Raidborn
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Enough of wasting precious time by walking eternal distances and engaging in endless dialogue? Want to get to the fun part quickly? Say no more! RAIDBORN should be right up your alley.
RAIDBORN is a straightforward first-person fantasy action RPG featuring procedurally generated dungeons and quests. Plunder a treasure-strewn world, upgrade your gear, level up your skills, and hurl yourself into intense combat.
Base Building and Crew System Sneak Peek
Upon completion of the tutorial, you will get access to an abandoned guard outpost instead of the old player home. The outpost is run down when you first arrive. To bring it back to its former glory, you can build facilities in existing rooms, which grant benefits, or expand the base to have more rooms available.
This shows the facility building menu and player bedroom with the (much requested) ability to sleep and recover. Please note that this is work in progress. Texts are just placeholders, and facility costs have not yet been defined.
Facilities, for example, include a player bedroom where you can rest and recover, or a workshop, which is now required to unlock crafting. Some facilities also offer slots for crew members.
This shows the crew recruitment dialog. Crew members can be found and hired in the city and offer additional benefits or services.
You can hire an alchemist, for example, and assign him to your alchemy lab. While enough plants are available in your outpost's surplus, he will produce potions for you over time.
This shows the surplus chest. Everything your outpost produces will be stored there, and everything your facility or crew requires will be taken from there. You can also use it for personal storage of your items.
Now the cool thing is that many facilities and crew members can form synergies. If you build a garden facility, for example, it will provide your alchemist with plants, so you don't need to manually do it anymore.
This shows the alchemy lab. Crafting is now separated into smithing, alchemy, and upgrading. Each crafting type now has its own workstation and requires a specific facility to be unlocked.
This was just a quick glance at what's possible with the outpost and how it works. There are much more facilities and crew members, and most of them can form synergies with each other. The outpost will also be interwoven with the main quest. Stay tuned for more information!
Spine-Tingling Halloween Event and Free DLC
👻 Additionally, registered players will gain access to their next free DLC, an exclusive, time-limited Halloween quest featuring the perfectly fitting reward for the season.
💀 If you are still hungry for more you can check the RAIDBORN Founder's Pack which not only immediately grants all future free DLC content, but also gives you permanent access to otherwise time-limited items. Included are 12 thematic equipment sets, over 60 legendary items and more than 20 new enchantments.
Update #6 Breakdown: Base Building and Crew System
Because this update is so critical to the game's overall experience, I want to take the time necessary to get it right, and it will likely not release before 2025.
Please Note: You can follow the update progress any time by checking this post. Features with a leading ? are optional, and it remains to be seen how well they fit into the game and the development schedule.
Additions:
☐ Base Building
☐ Crew System
☐ Resource Harvesting
☐ ? Dungeon Discovery System
☐ ? Enchanting Mechanic
Improvements:
☐ Main Quest Enhancements
☐ ? Revised Loot Distribution
Finalization:
☐ Bugfixes
☐ Polishing
Hotfix 2024.09.28 Now Live
Fixes:
- Fixed respawn prompt not working correctly
- Fixed final strike not counting towards combo
- Fixed crafting achievement descriptions
- Fixed Craftsman achievement checking for wrong count
- Fixed crafting achievements not taking into account count slider
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Please note: You can only log in on PC using a mouse and keyboard. Controller text input is not yet supported.
Patch 2024.09.12 Now Live
Improvements:
- Changed energy points to gradually grow with combo count
- Changed energy point tutorial message
- Enabled bows to deal damage to crystals when close enough
- Added notification for bows when shooting at crystals from too far
- Changed arrow types to affect bow crystal damage
- Added grass and updated vegitation to city
Fixes:
- Fixed location in city where you could get stuck
- Fixed typos in skill descriptions
- Fixed typos in quest dialogs
- Fixed quest dialog showing wrong objective description
- Fixed dungeons sharing the same location on the map
- Fixed loading error
- Fixed english texts in german localization
Hotfix 2024.09.07 Now Live
- Improved controller device detection
- Added info prompt when activating controllers in options menu
- Fixed final boss dungeon not getting removed after completion
- Fixed quest dungeons not getting removed after completion
- Fixed event locations getting accidentally removed
- Fixed bug with ancenstor tomb skill checks
- Added check to detect and clear obsolete dungeons from the map
Fifth Major Content Update 2024.08.31 Now Live
Further customize your character with the all-new craftsman skill tree and immerse yourself in the world of Raidborn with the extended soundtrack, now boasting seven additional tracks.
Enjoy a rebalanced combat system along with numerous improvements, both small and large, making Raidborn the best experience to date.
