Here's a patch fixing some issues in EA28: - Fixed a bug where bots would sometimes ignore all enemies for a while. - Fixed an issue with data containers weapon entry prefabs not being initialized correctly, which could potentially lead to various related bugs.

Hey all, Here's the latest Ravenfield update, featuring loads of improvements to the modding tools, including the new ability for modders to create their own story missions. One of the goals with Ravenfield's official campaign is to bring the same tools used to create official missions to the modders, and with this update all of the existing tools are now available for modders to use! The main bulk of this update comes in the form of new Trigger System components. These components can be linked together using the Ravenfield mod tools for Unity to create story driven experiences or even entire new game modes - all without having to code anything. If you're interested in creating your own story missions, now is a great time to jump in! You can find everything you need on the official modding page. Here are a two halloween-themed custom missions that have been created by Ravenfield's modding community thus far:
Penumbra by Sofa
Isolated by Hans, NefariousDrH, RadioactiveJellyfish, LeDiegue3 and Aspel There are even more missions to try out under the workshop Scripted Mission tag. You can also check out the new and improved Island, featuring an all new quarry themed capture point with multiple new paths. While most of the level layout remains intact, there have been minor tweaks here and there to improve sightlines and to create more natural paths between capture points.
Oh and don't worry, you can find the old island map on the workshop.

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

Hey hey everyone, EA27 is finally here! Holy smokes this took a long time... So what's new? Basically I have been working on getting story missions to work with the game. On top of creating a story mission I have spent a lot of time refactoring the underlying game tech so that it works with both the original instant action style sandbox gameplay and the new designed style of the story campaign. You can see the results of this in the new story mission available in the instant action menu. This mission is a part of the story campaign I announced a while back, and while it is still a work in progress (this is Ravenfield after all...) it is still playable from start to finish. In this mission, you're tasked with assaulting the Citadel and sabotaging the enemy air capabilities. It even opens with a cutscene featuring shiny new fully-animated characters :O
The idea behind this mission is to bring together parts of both Spec Ops and Battle gameplay, so you will play as both Talon and your standard Eagle grunt in the same mission. All game logic that drives this mission has been designed using the new Trigger System - a set of logic components that can be connected together using signals in the RF Mod Tools for Unity. The point of this system is to make story mission map design much more approachable for modders. One of the primary goals for the Citadel mission was to design the Trigger System itself along with the mission, making sure that similar missions can be created using only Triggers - zero coding required! This Trigger System is not limited to story missions, however. You can attach Trigger System components to any modded GameObject, meaning it can be used to drive game logic on your modded maps, vehicles, weapons, projectiles, etc. While the Trigger System can be viewed as an alternative to Ravenscript, more complex logic are usually easier to design using Ravenscript, but the choice is left entirely to the modder. The two systems are completely interoperable as you can send and receive Trigger System signals from a Ravenscript ScriptedBehavior component. Along with the Trigger System, there are other mission-related components that can be used to manually set up AI paths, detect player entering triggers, trigger cutscenes and more.
On top of the new game systems, you will probably notice that the AI has been streamlined quite a bit, and that the game plays a lot better than it did in EA26. This is due to the numerous AI changes that had to be made in order to accomodate the new trigger system and custom game mode tech. You should see the AI using their weapons in a more sane way, and utilizing cover better. The game HUD has also received a much-needed makeover, and now has a more modern and clear style. Additionally, the new HUD is modular, so custom HUDs can override specific parts of the official HUD as needed.
Now that this update is out, what's next? Most of the very time-consuming task of redoing the game infrastructure to support story missions and the Trigger System is now done. This means that you can expect much more frequent updates in the future, mainly focused on adding more official story missions and eventually becoming the story campaign. These tools are also being made available to modders right away, so modders will be able to create playable custom game modes or story missions inside level files. Eventually, modders will be able to create fully fledged custom game modes playable on any map, but we are not quite there yet, maybe for EA28 :D!

