Build Release 22.08.2025 Announcement and Changelog
Added 2025-08-22 08:43:29 +0000 UTCWelcome to the August build release!
This build is a very special release, placing a milestone in our development of the combat system. It delivers a broad improvement pass of our combat, focusing on melee combat. We added several new enemies and weapons, defined and tuned 10 weapon base classes, reworked weapon stats such as damage and parry windows, updated animations and timings, improved enemy AI, and tuned enemy health, exhaustion, and other combat stats. Movement is more responsive, and a set of long-standing issues has been cleaned up.
Combat Arena
The new Combat Arena focuses on player vs monster using the 10 weapon base classes. It includes a Main Arena that tracks points per weapon base class, so players can see how far they can push each one, plus three dedicated Encounter Arenas for focused testing. Analytics are integrated to support balancing and iteration, so please enable them. The Combat Arena will improve and shift its focus with each new release cycle. For the latest details, check the Info Box inside the arena level.
Other areas have progressed significantly, too. We have improved the Lake Village and Pearl Village areas as well as the Apoc blockout. Our designers were very busy iterating and improving many quests and npc dialogues in the game and our sandbox has over 100 new finished props from our main story asset work. Check out the full changelog here:
Here are the changes coming to the build since the $25 testing version from last week:
Additions:
• Added 44 new sandbox sex animations, see the full list here
• Added new outfit: Harem Dancer B for Maya, Shiva, Koodie, Zeya, Riv, and Jadeen
• Added new outfit: Harem Dancer for Koodie and Zeya
• Added full body hair outfits for several Sethro and Bol characters and TribalB2
• Sandbox editor: Added 31 face poses for Aoi
• Sandbox editor: Added Reese, JekyllMutated, and Chan skin textures to character customization where applicable
• Sandbox editor: Added pointy teeth morph for Lala
• Sandbox editor: Added long nail morphs for Maya, Jadeen, and Riv
Improvements:
• Resolved combat moves sometimes using wrong input direction
• Resolved more cases of interactables not being interactable
• Resolved being able to dash while jumping
• Resolved some nav mesh issues in Apoc
• Resolved some cases of floating NPCs
• Resolved Lala having pointy teeth
• Resolved left hand fade on Zumon, Kira, and WhiteWolf textures
• Enabled boob physics for some of the new Bol X Maya and Bol X Shey animations
• Resolved visible seam on back of Koodie and Zeya
• Improved combat arena starting area
• Improved combat arena UIs
• Resolved invisible character attacking NPCs in combat arena
• Sandbox editor: Resolved clipping on Koodie pirate outfit chest piece
• Sandbox editor: Resolved some pubic hair models not being color editable
• Sandbox editor: Resolved broken icons for some props
• Sandbox editor: Improved render target tooltips for the camera option
• Sandbox editor: Resolved Portal prop not working and removed the debug cube
• Sandbox editor: Resolved older sex scenes not saving character physics/face override settings
• Sandbox editor: Resolved camera smoothness not working correctly in edit mode
• Sandbox editor: Empty characters have no voice by default now
• Sandbox editor: Resolved object follower lerp alpha going out of range
• Various improvements to dialogues
• Various improvements to quests
• Various improvements to characters
• Various improvements to animations
• Various improvements to levels
Known Issues:
• Nav mesh generation is very slow for performance reasons, so NPCs can get stuck in the middle of their path, but will continue once the nav mesh is generated
• Setting animation speed and amplitude to zero causes sex toys to disappear
• Clothes textures will not fully load in the character creator
• Physics break if you scale characters in the sandbox editor
• Rendering issue on moving characters - most noticeable on hair and clothing
Here are the changes from the $25 build compared to the previous $10 build (June 2025):
Additions:
• Added 40 new sandbox sex animations, see the full list here
• Added new character: JekyllMutated model, implemented as NPC
• Added new character: Ognar, Sandbox exclusive, based on JekyllMutated using Bol skeleton
• Added new character: Chawn, Sandbox exclusive Rawn based wolf man
• Added new character: Zeya, Koodie based sandbox exclusive
• Added Empty characters for all skeletons
• Added a new combat arena level
• Added a major romance quest between Maya and Locu. The quest can be played from the start of chapter 3 by picking up the 'letter from an old friend' in Maya's house in the Warrior Village
• Added new outfit: Rathunter (lite) for Bol, Alo, and Ognar
• Added new outfit: Yoga Outfit, Goth Dress, and Wedding Dress for Aoi and Sonia
• Added new outfit: Azea Style and Wedding Dress for Milanna, Jenny, and Janara
• Added new outfit: Loose Dress and Greek Dresses for Jadeen
• Added new outfit: Loose Dress and Flare Pants with Sweater for Geneva
• Added new outfit: Sex version top of Maya's Warrior outfit
• Added new outfit: Sexy Knight for Lala
• Added new outfit: Nightgown for Mercer and Kylee
• Added new hairstyle: Egyptian4 hairstyle for Maya and Shey
• Sandbox editor: Added face pose override options to sex scenes
• Sandbox editor: Added camera smoothness slider
