Scathe

Want to fully customize your holiday in Hell? 🔥

Now you can!

Alongside our current “Escape the Maze” mode, we’ve added two new gameplay modes for those of you who want a dash more (or a dash less) carnage in their infernal soup.

Speedrun Mode

Arcade Mode

Scathe now features even more modifiers, so you can totally customize your experience:

We’ve also made a few quality of life improvements, such as:

• Dash killing demons will now provide a small health gain.
  
• The Hell Hammer will now vent off a little bit of steam after every clip to provide a break in firing (and give it a much needed break).
  
• Brand new firing audio for the Hell Hammer - bringing more boom to the room!
  
• Head bob now defaults to zero for a more retro feel.
  
• Landing a headshot will now provide you with some extra ammo as a well-earned reward.
  
• AI spawn rates and timeouts have been improved in barrier sections.
  
• Fleshies and other ball-type enemies now drop ammo on death.
  
• Collision has been removed on multiple props in zones for a smoother movement experience.
  
• A bridge has been added to Oxide’s zone to help prevent players from falling into lava.
  

And squashed a few more bugs:

• Swarm AI no longer stops moving if only one section of it remains.
  
• Huge improvements to AI spawning so they don’t spawn too close. This excludes arenas and barrier sections.
  
• Toned down the joypad vibration when fighting the enemy Sledge.
  
• Fixed multiple areas where AI could become stuck.
  
• Misaligned walls in three zones have been correctly aligned.
  
• Fixed bridges that would fail to descend correctly when all Demons were eliminated.
  
• Fixed the issue where the joypad prompt would remain static on the screen after losing your last life and disconnecting.
  
• Jitters should no longer submerge into the ground in a specific zone after spawning.
  

Thank you once again to all of the community members who submitted bug reports and we hope you enjoy the shiny new Enforcer Edition of Scathe 🤘

Don’t forget to join our Discord and follow us on social media at @ScatheFPS to let us know what you think of the update!

We’re heading back into the fiery depths of the underworld with our second patch for Scathe 🐛

Alongside FSR 21.2 and DLSS, Scathe now supports Intel XeSS 🔥

We’ve also included a few quality of life changes based on community feedback:

And here is a list of the minor bugs that we’ve resolved:

• The Warlock not saving into the Wiki after being discovered;
  
• The ‘Open the Map’ objective completing when you go into the pause menu instead;
  
• The Total Time not increasing when you exit a zone after you’ve passed the 10-hour mark;
  
• Various Windows Key combos that have now been disabled due to them causing issues;
  
• The controller sometimes being unable to reconnect after disconnecting;
  
• The game freezing sometimes after changing controller bindings;
  
• Issues caused by repeatedly pressing the F11 key;
  
• A soft lock caused when players press the [ESC] key on the Keybinding or Filters menu when it persists on screen after a zone transition;
  
• Inability to navigate through the main menu options after clicking the ‘OK’ button displayed in the ‘Lost Connection to Host’ pop-up;
  
• A soft lock caused by holding the [ESC] key and clicking on ‘Settings’ during gameplay;
  
• The host getting stuck on a black screen after initiating Fast Travel and then repeatedly pressing the [ESC] key to try and cancel it;
  
• Significant pauses between each piece of dialogue in the intro cutscene;
  
• A noninteractive black screen occasionally displaying for 10-15 seconds when starting a new game;
  
• The game crashing after repeatedly pressing the ‘Reset’ button in the ‘Revert Changes’ warning pop-up;
  
• The end sequence prompts failing to disappear after bringing up the map between the cutscene and start of gameplay;
  
• A soft lock caused by repeatedly pressing the [M] key when the ending prompts are displayed;
  
• The map option still being accessible during the intro and ending cutscenes;
  
• The incorrect zone map being displayed during the final cutscene;
  
• A map from a different save slot sometimes being displayed when accessing the map during the intro cutscene;
  
• The enemy Shock Sledge climbing onto and covering the Demon Mode pickup;
  
• The placeholder text ‘Notify Headline’ being displayed when encountering a Demon Mode pickup;
  
• Players being able to fast-travel during combat against the Guardians, Minibosses, and in Arena zones;
  
• The Hellstone icon appearing greyed out in the World Map;
  
• The misspelling of the word ‘Attacks’ in the ‘Dash’ Wiki;
  
• The ‘Summon’ Dark Magic spell being incorrectly listed as being named ‘Friendly’;
  
• The eyes UI during the Chaos bossfight not updating properly during gameplay;
  
• A soft lock caused by repeatedly pressing the [O] and [P] keys;
  
• The World Map disappearing after navigating to it from Nature zones;
  
