We're excited to announce Patch 1.5.1! Send and receive trade offers by using our new in-game trading system, now set-up for cross-platform trading once Witch It releases on consoles later this year. View your inventory in-game, try our new aim-assist for gamepads, and witness improved performance on older PC's. Read on! ๐
Everything You Need To Know About In-Game Trading:
Enable Public Inventory
In order to receive trade offers, you must first toggle your Witch It account settings to ensure your inventory is visible. To find your account settings, press on your username in the main menu, then press the last tab with the cog icon. Here, you can enable your public inventory:
Our brand-new in-game trading system can be found under "Collection" > "Trading" on our new restructured main menu. โ๏ธ
On this screen, you will find three options to create trade requests, see pending requests, and view your trade history. ๐
Create Trade Request
Press "Create Trade Request" to open a list containing all your Witch It friends. ๐ค
To initiate a trade request, press the handshake icon corresponding with the friend you wish to trade with. In the future, we will add a way for you to trade with non-friends, too!
Select items to trade from your inventory by clicking on them under the "Mine" tab. You can see the active trade offer to the right, and if you want to remove an item just click on it in the offer!
Select items from their inventory by clicking on them under the "Theirs" tab. Once you're ready to send the offer, press "Send Trade Offer" in the bottom right! โ๏ธ
Important Tips: - If you are trading away the last of an item you own, a warning triangle will appear around the item quantity. Be careful not to trade away any items you wish to keep! โ ๏ธ - If an item in an offer is traded away elsewhere, all offers containing that item will automatically cancel. Be careful not to trade away identical items in multiple trades! โ - Both players do not need to be online in order to receive or accept trade offers - you can send requests to offline players! ๐ค
Press "Pending Trade Requests" to view all incoming and outgoing trade requests. ๐ฌ
On the "Incoming" tab, you can see incoming requests, and accept or reject these by pressing the corresponding buttons to the right of the offer.
On the "Outgoing" tab, you can see your outgoing requests. Cancel a request by pressing the corresponding button to the right of the offer.
Incoming trading requests will also appear as notifications in-game! ๐จ
Trade History
Press "Trade History" to view a detailed list of all your previous trades.
Each trade shows the name and icon of the player you were trading with, a timestamp of the trade, whether it was an incoming or outgoing trade, and the status of the trade. Clicking on a trade will allow you to see what items were swapped, in case you need a quick reminder! ๐
Inventory
View your entire Witch It inventory by pressing on "Collection" > "Inventory". ๐
Press the "Filter" button to filter your inventory by type, team, slot, rarity, or duplicates!
Your Steam Inventory is still invisible, as we are still working on solutions for displaying your items without causing issues to our cross-platform system. ๐ชฒ
Aim Assist
Struggling to hit fast-moving witches with your controller? ๐ฎ We've now added an aim assist to help you secure those eliminations! Aim assist does not work with mouse and keyboard - only gamepads.
Aim assist does not lock onto still transformed props, so don't worry - your hiding spot is safe (probably)!
Portal Effects
We've mixed together the finest and rarest ingredients into our portal fluid, releasing a satisfying burst of particles whenever you travel through them! ๐ซ
Patch Notes:
+ Added: Cross platform trading system between friends (found under Collection->Trading. We are aware of some missing translations, and are working on it) + Added: Inventory screen to check all your items + Added: Aim assistance for gamepads to help with those fast Witches + Added: Static mesh and skeletal mesh lod (Level of Detail) to improve performance on slow PCs + Added: Portal effect when entering and leaving + Added: Sensitivity setting for scope mode
โป Changed: Reorganized Main Menu structure โป Changed: Limited maximum friends to 500 and maximum pending friend requests to 100 โป Changed: Updated to Unreal 5.4.2, which improves physics behavior of props โป Changed: Due to engine changes in Unreal 5.4.2, Audio and Input settings have been reset and have to be reapplied. We apologize for the inconvenience โป Changed: Improved lighting on 'Kasbah le Ribat' โป Changed: Visuals of the apple prop
โ Fixed: Ladder on 'Greywood Castle' that couldnโt be climbed โ Fixed: Collision wall on 'Cursed Ruins', 'Kula Kula Islands' & 'High Spruce Town' โ Fixed: Broken spots on 'Sunset Swamp', 'Northern Whispers', 'Ancient Temple', 'Grave Gulch', 'Shard of Wiqqarra', 'Powersource', 'Twisted House', 'Shipwreck Hollow', 'High Spruce Town', 'Oasis Temple', 'Grunewald Library' & 'Grunewald at Night' โ Fixed: Witch spawn points on 'Greywood Castle' & 'Ancient Temple' โ Fixed: Broken coconut props on 'Loakiki Paradise' โ Fixed: Sleep state now works for the pinwheel props โ Fixed: Gravestone collision โ Fixed: Tome props with the help of which you could get out of bounds โ Fixed: Many small UI inconsistencies โ Fixed: Loading into a match with the same skill twice causing unwanted results โ Fixed: Starting the game multiple times with the same account โ Fixed: Multiple players joining a match at the same time when a round is starting โ Fixed: Confusion Wave VFX are slow to render โ Fixed: It is possible to lose controller UI focus in some menu screens โ Fixed: Added missing Locastrings
Witch It is in the Steam Summer Sale!
