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0.5.8 | MIRACLE CHANGES, UI UPDATES & MORE



Happy Friday, Sker Islanders!

As it is St.David's Day here in Wales we couldn't help but ensure it was also a patch day!

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Patch v.0.5.8 - 01/03/2024[/h3]

NEWLY UPDATED
- Added & upgraded UI animations in the several menus
- Added Animation & Audio to Post Game Summary
- Updated UI in the Miracle Exploration Menu
- Highlighted stat changes between rarities for Miracle Descriptions
- Updated the layout and names of the options on the main menu
- Notes are now called Collectables
- Locked Collectables no longer display as "????"
- Added Location hints for Collectables
- Increased the melee damage multiplier for x1.7 for Hard and x2.2 for Nightmare
- Lowered the damage multiplier of non-melee abilities to x0.5 Beginner and x0.7 Easy difficulties
- Updated audio for several Notifications

BUG FIXES
- Fixed an issue with multiple objective markers remaining on screen after returning to the menu and starting a new game
- Fixed an issue with Perks not being removed properly for everyone who isn't the host in online games
- Fix issue with missing localization on some Area text
- Fixed an issue where Post Game Summary wouldn't appear for anyone isn't the host in an online game after exiting

MIRACLE CHANGES

Health Bomb - Effects now scale with higher rarities

Poison Prawn - Effects now scale on higher rarities

Critical Elixir - Reduced Base Duration of Critical Chance from 20 to 14
- +2 seconds duration per rarity

Electric Elixir - Add +2% chance every rarity

Fire Elixir - Reduced Duration of Fire and Reload speed from 30 to 2
- +4 second per rarity

Health Elixir - Reduced Duration of Health Regen from 30 to 26 seconds
- +2 seconds per rarity

Ice Elixir - Added 2 seconds to duration to Ice Shield every rarity

Poison Elixir - Reduced Duration of poison aura 20 to 16 seconds, Add 2 seconds every rarity,
- Enemies Poisoned duration 5 to 4
- Add 1 seconds every rarity

Speed Elixir - Reduced Sprint Speed buff from 20% to 14%,
- +2% every rarity

Stun Elixir - Reduce Duration of stun chance from 20 -> 16 seconds-
- +1 seconds every rarity

Fire Stab - Duration of fire effect incrases +2 seconds every rarity

Ice Stab - Incrased slow by +2% every rarity

Critical Bomb - Reduced Duration of crit chance 5 -> 3 seconds
- +2 seconds every rarity

Health Bomb - Reduced Duration of heal 10 -> 4, +2 seconds every rarity
- Increase amount healed by +5 health every rarity

Ice Bomb - Reduced Duration of slow from 5 -> 3,
- +2 seconds every rarity

Poison Bomb - Reduced Duration of poison effect from 10 -> 8 seconds
- +2 seconds every rarity

Flash Force - Reduced movement speed, rof, cooldown rate from 20% -> 14%,
- +2% every rarity

Poison Fog - Increased Damage done and reduce damage taken by +2% every rarity

Sonar Storm - Reduced value for damage taken on enemies from 30% -> 20%, +5% every rarity

Critical Fire - Reduced damage buff from 5% -> 3%
- 1% every rarity

Frost Fire - Reduced Damage done to enemies from 4% -> 1%, +1% every rarity,
- Increase Duration of effect by +2 seconds every rarity
- Reduced slow from 50% -> 30%
- +5% every rarity

Poison Fire - Reduced Duration of debuff from 5 -> 4 seconds
- +1 seconds every rarity

Scream Fire - Reduced damasge done from 3% -> 2%
- +1% every rarity
- Reduced Duration of debuff from 4 -> 2 seconds
- +1 seconds every rarity

Lightning Fire - Increased chance to stun duration +1 every rarity

Solid Shot - Increased weapon damage from 2% -> 4%

Auto Revive - Reduced amount of health resotred from 100% -> 85%
- +5% every rarity

Critical Mass - Reduced Duration of buff from 2 -> 1
- +0.5 seconds every rarity

Damage Reload - Increased duration by +0.5 seconds every rarity of buff

Danger Danger! - Reduced Damage dealth from 100% -> 85%
- +5% every rarity

Poison Prawn - Reduced damage dealt to enemies from 10% -> 5%
- +5% every rarity

Arsenal Overcharge - Increase duration of buff by +2 seconds every rarity

Critical Flare - Reduced Crit Chance from 100% -> 85%
- +5% every rarity

Frozen Mastery - Increased amount healed by +4% every rarity

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!

We also wanted to announce that the price of Sker Ritual on Steam will rise on Monday 4th March at 6pm GMT to its official launch price of $24.99. That means that it is your last chance to grab Sker Ritual at a bargain Early Access plus sale price of $12.75! Don't miss out on that!

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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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