Scarlet Hollow News

Hotfixed the Loremaster achievement which should now be achievable

Hey Everyone!

After taking a look at the results of our post balance patch survey, we noticed a couple of things:

• Powerful Build, Street Smart, and Hot all shot up in pick rate as players' preferred traits, which means the patch is working as intended.
  
• Book Smart is now noticeably underpicked.
  

A couple of respondents made specific note that Book Smart felt underwhelming in the library scene, and we totally agreed with them— it's the big research montage of the story, so it should be their moment to shine. So we put together one last balance patch to wrap up Halloween season.

• Book Smart has an entire extra book in the library.
  
• Book Smart now has additional entries to read in 'Appalachian Folk Monsters.'
  
• Some previously universal dialogue options in the library have been made Book Smart exclusive.
  
• General typo fixes.
  
• Added a tooltip to introduce players to the keybinding for hiding the UI.
  
• Three new achievements.
  

Some of the information in the new books is immediately pertinent, but we're also using this patch as an opportunity to seed Book Smart players with general town and cryptid knowledge that may or may not be relevant later in the story.

Really honing in on balance at this point.

Coming away from this patch, we're pretty happy with the state of trait balance moving forward. Keen Eye is inevitably going to be the top pick for a variety of reasons, as is Talk to Animals. With these tweaks, though, the remaining five traits should all have uniquely powerful bonuses, and will all probably wind up within a standard deviation of each other.

Hey folks!

Now that it's been a little over a week since we released our balance patch, we wanted to send out a quick survey to see how players interacted with the patch and to get some fresh data on people's favorite traits!

Check it out here: https://forms.gle/M1XPhM1onCM2vbRq7

We've also hit our first threshold in the October fanart competition, with team Monsters eking out a win by one entry. We'll be doing a livestream on our Twitch channel this Saturday morning and drawing *your* monster requests. Follow us there or on Twitter to get a notification when we go live!

Hey folks! While we're hard at work on Episode 3, we didn't want to leave you hanging with no new Scarlet Hollow content in this, the spookiest of all months, so we took some time to make some changes we've wanted to make for quite a while.

• Buffing underpicked traits. One of our goals with this patch was to give some much needed attention to traits that weren't quite hitting the mark for us. While every trait has some changes, we felt that Powerful Build, Street Smart, and Hot needed to feel better to play.
  
• Added more romance content for Hot. If you're more interested in the dating and romantic side of Scarlet Hollow, there are some fresh incentives to pick it as one of your traits.
  
• Removed the brick wall barring access to the forbidden wings in Episode 1.
  
• Powerful Build has more opportunities to live up to its namesake.
  
• Street Smart has more exclusive options in the mining camp.
  
• Tightened dialogue with the Teens in Episode 2. The middle section of the mines should feel snappier and flow better.
  
• Reworked trait descriptions to make them more accurate to their effects in the game.
  
• Redesigned Tommyknockers. The Tommyknockers have been given a makeover. Likewise, instead of disappearing as soon as you see them, they now just pull back a little bit. Their previous behavior meant that players who had auto-skip or auto-forward options turned on missed them entirely.
  
• Changed some art assets in one of the Episode 2 ending paths to more clearly convey what's going on.
  
• Redesigned Reese's house.
  
• Several new art assets tied to buffed traits.
  
• Be allergic to peanuts if you want?
  
• New achievements!
  
• You can no longer have an empty string as your character name or hometown.
  
• General edits and typo/style corrections.
  
• Improved keyboard navigation so that arrow keys simultaneously scroll the choice menu and move between options.
  
  Don't forget that the October fan art competition is still going on! And if Discord is your thing, feel free to join the growing Scarlet Hollow community on our server.
  
  Episode 3 is coming along really well, and we can pretty comfortably say it should be ready somewhere between late January and early February. And it's gonna be a banger, y'all.
  
  

Happy October! It's time for another Scarlet Hollow ~fan art competition~ and this time, we've got two competing teams!

The theme? People vs Creatures

We've got streams planned throughout the month, and what art you submit decides their content!



The Rules:

• Two Teams: People vs Creatures
  
• Team with the most entries by Oct 25th picks the theme of our Halloween livestreams
  
• Creatures: we take your monster requests and draw them live!
  
• People: we work on Episode 3 backgrounds live!
  
• Every 10 entries per team unlocks a BONUS livestream (max 1 per week)
  
• Entries with people AND creatures count for both teams.
  
• Enter as many times as you’d like!
  
• Creatures include monsters, animals and because he’s spooky, Wayne
  
• Use #scarlethollow on Twitter or post your creation to /r/scarlethollow
• Fanfic counts!
  

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