Adventurers!

For this Developer Notes, I'd like to share some information about cooperation mode and Nvidia GeForce NOW.


COOP MODE!



Our work on Cooperative mode continues at a steady pace. Our in game Cooperative Jake testers are playing daily, updating the development team about balance, bugs, crashes and (of course) the fun factor.

Green Hell cooperative mode will have no in game voice capabilities but will employ in game text chat. The Official Green Hell discord will implement an array of voice lobbies for gamers to utilize when cooperative mode is live, so keep an eye out for Sifner to bring up those channels (and the associated rules) in the future.

Cooperative mode will be handled in both 'public' and 'private' game lobbies.

GEFORCE NOW

GeForce NOW is a streaming service from NVIDIA, which is a similar service to Google Stadia, Microsoft xCloud or PlayStation Now.

Last week GeForce Now ended their beta phase, making it available to all interested parties (including here in Poland!)

Using GeForce Now players can launch selected games from their Steam collection on any PC, Mac, TV or Android phone. You won't have to worry about performance as the image is streamed directly from the NVIDIA cloud. You don't even have to re-buy a game you already own - GeForce NOW connects to the Valve platform and will utilize that library directly.

Because it's still in it's early days, GeForce Now does not work with all Steam games currently.

However.

NVIDIA has chosen an array of interesting games to be amongst the first cloud based offerings and we are pleased to announce that Green Hell has been chosen to be amongst this list of starting titles, making it one of the first Polish games to be offered on the service.

Green Hell within GeForce Now will allow you to survive the dangerous Amazon jungle even on a non-gaming laptop. Details of the free GeForce Now package, as well as information about the optional subscription, are available here : https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/

Adventurers!

Two weeks passed since the last Dev Notes!

We are working hard to polish the mechanics within our Coop work. The current issue involves spawn rates of items for all players in a session.


Keep those bug reports coming!

Reminder for those reporting bugs:
Before you write a new thread/Discord post, please check if there wasn’t something similar posted recently! Keeping the same issues or similar issues in the same thread will help us establish the severity/scope of the issue.

When new issues appear out of the blue, remember to verify steam files and reload the game to ensure it isn't a temporary glitch. If the issue persists report it in already existing or new thread in bug reports on Steam, Bug Channel on Discord.

How to write a bug report:
- write how to reproduce the issue
- include as much relevant information as possible: Is it survival or story mode? Which difficulty? How old is the save? Add screenshots!

If the issue occurs only on one of your saves and no one had the same problem, send us an email with your saved game.

Here are instructions:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/815370/discussions/1/1776010325116391886/

What issues we are aware of:
-Bamboo Bridge is already built on some saves
-Rain inside shelters (only visual issue)
-Mud mixer resets after walking away
-Issue adding items to Stack over Stack limit, creating secondary issue in Storage.
-When Player places a ghost on top of a Mud Roof it gets properly cut off under it.
-Once Player inserts items into the ghost those parts of the ghost are visible and have collision.
-Coal stays in the air after destroying the Frame under the Mud Charcoal Furnace.
-Player cannot shoot through Stands, Smokers, Racks and Walls.
-Sometimes Sanity tribesmen are spawned in T pose.
-Weird camera position return after vomiting.
-Camera looks up when Player goes to sleep.
-No Fever or Poison reduction info in the Info Log and Effects of Consumption.
-Cannot sort Storage Box.
-Maggots become huge when their decay timer runs out.
-Igniting a torch with low stamina ignites it after stamina regenerates.

Happy New Year Adventurers!

We hope you had a great time with your New Year festivities and are now properly rested! 😉

We are revved up and moving ahead on Co-op at full speed.

Here is the screenshot of our QA Team in Co-op Mode:



Lately we've been seeing many questions about the upcoming cooperative mode: mainly about sleeping and co-op story mode.