• Sandbox editor: Added attachment points and custom material support to rope prop
• Sandbox editor: Added Skip Optimization option to character to better support custom clothing by disabling lower LODs
• Sandbox editor: Added the ability to Load anyway when trying to load a sandbox save that was made in a newer version
• Sandbox editor: Added word-based filtering for sex animation names and the bottom prop view
• Sandbox editor: Added an indicator showing the current sub-path in the prop collection view
• Sandbox editor: Added 105 new sandbox props
• Sandbox editor: Added metallic and per-layer roughness options for new sandbox props
• Lua: Added new functions: wl_get_all_prop_ids, wl_get_all_prop_ids_in_category, wl_get_all_prop_categories, wl_editor_spawn_prop_collection, wl_get_object_category
Improvements:
• Updated start quest sequence
• Resolved escape pods not being interactable
• Resolved hitches caused by navmesh generation
• Resolved stuttery movement of NPCs attacking in the distance
• Improved movement and rotation during combat moves
• Many improvements to combat
• Improved AI behaviours
• Jumping off ledges is more reliable now
• Resolved character fur sometimes not showing for some outfits
• To enter flying after a jump you now need to press space again (this change is to prevent accidentally starting to fly during combat)
• Characters now dress up again after sex minigames
• Improved item sorting in the inventory
• Swapped sprint and dash input for controller
• Resolved unreliable fall roll-out
• Sandbox editor: Animation prop remembers sample rate now
• Sandbox editor: Resolved an issue where the render target would not update correctly when using the CaptureEnabled optionID
• Sandbox editor: Resolved incorrect outliner order on duplicated objects
• Sandbox editor: Resolved material renaming not updating the inspector
• Sandbox editor: Resolved broken collision on landscape prop
• Sandbox editor: Resolved spline mesh waypoint index inconsistencies
• Sandbox editor: Resolved inventory closing when typing ‘I’ in a text box
• Sandbox editor: Resolved torch prop playing audio when invisible
• Sandbox editor: Resolved spline prop not generating collision
• Sandbox editor: Resolved packed props not loading correctly
• Sandbox editor: Resolved character not being able to jump, fly, or open edit mode when possessed during flight
• Sandbox editor: Resolved portal prop disabling all other portals if entered
• Sandbox editor: Resolved spline mesh child object manipulating rotations they shouldn't
• Sandbox editor: Resolved root offset in sleep bed pose
• Various improvements to dialogues
• Various improvements to quests
• Various improvements to characters
• Various improvements to animations
• Various improvements to levels
The build will be available to download soon, keep an eye out for the link post.
Thank you for all your awesome support and we wish all of you a great weekend :)
-Wild Life Team
Comments
same here lol
dana
2025-09-04 18:47:44 +0000 UTCTwo questions: 1. Is it expected that there is absolutely no dialogue or is my installation bugged? 2. Regarding the "Old Friend Questline": I have no idea exactly how to proceed here. The letter or rather the scroll suggests that there's supposed to be something at the base of the roots. But maybe I am too blind or too stupid, but I ave searched the area around the World Tree's roots several times and found absolutely nothing. Is there more information here about where exactly to look or what to look for? Or do I need to look at a speficifc time of day?
Venuspower
2025-08-31 14:02:17 +0000 UTCThe melee combat is a nice improvement, I can see the inspirations, and it's definitely an improvement from where you at a year ago. However, I will say it is annoying to snipe somebody in the head with an arrow and it does very little damage. Its very... unimmersive. While it might not have the best balancing, I feel like a headshot should be an instant kill for anyone, player included. Just my opinion.
Michael Irizarry
2025-08-27 14:36:35 +0000 UTCCurrently not, the main focus is to get targeted feedback for the combat itself.
Adeptus Steve
2025-08-22 14:42:18 +0000 UTCCustomization of character in arena mode it is not available ?
troca30
2025-08-22 14:22:28 +0000 UTCThere is a ton, its in the changelog: We are developing the combat system and are reaching a good state, a test-arena has been added so you guys can test it and give us feedback to make it even better. Quests and writing have also progressed and the main story world is also taking more and more its final shape. We have made some significant improvements to loading stutters when moving in the main story world. The lags and stutters should be reduced by about 90-100% depending on your system. More performance improvements will be done at a later point closer to the finish line when the world has all of the final elements including final landscape textures and materials, final foliage models, final water models materials and effects, towns have the final model and details and are populated by npcs. Thats when we run a very big performance pass over everything.
Adeptus Steve
2025-08-22 09:40:47 +0000 UTCAny optimisations or performance improvements? And is there any additional content for the base game aside from the dialogue actually being voiced now, everything seems to be for sandbox?
TheSixPaths
2025-08-22 09:19:05 +0000 UTC