Full Change Log

Hey, here's a quick mini-update with some fixes and additions to the game. As this isn't large enough to release as it's own major EA update, I figured I'd release a mini-update to EA26. Change log: - Updated the engine version to Unity 2020.3.34f1 - Added Big Head mutator (Your head grows as you get a higher kill-streak) - Exposed bone scaling to RS via Actor.SetHumanoidBoneScale() - Exposed Actor.SetWeaponParentScale() and Actor.SetWeaponParentApproximateWorldScale() - Fixed AI sprinting behaviour, squad leaders will now sprint most of the time when moving towards an objective, but will stop sprinting when an enemy is spotted. Squad members will follow the leader and sprint to catch up. - Rebaked occlusion data on coastline - Fixed a bug where cover points would not be placed on the terrain on ingame map maker maps. (Navmesh needs to be rebaked for this to take effect on existing levels) - Disabled collisions between first person layer and Players/Actors. This should prevent weird player movement issues from occuring when using weapons with attached colliders (which is used by some modded weapons such as shields etc.). Improvements to commanding squadmates: - When assigning a move order (or attack/defend flag order), bots will no longer stop and get into cover or stop to take down faraway targets until they have arrived at their destination. - When bots are following, and are >15 meters away, they will no longer stop to get into cover or stop to shoot at faraway targets. They will still use cover as normal when within 15 meters of their desired formation position. - Tweaked some code to make AI way more likely to target the currently assigned squad target. (The one you assign by aiming down sights and holding the squad order button) See you again after summer! /Johan

This was supposed to be a 2 week update. It only took 9 months.......... EA26 is finally out! This update focuses heavily on improving upon the base game experience by heavily improving performance and compatibility with modern systems (thanks to updating to a new Unity Engine version, 2020.3). The update also features lots of quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes. One of the major improvements in EA26 is the increased framerates and reductions in frame jitter. The framerate should now scale way better with the bot count, allowing you to play with more bots than ever before. You can also run a benchmark to easily compare your performance to others. A default benchmark is available from the launch menu in Steam (launching the game with 60 bots on Island without mods loaded) but you can also use the launch option "-benchmark *bot count*" to launch a benchmark on any map, with mods enabled.
Another major new feature is full support for Steam Input. This means that you can connect any gamepad or joystick to the game through the Steam Input system, and create controller binds that you can share with other players. The game has full action map support, meaning that you can easily create separate binds for infantry, vehicle, aircraft use, etc. Additionally, the game will display key/mouse/controller input prompts based on your binds while ingame. If you're planning on playing the game with a controller, please bind all inputs through Steam Input instead of the built-in input options menu. That way, you can take advantage of the Steam Input features. I have created an official controller binds for the Dualshock 4 controller, which should automatically work for other controller types as well. EA26 improves upon the vehicle picking system, allowing mods to easily bundle vehicle variants that appear in the vehicle selection screen. When picking a vehicle, the game will now display a list of vehicles complete with images to make it easy to find exactly the vehicle you're looking for. Additionally, you can select "Show All Vehicles", allowing you to pick a vehicle regardless of type. This means you can for example replace all aircraft with cars, or vice versa.
I want to extend a big thank you to Ravenfield's modding and beta testing community for the patience and help with getting this update out. Due to compatibility issues between older mods/maps and the new Unity engine version, tons of mods have had to be patched or updated to be compatible with EA26. You can find all mods that are verified compatible with EA26 under the EA26 Compatible tag on the workshop. However, thanks to a lot of trial and error and a little bit of hacking, most older mods should now also be playable on EA26, even though there might be some hiccups here and there. If you want to play a mod that straight up does not work on EA26, you can switch to the Ravenfield legacy branch (Go to your steam library, right click Ravenfield -> Properties -> Betas and select the legacy-ea25 branch). This branch will downgrade your game version to EA25, which should be compatible with all older mods. When you want to return to EA26 to play new mods, just pick the None option in the beta dropdown.
Full change log Game changes: - Updated to Unity Engine 2020.3.32f1 - Updated post processing version to 3.1.1 - Changed AO implementation which fixes various shadow artifacts - Removed AO quality levels from the options menu as the new implementation doesn't have quality levels - Replaced limit framerate option with VSync - Loadout screen no longer extends beyond the screen on ultrawide monitors - Increased max FOV value to 180 degrees - Added -resetresolution launch option which forces the game into a 1280*720 window - Added optional Vulkan graphics API to Windows and Linux platforms, use launch option "-force-vulkan" to enable. - Added OpenGL Core graphics API as fallback on all platforms. Linux uses this graphics API by default. - Added benchmark mode which can be used to benchmark game performance. You can run a benchmark either from the game's launch menu options, or by using the command line argument "-benchmark *optional botcount*". - "-map *path*" launch option now accepts .rfld or .rfl paths as