Here is the full list of changes:
User Interface Overhaul:
- Completely revised menu design
- Revised item info design
- Revised item preview visuals
- Improved item type info
- Made item info grow/shrink dynamically
- Added functionality to expand/collapse item info
- Added functionality to pin items
- Placed pinned items at the top of the list
- Placed equipped items at the top of the list
- Placed quickslots items at the top of the list
- Changed message to tutorial tab
- Moved letters and notes to quest items
- Added potion potency stat display
- Added potion duration stat display
- Added more tooltips
- Improved inventory sorting
- Added language setting to new game menu
Trading: - Added buy/sell tabs
- Made pinned items ignore auto-selling
- Added indicator for items that are not available to buy
Crafting: - Added tab to switch to inventory
- Implemented count popup
- Added categories
- Added recipe availability indicator
- Changed count display to show item count
HUD: - Changed UI fonts
- Improved compass visuals
- Improved hover info visuals
- Implemented quick loot menu
- Added dungeon orientation marker to compass
- Revised lockpicking visuals
- Revised quickslot menu design
- Improved quickslots functionality
- Added new level complete notification
- Added new level complete sound
- Improved notification visuals
- Added notification background
Map: - Completely revised map design
- Completely revised menu design
- Added new location info panel
- Added location type info
- Added dungeon bane description
- Added location description
- Added hover indicator for controllers
- Improved distribution of locations
Quest Menu: - Added separate quest menu
- Completely revised menu design
- Added quest type info
- Added quest giver info
- Added quest location info
- Added quest reward info
Skill Menu: - Completely revised menu design
- Removed skill info panel
- Added skill tooltips
- Added functionality to unlock knowledge skills in skill menu
Dialog Menu: - Revised menu design
- Added typewriting effect
- Added objective preview
Main Menu: - Completely revised menu design
- Added new background image
- Added animated characters
- Updated credits
Options Menu: - Completely revised menu design
- Added extra large font size option
- Added language option
- Added controller option
- Renamed and rearranged categories
- Added hover effect for controllers
- Removed buttons and added new controls
- Renamed mouse settings
Other: - Added input glyphs to all menus
- Revised item icons
- Added new item icons
- Improved tooltip visuals
- Improved tooltip functionality
- Revised death screen
- Added death screen sound
- Improved scrollbar visuals
- Improved scrollbar functionality
- Improved letter visuals and readability
- Revised journal design
- Increased some font sizes
- Implemented dropshadow system
- Revised popup designs
Inventory:
Controllers & Devices:
- Implemented Steam Deck support (offically verified)
- Implemented Xbox Controller support
- Implemented Playstation Controller support
- Implemented analogue player movement for controllers
- Added Xbox controller glyphs
- Added Playstation glyphs
- Changed stealth dash controls
- Changed power shot controls
Text & Localization:
- Implemented localization system
- Localized all texts to German
- Improved text flow in many dialogs
- Rewrote many quest dialogs for better language compatibility
- Slightly changed some quests for better language compatibility
- Made many notifications more concise
- Renamed potions to improve name consistency
- Improved potion descriptions
- Improved clarity of system messages
- Improved tutorial messages
- Changed item names for better clarity
- Fixed a bunch of typos
Additions:
- Added three new cave soundtracks
- Added three new castle soundtracks
- Added one new generic soundtrack
- Added Craftsman skill class
- Added Blacksmith skill branch
- Added five Blacksmith skills
- Added Alchemist skill branch
- Added five Alchemist skills
Improvements:
- Implemented rock throwing ability for NPCs
- Added XP reward for dungeons
- Made home door and city gates open the map menu when interacted with
- Made more items compatible with quickslots
- Disabled skill unlock confirmation if you have many skill points
- Renamed Misc Skills to Knowledge
- Improved menu keyboard shortcuts
- Implemented legacy versions support
- Added legacy versions info message
- Improved NPC navigation
- Improved player dialog camera
- Implemented safety fallbacks when saving or loading fails
- Added error message when access to savefiles is denied
- Improved item info if no item is selected
- Reintroduced random critical damage
- Changed savegame backups to be created every 20 minutes
Balancing:
- Significantly increased speed boost from combo
- Slightly increased max weapon speed
- Increased bow damage
- Increased headshot damage multiplier
- Slightly increased enemy damage
- Significantly increased melee stealth damage
- Increased bow stealth damage
- Decreased prices of gift boxes
- Decreased max stealth dash range
- Increased time before combo decays
- Decreased level requirement for upper district
- Decreased level required for merchants to offer master level equipment
- Decreased base tool condition
- Significantly increased damage of higher level weapons
- Improved scrolling in menus
Fixes:
- Fixed NPCs not looking at target
- Fixed blood effect getting stuck
- Fixed attacks sometimes not dealing damage
- Fixed chests not dropping equipment
- Fixed NPCs sometimes stop attacking
- Fixed stamina message in tutorial popping up too early
- Fixed trainer in tutorial attacking while in dialog
- Fixed NPC animation snapping error
- Fixed skill unlock sound playing too early
- Fixed incorrect NPC attack frequency calculations
- Fixed some errors with player dialog camera
- Fixed bug with arrow quickselection
- Fixed inventory not refreshing when you close a note or message
- Fixed bookshelf mesh with clipping books
- Fixed king in intro having no material assigned
- Fixed intro railing not having physics
- Fixed intro barrel being ignored by NPCs
- Fixed some small UI bugs and issues
Fifth Major Update Sneak Peek Livestream
In this gameplay stream, you can get a first impression of the new features and content coming with the update. More information will follow on the release September 4th. Stay tuned!