GRAVEN News

Dear GRAVEN fans,

Realms Deep is just four days away but we have some great news for you ahead of it. It's time for another Content Update!

Return to the plague-ridden town of Cruxfirth for a more fleshed-out first hub world. Assist the destitute townsfolk in new side quests and delve into the Damned Estuary for a hub-ending final showdown. Decimate abhorrent creatures with the Writ of Subjugation, an illicit scroll of primitive but effective magic, and the Ballista, a heavy crossbow capable of felling large targets at great distances.

Morevover, due to the feedback we've received from you after releasing the first Content Update, we have decided to extend development to polish and improve GRAVEN, as well as add a third content update releasing later this year. To ensure a simultaneous PC and console release, the launch date has now shifted to 2023. Check out GRAVEN’s detailed roadmap to see what’s in store for the future. With the release in mind, we are also introducing full gamepad support and multiple difficulty settings.

For now, enjoy the second Content Update and watch the trailer!

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[h2]Full Changelog:[/h2]

[h3]New Features[/h3]

• New Side Quest - Cull the Horde
  
• New Side Quest - Hair of the Dog
  
• New Side Quest - Personal Library
  
• New Side Quest - Blacksmith's Armor Notes
  
  
• New Region - The Damned Estuary (Boss arena)
  
  
• All Regions - Audio pass
  
• All Regions - Lighting pass
  
• All Regions - Breakables pass
  
  
• New Enemy Boss - The Festering Congregation
  
  
• New Behavior - Nearby enemies after killing a player will receive a healing buff
  
• New Behavior - Archivist will respawn until killed
  
• New Behavior - Skeletons will taunt the player
  
• New Behavior - Skeletons have destructible armor
  
• New Behavior - Skeletons have damage modifiers based on heat/cold damage
  
• New Behavior - Skeleton archers have a change to shoot ethereal bolt
  
• New Behavior - Dihedral Priest become 'dizzy' if receiving hard hit to the head
  
• New Behavior - Dihedral Deacons throw spear on death
  
• New Behavior - Dihedral Clerics throw potion on death
  
• New Behavior - Critters can be killed
  
  
• New Weapon - Writ of Subjugation
  
• New Weapon - Ballista
  
  
• All weapons have visual upgrade changes
  
• All weapons have underwater behavior changes
  
• All weapons have sprinting behavior changes
  
  
• Add difficulties Easy, Normal, Hard
  
• Add the option to skip the intro sequence
  
• Add in-game camera shake intensity setting
  
• Add purchasable ammo from blacksmith
  
  
• HUD - Additional low health indications
  
• HUD - Additional damage indications
  
• HUD - Quest complete notification
  
  
• Add multi-tiered death penalty
  
• Add hotbar saving
  
  
• Waiting for other players' notification when waiting at a load zone for other players
  
  
• Gamepad magnetism and aim assist
  
• Gamepad UI navigation
  
  
• Add pickup VFX for mana, gold, health vials and health potions
  

[h3]Bug Fixes and General Tweaks[/h3]

• UI: New Fonts
  
• UI: Scaling and sharpness pass on all menus
  
  
• Save System: FIXED: Library main doors’ wood blocks not saving
  
• Save System: FIXED: Gates with infected that go from Town to the Cruxfirth Archives not properly saving
  
• Save System: FIXED: Infinite loop if you named profile 'Default'
  
  
• Enemy: Infected horde bonus adjustments
  
• Enemy: FIXED: Skitterflys breaking in the Black House Bog region
  
• Enemy: FIXED: Skeletons making weapons bloody
  
• Enemy: FIXED: Lichanthrope not having a stun animation
  
• Enemy: FIXED: Undecaying Honor opening door in clotted being triggerable before appropriate time
  
  
• Weapon: Orthogonal Hymnal mana consumption rate is now fractional rather than whole number
  
• Weapon: FIXED: Peat burner not damaging the player
  
• Weapon: FIXED: All melee weapons hit effects playing multiple times on a single hit
  
  
• Item: FIXED: Throwing health potions never colliding with the world
  
• Spell: Tweak Discharge VFX
  
  
• Coop: Further refinement of inventory handling
  
• Coop: FIXED: Global footstep sounds
  
• Coop: FIXED: Various incorrect attenuation settings
  
• Coop: FIXED: Host alt-tabbing suspending the game improperly causing desync
  
• Coop: FIXED: Client PP water effects appearing/disappearing oddly
  
• Coop: FIXED: OverTime objects occasionally being added multiple times (and didn't clear on death)
  
• Coop: FIXED: Dead enemies falling through the ground on client
  
• Coop: FIXED: Weakpoint FXs not visible on client
  
  
• FIXED: Random lines throughout world while 3DFX mode is on
  
• FIXED: Auto-award of quest behavior on loading saved game
  
• FIXED: OverTime damage not properly applying at low framerates
  
• FIXED: Various lore items having wrong texture backgrounds
  
• FIXED: Various floating assets across the world
  
• FIXED: Boat going into reverse after 10 minutes of completing intro
  

Hello, everyone!

