Greetings, Ravens!
It’s Dev Diary time! First of all, Happy New Year! We took a well-deserved break during the last Holidays and hope you did too.
Our fourth update will contain many new content and features for Ravenswatch, check it out down below:
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New online servers!
As our latest Dev Diary stated, we’ve been working hard to bring players a more stable co-op experience worldwide. Starting February 1st, we will use Epic Online Services to manage connections between players.
We’re hoping this change (and many others) will improve connectivity with players, and decrease high PINGs, disconnections, and delays in-game. We look forward to your feedback on this matter, it’s been a long road to get here and we’re eager to know if our efforts paid off.
As we have tested this change on our side for quite some time now, we will still wait to see your feedback once the Update is live before shouting victory! Only a full-scale test with players of the Early Access will tell us if most issues are resolved.
Memoirs
Onto brighter things with a new tab to consult in the book! We’ve added a bunch of lore, told from the heroes’ perspectives so you can learn more about their intentions, their pasts, and their personalities.
Unlock memoirs while playing and read the codex entries in the book after your runs. Each hero has 4 memoirs to unlock, plus a cool illustration that reveals itself with your progress.
We’ll add more memoirs in version 1.0. as well as the ending of each of their stories
Altar of Heroes
We’ve already talked a little about Altar of Heroes in our latest Dev Diary and it’s going to be ready for our Dark Tales Update!
One Altar of Heroes will spawn on each Chapter and let you buy extra Revive feathers or revive fallen teammates. You can interact with the mechanism several times during a run to revive a friend, buy a feather, or gain XP points.
When a teammate falls, the Heroes of Altar will be revealed on the mini-map as well as a teleportation mark to make it easier to revive a friend.
New Talents
We’ve added 30+ unlockable talents (about 4 per hero) to the game and increased the maximum rank to 8 in the meta-progression! We can’t resist a quick sneak peek:
Melusine can now grow her wisp!
A new moveset for Beowulf right after his Special!
Rats spawn after the Pied Piper's Defense
Live Showcase and Q&A
Bookmark our future Devstreams to learn more about all the details of the Dark Tales Update! We’ll have our traditional showcase of the new content, followed by a live Q&A with the dev team.
Dark Tales Update Showcase:
???? January 29
???? 5 PM CEST
Dark Tales Update live Q&A and Co-op:
???? January 31
???? 5 PM CEST
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Community Questions
[olist]1. Is the game going to be available on consoles and when?
YES! We’ve planned to release Ravenswatch on consoles since Day 1 of production, and have already started development on some platforms. Though it is still too early to communicate a date for the release of the console versions, we can already tell you that the game will be available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch in 2024, once the Early Access is done and version 1.0. out.
2. Will it be possible to play the same heroes in a run?
YES, but only in custom modes. We know how much fun it can be to play 4 Aladdins so why prevent it? ;)
3. Melusine’s 'Dancing Step' Talent feels very uncomfortable to play
YES, it could get awkward sometimes. Thanks for sharing your feedback, it’s noted and we’ve reworked this talent completely in the Dark Tales Update. Let’s see how you will like it![/olist]
Passtech Games
We would like to introduce Luna, Passtech Games’ newest Community Manager! (I, MXiaa, will still be around for your shenanigans ????) With this addition, we’re hoping to be even more present on the Steam forums and our Discord server to answer your questions, help you with technical support, and monitor feedback for the Early access of Ravenswatch. Welcome to the team!
By the way, if you’re not there already, join our Discord server to participate in future community events, chats with the devs, and collective brainstorm sessions around Ravenswatch!
- The Passtech Team ????
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