1.1 Update Now Live!
2023-11-301.1 Changes: - - Volume Controls Added (A quality of life improvement that wasn't in the initial release, mainly as an oversight, but reworking all sounds to actually utilize the new sliders took some digging through code. If you notice any sounds that were missed, please report them!) - - Yelling at Cloud while hogs are on screen now causes the player to gain Catharsis. Hogs killed while the player has catharsis will award double experience, which stacks with stealing valor. (Steal Valor was previously far and away the best first skill to unlock, mainly due to its capacity to massively increase the rate at which other skills were unlocked. This change is intended to bring an experience increasing mechanic to the middle path as well.) - - Butcher Hog now grants bonus experience for each successful harvest.
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(A change with similar intention to the "Old Man Yells at Cloud" change, this brings skill tree progression pace up with the left path as well. The bonus experience does not benefit from Catharsis or Stealing Valor, but aggressive butchery of corpses can net you experience faster by itself than either of those two by their lonesome.) - - Trucker Speed now unlocked from the start, rather than requiring Tier 2 Medicated. Tier 2 Medicated now improves the effects of Brain Power MAX. You get free Trucker Speed if you win your first round. (Trucker speed increases the rate at which the timer counts down, causing hogs to spawn more quickly. This was an easily overlooked mechanic that was in the initial release, but makes the game pace much better while maintaining the spirit of it technically being 30-50 feral hogs in 3-5 minutes. This change is an effort to make this mechanic that makes the gameplay experience much better much more visible, and available from the start.) - - One child will occasionally wander away from the center. Hogs will target the wandering child. (In prior builds, it was possible with some guns to safely stand directly in the center of your grandchildren and essentially just play as a turret in the middle, making movement unnecessary, unless you wanted to grab a beer to improve fire rate or reload speed. This change makes turret play riskier, because now your grandchildren are liable to wander into your line of fire. Please report any issues noticed in the forums, now go out and slaughter some hogs!
