Update 19 | Sons of The Forest

[@DarkWestern]

It would be cool if you could build locks for your doors, and just give Kelvin and Virginia spare keys, and they'd lock up after they get in.

[@joemugg2213]

They need to have it more scavenge for parts to build say a key lock. All those Maintenace bunkers should have parts.

[@DarkWestern]

@@joemugg2213 That, or just 3D print a lock and as many keys as you want.

[@whatifindbeautiful]

Or just make it so you're not stepping in your own traps. I mean, if Kelvin doesn't do it... come on

[@gerhardjanssen6822]

@@whatifindbeautiful or just don't step in your own traps? why should the game hold your hand and prevent you from triggering your own traps?

[@eclipse6286]

We have Raccoons everywhere in America pretty much and yes they are nationally known as trash pandas, and they absolutely would steal from your unprotected recourses also you made me realize The Forest needs a bigfoot enemy lol.

[@garymerfdudegui9452]

like a cold adapted mutant covered in fur type thing? that could be cool

[@Jerma_on_russian]

That's would be great as Halloween event

[@duckycolors]

waddyatalkinabeet

[@VV-db8vh]

Thanks for these videos Farket, they are extremely helpful for me

[@VV-db8vh]

​@@MACARONIEMANIACI just wanted to show I genuinely appreciate his videos.

[@RBNN69]

@@MACARONIEMANIAC you are such a loser for saying that .... its called a support

[@bekahbabie]

Omggg the navmesh is SUPER helpful!! I cannot tell you how many times I’ve wanted to ✨unalive myself✨ because Kelvin kept walking all the way around the shallow rivers and I couldn’t figure out where exactly he was or wasn’t able to pass through lol

[@virtualalias]

4:04 - I think it was a brilliant design decision to force you to remain accessible to the natives if you want your AI companions close and safe. I doubt they'll do anything that will enable you to easily build in an inaccessible location like an island because it makes the cannibal threat more trivial.

[@listerineclean343]

Bold of you to assume it was a decision rather than a product of laziness but I agree that it prevents a few cheese strats. However it's still extremely easy to find a decent sized lake and build in the middle of it.

[@horsepuncher421]

100% understand what you mean by immersion feeling lesser than the first forest, there's alot less detail in the survival elements in the sequel compared to the first and I think that's the primary contributor, at least for me.

[@EEE-pv2eo]

I feel like a draw bridge would be a neat addition

[@claymoore2480]

Thank goodness for the invisible enemy fix!! happened to me three times and once it was two armsies....

[@winniebeats5164]

Do armsies only spawn after you beat the game? And if they do, how often?

[@claymoore2480]

@@winniebeats5164 nah, they spawn before beating the game. I don’t know the exact numbers, but they start spawning after a certain number of in-game days on your save. Also, they can spawn with other game mechanics too (but mentioning those case would be spoilers to some people)!

[@rainesorrow1986]

They should add a handprint scanner or some sort of combination door that Kalven has the code to taped to his chest so he never forgets, but the enemies obviously can't read english or numbers so they wouldn't understand

[@Huntlley]

We need snow shoes. The smaller animals to drop their hides, so we can make small rock pouches, and other similar items to The Forest. We need apex animals, bears or some form of big cat (ans they will also kill cannibals). The game feels way more complete then when I was playing in beta when it opened, but there are still a long way to go.

[@car1osluvs]

Yea they need to add animals like bears and wolves

[@narethliansgamespace3860]

I've kind of had the opposite effect. On my Hard Survival game, the cannibals and mutants can still easily get into my base if I leave one or both gates open, but neither Kelvin or Virginia can pathfind their way back in since the update booted them out of it. That and the Log sled is broken now as it follows the navmesh and not terrain collision, and it likes catapulting either itself or myself if I don't play a very careful dance with it once I interact with it.

[@scotty7756]

Learned something new today! Thanks Farket!! Lets see more!!!

[@Pingastortc]

Love the sassy bit

[@yellowskrub]

Thanks for the update video as usual, always look forward to these

[@whatifindbeautiful]

Any word on boats yet, being that we're on an island and wood floats?

[@insid3769]

shoutout big lez show. happy to know my other fav youtuber watches him too

[@theninjamaster67]

Man I wish Bethesda would add that automatic navmeshing to their games just think modders of their games that add custom maps have to do that BY HAND meaning clicking and dragging little triangles around. If you wanna see how painstaking that process is look up a Skyblivion stream where they're navmeshing, it takes hours.

[@TheKayack1]

yeah but at least it works and they can use bridges (even in fallout 4 constructions)

[@nathanmitchell7961]

Im confident they dont plan features at all. Having a rabbit and a stun gun in the game but it cant be used on the rabbit is such a weird oversight, this studio does this with alot of features.

