Rain World News

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

The humble Slugcat—the adorably squishy critter at the heart of Rain World—has long been one of my white whales. I’ve tried (and failed) to master the art of survival in the Slugcat's uncompromising world several times since 2017. With the release of Downpour, it finally clicked. On top of being a titanic extension for the thorny survival-sim platformer, the Downpour expansion, after five years in development, goes a long way to making the original game more accessible and less intimidating—before unleashing a sequel’s worth of fresh horrors upon me and overwhelming me all over again...
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Hey, slugcats!

It is time for me to finally pass Gourmand to you guys. You better take good care of them and keep them well fed. Rain World: Downpour is out now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDUnWnjdK0

[h3]Rain World: Downpour features[/h3]

• 5 new playable slugcat campaigns
  
• New regions and rooms
  
• Co Op campaign mode
  
• Expedition mode
  
• Challenge mode
  
• Safari mode
  

Even if you don’t get Downpour, Rain World is receiving a free update for the first time in many years that includes new resources for players and modders of Rain World.

[h3]Rain World: Remix features[/h3]

• Steam Workshop
  
• In game mod loader
  
• Russian and Chinese languages
  
• Accessibility options
  
• Bug fixes
  

Note: If you have modded your files, then Rain World: Remix will not launch. You will need to do a complete reinstall of Rain World. Remove the Rain World folder from Steam. The folder will typically be located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rain World then verify the game files.

Uninstalling the game through Steam does not delete all files and so you must manually delete the Rain World folder and then reinstall through Steam.

One more final note with the launch of Downpour and Remix. We have set up two branches on Steam so if you like to revert back to ver. 1.5 or ver. 1.01 for any reason then you can. Right click Rain World in the library and click properties. Under the “beta” tab, you can select the 1.5 build by selecting “legacy” or select 1.01 build by selecting “legacy” from the drop down menu.

Rain World: Downpour adds so much content to a game beloved by the community. We’ve been very honored to work with such an amazing community to develop Downpour. Again be sure to give thanks to all the amazing community members who worked on developing the DLC. You can view who from the community worked on Downpour here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/312520/view/5507370455348858235?l=english

-Riv Otter

Hey, slugcats!

Nine days until the release of Rain World: Downpour! Soon the Gourmand care will be passed on to you! I hope you have enough food in the fridge for them.

Downpour comes with a load of new features including, Jolly Co-op, expedition mode, new playable slugcat, new rooms, and so much more! I know you guys have been asking for a while, so today I want to announce the price to Downpour will be $14.99.

I also want to take the time to talk with you guys about the base price of Rain World. In early February the base game will increase from $19.99 to $24.99. If you already own the game, don’t worry, this will not affect you.

-Riv Otter

Hey, Slugcats,

To wrap up Expedition Week, Gourmand and I wanted to shout out the amazing community developers who worked super hard on Rain World: Downpour and made this DLC possible. Now that Expedition Mode is out and we’ve announced all the major mods featured in Downpour, we can finally list the full credits for everyone who are bringing Downpour to you.

[h2]DOWNPOUR TEAM[/h2]
Downpour is a tribute to the Rain World community, bringing some of the great community projects to a wider audience, as well as facilitating the ease of creation and distribution of future projects by anyone. We'd like to thank the community developers that upgraded and contributed their works to Downpour, and helped integrate them all together into this amazing package. We'd also like to thank the artists and QA testers that helped ensure consistency and polish across all of these different components:

Andrew Marrero - Development Lead
Garrakx - Jolly Co-Op Lead
LeeMoriya - Expedition Mode Lead
Topicular - Remix Menu Lead
James Barrow - Key Art & Promotional Art
AnnoyingFlower - Key Art & Illustrations
Tom “Norgad” Starbuck - Region Illustrations
MisNova - Cutscene Illustrations
Turtle Toad - Dream Illustrations
Kelocitta - Thumbnails and Icons
Intikus - Video Editor
Hoko - QA
Minkimaro - QA
ICED - QA
Leonardo “Enderzilla” Miranda - QA
Matt Golino - QA

[h2]MORE SLUGCATS TEAM[/h2]
The "More Slugcats Expansion" portion of the Downpour DLC was five years in the making. These years of development brought the five new slugcats, ten new regions, all of the new creatures and items, new soundtrack, cutscenes, dialog, and endings, the Challenge and Safari game modes, and the Rain World Remix QoL features. It was a labor of love by a large team of passionate Rain World fans, who we'd like to thank below:

Andrew Marrero - Development Lead, Original Concept
Willburd - Co-Development Lead, Level Design Lead, Programming
Progfox - Lead Soundtrack Producer
Connor "12LBS" Skidmore - Co-Lead Soundtrack Producer
Ongomato - VFX, 3D Environmental Props, Music
Tom "Norgad" Starbuck - Region Illustrations
AnnoyingFlower - Portrait Illustrations
Raggedy_Muffinz - Portrait Illustrations & QA
Shupa Mikey - Cutscene and Portrait Illustrations
Bela - Cutscene and Passage Illustrations
Hasan Sefer - Cutscene Illustrations
Flirpy - Cutscene Illustrations
Evan "Cappin" Muncy - 3D Environmental Props, Level Design
Logan Soule - 3D Environmental Props, Level Design
Andy "Dakras" Dunn - Prop and Environment Design
DragonPropaganda - Level Design Assistance
Hathrar - Level Design Assistance
the one who screams - Programming Assistance
Minkimaro - Concept Art, Spearmaster Redesign, Palettes and Room Effects
Topicular - Translation
B8 - Translation
Julien Robert - Translation
Leonardo “Enderzilla” Miranda - QA
Hoko - QA
Rowan "Marvy" McFaye - QA
Ecnius - QA
Darthzz - QA
Bwarch - QA
ICED - QA
LeeMoriya - QA
Gavin "Empathy Module" Cook - QA
Turtle Toad - QA
Isaac King - QA

Be sure to give them all a thanks as without them, Downpour may not be the amazing DLC as it is now.

Riv Otter