argument. - Bots and vehicles now use interpolated rigidbody movement which results in less jittery movement. - Added blood decal options in the options menu. - Reworked the Vehicle Switch screen. - Added Vehicle picker screen that shows vehicle icon and title. - Toggle "Show All Vehicles" in the vehicle picker to access all vehicles, regardless of type. - Added cool loading screens! - Improved spec ops intro, Eyes is now only introduced in the first spec ops game you play each session. - Removed fog rendering from HUD shaders. - Increased audio DSP buffer size, which should reduce crackling and other audio issues. - Improved terrain geometry and house positions on Citadel near west eagle spawn. - Fixed a bug where weapons with multiple muzzles would not fire when their ammo was set to infinite. - Refactored Actor damage code to make it easier to integrate with Ravenscript - Capped the maximum vehicle mass force gain based imparted on infantry when rammed by a vehicle - Reduced camera jitter when getting up from ragdoll. - When exiting a vehicle seat, the game will now do raycasts to determine where the exiting actor ends up. This prevents actors from ending up inside geometry or under the terrain after exiting a vehicle. - Various improvements to UI scaling and visibility, especially noticable 4k resolutions. - Fixed a bug where LUA errors would sometimes cause the Lua VM to run out of memory and overflow. Also added debug values to the console to help monitor the VM memory state. - Suppressed warning logs from builds, these weren't useful anyway and would just clog the log file. - Suppressed stack trace when logging info messages. - You can no longer swap to the seat you're already in. - Ragdolls that are moving faster than 20 meters per second will now automatically use continuous collision detection, which should prevent ragdolls tunneling through the terrain or other static geometry. - Updated physics settings to speed up the game and provide more stable physics simulation (reduced risk of the spaghetti man appearing!) - Fixed a bug where bots would sometimes tunnel through the level geometry when deploying their parachute very close to ground level. - Added one progress bar per content mod worker in the mod loading screen. This allows you to monitor the progress of loading each mod. The point of this is to more easily debug the cases where modding unexpectedly hangs, as it's now possible to see what mod is being loaded when everything breaks. - Added a -strictmodversion launch option. When this launch option is used, the game will only load mods created with the same major unity version. That is, EA26 will only load mods built with 2020.3.XX versions of Unity. - Fixed car pathfinding on the coastline cliff ruins flag (finally lol) - Updated navmeshes on Coastline and Archipelago - Made water deeper around attack boats on Twin Island, and also rotated the attack boat spawns 90 degrees - Fixed an issue where APC lock on sounds were not affected by sound volume settings - Added -resetresolution launch option that will force reset the game to run in a 1280*720 window - Removed box men option, replaced with box men actor skin that's available in the actor skin dropdown menu (it's called Ravenfield 2016). - Added kick foot model for box man skin - Major improvements to transport helicopter landing AI, it happens much faster and more reliably now - Improved spec ops detection system so it's easier to escape detection - Replaced visibility test randomness with a deterministic system when bots are detecting you in spec ops. This should make the detection system easier to understand. - Fixed a bug where bots would not detect you if they didn't have a weapon that was effective against you. - Added helicopter patrol to Spec Ops. A transport helicopter carrying high-level enemies will be called in if you're spotted and the defenders manage to fire a flare. - Laser sight dots are now scaled based on distance to the player camera - Filled up a hole in the citadel mesh Input changes: - Added support for Steam Input to the game. This control system completely bypasses the options menu keybindings, and allows you to set up pretty much any gamepad/joystick/other controller through the Steam Input UI. - Added default Steam Input bindings for Dualshock 4 controllers. - Added sprint toggle option. - Added bindable seat keys (defaults to F1 -> F7) - Added keybind visualizer system, which will be exposed to RS later. - The game keeps track of the active input type (Unity default or Steam Input). This is used when deciding which control glyph to render. - Added Controller Hint option toggle. Disabling it stops the game from displaying the default control hints. Control prompts such as Press F to plant timed explosive in spec ops are still shown regardless of the setting. Optimization: - Forced all terrains to use a default material - Terrains now use instanced rendering on high terrain quality, reducing CPU rendering overhead on modern systems. - Replaced Ingame Map Editor level generator code, which runs faster and produces more detailed results. - Ingame Map Editor levels now use Unity's built in mesh baker, significantly reducing the CPU overhead when rendering the level. On busy levels, this can lead to more than twice the frame rate! - The game now uses GPU skinning to offload the CPU. - The game now uses graphics jobs, which should multi-thread parts of the rendering work. - Added deferred squad spawning, meaning the game will spawn at most one squad every frame by default. This reduces frame spikes when spawning lots of bots at once. - Reworked the minimap code and rendering, significantly boosting overall game performance. - Tweaked a physics property to prevent the engine from doing unnecessary synchronization of physics transforms. - Disabled graphics raycasting on some game UI elements that didn't need them. - Airplane ailerons now move correctly according to roll input (they were reversed before) - Actor animator now internally uses precalculated parameter