What could this be...?
Witch It is currently -80% off! ๐ธ
Are you and your friends interested in some fast-paced, action-packed prop hunt gameplay? Come pick up Witch It at a massive discount during the Steam Summer Sale! ๐ป
The sale will end on July 11th at 10am Pacific. โ
Soon, a number of Witch It promotional items will no longer be obtainable for new players. โ This is due to a few factors, including our publishing independence as well as our ongoing inventory and trading changes.
We want to give our players a final opportunity to collect these items before they will no longer be obtainable.
If you wish to earn these items, you must:
1๏ธโฃ Purchase the corresponding promotional game:
โญ Platypus Cap Requirements: Reward for owning one of the Deponia games.
โญ Harvey Requirements: Reward for owning one of the Edna and Harvey games.
โญ The Staff Requirements: Reward for owning the game The Dark Eye: Memoria.
2๏ธโฃ Request the promo items:
Opening up an item request ticket in our #open-a-ticket Discord channel. Fill out the form, then wait for us to respond.
Or...
Commenting below this announcement, and let us know which items you are eligible for. Please note you must have your Steam profile set to public, as well as your "game details" privacy set to public to be eligible.
If you are eligible for any of these items, they will be granted to your inventory! โ๏ธ
๐๏ธ The deadline for collecting these items is: Friday, 24th May 2024!
We may explore options to rerelease these items in some form in the future, but we won't promise anything at this time.
Dreamland Art Contest Results!
We're excited to announce the results of our Dreamland Art Contest, after a few weeks of intense judging from our developers and community staff! ๐ณ๏ธ
We tasked our community to create horizontal and vertical artwork pieces for Dreamland, our upcoming major content update. Each winner will have their artwork implemented as a painting prop placed within the map for you to admire (or transform into)! ๐ผ๏ธ
We are delighted that each of our talented winners and entrants took the time and effort to create such incredible pieces of artwork for our game. We can't express our gratitude enough! ๐
All entries can be found here, in order of submission: Imgur Album Link โฌ ๏ธ
The paintings will be added with the release of Dreamland soonโข. Thank you for supporting our artists, and stay tuned for the update! ๐
Hotfix 1.5.0.2
โ Fixed: Broken spots on 'Morgenstund', 'Fiskersted', 'Shipwreck Hollow', 'Grave Gulch', 'Greywood Castle' and 'Ancient Temple' โ Fixed: Removed old collision texture on the Fill a Pot version of 'Grunewald Library' โ Fixed: Recently played friend list not ordered correctly + new players not being added at a certain point โ Fixed: Friend requests not reaching the receiving player โ Fixed: Imposturous toads canโt be reported โ Fixed: Quickmatch is not working as intended โ Fixed: Input Help is not working correctly in some casesr โ Fixed: Loading screen animation freezing when opening maps
Dreamland Art Contest!
7 years ago today, we revealed our first ever art contest, in which our community members designed paintings for Grunewald Library! ๐๏ธ Following the contest, three winners had their artwork implemented into Witch It as props, becoming an iconic addition to the game ever since.
We are delighted to finally announce the Dreamland Art Contest - a monumental competition in which your art could leave an impact on the game for many years to come! หluaqห
๐ Prizes
We are looking to add 3 pieces of community art to our upcoming content update: Dreamland! โจ Entrants will compete for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place judged by Barrel Roll Games and the Community Staff team.
