Ravenswatch News

Check out the latest update in Ravenswatch, the Dark Tales as our developers walk you through what to expect!

Greetings, Ravens!

The Dark Tales update is now available for free on Steam! This new and fourth Major content update adds a glimpse of each hero's backstory, new unlockable talents, a very requested feature, and more!

We’re excited to continue the Early Access of Ravenswatch in 2024 and have more major content planned for this year before version 1.0. Check our updated Early Access Roadmap at the bottom of this news.

[h2]Watch the Dark Tales Update trailer[/h2]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[h2]Summary[/h2]

OPEN THE BOOK OF DARK TALES!

• Unlock Heroes’ Memoirs and learn more about their pasts and motivations
  
• 30+ new Talents to unlock
  
• Altar of Heroes: revive fallen teammates or buy extra feathers
  
• Rank up to level 8 in the Book!
  
• The Sandman now greets you (new voice lines)
  
• New servers that ensure more co-op stability (disconnections, delays, high pings…)
  
• … and more!

Read the full patch note here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2071280/view/3972805574263010752

[h2]Get the Update[/h2]

Update the game for free on Steam right now to start playing the Dark Tales Update!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071280/Ravenswatch/

[h2]Updated Roadmap[/h2]



[h2]Social Channels[/h2]

Passtech Games Discord Ravenswatch Twitter Passtech Games Twitter Ravenswatch Subreddit Passtech Games Twitch Passtech Games Website

- The Passtech Team 🍉

Greetings, Ravens!

The Dark Tales Update is out on Steam! This new and fourth Major content update adds a glimpse of each hero's backstory, new unlockable talents, a very requested feature, and more!

We’re excited to continue the Early Access of Ravenswatch in 2024 and have more major content planned for this year before version 1.0. Check out the patch note below to see the newest additions on this update and the Roadmap at the bottom of the news for our next plans.

Watch our Update trailer here:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


🐦 = Community additions

[h2]TL;DR:[/h2]

Because we know our patch notes are lengthy ones and you probably just want to play, here’s a “too long, didn’t read!” summary just for you:

• Unlock Heroes’ Memoirs and learn more about their pasts and motivations
  
• 30+ new Talents to unlock
  
• Altar of Heroes: revive fallen teammates or buy extra feathers
  
• Rank up to level 8 in the Book!
  
• The Sandman now greets you (new voice lines)
  
• New servers that ensure more co-op stability (disconnections, delays, high pings…)
  
• … and more!

Read the detailed patch note below:

[h2]⚠ Disclaimer[/h2]

We’ve been working hard to bring players a more stable co-op experience worldwide. Starting today, we will use Epic Online Services to manage connections between players.

No Epic Accounts will ever be required, neither in solo nor in co-op.

We’re hoping this change (and many others) will improve connectivity with players, and decrease high PINGs, disconnections, and delays in-game. We look forward to your feedback on this matter, as only a full-scale test with players of the Early Access will tell us if most issues are resolved.

[h3]📢 Please let us know in this thread[/h3]

[h3]New features[/h3]

• Memoirs:
  + Rank-up Heroes in the meta-progression to unlock their pasts and stories (Rank 2, 4, 6, and 8)
  + 4 Memoirs to unlock per Hero
  + Complete the Hero’s portrait in the Memoirs tab
  Note: Disclaimer, first iteration of the Memoirs! We’ll improve the system with more entries, specific illustrations, and voiceovers in the next updates or version 1.0! Unlocking conditions will also change later when we add an achievement system.
• 🐦 Altar of Heroes: A new Activity is available on the map!
  + Revive fallen Heroes
  + Buy extra feathers
  + Gain XP
  
• Talents: 30+ new Talents to unlock
  + Scarlet: 4 new Talents - Adrenaline, Fan of Spikes, Savagery, On the Hunt
  + The Pied Piper: 4 new Talents - Chorus, Invasive Blast, Leeching Charm, Ghost Notes
  + Beowulf: 4 new Talents - Battlecry, Secondary Tremor, Furious Blows, Runes of War
  + Snow Queen: 4 new Talents - Protective Crown, Ice Cores, Frostbite, Pirouette
  + Aladdin: 4 new Talents - Dream Scimitars, Sand Vortex, Master Thief, Enchanted Jinn
  + Melusine: 5 new Talents - Sea Dance (used to be Dance Step), Wisp Finale, Waterlogging, Shimmering Scales, Long Lasting Wisp
  + Geppetto: 4 new Talents - Sharp Nose, Magnetic Swing, Flash of Genius, Lightning Rod Dummies
  + Sun Wukong: 4 new Talents - Focused Strikes, Sacred Seal, Chi Outburst, Fiery Golden Eyes
  
