Hey there huntedfriends, we've got a new patch for you! This patch brings the single player game up to 1.4 and multiplayer to 1.1.0

This is the first patch that unifies the two halves of Sir. Following the release of MP 1.0 we've addressed a number of bugs (thanks for all the reports! No more overly-clingy dogs...) but we've also ported over the improvements we made during MP development into the Singleplayer game. Veterans of SP should experience a significant fps boost.

It's been great to see so many of you hosting your own MP servers. We've seen a sustained surge in player numbers (thanks in part to the current 90% off sale! Tell your friends ;) ), some specializing in non pvp, others all out survival of the sneakiest. This patch should address a number of the issues some of you have experienced since the 1.0 launch, as ever we look forward to hearing your feedback and bug reports.



Launcher:
- Steam launch options/command-line parameters are passed through to the game when launching.

Multiplayer:
- Allow password to be set when using direct connect
- Fix dogs getting stuck to players after a pounce
- All game settings menus have a "default" button for easy resetting
- Fix bug where a trading player's disconnect could cause inventories to misbehave for others
- Fix bug that causes disconnected/kicked players to not be removed from the player list
- Fix bug stopping scarecrows from spawning in a field where one had previously been killed
- Horse ragdolls now despawn faster (3 minutes instead of 3 hours...)

Single player:
- Performance fixes brought across from multiplayer
- Fix some bugs that would cause some of the bot population to be reduced in late game
- Built with newer Unity version to include more performance/bug fixes from the Engine

Hey there huntedfriends, we've got a new patch for you! This patch brings the single player game up to 1.4 and multiplayer to 1.1.0

This is the first patch that unifies the two halves of Sir. Following the release of MP 1.0 we've addressed a number of bugs (thanks for all the reports! No more overly-clingy dogs...) but we've also ported over the improvements we made during MP development into the Singleplayer game. Veterans of SP should experience a significant fps boost.

It's been great to see so many of you hosting your own MP servers. We've seen a sustained surge in player numbers (thanks in part to the current 90% off sale! Tell your friends ;) ), some specializing in non pvp, others all out survival of the sneakiest. This patch should address a number of the issues some of you have experienced since the 1.0 launch, as ever we look forward to hearing your feedback and bug reports.



Launcher:
- Steam launch options/command-line parameters are passed through to the game when launching.

Multiplayer:
- Allow password to be set when using direct connect
- Fix dogs getting stuck to players after a pounce
- All game settings menus have a "default" button for easy resetting
- Fix bug where a trading player's disconnect could cause inventories to misbehave for others
- Fix bug that causes disconnected/kicked players to not be removed from the player list
- Fix bug stopping scarecrows from spawning in a field where one had previously been killed
- Horse ragdolls now despawn faster (3 minutes instead of 3 hours...)

Single player:
- Performance fixes brought across from multiplayer
- Fix some bugs that would cause some of the bot population to be reduced in late game
- Built with newer Unity version to include more performance/bug fixes from the Engine

We made it! This month's update finally brings Sir's multiplayer out of the murky swamps of beta and into the harsh glaring light of general consumption. You no longer need to opt-in to the multiplayer beta branch to see multiplayer games as an option in your game. The new front-end launcher will appear for all up-to-date owners and hopefully this will provide us with a fresh influx of players to your servers and a growth in the number of servers themselves!

Importantly, we need to say a huge "thank you" from the team to everyone who participated in the beta, filing bugs and making suggestions both here and on the BR forums.

It's been a long road from single-player prototype, through Kickstarter, Steam Early Access, Single player 1.0 and beyond and now that the multiplayer component of Sir is stable and live and all those promised stretchgoals are met (phew!) we can finally take a step back and appreciate the journey. A journey we could not have made without you guys. So thanks!

TRADING

As well as the new launcher, there are a range of optimisations and bugfixes: this 1.0 release adds the ability to trade directly with other players rather than use loot stashes to swap items. Players can make their inventories available for access by other players by holding down the "o" key (by default) until someone accesses their loot. Once a trade has been established players may freely GIVE items to each other but they may not TAKE items. This means that trade is never open to exploitation. You only get what the other player trading with you gives, there can be no stealing!

AND SO...

So this is it! Sir, You are Being Hunted is feature complete, but it's not the end. We are already working on a patch for the Singleplayer game to bring across all the improvements that have come about in multiplayer and of course we are still reading your feedback with great interest. The hunt continues...

We'll see you on the servers.

We made it! This month's update finally brings Sir's multiplayer out of the murky swamps of beta and into the harsh glaring light of general consumption. You no longer need to opt-in to the multiplayer beta branch to see multiplayer games as an option in your game. The new front-end launcher will appear for all up-to-date owners and hopefully this will provide us with a fresh influx of players to your servers and a growth in the number of servers themselves!

Importantly, we need to say a huge "thank you" from the team to everyone who participated in the beta, filing bugs and making suggestions both here and on the BR forums.