hashes instead of strings - Optimized name tags mutator, it now uses the new PlayerHud element tracking. - Deferred lua console updates to happen max once per frame. Various tweaks to AI weapon usage to reduce rocket spam towards helicopters/airplanes and similar long range shots: - Added weapon target difficulty value, for example targeting a helicopter with the dagger is considered a Hard shot. - Added bot skill level value. Bots will only take shots that are within their skill level ability. - Bots that haven't engaged any targets in a while can attempt harder shots. - Weapon difficulty values can be set manually using the new mod tools pack, but will be automatically set by matching the weapon to a weapon architype such as machine gun, pistol, rocket launcher etc. Various improvements to mod content loading: - Added multi-threading to mod loading, allowing the game to load multiple mods at once. - Shader reloading is run on all platforms when loading a content mod that was built with an Unity editor version that doesn't match the game's current engine version. - Auto-upgrading of deprecated Plane component class to Airplane. - Added fallback shader lookup for legacy shaders resolving. - Added "-verbose" launch option, which logs shader resolving results. If you're experiencing pink error materials, you can find out which shader failed to resolve using this feature. - Mod content such as weapon entries, skins, mutators etc are now sorted by source mod. - Added source mod title grouping in the weapon picker UI. - Added support for vehicle content variants, allowing modders to package multiple vehicles of the same type in their vehicle content mods. - Added retargeting system for actor skins, allowing the game to load and retarget skins made in engine version 5.6 and 2020.3 (and any future versions) - When resolving material shaders, the game will now keep the material's render queue value (previously the game would change it to the shader's default render queue value). - Attempted to fix 5.6 maps terrain tree instances colliding with player. This is done by assuming that only capsule colliders should be solid (as these the collider types that are typically used for tree trunks, etc). All other collider types are assumed to be Ai Vision blockers. Modding changes: - Exposed WeaponEntry.uiSprite to Ravenscript - Added weapon target difficulty value - Added AnimationCurves, Color and Gradient to the data container component - Added a warning when custom weapon CullInThirdPerson values would cull the third person transform. This also prevents the third person transform being culled. - Removed support for CustomActorSkin in custom maps as it was using an outdated actor skin system that was incompatible with Unity 2020.3 - Added actor skin retargeting to DataContainers, which should make it so actor skins loaded from data containers should be retargeted correctly. - Added HUD Unlit shader variant - HUD Light material now uses alpha blending (identical to EA24 and earlier releases). Use HUD Additive for additive blending. - Exposed variout requested featured to common classes such as SpawnUI, Player, Actor, Weapon, Projectile, Minimap, AiActorController and Vehicle classes. - Added PlayerHud class that can be used to automatically track world objects on a 2d canvas. - Exposed player loadout to RS - Exposed OnAnimatorIK to RS - Exposed VideoPlayer/VideoClip to RS - Various improvements to navmesh generation which should improve the generated navmesh shapes. - The last error logged in the console will now automatically stack. This should prevent the entire console from being clogged when the same error is thrown every frame. - Added .patch file support. Patch files contain extra data that can be used to recover old, outdated mods to be compatible with new Ravenfield builds. This is currently used to recover animations that appear broken on EA26 due to a compatibility bug inside the Unity engine. - The game now tries to log the source directory of ScriptedBehaviours. This should help debug issues with RS from log files. - Fixed Vehicles.GetTrackingMissiles() throwing clr type cast errors. - Exposed various projectile types to RS. The API of all projectiles are currently identical, but they will be populated with type specific properties in future updates. - References to destroyed GameObjects/Components will now evaluate to nil in RS, creating parity with the official Unity API. - Exposed DamageInfo, HitInfo and ExplosionInfo structs to RS, which simplifies the RS API when interacting with damage values and events, etc. - Added various damage/explosion events using the DamageInfo and ExplosionInfo data structs. - Exposed ExplosionConfiguration to RS. - Exposed ActorManager.Explode() that can be used to trigger an explosion from RS. - Added Weapon.GenerateWeaponRoleFromStats() which generates a weapon role based on the weapon stats. Can be useful for classifying weapons. - Added OnVehicleDisabled and OnVehicleExtinguish events in RS - Exposed PlayableDirector to RS - Made it possible to disable stabilization for each axis on MountedStabilizedTurrets. This will be made available through a future RF mod tools update. - Debug gizmos triggered from RS (Debug.DrawLine etc) are now visible through geometry - When running the game in test content mod mode while in the test game mode, the game draws the path of your squadmates. Known issues with this update - Many mods made in Unity Editor 5.6 have broken animations in this update. This is a bug in the Unity engine itself and isn't fixable from the game code. I have however generated patch files for some older, unmaintained mods to get around this. It is recommended that mods suffering from this bug is re-exported using Unity 2020.3 and the 2020.3-compatible Ravenfield modding tools. Alternatively, It is sometimes possible to solve this issue in the Unity 5.6 tools by making sure the "Resample Curves" option is checked inside the animation import settings of a model, and then re-exporting the mod. - Some maps made in Unity Editor 5.6 have broken collisions on trees and other detail objects. The game tries to solve this by assuming that only capsule colliders are solid, and any other colliders should only block bot vision. This runtime patch is only applied on 5.6-made maps, and does not affect fully compatible maps created in Unity Editor 2020.3.xx. Trouble running the update? If you're having problems running this update, please make sure that your system drivers are up to date, and that your system passes the minimum requirements of the game. You can always access the previous update EA25 by changing to the legacy-ea25 branch by following these instructions: [olist]

