Howdy y'all!

Welcome to a big catch-up devlog covering most of what the team has cooked up between the last update and early July 👽

So, what’s been happening behind the curtain? Let’s take a look!

Keep in mind that everything below is WORK IN PROGRESS and might not ship as shown. We’re still cookin’ for now!

Our new sci-fi invader faction, the Zurkers, keeps on growing! Their faces are a bit glitchy for now, since we still haven’t managed to get them to sign a release form for their image rights.

(Actually, we’re still in the early stages of the army and have a LOT of work to do before showing anything too detailed to you all.)

Concepts & 3D models by @Capp and @MashArt / Textures and rigs by @Adrian

A new family of Lighthouse points of interest is now scattered across the maps. If you’re careful enough with your jumps, you’ll learn a lot more about your surroundings!

Instead of getting the Anvil, Refiner, and Copy Press revealed for free on the minimap, you’ll now have to climb lighthouses and water towers, then play a minigame to reveal the whole map! The idea is to reward decision-making, not pure luck. You can still stumble onto any hidden structure by exploring on foot, but a lighthouse will light your way with ease.

This feature is still WIP and needs some balancing and polish (sounds, VFX)

Level Design by @Promium / Level Art by @Erton

Mysterious places have been spotted deep in the Jungle… A questline has been added! Explore 3 underground dungeons and collect all the ancient scrolls to unlock the brand-new Hellfire map!

There’s also a secret, but since it’s a secret, I can’t tell you there’s one.

Level Design by @Promium / Level Art by @Erton

The Hellfire map is almost done, and it’s already crawling with Cryptics waiting to ambush you.

Level Design & Level Art by @Erton

Work has started on a brand-new map: a giant redwood forest. Think towering trees wrapped in climbable wooden platforms, with vertical paths to fight your way through. Very early days for now!

Level Design & Level Art by @Erton

It’s time to get up close and personal, don’t you think?

A whole rack of melee weapons is cooking! We’re still working out exactly how they’ll play and how to balance them with the rest of the game, which is why there’s not much footage to show just yet!

Concepts & 3D models by @Capp and @MashArt / Textures and rigs by @Adrian

The art team has also whipped up some fresh skins!

Original fanart by community member @Swolf, reworked and modeled by @Capp - The Aviator

Concept & 3D model by @MashArt - Bullet Bob! The new weapon smith!

Concept & 3D model by @Capp - Arizona Jones, the Jungle quest NPC!

Rig by @Adrian

I’ll just leave you with a screenshot that should be more than enough of a visual clue to guess what it is.

And since I love to cultivate mystery, I’m sending this one along too. (It’s a shield.) (This is no longer a mystery.) (The shield mechanic is coming.)

We’re adding some quality-of-life improvements to Jokers! We’re also cooking up a LOT (30+) of new Jokers, some designed specifically to make melee builds viable. It’s a first step toward our bigger goal of diversifying builds!

We’ve had two fresh faces join the crew recently!

PROmium is here to handle a whole bunch of level design and programming stuff, from quests to enemies and more. The man fears nothing.

Teeto will handle everything tech-related, meaning more programming stuff, but not the same kind of programming stuff. There are a lot of different kinds of programming stuff, you know. He’s currently working on our network, a Discord integration, a Twitch integration, and a lot more internal tools to make our lives at Evil Raptor easier!

There’s still plenty we’re working on that didn’t make it into this devlog, but for now, that’s it for this peek behind the curtain! Again, all of this is WIP, no gameplay, and some of it might change a lot or never ship

THANK YOU for playing Far Far West and sticking with us <3

See you in the next one.

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Howdy y'all! Here's another hotfix for ya' ENJOY!

As always, we read and listen to your feedback on our changes! If we added or modified something and the community thinks it shouldn't be this way, then it will most likely be changed in a later update! The game is in constant evolution, and nothing is set in stone, so do not hesitate to give feedback about anything related to the patch once you've tried it out!

