BETA BRANCH BUILD A few quick fixes for the Beta branch modpack test. There's already some super ponies from some cartoon or other on the Workshop you can try out. * Folder names have been made a bit more coherent. The folders now also tell you how many ponies are in that folder. * Bug where random ponies would generate with leftover modded bits fixed. * Bug that meant loaded ponies wouldn't oc…
nb: There are some new features also included in the Beta branch, but some of them are not yet implemented fully, so don't be shocked if something doesn't appear to work! The beta is work in progress and for testing, but you can try out making and sharing unique ponies. To test out Cheerilee: 1 - Subscribe to Miss Cheerilee, if you can't find her she's here: 2 - In Steam, right-click SH2, from…
A fix for the Black Screen issue. If you're having issues with the first person black screen, you can also fix it by going into OPTIONS and fiddling with the MOUSE SENSITIVITY slider.
Some players reported going into first person gave a black screen. I believe this has now been fixed, it works on my laptop now which did the same thing let me know if it still causes you issues! Also a couple of minor flag bugs fixed while I was at it... * The Arsonist's burn count now resets correctly * Ditto for the Naturalist's animals running away.
Apologies gang, there was some curious issue that meant the WAD wasn't unpacking which lead to missing images/crashes. It should now be fixed, so if you're still having this issue please wait for Steam to update the game again or uninstall/reinstall.
* THIS UPDATE WILL CRASH THE GAME IF YOU CONTINUE FROM A PREVIOUS SAVE * WHAT'S NEW IN WITHERSMONT FEATURES * The game now has a Steam Leaderboard so you can see how your total kills stat matches up against the world. * You can view your all-time stats from the options screen. Note that these will only begin to be counted up from this update, with the exception of your total murders which shoul…
A smaller update, there's a few fixes but the primary addition is the use of the Steam cloud to save your game. WHAT'S NEW IN WITHERSMONT FEATURES * The game now saves your current progress using the Steam cloud, so you can carry on your game on a different machine. It still saves locally too, in case that's unavailable. GRAPHICS (Mostly restoring effects and textures lost after removing the AG…
Welcome to SLAUGHTER HORSE 2 We're still in early access so you might find bugs, placeholders and things awry! *Please note, there's a lot of changes in this update which means if you continue a game from the previous build, there may be unpredictable results!* *Also note! AGK's shader pack DLC made some pretty effects but I've decided it just causes way too many issues for too many players so…
Welcome to SLAUGHTER HORSE 2 We're still in early access so you might find bugs, placeholders and things awry! Steam's Horse Fest has boosted the game considerably. It's sold more copies during Horse Fest than all the time since it was released put together. Welcome, new Horse Hackers! WHAT'S NEW IN WITHERSMONT * Music and sound effects have had an overhaul in how they work. It might even kill…
Hello! If you have the volume 2 of the soundtrack, it should soon update with a 'disc 2'. This is the 'Death to the Ponies!' EP of four more songs which will appear as endgame music in the next update. These songs have vocals, made using SynthV Pro 2, with Kasane Teto, GUMI and Mai. Merry Horsemas. =Catfood=
Hello. There is now a beta branch for SH2, so I can try stuff out for the intrepid without risking stuff on the default game branch. To try a beta version, right click SH2 in your library list, then "properties", "Betas" and choose a beta. Currently there is only the first one - 20,11,2025 (This has only just been added, so if now beta option is showing you might have to quit and restart Steam)…
Hello! I wasn't planning to update quite so soon, but there's a couple of fixes with this one that especially impact new players, so here it is. GAMEPLAY: The Visitor will now block you as she should if she visits. However, it plays out like a free cake shop invitation - you will have the option to deal with her as you see fit. BUGFIX: Fixed an issue where trying to design a shop logo for the f…
Greetings, horse people. Slaughter Horse 2 now has community items available. I've used the maximum limit of 15 cards which will make crafting badges kind of a trek I know, but it so happened to be the size of the mane cast so it seemed churlish to leave anyone out! Emojis, badges and backgrounds too. Enjoy. =Catfood=