Hey, I'm back with another news post about EA26, let's get right into it! The EA26 update is now mostly done, and is playable on Ravenfield's beta branch. I originally wanted to release EA26 before leaving on my winter break, but there are still a few issues that I want to tackle before making it available to everyone. I expect EA26 to launch in February. Also, as I mentioned in my previous post there are unfortunately many compatibility issues with older mods in EA26, most of which are outside my control. To aid with the transition to EA26, I have created a guide for modders on how to update mods to be compatible with EA26, which you can find here! I have also added an EA26 Compatible tag on the workshop, where mods that are compatible with EA26 can be found. It is up to the modders themselves to verify and mark their mods as compatible with EA26, and you can find a guide on how to do this in the guide posted above. In most cases, it's as easy as downloading the latest mod tools, changing a few asset options and re-uploading the mod. Other than the mod compatibility issues, EA26 plays pretty well so if you're interested in trying out the improvements to AI and performance, you should definitely switch to the beta branch! Unsure how to switch to the beta branch? Here's how! By popular demand, I have added a Maps - Mod Tools tag to the workshop. All maps created using the mod tools (IE ones not made using the ingame editor) are available under both the Maps and the Maps - Mod Tools tags. This makes it possible to filter maps based on which tool they were created with. Please make sure you have the latest mod tools installed when uploading a map for it to be tagged correctly! Finally, I want to wish you all Happy Holidays, I'll see you next year! /Johan (SteelRaven7)

Hey! It's been a while since the game last recieved an Early Access update, I just wanted to let everyone know what I'm working on and why it has taken a while! Game engine update Since its Steam release in 2017, Ravenfield has run on a now-outdated version of Unity (Unity 5.6). While this engine version has worked fairly well throughout the years, it is no longer officially supported by Unity which leads to compatibility issues with more modern hardware. Also, Unity 5.6 has not been receieving bugfixes since early 2019 which isn't ideal. In June this year, I experimented with updating the game engine to the latest stable release of Unity, 2020.3. The initial experiments seemed promising and apart from some bugs the game even ran faster than before. That's why I decided to update the game to the 2020.3 engine version for EA26. After I released EA25 I took a few weeks off, and then started working on EA26 in september. So that's what I've been working on since september, but unfortunately the task of updating from 5.6 to 2020.3 has taken a lot longer than expected due to hundreds of compatibility-related bugs. For the last two weeks or so the game has run pretty well on the new engine version, with the following improvements over EA25:

• 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 :(

I've released two patches to the EA25 update. If you're having trouble surviving in the new helicopter, I'd recommend trying the restricted anti-air mutator that is now bundled with the game. The mutator restricts AI ground vehicles and boats from firing at aircraft. July 19th patch: - Fixed vehicle first-person head bob weight value not being applied correctly. - Reduced default vehicle first-person head bob. - Improvements to follower bot movement which significantly reduces movement jitter, particularly at lower frame rates - Fixed a bug where bots would sometimes get stuck in place. - Bots will now follow paths more closely. - Exposed weapon effectiveness values to Ravenscript - Added enclosed muffle sound mix option, which will become available in the tools pack later. - Added target tracker lock on to empty vehicle option, which will become available in the tools pack later. - Fixed a bug where bots would sometimes get stuck when trying to re-enter a transport vehicle. July 20th patch: - Added Restrict Anti-Air mutator which restricts AI from using car/boat weapons against aircraft. - Exposed seat.weapons and seat.activeWeapon to Ravenscript - Exposed GameEvents.onVehicleSpawn to Ravenscript - Exposed GameEvents.onTurretActivated to Ravenscript /Johan (SteelRaven7)

Heyyy, it's time for another Ravenfield EA build update!
EA25 overhauls the attack helicopter with a new look and new weapons. On top of a 24-round rocket pod the helicopter now packs 4 long-range laser-guided missiles that are ready to take out those enemy tanks! The missiles will automatically track laser target crosshair at the center of your screen, even while in-flight. Additionally, by holding right click and looking around you can move the laser target to track any point you look at. While this system will not automatically track vehicles for you, you can still use it to manually track and take out targets which is particularly effective at long ranges. Also, countermeasures will not cause the missile to loose track so fire away!
Bot movement has received some major improvements, in particular in CQC areas. Bots will now slow down when turning corners and, in close quarters, lean and clear corners. This results in slower but more tactical gameplay on small maps.
