Howdy all!

Welcome to this community focused Pony Express! Last weekend we asked for you to send us clips and videos of you all playing Outlaws of the Old West. Here is just a taste of the content being made out there!

ThatGermanGuy has a great video showing off a ton of unique buildings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ktL9zqaKk&feature=youtu.be

Haemorr spends quality time with his daughter. Oh, he’s trying to kill her the entire time? Nevermind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOQ1Y1ENWJM

MyUsualMe has a whole series of videos! This one is his latest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPpM_xh3SJU

SwampFox sends us this clip of a duel that didn’t go the way he thought it would:

https://clips.twitch.tv/CrowdedPreciousVanillaSpicyBoy

Thank you all for streaming and recording while playing Outlaws of the Old West.

We’ve got some more community plans coming soon, so stick around! See y’all next week!

-The Outlaws of the Old West Community Team

Getting tired of lookin like a Barber's Cat? What's that you say?

Get yourself cleaned up at the new barber shop in town! We also got some more languages in the game!

Client Update 5:00 PM Pacific
Estimated Downtime 30 Minutes

Change Log:

VFX & Assets:

• Added a blocking volume under the floor on the mines to prevent characters potentially falling through the floor of the mines.
  
• Fixed some holes and seams in the map.
  
• Updated snow particle and materials.
  
• Adjusted Brick staircase collision.
  
• Added Black Crappie to fishing.
  
• Added Sunfish to fishing.
  
• Added barbershop contract building that allows players to change appearance.

Code:

• Fixed M and N keys affecting hunger and thirst.
  
• Fixed non socially connected players accessing radial menu on storage containers/banks.
  
• Fixed crafting cues getting cleared.
  
• Fixed throw able actors not colliding with build pieces.
  
• Fixed ammo count/reload issues.
  
• Fixed hot bar being transferred when taking items from others.
  
• Train station is now only accessible by connected players.
  
• Server Browser now adds favorites to the top of the list first.
  
• Server Browser has a favorites only filter.
  
• Servers are added to favorites automatically when a character is created on them or on re-join of a server where the player has a character.
  
• Fixed tracks not conforming to the ground when going downhill.
  
• Fixed cooking dupe exploit.
  
• Set Scale on donkey after attachment and detachment for mine shafts.
  
• Ensure guards can attack from close up.
  
• Fixed wire fences.
  
• Fixed Guards to work properly after server reload.
  
• Fixed crash if damage causer is not valid.
  
• Fix corpses hopping onto ceilings.
  
• Prevented players from blowing up buildings in non PVP/RP servers.
  
• Prevented players from building close to non guild members.
  
• Change morality minimum to -20 before players are added to the bounty board.
  
• Fixed landmine damage.
  
• Fixed animal aggro rates being affected by server frame rate.
  
• Fixed defensive animals in the distance switching between defense and wander.

Localization:

• Added French
  
• Added Polish
  
• Added Portuguese
  
• Added Russian
  
• Added Spanish

Keep the feedback coming folks! We very much appreciate all of it!

Howdy everyone!

This weeks Pony Express is going to be a little, uh, short…



It’s reports by people like Discord user TheyCallMeMoNk help us make the game a better experience for everyone. We will be looking into this little issue in short order. Short order!

Our Home on the Range Community Event ended yesterday, and while everyone who got to be a part of the vote had an amazing submission, Flannathir took it away with 23.8% of the vote. His barn looks amazing, and he definitely deserved the win. Prizes will be sent out to the winners soon! Congratulations!



Another success on the Community front is our community localization program. As of right now, the Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Chinese, and Spanish localization efforts are 100% complete! German, Czech, and Portuguese are also well on their way to being completed. Thank you for all of your help!

Be sure to visit our forum thread for more information: https://steamcommunity.com/app/840800/discussions/0/3247565033759299879/

Updates this week added the ability to sit, as well as the new prefabricated building: the Bank. Things like furniture, sitting, and prefab buildings wouldn’t be here without your feedback and suggestions. Prefab buildings are especially important in making a player town feel like a place that other players can visit for more reasons than just sightseeing. What kind of prefab buildings would you like to see in Outlaws?



