Witch It News

Fright Night has come to an end, and we've decided on our three GIF Masters! 🥇
It's been over 2 years since the last GIF contest - so the stakes are higher than ever!

A GIF Masters Hat will be granted to each of the three winners!

A huge thank you to all entrants for putting so much time and effort into each GIF. 👻
It's always difficult picking just a handful of winners when the quality of each entry is extraordinary!

[h3]Our winners in no particular order:[/h3]
[h2]🐺 "The Werewolf" by Emote![/h2]
🏆 View their entry by clicking here!

[h2]🔑 "The new Grunewald owner" by fri![/h2]
🏆 View their entry by clicking here!

[h2]🍬 "Trick or Treat" by TRB! [/h2]
🏆 View their entry by clicking here!

Congratulations to our three new GIF Masters! Your roles and hat will be sent to you shortly.

➡️ Click here to view all entries for the 9th GIF Contest, Fright Night! ⬅️

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Witch It is -75% off on Steam during the Steam Scream Fest Sale, and the discount will continue until the 9th November 2023!

Planning to schedule some Halloween-themed game nights with your crew? 🎃
Pick up Witch It at a huge discount now, and get involved in our Halloween 2023 Event!



[h3]What's currently happening in Witch It?[/h3]
👻 The Halloween 2023 event is live - earn haunted candy and craft spooky Halloween items!
🧟 Our 9th GIF Contest, "Fright Night", ends tomorrow!
🔧 Witch It is now on Unreal Engine 5!
✨ We're hard at work on our next major content update, "Dreamland"!
🎮 Our first console port is being worked on, too!

➡️ View the sale by clicking here! ⬅️

Happy Halloween! Celebrate the spooky festivities with four new Hunter items, a limited-time player icon, performance optimisations, and a Halloween GIF Contest! 👻


Struggling to find a suitable Halloween costume for the Hunter this month? Look no further!

🎃 Luaq O'Lantern's Head
🐰 Luaq O'Lantern's Ears
🎃 Luaq O'Lavender's Face
🐰 Luaq O'Lavender's Ears

Collect these four very rare Hunter items through Halloween crafting (explained below)!


[h2]How do I obtain Halloween items?[/h2]
Opening Witch It during the Halloween 2023 event will grant you 40 "Gloomkins"!
A Gloomkin contains a random Halloween item (including Halloween items from previous years), which can only be opened by combining them with "Haunted Candy". 🍬

To earn Haunted Candies, fill up the Item Cauldron with 250 experience points. You can see the item cauldron fill up at the end of the round, on the level up screen.

Haunted Candy has a 60% chance of being earned on any Official server once the item cauldron is filled, but must be earned on specific Halloween maps: Sleeping Rose Cemetery, Cursed Ruins, Grunewald Library or Grave Gulch. If you're lucky enough to earn one, head back to the main menu and press 'Halloween Event' to combine it with a Gloomkin!

Every Halloween 2023 item earned through Gloomkins are tradable and craftable even after the event is over. If you use up all your Gloomkins, you can craft more by combining 5 Haunted Candy together! 🍭
Note: Haunted Candy can only be obtained in Official servers.

You can also receive the new items through:
- Random drops from filling up the item cauldron at the end of a round.
- Trading with other players (we recommend using our Discord server to find traders).


Loving the Luaq O'Lanterns as much as we do? Pair up a matching limited-time icon! 🕯️
Play at least one round of Witch It in an Official server during the Halloween 2023 event to earn the icon, but be quick - after the event ends, it will no longer be obtainable!


We're aware of the performance decrease following the transfer of Witch It to Unreal Engine 5, and are making progress towards optimising. In our previous hotfix, we introduced a new "Reflections" slider in video settings, which can be lowered to improve performance. We've also resolved the problem where frame rate would decrease over the course of a match, as well as some glitches that were affecting players on lower graphics settings.

If you are reading this and have experienced frame rate problems previously, please try Witch It again following this update and let us know if you've noticed any improvement in your performance! 🖥️


There's still over a week left until our 9th GIF contest ends: "Fright Night"! 🕷️
If you're interested in winning one of three exclusive GIF Masters Hats, check out the contest details here!
Entries close on Friday, 27th October 2023 at 11pm (UTC)!