EA25 also has some code optimization which targets frame stutters in particular. Hopefully this should result in the game running more smoothly with less frame hiccups. Full change log: Helicopter changes: - Updated attack helicopter model - The attack helicopter rocket pods now hold 24 rockets, but has a slightly reduced fire rate and direct-hit damage. The rockets still have quite strong splash damage, making them very useful against infantry or low-armor vehicles. - Added laser-guided missiles, which have high direct-hit damage but low splash damage. These missiles are very effective against armored targets such as tanks and APCs. It's also possible to hit aircraft with a bit of practice! - Added laser-guided target tracking system. When using a laser-guided missile, the missile will automatically target the center of your crosshair. By holding right click you can look around as the pilot, which allows you to move the laser target crosshair. Laser-guided weapons will not lock on directly to enemy vehicles, but you can still track them by moving the laser target while the missile is in-flight. By tapping right click, you can reset the laser target crosshair to the center of your screen. - The laser-guided missiles can only be fired when the laser target is within a target circle. This prevents you from firing at targets to the side of or behind the helicopter. - Added auto-hover feature that is available on all helicopters. When auto-hover is enabled (default key E) the helicopter will automatically level out and keep altitude. This is very useful when setting the laser target for your missiles. - Updated the helicopter HUD to be slimmer and more readable and added more information. Improved helicopter flight model: - Added ground effect, which gives some extra thrust when close to the ground. This makes it easier to recover when you're about to crash into the ground. - The official helicopters now have directional drag forces. This allows the helicopters to travel significantly faster when pointing into the relative air-flow. Bot improvements: - Bots will now handle corners better by slowing down and aiming towards their next destination. - In CQC zones, bots will slow down a lot and lean when turning a corner. - Improvements to where bots look when they aren't targeting an enemy. - Bots no longer play the mantling animation when walking up slopes. They still play the animation when climbing over low walls, however. Gameplay changes: - Added muzzle flash light effect on non-suppressed weapons. - Muzzle flash light effect intensity can be decreased or disabled entirely in the options menu. - Explosions now also trigger a light effect. - Added smoothing system to bot movement, making them less jittery when walking over uneven terrain. - All explosion effects now use the new smoke particles. - Optimized several explosion effects, reducing the overall particle count about 70-80% - It's no longer possible to enter a vehicle if there are passengers of the enemy team already inside. - Fixed an issue where the ragdoll stand up animation would sometimes play when in water. - Added a terrain fallback material that is used when the terrain material fails to load (which would result in a pink error material). - Added occlusion map to new attack helicopter and bomber. - Vehicle first person and third person cameras now have slight acceleration-based head bob. - Fixed a bug where plane rocket thruster effect would not be disabled on explosion. - All vehicle weapons will now auto-reload when empty. - The official airplane and attack helicopter HUDs will now be automatically dimmed on night levels. - The official airplane and attack helicopter HUDs now use a monospace font with additive blending on HUD elements. - Slightly reduced attack plane machine gun damage. - Slightly reduced attack plane and bomber health - Slightly reduced AA damage - Wrench is now automatic (Spamming the fire button really made my fingers hurt after repairing the helicopter for the 100th time lol) - Fixed a bug where joystick binds would not save correctly. - Improved audio mixing when inside enclosed vehicles. - When using third person in enclosed vehicles, the audio mix will now update accordingly. Optimization: - Refactored the capture point take-over system so it should run faster by using RAM more efficiently. - Each frame, the capture status of one capture point is evaluated. This makes the evaluation happen more often, but evenly spreads out the work over each frame. This should result in reduced frame stutter. - Added an AI tick scheduling system which automatically spreads out AI work across frames. This should result in reduced frame stutter. The AI scheduling system targets 5 updates per second for each bot. - The AI tick scheduling system will automatically throttle the AI workload when the game runs at low framerates. This makes AI react slightly slower but should prevent massive framerate drops. When running at normal framerates (>60 fps) with a normal bot count, the AI workload is never throttled, so bots will remain alert. - Optimized car wheel physics by precomputing transformation data. - Optimized projectile hitreg code by removing some unnecessary calculations. Modding changes: - Fixed an issue where custom turrets would not load in test content mode. - Navmesh generation scene camera now renders skybox and has an attached audio listener. - Made Weapon.OnFire() consumable, which cancels the shot. - Exposed Seat.cameraType to RS - Exposed ActorWalkable layer mask to RS Story campaign progress Last month I announced my plans for Ravenfield's story campaign. While I don't have anything playable in this update, I want to share some of the progress I've made so far. Please note that these features are still in development and are not yet available to modders! - Added actor triggers with configurable shape
These triggers are intended to be used in story missions to trigger events such as attack orders, dialog, sound effects and more! It's possible to configure the trigger volulme shape, which is useful for creating triggers in complex areas. As a bonus, it's now possible to use these triggers as the capture volume for flags! This is currently only used in the east bunker capture point on the citadel map, seen in the image above. The volume triggers will also be exposed to Ravenscript, allowing modders to easily check which actors are inside, etc. - Added waypoint system
The waypoint system allows modders to set up premade waypoints for their missions, which gives full control over the movement of squads of bots while the game is being played. Bots will follow a predefined path, and the system allows bots to synchronize movement with each other while also being able to trigger animations and stance changes. I think this system could be very useful not only for controlling bot movement in missions, but also for creating custom cinematics in an easy-to-use way. It will definitely be exciting to see what modders will come up with once this system is ready! Finally, I've been investigating the possibility of updating Ravenfield to run on a newer version of the Unity engine, 2020.3. While I'm still working on getting the game to run stably on the new engine version, the results so far look very promising with improved performance and stability. Transitioning to a new engine version will inevitably break some mods, but I plan on working closely with the modding community to mitigate this as much as possible. I'll have more information about this at a later date. I hope you'll enjoy this update! /Johan (SteelRaven7)

