Ravenfield news & patch notes

Hey everyone! Today I'm exicted to finally release the update I've been working towards for the past 2 or so years: Modders can now create their own Custom Campaigns for Ravenfield!

With this update, modders have all the tools needed to create their own story campaigns, create their own spin of the official arcade mode, or even recreate the original conquest mode! We can't wait to see what you all create with these new tools!

To get the ball rolling for campaign devleopment, we have developed a simple retro-inspired example campaign where you walk around a 2d map and get challenged by other soldier to matches. All the source code and the assets are included in the latest version of the mod tools which you can find on the official site: https://ravenfieldgame.com/modding.html

If you want to try out the example campaign for yourself, just download the latest tools, open the ExampleCampaignLobby scene and press Ctrl+T to test out the campaign - that's it! Now you're ready to start tweaking the campaign or building your own!

....psst, if you don't want to build the example campaign through the tools you can also try it out thru the steam workshop:

In addition to the example campaign, we have also ported Arcade Mode to the mod tools and made it available as a separate package. This port contains pretty much everything from the official campaign. We even added some fun improvements such as making the helicopter that drops the crate in the weapon unlock sequence dynamically change based on your team's game configuration!

Getting a weapons delivery from EaglePancake's Tankcopter

You can find the arcade mode package on the official discord server https://discord.gg/ravenfield in the campaign-making channel where you can also ask questions related to campaign creation!

We've also updated the Island map, adding a new night environment and optimizing the map and its assets. Here's a view from the pond area during the night:

Full change log

Game changes

• Added support for modded campaigns!

• Reorganized ingame map editor prop folders to make things easier to find

• Fixed a muzzle/animation sync issue on bundle o buss weapon

• Fixed a bug where squad member bots would randomly look upwards into the sky while following their squad leader

• Improvements to minimap blip rendering, colors should be a lot easier to see now.

• Added support for spawning vehicles inside .rfs scenes (no gameplay scenes EG campaign lobbies)

• .rfs scenes can now play ingame dialogs and use the cinematic UI overlay.

• Added campaign debug menu (available when testing a campaign mod from the mod tools). Use the debug menu to force a victory or defeat.

Ravenscript changes

• Added ActorSkin.FromName()

• GameInfo.CreateEmpty will now auto-populate some fields such as team name, skin and colors based on the default Eagle/Raven scheme.

• Replaced some functions in SaveData so they use the same API as ConfigurationData (eg SetInt instead of StoreInteger). The old functions are deprecated meaning they will continue to work, but shouldn't be used for new projects.

• Added Campaign.isFirstTimeStart flag, its value is true the first time the campaign lobby scene is loaded. This value can be used to run initialization of a campaign only once.

• Added GameResult.hasResult flag, its value is true when returning to the lobby from a game. Use this flag to know when to update the state of a campaign based on the result of a match.

Island changes

• New night mode look

• Added Occlusion Culling

• Added lods to some models

• Optimized vertex count on some models

• Flattened area around helicopter spawns to account for bigger helicopters spawning

• Placed manual spawnpoints for all flags

• Added some missing colliders

• Fixed some missplaced colliders

• Updated materials on some props

• Added some missing island props to the ingame map editor

• Fixed a particle system issue that would cause lots of errors to be logged

Mod Tool changes

• Updated to the latest trigger system components

• Added systems for custom campaign

• Press Ctrl+T while inside a custom campaign lobby scene to try your campaign

• Added example campaign bundled with the rftools

• Ported Arcade Mode to the mod tools which is available as an external package on the Ravenfield discord server.

• Added fast export mode which is used when testing your mod/map (by pressing ctrl+t). Fast mode will export your mod as an uncompressed package which makes it faster to build and load but uses more space on the hard drive. This mode can be thru the Ravenfield Tools -> Fast Export menu.

We hope you'll enjoy this update and create some really cool stuff with these new tools!

/Johan and the Ravenfield team

Hey everyone!

For the past few months the team has been working on refining the game’s artstyle. You might have noticed this in our release art, new weapons and reworks of UI elements in the menu and for arcade mode. Today we are happy to show off how a map looks in this new style with a new-and-improved take on Island in EA37!

Fun Fact :D : This post is written by Aina, game dev student and the artist behind this redesign of Island, soon to be a fulltime member of the Ravenfield team! You can see me hard at work directing grunts in the update art :D

Together with the team, I have recreated the artstyle from the ground up (no pun intended ;D) with new terrain materials, reworked game assets and redefined layouts with new paths and areas. My goal has been to create a more intentional environment with a more defined and cohesive feel. I think that this new style also enhances the gameplay experience by providing a clear path to objectives.

The Island map has been my main focus for the last few months and we have decided to release a preview in time for my graduation. While we’re still at work refining this version of Island, we wanted to share an early version in today’s update.

We hope you are as excited as we are and that you’ll enjoy this fresh new look for Island!

/Aina and the Ravenfield team

EA36 Patch 1 (June 1st)

• Fixed a bug that caused a code exception when the player gets kills while inside a vehicle. This issue caused several other bugs such as floating weapons and game mode soft locks.

• When losing an arcade mode match, you will now always lose 5 reinforcements

• Fixed timing issue in arcade mode when printing round number and time of day indicator change

Patch 2 (June 1st again lol)

• Fixed a bug that caused the game to give out 5 free reinforcement waves whenever you won a game in Arcade Mode

Patch 3 (June 2nd)

• Fixed a bug where vehicle spawned from mutators could not be destroyed

• Fixed vehicles destroyed being counted twice per vehicle

• Fixed arcade campaign results not showing any text

Hello hello!

We're back with the Arcade Mode pt2 update, which features several improvements to Arcade Mode in order to reduce RNG and make the mode more engaging! To start things off, we've added a Combat Log screen that shows up after each match, showing how you performed. To encourage you to try your best even in a losing battle, you gain coins based on your performance.

