Patch #15 - Winter in Alderwood
Our new patch brings some winter cheer to Alderwood Island with festive decorations and a special holiday-themed tack bundle. This update also introduces our new in-game Radio and several bug fixes - including more performance improvements!
New Content
Radio: This patch introduces our new Radio feature, which lets you listen to music in-game. Turn on the radio by opening your phone and selecting the radio icon!
Winter Decorations: With winter comes cozy lights, festive decorations, and a gift hunt!
Winter Cheer Bundle: Give your horse a festive make-over and transform them into the perfect holiday steed with our new holiday-themed tack bundle!
This bundle is available only in the store accessed from our main menu. (It is purchased for a nominal amount of earnable currency.)
Quality of Life Improvements
Outdated Drivers: Now if players will receive a warning on the main menu if their graphics drivers are out of date.
Sound Polish: Continued to refine and polish our sound effects including…
Saddle and rein sounds now adjust according to your gait speed.
Polished voice over and music for the Homecoming and Walter’s Hideout cutscenes.
Adjusted reverb and TLV to select locations such as bookstore, caves, and more.
Art Polish: We are always working on optimizing the game, incrementally improving performance, and polishing our art. Here are some of the larger changes coming in this update…
Various Art Bugs: We fixed a variety of minor cosmetic issues such as lighting errors, broken HLODs, corrupted textures, reflection probe issues, and more.
Set Dressing: Several locations around the island have been improved and spruced up such as Max Cross’s manor,
Wildlife has been added to select locations: flutters of butterflies can be found hovering over flowerbeds and flocks of seagulls fly around the coast.
Bug Fixes
As part of our ongoing process of improving performance, we have released further fixes to mitigate server lag for players.
Fixed a UI bug that caused the incorrect stats to display for the Palomino.
Continued to improve Alderwood Island’s navigation mesh to stop inappropriate jumping and help prevent players from becoming stuck.
Fixed an issue that blocked players from completing “Meeting the Sheriff”.
Fixed a variety of issues affecting achievements:
Added icons for a variety of race and quest related achievements.
Fixed a problem that prevented specific achievements from being rewarded.
Resolved an issue that caused Rosie the Cow to display the wrong dialogue line.
Cinematics featuring your horse now display the correct mane and tail colors.
New Known Issues
Upon logging in, some players may feel the loading screen is taking a long time or is stuck in the “Loading” phase. **Please click to complete logging in!**
Kyle’s House glows in the dark.
The version number located on the main menu displays the incorrect number.
We're hosting our first winter celebration: Winter in Alderwood! Join the community and participate in three cozy seasonal events in our Discord server.
Crown Chase: Play with the developers and community together in this scheduled event. Stay tuned for the exact date and time!
Community Present Hunt: Beautifully wrapped presents have been scattered all around Alderwood Island. Find all of them and earn a custom Discord role.
Screenshot Competition: Show us your most festive snapshots! This competition is taking place over on our Discord server. We’ll be awarding multiple winners (and distributing a small reward to them!), so join now to share your favorite snapshots.
Details will be posted to our Discord server later today, so stay tuned! Need to join the server? Click here!