Our efforts would be aimless without you guys sending us reports and issues. We are currently investigating everything from crashes to hacks, and we appreciate your patience while these issues get looked into and resolved.

We will see you all next week!

-The Outlaws of the Old West Community Team

Good mornin' everyone!

Our first community event has come to a close, and what a doozy it was! This vote started off with a clear winner, but as time went on another rose to the top. Lets start this off with our three runner ups!

3. Phoenix



Phoenix received 10.2% of your votes, and it's easy to see why. There are tons of little details that make this more than just a square cabin in the woods. Great use of windows, corners, and fences.

2. Stephlyy



Stephlyy narrowly pulled ahead in the polls with 10.8% of the votes. We love the roof over the front deck, and the two overlooks that we can see with a view of the river. What makes this really stand out though is the lighting, and the star lit sky backdrop.

1. Christopher



What a great looking town by Christopher, and its no surprise that this was initially winning the vote. However, they ended up in the runner up category with 17.1% of the votes. The outlaws riding front and center, with horses tethered to the sides, makes this town feel like there is more to see just around the corner. It took careful planning to make those streets straight as an arrow too!

Finally, we have the grand prize winner. Almost a full quarter of the votes went to this submission, and it is the clear to see why they are the winner.

Grand Prize: Flannathir



This amazing looking barn makes great use of every construction tool in the toolkit, creating an incredibly unique barn that is massive! The multi-angle roof, chimney, and gate combine to make this look awesome and real.

The three runner ups will all receive a Steam key for Outlaws of the Old West that they can share with a friend, and Flannathir will receive a $50 USD Amazon gift card for being the Grand Prize winner!

Thank you all for helping and participating in this community event. Without your submissions and your votes, this wouldn't be possible. Until next time!

-The Outlaws of the Old West Community Team

Edit: Patch notes updated to better reflect what has changed with this patch.

Psst... Greenhorn!

Don't tell anybody else but I saw some fellas installing a huge metal box in the new building in town. I think a Bank is opening up! We finally got around to fixing some much requested quality of life issues, thanks for your patience!



Client Update 5:00 PM Pacific
Estimated Downtime 30 Minutes

Change Log:

VFX & Assets:

• Made most items placeable on both grounds and foundations.
  
• Fixed alignment of triangle log foundations.
  
• Adjusted regular axe animation speed.
  
• Updating all glass windows and various glass assets with the new Glass Material.
  
• Mines now use the firelight system.
  
• Added ceiling and roof 45's to log building kit (to match up with the foundation 45).
  
• Added triangle sloped and sloped half roofs, added 45 Triangle foundation, ceiling and roof to Brick Kit.
  
• Added triangle sloped and sloped half roofs, added 45 Triangle foundation, ceiling and roof to Finished Wood Kit.
  
• Fixed some Brick roof LOD issues.
  
• Added Triangle roof to Finished wood building kit.
  
• Added triangle 45 foundation, roof and ceiling as well as sloped triangle roofs to Plank building kit.
  
• Adjusted bandages and added a cooldown between uses.
  
• Fixed trees so loot (wood) is distributed with each hit rather than mostly on first hit.
  
• Added more fishing variety.

Code:

• Ensuring characters are moved to the stable when killed (fixes invisible blocking bodies on client).
  
• MineShafts can now be destroyed using both radial and sledgehammer.
  
• Train Station can now be destroyed. Tracks with no train station reference can now be destroyed as well. Station cannot be destroyed after an engine has been purchased. All build objects can be destroyed from further now (now takes object extent into account instead of flat 100 unit range)
  
• Fixed item duping between saves and reloads of server for both wagons and horses.
  
• Made horses stats (hunger and thirst) not kill horses if the owner is not in sight or offline. Horses will die if the owner is not seen for 3 realtime days.
  
• Made servers load faster into server browser and load more of them.
  