After picking your Weapons/Vehicles/Reinforcement unlock, you are now presented with a shop screen. On this page, you can spend your coins to unlock specific weapons or vehicles that you might need. We hope this change makes it easier to plan your loadout throughout the Arcade campaign. You can also get bonus points in the vehicle minigame, but you're gonna have to figure out how yourself.

We have also updated the map selection screen to be more stylish :)

Finally, the game now has a "Vehicle Reinforcement" mutator that is active during arcade matches. This mutator will periodically spawn aereal vehicles even on maps without runways. For example, even when picking River Delta above which does not have air vehicle spawns, bots will still spawn in with any air vehicles you've unlocked throughout the campaign. This mutator is also available for use in Instant Action mode.

On top of the Arcade Mode improvements, we have also made changes to the game's audio mixing, including options to output surround sound and increase the maximum voice count, meaning more sounds can play at once. We have also updated the ambience audio on several maps to be more immersive.

Arcade Mode changes

• Added a shop that can be used to buy new weapons and vehicles for coins.

• Coins are earned through the combat log which shows up at the end of each match. The combat log rewards you bonus coins based on your performance, you get extra coins from killstreaks, controling as many flags as possible, destroying vehicles and more.

• You can earn bonus gold by getting a sparkly license plate in the vehicle unlock minigame.

• Updated map selection page, it's very cool now hehe

• Added Vehicle Reinforcement mutator which periodically spawns in aircraft, this is used whenever you start a map without built in air vehicles or runways. This mutator is also available in Instant Action mode.

• Added new arcade victory animations (including a flawless victory one that shows up if you beat arcade mode without losing a single round!)

• Added campaign results screen that keeps track of silly statistics throughout your arcade run.

• Added a couple of new sound effects to arcade mode.

• Last round is now always daytime (to make the new arcade victory sequences look nice)

• Added "No Night" and "Match Length" configuration to Arcade mode. At the moment, match length only controls the length of battle rounds.

Audio improvements

• Added new ambient sounds to Canyon, Citadel, Coastline, Glacier, Mountain Range and Rafts

• Added audio output mix dropdown to options menu, you can select between stereo and various surround output modes here.

• Added audio source count dropdown to options menu. Default value allows 64 sounds to play at the same time, this can be increased to 128 by selecting the "Increased" option

• Reduced audio mix ducking so the world audio volume isn't reduced as much when the first person weapon is fired

• Removed a hardcoded volume reduction for ingame audio and adjusted the mix group volumes to make up for lost gain. This change makes it possible to have better control over the game's audio volume.

RS / Trigger system improvements

• Fixed Vehicle .isEmpty returning the wrong value

• Added text assets to data containers

• Whitelisted CallLuaMethod event callbacks, meaning you can call RS methods from animation events or other Unity events.

• Added match gameplay statistics tracking to GameResult.GetResultDetails(), this is what we use to drive the combat log results screen in arcade mode. Keys will be added to the RS API in the next EA update, but you can find them today in the beta-branch-update channel on the Ravenfield discord server.

• Added Renderer Material target for TriggerSetActorSkin

• Exposed Sprite.Create() and Texture.CreateTexture2D() to RS

Game improvements and Bugfixes

• When taking over a bot in skirmish mode, you are now guaranteed to spawn with a little bit of ammo.

• Fixed a rare issue where the game would not start correctly if mods contained duplicate level files with the same name.

• Fixed a bug where loadouts were not initialized correctly in scripted missions set to use official loadouts.

We hope you'll enjoy this update!

/Johan and the Ravenfield team

Hi everyone!

Today is Ravenfield's 9th anniversary on Steam which we celebrated with cake at the office! I figured this would be a good time to update you all on what we're working towards this year and beyond.

First things first: We are still working on Arcade Mode pt 2 which will release in the next EA update. In the last update post my plan was to get the update out before the end of April, but we've been taking our time to experiment with the design of Arcade mode to make sure it's as fun as possible. It turns out designing a fun and hopefully somwhat balanced rougelike mode like Arcade is pretty challenging for a moddable game like Ravenfield where the gameplay drastically changes based on what mods are being used. We're slowly but surely getting there, and you can try out the latest version of Arcade mode on the beta branch if you want to see where we are currently at. The latest build features a shop where you can buy extra equipment to even out your loadout if you're unhappy with the equipment or vehicle drops.

While the design process for Arcade is taking a bit longer than expected, we figure it's worth it as we both want to make a fun game mode and will also use the lessons learned for the next official campaign where we are rebuilding Conquest Mode from the ground up. Like Arcade, the New Conquest Mode will fully support modded content such as weapons, vehicles and maps, meaning a lot of the design challenges will carry over. We have already made strides in the development of Conquest Mode but we're not quite ready to show it off yet. Expect more info on Conquest Mode this autumn!

2026 Timeline

To give you an idea of what we have planned for this year, here's a rough timeline:

Spring/Summer:

- Arcade Mode pt 2 and 3

- Support for Custom Campaign creation via mod tools

- Release Arcade Mode source assets and scripts for use in the mod tools

- A rework of one of the official maps

Autumn/Winter:

- New Conquest Mode

- Support for Custom Game Mode creation via mod tools

- Finish up Citadel story mission

- A brand new map

On top of these features, you can expect weapon drops and improvements to gameplay/bots/modding throughout the year.

Ravenfield 1.0

Back in December 2024 in "The Ravenfield Release Plan" post I expressed a desire to release Ravenfield 1.0 before the end of 2026. This is still the goal, but we will only release 1.0 after we have gotten all features listed above ready and working well. As the most important thing for us is to deliver a really fun experience and to make sure modders can continue building on the gameplay and systems we create we'd rather take our time and do things right than to rush out a 1.0 release. This of course means we might need to push the 1.0 release into 2027, but we are taking things one step at a time and will keep you all posted on the progress thru EA updates and Steam posts.

...And Beyond

We're happy to announce that we will continue to support Ravenfield after the 1.0 release thru content updates, modding improvements and bugfixes. We're not entirely sure what type of content we will be producing for the game after the 1.0 release, nor the scope and release schedule, but we are determined to keep working on the game so long as people keep playing it! That said, we also have plans to create new games, meaning our development time will be split between Ravenfield updates and new projects. More info about this will be coming closer to the release!

