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NEW DREAD LEVEL MASKS

Happy Friday Sker Islanders!

As there will be no patch update this week, we wanted to take a moment to share with you a new set of Dread Level Mask Rewards that will be coming very soon! Do you think they're inkredible? We welcome any squid puns in your comments below.



Don't forget if you haven't joined already, our Sker Ritual Discord is the perfect place to chat, look for games and get regular news, updates and giveaways from our team.

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MYSTERY WEAPON REVEAL

Happy Friday, Sker Islanders!

There's no patch this week but we couldn't let a Friday pass without sharing something with our amazing community! We wanted to show you a brand new mystery weapon, there's not much we can say at the moment because of spoilers but we'd love to hear your theories in the comments below!



If you also want to provide the team more feedback, find Sker Squads to take on the Quiet Ones with or enter giveaways and competitions, you can do so by joining the Sker Ritual Discord!


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0.5.7 | NEW ANIMATIONS & BUG FIXES



Happy Friday, Sker Islanders!

In this latest patch we've got new animations and visuals, additional UI support and more bug fixes to improve the Sker Ritual experience. If you don't see your big fix below let us know in the comments and we'll see if we can get that sorted before 1.0 in April. Not long to go now!

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Patch v.0.5.7 - 09/02/2024[/h3]

NEWLY UPDATED
- Added new animations & visuals to Notifications
- Added an animation to the scoreboard & game over screens
- Changed the ability to have only 1 perk upgrade active at a time, all upgrades are now persistent
- Added cooldown on how often a Thunderbolt projectile can hit the same enemy
- Added UI support for 16:10 & 4:3 screens
- Increased the drop rate of the "Half Price" powerup to 30%
- Updated footstep sounds

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug causing the special waves in "The Ashes of Sker Hotel" to be every 15 rounds instead of 5 if you play on Nightmare
- Fixed an issue caused by sorting layers of some HUD elements
- Fixed an issue where some notes wouldn't be visible if a note had already been picked up
- Fixed an issue where previewed cosmetic item would get stuck when browsing the menus
- Fixed missing sounds in some areas

Once again, thank you for supporting Sker Ritual and our team! We hope you're enjoying all of the improvements and updates, and look forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments below and over on the Sker Ritual Discord!

If you also have a spare moment please do leave the game a review over on the Steam page which supports our Early Access Beta journey!

Wales Interactive Team



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NEW WEAPON REVEAL

Happy Friday, Sker Islanders!

It's a patchless week this week as we work on bugs and future updates however we don't like to leave you without something to be excited about! We know you love a weapon drop and so we wanted to introduce you to a brand new melee weapon which will soon be stepping up to the plate.



Batter up against the Quiet Ones with this barbaric home-made style weapon that features heated nails and barbed wire. Every run will be a home run when this baseball bat arrives on Sker Island.

If you also want to provide the team more feedback, find Sker Squads to take on the Quiet Ones with or enter giveaways and competitions, you can do so by joining the Sker Ritual Discord! We even have a competition running right now where you can win yourselves some DLCs so be sure to head on over.

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0.5.6 | NEW CUTSCENES, ACHIEVEMENTS & MORE



Happy Friday, Sker Islanders!

In this latest patch we've got brand new achievements, cutscenes and some pesky bug fixes just to name a few. There are also some very exciting upcoming updates currently in testing phase which we're looking forward to sharing with you soon. But for now, take a look at the full patch details below.

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Patch v.0.5.6 - 26/01/2024[/h3]



NEWLY ADDED
- Added 8 New Achievements!
- Added Intro & Outo cutscenes in every level excluding the outro for "Deadly Lover's Fortress"
- Added third person animations for: Lantern, Torch, Perk Syringe, Quick Melee
- Added a smoke trail to the Crossbow arrows
- Added a progress bar when the gate opens in the "Deal with the Devil" objective in "Cursed Lands of Lavernock"

UPDATES & FIXES
- Fixed an issue causing players who would be closest to the India Region to not be able to start multiplayer games
- Fixed an issue causing "Max Ammo" to not really give you maximum ammo
- Fixed an issue causing NPC harm effects to look stretched (poisoned, frozen, fire, electrified)
- Fixed an issue causing one of the cannisters in "The Ashes of Sker Hotel" to not activate online
- Modified several objective markers in "The Ashes of Sker Hotel"
- Removed the delay when exiting "Cursed Lands of Lavernock"
- Increased the cooldown of the Banshee Teleport and Guto's dashes
- Reduced the drop rate of the Half Price powerup
- Fixed a bug causing the "Live, Laugh, Love" to be unobtainable
- Fixed an issue causing all perk upgrades to be active all at once
- Fixed a bug causing some abilities to not communicate when playing online due to overlapping IDs
- Scrolling now resets when browsing between the different cosmetic menus
- Lowered the volume of player footsteps
- Changed the names of most voice lines

Once again, thank you for supporting Sker Ritual and our team! We hope you're enjoying all of the improvements and updates, and look forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments below and over on the Sker Ritual Discord!

If you also have a spare moment please do leave the game a review over on the Steam page which supports our Early Access Beta journey!

Wales Interactive Team



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