How’s it going?

We are thrilled to announce that Winter Survival is going to attend the video game fest called G-Fusion 2024 in Guangzhou, China! G-Fusion is a video game fest hosted by GCORES.

Winter Survival will be exhibited at booth [] on May 18th and 19th . We can’t wait to see you there!

G-Fusion 2024 Website[site.gcores.com]

Ticket Purchase[show.bilibili.com]

There will not be an update for the weekend today as we are working on larger updates for the end of next week and the following week. And we’d like to take a moment to give you a preview of the things that you can expect in terms of game updates over the next few weeks:

Combat Rework
We have reworked the combat system quite significantly. The aim was to make combat smoother and slightly more dynamic. A good example is impaling with the spear. While it made some sense for your character to fall on his butt when impaling a wolf, the recovery time and looking sideways while falling turned out to be rather disorienting.
We have thus reworked combat starting with the spear as it is currently the primary weapon. It is much smoother now, we added block, made tweaks to throwing and also stats.
Axe will be next. We never intended for the axe to be a weapon as such, but will now lean more in that direction.

Trolley
Trolley is intended to take on a more important part of the game in the future, to become the basis of a mobile base. Apart of more fixes and tweaks, we are adding new functionality and mechanics to the trolley. Storage is one such thing so you can have mobile storage. We are even adding a holder for a torch to the trolley so you don’t have to relay on batteries when it gets dark (that’s why we increased torch duration in update #5).
There is also a mechanics coming where your trolley might suffer damage or break, along with new items to loot in order to perform the necessary repairs.

Side Quests
Side quests are coming to the game and will either lead you to explore some special places or add new smaller locations. The idea is also for side quests to provide some unique rewards.
Side Quests will be available both in Story and Endless Mode.

Survival Adventure
Speaking of Endless mode, we will rename it to Survival Adventure since the name Endless was a really bad choice. We also make it the first selection and Story the second one. In the future (after Story Act II) we will be adding more scenarios to this mode to have more interesting choices than Sickness and House scenarios. The idea here is to add scenarios that introduce players to different ways to survive and play the game.

New Animals
We know we need a better variety when it comes to animals and we will be adding new ones, starting with foxes and mountain goats. While some will not have any special behaviours, some others will be more complex. Case in point the fox. It will react to wolves in the vicinity and the fox will be different when hunting it. You can’t trap it by placing a trap and put some bait in it. It’s a cunning animal and it will steal the bait. You will however be able to attract it with a special bait in your hand and for example place a trap in front of you.

Those are the highlights of what’s coming next week and the week after. Some smaller things not explicitly mentioned above build upon the changes to combat, so we can't release them before releasing the combat changes first. Hence the decision to roll them out later and in one update.

This hotfix should fix the issue of some players being unable to load certain saved games caused by an item that got corrupted with game update #9.

Should you still encounter the problem of not being able to load your saved game or crashing upon loading it, please send us your saved games to support@drago-entertainment.com
You saved games are located in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\WSS\Saved\SaveGames\Survivor\ folder.

• You should now be able to track clothes durability in the Status screen.
  
• Drinking "Hot Water" will now remove "Core Coldness".
  
• You will now receive a message when trying to place a campfire on a foundation that is not supported.
  
• Added option in the menu to disable screen prompts (eg. "Not enough resources") - by default it is disabled, so screen prompts show.
  
• Mushrooms and Salt Crystals now are consistent with other gathered resources and have an interaction time rather than being instant pickup. Note: there might be some cases where old crystals / mushrooms will still appear in the same place once you had them respawned in the save game. After you pick them up again they should no longer respawn and only the new ones should exist from there on.
  
• We did a bit of work on the Trolley in Endless mode, overhauled a few systems in order to prepare the Trolley for future updates as there is quite a bit to come for our Trolley both in Endless and later in Story Act II. While you can’t see most of it in the game in this update, while reworking the states for the rail switches, these are now handled differently so their state should now save and load correctly.
  
  In Endless mode all levers have been set to always work and be unlocked from the start - for the time being. Upon release of Story Act II is released, the functionality of levers will change.
  
  Also, the pieces of destructible objects smashed up by the Trolley (like the tunnel entrance barricades) should now disappear after a while and no longer block the trolley movement if unfortunately positioned.

• Cargo drop event duration has been adjusted and now lasts 50% longer, so you have more time to head out and search for the cargo drop.
  
• Adjusted weight of various items:
  
  • Cave Moss [1.0 to 0.4]
    
  • Animal Bone [1.0 to 0.7]
    
  • Small Animal Bone [1.0 to 0.5]
    
  • Fur Pieces [1.0 to 0.5]
    
  • Bone Needle [1.0 to 0.2]
    
  • Fabric [0.7 to 0.35]
    
  • Metal Wire [2.5 to 2.0]

• Blocked the Unstuck feature while driving a trolley, climbing a rope, pulling a box or climbing a ladder to prevent unexpected issues and unwanted behaviour.
  
• Fixed wrong mesh and name for cargo chest.
  
• Cloth Path description changed - describing that it can be used for specific subset of clothes.
  
• Pieces of destructible objects smashed up by the Trolley (like the tunnel entrance barricades) should now disappear after a while and no longer block the trolley movement if unfortunately positioned.

• Minor visual fixes along the riverbanks.
  
• Fixed a hole in Act I cave.
  
• New icons for bandage and wolf meat.

With Easter coming up, we have to alter our schedule for game updates/patches for this and next week. We decided to skip the early week update we intended to do today and roll its content into a larger game update this Friday.

Similarly, there won’t be a smaller update right after Easter, but again a larger one at the end of next week.

Going forward, we also want to change how we approach updating the game. The idea is to have a smaller game update early in the week (on a Tuesday in most cases) that will mostly focus on balancing and tweaks (unless there is a critical and time sensitive issue that requires fixing).

That smaller update will be followed a much larger and more significant game update at the end of the week (on a Friday in most cases). These end of the week updates will contain new things and bigger changes and improvements.

“Why the change?” you might wonder. We are not slowing down, quite the opposite actually as we are approaching the point where we will be adding new content to the game soon and this in turn requires more testing internally. It will be more efficient for us to split game updates into lighter ones early in the week and heavy ones at the end of a week since many of the bigger changes and fixes simply require more testing. So the bigger things get more time in testing throughout the week rather than just a couple of days.