• Joker dropping is now disabled while using a mount (this used to cause a lot of issues when updating players’ statistics, which is something we cannot fix. Our best solution to prevent this from happening is removing the ability entirely, which should not impact many situations)

• Reworked the on-hit damage indicator: it is now reliable and correctly shows the direction the damage is coming from

• XP Tickets can now be used with a gamepad

• Animals now have proper shadows

• GPU Optimization (especially noticeable on Woodlands map!)

Very minor bugfixes and tweaks are not listed

• The Vulture's shield no longer stays forever after you have destroyed all the flying skulls

• Localized lines introduced in the previous patch that weren’t localized

• Fixed Japanese, Russian, and Chinese localization texts that were overlapping and/or going offscreen

• Fixed an ADS glitch that happened when aiming during an emote and canceling it by moving

• The cursor no longer randomly disappears in menus when using a gamepad

• Fixed Bestiary buttons that would not work with a gamepad

• Fixed damage numbers that would not appear when killing enemies with bow explosions

• Fixed an empty "Hero" slot that could appear in the leaderboard when playing with the Boomerang

• Fixed a soft-lock where emptying the Revolver's ammo reserve under Fanning Ace kept you stuck in a reload state while permanently stacking the Joker Run And Reload effect

• A client dying while mounted no longer accidentally triggers the host's Second Wind

• Joker Relentless: removed from weapons and now works properly on the hero (it should have been on the hero only this whole time)

• Joker Chad: now properly shows the Wandering Trader on the map

• Joker Run and Gun: now properly uses diminishing returns

• Joker Rampage: no longer available on the Sheriff Stars (doesn’t work anymore with the rework)

• Joker Hit Me: now properly applies while mounted

• Joker Speedster: aiming or being in water no longer incorrectly reduces its damage

Thanks for readin'! See y'all next time.

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Howdy everyone! We missed a few things in today's patch, so we're quickly fixing it with this hot-hotfix:

• Removed the dash icon next to the HP bar

• Reduced the font size of the player HUD (spells, hints, and collectibles)

🔽 Minigun accuracy lowered by -30%.

The Minigun was as precise as a Long Ranger, which does not make sense with how quickly you can shoot its powerful bullets. This slight nerf should make it more in line with other weapons.

🔄 Speedster now gives up to +55% damage and firerate at a 110% bonus movespeed cap.

By fixing a joker, we broke Speedster a little bit. Good thing, it was already broken from a previous patch and did not have the intended values. However, most people have gotten used to how it works now, so we're keeping the values you've mostly played with. Good for you, it's more than what we intended at the start. Enjoy 🙂

⬆️ Homing Burst is buffed

We overdid the Homing Burst Joker nerf... So we're offsetting with a small buff!

• OLD: Shoot 1 homing bullet every 6 shots

• NEW: Shoot 2 homing bullets every 8 shots

Thanks for readin'!

Howdy everyone!!

We're back with another small patch for y'all,

As always, we read and listen to your feedback on our changes! If we added or modified something that the community disagrees with, then it will most likely be changed in a later update! The game is in constant evolution, and nothing is set in stone, so do not hesitate to give feedback about anything related to the patch once you’ve tried it out!

Quad Cylinder still didn’t find its own place with the buffs from version 0.1.1.3, so we’re going all-in to make sure it provides a more reliable and enjoyable experience.

• Improved hipfire and ADS accuracy by 90% (based on the new accuracy from patch 0.1.1.3, so this is a big increase!)

• Reduced recoil during ADS by 50%

• Base ammo from 192 to 216

• Base damage from 8 to 9

• Accuracy upgrade is now available on the weapon

• Pig HP has been reduced from 100HP to 50HP (this makes them easier to explode!)

• Mushrooms restore 30HP instead of 20HP

• Now give +50% move speed instead of +30%

• Now activates anti-gravity only if you dash or jump within the zone

• Area of effect increased from 15 meters to 20 meters

• Max equippable increased from 1 to 2

• HP restored has been increased from 0.5HP/sec. to 0.75HP/sec.

• Buff duration has been increased from 3 sec. to 5 sec.