I hope you're as excited about the features we have planned for 2026 as we are!

/Johan and the Ravenfield Team

We added nothing so no need to investigate anything. If a grunt tries to hand you an item DO NOT accept it!

April 3 Patch:

• The Detective Badge is no longer given out by a random grunt, instead you'll need to find it on the Rafts map to start the quest!

Patch notes:

• Removed p prefix from actor pose names for the dialog system. It's now valid to write both with or without the p prefix, so legacy mods will continue to work correctly.

• Added support for smart actor pose tags, valid tags include {gruntf} (resolves to friendly grunt portrait), {grunte frown} (resolves to enemy grunt portrait with frowning expression), {gruntr grin} (resolves to red grunt portrait with grin expression). It's also possible to resolve partial names, for example {teamf} resolves to blue or red depending on the player team. When a team uses a non-standard skin, {grunt} tags will resolve to a realtime rendered portrait of that team's skin.

• The Lua engine can now resolve source scripts while inside coroutines, meaning script or mod specific requests such as mod save data is now available inside coroutines.

• Fixed an issue where bots would look in weird directions when starting a new path, typically happens just after spawning. Now they will look in the direction they are running.

• Lots of new functionality added to existing Trigger components EG new filters, conditions and more.

  Added several new trigger components

• TriggerLeaveSquad (Used to get single bots to leave their current squad)

• TriggerChangeActorSkin (Change actor skins thru triggers)

• TriggerReplacefirstPersonItem (Temporarily replace the player's carried weapons with something else, useful for cutscenes, etc.)

• TriggerOnHover (sends trigger signals when hovering a UI graphics element)

• TriggerChangeSelectableState (Make UI elements interactable or non-interactable)

• TriggerOnWin (send trigger signals when a game ends)

• TriggerUpdate (send trigger signal every frame)

• TriggerFadePostProcessing (Crossfade between post processing states)

• TriggerPlayAudioSource (Play audio sources or sound banks from triggers)

• TriggerSelect (Sends a trigger signal only to the first valid receiver, like a select node in behaviour trees)

• TriggerUpdateSunlight (Used to control sunlight from triggers)

The new trigger functionality will be added in an update to the Ravenfield mod tools for Unity next week!

Enjoy! (AGAIN with that said don't pick up random items you find on the field)

/Johan and the Ravenfield team

Hey!

These past couple of weeks we've been super busy working on multiple EA updates for Ravenfield. While we were originally planning on releasing Arcade Mode Pt2 this month, we've decided to push it back to mid-April. We're also delaying the update that adds support for modded Custom Campaigns to the very end of April, which will be released as Arcade Mode Pt3.

Originally, we wanted the custom campaigns functionality to be part of Arcade Mode Pt2, but releasing it as Pt3 allows us to spend more time ensuring that everything works as expected, and also lets us polish up the source code + assets for Arcade Mode which we will make available to Ravenfield modders as an example campaign.

On top of Arcade Mode Pt2+Pt3, we are also working on a previously unannounced update focusing on improvements to the Trigger systems, Dialogs and other systems related to custom mission creation. This week, we'll be focusing 100% of our attention on this update, which we want to get out early next week. It's gonna be a fun one! To summarize, here's the new update schedule:

Hey everyone, we may have release EA33 only a week ago, but we're already back with a new EA update! As we close in on the game's 1.0 release we want to expand on the official content with new weapons. We have several weapon packs planned for release throughout this year, and this first one has 3 new weapons:

JOLT-20-S

The Jolt-20 is all about getting as many bullets as possible down range as fast as possible. Hitting your targets comes secondary, so this sub-machine gun is designed to be super fast to reload. Perfect for those times where you every shot awkwardly misses your target! Just mind your ammo count...

SUPERNOVA

This assault rifle is one fine piece of engineering designed for long-range engagements. Featuring a no-fuss scope with high magnification there's nothing stopping you from taking out your enemies from afar. A shame it's only available in limited quantities on the battlefield.

RIPCORD

It's a box - until you need it. This weapon must first be unfolded before it's combat ready, and even then... it's a bit unwieldy. The Eagle weapon's experts are still figuring out how to use this weapon effectively so expect its' usage to change in the future. If nothing else, it can double as a coat hanger!

We are super happy about the response to Arcade mode last week - we're currently polishing the design and hope to have it ready at the end of March! In the meantime, enjoy these new weapons!

/Johan and the Ravenfield Team

Hey everyone! We have been super busy over the winter months working away on the game's first official campaign mode (we're not counting that old conquest mode). We are now happy to finally release ARCADE MODE!

ARCADE MODE

Arcade mode plays like a rougelike, where you need to get through 9 rounds of matches without losing all your reinforcements. In-between each match, you get to choose wether to unlock more weapons, a new vehicle or call for extra reinforcements.

Each unlock category consists of a mini-game:

Equipment Drop - Roll weapon and tool cards from a box. If you don't like what you get, you can choose to keep one card that you really like and reroll the rest!

New Vehicle - Try to time your desired license plate by cliking. Each license plate corresponds to a vehicle category (ground/naval/air) and a rarity level. The rarest vehicles have intricate license plate designs inspired by animals.

Reinforcements - Use the radio to call in more reinforcements to help out in the upcoming battles. A better signal means more reinforcements will hear your call.

Arcade mode is built upon our new Custom Campaign system, which we are designing to allow modders to create their own campaigns. We still have some ideas on how to expand Arcade Mode, so we will be releasing an Arcade Part 2 update that adds a couple of more features and polish that we didn't have time to add for this update.

