Sker Ritual News

Sker Islanders, can you believe that we've reached Patch 0.5.0!? In this major update you can expect to see brand new cutscenes with more to come, the introduction of Dread Levels, epic boss music and so much more!

[h3]Sker Ritual
Patch v.0.5.0 - 13/10/2023 [/h3]

INTRO CUTESCENE

Delve into the beginnings of the Sker Ritual story in a brand new intro cutscene. Discover your fated purpose against The Quiet Ones and the upcoming battles against those who will do anything to stop you. Plus, there will be more cutscenes coming soon!



PERK UPGRADES

A whole new batch of perk upgrades have been unlocked! There are now 5 perk upgrades available that can be obtained using Blodwin's Vitrols that come in 3 tiers: Basic, Advanced and Elite. You can receive Basic Vitrols every 5 waves but Advanced and Elite are only available at higher waves.

You can only activate 1 perk upgrade at a time.



MIRACLE EXPLORATION MENU

You can now explore all available miracles and their descriptions in an easily accessible menu which will also give you some insight about each associated God. Plan and execute miracle combos with ease to experience even more ways to take on the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.



DREAD LEVELS

Now also introducing Dread Levels! These additional 20 Dread Levels reward you for levelling up your profile with a new level frame, they can be accessed in menu by going to Upgrades -> Dread Levels



NOTES

There is more Sker Ritual story to discover in the newly added notes which can be collected by finding them in levels and enemy drops. Snoop through diary entries, flick through research notes, and analyse shipping records to unravel the truth.

There are 52 to find, what will you discover about the happenings on Sker Island? These notes can be accessed in menu by going to Profile -> Notes



BOSS MUSIC

Final Boss Encounters just levelled up! Each Final Boss Encounter will now be accompanied by boss music.

ADDITIONS & ISSUE FIXES

- Added a notification for each time a teammate dies
- Added a notification for each time a teammate revives
- Added a notification for when a Stalker enemy gets spawned
- Added UI to show the timer of a player when they can still be revived for free by their body
- Changed Visual for the free timed revives
- Fixed an issue that caused enemies to be stuck at their spawn points
- Fixed an issue causing enemies to not follow players quickly enough when using teleports
- Fixed an issue causing enemies to sometimes disappear in front of other players in an online game
- Fixed an issue that caused the game to stall sometimes if an effect attempts to be applied on an enemy that was destroyed
- Fixed an issue that caused the next game to break if a game is exited while an enemy is destroyed
- Fixed an issue that caused the combat damage text to stop showing


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

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492070/Sker_Ritual/

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Hello Sker Squad!

Today we're celebrating 1 year since we launched on Steam Early Access so get your birthday hats out and read on to find out how you can win game keys, DLC keys as well as catch a sneak peek into a big update coming very soon!



Let's start by taking a look at just how far we have come in terms of new additions to the game!

52 Weeks in Early Access
50 Content updates
4 Maps
78 Objectives
73 NPCs
70 Items
271 Abilities
89 Areas
237 Cosmetics
80 Miracles
48 Lore pickups (coming very soon)

Did we mention that all this was created with just 5 developers?
We can also add 3 developer babies were born during Early Access!

[h2]SNEAK PEEK[/h2]

Lore Added (48 beautifully designed in-game pickups)
Miracle Exploration Menu
Perk Upgrades + Menu Screen
Dread Levels + Menu Screen
Boss Music



We can't spoil EVERYTHING. So stay tuned for the next update.

Speaking of updates, many of the community on our Discord are asking us WHEN will the 1.0 launch be on PC and Console?

We are finally proud to announce we will be releasing a brand new Story Trailer very soon which will reveal what month this will all take place! Please join us on Discord to be the first to hear about it: https://discord.gg/K4DnKqKT


[h2]GIVEAWAY TIME[/h2]

🎉🎉To celebrate 1 year of Steam Early Access, we're giving away:

5 GAME KEYS on X / Twitter
already own the game? gift to a friend!
Enter here: https://twitter.com/SkerRitual/status/1710261145393680411


5 DLC KEYS on Discord
any one DLC of your choice!
Enter here: https://discord.gg/K4DnKqKT (details in #game-news)

Q: You've befriended a zombie with no name, what would you call them? (undead name puns welcomed!)

Happy Friday Sker Islanders!

As we approach October we can't believe that it has nearly been a year since we started our early access journey! Where has the time gone? We thought this would be the perfect time to ask YOU, our amazing community of players what you love (and not love as much) about Sker Ritual.

We want to know what you think about our episodes, enemies, bosses and even rate how difficult you think each episode is! All you have to do is head over to our quick and easy feedback form by clicking here.

However, if you have even more feedback that you want to share with our team, you can find them over in our Sker Ritual Discord!

Wales Interactive Team

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Happy Friday Sker Islanders, what have our team been up to this week? Find out in the latest patch below!


[h3]Sker Ritual
Patch v.0.4.11 - 22/09/2023 [/h3]

MIRACLES - TIER 4/COMBOS
- Added 7 Tier 4 Miracles, which provide more passive modifiers to the player and abilities. To access Tier 4, you must have at least 3 miracles by 2 gods each (6 in total), which will show you the new ones of that type


ADDITIONS & ISSUE FIXES
- Added a new Trial: "Frenzy Catalyst" : Failing to complete it will make all enemies enrage until the end of the round
- Updated the visual for the "Praetorian" in the "Deadly Lover's Fortress" boss fight
- Fixed an issue that caused enemies to be stuck when they leave combat before they have finished properly initializing if they had a lot of animations, which resulted them in T-Posing
- Fixed an a couple of errors that would cause the game to be interrupted if an enemy with no stun animation got stunned
- Fixed an issue with the last boss in "Deadly Lover's Fortress" which caused the boss health bar to not disappear after being defeated
- Fixed an issue causing some Trials to show as failed on the UI even when succesfully finishing them, if they had been previously failed during that level


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

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492070/Sker_Ritual/

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Sker Islanders, thank your patience as our team work toward this latest patch! Check out what they have been working on...a very special change to Episode 4: Deadly Lover's Fortress.


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Patch v.0.4.10 - 15/09/2023 [/h3]

DEADLY LOVER'S FORTRESS BOSS RE-DESIGN

- Boss Room redesigned
- Encounter now has 2 more phases triggered at 66% and 33%
- The main target is no longer the Praetorian
- The main target now gets shielded at 66% until all enemies around are defeated
- Praetorian is now an additional enemy during the encounter
- After Phase 1 wall blockers get enabled randomly around the room

ADDITIONS & ISSUE FIXES

- Fixed an issue where the "DNA Room" area was marked as active for enemies before anyone entered it in "Deadly Lover's Fortress"
- Fixed an issue causing an escort interact during the "Cages of Torment" for the "Deadly Lover's Fortress" level to be enabled at the wrong time
- Fixed an issue causing certain abilities to not start at the correct time if they had a health percent requirement
- Fixed various errors that would cause the game to sometimes halt

COMING VERY SOON: Miracles - Introducing Tier 4/Combos

- Added 8 Tier 4 Miracles, which provide more passive modifiers to the player and abilities. To access Tier 4, you must have at least 3 miracles by 2 gods each (6 in total), which will show you the new ones of that type



May Lucky's luck be with you as you experience this latest patch!

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

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492070/Sker_Ritual/

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