• The boomerang is twice as big > The boomerang is twice as big and goes through shields

The current iteration of Rampage doesn’t have a spot in any build, as Run & Gun is just a better and more reliable version of it. We’re changing it so it has its own usefulness, rewarding the player for constantly fighting

• Killing an enemy grants 25% movespeed for 3 seconds (no stacking) > Gain 5% reload speed on kill for 10 seconds, up to 100%

  • Rarity increased from Fine to Prime

  • An icon has been added near the HP bar to display your current buff amount

This reduces the amount of explosions you will proc, but explosions are now 3x stronger and 2x wider, making it actually useful at clearing multiple enemies at once

• Your weakspot hits cause an explosion > Weakspot hits have 50% chance to cause an explosion

Quad Cylinder accuracy has been greatly buffed, meaning your shots have way more chance of hitting where you aim, rendering the current iteration of Aiming Burst useless. This new version makes it so that this unique Joker is constantly good and rewards the player for aiming well

Our recent change on Homing Burst has led to some… unexpected results that are way, way too overpowered compared to all other weapons. This wouldn’t be an issue if getting that much power relied on the player's skill, but this iteration works by itself without even really aiming.

• While aiming, your shots have perfect accuracy, and you are not slowed down > +30% weakspot damage and piercing bullets while ADS

• The first and last shot of your magazine fires 5 homing bullets > Every 6 bullets fired, shoot 1 homing bullet at nearby enemies

• Shoots 17% faster, and projectiles are no longer affected by gravity

Some of our enemy balance additions from patch 0.1.1.3 are a bit too strong, so we’re lowering some of our Cryptic friends’ efficiency! (and bees)

• Attack duration lowered from 8 sec. to 6 sec.

• Base damages reduced from 4 to 2

• \[VERY HARD+] Damage has been lowered by 33%

• \[VERY HARD+] Projectile speed has been lowered by 25%

• Lowered HP by 20%

• Buffed HP to match Elites HP

• Now give +5 levels instead of +3 levels

Very minor bugfixes and tweaks are not listed

• Fixed an unintended interaction that allowed a player to cancel their reload via a weapon inspect animation

• Fixed the issue that would cause a Deathrattle to prevent navigation within the Wandering Trader or Refiner menus

• Fixed the issue that wouldn’t let you do 2 quests in a single mission if they came from different NPCs

• Fixed the issue that would leave the mouse on screen after you’ve held right click while using the emote wheel

• Cryptic Train now properly rewards XP for weapons when you hit it

• Bow explosions XP is now calculated client-side, improving its reliability

• Battlecries are no longer replayed in a loop during the tutorial

• Joker Second Wind: now properly triggers when the player dies while riding the horse

• Jokers that can’t be dropped are now marked as such before you collect them

• Reworked flash screen effects (dash, heal, shooting bullet)

• Joker Life Pact can now be dropped

• Joker Soul Eater: refined description to make it clearer

Thanks for readin'! See y'all next time.

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Howdy Y'all!

We've been BLOWN AWAY by all of your fan creations since launch, and we don't want to gatekeep all of your incredible creativity. AND SO! To turn the spotlight on some of the talented members of the Far Far West Discord Community & their creations, here is our first Community Spotlight!

By @WingumART[x.com] | HRWjones on Discord | https://linktr.ee/malarkeystudios

Fan-made concept art for a Dual Revolvers weapon skin!

by Plord on Discord

by Terri (Kranot) on Discord

WIP reskin mod for Woody!

by @The0nionRing[x.com] (Also The Onion Ring on Discord)

by Preppie on Discord | @Preppieuniform6

by Lucas RAYNAUD on ArtStation/LinkedIn | https://lucasraynaud.fr/

You can download the mod via Nexus![www.nexusmods.com]

(Please note this is not an official mod, it has not been tested by our team! download at your own risk <3)

by Cittrusus on Discord

by Benni on Discord

by Cristronf on Discord

by Gambling_Cat on Discord

Thanks for readin'! And thanks to everyone who is making awesome fan content about our game.

