicker
  
• Fixed an issue with backpack dropping into any loot container, extended slots would duplicate contained items
  
• Fixed some issues related to dynamic hints
  
• Fixed an issue where some blocked buildings didn't have a board in the entrance door
  
• Fixed many invisible collisions