• Maximum Ranks: Rank your Heroes up to Level 8 in the Book/Meta progression! (you’ll unlock the newest Talents and Memoirs)
  
• The Sandman: The Sandman now talks
  
• 🐦 Subtitles: You can now add subtitles to Heroes’ voice lines and dialogs in the Option menu

[h3]Heroes adjustments[/h3]

• General:
  + All Ultimate abilities now deal +20% damage per level above 5
  + 🐦 Fixed damage display in the interface to take into account all DMG bonuses
  
• Scarlet:
  + Changed the ‘Shadow Strike’ glow on Scarlet’s daggers and Wolf claws, from dark purple to red, when the quest is complete.
  + Fixed: Scarlet in Wolf Form now cannot be stunned during her Ultimates (same as all other Heroes)
  
• The Pied Piper:
  + The camera now follows the rats' swarm from its ‘Plague of Rats’ Ultimate.
  + Improved steering of the ‘Plague of Rats’ rat swarm
  + ‘Sniper’ notes have a new, more aerodynamic look
  
• Beowulf:
  + Fixed: Holding attack input no longer prevents the Retaliation talent effect from being triggered
  + Fixed the ‘Defense’ invincibility window on release, it is now an intangibility window
  + Improved Special’s final sword swing to better differentiate it from the spinning swings since they don’t deal the same damage
  
• Snow Queen:
  + Fixed: Snow Queen’s defense damage is not increased by ‘Radiant Crown’ talent anymore
  + Improved auto-aim of attacks launched when using ‘Strafe’ Talent
  + The camera now follows ‘Frost Ray’’s target
  
• Melusine:
  + 🐦 Completely changed ‘Dance Step’ Talent and renamed it ‘Sea Dance’
  
• Geppetto:
  + 🐦 ‘Unstable Cores’: Dummies now always turn unstable 5 seconds after their creation (instead of randomly)
  + Fixed: ‘Rocket Science’ now properly interacts with ‘Trapped’ status
  
• Sun Wukong:
  + Base HP set to 110 (from 100)
  + Defense cooldown set to 5s (from 8s)

[h3]General Improvements & Balancing[/h3]

• Bosses: Bosses now give the same XP whether you're in multiplayer or single-player mode
  
• 🐦 Cyclops: Lighting AOE warnings now show the spread pattern of the ground projectiles
  
• Score: Score calculation has been reviewed, as well as Rank points required to rank up a Hero
  
• 🐦 Results Screen: Abandoning a run or getting disconnected from a run will now bring the players to the Results Screen (Defeat) and give Rank points

[h3]Fixed bugs[/h3]

Major

• 🐦 Desynchronizations in co-op
  
• 🐦 Disconnections
  
• 🐦 High Pings
  
• Overall optimization of game performance

Minor

• Fixed: Only unlocked Magical Items and Talents are displayed on the recapitulative screen, not unlocked by default ones
  
• Fixed: White Ladies AoE scream attack is now properly telegraphed on the ground
  
• Fixed: Killing the Cyclops while being teleported to the Master Nightmare no longer plays the Cyclops' death cutscene nor teleports the hero to its arena
  
• Fixed behavior of Rocs spawned by Phoenixes when leashed

[h2]Roadmap[/h2]



[h2]Social Channels[/h2]

Passtech Games Discord Ravenswatch Twitter Passtech Games Twitter Ravenswatch Subreddit Passtech Games Twitch Passtech Games Website

- The Passtech Team 🍉

Greetings, Ravens!

We’re happy to reveal that the Dark Tales Update will be released on February 1st on Steam! Get a look at our reveal date teaser for the occasion:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h2]Get ready for February 1st[/h2]
OPEN THE BOOK OF DARK TALES!

• Unlock Heroes’ Memoirs and learn more about their pasts and motivations
  
• 30+ new Talents to unlock
  
• Altar of Heroes: revive fallen teammates or buy extra feathers
  
• Rank up to level 8 in the Book!
  
• The Sandman now greets you (new voice lines)
  
• New servers that ensure more co-op stability (disconnections, delays, high pings…)
  
• … and more!

Learn more in our latest Dev Diary:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2071280/view/3979560339822617391

[h2]Live Showcase and Q&A[/h2]

Bookmark our future Devstreams to learn more about all the details of the Dark Tales Update! We’ll have our traditional showcase of the new content, followed by a live Q&A with the dev team.