If you would like to be featured in a future community spotlight, join our Discord and post your submission in the Community Spotlight channel! 🥰

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Speak to y'all soon!

Howdy y'all!

You may be wondering why we have swapped from v6xx to v0.1.1.1

We recently decided to change the version number to better reflect the... well, version of the game. Instead of having a single number that increased, we now break down the updated version into these categories;

With the first 0. representing Early Access (Spoiler: will turn to 1 in 1.0 launch)

And without further ado, onto the patch notes!

Most feedback that we received regarding the higher difficulties were that is was too simple and not challenging enough, with some people managing to win games without picking up any joker during their mission. These changes aim to make the Nightmare difficulty more challenging, hence giving an incentive to complete side objectives and collect jokers throughout the game. This is obviously just a small portion of what we want to do to increase the challenge of higher difficulties!

They are bigger, stronger, bolder!

Run faster, spam attacks, lot of HP. Real stalkers.

spawn 3 shockwaves instead of 1 and summon semi-homing projectiles. Also lot of HP!

Rapid fire, lot of HP and teleports when attacking.

Rapid fire, can create a barrage. Lot of HP!

• Elite enemies have 75% chance of spawning if you trigger a storm (not including boss storms)

• Battlecries are tied to a hat that you can equip in the skin shop!

• Press B to throw your hat and YEEHAW!

• Added in-game grunts/gurgles/barks to characters for different actions and pings, based on your equipped hat

Balancing a weapon, joker, spell or whatever doesn’t mean we’ll never touch it again, don’t worry! It means that we’re trying to find a fix to make it better or more balanced with limited time. We know that sometimes, things need a rework and not simply a stat change, but a rework takes way more time than simply changing numbers around.

• Buffed hipfire and ADS accuracy by 20%

Inspect animation is shorter and no longer occupies the full screen

Bow gameplay relies on explosions that previously did not give any XP, making the bow confusing and tedious to level up. This change drastically improves the consistency of XP obtained, which means the XP multiplier being way higher for the bow than other weapons is no longer necessary.

• Explosions now give XP based on their damage and the number of enemies hit!

• Bow XP multiplier was lowered to match the multiplier of other secondary weapons

• The first bullet in your magazine has 100% accuracy and shoots further away > The first 3 bullets in your magazine have 100% accuracy and shoot further away

• The shotgun now displays a dot crosshair when Rush Blast is active

• Consecutive shots without missing grant +5% damage, stacking up to +50% > Consecutive shots without missing grant +10% damage, stacking up to +50%

• While aiming, your shots have perfect accuracy > While aiming, your shots have perfect accuracy, and you are not slowed down

• Every 20 bullets fired, shoot 5 homing bullets at nearby enemies > The first and last shot of your magazine fires 5 homing bullets at nearby enemies (projectiles now prioritize multiple targets but can still focus on one)

• Now increases Bend Speed for the Bow (instead of Firerate that did nothing)

• Every player now has it’s own set of 2 portals, meaning you can have up to 8 portals in a game

Corruption + Drain

These changes have the same purpose as the new elite ennemies, making the game more challenging in higher difficulties.

• Now instantly start attacking after finishing their spawn animation (used to be a 0.5 sec. delay)

• Now jump on the player in Nightmare

• The projectile no longer applies gravity on Very Hard+

• Projectiles are faster on Very Hard+

• Now invisible from Hard+ instead of Very Hard+

• Now teleport when hit in Very Hard+

• Now remain always invisible in Nightmare

• Now shoot a wider and faster shockwave

• Now shoot an homing projectile in Nightmare

Items required for each stage have been reduced

Very minor bugfixes and tweaks are not listed

• Items held by players should now properly drop on the ground if they leave, are kicked/banned or use ALT+F4

• Cryptic Scanners (eyes in the sky) should now properly target players whether you’re the host or the client

• Loot Coyotes should no longer get stuck in the environment

• Dead players should now properly be able to move again if the teammate that was resurrecting them gets pushed by a Cryptic Bull

• Dying while climbing a rope should now properly stop the climbing audio, and players should be able to still use the rope after respawning