+ Added: Halloween 2023 Player Icon
+ Added: 4 new Halloween themed skin items

✓ Fixed: Possessed props sometimes falling automatically
✓ Fixed: Flames on Morgaryll Forest exist in any layout
✓ Fixed: Weathervane is shaking

[h2]⚠️ Update: Entries are now closed, and the winners will be revealed on Halloween![/h2]

[h3]Beware of Fright Night, the canvas for your spooky masterpiece...[/h3]
[h3]You are the author, and fear is your ink... 🖋️[/h3]



Previously, we had three winners following our 8th GIF Contest: "Fruit Parade"... check out their winning entries below:
🏅 pumpkin227 - "From Hunter To H(a)unted"
🏅 TouCandyBober - "This is what I call a real artist"
🏅 Gelato - "Fruit Festival"

In Fright Night, 3x GIF Masters Hats are available for our top three GIF creators! 🧢



[h2]🎃 GIF Contest #9 Theme: Fright Night![/h2]
All entries must be related to our topic - Fright Night!
Your Witch It GIF must be Halloween/spooky related! We recommend to use Halloween maps and costumes in your GIFs to match the theme.

[h2]👻 How do I participate?[/h2]
Post your entries either below this announcement, or into our #gif-entries channel on the Witch It Discord server! Remember to read the rules before posting.

[h2]🦇 Rules [Important!][/h2]
- GIFs must be between 1 to 20 seconds. Longer entries will not count!
- You can edit your GIFs freely with text, images and other media - copyrighted media will be deleted!
- Your friends can help you record and edit if necessary - but only the person uploading is eligible for the prize!
- Entry filetypes can be GIF, GIFV or MP4 (for better quality). If you are using GIFV or MP4, you must upload using Imgur!
- You cannot enter the contest with entries or GIFs you have previously created!
- Winners of previous GIF contests and Community Staff can enter, but are only eligible for one of the three GIF Master hats. At least two of the three hats are reserved for non-winners/non-staff.
- Offensive/rude content is prohibited. Rules still apply to competition entries!
- GIFs of stream clips are allowed, but only if you’re the streamer featured in the clip!
- Do not use any AI generated content in your GIF!
- GIFs can include gameplay, or can be partially / completely animated in another software - as long as it distinctively relates to Witch It!
- You are limited to ONE ENTRY - make it your very best work! You may delete/replace/edit your entries during the contest period!

⚠️ Important Tip: You can toggle your GUI while recording by using ALT-J! (We highly recommend this in most cases and it may improve your chances of winning)

[h2]⚰️ Contest Deadline[/h2]
🗳️ Entries Open: Today, 13th October 2023!
⌛ Entries Close: Friday, 27th October 2023 at 11pm (UTC)!
🏆 Winners Revealed: On Halloween!

Winners will be judged by the developers and non-competing community staff.
Happy Halloween! 🧟

+ Added: You can now select Reflections quality
+ Added: Polish is now selectable as a translation

↻ Changed: Updated Unreal Engine to 5.3.1
↻ Changed: Physics interactions between props and players are bit less explosive

✓ Fixed: FPS rate decreasing over the course of a match
✓ Fixed: Witch Pirate Ghost Skin are flickering
✓ Fixed: Snowflakes are floating inside of rooms
✓ Fixed: Password protection for games is not working
✓ Fixed: Luaq eyes missing the iris
✓ Fixed: The light in the main menu is not updating its position correctly on lower fps
✓ Fixed: Objects drawing through the landscape on old GPUs and low settings.
✓ Fixed: Jump pads sliding away from their start position
✓ Fixed: Props standing on other props that disappear due to player transformations don’t fall
✓ Fixed: Pop-ups for props, quests and achievements not working
✓ Fixed: Chat timestamp color
✓ Fixed: Study witch skills task time in Imposturous being too short
✓ Fixed: Anvil task slider and input mismatch in Imposturous
✓ Fixed: Wardrobe not being editable in Creative Mode
✓ Fixed: Light and switch connections being broken in older maps in Creative Mode (maps saved between 1.4.2 and 1.4.2.1 need to have their light and switch connections be redone)
✓ Fixed: Vacuum trap sometimes causing desync between server and clients