For a game that’s ostensibly about surviving on a demon-infested island,Sons of the Forestsure does like to give its players new and interesting ways to get around. First, there was the notebook bug,which allowed players to slide down mountainsas though they were bulletproof bobsleighs, and thencame sharks you could surf on. Last month’s updateadded a hand glider, and just yesterday, Sons of the Forest developer Endnight Games added something you’d hardly expect to find on a remote island.
It’s called the “EUC the Knight V”, which is pronounced “knight five,“according to Endnight. It’s basically a motorized unicycle. Just hop on, and you’ve got vastly improved mobility for minimally expanded player volume. But the really cool thing about the Knight V is that you’re able to combine it with the hand glider and the new spring-loaded trap to essentially catapult yourself into the air.
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Here’s Reddit userRealRabidRadccoonas they figured this out for the first time. Just hop on the Knight V, grab your paraglider, and then drive over a spring-loaded trap at the edge of a really high tower or cliff. Then, once airborne, drop the Knight V to reduce your overall weight. Now you’re soaring like the eagles courtesy of a spring-loaded and motorized takeoff. It’s almost like you’ve got an emergency catapult.
With this setup, you can definitely get way higher in Sons of the Forest than ever before, although it still doesn’t look like you’re flying high enough to escape the island completely. That’s fine, as the latest update also added a suite of new tools to make your survival just a bit more likely. Yesterday’s patch added night vision goggles, solar panels with wires and light bulbs, ramps, and stairs, and replaced the mannequin with the “new” armor rack.
Yesterday’s patch notes might have also given us the greatest quality-of-life improvement ever written. As noted under the “improvements” section, “dead babies now have buoyancy in water.” While they probably would in real life, it takes a special sort of game to model this behavior. Sons of the Forest not only gives you floating dead babies but also lets you “pick up and throw puffy dead bodies.” The features that all gamers crave.
Sons of the Forest is still in its early access phase on Steam, but it’s already become quite the success for Endnight Games,topping the Steam chartsand evenboosting sales of its previous game, The Forest. The developers have said that Sons of the Forest is expected to be in early access for between six-to-eight months, so we can likely expect its full release later this year.
