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0.3.4 | Patch Notes - Upgraded Weapon Movement & More!



Sker Islanders, this is a patch that many of you have been waiting for and one that our dev team have been working hard on! This latest patch has upgrades and changes to the movement and feel of weapons and equippable items, and we would love to know your feedback!


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Patch v.0.3.4 - 27/04/2023 [/h3]

UPGRADES AND CHANGES

- Upgraded how equipable items feel when moving weapons
- Changed the player running animation
- Changed how recoil falloff is handled on automatic weapons
- Changed equipable items field of view to 80, up from 63
- Added "Teleport" text to all teleport machines in "The Ashes of Sker Hotel"
- Set the text on Lucky to be the same in every level and localized
- Localized text now falls back to English if it's not yet been localized

ISSUE FIXES

- Fixed an issue where camera shakes would be less intense if the game runs at higher than 60 FPS
- Fixed an issue where you could get 2 trials active at same time
- Fixed an issue causing the difficulty select menu to break if you switch between mouse to keyboard while in the menu

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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Deadly Lover's Fortress - NEW MAP

Sker Islanders, we're back with another tease for Episode Four of Sker Ritual - Deadly Lover's Fortress. Our team have carefully chosen two tantalising screenshots to share with you that we hope will leave you wanting more!





What horrors and challenges await you in the Deadly Lover's Fortress? You will have to wait and see. In the meantime, join us over on the Sker Ritual Discord, where you can look for groups to take down Quiet Ones with, have up to date information from the team and share your Ritual Results with the community!

Plus, if you have great clips of you playing Sker Ritual, please share them with our team on Discord and across socials!

Wales Interactive Team

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Deadly Lover's Fortress - SPECIAL WEAPON

Sker Islanders, you've had your fill of Episode Three: Sewers of the Dead, and now it is time to start teasing you for our upcoming Episode Four: Deadly Lover's Fortress.

Our dev team are so excited to share with you this brand new map and experience soon, but for now, we have a sneak peek at the brand new special weapon.



Who will you be hacking and slashing with this mighty blade? You'll find out very soon! In the meantime, join us over on the Sker Ritual Discord, where you can look for groups to take down Quiet Ones with, have up to date information from the team and share your Ritual Results with the community!

Plus, if you have great clips of you playing Sker Ritual, please share them with our team on Discord and across socials!

Wales Interactive Team

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Upgraded Weapon Names - WINNERS ANNOUNCED



Sker Islanders, we wanted to thank you for getting involved in suggesting names for our upgraded weapon names! After corralling the best suggestions and putting them to polls across our socials and our Sker Ritual Discord, we are now excited to announce the winners.

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  • Pavlov Avtomat - KERBEROS
  • Double-Barreled Shotgun - TOMBSTONE
  • Hunting Rifle - HUNTER'S LAMENT
  • Sie Rogotti - SIGNOR RISOTTO
  • MX1910 - PALE RIDER
  • MP18A - SIREN'S CALL
  • RS10 - CARNAGE
  • Revolver - LAZY SUSAN
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Please look out in the future as we'll be needing upgraded names for our brand new crossbow and axe!



Click here to head to our Sker Ritual Discord where you'll find more up to date news, opportunities to feedback to our team and more like-minded Sker Islanders!


0.3.2 | Patch Notes - New Difficulties Added



How are you enjoying your visit to the Sewers of the Dead, Sker Islanders? Coming very soon, we have a patch that includes bug fixes, updates and brand new difficulties! See more information below.


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Patch v.0.3.2 - COMING SOON [/h3]

NEWLY ADDED: New Difficulties: Beginner & Easy

- Beginner
- Enemy damage decreased
- Time between rounds increased
- Enemy health doesn't scale with rounds
- Weapon tier upgrades give a 20% upgrade instead of double every upgrade

- Easy
- Enemy health & damage decreased
- Time between rounds increased

- Nightmare
- Life Tokens are unavailable to purchase

NEW UPDATES

- New Difficulty Menu available in Private & Solo games after choosing a map
- Added a shield under the sword statue that allows you to change difficulties, that will allow you to lower the difficulty
- Enemy melee damage now scales with rounds, between round 10 & 30
- Lowered the chance of certain powerups spawns
- Randomized masks no longer randomize when a map loads and only when the menu loads
- Changed the quiet one escort objective to not require to be near it when its been told to run

BUG FIXES
- Fixed an issue that caused the escort objective to rewards the achievement if you quit to main menu while escorting
- Fixed a bug causing clients to not see the helmet being equipped on the quiet one for the escort objective
- Potentially Fixed an issue that caused The Stranger to not get defeated at 0 health

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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