Graven is a part of Steam Summer Sale! You can now get the game for 20% off! You don't want to miss this chance!

The sale ends on July 7. To check out all of our discounts, follow the link to our sale page.

Graven is also a part of the following bundle, check it out below and buy the game for even higher discount! The additional discount applies in full even if you already own some of the items in it!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12693/WRATH_Aeon_of_Ruin__Ion_Fury__GRAVEN_Complete_Your_Set/

Hello there, GRAVEN fans,

How have you been enjoying the latest content update so far? We hope you like it!

Thanks to your feedback, we were able to locate a few issues and immediately fixed them. Please, keep on providing us with your suggestions and observations, so we can make the game even better and more enjoyable for you!

[h3]Changelog:[/h3]

• Fixed multiple crashes related to load areas
  
• Fixed a crash related to having a gamepad plugged in while launching the game
  
• Fixed spell upgrades not re-applying modifiers on loading a saved game
  
• Fixed spell upgrades not being given to clients on joining a session
  
• Updated Steam's cloud save configuration which should alleviate some players experiencing limited access to saves on a separate device
  

Stay up to date and follow our official Twitter account where you can always find relevant content related to our games, including Graven. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

GRAVEN team

Greetings everyone!

It’s been a month since we released the first Early Access content update for GRAVEN and now is a good time to give you a peek into what we’ve been working on during the past weeks, without of course spoiling too much!

But before we do that, we’d like to thank each one of you for supporting the game by sharing feedback with our team. It really means a lot to us since not only does it help us identify and fix potential issues, but also it helps us understand the different ways you interact with the game so we can make GRAVEN the best that it can be.

And now, without further ado, here are some of the new features and changes you can expect from GRAVEN in the future!

[h3]Difficulty[/h3]
A challenge in game development is satisfying the needs of different skill levels among developers. Some team members have found GRAVEN too easy, others too hard. Content Update 2 will bring difficulty settings to the game, but they will function a touch differently from the now typical damage and health scalers. Most gameplay values will remain untouched between difficulty levels, rather the overall composition of encounters will change.

With the current experience being roughly Normal, the Easy player will find slightly fewer enemies, positioned in less complex arrangements, and with fewer combinations. The Hard player however will not simply find more enemies, but nastier combinations and in more demanding positions, expecting the player to not simply be more skilled at FPS combat, but also to learn the smaller details of GRAVEN to maximize their opportunities.







As can be seen in these shots, the count and composition can vary a fair bit. Easy steers the player toward the best path through a threat, while Normal also steers but provides complications. Hard however adds the Undecaying cult in, places the largest threat on the main path, and provides two different angles for ranged attacks. Though not trying to be unfair, Hard is definitely more adversarial in regards to the player.

Difficulty however is not a fixed value, it can be changed for the next session so you needn’t worry about committing to a poor match for your level. Simply change the value in Options, exit to the main menu, and then resume your game. On that same note, most loose items you find in the world will have respawned following the same logic as the current enemy respawns.

Some players have observed that they can simply try-try-again with a hard encounter, respawning and rushing in with little regard for danger, whittling down their opponents. We are introducing gold penalties on death, as well as healing of the enemy that killed you and others nearby, both of which scale based on the difficulty value. The healing also applies in cooperative play, so going down can heal enemies being fought by your friends in that moment.

[h3]Writ of Subjugation[/h3]



The Writ of Subjugation is a new and optional weapon which can be acquired through a side quest from the Tax Collector. A not quite legal tool, he kept it in his office for emergencies and now is offering it to you as payment for fetching a ledger he needs. Inaccurate, it excels at dealing with hordes and can be upgraded to have knockback functionality, as well as letting projectiles slow to a stop, waiting to be picked up to restore mana, or as a free floating mine for enemies to wander into. Fully upgraded, it is a fire and forget but then remember once again weapon that is ideal for engaging multiple fronts and large numbers of weaker enemies.

[h3]Side Quests[/h3]
We’re hard at work on a side quest system to increase replayability and provide avenues for new content instead of placing it on the main path. This system aims to enable designers to come up with new quest content without intruding on the main plot and provide interesting engagements while also not bothering the Engineering team so much. Expect several side quests in Content Update 2, and many more throughout the full game!

Thank you for reading and don’t forget to follow GRAVEN on Steam and/or @3DRealms on Twitter to stay up-to-day with the latest info about the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371690/GRAVEN/

Greetings, GRAVEN fans,

The new content update has been out for a while and we have found some issues and bugs to fix. This is of course ongoing, but for now, we are releasing a hotfix to improve the following issues

Change log:

- "Outdated Profile" warning in the profile's menu instead of hiding the old profiles.
- A fix for breakable object positions being reset if not moved during the session.
- A save duplication bug that caused save file bloat and performance issues.
- A fix for AI becoming quickly disinterested in the player.

Thank you very much for staying loyal to GRAVEN! More updates and improvements will be arriving as soon as possible!