Dark Tales Update Showcase:
📆 January 29
🕚 5 PM CEST

Dark Tales Update live Q&A and Co-op:
📆 January 31
🕚 5 PM CEST

Follow Passtech Games on Twitch

- The Passtech Team 🍉

[h2]Social Channels[/h2] Passtech Games Discord Ravenswatch Twitter Passtech Games Twitter Ravenswatch Subreddit Passtech Games Twitch Passtech Games Website

Greetings, Ravens!

It’s Dev Diary time! First of all, Happy New Year! We took a well-deserved break during the last Holidays and hope you did too.

Our fourth update will contain many new content and features for Ravenswatch, check it out down below:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Read the written version below:

[h2]New online servers![/h2]

As our latest Dev Diary stated, we’ve been working hard to bring players a more stable co-op experience worldwide. Starting February 1st, we will use Epic Online Services to manage connections between players.

We’re hoping this change (and many others) will improve connectivity with players, and decrease high PINGs, disconnections, and delays in-game. We look forward to your feedback on this matter, it’s been a long road to get here and we’re eager to know if our efforts paid off.

As we have tested this change on our side for quite some time now, we will still wait to see your feedback once the Update is live before shouting victory! Only a full-scale test with players of the Early Access will tell us if most issues are resolved.

[h2]Memoirs[/h2]

Onto brighter things with a new tab to consult in the book! We’ve added a bunch of lore, told from the heroes’ perspectives so you can learn more about their intentions, their pasts, and their personalities.

Unlock memoirs while playing and read the codex entries in the book after your runs. Each hero has 4 memoirs to unlock, plus a cool illustration that reveals itself with your progress.

We’ll add more memoirs in version 1.0. as well as the ending of each of their stories

[h2]Altar of Heroes[/h2]

We’ve already talked a little about Altar of Heroes in our latest Dev Diary and it’s going to be ready for our Dark Tales Update!

One Altar of Heroes will spawn on each Chapter and let you buy extra Revive feathers or revive fallen teammates. You can interact with the mechanism several times during a run to revive a friend, buy a feather, or gain XP points.

When a teammate falls, the Heroes of Altar will be revealed on the mini-map as well as a teleportation mark to make it easier to revive a friend.



[h2]New Talents[/h2]

We’ve added 30+ unlockable talents (about 4 per hero) to the game and increased the maximum rank to 8 in the meta-progression! We can’t resist a quick sneak peek:

Melusine can now grow her wisp!

A new moveset for Beowulf right after his Special!

Rats spawn after the Pied Piper's Defense

[h2]Live Showcase and Q&A[/h2]

Bookmark our future Devstreams to learn more about all the details of the Dark Tales Update! We’ll have our traditional showcase of the new content, followed by a live Q&A with the dev team.

Dark Tales Update Showcase:
📆 January 29
🕚 5 PM CEST

Dark Tales Update live Q&A and Co-op:
📆 January 31
🕚 5 PM CEST

Follow Passtech Games on Twitch

[h2]Community Questions[/h2]

1. Is the game going to be available on consoles and when?

YES! We’ve planned to release Ravenswatch on consoles since Day 1 of production, and have already started development on some platforms. Though it is still too early to communicate a date for the release of the console versions, we can already tell you that the game will be available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch in 2024, once the Early Access is done and version 1.0. out.

2. Will it be possible to play the same heroes in a run?

YES, but only in custom modes. We know how much fun it can be to play 4 Aladdins so why prevent it? ;)

3. Melusine’s 'Dancing Step' Talent feels very uncomfortable to play

YES, it could get awkward sometimes. Thanks for sharing your feedback, it’s noted and we’ve reworked this talent completely in the Dark Tales Update. Let’s see how you will like it!

[h2]Passtech Games[/h2]

We would like to introduce Luna, Passtech Games’ newest Community Manager! (I, MXiaa, will still be around for your shenanigans 😜) With this addition, we’re hoping to be even more present on the Steam forums and our Discord server to answer your questions, help you with technical support, and monitor feedback for the Early access of Ravenswatch. Welcome to the team!

By the way, if you’re not there already, join our Discord server to participate in future community events, chats with the devs, and collective brainstorm sessions around Ravenswatch!



- The Passtech Team 🍉

[h2]Social Channels[/h2] Passtech Games Discord Ravenswatch Twitter Passtech Games Twitter Ravenswatch Subreddit Passtech Games Twitch Passtech Games Website