[@Archivaris]

yea, raccoons steal fish...... i lived on the northwest side of the map near a lake, and all my fish was constantly gone even though i walled it off

[@TheCleverJoker]

In Unreal Engine there is a nav bounds volume that auto calculates the nav mesh in the area it outlines. Not too sure if Unity has a similar feature but the devs could use it on the islands.

[@Shamman_komanch]

The stars seem to be accurate, you can see the big dipper in the clip you showed.

[@JordanNabe]

Over a year later and still no fuckin boats. And a massive empty island on the east side lol….. some day

[@hecc7906]

7:01 This fix is about the Knight V getting a massive speed boost whenever it gets any air, like jumping

[@iamdeward]

Indeed racoons are trash pandas. In-game, they do take food from your drying racks. I wish the scarecrow would keep them away. My base is near a big pond and the raccoons dont go away

[@selfaware7617]

I didn't have invisible enemies that could attack me, more so I had enemies slow to spawn usually. I heard when they spawned in bunkers but they were invisible until I walked into the katana room and walked back out (for example), THEN they would spawn, sometimes behind me and sucker punch me

[@iamgroot4080]

The problem is that this game is and was too easy! Even on a hard survival. Too much food, enemies are dumb, environment is just a bit of inconvenience, not a threat. And there is just one storyline. We need more side quests. Perhaps interaction with the tribe by some quests. How about some hostile animals, wolf, bear, pigeon the ripper, snake! The game was way too easy from the start and they made it easier by screaming with the direction the player should take. Forrest was great, I had a feeling of isolation, harsh environment, there was specific mood there. And yeah, after a while it became boring too...

[@SpiralOuKeepGoing]

Raccoons will definitely steal you're food if they have the opportunity

[@cowboyred295]

I wonder if this will ever be out on ps5

[@Schiejeven]

Thank you kind sir.

[@meatttown]

when is farket starting a new playthrough?

[@seanmccarron4131]

Is it ever gonna come to consoles

[@coopstain1728]

FARKET WITH THE UPDATE! When is it coming to PS5 brotato chip?

[@DennisAH]

Yeah... I also feel like the original "the forest" was more immersive than sons of. The forest had/has such a unique atmosphere... the island has just the perfect size and cannibals and mutants roaming the island, especially during nighttime with torches, running, searching for you... that made the game like a playable horror-movie to me. Sons of the forest is .... somehow boring. I had base locations where I could literally not have a single day without massive attacks and I had bases where not a single cannibal would ever show up. Also the cave systems were so much better in the forest. Smaller, more unique and if you cleaned them from mutants, they wouldn´t respawn. RESPAWN is probably what I hate the most in sons of the forest. This made me skip cave farming completely. It´s pointless. Anyway, thanks again for a great video!

[@ShawnieP512]

I think what this game suffers from, depending on who you are, is drive, aka, immersion. In the Forest, I couldn't put it down. Their was something about that game that kept me wanting to keep going. To dig deeper. To solve the mystery or uncover that mystery. To get every weapon, every blueprint. I'm playing a game now that has that same immersion. I keep wanting to progress and unlock new items, blueprints, recipes, etc. I don't know why, but I'm with Farket on this one. Tbat immersion, that drive is lacking in this game for me. There's some, but not enough to really grab my attention fully. The only thing I really do now is just build more complex and intricate bases. Just my opinion though.

[@remastervoyage6687]

SOTF lacks everything.

[@Corrupt_Minds]

When will they release this for ps5..man I've been waiting

[@remastervoyage6687]

Never. The fastest death of an overhyped game I have ever seen. Ask yourself if it is useful to release it there when legit nobody cares anymore and the player numbers just make me laugh on steam.

[@wesley_that_dude3437]

9:35 at least in the case of console for the first game, people didn't have commands so that was their excuse, don't know about this game but could be the same reason.

[@wesley_that_dude3437]

Nevermind, didn't know this game isn't on console

[@vipe_exx2]

Nice vid

[@tylerzimmer2212]

9:47 you're welcome

[@michaelvial125]

Didn't know this game was still a thing, thought it had died and no-one played it anymore. Cheers for the upload.

[@samwizgamgie3rd828]

Im so excited to their next game. I really want them to explore more of the otherworldly.

[@CrusinVK]

ooohh Tunnel of Death! i like that idea. i'll incorporate this into the new game I just started. cheers mate

[@oconist6391]

59 SECONDS AGO!! I MADEMIT UNDER 1 MINUTE

[@carsandbuggies5313]

They shouldn’t make a key card door lock or just locks around and keys for doors

[@nekwa9780]

theres a second hotfix

[@Deathscythe91]

when they gonna fix the host not responding issue ? cant even play with my friends for like half a year now everyone just gets kicked after 20 minutes , no matter who host the game and we all have high speed internet and powerfull pc's so its not us , its the game

[@ZumberThanos]

MAKE US TAKE DAMAGE WHEN FALLING OF THE KNIGHT V✊

[@lysu6926]

Bruh I really want good update

[@MVelli]

Knight Vee

[@fresh7s]

Is it weird that I watched this video at .75x speed? lol. great video. good job endnight

[@jag4war]

Raccoons are trash pandas they literally went through my trash last night.