In the Part 2 update we will also be adding support for modders to create their own Custom Campaigns. As Arcade mode is created entirely using Ravenscript and the Trigger System, we will be bundling the completed arcade mode with the mod tools for modders to inspect or expand upon once Custom Campaign modding is fully ready! We hope you're looking forward to that :)

Because we have completely redesigned how campaigns work in Ravenfield, we had to remove the old conquest mode as it no longer works with the game. To make up for it, we are in the process of recreating conquest mode using the new systems, which will allow for modded content and maps to be used! Things are still early, but we hope to share some more information and screenshots of the new conquest mode soon!

NEW SIDEARM

We are also happy to finally be adding a new weapon to the game, the INGRESS 700

Inspired by the weapon of a certain special agent, the Ingress 700 packs a punch thanks to it's special ability. The last shot fired in the magazine deals higher damage and knockback, which is also indicated by it's retro-movie inspired sound design. Hopefully you're able to use this special shot to turn around critical situations. You can also press X to play a cool gun spinning animation for extra style points.

The Ingress 700 also has a secondary special function, when testing a custom map from the Ravenfield mod tools or the ingame map editor and playing the gun spinning animation, your character gains the ability to bunny jump by spamming the jump button, which builds a ton of speed. This can be used to quickly get around your level without having to walk or use vehicles! This feature is not available in the base game for balancing reason, we still want you to try out the fresh new look for the S-Ind 7 after all! Ohhh, about that:

We (read: the graphics artists now working on Ravenfield) decided that the 2016-era low poly weapons of Ravenfield need a bit of a face-lift for the 1.0 release. Therefore we're redoing a lot of models, animations and sounds on existing weapons. We started with a model and animation overhaul for the S-Ind 7 and Quicksilver weapons. A couple of other weapons also received some new sounds for unholstering, reloading and firing. Expect more weapons to get this treatment in the following months!

FULL CHANGE LOG

Game changes

- ADDED ARCADE MODE! This mode is is implemented as a custom campaign and will be made available to the modding community in a future update.

- Added Ingress 700 pistol

- Press X when using the Ingress 700 to do a cool gun spin!!

- The last round in the Ingress magazine deals more damage and has a retro style sound

- When starting the game from the mod tools, the Ingress has a special ability: While spinning the gun, you can bunny jump to build a lot of speed. This allows you to quickly traverse the map you're testing if you want to check our a specific area. This ability is completely disabled in normal gameplay.

- Added audio cues for when you're about to run out of ammo in your magazine.

- Added systems for custom campaigns along with RS api changes to allow scripting of custom campaigns from RS.

- Major changes to how the game handles scene loading to support full map/game mode/team configuration from RS

- Removed old conquest mode as it is not compatible with the new custom campaigns system. We are in the process of recreating conquest mode from the ground up, so expect updates on this soon!

- Added game mode art to the instant action menu

- Fixed an issue where configuration data would not be deserialized correctly

- Fixed a bug where vehicle filters were not working correctly in instant action team configuration page

- Added support for hidden mutators (IE mutators that don't show up in the menu but can still be loaded thru RS)

- Added new triggers for playing particles/audio, these will be added to the mod tools later.

- TriggerGlobalSignalReceiver component now registers in OnEnable(), so it will be able to receive signals immediately.

- TriggerGlobalSignalReceiver component now deactivates in OnDisable(), which fixes a bug related to vehicle impostor spawning.

- Fixed missing checkpoints on citadel mission

- Refactored game mode configuration to prepare for custom game mode support. Game modes now store their configuration inside ConfigurationData types which are accessible to RS. Some built in game modes have different UIs because of this change.

- Spec Ops dialog now reflects the current team name.

- Fixed minimap centering in the ingame map editor sometimes failing when no capture points had been placed

- Created a new way for weapons to play Fire sounds that allows them to play random Audio Clips.

- Added a simple way to add a separate Fire sound that can only be heard when the player fires that weapon.

- Added weapon "rattle" values that can be configured to make a weapon shake/rattle when fired. This can also be triggered from Ravenscript and through animation events.

- Added an option for Proximity Fuse Projectiles to ignore team targets.

- Updated the models and animations for the S-IND 7 and Quicksilver.

- Updated the model for the Frag Grenade.

- Added various new sounds to the Greaser, Quicksilver, S-IND 7, Patriots, Automatico, Recon LRR, and Dagger.

- Buffed the S-IND 7 and Quicksilver to bring them more in line with other weapons.

- Added an option for Proximity Fuse Projectiles to ignore team targets.

- Made it possible for melee weapons to play random on hit sounds.

Ravenscript/Trigger updates

- Exposed various API systems related to starting matches from custom campaigns

- Exposed GameInfo class used to configure which teams and mutators are used when starting a match from RS

- Exposed TeamInfo class used to query and configure a team's weapon/vehicle/skin/name configuration from RS. It is possible to both read and write configurations from RS, which is used to set up matches based on unlocked weapons/vehicles in arcade mode.

- Exposed VehicleSpawner.SpawnVehicleImposter() that is used to spawn vehicles without attached scripts and rigidbodies, this is used for background vehicles in the Arcade mode vehicle unlock scene.

- Added support for saving weapon, vehicle and map references in SaveData.

- Added ConfigurationData type for storing and getting game mode configurations in RS.

- TriggerNamedSignalReceiver component now respects once/repeating modes when receiving named signals.

- The lua engine can now resolve source script components when invoking RS coroutines, which solves a couple of rare issues with the RS API.

- Exposed Weapon maxAmmoPerReload and useMaxAmmoPerReload to RS

- Added BezierPath/BezierCurve types that can be used to set up and evaluate 3D bezier curves. WE MAY CHANGE THE NAMES OF THESE TYPES IN THE NEXT UPDATE SO USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

- Added BezierPath along with scene view editor to DataContainer

- Added weapon "rattle" values that can be configured to make a weapon shake/rattle when fired. This can also be triggered from Ravenscript and through animation events.

- Created a new way for weapons to play Fire sounds that allows them to play random Audio Clips.

- Added support for player only weapon firing sounds.

- Made it possible for melee weapons to play random on hit sounds.

We hope you'll enjoy this update and are looking forward to the new possibilities that custom campaigns will bring to the table once it rolls out it the Arcade pt 2 update!