๐ฅ 1st Place - Your artwork will be placed in a gold frame and implemented as a playable prop! ๐ฅ 2nd Place - Your artwork will be placed in a silver frame and implemented as a playable prop! ๐ฅ 3rd Place - Your artwork will be placed in a bronze frame and implemented as a playable prop!
Each winner will also receive a Witch It key to be redeemed on Steam! ๐
๐ฐ Theme: Fantasy!
Dreamland is heavily inspired by countless fantasy stories and themes. Ask yourself: how will your artwork fit into Witch It's weird and wacky world? ๐ซ
๐จ How do I participate?
1๏ธโฃ Pick whether you want a horizontal frame, or vertical frame. You must create your art in the 8:5/5:8 aspect resolution. Here's our guidelines:
If you're creating artwork for a horizontal frame: 2560px x 1600px, 1920px x 1200px or 1280px x 800px. If you're creating artwork for a vertical frame: 1600px x 2560px, 1200px x 1920px or 800px x 1280px.
2๏ธโฃ Design your artwork and export it, ensuring you follow the rules below! 3๏ธโฃ Upload your entry as a .png or .jpg image to #art-entries on our Discord server, or post your artwork underneath this Steam announcement!
You are allowed to name your artwork, but please note that we may change their names if used.
๐ Rules [Important!]
- Your artwork must relate to Witch It in some form. - You must submit your artwork in the 8:5 or 5:8 aspect ratio (please see our guidelines above). If you win, your artwork will be downscaled to 128 x 80 or 80 x 128 based on Witch It's prop constraints, so please be mindful when adding intricate details - they might not appear in-game! - You must own all elements of your art. Do not use (or commission) pictures or elements created by other people (Witch It content is fine to use)! - Entry file format must be .png or .jpg. - Your entry must follow our rules - no offensive content! - Make sure your artwork fits the art style of Witch It. - You can submit 2 entries maximum - but your second entry must be in a different resolution (for example, if you submitted a vertical painting, you can only create a horizontal painting next)! - All users can enter, including previous contest winners and community staff. - You can collaborate with other entrants if you wish, but be aware that this will count as an entry for all artists involved. Please list all collaborators alongside your entry!
๐จ Breaking these rules may result in disqualification from the contest!
โ Generative AI Warning
Absolutely no full or partial AI-generated artwork is allowed to be submitted for this contest. We may ask you for proof of creation, such as a layered file or progress pictures. If you can't provide at least one of these on request, your entry will be void. โ ๏ธ
By posting your entry, you are agreeing that we can use your creation in the future in any form! โ๏ธ
โ Contest Deadline
Entries will close on 7th April 2024 @ 11pm (UTC)! Winners will be revealed within a few weeks after the deadline.
Good luck, artists! ๐
Hotfix 1.5.0.1
โป Changed: Renamed Coyote Transform Time to Prop transform grace time and moved it to input settings
โ Fixed: Prop transform grace time is also working for possess โ Fixed: Alt+Tabbing could change the input sensitivity โ Fixed: Interaction in Impoturous โ Fixed: Broken spots on 'Snowbreeze', 'Morgaryll Forest' & 'Sunset Swamp' โ Fixed: Barrel explosion effect is very unperformant
Witch It is -80% Off!
For the first time ever, Witch It is -80% off on Steam! ๐ธ
This is the biggest discount we have ever ran, so now is the perfect time to encourage your friends to grab a copy! The sale will end on 18th February, 2024.
Don't miss out - the "Year of the Dragon" Chinese New Year 2024 event is currently live in-game, packed full of incredible new content to discover. Round up your crew and get involved! ๐ฒ
Patch 1.4.5 - Year of the Dragon & Valentine's 2024!
ๆฐๅนดๅฅฝ!
The Year of the Dragon is here, and we're marking the occasion with new skins, props, power-ups, and more! And for the romantics among us, we have some Valentine's surprises too... read on! ๐ฒ
4 New Skins!
Introducing the Wood Dragon Head for the Witch, and the Red Envelope for the Hunter, two beautiful new Chinese New Year skins for you to earn via event crafting! For those who want less red and more pink, check out the Romantic Hat for the Witch and the Valentine's Hat for the Hunter, granted free to all players who log onto Witch It before 21st February (when the event ends)! ๐
Earning Chinese New Year 2024 Items:
Open Witch It during the Chinese New Year 2024 event to earn 30 "Fireworks". Combining 1 Firework with 1 Gunpowder will craft 1 random Chinese New Year item.
