You Can Glide With Sons Of The Forest's New Unicycle

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For a game that's ostensibly about surviving on a demon-infested island, Sons of the Forest sure does like to give its players new and interesting ways to get around. First, there was the notebook bug, which allowed players to slide down mountains as though they were bulletproof bobsleighs, and then came sharks you could surf on. Last month's update added a hand glider, and just yesterday, Sons of the Forest developer Endnight Games added something you'd hardly expect to find on a remote island.

It's called the "EUC the Knight V", which is pronounced "knight five," according to Endnight. It's basically a motorized unicycle. Just hop on, and you've got vastly improved mobility for minimally expanded player volume. But the really cool thing about the Knight V is that you can combine it with the hand glider and the new spring-loaded trap to essentially catapult yourself into the air.

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Here's Reddit user RealRabidRadccoon as they figured this out for the first time. Just hop on the Knight V, grab your paraglider, and then drive over a spring-loaded trap at the edge of a really high tower or cliff. Then, once airborne, drop the Knight V to reduce your overall weight. Now you're soaring like the eagles courtesy of a spring-loaded and motorized takeoff. It's almost like you've got an emergency catapult.

With this setup, you can definitely get way higher in Sons of the Forest than ever before, although it still doesn't look like you're flying high enough to escape the island completely. That's fine, as the latest update also added a suite of new tools to make your survival just a bit more likely. Yesterday's patch added night vision