Heck yeah, Sons of the Forest update adds weapon hotkeys
No more fumbling with your backback. Today’s hotfix adds a few small but important improvements to the early access survival game.
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As survival gameSons of the Forestcontinues todominate the Steam charts, developer Endnight Games has been working on making the early access experience a bit smoother for players. A new hotfix arrived today, and while it’s a small one it addresses a couple of big requests from the community.
Sons of the Forest didn’t have a hotkey system at launch, so players could only get an item into their hands by opening their inventory and clicking on the item they needed, or by adding items to their backpack, then holding their backpack up and choosing the item or weapon they wanted from that. The system wasn’t exactly user friendly and felt a bit awkward, especially when being chased around by enraged cannibals.
But a hotkey system has blessedly been added in today’s hotfix. Now you can assign items to your number keys (0-9) while using your inventory. Just hover over something like a pistol, shotgun, or bow, and you’ll see a small empty UI box appear over the item. Press a number between 0 and 9 and it’ll be assigned to that key. While playing, just tap that number and the assigned item will pop right into your hands. Ahh, so much better.
Another few small but welcome tweaks: tapping Escape will now close the construction manual, the ‘grab bag’ (when you’re holding up your backpack), and the tutorial book, which improves the clunky interface a bit. Cutscene prompts have also been improved for more visibility, and some more hints have been added to the loading screen.
Note: If you happen to be using mods, such as the debug console mod that lets you play around withSons of the Forest cheats, you may have trouble running those mods following the hotfix. At first I couldn’t launch the game with mods, but a quick exit and restart of Steam and the Thunderstore mod manager sorted that out, and everything seems to be working as it did before.
Here are the full notes fortoday’s hotfix:
Sons of the Forest cheats: Spawn more KelvinsSons of the Forest shovel location: How to digSons of the Forest keycard locations: Gain entrySons of the Forest rope gun location: Ziplines onlineSons of the Forest rebreather location: Dive deeper
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Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he’d stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He’s also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.
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