Hi everyone and thank you for the awesome response to the last EA24 update! As some of you may already know, Ravenfield is now on it's 4th year in Early Access. Originally I intended to finish the game within 1-2 years, but since then the game has grown quite a bit in scope with additional features like new maps, more vehicle types and improved modding support using scripting. Your overwhelming support and the creativity of the modding community has well exceeded my expectations as the game is played by thousands of people every day. It is genuinely a fun project to work on, even after 5 years in development. We're now at a point in development where the base gameplay works nicely, even if there still are a bunch of bugs and issues I still need to iron out. That is, I feel like the instant action part of the game works well. The part that still needs major improvement is Conquest mode, and I have spent some time thinking about how to improve it and integrate it better with Ravenfield's core design of approachability and customizability. Problems with Conquest Mode The Conquest mode was originally designed to combine a strategical world-map layer with story/dialog elements to provide a background and stakes to the Eagle/Raven war. At the moment, almost none of the story elements are available in Conquest as this turned out to be really difficult to get working in a fun way without being too intrusive on the strategy elements. Another issue with Conquest is that the same central maps are being fought over repeatedly, with others being ignored almost entirely. This was resolved by adding an Auto-Complete battle feature, but skipping a battle simply isn't very fun and feels like wasted opportunity. Also, the current version of Conquest would be very difficult to mod, and require very complicated external tools to edit or extend. This also seems like wasted opportunity and goes against Ravenfield's core of easily being able to configure your experience like you can in Instant Action mode. To solve these problems, I've decided that the best direction to take is to split the current conquest into two separate modes, a Story Campaign and a new, streamlined Conquest Mode. Story Campaign The Story Campaign centers on the war as seen from the eyes of the Advisor and the special forces group TALON she commands. You have already gotten a glimpse of this group through the updated Spec Ops game mode, but there is still much to discover about TALON and the characters around the group who aid and manage its operation.
I'm working together with long-time community member Starstrafe to bring these wacky characters to life through illustrations which will appear in dialog sequences throughout the campaign. The Story Campaign will be split into 3 acts where each act features one or two story missions along with spiced-up battles and story elements. I have set a goal to create a story that should take around 2-3 hours to complete on your first playthrough. Going for a short length should prevent the campaign updates being released over an endless number of updates (I actually want to get this done), and help ensure quality over quantity. I also want to keep the Campaign progress highly transparent and available to you all, so on top of the Act 1/2/3 updates I also plan on pushing intermediate updates featuring standalone campaign missions. These missions will eventually be integrated into the campaign story. I have already started work on the story campaign, and I want to release the first story mission in the EA26 update for you to try out (which will be out after my summer break). If I get enough progress done in time for this summer's EA25 update, I will include an early sneak-peek version of the mission. Conquest Mode version 2.0 While I'm still figuring out the details of this mode, I want to make a streamlined version of the current conquest mode. This mode will not feature any story details (for example, the war room scene of the current conquest mode and the tech tree will be removed). Instead the new mode focuses 100% on an "arcady" approach to playing Conquest where you purchase upgrades to your army and try to conquer all enemy-controlled levels. The plan is to let the player decide what weapons/vehicles/levels they want to appear on the strategy map and generate a conquest scenario from that. This would also support custom content such as weapons, vehicles and maps. The main goal for the new conquest mode is being able to set up custom conquest scenarios from within the game itself (no need for modding tools!). I'm still figuring out the design this mode, and it will not be available for some time as I want to focus my efforts on the story campaign for now. Modding: Scripted Missions and Custom Game Modes While scripted story missions are an integral part of the story campaign, I also want to make scripted missions available to modders. Scripted missions could either be a story mission that plays on a specific map, or even a custom game mode selectable in Instant Action that can be played on any map. As I create the story missions for the official campaign, I want to design a simple-to-use system that is reusable for modders. This system would be used with or without Ravenscript (Ravenfield's lua-based scripting framework), depending on the complexity of what you want to achieve. I intend to make it possible to set up simpler story missions without having to write a single line of Ravenscript code. Finally, modders will be able to create custom scripted campaigns which can, for example, include a sequence of story missions. Custom campaigns will be driven by Ravenscript to make them highly customizable. It will not be possible to create custom campaigns without the use of Ravenscript. For more information how these changes will influence modding, please see this modding document. End of Early Access When the Story Campaign, new Conquest mode and scripted campaigns/missions are available in the game I intend to finish the early access period of Ravenfield and release the 1.0 version. I want to keep supporting the game after the 1.0 release with bugfixes, general improvements and localization. I hope this new direction for the game makes as much sense for both players and modders as it does for me. I really want to start taking major strides towards finishing the game and nailing down exactly what constitutes Ravenfield 1.0. In Summary
Feel free to let me know what you think about this in the comments to this post or on the Ravenfield Discord server at https://discord.gg/ravenfield. Please note that I won't be able to answer any comments directly, but I will certainly read them and take them into account! /Johan (SteelRaven7) Please Note: All details in this post are work-in-progress and are still subject to change. I tried to make this post as comprehensive as possible, but game development is difficult and things might need some tweaking! :)

Hey! Early Access build 24 is finally here with updates to the Citadel level, aircraft and tons of quality-of-life improvements to gameplay. The main focus for EA24 is the overhauled Citadel level. Pretty much everything in the level has been updated, which should give the level a nice flow and several ways of attacking the central citadel. Major changes have been made to the areas outside the citadel, such as adding bunkers for the defending team. The defenders now have access to airplanes via the takeoff platform suspended over the citadel wall. The level is quite different from most official maps as you get quite a different experience playing on the attacking or defending team. I hope you'll enjoy it!
