TOKYO: The hit indie survival horror game, The Forest, has seen an upgrade to its engine, to Unity 5, it was announced today.
The change in engines brings with it multiple changes and improvements to the graphics as well- the plants and skin shaders have been rewritten, and many other visual tweaks, now only possible because of the new engine, have been made.
This shift to Unity 5 comes as part of the 0.61 update to the game. Apart from the game play and performance improvements, there are also changes to the game play experience multiplayer game play should be better thanks to a new network prioritization algorithm.
Unfortunately, all of these changes have come at a cost- the environment has been largely re-written, and all save games have also been wiped.