Sleeping: When a player sleeps time will not speed up- energy will rise but much slower. Only when all Players lay down at the same time, the time will speed up to the timing you're familiar with from singleplayer.

Sandbox Survival mode is the only mode that will have cooperative gameplay. The overall balance to that mode will be adjusted so that the game is sufficiently challenging to engage all players.

Hey everyone.

Hotfix Patch: V.1.3.2 is live now!

• Fixed – Puma/Jaguar runs around trying to reach Player that is standing on a higher floor
  
• Fixed – Animal droppings spawn rate is too small
  
• Fixed – Storage Box on higher floors have collision under the Roof
  
• Fixed – Bamboo Fishing Rod sticks out above the Roof if placed on Weapon Rack under the Roof
  
• Fixed – Cannot Place Roofs above Weapon Rack
  
• Fixed – Bamboo Dryer/Smoker/Bamboo Smoker can be placed under a Roof
  
• Fixed – Constructions placed on Roof can block snapping of Frames on the sides
  
• Fixed – Stuck in crouch if overweight happens in crouch mode
  
• Fixed – Caiman can kill Player standing on the roof
  
• Fixed – Items left on the Roof can drop through it when Player moves far away and returns
  
• Fixed – Wall cannot be placed again after destroying Mud Fireside Wall in the middle Frame after reloading
  
• Fixed – Cannot interact with water in rivers/waterfalls in area next to Airport
  
• Fixed – Leaf roofs covered half of Shed on the floor
  
• Fixed – Items from Storage Box can sometimes disappear
  
• Fixed – Mud Ceiling of Shed that is placed above ground level has too small raincutter
  
• Fixed – Hard to insert topmost Banana Leaf into Banana Roof on Shelter built on a floor
  
• Fixed – Player is able to stack items inside Storage Box on top of each other after rotating them
  
• Fixed – Items disappear when a stack of them is thrown into full Storage Box
  
• Fixed – 3 balance spawners in the air near Grappling Hook
  
• Fixed – When raining fire goes out under roof placed only on higher floor

Thank you for your support!

Hey Everyone!

Patch: V.1.3.1 is live now!

• Fixed - Storage boxes are destroyed when pressing L letter on the keyboard
  
• Fixed - Game crashes when loading certain saves

Thank you for your support!

Hey everyone.

Expanded Shelters Update is live! We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedbacks. See you in Green Hell!

• New Constructions:
  Side Doorway
  Mud Side Doorway
  Bamboo Side Doorway
  Short Wall
  Short Bamboo Wall
  Short Mud Wall
  Mud Roof With Notch
  Ladder
  Bamboo Ladder

• Player is not able to walk on Banana and Palm Leaves Roof! Only Mud Roofs are good floors

• Fixed - Dying in custom Green Hell mode can corrupt all saves slots teleporting Player to empty edge of map
  
• Fixed - Combat mode does not stop after killing tribesmen
  
• Fixed - Grill Rack snapped to Small Fire with Stone Ring stops working after game reload
  
• Fixed - Keybind for Plowing is hardcoded to Q
  
• Fixed - Balance spawners under Constructions are still active
  
• Fixed - Parrots can push Player
  
• Fixed - Reigniting a Torch resets its durability
  
• Fixed - Switching between Tourist difficulty save and others heals wounds
  
• Fixed - Hands go into ‘holding leaves’ position after inserting Heavy Object into construction
  
• Fixed - Stone Ring is placed too high above the ground
  
• Fixed - Campfire doesn't light surroundings properly
  
• Fixed - Sometimes text on the right side of the Notebook is not centered
  
• Fixed - Mud inserted into Mud Roof lacks collision before Roof is completed
  
• Fixed - Stands did not have collision with AI
  
• Fixed - Sometimes Tapir/Peccary can spawn in water
  
• Fixed - It can be hard to insert some items into ghost when building Sheds
  
• Fixed - Save Triggers on Shelters’ Roofs are visible from the outside
  
  
• Fixed - Items fall into Shelter Roofs' models
  
• Fixed - Sometimes it's impossible to insert Mud Brick into Mud Wall
  
• Fixed - Some items have improper weight

Thank you for your support!