It's been a long road from single-player prototype, through Kickstarter, Steam Early Access, Single player 1.0 and beyond and now that the multiplayer component of Sir is stable and live and all those promised stretchgoals are met (phew!) we can finally take a step back and appreciate the journey. A journey we could not have made without you guys. So thanks!

TRADING

As well as the new launcher, there are a range of optimisations and bugfixes: this 1.0 release adds the ability to trade directly with other players rather than use loot stashes to swap items. Players can make their inventories available for access by other players by holding down the "o" key (by default) until someone accesses their loot. Once a trade has been established players may freely GIVE items to each other but they may not TAKE items. This means that trade is never open to exploitation. You only get what the other player trading with you gives, there can be no stealing!

AND SO...

So this is it! Sir, You are Being Hunted is feature complete, but it's not the end. We are already working on a patch for the Singleplayer game to bring across all the improvements that have come about in multiplayer and of course we are still reading your feedback with great interest. The hunt continues...

We'll see you on the servers.

Hello again!

Firstly - as has become something of a standard for these updates - we've got a new NPC for you: the Scarecrow. His uniquely-creepy presence has been missed so it's great to see his return. Watch your back... Live on the Steam builds right now.

Now that the compliment of NPC types has reached 6 (!) we thought it was about time to give server admins some control over what you are faced with in any given game, also how many and when they appear. To whit we've brought over the NPC schedule manager from single-player and now you can tinker 'til your heart's content. Want a world filled to the brim with poachers from the get-go? No problem. How about no balloons EVER. Easily done. Or maybe you just want more of everything? Well, then you're clearly unsound... Whatever your preferences, the new NPC settings will let you create bot populations to suit.

We've also got world seeds working so you can now copy and save worlds that you like. Generated a particularly breathtaking Mountain biome you just HAVE to show a chum? Just copy the seed from the escape menu and pass it on. Remember, only server admins have access to the world generation and NPC settings. Use “#callvote makeadmin playername” in the chat window to start a vote for a new admin on servers that allow this.

There are also the usual tweaks and fixes, some of which are direct responses to payer requests (that stones timer volume WAS too loud wasn't it...), others are things we've had on the list for a while and have finally gotten around to now we're approaching an official v1.0 release...

Not long now!

Patch Notes:

• New – Robot Population Customisation
  
• New – Save, Reuse and share world seeds
  
• New – NPC Scarecrow
  
• New – Invisibility and Invulnerability Talisman effects
  
• New – Balloon light destroyable and synced across clients
  
• Plus – Sundry fixes and tweaks. Timer klaxon volume, network position issues, warning window for Custom biomes, Custom biome inventory duplications etc

Hello again!

Firstly - as has become something of a standard for these updates - we've got a new NPC for you: the Scarecrow. His uniquely-creepy presence has been missed so it's great to see his return. Watch your back... Live on the Steam builds right now.

Now that the compliment of NPC types has reached 6 (!) we thought it was about time to give server admins some control over what you are faced with in any given game, also how many and when they appear. To whit we've brought over the NPC schedule manager from single-player and now you can tinker 'til your heart's content. Want a world filled to the brim with poachers from the get-go? No problem. How about no balloons EVER. Easily done. Or maybe you just want more of everything? Well, then you're clearly unsound... Whatever your preferences, the new NPC settings will let you create bot populations to suit.

We've also got world seeds working so you can now copy and save worlds that you like. Generated a particularly breathtaking Mountain biome you just HAVE to show a chum? Just copy the seed from the escape menu and pass it on. Remember, only server admins have access to the world generation and NPC settings. Use “#callvote makeadmin playername” in the chat window to start a vote for a new admin on servers that allow this.

There are also the usual tweaks and fixes, some of which are direct responses to payer requests (that stones timer volume WAS too loud wasn't it...), others are things we've had on the list for a while and have finally gotten around to now we're approaching an official v1.0 release...

Not long now!

Patch Notes:

• New – Robot Population Customisation
  
• New – Save, Reuse and share world seeds
  
• New – NPC Scarecrow
  
• New – Invisibility and Invulnerability Talisman effects
  
• New – Balloon light destroyable and synced across clients
  
• Plus – Sundry fixes and tweaks. Timer klaxon volume, network position issues, warning window for Custom biomes, Custom biome inventory duplications etc

Player ragdolls, player invisibility, and a big pile of traps should all be fixed now.

See you on the servers!

Player ragdolls, player invisibility, and a big pile of traps should all be fixed now.

See you on the servers!

Seems our latest changes might have made robots a little rarer. We've deployed a fix for that now, and so spawns should be back to normal rates in multiplayer games.

Let us know how you get on!

Seems our latest changes might have made robots a little rarer. We've deployed a fix for that now, and so spawns should be back to normal rates in multiplayer games.

Let us know how you get on!