• Added the ability to move beds, gun cabinates.
  
• Moved Mailbox default UI location.
  
• Added weapon stats to crafting menu.
  
• Ability to delete train station that doesn't have an associated train engine.

What else ya got?

Howdy y’all!

Today is the day we start the community vote! We’ve gathered the best creations and screenshots that you have sent, and now it is up to you to vote on what you think is the best one. There is no right or wrong answer.

In alphabetical order, here are the best submissions we received:

AceXprt
A beautiful little town, with some nice use of tilt shift


Bo
“Old West House”
A rather large cabin, with a nice old timey filter


Christopher
Another nice town, this time with working lights, and what looks like a view down main street


Cletus
Fort doors open up to reveal what's inside.


Corben
“Groom Lake, Nevada”
Long shot view of Corben’s town shows a lot of buildings and even more room to grow


Dom
This house has what everyone needs in the old west; access to water and long sight lines


Donna-Lee
“Bella Rosa Homestead”
This lovely homestead is bringing some more modern building techniques to the west


Flannathir
“Barn”
They may call it a barn, but this is not your granddad's red painted shed in the backyard!


Gustav
“Prescotts Ranch”
Almost looks like a real greeting card


Incsy
A home in the desert, surrounded by water for survival and defense. Doesn’t get much better than that!


Jaspaer
“Cricklewood Town Sheriff’s Office”
Just across the river, you’ll find… The Sheriff


Joe
Joe found himself a little hill where the cactus start to grow, with a nice view of the desert


Phoenix
A great cabin built in the old west, with tons of details that catch your eye!


Roooony
Lodge
Not only is this quaint house on the water’s edge, but look at that lighting!


Ruben
A small rustic cabin, with a very lovely filter.


Stephlyy
A lovely house, wide view, and a sunset to die for.


Phew! That’s a wrap! We received over a hundred submissions and while we would have loved to have included them all, that would have made for an impossibly long list! You can vote for your favorite here: https://forms.gle/TDUrdDqZ1CiLHZrw9

The grand prize winner will receive a 50 dollar amazon gift card, and three runner ups will get a key for Outlaws of the Old West to give to a friend!

You have until March 27 6 PM PDT to submit your vote. Winners will be announced on March 28!

Thank you to everyone who took the time to send us a screenshot, and we will be seeing you soon!

- Outlaws of the Old West Community Team

Who goes there?

Turn around slowly and keep your hands up! Oh, it's you tenderfoot...Thought I had me a reason to use these Barkin' Irons. We got another update coming your way so get ready!

Client Update 5:00 PM Pacific
Estimated Downtime 30 Minutes

Change Log:

• Updated gold exchange to apply grass removal.
  
• Updated gold exchange to use firelight system.
  
• Updated grass removal for trainstation, train tracks, and both mine tiers.
  
• Added lights to both mine tiers.
  
• Light system updated to support changing temp of light color.
  
• Fixed lights on trainstation.
  
• Street lamps now use firelight system for shadow disabling.
  
• Added sitting animations.
  
• Small scatter rocks in the mountains and desert biomes no longer have collision.
  
• Added new window glass material.

Code:

• Changed default bind for walk mode to k.
  
• Modified horse movement to get blocked less often going up slopes.
  
• Tripled ice spoil time.
  
• Added enter chat binding option.
  
• Fixed melee damage when mounted.
  
• Fixed melee damaging currently mounted horse.
  
• Made dead body and loot bag stay twice as long.
  
• Added notification when your dead body is looted.
  
• Made sure loot bag is spawned consistantly.
  
• Updated inventory to allow players to set hotbar items by pressing the hotbar key while hovering an item.
  
• Added delete hotkey functionality for inventory (del key).
  
• Added activate/transfer hotkey for inventory (home key).
  
• Added auto sort and auto stack to storage containers.
  
• Changed where trading was canceled with storage containers. Should fix random items appearing in players inventories.
  
• Fixed horse death teleport bug on player character.
  
• Fixed another mail item duplication issue.