/Johan and the Ravenfield team

Earlier today, a security patch to the Unity engine was released by Unity, which patches a security vulnerability in games built with the Unity engine. Today's patch updates the game engine to the latest version, 2020.3.49f1 in which this vulnerability has been patched.

For security reasons, I have disabled the builds of the game that were previously available on the legacy branches. I intend to rebuild these versions of the game next week with the patched engine version, but until then those versions of the game will be unavailable. Please note that the legacy-EA25 version is still available as this versions of the game runs on Unity 5.6 which is unaffected by the vulnerability.

For more information about the security vulnerability, please see Unity's message here: https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-platform-protection-take-immediate-action-to-protect-your-games-and-apps/1688031

EDIT: All legacy branches have now been rebuilt in the 2020.3.49f1 engine version and are safe to use!

/Johan

Here's another patch for EA32 mainly focused on optimizing the new instant action menu to prevent freezes and lag: - Optimized vehicle and weapon pickers in the instant action menu which should prevent the game from freezing for a few seconds when loads of weapons/vehicles are being loaded in. - When testing a content mod from the mod tools, any non-modded vehicles vehicles will now be filled with the official vehicles. - Fixed spec ops teammate count. Up to 9 teammates can be assigned to the player team by setting the player team actor count. If more than 9 teammates are assigned, the game will default to 3 teammates. - Spec ops helicopter exfil crew will use the same skin as the player team UNLESS playing as the Talon team. - Made instant action dropdown styles consistent across all menu pages.

September 25 hotfix:

- Fixed some dropdown values in the instant action menu not showing up properly

We just pushed out a patch for EA32 that fixes some common issues:

• Changed how game configuration saving works to prevent accidental lost team weapon/vehicle setups. When saving a game configuration without linking to saved teams, the current team setups will be saved inside the game configuration file. This means the game configuration save system works like it did before, making team saves optional. It is however still recommended to save actual team config files and to link them to your game configuration as this allows things like loading teams to any team slot, updating multiple game configs by changing just one team save and more.

• Updated game config team linking description text

• Fixed vehicles not showing up in conquest mode

• Fixed aspect ratio issues with the new instant action menu on 4:3 and ultrawide monitors

• Added really good game mode icons

We'll keep on the look out for any more issues that needs fixing for EA32! If you're experiencing any issues, the best way to reach us is through the Ravenfield discord. Enjoy!

September 11 fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the options menu could not be applied while ingame

• Fixed a bug where the loaded team would sometimes not update when loading a game configuration with linked teams

• Fixed a bug where a game config would sometimes link both team slots to the same team.

PHEW!! It's been quite a few months of non-stop work over here, but we're finally ready to get EA32 out to everyone. A huge thank you to all the testers over in the Ravenfield Discord for your patience and feedback, we have had to rework plenty of systems to get something we were happy with!

This update is all about configuring Ravenfield to exactly how you want it to play. We're introducing rarity tiers on both weapons and vehicles, which decides how often that weapon or vehicle will spawn ingame. This means it's finally possible to control spawn rates of weapons! This can be used to balance out gameplay, for example allowing only a few bots to equip lock-on weapons. No more having to deal with a constant barrage of missiles heading your way every time you take off in your helicopter!

For vehicles, it is now possible to pick multiple vehicles that can spawn for each vehicle type. You could for example set up 10 different tanks, which the game will randomly pick between everytime a new tank spawns. Or why not add a rare boat to your enemy's helicopter slot for giggles?

There are 3 rarity tiers available, Common (white), Uncommon (green) and Rare (blue). Using the weapon picker rarity painter, you can control how often a bot is able to spawn with that particular weapon. Just pick a rarity color and start painting over the weapons! At the moment, Common weapons are picked 70% of the time, Uncommon 25% and Rare 5%. For vehicles, Common vehicles spawn 60% of the time, Uncommon 30% and Rare 10%. While the rates are currently hardcoded, we are planning on making the rarity spawn rates configurable in a future update.

With the configuration update, we have also overhauled how game configurations are saved. Previously, a saved configuration would contain the loadout and vehicles of both teams, but by popular request we have now added support for saving and load individual teams in EA32.

When setting up a team, you can now save that team's configuration to a team configuration file. This makes it possible to load that team to either team slot for future games. After saving (or loading) both teams, you can save a game configuration with your mutator setup which can optionally link to your two active teams. Loading this game configuration will also load your two linked teams.

Full Change Log

Instant Action + game config changes

• Added support for multiple vehicles per vehicle type slot. When a vehicle spawns, one of the available vehicles for that slot will be picked.

• Added vehicle rarity levels. This affects how often a vehicle of a specific tier will spawn. The pick percentages are currently hardcoded to 60% (Common), 30% (Uncommon), 10% (Rare). These values iwll be moddable in the future.

• Added weapon rarity levels. This affects how often a bot will spawn with a specific weapon. The pick percentages are currently hardcoded to 70% (Common), 25% (Uncommon), 5% (Rare). These values will be moddable in the future.

• Complete rework of Instant Action UI.

• Added support for team name and color selection thru the Instant Action UI.

• Redesigned Weapon/Vehicle/Skin/Map/Game mode picking UI to be more unified. It is now possible to filter out specific items, for example only displaying items from a specific mod.

• Overhauled game configuration save, each team can now be saved in separate files, and game configuration saves can link to the saved teams. This means that the game now supports loading of individual teams which is a heavily requested feature. Loading a game configuration with linked teams will still load the teams just like the previous save/load system.

• Legacy configuration saves can still be loaded.

• Game and Team configuration files can now be deleted via the configratuib saving UI.

• Official weapons now have varying rarity levels for balancing purposes (EG making Scalpel rare prevents constant lock ons on massive, flat levels)

• Config flags mode now has a reverse flags button.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where bots would sometimes should thru walls

• Moved flag capture UI element down slightly to prevent it from overlapping with some game mode UIs

• Updated default quality settings to Good (previously booting the game for the first time would put you in the worst quality option... oops!)