To earn Gunpowder, you must fill up the item cauldron with 250 experience points on any Official server. The item cauldron fills up at the end of each round, during the level up screen. For every item cauldron opened, there is a 50% chance that you'll receive 1 Gunpowder. Note: Gunpowder can only be obtained in Official servers.
Alternatively, you can earn Chinese New Year 2024 items by chance through filling up the item cauldron at the end of a round. ๐ฒ
2 New Player Icons!
Collect the limited-time "Valentine 2024" and "Year of the Dragon" player icons by playing Witch It during the event season. At the end of the Chinese New Year 2024 event, these icons will never return - so make sure to pick them up before they disappear! ๐
3 New Props!
Explore any of our night maps to locate the new Paper Lantern, Long Paper Lantern, and Dragon Firework props - and don't forget you can use these props to decorate your Creative Mode maps! ๐ฎ
Grand Architect's & Speed Builder's Helmets!
Following the popularity of the GIF Master's Hat, we're introducing the "Grand Architect's Helmet" and "Speed Builder's Helmet"! ๐ท
๐ Previous and future winners of Official Map Contests will receive the Grand Architect's Helmet! ๐ Previous and future winners of Speed Build Contests will receive the Speed Builder's Helmet! The exclusive items will also be granted to their respective event organisers.
Looking to earn one of these incredible helmets? Keep an eye out on our Steam announcements for the latest contest news as it arrives! We also announce the contests on our Discord server - check it out! ๐ข
4 New Power-Ups!
For the first time since their introduction back in 2018, we're excited to reveal 4 brand new power-ups! We've added 2 new Hunter power-ups and 2 new Witch power-ups, designed to spice up your matches and open up new tactical opportunities to turn the tide of a round - these power-ups may be the ultimate difference between a win or a loss! ๐ง
Hunters
๐ Detection A helpful chicken perches on the Hunter's head, temporarily alerting them if Witches are nearby!
โฑ๏ธ Cooldown Reduction Fueled with determination, the Hunter's skill cooldowns are reduced for a short duration!
Witches
๐๏ธ Invisibility In the blink of an eye, the Witch vanishes for a brief time, allowing them to escape undetected!
๐ Confusion Wave A powerful wave of Witch energy expands into the surrounding area, disorientating nearby Hunters!
In addition, power-ups are now tweakable in Match Rules+! โ๏ธ
Patch Notes:
+ Added: 4 new Power-ups + Added: Power-ups are now tweakable in Match Rules+ + Added: 2 new Chinese New Year themed skin items + Added: 2 new Valentineโs Day themed skin items + Added: 3 new event props + Added: Serbo-Croatian localization
โป Changed: Updated Wall collision to our new collision system on 'Northern Whispers' and 'Singing Sanctuary'. More Maps will follow in the next patches. โป Changed: Removed some level achievements โป Changed: Reorganized mainmenu to be a bit less cluttered โป Changed: Login flow is updated to make sure everything is loaded when the main menu is shown
โ Fixed: Broken spots on 'Northern Whispers', 'Wardwell Wintry' & 'High Spruce Town' โ Fixed: Possess is not showing why it is not possible โ Fixed: Rocket sound is heard everywhere on the map โ Fixed: Power-ups dropped from Witches getting launched when a Witch is caught
Edit: โ ๏ธ Just a heads up - we have been made aware of a bug that causes the item cauldron to always show a single drop even though there's more than one.
For example, you may only receive one ingredient when you actually should be granted 8. But don't worry - the actual inventory is correct, so any drops you can't see will appear on your account regardless. โ๏ธ
We'll be fixing this in an upcoming hotfix - stay tuned!
(Some players are also reporting that gunpowder isn't appearing as a drop - please check your event tab instead, any earned gunpowder will be there!)
Short Maintenance Downtime
Witch It is currently down for maintenance! ๐ง
We expect to be back up and running in roughly 2 hours, at 12pm UTC.
โ ๏ธ Please do not use any Witch It functions during this downtime - such as crafting, Creative Mode, etc.
