Howdy, partners!

This time, we’re excited to bring you a set of quality-of-life and balance improvements!
Let’s take a look at what’s coming in this update.

Rings Balance Changes

Based on player feedback and your requests, we’ve reviewed the underperforming items and improved the stats of the Animal Mastery Ring and Ring of the Spirit Master to better align them with the current game balance.

What’s changed:
Animal Mastery Tier 4 — the pet damage bonus has been increased from 35 to 40
Animal Mastery Tier 5 — the pet damage bonus has been increased from 55 to 75
Animal Mastery Tier 6 — the pet damage bonus has been increased from 75 to 125

Ring of the Spirit Master Tier 5 — ghost damage bonus increased from 150 to 200.
Ring of the Spirit Master Tier 6 — ghost damage bonus increased from 200 to 300.
Ring of the Spirit Master Tier 7 — ghost damage bonus increased from 250 to 400.

Baits and Adaptation

After carefully reviewing your feedback, we decided to make changes to bait crafting times and the adaptation time of new pets.

Bait crafting time has been reduced — the new times are shown without bonuses applied:
Tier 2 — Common: 24h → 1h     | Uncommon: 60h → 2h

Tier 3 — Common: 48h → 2h     | Uncommon: 96h → 4h

Tier 4 — Common: 96h → 4h     | Uncommon: 144h → 8h

Tier 5 — Common: 144h → 6h   | Uncommon: 192h → 12h

Tier 6 — Common: 192h → 8h   | Uncommon: 240h → 16h

Tier 7 — Common: 192h → 16h | Uncommon: 240h → 32h

Adaptation time reduced:
Tier 1 — Common: 1h → 30m  | Uncommon: 1h → 1h

Tier 2 — Common: 6h → 2h     | Uncommon: 6h → 4h

Tier 3 — Common: 24h → 4h   | Uncommon: 24h → 8h

Tier 4 — Common: 48h → 8h   | Uncommon: 48h → 16h

Tier 5 — Common: 72h → 12h | Uncommon: 72h → 24h

Tier 6 — Common: 72h → 16h | Uncommon: 72h → 32h

Tier 7 — Common: 72h → 20h | Uncommon: 72h → 40h

Other Improvements

— Steam Windowed Mode — based on player feedback and community requests, we’ve added a fully functional windowed mode to the Steam version. This update addresses a commonly mentioned quality-of-life issue and makes the overall gameplay experience more convenient.

— Graphics Enhancements — we’ve made visual improvements to tier 1 locations by updating and refining their textures. These enhancements bring a cleaner, more polished look to early-game areas and help create a more immersive and consistent visual experience overall, without changing gameplay or level structure.

— MacOS on Steam — the Steam version of Westland Survival now supports devices running the macOS operating system.