Hey everyone,
We're excited to announce that Fear The Wolves will officially release on February 6th!
After months of work throughout the early access period, we're thrilled to deliver Fear The Wolves' sixth major update, introducing a wealth of new content:
- Brand new artifact system
- A new mutant: the Wolf Matriarch
- Anomalous lockdown areas
- Two new artifacts [list]
- Wolf Matriarch Heart
- Spore Artifact
The spore artifact gives you an enhanced vision mutation, allowing you to see nearby enemies through walls for a brief moment; Just enough to position yourself for a perfect ambush!
These new items should add a lot of tension and diversity throughout matches, as well as offering new strategies in late game. Waiting for the evacuation hidden in a bush isn’t such a good idea anymore when you have a pack of wolves rushing towards you!
We plan to officially deploy this massive update on February 6th, but keep an eye on the game in the days prior to launch, since we might do a soft launch a few days in advance to make sure everything is as smooth as we want it to be.
The release of Fear The Wolves is also an exciting opportunity for the team to share the vastly improved version of the game to the world! In order to celebrate the release, and allow everyone to discover the game and the many new features introduced throughout the early access period, Fear The Wolves will be entirely FREE from February 6th to 12th!
Bring your friends and dive into a decaying Chernobyl next week! And if you enjoy the improvements and our take on the Battle Royale genre, Fear The Wolves is also 50% off from February 6th to 12th! After February 12, you won’t be able to play for free anymore. Make sure to buy the game while it is discounted to continue to play!
Fear The Wolves' early access period started back in August last year and we're about to release our sixth major update. The last months have brought many features requested by the community, as well as performance improvements and bug fixes. Below, you'll find a short recap of the content added to Fear The Wolves throughout early access.
Fear The Wolves Early Access Improvements
Game flow- Added the possibility to start a match with fewer players using a smaller map
- Spectator matchmaking
- Improved shooting
- Improved wolf behavior
- Rooftop extractions
- Unified mode (Duos as default, with friends or strangers / Solo available)
- New prematch system (enter the map immediately & decide number of players before match start)
- Anomalous lockdown areas
- Wolves can now break doors
- Two new customization sets
- Lot of new or improved points of interest and environments on the map
- New weapon, the SOK-94
- Hidden stashes around the map with high tier loot (treasure map system)
- Axe item allowing access to boarded up rooms with high tier loot
- Vaulting
- Voice chat available for squad
- New deployment system
- On boarding elements: Dynamic tooltips added
- Artifact system
- A new mutant: the Wolf Matriarch
- Wolf Matriarch Heart
- Spore Artifact
- New point of interest: Stadium
- Updated anomaly effects, weather effects, and a variety of new shooting VFX
- Improvement of heat VFX weather
- Improved textures on specific elements
- Client performance improvements
- Auto settings
- Various client crash fixes
- Performance optimization: huge work on LODs
- Sounds improvements
- Server capacity and location improvements
- Added Ultrawide support for 21:9 monitors.
- Rebalanced the mouse sensitivities allowing players to better manipulate their settings.
- A lot of new settings (graphical, gameplay…)
- Compass added
- More sounds
- Nvidia Highlight feature
- 13 new languages (Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, French, Italian, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish)
We can't wait to see you playing at launch with everything we've added into the game. Spread the word around as Fear The Wolves releases on February 6th and will be FREE for a week!
See you in-game next week,
The Fear The Wolves Team