Adventurers!

This is the last Developer Notes of 2019 and we here at Creepy Jar would like to thank everyone for the support you have shown us throughout the year!

Green Hell is the success it is today with the feedback, suggestions, reviews & help of our awesome Community. Thank you for all the bug reports which help us pinpoint and fix issues.

Green Hell only launched out of Early Access in September of this year and it's not the end of our journey together. Expanded Shelters, Co-op and a secret Content Update are on the schedule ahead of us, not to mention we'd love to try and implement some of those great suggestions of yours!

Our Turkish translation will need some more time for polish for being released – those long articles from story mode are exhausting! This week is all about focusing on the Expanded Shelters update so we can get the update solid and out to you guys for the Holidays.

If you're interested in checking out the PTR build for the Expanded Shelters update, be sure to join our official discord server ( https://discordapp.com/invite/greenhell ) to get access to the build information. The build is currently stable, just needs polishing.

We hope everyone has a safe and Happy Holiday - we shall be updating you guys again when the update drops!

Hey everyone.
Hotfix Patch: V.1.2.1 is live now!

• Fixed – Tooltips text overlapses if the language has many characters
  
• Fixed – UI on Ultrawide resolutions can go off screen
  
• Fixed – x360 wireless controller not working
  
• Fixed – Drinking healing liquids does not reduce effect stacks

Thank you for your support!

Hey everyone!

Controller Support Update : V.1.2 is live now!

Long-awaited Controller Support Update is live! We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedbacks. See you in Green Hell!

• New input method - Controller
  
• New Options - Toggle Crouch, Run, Watch
  
• New Icons

• Fixed - Cannot change keybind for Deconstruct
  
• Fixed - Typos in polish translation
  
• Fixed - Patient cards have "Pacient card" typo on triggers
  
• Fixed - Large and Small Planting Box drawings in Notebook are blurry on lower texture settings
  
• Fixed - Cannot change keybind for Backpack sort
  
• Fixed - Cannot unlock Planting Boxes on specific save
  
• Fixed - After destroying one of the construction walls whole frame is demolished and new frame can not be placed
  
• Fixed - Camera moves along with wheel menu after opening it from Map
  
• Fixed - Slot icon are blurry when Textures Quality are on Low
  
• Fixed - DAY 1/2/3/32 screens are blurry when Texture Quality is set to Low
  
• Fixed - Game crashes when hitting fish caught with Fishing Rod Trap/Stick Trap
  
• Fixed - Player stands up when opening expand menu while in crouch
  
• Fixed - Game crashes after killing Savage in fist fight
  
• Fixed - Player should cycle only between Weapons when using mouse wheel/dpad
  
• Fixed - Random crashes when loading saves
  
• Fixed - Growth icon is not updated if fruits are picked with open backpack
  
• Fixed - 'Mouse Smoothing' Option name does not fit when using a Controller
  
• Fixed - Low stamina sounds are triggered twice when Player runs out of Stamina
  
• Fixed - ] Mud roof does not have a collision

Thank you for your support!

Hey guys!

We would like to thank everyone who voted for Green Hell in any category on the Steam Awards!

This weekend the team attended SGC 2019 in Ljubljana and we won the award for Best Indie Game of 2019.



Our next Update is almost ready and it includes controller support. We just have to make sure there are no controller related bugs and add proper hints translations.

Turkish Language is currently being worked on and we hope it will be ready and added with the Expanded Shelters Update.

Our Expanded Shelters update is currently undergoing testing by our QA Team.



CO-OP Mode is still in the hands of our programmers & animators. Simple actions are properly animated (so no T-Pose ☹)
We are currently on time for our internal schedule for CO-OP!!

Thank you for your support!