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SCUM is Now Available on Steam!

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

SCUM - Community shoutout

[h3]Attention, attention! As we are looking forward to the future, let's take a moment to revisit these past years together and to express our sincerest gratitude for sticking with us through highs and lows ->

[/h3][p][/p][p]To our beloved SCUM community,

Way back when in 2018., we embarked on a journey that no one could have prepared us for. Fueled by hope and ambition, we set out to create something truly special and remarkable. We were a small team, but we thought and dreamed big.

To take it up a notch with realistic survival gameplay.

As with any journey, there were plenty of bumps along the way. Those that were with us from the very beginning know what we’re talking about. We had our ups and downs, we made great updates and had to make some unpopular and crappy, but necessary decisions.

Regardless of everything, you awesome guys and gals stuck around, through thick and thin. You believed in us. You’re the reason we’re still around. You’re the reason we got all the way up to this pivotal point.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for everything. For all the feedback, for all the hours spent in the game, for all the communities you’ve built, for micromanaging your bowel movements, for all the tears you wept when your car filled to the brim with gear fell through the map (it’s fixed btw). Thank you for the patience, love and understanding you’ve shown us over these long seven years.

Even though we’re done with Early access, 1.0 is just the beginning. You saw our roadmap. We’re not just about to call it quits and leave the game as it is. There still so much we can add, improve and rework and we can’t wait to show what we have planned for the years to come.

The release 1.0 launch is cause for celebration, you can damn well be certain we’re going to properly honor the occasion. We’d also like to invite you to celebrate with us by making those puppet heads roll, to take down those pesky sentries and dropships and to ruin your neighbor’s day by blowing up their base.

Once again, thank you! See you on the prison island!

-The Gamepires team

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To commemorate the occasion, here's a batch of screenshots from over the years, featuring all manner of shenanigans you 'good' people were up to!

2018.

2019.

2020.

2021.

2022.

2023.

2024.

2025.

And to be continued...
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SCUM - Servers, jsons and Quest modification tool

[h3]Hello everyone, happy Saturday! Here is a little post for some of your questions, and a little extra for the future. [/h3]



With 1.0 just around the corner and server files releasing as well quite a bit of questions are coming our way. So let us answer some of them:

  1. How will we receive the server files?

    Simple, through Steam. With the release of 1.0, all owners of SCUM game will be able to find SCUM server in the tools section in your library.

  2. I already have a server and settings, jsons set up. Will I need to do it again from scratch?

    So part yes part no. All .ini files will need to be wiped and set again from new. This includes settings, admin users and such. So we highly recommend that you pull and save yours before 1.0 and then you will simply compare and set again. JSONs will work but you will need to edit some blueprints if you set them in economy or loot files.

    List of blueprint changes:
    Old name//New name:
    Bobby_Pin_Pacage//Bobby_Pin_Package
    SweetMelons_Seeds//CantaloupeMelon_Seeds
    SweetMelon_Seed_Bag//CantaloupeMelon_Seed_Bag
    1H_Wrench_Pipe//1H_Pipe_Wrench
    CannedFruitCoctail//CannedFruitCocktail
    Chilipeper//Chili_Pepper
    Weapon_Parts_ImroGrenadeLauncher//Weapon_Parts_ImprovisedGrenadeLauncher
    Break_Oil//Brake_Oil
    Tomatoes_Seeds//Tomato_Seeds
    Construction_Pants_03_Child1//Construction_Pants_03
    Lock_Items_Medium//Lock_Item_Medium
    Night_Vision_Googles_01//Night_Vision_Goggles_01

    Custom zones will have to be set again from scratch.

  3. How can I get my settings and jsons from my active server ready to share to my local server?

    If you do not have direct access, just ask your server provider, they are allowed to share you these now. And if they are skeptical just share them this :).

    We also recommend doing this now, as with 1.0 and full wipe you might loose them!
  4. Will I be able to launch my server without Battleye if I want to?

    Yes, your server man.

  5. I have not edited server settings or jsons yet but will want to when the files release, can I get some help?

    Indeed, there are plenty of resources available. First one to look at is we have a jsons resources channel in our official DISCORD and there are tons of resources for server settings as well. Not only that but when you connect to your server and have added your Steam ID into the ServerSettingsAdminUsers.ini file you will have ingame UI to do so as well. For other things there will be a post in the near future explaining it more in detail.

  6. What will be the sys requirements for running the Server on my machine?

    It is a though one to answer but you should be able to run it on all modern systems, depending on your system is how much you can crank it on your servers from items available, player count to NPC spawning.


[h3]Quest modification.[/h3]

With the 1.0 update, as already announced there will be a new json for Quest modification. Meaning server owners will be able to create new quests for their communities. We know this one is quite exciting for you and your playerbase and we want to give you a head start in figuring it out, so you are ready when 1.0 releases. So there are 2 new resources available you can go through while you wait.

First one is the ever long document, created by our very own Kuriisu that goes into detail how to and what does what in the json and how to create it, you can find it in ourDISCORD or direct link here

Or you can use a new tool, created by again Kuriisu aka Trohi that will help you do it in a nice visual way! You can find the Tool in our official DISCORD server

SCUM - Community showcase

[h3] It's the last community showcase before the 1.0 release. Let's take a moment and enjoy the last batch of screenshots from our Early access era as our gaze turns towards the new 1.0 frontier [/h3]

Not even your favourite survival game is safe from the weebs...

SCUM servers on release date.

If SCUM had a sex appeal skill, this is what advanced level would look like.

No funny caption here, just admiring the artistry here.

Spy on me again, and this knife will tear you a new one!

Yep, definitely not a cult...

I can already see this as a movie poster that would be called ''The Destroyifier 6: The Final Assignment'' or something like that.

The living embodiment of ''too much of a good thing''.

The SCUM version of famous ''American Gothic'' painting.

Bravo Six, going underwater.
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We'd also like to give a shout-out to some of our content creators on YouTube:

1.0 is barely a week away, so if you're part of our Brazilian community and want to get into the game, we advise you to check out this channel!

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Sentries giving you a hard time? Old Gamer Dude has you covered!

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For our spanish-speking community, here's PrimoLegends with some RP shenanigans, just having a good time.

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As always, keep an eye on our social media channels:

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SCUM - Dev update - Road to 1.0

[h3] Hello everyone, quite a busy weekend we had, and even more busy week ahead of us. So let's revisit happenings of this weekend and go through some things you can expect in the future! [/h3]



To start off we finally have the release date of 1.0 and it is quite soon, 17th of June!!



And we celebrate this with 2 new trailers as seen SGF and FGS whose acronyms form a palindrome of sorts.

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That is not all, we had our last group fights in the SCUM Survivors Showdown as well! Giving us our 4 finalists who will duke it out for the grand prize of $5000, in the double elimination finale.



These teams being:
  • Shadow realm
  • Legion
  • Goof troop
  • Respawnables


Make sure to catch the finals this Saturday at 20:00 CEST on our Twitch channel

Now as for this week you can expect even more from us now that the release date is out: Including details on the server files, new server settings and more...

And lastly, some of you have seen some changes and expressed concerns and we are here reassure you.

So here is a message from our friends over in College town of Cambridge:

"Namely, with the full launch of SCUM, Gamepires has a strong vision for the future of the game and IP, so giving the studio autonomous publishing control over the game on Steam made perfect sense to help them achieve their overall ambition. Gamepires continues to operate under the ownership of Jagex."

That is all for today, talk to you soon! - Beda