• Players should no longer be able to duplicate and start multiple quests at the same time when there is a desync/lags

• Mounting a horse while holding the emote wheel key should no longer lock the UI on the screen

• Voodoo Candles should no longer appear on puddles that have already disappeared

• Leveredge: ADS sensitivity is now the same as all other weapons

• Animation meshes while emoting are now the correct size when Joker Giant or Joker Dwarf are active

• 🌵 Cactus Pistolero: should no longer target corrupted ennemies

• ⚡ Elec Portal: throwing a portal into another one should no longer make another portal disappear with no reason

• 🔥 Pyro Wisp: no longer targets corrupted enemies

• 🪆 Voodoo Doll: the speed bonus should now properly work

• Joker Shine Bright: should now update instantly when you equip it, especially when playing with the Marauder or Blink skins

• Joker Hoarder: jokers dropped from Hoarder should now properly appear in your inventory

• Joker Lazy: should now correctly return ammo when using the Sheriff Stars, the Minigun and the Dual Revolvers

• Joker Toolbox: should now correctly work with Care Package

• Joker Speedster:

  • Should now take Joker Scavenger Star speed buff into account

  • Should now take Voodoo Doll speed buff into account

• Joker Giant: you should no longer have a permanently reduced size after entering and exiting small areas

• Joker Eagle Lever:

  • Shooting on bells from Joker Bell Shot should no longer reset the stacks

  • Switching weapons should no longer reset the stacks

  • Using Joker Ricochet should no longer reset the stacks

• Joker Eagle Lever + Joker Camper: should no longer consume 2 reserve ammo when you have two Camper equipped

• Reduced camera tilt when moving right/left

• The Wandering Trader should no longer offer the same Joker at the same time when trading with her

• Joker Rampage, Joker Soul Eater, Joker Hit Me now display their remaining duration

• Spanish (Latin America) and Turkish are now available

• Reverted Titles for “Reach Level 100 in X element” back to their previous name, added the ones from Update 1 as a separate reward obtainable by doing the “Reach Level 75 in X element” challenge

• Simplified Difficulty descriptions on Mission selection

• Rearranged Bestiary categories

• Friendly fire is now limited to 25HP per hit max, to avoid your evil sniper friend to one shot you

  • This will also greatly reduce griefers who used to abuse friendly fire by joining sessions, one-shotting everyone, and leaving.

Thanks for readin'! Let us know what you think of this patch, and we'll see y'all out WEST!!

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Howdy y'all, Captain Spinker’s speaking!

This is our first dev update since our early access launch :)

(Read to the bottom for a special promo code)

It’s been a wild ride! I was absolutely not ready for this success. To be honest, I was extremely worried about bugs and was kinda pessimistic about the numbers (I always am). I expected ~4k concurrent players on day 1 and ~10k on the first weekend. You guys absolutely blew those numbers, with a solid 20k on day 1, wow. very wow.

• Steam front page! We were not expecting this!

• 47k concurrent players (I expected 10k 😬)

• In 1 week, we sold 500k+ units (I expected 100k)

• We reached 1 million wishlists

• 120k users on Discord (mods are panicking lol)

• 97% positive reviews on Steam, just WOW, I expected 85-90%

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PLAYING FAR FAR WEST <3 you have no idea what it means to us

But no time to rest — the bugs were here.

You guys submitted 2k+ bug reports in 1 week, not including fatal errors, crashes and server issues. Somehow, Mylan (the second dev) and I made it through and fixed most of the critical bugs in just a few days. We worked quite a lot, but I’m very happy with the result now. We submitted 2 hotfixes in the same week, with the same level of stress: “what if our hotfix brings more bugs than it’s supposed to remove?…”

Also, special mention to the self-proclaimed tech helpers on Discord who helped A LOT to deal with fatal errors, crashes and PC problems. You guys are golden.

