Sker Ritual News

Sker Islanders, another week, another patch as our devs want to keep improving on the Sker Ritual experience for you, our amazing players! Check out the additions, upgrades and fixes below.


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Patch v.0.4.4 - 30/06/2023 [/h3]

NEWLY ADDED

- Added a Waypoint Marker when a teammate dies and can be Revived for free with a timer counting down

- Interacts which require to be held now show a black circle around the button and fill up further when pressed shortly

ISSUE FIXES

- Fixed an issue causing the Interact UI when holding to be stuck if you use an ability while holding
- Fixed an issue causing AI to ignore it's cooldowns on reaction behaviours
- Fixed an issue causing AI to be able to start abilities when staggered
- Fixed an issue causing the correct profile level to not display in Inspect Player Profile menus
- Fixed an issue with The Stranger boss gliding through unintended environment
- Adjusted health bar for the The Stranger underground bodies
- Fixed an issue causing some shockwave decals to appear in the air and render incorrectly
- Fix potential issue with multiple Oil pots being used on a single interact on Deadly Lover's Fortress

Please do also see our list of known issues here.

Don't see a fix or a suggestion that you think would help improve the Sker Ritual experience? Our team are active over on the Sker Ritual Discord where you can chat with the devs and the community!

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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Sker Islanders, since the launch of Episode Four our hard-working team have been drilling down on fixes and improvements, and it's thanks to you, our amazing community of players for providing the feedback we need to make Sker Ritual the best it can be as we head toward our 1.0 launch.

Below you can see what is in store for the latest patch, including a brand new enemy and a long awaited improvement on the revive mechanic for you and your teammates.


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Patch v.0.4.3 - 23/06/2023 [/h3]

NEWLY ADDED

- New Revive Mechanic
Only online, when you or one of your teammate dies, a spirit orb will spawn at their position for 30 seconds, which will allow anyone who is alive to Interact with it and put you back into the game, without using a Life Point. Interaction requires holding the Interact button for 5 seconds

- New Enemy
"The Abomination" - Failing one of the trial objectives will now spawn this enemy, replacing The Reaper

UPGRADES AND CHANGES

- All objectives that require you to kill enemies within an area will now credit if an enemy dies inside the area or if the player was in the area when the enemy was killed
- Increased size of the the radius in which you can kill enemies for the "Hangman's Riches" Objective in "Sewers of the Dead"
- Removed health scaling on certain trial machine objects and objectives
- Added an impact particle when the thunderbolt hits

ISSUE FIXES

- Fixed an issue causing The Stranger boss fight to not return sometimes
- Fixed an issue online causing enemies to completely desync their positions
- Fixed an issue causing AI Abilities to interrupt some attacks while they're still happening
- Fixed an issue causing player Health to restore while they're a spirit
- Fixed an issue causing the cursor to be hidden if you're in a menu while a teammate dies
- Fixed an issue causing the Knights of Sker to never let go and never give up their weapons when they die
- Fixed an issue causing enemies to not face the target they're trying to attack but thinking it has and proceeding with the ability
- Fixed an issue causing enemies to not face the direction they got hit from when they received staggering damage

Please do also see our list of known issues here.

Once again, we'd like to invite everyone over to our Discord channel to chat with the devs and the community, and also 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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Sker Islanders, we've been listening to all of your feedback and so this week we've introduced new improvements to the weapon sounds in game. We'd love to know what you think!

Plus, if you've been encountering some bugs, see below for the issues that our team have fixed up.


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Patch v.0.4.2 - 16/06/2023 [/h3]

UPGRADES AND CHANGES

- Improved sounds on multiple weapons & miracles
- Added a counter to display how many cosmetics are unlocked per type

ISSUE FIXES

- Fixed an issue causing traps spawned by Abrahams during the boss fight to not explode if you're playing online and not the host
- Fixed a bug causing the player camera to lock out
- Fixed a bug causing players to not receive the "Fast Food" achievement
- Fixed a bug causing some players to be stuck on the loading screens
- Fixed a bug causing spell increase buffs to not work on enemies which are immune to Staggers

Please do also see our list of known issues here.

Once again, we'd like to invite everyone over to our Discord channel to chat with the devs and the community, and also 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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Sker Islanders, the team's been squashing bugs and making improvements this week! We'd love to know what you think of the changes we've made this week.


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Patch v.0.4.1 - 09/06/2023 [/h3]

UPGRADES AND CHANGES

- Improved sounds on weapons (work in progress)
- Being revived at the end of the round in Beginner & Easy no longer removed your weapons & perks
- Difficulty Icons now show in the Scoreboard UI
- Show Crosshair option no longer disabled the Crosshair Dot if Crosshair Dot is enabled
- Show Objectives option no longer disabled Objective Markers if Show Objectives is disabled
- Increased the footstep interval rate
- Cost of revive token reduced by 30% in the Beginner Difficulty
- Cost of revive token reduced by 25% in the Easy Difficulty
- Camera viewing angle limit now increased to 80 degrees when you look down, up from 60

WEAPON CHANGES

MP18A
- RPM lowered to 800, down from 1000
- Lowered Maximum Damage to 48, down from 59

Pavlov Avtomat
- Increased Maximum Damage to 55, up from 53


ISSUE FIXES

- Fixed an issue causing the NPC ability cooldowns to go on cooldown even if they fail their start requirements
- Fixed an issue causing equipable item-related sounds to play twice (shooting, equipping, etc)
- Fixed an issue causing one of the Interactions in "Deadly Lover's Castle" to not be interactable under the expected angle
- Fixed an issue causing one of the new DLC Menu Backgrounds to not be visible
- Fixed an issue that might cause a crash during the loading screen on some machines
- Correct Difficulty Icons now show in the Game Over & Round Counter HUD

Please do also see our list of known issues here.

Once again, we'd like to invite everyone over to our Discord channel to chat with the devs and the community, and also 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, we love getting our amazing community involved as you often provide us with quality feedback and ideas to improve Sker Ritual. That's why we would like for YOU to help us name the recent additions to our arsenal.



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Head over to our Twitter or Discord where we've created a post to collect suggestions, or comment below!

Click here for the Twitter post!
Click here to head to our Sker Ritual Discord. You'll find our post in the feedback thread.

We can't wait to see all of your suggestions!