• The game occasionally crashing when clients in a multiplayer game brought up the Pause Menu;
  
• A black screen appearing after repeatedly pressing the [ESC] key while fast travelling from the entrance zone;
  
• Menu options greying out after double tapping the [ESC] key during the exit warning pop-up;
  
• A soft lock caused by double tapping the [ESC] key during the exit warning pop-up;
  
• Chains disappearing from the Mini-Boss zones of the World Map after the Mini-Boss has been defeated;
  
• The ‘Revert Changes’ pop-up remaining on the screen while navigating through the options using a keyboard;
  
• Players being unable to navigate the sub-menus of settings with a controller in the Pause Menu;
  
• Players being unable to access the ‘Back’ and ‘Revert’ options in the key binding menu using a controller;
  
• The game not taking any inputs after adjusting the Master Volume in the main menu using a joystick on a controller;
  
• A soft lock caused by attempting to return to gameplay and selecting any setting/sub-setting option at the same time on a controller;
  
• Loss of focus after using the Fast Travel pop-up and then cancelling it using a controller;
  
• The World Map briefly popping up before reverting to the Zone Map when the map is selected;
  
• A soft lock caused by repeatedly pressing the [M] key when the ending prompts are displayed;
  
• Players being unable to select the zone using the controller or the keyboard in the World Map when a controller is plugged in;
  
• Incorrect Zone IDs being displayed for the ‘Beat the Time’ objective in the Zone next to the Oxide boss fight;
  
• Unexplored zones being unlocked automatically in the World Map after using Fast Travel.
  
• Thank you once again to all of the community members who submitted bug reports and provided suggestions for this patch!
  

Don't forget to join our Discord server to find fellow enforcers to co-op with and follow us on social media at @ScatheFPS for gameplay updates 💬

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We’re excited to announce that our first free update has gone live 🔴

Updated Maps

Fast Travel

New Objectives System

Improved Tutorial System

To finish, here are a few of the minor bugs that have also been fixed:

• Voiceovers and subtitles going missing during gameplay;
  
• The host and client both being able to drop out of the world in a certain special door within Zone 34;
  
• The host and client being able to escape the world yet again through the Guardian Doors for Scourge and Chaos;
  
• The achievements “Such Sin” and “Scathe Too” not triggering properly when completed;
  
• Game occasionally crashing for one or multiple clients during co-op games after all lives were lost;
  
• Too many Scuttlers spawning during the fight with Scourge, causing FPS drops;
  
• Walls in Zone 28 appearing to be misaligned with the floor;
  
• A pillar in Zone 47 appearing to be misaligned with the environment.
  

Got any more ideas or feedback you’d like to suggest for our future updates?

We’ve made a few quality of life changes to Scathe to make your journey through the underworld that much smoother 🔥

First of all, we’ve included some quality of life changes in this new build based on community feedback:

Secondly, here are the bugs that have been squished in our first patch:

And last but not least, here are a few other minor bugs that have also been resolved:

• The incorrect number of lives being displayed for clients during co-op games;
  
• The incorrect amount of ammo being displayed for clients during co-op games;
  
• The Magic Bar failing to deplete for the client when using the Raven;
  
• The hanging corpses in the environment showing metal impacts when shot instead of fleshy impacts;
  
• The Magic Ring sometimes failing to appear for the client after they rejoined an ongoing co-op session;
  
• The game reverting back to the Raven instead of the Magic Ring after transitioning between zones;
  
• The Magic Bar continuing to deplete after casting the Freeze spell and while the spell was still active;
  
• Sledge and Shock Sledge enemies disappearing completely after a player loses a life;
  
• Razorback enemies becoming stuck after an arena had been cleared;
  
• Overlapping text in the name and demon information box for the Grenadier Reaper enemy;
  
• The inconsistency in the Ripper weapon pick-up animation if the player is holding the Raven;
  
• Players sometimes taking damage after walking over the corpses of Winnowers during the mini-boss fight;
  
• Demons being able to walk through a barrier in Zone 11;
  
• The “Checking Privileges” pop-up lacking functionality with keyboard and controller;
  
• The secret door in Zone 42 not closing properly after being triggered;
  
• Shadow Demons have now been moved so they spawn in more appropriate locations/zones;
  
• The Prism enemies now only spawn one at a time, since we discovered they lack collision with one another;
  
• Extra spawns from Zone 7 have been removed;
  
• The difficulty of Zone 24 has been scaled down to match other zones.
  

Are you ready to dive head-first into blood-soaked action, boss fights, and co-op madness? 😈

We’re excited to announce that our blood-soaked bullet hell FPS Scathe is officially out now!

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