Sker Islanders, your votes got Sker Ritual into the Top 30 for the People's Choice Award at the Horror Game Awards. Thank you so much to every single person in the community who voted for Sker Ritual <3

Now, we need your help once again to make it into the TOP 10.

Round 2 will run until Saturday 16 November and it would mean a lot to our team if you voted for Sker Ritual!

>>> How can you vote? Simply by selecting Sker Ritual on THIS [thehorrorgameawards.com]form! <<<

Let us know in the comments below or over in our Discord[discord.gg] if you voted!

Diolch, thank you!

Wales Interactive

Sker Islanders, we need YOUR VOTE! The voting for the People's Choice Award at the Horror Game Awards has OPENED.

Round One will run until Saturday 2 November and it would mean a lot to our team if you voted for Sker Ritual!

How can you vote? Simply by selecting Sker Ritual on THIS [thehorrorgameawards.com]form!

Diolch, thank you!

Wales Interactive

This features a series of hotfix updates that are live now on all platforms.

If they haven't automatically updated, please close your game and update manually using the dedicated platform service.

Not only that, to celebrate the launch of Tides of Terror, all players can experience +50% more XP this weekend, starting now!


NEWLY ADDED
- Added Keyboard & Mouse Support to PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S
- Added the hidden objective songs as unlockable Menu Music when completing "House of the Damned", "Tides of Terror"
- Added animation to the Wolf Mask DLC

BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Reduced the cooldown time after melee weapons do damage by 40%
- Fixed an issue causing rate of fire modifiers to not only speed up the animation but stop you from attacking again
- Fixed an issue causing the ammo capacity increase from "More Gun" to only apply on newly picked up weapons
- Fixed an issue causing the hidden objective Elisabeth boss fight to get stuck in "Deadly Lover's Fortress"
- Fixed an issue with the "Fire and Ice" step being interactable before it should have been in "Deadly Lover's Fortress"
- Fixed an issue causing the hidden objective in "Sewers of the Dead" to not allow you to use elixir miracles to progress
- Fixed an issue causing the upgrade parts on certain weapons to be misaligned
- Fixed an issue causing the "Shattering Edge" to not look correct on higher tiers in the Weapon Upgrade menu
- Removed the characters 0/O from the invite code generation to avoid confusion

TIDES OF TERROR BUG FIXES
- Removed the wooden posts on both boats and some props to allow players more space to run around
- Fixed an issue with "Uncover the Secret Message" step being interactable before it should have been
- Fixed a missing collider near a door in the cave
- Adjusted the interact for both doors in the cave
- Swapped out hatch for collapsible wood on the ships
- Adjusted amount of enemies that spawn during ambushes in the Hidden Objectives
- Adjusted position of one of the far away targets during the Hidden Objectives
- Reduced damage of the wave of waterballs during the "Y Cracen" boss fight as it was doing more damage than intended at higher waves
- Reduced Health of Squid Lord by 30%
- Fixed an issue causing Squid Lord's to run in slow motion

Wales Interactive Team

https://node2.projectplanet.cn/@store.steampowered.com/app/1492070/Sker_Ritual/

Players, prepare yourselves for a brand new Sker Ritual experience! Tides of Terror is OUT NOW across all platforms. What does this new map have in store for you? You might want to check out the trailer below...

Not only that, Sker Ritual will be on sale starting 6pm BST with 30% off! DLC will also be on sale!

See below for the full patch notes!

