WolfQuest® 2.5: Survival of the Pack Deluxe! RELEASE NOTES October 11, 2011 v 2.5.1 This is a minor bugfix release. RESOLVED ISSUES General: - Puppy crooked paw fixed - Wolves should no longer get stuck in den rocks and trees - Rain and lightning are somewhat less frequent Single Player: - Female wolf option restored, will find male mate candidates in social encounters - Misaligned text in Pack Stats fixed. Multiplayer: - Players can now see each others' wolves sit and lay down (R key) ---------------- October 5, 2011 v 2.5 This is a major new release. See the WolfQuest manual and in-game help for details about the new Slough Creek game level and controls. IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0 General - Built with Unity 3.4, which offers significant performance increases for all systems. Frame rates for a given quality level and screen resolution should be higher, especially for modern graphics cards. You should find that you can play at a higher quality level or screen resolution than before. -Rain, Thunderstorms, and Snow occur occasionally in both single-player and multiplayer games. -Lie down and sleep (Z key) until another time of day, experience dawn, midday, dusk, and nighttime in Yellowstone (single-player only). Multiplayer - Choose from three chat types: Lexicon Chat (same as previous versions), Phrase Chat (about 100 short phrases) and Disabled (no chat window). KNOWN ISSUES - Shadows are no longer an option in the Game Settings, due to technical issues. - Game controls may occasionally lock up, including the player's wolf not ending a behavior (such as eating). Simply save your game and reload it. - Visual glitches in some animations may occur. These do not affect gameplay. - Windows netbooks with screens smaller than 800x600 are not supported. Enabling a larger virtual desktop may allow installation of the game, but hardware limitations will affect game performance. ---------------- March 10, 2010 v 2.0.3 RESOLVED ISSUES Multiplayer: - Improved filtering of chat text Single Player: - Extra food gained in Cattle Ranch mission is retained when returning to Slough Creek ---------------- January 26, 2010 v 2.0.2 RESOLVED ISSUES Multiplayer: - Usernames are not filtered, and numbers are allowed in usernames. - Start button should work reliably. - Long usernames are not truncated in Chat. - List of Private Games is not displayed; players must type in both game name and password. Single Player: - Player wolf no longer gets stuck in animation loop when feeding or walking. - Saved game data is loaded reliably. All previous saved games should work now. (The bug was in reloading game data, not in saving data.) -Territory marking minimap fixed so markers and percentage should always be displayed. -Puppies are shown on World Map as small blue circles. -The mate is smarter: helping protect puppies from predators, not carrying pups through deep sections of river, not getting stuck in animation loops, and other improvements. -Predators will not attack when player wolf is in a stranger wolf encounter. GAMEPLAY ADJUSTMENTS -Territory markings fade more slowly. -Pack Affinity declines more slowly. -Coyotes and grizzles appear less frequently. -Predator Camera is faster, smoother and less glitchy. Press SPACEBAR to cancel PredatorCam and return to player wolf camera. -Predators will not attack pups when you are more than 50 meters away from the den, looking for food, marking, etc. -In the Journey to Rendezvous mission, the eagle is more aggressive. ----------------- January 2, 2010 v 2.0.1 RESOLVED ISSUES - You can now successfully save a game after starting the Amethyst Mountain level for the first time with no previously saved games. ----------------- January 1, 2010 v 2.0.0 This is a major new release. See the WolfQuest manual and in-game help for details about the new Slough Creek game level and controls. KNOWN ISSUES - Game controls may occasionally lock up, including the player's wolf not ending a behavior (such as eating). Simply save your game and reload it. - Visual glitches in some animations may occur. These do not affect gameplay. - Windows netbooks with screens smaller than 800x600 are not supported. Enabling a larger virtual desktop may allow installation of the game, but hardware limitations will affect game performance. - The game will install on a PC with only 512 MB of physical RAM, even if up to 128 MB is shared by the graphics card. This may not allow enough memory for the game to perform well. Try lowering the amount of video memory to 64 MB. IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM AMETHYST MOUNTAIN v1.6 General - Built with Unity 2.6, which offers significant performance increases for all systems. Frame rates for a given quality level and screen resolution should be higher, especially for modern graphics cards, than Amethyst Mountain Deluxe 1.6. You should find that you can play at a higher quality level or screen resolution than before. - Qualified for Windows 7 and OSX Snow Leopard, including x64 installations on Windows Vista and Windows 7. - Saved Amethyst Mountain games with mates will appear on the list of available Slough Creek games to open so you can choose a player wolf, mate, and experience level to start Slough Creek with. - Choosing Fantastic in the Quality Setting window will now turn on hardware anti-aliasing (AA) immediately if your video card supports it (previously the game had to be quit and restarted). Multiplayer - You must now have a WolfQuest Community Forum account to start or join both open and private games. - Your wolf name will always be your forum name. FURTHER HELP For help downloading, installing, or playing the game, visit the WolfQuest Online Community at http://www.wolfquest.org. A number of Frequently Asked Questions are answered here: http://www.wolfquest.org/faqs. To report a bug, send a detailed description of what you see to bugs@wolfquest.org. Include screenshots if appropriate and the Program Files\WolfQuest\WolfQuest2_Data\output_log.txt file. We can't offer personal technical support, so do not send requests for help solving specific issues. WolfQuest® is copyright © 2007-2010 by the Minnesota Zoo and eduweb. All rights reserved. It is distributed free, but you may not redistribute, sell, or modify the game without permission.