Ravenscript changes

• Added PlayerCamera.isUsingFPCamera

• Added PlayerCamera.GetCameraRay(camera) and PlayerCamera.GetActiveCameraRay()

• Added Physics.RaycastActor()

• Added ActorManager.CreateExplosionEffect()

• Added ActorManager.SetBloodParticleParameters()

• Added GameEvent.onBloodParticleLand event

• Replaced Vehicle.team with Vehicle.ownerTeam which uses the correct Team type rather than an integer. The old value is still available but hidden in the RS documentation, so mods still relying on this value will continue to work.

• Exposed MeleeWeapon type

• Seat.isEnclosed is now writable

• Exposed Weapon.aimSensitivityMultiplier

• Writing a weapon's heat value through RS will now trigger an overheat if the value assigned is 1 or higher

• Exposed Weapon.currentMuzzleIndex

Trigger System changes

• Fixed TriggerCondition ActorIsRagdolled not having an actor field

• Added usePickedLoadout field on TriggerSpawnPlayer, which allows the player to spawn with their picked loadout.

• Added TriggerOnLoadoutAccept which fires a signal when the player accepts a loadout.

Modding improvements

• Added Projector to component whitelist

• Added UnityEngine.Animation and UnityEngine.Animation.Rigging components to whitelist

• Added defaultRarity fields to WeaponEntry and Vehicles

Ingame Map Editor improvements

• Added support for controlling vehicle spawner rarity options.

To close out this update post, I'm happy to announce that Ravenfield is no longer a solo project, we are now 8(!) people working on the game! While most of us has just gotten started, we already have cool things in the works, and I'm very excited about the upcoming updates to the game. We have already gotten quite a bit of work done for the EA33 update which will introduce the new custom campaign system, allowing modders to create anything from story campaigns to their own conquest mode to entirely new games running inside Ravenfield. Expect to see more about this soon on the Ravenfield Discord!

We hope you'll enjoy this update. See you soon!

/Johan and the Ravenfield dev team

• Completely remade the 76 Eagle shotgun from scratch with animations and rebalancing changes
• Remade Bundle o' Buss sprint animations
• Remade Automatico Akimbo sprint animations
• Garret reload animation can be canceled by holding RMB.
• Players will now automatically holster their weapon while climbing ladders
• Added cloth foley sounds to various player actions such as walking/kicking/jumping/entering vehicles/reloading etc.
• Added 'wants to aim' bool parameter to weapon animators, this is used to cancel reload animations early by holding RMB.
• Added 'walk cycle' float parameter to weapon animators, this can be used to synchronize sprint or walk animations with the player character weapon bob/footstep sounds.
• Fixed actor onTakeDamage event firing when the actor took splash damage while inside an enclosed vehicle seat that protects it.
• Fixed actor onTakeDamage firing while the actor is dead
• Misc changes to audio mixing of the player audio. Should result in more noticable player footstep/jump/land sounds.

• Added TriggerOnPlayerLineOfSight, sends a signal when a transform point enters or leaves the player's line of sight
• Added TriggerSetVelocity, used to set a vehicle or rigidbody velocity or to apply an acceleration.
• Fixed TriggerOnVehicleDestroyed firing the onDestroyed send instead of the onDisabled send when a vehicle is disabled.

• Added missing IsVehicle filter type for OnVehicleDestroyed and related vehicle filtering components. This allows you to send signals when a specific vehicle has been destroyed

The Ravenfield Prototype

The Release Plan

Why Cancel the Story Campaign

Future EA Update Schedule

Ravenfield 1.0 Roadmap

• Overhaul the official content Some of the official content is ancient at this point and in desperate need of a facelift. I also want to add missing sound effects, fix weird particle effects, balance weapons etc so that the official content is ready for a 1.0 release.
• Custom Game Modes This gives modders the ability to to create their own game modes that are selectable from the instant action menu.
• Custom Campaigns Want to create a series of story missions? You can do that! Want to implement your own version of conquest? Totally doable! Do you want to create your own game inside of Ravenfield? Yep even that is possible!
• Recreate Conquest as a custom campaign Conquest will be recreated from scratch as a modded campaign and the Scenes/Triggers/Ravenscript made available to the modding community. This gives modders a platform for creating their own conquest variations. The recreated Conquest mode will also be compatible with modded weapons and vehicles.
• Release a new official map This map has been in the work for some time already! Oh and there will be plenty of new prefabs inside the ingame editor to play around with...
• Finish up Citadel mission While the originally planned official story missions won't make it into the 1.0 release, I still intend on finishing up the citadel mission cutscenes and doing some general gameplay improvements to spice up the mission.

Full change log

• Updated steamworks.net to latest version, which should solve an issue where the steam api could not be initialized on Apple M1 systems, resulting in the menu not appearing correctly.
• Capture points take slightly longer to neutralize due to the respawn logic change.
• Made the distance you can fall before ragdolling consistent between different gravity settings.
• Mouse look is now enabled while dead.
• Added a very fast acceleration when starting moving/changing direction. This makes it easier to get into exact positions by tapping movement keys.
• Fixed an issue where benchmark mode didn't work
• Added healing/resupply sounds to the new ingame ui, and the healthbar/ammo heading bar will now blink when resupplying or healing.
• When restarting a rfc map, the file is no longer unloaded and reloaded first, resulting in much shorter load times on reloads
• Kicking an upside down vehicle that is light will now cause it to flip over, allowing you to recover crashed vehicles more easily.
• You can no longer phase through level geometry when getting on a ladder
• You must now look towards a ladder to be able to get on it
• Fixed an issue where you would sometimes not be able to get off ladders if you were spamming the use button
• Fixed a bug where melee weapons would not hit rigidbodies etc on the default layer
• Fixed a bug where the first person camera would sometimes be zoomed out when aiming down sights. This is now fixed by clamping the ADS FOV value so it's always slightly lower than the current default FOV
• Fixed a bug where the spectator camera was rendering 3d hud objects.
• Fixed player actor Accessory rendering when switching between first person/third person cameras.