You guys also made a lot of feedback & ideas. Arno is busy all day long reading, taking notes and finding the right balance according to your opinions. This is extremely hard to make everyone happy, to craft systems that fit all needs, and to avoid “broken builds” (I think we failed at the last one ☹️). We are struggling to manage all the feedback to be honest, and to communicate properly with everyone. There’s Discord, Youtube, Reddit, Twitter(X), Steam etc. to look at… I PROMISE WE HEAR YOU <3

While Mylan and I (Spinker) were focusing on bugs, the rest of us kept on making cool stuff 🤌

⚠️ All the things you will see here might never ship into the game. We are not taking feedback for this at the moment, let us cook first <3 ⚠️

⚠️ We are very open to showing you what we are cooking right now. But if the feedback goes overboard, we might not do this again. Please don’t speculate too much on the content you might see here ⚠️

We are TRYING to add bosses to some specific maps, to add more depth to each map and an additional hard challenge. THIS FEATURE MIGHT NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF THE DAY, so don’t take it into account 🙂 Designing bosses is hard and very time-consuming, so we are not committing to anything at the moment

We will try to add new combos for the voodoo element. Get ready for a giant voodoo doll 🙂

We are working on something with the battlecries. We are absolutely not sure, but I like the idea to “throw your hat while screaming something”

Also, we have received 1200 files from the community voice actors! Thank you very much for this! I listen to EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM and damn, it takes time. A lot of time. So far, I’ve spent ~2 hours and could only listen to 100 of them 😭

I am also not sure yet as if we should use real voices (such as “TO THE WEST!”) or simple barks (such as “YEEHAWW!”). We’ll see 🙂

We are still working on the Hellfire map! It’s gonna be HOT!

Also! we made some 3D wallpapers for Wallpaper Engine if y'all would like to use them

1: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3730630949
2: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3730639154
3: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3730713123
4: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3730725830

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y'all... We're speechless...

This is a true lifetime achievement, and we couldn't have made it here without each one of you.

From both teams here at Evil Raptor and Fireshine Games, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We're beyond excited to continue updating, tweaking, fixing, stabilizing and creating new content for the game. Please keep all your feedback, thoughts, ideas and bug reports coming! we take all of it into account.

See y'all out in the Far (Far) West!

Howdy y'all!!

It's time for our FIRST GAME UPDATE (that isn't just bug fixes!)

We've been reading ALL of your feedback and hope that these new updates will make many of you very happy! Please keep the feedback coming, as it helps us make decisions on what to prioritise first for Far Far West.

First off, I want to remind y'all, if you encounter any Fatal Errors, are unable to launch the game, if you're dealing with a corrupted save, or are experiencing any other kind of technical problem, please take a look at this list of solutions before creating a new post

https://farfarwest.notion.site/help-me

If this list doesn’t help you, the fastest way to get help is by joining our Discord[discord.com] and asking for help in #support-help (We are also monitoring Steam Discussions, but at a much slower rate <3)

NOW LET THE PATCH NOTES BEGIN!!!

Our biggest change so far. While creating the Prestige system, we overshot the amount of grind needed to complete a Prestige. We feel it’s quite unfair to have to grind so much only to get a little more of your hero/weapons, so we’re reducing the grind by half. We’re in our first days of Early Access, but we believe that it’s not an excuse to have an extremely grindy system that takes out all the fun of leveling up. We’re confident we’ll have more and more content and features for you in the coming months to play and discover, so let’s enjoy what’s already here to the fullest!

• Main weapons XP is increased by x1.5, all secondary weapons XP is increased by x2

  • Bow XP has been increased x1.3 (as it was already greatly increased last patch)

• Hero XP has been increased x2

• Joker Slots now unlock from level 1-100 instead of levels 1-50

We've offered you free levels so you don’t lose Joker Slots. Enjoy! 🙂

Since XP gains have been increased, this does not change the rate at which you unlock them.

