The WILDS Patch Notes — August 2, 2023
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
Release Version 1.4.7
GAMEPLAY CHANGES:
+ ACTION WHEELS - Improved the usability of both new action wheels making it easier to select with the mouse, control via scroll wheel, and selection with a basic click.
+ NIGHTTIME VISIBILITY - Increased the brightness of the moon to add more visibility to nighttime gameplay.
+ TARGET CHANGING - When Targeted, you can now only swap to similar type targets. (ex: If targeting an NPC animal, you can only swap to other NPC animals)
+ DRAGGING SPEED - Sped up most animal drag speeds by 50%.
+ MATE LIST - When you click a mate from the mate list it not automatically swaps to their targeted information panel.
+ MATE BEHAVIOR - Mates will now report directly to you when you attempt to inspect them, this avoids you having to chase them around.
+ CAMERA MOVEMENT - Made the camera "snappier" and a little faster. Previously it felt like the camera "moved in sand" and responded kinda sluggishly.
+ SOLO SPAWNED ANIMALS - Added an addition 30% base spawn rate across the board for animals, this will hopefully improve ease of locating a mate.
+ GRAB ACTION - The grab action will now only be displayed when close to a grabbable target.
+ COUGAR HEALTH - Beefed up the cougars health by 20%,
BUG FIXES
+ RESPAWNING MATES - Fixed the bug that was causing mates to not respawn in the correct location.
+ PATHFINDING FIX - Forest had a small cut-through tunnel that AI controlled animals were getting stuck in.
+ HOVERING TEXT - Smoothed out the jitter in some of the hovering text.
+ BONDING BUG - HOPEFULLY fixed the bonding bug, I was never able to replicate it exactly but I forced an error around the same general area of the code and re-organized/optimized it.
+ POSE CHANGE - Something was causing changing poses with Scroll Wheel to skip sitting and go straight to lying, this has been fixed.
+ NAMING ANIMAL - Pressing 'X' was toggling the animal list making it impossible to use that letter in naming.
KNOWN BUGS
+ RATS - Body breaks apart when grabbed.
+ CINEMATICS - Lake and River water flashes white on start/end of cinematics.