• The game will now cluster contested spawn points and regular spawn points into regions.
• Whenever an attacker is inside any spawn point region, the capture point will be considered under attack.
• Each region is penalized for having an attacker or a defender that is taking fire inside.
• When spawning, the region with the lowest penalty score is picked.
• When a capture point is not under attack (or if no contested spawn point container is assigned), the regular spawn points will be used.
• Due to this change, only non-moving spawn points are allowed when using a contested spawn point container. For modded special cases with moving spawn points such as flags attached to large vehicles etc, you can still use moving regular spawn points by not assigning a contested spawn point container.

• Island has received an overhaul, completely redesigning the old fort area into a quarry. This area still retains most of the old layout, but with a new theme and a couple of new paths. The old Island map is no longer available ingame, but you can find it in the workshop as "Island (2016)".
• Other parts of the island has also received slight redesigns, making paths/lanes more clear.
• Minor updates to river delta sawmill area
• Made citadel tree vis colliders slightly bigger so they block AI views a bit more than before
• Added more sawmill modular props for use in the ingame map editor
• Added new island props to the ingame map editor
• Added "Show Objectives" key prompt to the start of the citadel mission Modding changes
• Added source mod/source bundle tracking to all prefabs, which allows proper shading reloading etc if needed, should solve some rare cases of pinkeye on Mac/Linux.
• Added SpriteActorDatabase and IngameDialogActorDatabaseProvider component that are used to bundle custom sprite actors for the ingame dialog system. To use, just instantiate the IngameDialogActorDatabaseProvider component pointing to your SpriteActorDatabase anywhere in your map/mutator. As long as that object is alive, you can reference your custom actors by name through the TriggerDialog or via the RS ingame dialog API.
• Added the following components to the whitelist (meaning they can now be loaded from custom maps/content mods): Cloth, Legacy water components, Rigidbody joints
• Added full support for RFL metadata, allowing modders to change the display name, loading screen background image/decoration 3d model, visibility on instant action mode etc.
• Added Actor imposters, these are characters that can follow predefined ScriptedPathGroup paths but lack all AI, Colliders, Hitboxes, Ragdolls etc. These imposters can be used for cutscenes or could be placed in the background in inaccessible areas of a map/mission to fill out the battlefield with more action. Because they don't have AI and related features, they are more optimized than regular actors.
• Fixed a bug where boat navmeshes would not generate on water planes.
• Terrains inside RFLs exported with Unity 2020.3 will keep the original materials unless a shader reload is requested due to platform incompabilities. This allows modders to freely change the terrain materials.
• Fixed a bug where modded vehicle weapon names would not be assigned correctly and instead throw an error in the console.
• ActorSkinData assets used in TriggerSpawnSquad/TriggerSpawnPlayer/TriggerSpawnImposters will now be preprocessed and retargeted based on the unity rig version. This means they are now also compatible with skins made for the Unity 5 rig, but you need to set up the correct rig version in the skin's Rig Settings.
• Added mod save data, and exposed to RS (see ScriptedBehaviour.modSaveData). This is used to save and load values between game sessions. Each mod has its own save data, meaning that maps/mutators/etc in the same mod can access the same values.
• Save data is found in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\SteelRaven7\RavenfieldSteam\SaveData\Mods*mod_name*.save (on windows) in plaintext xml (so it's easier to debug).
• Added Destructible takesMeleeDamage, takesSplashDamage and takesImpactDamage (damage from being rammed by vehicles or other rigidbodies), all default to off.
• Vehicles placed in maps will no longer be removed when the map loads. This means you can now have one-off vehicles placed in your map, which is useful for story missions etc. Vehicles spawned like this can be referenced in the trigger system by using the VehicleInstance reference type.
• Fixed a bug where navmesh would sometimes not generate through terrain holes on custom levels

• Place the component on the gameobject you want to synchronize (typically a vehicle). Only once synchronized game object is allowed at a time!
• Run test mode on the map to load it up ingame. Press play mode in the editor so both the editor and the game is running at the same time.
• Press Q ingame to connect to the editor. After a few seconds the two should be connected, any the component's gameobject and children will be synchronized. (The game may freeze for a few seconds while the connection is being set up)
• One use case for this would be to record yourself driving a vehicle ingame. You can use the Unity Recorder package to record the synchronized vehicle movement keyframes as an animation, which can then be used as a cutscene in a scripted mission.

• TriggerEquipWeapon, used to equip weapons on actors
• TriggerEndMatch, triggers the victory/defeat sequence and optionally returns the game to the main menu.
• TriggerExplosion, simulates and explosion effect, damaging and pushing all nearby actors and vehicles
• TriggerEffect, can play screenshake, fades, audio events directly from triggers
• TriggerChangeScene, can load a new map from the trigger system (by specfying the .rfl or .rfld name), or return to the menu
• TriggerOnSquadRequestsNewOrder, sends a signal whenever an AI squad requests a new order. Having this component in your map prevents the AICommander from automatically issuing orders.
• TriggerFireWeapon, used to force fire a weapon from triggers
• TriggerHelicopterLanding, causes a helicopter to land at a specific landing zone (or take off again)
• TriggerSquadRecalculatePath, forces a squad to recalculate the path to their current order destination. Useful for cases where other triggers modify the map and the navmesh, and squads must now take alternate paths.
• TriggerUpdateVehicleInfo, used to update the vehicle stats
• TriggerExitVehicle, forces actors to leave a vehicle
• TriggerDeployParachute, forces actors to deploy their parachute
• TriggerSpawnImposterActors, used to spawn actor imposters that follow a predefined ScriptedPathGroup.
• TriggerChangeGravity, change the gravity of all objects in the scene
• TriggerChangeSpawnpointContainer, change the spawn points of a capture point from triggers.
• TriggerUpdateFog, change the scene fog
• TriggerUpdateAmbientLighting, change the scene ambient lighting
• TriggerChangeMaterial, changes a renderer material or the skybox material
• TriggerHideUI, hide elements of the built in UI
• TriggerShowInputPrompt, used to display a key prompt

