The Forest has a bit of a reputation. It’s still in Early Access but enough people have played it for us to know that as a game it can be terribly frustrating but still somehow great fun, despite the several things that could end your survival run. It’s fairly realistic if you ignore the mutant cannibals.

Now Endnight Games are bringing out a patch that will allow you to share that experience with a friend in what they’ve called their “first pass” at a co-op mode for the game. Obviously this does mean it’s still full of bugs, the most major of which is that saving a co-op game wipes a single-player save although a fix is being worked on to stop this from happening.

The full list of updates are as follows:

• Slowed down tennis ball throw massively so players can play catch together on beach
• (multiplayer)Server configuration screen – This will automatically tell you your public ip address – This is temp, server browser or better Steam integration coming soon!
• (multiplayer)Chat box – Press enter to type messages to each other – This is temp and may be buggy!! Voice chat is coming soon! (we’re modeling walkie-talkies)
• (multiplayer)Player texture variation, run around with your survivalist buddy!
• (multiplayer)First pass at player respawn system, on dead try and find way back to body to collect your belongings
• Fixed bug where building a bench could cause save games to break
• Fixed female skin being too dark
• Rest of skinny animation variations added