Sons of the Forest devs talk Kelvin and Virginia, GPS, and log sleds

pcgamesn.com:

The Sons of the Forest team lays out some of its update plans for the horror survival game as it answers questions from the community, and it sounds like there’s plenty of welcome additions in the works. Since its launch via Steam Early Access, the Sons of the Forest player count has proven just how high demand is for the cannibal-infested sequel, and there are lots more coming for fans to look forward to.

The Sons of the Forest Discord organised a Q&A session with the development team at Endnight Games, and had plenty of questions to ask. While the team is obviously reluctant to give all its future plans away and emphasises, “We don’t want to promise features that might not make it,” it did give us some glimpses at what we can expect in the coming months.

Companion improvements are first on the cards – both Kelvin and Virginia in Sons of the Forest are already helpful, but there’s more coming. The team is working on more possible tasks for Kelvin, including “having him help construct a wall around your base, or fortify/repair the base when needed.” As for Virginia, the team wants her to have “more bravery if she has a weapon, and also depending on how many mutants and cannibals she has killed.”

Endnight wants those Sons of the Forest mutants and cannibals to have more personality, as well. It’s planning “more ambient actions for the cannibals to do around their villages,” along with “more types of structures they can live in to give the different camps more variety.” There’s “at least one [enemy] character that wasn’t ready for the first launch” in the works and potential for more “including variations on some of the current enemies.”

Dedicated servers are a much-discussed topic, and Endnight says, “This is something we