RAIDBORN News

RAIDBORN will participate in this summer's Dream Hack Beyond Indie Showcase. The event ends on August 27 at 10:00 a.m. PST.

For the duration of the event, a playable demo will be available for anyone to try.

The wait is over! The second major content update is finally here, bringing you a completely revamped city, where mysteries and treasures await around every corner. On top comes the all-new crafting system, offering a whole new layer of complexity.

For an introduction to the highlights, you can watch this video. Below, you can find the full list of changes:

Complete City Overhaul:

• Revised city architecture with over 150 new meshes
  
• Revised market district
  
• Added lower district
  
• Added residential area
  
• Added locked upper district
  
• Added quest to gain access to upper district
  
• Added new merchants
  
• Added many hidden loot stashes
  
• Added some secret locations and treasures
  
• Implemented weather system including, dynamic lighting
  
• Implemented new ambient NPCs
  

Crafting System:

• Added crafting workbench to player home
  
• Added new tool items for smithing and alchemy
  
• Added weapon, armor, and shield upgrade kits
  
• Added alchemy recipes for potions
  
• Added smithing recipes for upgrade kits, tools, and resources
  
• Dropped weapons can now be looted and scrapped
  
• Added 14 new alchemy ingredient items
  
• Added 7 new smithing ingredient items
  

Improvements:

• Implemented appearance randomizer for citizen NPCs
  
• Implemented quest giver spawn rules so they spawn at appropriate locations
  
• Added some new citizen meshes
  
• Replaced some old citizen meshes
  
• Added some new guard meshes
  
• Replaced tutorial guard meshes
  
• Added new smithing animation for equipment merchants
  
• Added new brewing animation for potion merchants
  
• Added new idle animation for merchants
  
• Added new idle animation for guards
  
• Improved NPC sitting animation
  
• Added two new merchant voices
  
• Added hammer sound for NPCs
  
• Added cause of death to death screen
  
• Added flashing effect of possession bar if critical
  
• Disabled pop-up of unessential tutorial messages
  
• Added notification icon for unread tutorial messages
  
• Changed object highlight effect to be more noticable
  
• Improved inventory sorting
  
• Added new icon for book items
  
• Added new icon for smithing items
  
• Added new icon for alchemy items
  
• Improved level complete notification
  
• Slightly increased view range of compass icons
  
• Slightly improved lip syncing
  
• Replaced main menu background
  

Balancing:

• Increased dungeon loot amount
  
• Increased effect of dungeon level on loot amount
  
• Slightly decreased spawn chance of rare items
  
• Increased quest XP reward
  
• Increased quest gold and loot rewards
  
• Increased protection effect of armors and shields
  
• Slightly decreased all level requirements
  
• Slightly decreased level requirement for artifacts
  
• Slightly decreased damage of all enemies
  
• Slightly decreased damage and health of Kings and Berserkers
  
• Slightly decreased health of Peasants and Workers
  
• Slightly increased maximal possible attack speed
  
• Slightly increased damage of all weapons
  
• Slightly increased bow damage
  
• Slightly decreased stamina cost for bows
  
• Slightly decreased stamina cost for running and jumping
  
• Added more gold and potions to start loot
  

Fixes:

• Fixed quest dungeons from not getting removed
  
• Fixed arrows from not ricocheting from crystal hearts
  
• Fixed NPCs not being able to walk on rugs
  
• Fixed an issue with higher-level chest spawning
  
• Fixed inventory sorting from not resetting
  
• Fixed not being able to attack with the torch
  
• Fixed some clipping and missing dungeon objects
  
• Removed lever from barricaded gate
  

Watch 30 minutes of pure unedited RAIDBORN Gameplay.

Enough of wasting precious time by walking eternal distances and engaging in endless dialogue? Want to get to the fun part quickly? Say no more! RAIDBORN should be right up your alley.

RAIDBORN is a straightforward first-person fantasy action RPG featuring procedurally generated dungeons and quests. Plunder a treasure-strewn world, upgrade your gear, level up your skills, and hurl yourself into intense combat.

Beware the dark. Beware the night. Where stealthy heroes love to fight.

RAIDBORN participates in the Steam Stealth Fest, starting today at 10 a.m. PST. To celebrate this the game will be 20% off.

This is not only a great way to get the game, or gift it to a friend, but also a great opportunity to try a rogue only run, if you own the game already.

I just wanted to send a sign of life. If you are interested in more regular updates, make sure to join my Discord. I have made some good progress, and the heavy lifting for UPDATE 2 is done. I have no release date yet, but it will probably be available between late July and early August.

Here are some of the new items I created for the new crafting system. I tried to keep the number of ingredients manageable while maintaining enough complexity. I don't like it if there are too many items to handle because it gets chaotic fast. The new crafting system will allow you to create tools, brew potions, and upgrade weapons, but more about that soon.



I also completely overhauled the city, including ambient NPCs, a new weather system, many secrets to discover and some new gameplay mechanics. In the video below you can get a first impression of what the new city looks like in the evening.

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