YMMV / Feral

• Good Bad Bugs:
  • Sometimes the giant Kiteray in Lakeroot Valley starts spinning in place for several seconds.
  • In October 2021, an update somehow made it so that if a player teleported to another player in City Fera, the shaders would stop working for the player that teleported. This resulted in the skybox turning white while far-away structures took on a pink tinge.◊
• Fridge Brilliance: The constant appearance of shooting stars in City Fera isn't just a stylistic choice. One of the planet's moons shattered some time in the past; while the larger pieces have mostly stayed together, whatever caused the breakup of Attis sent rocky debris floating into space. Meteors are caused by debris being subjected to friction in a planet's atmosphere. Dust and rocks from Attis are regularly pulled in by Feral's gravity and burned up in the atmosphere, producing shooting stars. Alternatively, given how the tutorial begins with the player as a brilliant point of light falling from the sky, some of them could be Sparks arriving on the planet for the first time.
• Memetic Mutation: Corn. ^Explanation In late 2021, several users reacted to WildWorks announcing the NFT blockchain-based game Cinder (which reuses Fer.al's assets) by sending CEO Clark Stacey pictures of corn and were subsequently blocked by him. The game's Discord community latched onto the sheer ridiculousness of a CEO blocking people over corn cobs and have taken to using corn imagery to poke fun at Stacey.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The game is now mostly known for its disastrous downfall following the revelation that WildWorks was developing an NFT-based game known as Cinder using its assets, which led to significant backlash from the playerbase and the game getting abruptly shut down in February of 2022.
• That One Sidequest: "Stray Puppies" and "Ultimate Refreshment" both require the player to track down objects in the mistiest part of Hallowmist Crossing, making it impossible to spot the items from a distance. The search radius for the items encapsulates the majority of that part of Hallowmist, meaning the items are more spread-out. The items are also often tucked away in corners, requiring players to scour the entire area. "Ultimate Refreshment" ups the ante by requiring the player to find all five plants within five minutes; failing to do so wipes the progress made toward finding the plants and necessitates starting that part of the quest over.

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