Rain World News

Hey, slugcats!

On Saturday, we released a new patch for Rain World. This patch fixes tracked key items sometimes respawning out of bounds inside of shelters and crash on game startup in Japanese/Chinese/Korean languages after subscribing to workshop mods.

[h2]Full patch notes[/h2]

• When the game version updates, only subscribed workshop mods will be auto-disabled on the first launch, and not the built-in mods.
  
• Fixed slugpups and other non-playable slugcats triggering the Game Over popup on death.
  
• Fixed Gourmand's food tracker resetting if the Survivor Passage Requirement option was enabled in Remix.
  
• Fixed Deer and Miros Birds not spawning properly when More Slugcats Expansion was disabled.
  
• Fixed tracked key items sometimes respawning out of bounds inside of shelters.
  
• Fixed crash on game startup in Japanese/Chinese/Korean languages after subscribing to Workshop mods.
  
• Fixed dialog text added by mods not defaulting to English when there's no translation for the current language.
  
• Resolved issue where progress in Collections menu would sometimes get wiped out.
  
• Fixed overseer guidance in Shaded Citadel being wrong when More Slugcats Expansion was enabled.
  
• Resolved issues with save data for on-going Expedition Missions.
  
• Improved and resolved issues with Expedition Mission tooltips.
  
• Fixed Expedition perk limit not increasing after completing certain quests.
  
• Adjusted passage challenge point rewards for some slugs in Expedition mode.
  
• Added kill trackers to the sleep screen for all slugs, including other player's kills.
  
• Fixed Hidden challenges not revealing themselves in Expedition mode.
  
• Fixed slugpups not getting food when using Jolly Co-op.
  
• Swallowed items/creatures will no longer disappear if the player perma-dies on Co-op Easy mode.
  
• Fixed a crash when a player crosses a region in Co-op, with an item in their stomach, leaving a dead player behind.
  
• Fixes to make sure all Co-op features get properly disabled in Arena Modes (including Safari).
  
• Additionally rewarding campaign completion achievements on character select screen in case the original achievement trigger was missed by skipping end cutscene(s).
  
• Fixed one of the region's non-English subtitles overlapping the title in the Region selection screen.
  
• Resolved issue where navigation with a controller in the arena mode UI would sometimes skip over buttons.
  
• Unbroke a broken unlock token in Waterfront Complex.

We are still hard at work at patching out the bugs that you are finding. Thanks for all the bug reports which help us patch out these bugs.

-Riv Otter

Hey, Slugcats!

Rain World: Downpour is now available across different music platforms covered by Black Screen Records! Listen to the amazing soundtracks from Rain World: Downpour on platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and more!

https://rainworld.ffm.to/downpour

[h3]The Downpour soundtrack is also available on Steam![/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2282210/Rain_World_Downpour__Soundtrack/

Buddy, the marketing lead at Akupara Games and James from VIDEOCULT will be hanging out with the creators of the soundtrack on stream today at 10am PST!

https://www.twitch.tv/akuparagames

-Riv Otter

Hey, slugcats!

The base game Rain World is now 60% off!

This is the best opportunity to grab the base game before raising the base game price to $24.99 and updating the regional pricing for the game in February. I want to reiterate the reasons we are raising the price.

1) We're changing the base game with the Remix update and that was a lot of effort and work. Bumping up the price helps reflect that time and effort.

2) It helps keep the DLC price lower for longtime members of the community. If you bought Rain World in 2017, you got it for cheaper than someone coming into the game now and we think you guys deserve that discount.

3) We're changing the development direction of Rain World. The original price reflected a finished game whereas the new price reflects that we want to develop more for Rain World.

4) The process of picking the game up from another publisher was an expensive one and they still get a cut of all of our sales. Bumping the price a little helps to offset that reality.

Anyway, like a lot of decisions in game development, this one was kind of a confluence of a bunch of factors all pointing in the same direction. And I definitely wanted to be fair to you guys by announcing the price change way ahead of time so that nobody is bamboozled by it. This also won't change the discounts we list Rain World at so for anyone looking to pick up the game on sale, they'll have an easy time finding a good price for it.

[h2]Rain World Soundtrack[/h2]
Rain World: Downpour soundtrack will be hitting different platforms tomorrow!

Buddy, the Akupara Marketing Lead, and James from Videocult, will be joining the amazing community soundtrack creators tomorrow at 10am PST! Join us in congratulating the soundtrack team.

https://www.twitch.tv/akuparagames

Hey, slugcats!

Enjoying the new soundtrack in Rain World: Downpour?

On Friday, January 27th the Downpour soundtrack will hit different music platforms covered by Black Screen Records. This includes Spotify, Apple music, and more! If you want to take a listen then check out the soundtrack on Youtube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DWnV_CR7I

Also I wanted to take the time to highlight the amazing people that came together to make the soundtrack!

• James Primate
  
• Lydia Esrig
  
• Intikus
  
• Ongomato
  
• Connor "12LBS" Skidmore
  
• Bwarch
  
• Progfox
  

Annoying Flower designed the soundtrack art while Norgad provided the region art for the video, both incredibly talented designers!

[h2]Patch v1.9.02[/h2]
Also over the weekend we have released a patch for Downpour. Here are the full patch notes.

• Fixed crash when hibernating in The Exterior with certain characters.
  
• Allowing all endings, including secondary ones, to count towards campaign completion unlockables now.
  
• Fixed latin characters rendering incorrectly with workshop mods installed when an asian language is selected.
  
• Updates to Chinese localization.
  
• Fixed Play button not being greyed out when no Safari regions are unlocked.
  
• Fixed graphical display of credits list in Remix menu when playing the game with a controller.
  
• Reduced the number of spiders that appear in Gourmand's tutorial room.
  
• Expedition Mission buttons are now greyed out if the associated slugcat has not been unlocked.
  
• Unlocked Expedition slugcats will no longer become locked again after exiting the Jukebox menu.
  
• Fixed issues with the Expedition menu UI when More Slugcats is disabled.
  
• Added tooltips for Jukebox buttons and randomized backgrounds for the Jukebox menu.
  
• Fixed a bug with Expedition score challenges.
  
• Fixed occasional crashes when using shelters or region gates in Jolly Co-op mode.
  
• Fixes a bug with tamed creatures in shelters in Jolly Co-op mode.
  
• Fixed a bug with death display when a co-op player dies in another room not viewed by the camera.
  
• Fixed a bug with the map on the hibernation screen in Co-op mode.
  
• Artificer can no longer maul other players in Co-op while friendly fire is turned off
  
• Reduced slider flicker on Jolly's Color dialog.
  
• Fixed a crash when visiting an Iterator chamber in Safari Mode while Jolly Co-op is enabled.
  
• Player 1 Jolly options (Color, Label) will no longer get reset on restart.
  

We are still hard at work on patching out more bugs. Thank you all for your reports! They seriously help in patching them out.

-Riv Otter

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