Hey Birders, we've got yet another patch that should bring even more stability to your play sessions!

Patch 1.0.13

Bird Changes

• Adjusted Common Grackle sprite.

• Common Loon no longer waddles on the shore, it was pointed out to us that Loons only take off from water and this is easiest way to represent that in our game.

• Graphical adjustments to various bird necks in back-facing poses.

• Adjust center-point for Front/Back facing poses of the Trumpeter and Mute Swans (was lower on the body, now it's more centered near the neck).

• Similar adjustment made to the Canada Goose.

Level Changes

• A LOT of fixes to Goose Lake to prevent players from getting stuck.

• Fixed some wall that were not blocking the camera's line of sight, allowing you to take pictures of a wall and get credit for the bird on the other side.

• Fixed some weird perch points that caused birds to appear to perch in mid-air.

Other Stuff

• When a Shiny spawns you now hear the sound that used to play in the demo (pitched down Kalimba). We'd like to revisit this sound effect, but the common sentiment I saw was "I prefer the old one" so... old one it is! (the shiny shimmer sound is unchanged for the time being though)

• Using the Highlight Birds upgrade no longer affects performance while just holding the binoculars (still may affect performance while scoped, because the highlight is doing a lot of extra work, we're just not wasting that work when you're not even scoped)

• Added some new diagnostic debug commands.

Hello birders!

Thank you so much for making this such an awesome launch. Thank you for your bug reports, steam reviews, and kind words ❤️

Yesterday and this morning we have put out two hotfixes that address the majority of issues that have come up for some players (thankfully these seem to be only affecting a small group of players, but we want to make sure everyone has the best experience possible!)

Flock Around Version 1.0.7 and 1.0.8

• We upgraded our internal engine. This should fix that darn Black Screen bug that some people have been seeing

• Enabled Occlusion Culling on many more surfaces, for some folks this should lead to a dramatic improvement in framerate.

• Reduced the Shiny Alert sound volume (we will look into more changes to this sound in the future)

• Adjusted Shiny spawn rates

Bug Fixes

• Changing render scaling should no longer break... everything (previously: identified incorrect birds in photos, misaligned nameplates, misaligned binocular highlights, probably some other stuff too)

• Moving between biomes no longer flickers you out of reality (aka: moved some occluder boundaries)

• Birds are more likely to perch on your head

• Some terrain adjustments

• Some textures are less crunchy

Please continue to let us know about issues you are experiencing by joining our Discord so we can get more date to diagnose the problems! We'll keep the patches coming, and hopefully some new birds will fly into Goose Lake soon!

Also our friend (and the composer for Peglin) Crashtroid made this absolute BANGER to celebrate the game's launch. https://crashtroid.bandcamp.com/track/flock-around-as-if-it-was-peglin-ft-sienna-blumstengel