[@S4ngheli05]

They really need to fix that visual glitch thats on the edges of upgraded weapons and the stuff you upgrade with the artifact. Its THE central element after completing the story and having everything you paint golden look like shit is just annoying. Stopped playing my 300hrs+ world because of this.

[@nikolaykilifarev5780]

4 min gang

[@Gibblegobblegoob]

The game just isn't as scary and mysterious as the first game was soemthings missing

[@remastervoyage6687]

Something? Everything that makes it playable.

[@kane2239]

Is it still just american keyboards that can use the cheat/consol command? Why not make it easily available to all players?

[@crxguy2006]

Trash Pandas 🐼 😂

[@OG_McLovin]

CONSOLE RELEASE WHEN?! I KNOW YOU WATCH THIS CHANNEL, DEVS! MY TOASTER CARD IS OLDER THAN GOD AND CAN'T PLAY SONS. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@SuckBaIIs]

tip jumping with the knight V will increase your speed exponentially (unlees that is what was fixed)

[@Samaelx.]

Atleast you're self aware that you complain about this game so much.

[@kingrat2122]

And you're thick enough to bitch about this still

[@mitsuri3096]

Fr he used to be so caring to watch now he sounds like a old f*rt

[@charlieinthetrees]

I mean, it's unfortunate that there is just so much to complain about in the game, especially given how good the first game was

[@marytatodd9934]

What if he played this one without comparing it to the other, or keep playing The Forest and stop bitxxxxg about it. Many of us love this game and miss Farket as he used to be

[@Samaelx.]

​@charlieinthetrees sure kid. You probably think the building animations are tiresome too 🤦🏾

[@Hayagriva1980]

I'm glad they're still tweaking the game, but when I see a tied-up puffy being electrocuted I can't help but think "Really? Out of ALL the other things that need tweaking or should be added, THIS is something they picked?"

[@NovaBean-jt2ib]

I built on that island the funny thing is if you build a fire on it the island Kelvin and Virginia kinda warp fly over to the fire in the area with no mesh then warp back. Always wondered why they did that lol. Makes sense now

[@selfaware7617]

I've had that happen. They would blink in and out towards fires or benches. This patch also said Kelvin won't teleport through walls to sit by fires

[@ozuray4307]

Glad they fixed the bug of raccoons stealing food through walls, it was a pain. Didn't matter how far inside your base or how high up it was from the ground, the meat and fish on drying racks would slowly go missing.

[@dorknuckle]

Yes! I never had any fish even though it was behind closed doors 😊

[@MatthewsSloan]

As someone that played Son's of the Forest first. It's way way better. I think OG players remember how ground breaking the original game was and get caught up in the nostalgia. This game is way way better, and more immersive for me, a new player to The Forest franchise.

[@ozuray4307]

My only experience playing the forest wasn't a great one... but that's because I played with people who sped through the game. I didn't get to enjoy the game properly. I personally love sons of the forest but am trying to get friends together to play the first game again, give it a second chance.

[@dorknuckle]

I agree. I loved The Forest, it was my first survival computer game but I was after a game that was similar and beautiful, SOTF was that game. I’m more of a builder so for me there’s ongoing playability. I just want more placeables to flesh out my structures. I’d also really like the items on shelves to be bigger so they look filled.

[@theninjamaster67]

@@ozuray4307 I haven't been able to play the first cause I get too scared playing on my own lol.

[@Loshmitebraaa]

@@theninjamaster67 the trick is to go at it when you're a little bit angry. That will help you overcome your initial fear. You are not trapped on the island with those cannibals, they are trapped there with you.

[@theninjamaster67]

@@Loshmitebraaa Honestly that sounds like some pretty solid advice although I'm a baby when it comes to scary games and I feel like even if I was mad something would pop out at me in the dark and I'd flinch and drop my controller.

[@ShorttEclipse]

I’m not sure if it would have as much use or application as the first game, but i’d love to see a buildable elevator come back

[@Alex-_-hr345]

Hey farket , can i ask you if you're gonna make an another season of sons of the forest ?

[@j-p4194]

Raccoons are clever AF. Seriously, don't underestimate those lil shits because they know how to open doors and can pretty much get into all trash bins that aren't locked or sealed. If there's food, they'll find a way to get it.

[@aspierematch3541]

Could you please please do a crunchy technical video on insulation and rain cover? I've done all sorts of tests on smaller and larger scales but can not for the life of me figure out why my house won't stay warm or dry.