Audio:

• Implemented additional random procedural ambiances.
  
• Updated build data table with correct building placement audio.
  
• Fixed implementation of Bigfoot footsteps on different surfaces.
  
• Increased shells impacts volume and decreased their attenuation outer radius.
  
• Adjusted large and medium dynamite's tinnitus layer volume, attenuation and delay values.
  
• Increased footsteps and emotes classes volume.
  
• Adjusted stone and wood resources pickup and place sfx.

Howdy, and welcome to this weeks Pony Express!

First, the submission period for our first ever Community Event, the Home on the Range screenshot event ends tonight! We want to thank everyone who submitted, even if not everyone will make it onto the community vote ballot. We can’t wait to share some of the creations that you guys sent to us. Voting starts next week, and winners will be announced Thursday!

Schedule:
Vote Period: March 25 11 AM PDT to March 27 6 PM PDT
Winners announced: March 28 11 AM PDT

Prizes:
Grand Prize: $50 USD Amazon Gift Card
3 Runner Ups: Outlaws of the Old West Steam Key



This morning we updated to version 1.0.8, which re-enabled Bounty Hunters! These dangerous folk are out to make some cold hard cash, and if your morality gets too low, you might find yourself down the barrel of their guns, or at the bottom of a bear’s stomach. You will need to think about each action you take, and the effect it might have on your morality. How will you survive out here, now that a little law has come to the west?

We have a ton of content coming soon, with more added every week (sometimes every day!). Stay tuned for more exciting developments!

We know that there have been concerns about hacking, especially in the last few days. We see your reports of the various issues and we want to make sure you understand that this is something that we are taking very seriously. Please send reports of any hackers you see to outlawsupport@wanderingwizard.com, so that we can compile all of the issues and focus our efforts on eradicating them.

Finally, we have a great beginners guide to Outlaws, created by slightlymad79 on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePn6k0BHcQ

If you’d like to share something fun or informative with us, send it to social@wanderingwizard.com and we may showcase it on our next Pony Express! We want to get your name out there, so don’t be shy if you are a small creator.

That’s it for us this week. Thanks for your continued support as we move into the weekend, and we will see you here next week!

-The Outlaws of the Old West Community Team

Stop slouchin' Greenhorn,

Pay attention here, we're trying to teach ya somethin important. Never wake a man by shakin' him. He might just wake up and shoot ya! Watch out for strangers around these parts, bounty hunters have arrived. Wonder if they'll finally take care of the Skull Gang.



Client Update 7:45 AM Pacific
Estimated Downtime 30 Minutes

Change Log:

VFX, Lighting, Assets:

• Added 32 more instances of mines.
  
• Updated mines resources to respawn quicker.
  
• Updated blackberries icon.
  
• Fixed collision on safe doors so they won't effect the camera when opening or closing.
  
• Adjusted placement extents for several props for more accurate detection of walls and other objects when placing.
  
• Brick and Plank windows can now be opened.
  
• Adjusted recipes for explosives.
  
• Added base to oilpump so it won't float when placed on uneven terrain.
  
• Lowered cost of train track pieces.
  
• Changed grass removal areas on various items.

Code:

• Fixed mouse issue where FOVscale was saved as 0 and would make players unable to rotate their camera without deleting the input.ini.
  
• Fixed ghost items in storages/inventory that aren't moveable or useable.
  
• Made game launch to primary monitor by default.
  
• Only the sledgehammer and explosives can be used to damage buildings.
  
• Brick buildings and safes are only destroyable by explosives.
  
• Safes now drop a loot bag with their contents on destruction.
  
• Bounty Hunters will now spawn properly and track the player.
  
• Fixed bounty hunter bear attack issue.
  
• Ensured bounty hunters are not attempting to attack dead players.
  
• Reduced player knockback when hit slightly.
  
• Fixed crazed miner loot drops.
  
• Horse no longer allows riders from different guilds.
  
• Fixed crafting actors not saving again (They will reset during update).
  
• Train tracks can now be built across water.
  