Sker Ritual
Patch v.1.2.0 - 15/10/2024

- NEW MAP: Tides of Terror: Explore the wreckage and infected ruins on Sker Beach.
- NEW WEAPON: Maelstrom
- NEW PERK: More Gun: Increases weapon slots by 1 and ammo capacity by 5%

- Winter Shield: Lowered the amount of damage reduction you receive from 80% to 50%
- Ice Elixir: Lowered the amount of damage reduction you receive from in higher ranks from 10% to 5% per rank
- Dragon in the "Burning Village" menu background now has improved animations
- Fixed an issue causing the Bomb Boost miracle to affect all weapons
- Fixed "The Stranger" & "Abomination" not having aim assist for controllers
- Fixed an issue that made you receive more Hearts than intended on "House of the Damned"
- Fixed an issue causing you to shoot through the walls with certain weapons
- Fixed an issue causing area names to not appear if you exit a map and enter it again
- Fixed an issue causing the "Pig" & "Heart" player icons to appear twice in the selection menu

Known Issues: (Fixed in the next hotfix)

- More Gun ammo capacity on weapons only applies on newly bought weapons after purchasing the perk
- Squid Lords might occasionally run in slow motion

Introducing Maelstrom, the all new special weapon which will feature in the upcoming Tides of Terror launching October 15th. We look forward to seeing you all set sail into our free content update in less than two weeks time!

Introducing the Auto Blunder, now available in every episode and Lucky! Arm yourself with this automatic shotgun themed on a blunderbuss, supercharge it to Tier 3 and drown your enemies with the mighty Tidebreaker.

Alongside our newly added weapon, this patch also includes weapon skins that include a weapon XP grind for every weapon in Sker Ritual, even the special weapons! Once you've collected all the weapon skins you can unlock an ultimate mastery skin.

Wait, there's more!? Find out the full patch notes below:


NEWLY ADDED
- Added a new weapon: Auto Blunder (Tidebreaker when upgraded to Tier 3)
- Added Weapon Skins that can be unlocked by levelling up weapons
- Added a Field of View slider for Weapons
- Added hidden music objectives in the first 4 maps
- Updated Boss Music in the first 4 maps
- Added "Auto Blunder" to Lucky

BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Fixed several weapons not having their correct look when upgraded in third person
- Fixed an issue causing the LMG to move around too much when using ADS
- Improved several issues caused by inventory getting desynced when playing online
- Improved performance of Volumetric Fog when using lower settings
- Various performance improvements

We hope you all enjoy the brand new Auto Blunder and all of our latest patch updates! Try it out and let us know what you think in the comments below.

Wales Interactive Team

https://node2.projectplanet.cn/@store.steampowered.com/app/1492070/Sker_Ritual/

Did you notice the numbers lurking in our Tides of Terror teaser? We can now reveal that behind tose numbers was a special password "allhandsondeck" that unlocked another teaser over on our website. That teaser revealed that weapon skins are coming to Sker Ritual! This is just one of the weapon skins that you'll be able to grind in game VERY SOON.

! Warning - Flashing Images !

"Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night." ~ Dylan Thomas

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This features a series of hotfix updates that are live now on all platforms.

If they haven't automatically updated, please close your game and update manually using the dedicated platform service.


NEWLY ADDED
- Added an additional Sker Pass for "House of the Damned"
- Added the "Get Up N Go" Perk to the other maps
- Added an option to Offset the First Person Equipment Height so it can take up less space on screen
- Added an option to turn off the Camera Light
- Added an Audio Volume slider for Songs

BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Improved performance of impact particles
- Improved accessibility to the audio objective in "House of the Damned"
- Fixed an issue that caused the player to have nothing equipped and get stuck
- Fixed an issue involving triggers that would cause players on certain networks to disconnect
- Fixed an issue that caused the player to not do any damage as a non-host
- Fixed an issue causing a game to not end if everyone dies and nobody has a revive token when playing online
- Fixed the Draig DLC mask not breathing fire
- Fixed an issue causing the flame on the Lit torch to be in the wrong position when having the Field of View has bee modified
- Fixed an issue causing some Perk Descriptions to display incorrect information even when upgraded
- Additional Netcode Optimization
- Fixed an issue causing the "Fullscreen" & "Borderless" options to be the wrong way around in the Graphics Menu

EPIC ONLY UPDATES
- Fixed an issue causing DLC to not appear as unlocked even when purchased

Wales Interactive Team

https://node2.projectplanet.cn/@store.steampowered.com/app/1492070/Sker_Ritual/