[@aspierematch3541]

I'd love to know if there's a cheatstick command to help

[@CrusinVK]

+2 for this as well

[@winniebeats5164]

I think you can ask him directly in his server

[@roguemajin46290]

raccoons are smart like craps till they see something shinny 😂

[@nathanmitchell7961]

NITPICK ALERT 3:01 how are these hollow wood boxes just sitting on the edge of flowing water fall without falling

[@space4ace582]

I wish they would add the option for Virginia to get in the golf cart, just like Kelvin does.

[@Christian-cz9bu]

They call it a screw book, because of the corkscrew binding.

[@reaperx6125]

Kalvin can definitely get to the second floor of my house now 😁😁

[@DealersChoice04]

I've recently been hearing alot of "If you're gonna use exploits then why don't you just and make it easier and cheat" I think, the way that I see it atleast from my experiences is for when I've used cheat modes vs exploits is that using an exploit feel like you're still putting in an effort to get something done rather than just having it there without having to do anything and is sort of a *keeps the motivation* for the game as if you still did something. Idk personally I've moved away from exploits unless done accidentally then I'm not just gonna be disgusted by an accidental dupe and since I'm a cheevo hunter 99% of the time the cheevos get disabled if u use cheats so I've moved away from cheats too, only exception is games that allow cheevos with it and if somehow I've gotten stuck or if the games broken, I'd use cheats to fix the issue and keep progressing.

[@RealSteveLarry]

For the door situation, outta be pressure plates you can select and place in and outside the doors. Few settings for teammates both AI and player, to walk on it and the door would open, walk on the next one inside/outside the door and the lock is put back on the door same with wall gates. Also have a setting to all open so cannibals could open it too and run inside if you had a decoy house filled with deathtraps. Give another use for turtle shells, or add welcome mats into specific places, where they respawn ofcourse. Perhaps fishing villages?

[@saehtnyS]

overall a good QOL update for AI I wish we would get more for SOTF but it's 1.0 now and since they aren't going to be updating the game as much

[@johnpearce9023]

What they did add is 'LAG' Frame rates are much much worse now and fluctuate and stutter much more. I guess thats the AI mesh updates using more system.

[@Rad_Ski]

been missing your videos, hopefully u find a game that u enjoy posting. sending love from the UK

[@MrTonybonez]

I hope that with the AI pathing improvements that I can finally get Kelvin back. He followed me to the southern side of the map and got himself stuck in a section that dips down, and he cant seem to figure out how to jump or climb out lol. Gathering all these sticks and rocks myself is getting tiresome!

[@bquick94]

Waddyatalkinabeet

[@Hascabas]

your the goat bro

[@susaf420]

I love your Voice and i think you’r Videos are so awesome, thank you for making this for us 🫡

[@jackdesanta69]

You took your/you're to the next level with "you'r"

[@Zaldabin]

AYYYEEE. The Big Lez Show!! Bro thank you for that clip. Glad you’re a fan too

[@kckreations]

The raccoons would steal all the fish off my racks even if i build a meat drying shed in an attempt to keep them away

[@JustDrewski]

haven't played since 1.0 release.. new stuff looks cool but I would like to see their road map to see how long they intend to support the game.

[@beetheimmortal]

How about just teaching your AI to swim? Why is this so damn hard for Endnight? The AI in this game is quite bad at pathfinding in the first place, and them not being able to swim and just dying if accidentally jumping in the water is trash.

[@fieryblender7174]

They can steal meat from your racks, at least the more feral ones do, the intelligent cannibals don't usually live long, and are more occupied with ending my life.

[@ZumberThanos]

my kelvin can walk on the island in the lake in the middle between the rope , rebreather and shovel caves hope u understand what im talking about

[@Martin_xd69]

The stars at 5:37 might be real because if you stop the video you can see Big Dipper constellation

[@cursedimageseveryday5559]

They need to fix the temperature inside building or at least increase the size of the room to 2 floors so you dont freeze inside your house if it has 2 floors

[@killerxd8939]

For update 20 can you show practicly evrything that theyve added to the game since i firt came out

[@moto3463]

Hopefully we get some big updates 👍🏼

[@mulless]

Raccoons only steal fish from what Ive seen

[@Maximus_Smore]

why tf is this crap not on console yet, I have been sitting on the curb waiting too long for this shit.

[@PizzaTimeClips]

When will they add Sassy the Sasquatch as an AI

[@emel0759]

in german u call raccons = Wasch Bär = wash bear

[@wiktorporebski9319]

Are there any news about the game coming to ps5?

[@cosmonaut1227]

Glad you care about this game

[@coltonsoto6593]

All I want is console release 😅

[@bparkoedr9020]

When is SOTF season 3??

[@OfficialSaintzeth]

racoons are so adorable