Hello, Horse Hackers! I've just uploaded a very small update that mostly fixes a couple of workshop issues. CUSTOM SETS: When starting the game, you can now swap positions of ponies in the sets with the right mouse button. This is useful if you have a big pony set, but want to play a 20 pony game with specific members of the cast. CUSTOM SETS: There was a small issue with the QR codes that mean…
Greetings. Here is another small update fixing a few things and improving on others. GRAPHICS: Stallions now have a different body type to mares. They are a little chunkier, stallion pegasi have bigger wings. This will be automatically applied to any custom ponies you already have. GAMEPLAY: On the town screen at night, you can now see where the Lookout is patrolling which makes more sense and…
Ahoy. Here is another small update. WORKSHOP: In your documents/slaughterhorse2/workshop folder, a new folder called 'import' will appear. Drop into this any QR pony images you wish to import (to a maximum of 40), then on the custom pony screen ingame, click 'set' then navigate to an empty set. The 'trash all ponies' icon will be replaced with an 'import' icon. Clicking this will load all QR po…
Hello! Here is the promised Friday update. Still plenty of work to do, but reports seem to indicate the game is much more stable (!) now. So here's what's new. FEATURE: There is now a Steam Workshop for SH2, where you can upload and subscribe to other player's ponies. ** THIS IS STILL UNDER TESTING! ** Packs you subscribe to should appear in your Documents>slaughterHorse2>Workshop folder to imp…
Hello! I was going to hold off until Friday for the next update, but I think this build fixes some issues so fundamental it can't really wait. There are still many bugs on the list, thank you to all who submitted them via the in-game bug report (it does actually work!) and I will be addressing bugs in the game rather than bugs that BREAK the game more - I hope, There's even some new fun stuff.…
Vishnu Studio, which used to work fine now upsets virus checkers something fierce. The checkers interrupting the unpacking appeared to cause some issues and made files go missing. I have now updated the game with a different packing method that seems to be less twitchy. As ever, let me know if things work or don't! =Catfood=
Players with certain graphics cards have been having errors caused by the 3D particle plugin. For now, I've hacked in a function to switch it off. The game won't be quite as pretty but hopefully will run! To use it, hold ESC as the game is loading. If for some reason that doesn't work and it crashes again, it should detect a failure to load and bring up the option on the next run. Switch off th…
Greetings! The next build of Slaughter Horse 2, Early Access 0.13 is now live. First off... I'm really sorry if you're getting anti-virus messages! Windows Defender apparently now HATES AppGameKit and will complain! All I can tell you is there is NO virus or anything else horrid in this game! With that out of the way, there's still work to do but I hope you enjoy the new features you can find i…
Hello! The second volume of SH2 music is now available to buy on Steam. It's a wallet-busting $2.99 but for the first week there's a 15% discount! It will also be within the game when the next update comes also too of course. Just like the first volume it contains MP3 and very large but top quality WAV versions of the music. Keep horsing around, friends! -=Catfood=-
Volume 2 of Slaughter Horse 2's soundtrack can now be heard! Spotify YouTube The music will be included in the game next update and will be available on Steam soon as DLC. And I'd wait for that if I were you if you wanted to own it, as some fruity sites insist on everything being ten bucks, it'll be way less for it on Steam! Happy horsing -=Catfood=-
Hello there. Since the demise of the Discord, I've not had a place to post development details for SH2, but I've now adopted a spot at BlueSky. Larger updates will be posted here on Steam, but if you're the kind of person who likes to see the little bits of progress, please feel free to follow me at @catsmeatstudios.bsky.social This BlueSky account will only post content relevant to my games, d…
A small demo of the update in progress, featuring a track from volume two of the soundtrack.
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