Pit People News

It's been a minute, but we have just a few fixes and improvements that we wanted to bring to the Pit. Please enjoy!

• Fixed a bug where certain special head/faces were displaying incorrectly in replays.
  
• Fixed a collision issue in CityTown Riot level.
  
• Wraith debuff slightly decreased.
  
• Stormstick and Thousand Shards damage slightly decreased.
  
• Wraith bomb initial hit damage reduction
  

Developer Note: These were performing a bit too well in relation to other things in the game. They should now be in a spot where they are more balanced, but most users of the items shouldn't really notice the difference in output. Players should not have to shift their team comp at all, as they should perform as usual.

We’ve just released a hotfix containing some fixes and improvements to Pit People Update 7. Some of these contain spoilers so we’ve added spoiler tags to them!

• Fixed a bug with a hex in Bloodbath Lagoon that prevented the player from progressing.
  
• Fixed a bug in The Tale of Earl and Starlene that prevented the quest from ending when choosing to stay and fight.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented The Sultan of Shivers from showing up in Gulga Burr.
• Fixed a bug in The General (CityTown Riot) that prevented the quest from ending when failing.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when being knocked onto hazards.
  
• Progression bar now displays as full with 100% completion.
  
• Removed the “>” from the name “Izzy”. If you’ve already recruited this fighter, you will retain the original name. And congratulations to all those who now have this rare name!
  
• Fixed an issue with Horatio speaking on the wrong side of the screen during one of the new quests. (Get it together, Horatio!)
  
• Fixed an issue with all the food in Fort Ruffage appearing as drumsticks. (Unless you like drumsticks, in which case, apologies)
  
• Fixed an issue with having multiple heroes. (Again, apologies)
  

Happy Eve of Halloween Eve, everyone! We are excited to announce that our newest Pit People update, "Pitlicious", is now available on Steam!

Aside from new adventures and quality of life additions, Update 7 is full of those "hey, wouldn't it be cool if...?" moments we've been jotting down since development began. Things like...

• "Wouldn't it be cool if those bear blood storms could happen any time?
  
• "What about a bunch of quests in a big city? Crowded streets, hot dog carts, skyscrapers...
  
• "OOH, a prison break! Sheep Mascots! A level full of dynamite. Just dynamite. EVERYWHERE."
  

Whether you can stand toe to toe with General Custard or are as innocent as a wee babe, Pitlicious has something strange and wonderful for you!



Update includes the following:

• 2 New Multi-Part City Quest lines
  
• New world map content, including new quests and bear blood storms
  
• Fashionable new unlocks
  
• 13 new Achievements
  
• Viewable fighter career stats in regular mode (similar to Obituary in Permadeath Mode)
  
• Newly intensified atmosphere for Elite battles (just in time for Halloween!)
  

• Mission progression is now determined by the first host player rather than the most advanced player.
  
• The fortress completion achievement is now triggered by completing city and story quest fortresses.
  
• Added occasional bear blood storms in random battles.
  
• Fixed issues with spidaur webs when spidaurs teleport.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a tutorial exploration region to not count toward player’s total.
  
• Added separate key bindings for moving the wagon up, down, left, and right.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented some missions from appearing on some world maps.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause spectator fighters from appearing in the arena lobby during an online session.
  
• Changed the Questboard to show the 100% indicator only if all local players have completed the quest.
  
• Fixed a bug where the winner of a replay would not be shown in some cases.
  
• Players can hold the dismiss key to skip through dialog quickly.
  
• Fixed a bug showing pixie wings in portraits.
  
• Fixed bug which would auto-fail permadeath players in March for Babies.
  
• Fixed bug that prevented enemies from chasing wagon through previously populated hexes.
  
• Female archer and man type npcs on the worldmap now use the female voice when killed.
  
• The 5th city record song now loops correctly.
  
• Fixed bug in quest “Against the Grain” to cause it to fail early in some cases.
  
• Fixed tents in multiple fortresses that did not look inactive after running out of enemies to spawn.
  
• Fixed bug causing player to see both win and lose events if they killed all of the red team players.
  
• Fixed bug preventing players from recruiting an enemy in quest “A Knight’s Code”.
  
• Extra loot is no longer lost to lava eruptions on some worldmaps during quest “Fighting Fire with Fire”.
  
• Yosef is no longer occasionally given a random color tint in quest “Mt. Olympus”.
  
• Worldmap enemy that chases you in quest “Home, Run!” now behaves like other chase enemies.
  
• Fixed bug that was causing chaser enemy sfx to play when spawned instead of when triggered by the wagon.
  
• Mother Deer no longer sounds like a human man when saying “...?” in quest “Needs Salt”.
  
• Fixed a bug in quest, “Mush Love” causing Portabella to occasionally disappear.
  
• Erroneous fail dialog no longer plays when fleeing quest “Tale of Yoratio”.
  
• Added missing danger icon to Fort Ginger.
  
• All mentions of “Mr. Whispers” use that spelling now. Sorry, “Mister Whispers” fans.
  

• Snottery Barn revamped to include new narrative beats, unique characters and Spidaur Skin rewards.
  
• Layout of battlefield in quest “Against the Grain” rebalanced and made accessible for Troll Moms.
  
• Rebalanced quest “He Who Smelt It” to allow enemy team to spread out do their job better.
  
• Added some flavor and visual clarity to quest “Fort Ruffage”.
  
• Rebalanced quest “Ruckus Ranch” and added some visual flare for clarity.
  
• Added battlefields for some unique regions across all worldmaps.
  
• Kindness the Rainbow Horse now hums to himself during quest, “Killing with Kindness”.
  
• Small camera and narrative sequence tweaks across many quests.
  
• New music for CityTownRiot by Patric Catani
  
• Adjusted all ambience levels and overall mix
  
• Elite battles now play specific music
  
• New SFX for new quests
  
• New SFX for new weapons
  
• Translations for all new quests and content
  

Collect your Cupcakes, gather your Gorgons and haul out your favorite Hair Trolls: new adventures await!

It’s our 15th year exhibiting at San Diego Comic Con and this year marks The Behemoth's 15th Anniversary as well! In honor of this momentous occasion, we've created a special San Diego Comic Con exclusive: The Behemoth 15 Year Anniversary canvas tote bag.



This SDCC exclusive tote bag was designed by our very own Dan Paladin and printed here in good ol’ San Diego. They are $20 each while supplies last, so make sure to get to Booth 329 early!

We’re mixing it up this year and only bringing the Gift Shop (many of our dev team members will be back in the office working on Update 7!), but boy-oh-boy do we have a ton of merch to choose from! See the full list of merch on our blog.

Some items are also in our online store so you can click on the name of the item on the blog to see photos of the product in our store.

We hope to see you guys in person in a couple weeks!

Steam just rolled out some Developer Pages so now you can stay connected with our studio by Following our Developer Page and Joining our Official Steam Group!




That's where we'll post announcements about our games (including any new ones in the works!), reviewing other games we like and we think you should check out, and all kinds of other cool stuff!