• Upgrade slots now unlock every 2 levels instead of 1 (Since XP has been doubled, this does not change the rate at which you unlock them)

• Prestige: You can now unlock up to 6 bonus upgrade slots instead of 5

• You can now Prestige hero and weapons up to level 15 instead of 10

Many of you had issues in multiplayer lobbies with joker hoarding - players rushing to grab them the second they spawned - making the game unbalanced and just not fun. We were a bit reluctant to change the current system because doing so makes it harder to cooperate and share jokers. However, we found a solution to both instance jokers AND let you share them if you want to. We didn’t go with the “ping-to-share” approach because some jokers could spawn inside objects, making them uncollectible. Plus, since players are usually scattered around the map, we figured running all the way back to grab a single joker just isn’t fun. Enjoy! To balance this out, we’ve lowered the joker drop rate from enemies the more players there are in your group. We’ll see how this plays out and tweak things if needed! As always, we’re open to your feedback and will be keeping a close eye on how this update affects your games.

• Jokers are now instanced

  • Players individually see their own jokers, and no other player can loot them.

  • When a joker drops, its rarity will be the same for everyone.

  • The joker droprate from enemies now scales based on the number of players: from x1 when playing solo, down to x0.5 in a group of 4. Other means of obtaining jokers haven't changed.

• Jokers can now be shared

  • Open your minimap and click on a Joker on drop them, making them available for everyone in the game

  • A dropped joker cannot heal you or trigger the Hoarder Joker, to prevent infinite exploits

• Your save will now save properly after selecting a backup save

• Fixed a bug that would let you join full servers when joining through Steam invites

• Fixed a bug that would disconnect you from the host if you were not on the same network as the host

• Hopefully, fixed backups that would not save properly

• Fixed Intel AI fatal error crashes

• Fixed a shader crash that could happen on Far Far North

• Fixed freezes after you’ve killed an enemy or thrown a spell

• 🐥🐷 You can now carry pigs & chickens in the lobby (AND DO MORE) 🐥🐷 (BEST THING OF THIS PATCH)

• The Wishing Well can now give Jokers

• You can now play the Piano emote!

• 🔼 Bow

  • Base ammo: increased from 20 to 31

  • Bend Speed: max amount decreased from 16 to 8, effect increased from +5% to +10%

  • Ammo Bag: increased from +2.5% to +5%

• 🔼 Dual Revolvers

  • Base damage: increased from 9 to 11

• 🔼 Minigun

  • Fire Rate: max amount decreased from 16 to 8, effect increased from 2.5% to 5%

• 🔼 Main weapons prices: lowered from 500 to 300 Gold

• 🔼 Shine Bright: Max equippable increased from 2 to 8 (is this really a buff?)

• 🔼 Helping Hand: Max equippable increased from 1 to 2

• 🔼 Swift Shot: now equippable on the Long Ranger and Leveredge

• ↔️ Medicard: adjusted from Mythic (4) to Fine (2), now gives a bonus +35HP instead of +50HP

• ↔️ Clutch: now equippable on the Dual Revolvers

• 🔼 Lazy: From 5% max ammo every 15 sec. to 10% max ammo every 12 sec. (Description now displays the effects)

• ↔️ Speedster: now available for Sheriff Stars

Overblast is an incredibly powerful Joker that initially slipped under the radar, providing a damage increase that was considerably higher than other Jokers of its tier, trivializing higher difficulties. This may seem like a harsh nerf on paper, but mathematically speaking, this still provides a 22% increase in a magazine's damage without clip size investment, comparable to similar options (two Lucky Strikes, or Consumer), and it only gets higher from there (up to 38%)! We understand this is likely to be discussion-worthy, and we'll be closely monitoring for feedback on this change.

• 🔽 Overblast: now takes 4 missing shots in the magazine for 1 extra pellet instead of 1

• 🔼 Finger Guns: increased lasting time from 10 sec. to 15 sec.

• 🔼 Bubble: decreased cooldown from 50 sec. to 40 sec.

• 🔼 Contagion: decreased cooldown from 80 sec. to 70 sec.

• 🔼 Rescue: increased healing from 50 HP to 60 HP

• 🔼 Doll: decreased cooldown from 135 sec. to 110 sec.

• 🔼 Bandito: decreased cooldown from 120 sec. to 100 sec.