• Solo train tracks can now be destroyed with both sledgehammer and radial menu.
  
• Mine entrances can now be deleted.
  
• Fixed cameras not saving.
  
• Fixed explosive damage.
  
• Fixed another mail duplication exploit.
  
• Money now is lost on death but is lootable from player body.
  
• Fixed melee damaging other players in original mode.
  
• Fixed horse infinite stamina from horse shoes.

Audio:

• Added inventory, pick up and drop/destroy sfx to new items.
  
• Adjusted gain, decay time, reflections delay and air absorptions gain HF of global reverb to replicate outdoors reverberation in more detail, blending the soundscape together more.
  
• Implemented further randomization of spawn chance and time before respawn of crickets, day and night birds in different biomes to prevent them playing at the same time at certain points.
  
• Turned down volume of larger animal footsteps cues(bison, bears, moose).
  
• Removed delay from main menu hover cue.
  
• Adjusted cold loop sound cue so that it's not perceived as wind clipping.

Now I'm off to the Saloon to wet my whistle. Maybe I'll see ya there?

Hey Folks,

Nothing like a cup of Arbuckle's to get things goin in the mornin. We got another batch of hot fixes and changes for you!



Client Update 5:30 AM Pacific
Estimated Downtime 30 minutes

Change Log:

Audio:

• Increased amplitude for playing heat and cold sound triggers to 30 and 110 degrees respectively; Turned up cold loop sfx volume
  
• Turned down sledgehammer flesh and stone/wood impact sfx
  
• Attached tree creaking and leaves rustling proc ambient sfx to different trees in each biome; adjusted the night bird sfx to play only when there are 2 or more trees for alpine and prairie and 3 or more for desert biome
  
• Split bird wing flap ambient cues to different biome; set them up to play when there are 2 trees or more
  
• Turned down proc bird cues volumes
  
• Turned down pitch and volume of all lake ambient loop cues
  
• Turned ambient music class up
  
• Fixed female character playing male vocal sound cue when thirsty
  
• Adjusted grasshopper flying proc ambiance volume
  
• Adjusted bullet ricochet concurrency setting

VFX, Lighting, Assets

• Increased fall damage
  
• Decreased initial inventory weight limit by 30%
  
• Reduced rail track pieces crafting cost by 50%
  
• New Railhammer mesh
  
• Increased sword damage
  
• Lowered slingshot and arrow damage
  
• Increased damage for pistols
  
• Lamp posts and street lamps can be placed on floors now
  
• Removed references that could potentially cause weird behavior with radial menu
  
• Increased donkey spawn rate
  
• Added another table to the carpentry bench

Code:

• Updated movement component to aliviate players getting stuck inside walls when running into them
  
• Updated AI movement componet to prevent animals and bandits from going through fort walls and build peices
  
• Modified aggro slightly for more realistic animal aggro
  
• Made troughs save water data for server restarts
  
• Set pathing to allow partial paths for movement, to improve animal follow behavior when fallowing a fast character
  
• Large cliff rocks now generate navigation, this sould solve a lot of AI issues when they are on top of them. Example placing a guard on top of a rock.
  
• Made sure you can dequeue the whole stack by cntrl clicking the x
  
• Fixed wagon teleporting players underneath the center of the wagon
  
• Fixed wagon not allowing the player to detatch the horse after a passanger has gotten on then off the wagon
  
• Made mouse binding add themselves if they don't exist
  
• Changed unload tile distance to be different from load as we start to ease client hitches
  
• Added confirmation window to suicide command
  
• Fixed dead bodies missing after dyeing on a horse
  
• Made console variables load with main settings so gamma and grass density are loaded on start
  
• Made livestock interactable (Sheep/Cows)
  
• Made Shears work on sheep, Hold E with Shears Equipted
  
• Made Cow able to be milked using radial
  
• Made horses getting retied to a post on server reload more consistent and also made sure tamed hitched horses don't wander away on restart
  
• Fixed mine, crazed miner spawn points

Now tell me how you feel about things! I bet you won't!