• WeaponState data for TriggerSpawnSquad and TriggerSpawnPlayer can be used to control the ammo/etc of individual weapons when spaning.
• Added lots of new conditions to TriggerCondition
• TriggerDialog now has actor blip sound overrides so you can change the character voice audio clip
• Fixed a bug where triggering the same TriggerDialog component multiple times would sometimes cause the dialog system to stop showing up.
• Fixed a bug where TriggerOnActorDeath would trigger before the game had fully registered that actor's death, potentially leading to misleading results in TriggerCondition and similar systems.
• TriggerIssueSquadOrder can now be used to issue an AI command order (basically letting the game auto-assign a new order that makes sense)
• TriggerDelay can now optionally block signals if one is already being delayed.
• Added WeaponReference to Trigger System, this type is now available as a signal context.
• Added TriggerUsable tooltip interaction values that control how the tooltip is shown/hidden when used.
• Added SpawnBehaviour values to VehicleSpawner, can be set to only spawn vehicles from scripted events (RS/Trigger system). This will prevent the game from automatically spawning/respawning the vehicle.
• Added VehicleInfo values to TriggerSpawnVehicle, used to configure spawning health etc.
• Added canDeployParachute to spawn ActorInfo
• Added FireWeapon modifier to ScriptedPaths, use this to control the firing of weapons on actors or imposters following the path.
• TriggerUpdateActorInfo can set/increment current health value.
• TriggerSpawnPrefab can optionally propagate the signal to the first TriggerReceiver component on the instantiated prefab's root GameObject. This is used to more easily run trigger logic on a spawned prefab, and keeps the original signal's context.
• Fixed a bug where TriggerSquadFormation was not working
• Added player seat change rules for TriggerSpawnVehicle
• Added spawnSource field to TriggerSpawnSquad which can be used to control whether or not dead actors can be used for spawning (which is the default settings), or if a new actor should always be created (this can be useful if you want to spawn an actor for a specific map-related purpose but don't want to interfere with the actors in an existing game mode)
• Added per-signal documention of all trigger system signals. This includes when the signal is sent, and what context it provides to the receiving trigger component.
• Added WeaponEntry hidden flag that can be used to hide a weapon from being pickable in instant action mode (It can still be spawned in via trigger/Ravenscript)
• Added automatic signal canceling if a signal has been propagated through more than 200 components. This also logs an error with the last component the singal passed through. If this happens, you most likely have an infinite signal loop in your map/mod.
• Deprecated TriggerUpdateVehicle as it is functionally the same as TriggerUpdateVehicleInfo. The component will continue to work but will not be distributed with future RFTools packages.

• Exposed Joint to RS
• Exposed Exposed spawnpointContainer/contestedSpawnpointContainer to RS
• Exposed TriggerVolumes to RS
• Exposed ScriptedBehaviour.modSaveData to RS
• Added new TriggerScriptedSignal.Send(name) function call (without signal context argument) that generates a signal with an empty signal context.
• Exposed GameManager.gameDifficulty to RS

• Added metadata file system. Metadata are .json files next to the mod files that can either be manually edited through a text editor or changed via built in metadata editors.
• Added RFL metadata editor window that can be used to change level display name, loading screen background image, visibility in instant action mode and more. (Access via Ravenfield Tools -> Map -> Metadata Editor in the top menu bar).
• Removed unintended animation that was previously included in RFTools which wasn't used by the project
• Maps using the Trigger System will now automatically be tagged as such on the workshop. This allows players to more easily find maps with extra functionality on top of the built in game rules.
• Updated all trigger component classes to be up to date with the main project, so more documentation should now be available.
• Updated the workshop item upload window, it now shows an error message if it fails to connect to steam
• Updated the workshop item file labeling system, now metadata files such as .json, .png and .obj are visible, and also any files that aren't allowed which prevents the item from uploading.
• Added browse buttons to the workshop item file labeling lists, this opens the corresponding folder in your file explorer so you can more easily see the files
• Added Trigger Prefabs (found in RFTools/Prefabs/Trigger Prefabs. You can drag and drop these into your map to add cool predefined behaviours:
• Area Secure Bark Trigger Group: Triggers a dialog when all enemies inside the supplied trigger volume die IF the player is inside the same volume trigger. This is useful for making your pals go "Area Secure" and say other very tactical one-liners.
• Force Vehicle Pilot Look Direction: Hook this up to a vehicle to force the pilot to look in a certain direction when not engaging targets.
• Spawn Player Squad Reinforcements: When triggered and the player has less than 2 squadmates (the number can be configured), will spawn reinforcements that automatically join the player squad.
• ZOMBIES!: Provides basic zombie behaviour to the enemy team, making them rush towards the player at all times. You can activate/deactivate this object to dynamically turn this behaviour on or off during gameplay.
• Trigger Spawn Vehicle Airdrop prefab: spawns a vehicle in a parachute, and causes the closest AI squad to try to enter the vehicle when it lands

Full Change Log

• Significantly increased frame rates (Many users have reported an increase of 20-30% or even more!)
• Major performance improvements to levels made with the ingame map editor.
• Reduction of frame jitter, making the frame rate more stable.
• Proper V-sync implementation.
• This Unity engine version should now fully support the latest graphics card drivers and vice-versa.
• You can optionally run the game using Vulkan on Windows and Linux.
• Support for new engine features such as terrain holes, etc.

• Multi-threaded mod loading, reducing mod load times.
• Optimization work for framerates and reduced frame jittering.
• Improvements to bot movement code, making their movement smoother.
• Benchmark mode to easily measure game performance.
• Full Steam Input support

• Dropped compatibility for some old GPU hardware and OS versions. I have updated the minimum requirements on the game's store page accordingly so please check them out if you're concerned about this.
• Animation compatibility issues affecting some weapon/vehicle mods made in the Unity 5.6 mod tools. This is an issue with the internal game engine which I have no control over :(