The Cryptic Deadeye has divided the masses and led many bounty hunters to their demise. While a bunch of people seem to have gotten used to them, we still feel they’re a bit too oppressive, especially when playing solo. We’re also adjusting Deathrattles so that those slippery snakes aren’t quite as annoying, and increasing their visibility to allow for more counterplay.

• 🔽 Cryptic Deadeye:

  • No more than 2 Deadeyes can aim at you at the same time

  • The stagger duration has been increased from 1 sec. to 1.5 sec.

• 🔽 Cryptic Deathrattles:

  • Deathrattles now glow, making them easier to see

  • Deathrattles can no longer chain attack you, there is a 5sec cooldown between each attack

Very minor bugfixes and tweaks are not listed

• Fixed +50 bugs, including:

  • Image parts should no longer disappear during Trackman’s “The incomplete logbook” quest

  • Picking up an Energite shard at the same time another player does should no longer make player's hands disappear

  • Calling the horse when interacting with the climbing rope or zipline should not soft-lock interact anymore

  • Moving the snowmen parts around the Far Far North map should no longer soft-lock the secret

  • Shooting a Nuke Barrel with the bow should no longer make it fly all over the map

  • Players now drop the items they have in-hand when they disconnect to prevent objectives & quests soft-lock

  • Interacting with Ol’ Rufus while smashing a pumpkin will no longer cause the dialogue to get stuck on the screen

  • Spawning a new portal after imploding another one (throw a portal into another) no longer deletes the first existing portal

  • Melee attacks and drain damage now properly stagger the Cryptic Deadeye

  • Boomerang Lifesteal upgrade now works with the Cryptic Saloon

  • Sheriff Stars can now deal critical damage at the shooting range

  • Elec Portal allowing spells to be quadrupled instead of doubled has been fixed

  • Pistolero can now target Cryptic Saloon planks

  • Challenge “Collect a minimum of 30 Jokers in a single mission” should now properly work

  • Upgrade Draw Speed: now properly works with Sheriff Stars

  • Joker Lazy: now works in the shooting range and statistics can stack

  • Joker Second Wind: now properly revive when dying from a nuke

  • Joker Scavenger Star: now properly increases movement speed by +30%

  • Joker Jump Star: shooting at your feet with this joker equipped should no longer reset the jump counter

  • Joker Battlemage: now properly stacks when multiple instances are active

  • Joker Speedster: now properly grants the same bonus damage for ADS and hipfire

• The Gamba Machine is even more addictive than before

• “Show Damage Numbers” option now applies correctly

• Cryptic Snakes now glow

• You can now ban players from entering your session (Use in “Current session” in the esc menu)

• The mission selection map now shows locked maps and unlock conditions more clearly, and the map has been dezoomed

• Gambling Machine odds are now properly localized

• Updated the Guitar Emote music

• Updated Canyon map music

• Updated Far West atmosphere

• Updated Botanist, Dynamo, Pyromaniac, Shaman and Blackout Drinker Titles with new names

• Username text now scales automatically in the Hero menu to prevent clipping off-screen

• Improved French localization for the Overseer

• Reported grammar & localization issues have been fixed

• DLSS x4 is now available, upgraded DLSS to 4.5

• Upgraded AMD FSR to 4.0

• Added Vulkan support

• Some players have reported crashes after the map has finished loading. We are investigating a fix for this asap

• Possible memory leak issues when playing for several hours

• Voice Chat not working properly

• ROG Ally UI not working properly

• Many more little bugs that will be fixed as soon as possible! Keep reporting issues if it’s not fixed in the new update!

Howdy, Far Far West-ers!

Quick announcement from us today:

As thanks for the overwhelmingly positive reception to our launch into Early Access, we're EXTENDING OUR 10% LAUNCH DISCOUNT UNTIL TUESDAY, 12th OF MAY!!!!!!!!

So there's still plenty of time to bring your friends along for the ride out west at a discounted rate!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3124540/Far_Far_West/

Also, we're working hard behind the scenes on FFW's first update! We'll be addressing some highly requested features/changes (and plenty of fixes too <3), but more info on that another time.

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