EA24 also updates the two official airplanes, both visually and their flight handling. Both aircraft have received a shiny new model with an updated, more informative HUD. The attack plane now carries more ammo than before, making hit-and-run attacks a little easier to pull off. All airplanes, including modded ones can now land by holding throttle down and flying close to the ground. This will extend the landing gears and activate airbrakes which slows the aircraft down and lands it. There have also been some minor changes to the flight model which should make aircraft feel more nimble than before.
The ingame map editor has also received an update which gives the maker more control over the lighting and feel of their map. I hope this brings out some extra creativity to those custom maps! Finally, this update contains a ton of fixes and improvements to the game play and AI, please see the change log below for details!
Full change log Citadel level has been fully overhauled: - Removed bridge between the two defender outposts outside the citadel walls, creating two separate attacker lanes. - Split the attacker's first spawn into two separate spawns, one for each side of the river. The bridge connecting the two sides of the attacker spawn is still there so it's possible to cross to the other side easily. - Added suspended takeoff/landing platform for airplanes at the citadel. - Added 2 attack planes for defenders. - Removed helicopter from defenders. - Added attack helicopter to attacker spawn. - Attackers now get one APC and one tank. - Added bunkers and several anti-tank and machine gun turrets for defenders. - Added one anti-air turret on the east bunker. - General improvements to village area, giving it more structure. - Redid the HQ building and tower in citadel. - Added various stone and supply props to citadel for cover. - Added rocks and trees to break up sightlines outside the citadel. - Added vis occluders to Citadel trees Attack airplane and bomber overhaul: - Updated HUD with speed/altitude/gear/brake indicators - Updated the heading indicator HUD elements to make them a little more clear and less obtrusive. - All airplanes (including modded ones) can now land by holding throttle down while being close to ground. This will automatically extend the landing gear and allow you to land. - Overhauled the handling of the attack plane. - Balanced attack plane weapons, giving it more ammo but slightly less damage. - All airplanes can now airbrake by throttling down when close to the ground. - Updated bomber turret to use the new stabilized turret, making it way easier to hit targets. - Both official airplanes now have landing gear suspension. AI updates: - Restricted squad clustering (IE when vehicles would slow down to cover nearby infantry) to only occur when close to enemy capture points, or if the cluster is taking fire. - Fixed a bug where AI would not halt when firing long range shots while in vehicles. - Updated AI Airplane swerving, so bots are less likely to crash into the target they are currently engaging. - Added reload assist to bots in airplanes so they reload their weapons while doing U-turns in order to engage a target. - There is a small chance of infantry bots chasing after a nearby target if it goes out of sight. This never applies to bots in the player squad. - Made it slightly easier for bots to lock on with target locking weapons. - Fixed an issue where bots could sometimes lock on to targets behind them. - AI will now have slightly worse aim directly after taking damage. - AIs shooting from cover are now slightly less accurate directly after uncrouching - Aircraft pilots will now only bail out if they are close to a valid infantry navmesh. - AI will no longer use turrets that aren't facing an enemy capture point. If the defense strategy is set to "always man turrets", all turrets will be manned anyway. Additionally, anti-air turrets will always be manned. - Improved AI order generation based on neighbors, now bots will never use land vehicles or walk when attacking a neighbor that is set to water only, even if that point is technically reachable by land - Fixed a bug where the AI would not target enemies correctly with mounted turrets - Fixed a bug where AI would sometimes shoot through walls/cover while crouching - Improvements to AI cover usage when defending flags. - Reduced risk of AI friendly fire through explosions when they are using cover. - If AI accidentally misfires an explosive projectile, friendly fire damage will be reduced. - Bots now prefer cover points with ceiling protection (As that protects them better against explosions, mortars, air to ground attacks etc. To take advantage of this change, a new navmesh must be generated. Bots will now keep track of targets for a few seconds, even if they temporarily go out of sight: - This always applies to high priority targets (such as a vehicle capturing a flag, or a target assigned by the player). - Bots on turrets will keep track of targets if they are of their preferred target type. - Bots in airplanes will always keep track of targets. This makes them more aggressive and use their weapons way more. Input improvements: - Improved memory management of the input system for optimized access. - Joystick inputs will now only bind on change in the input options menu. This makes it way easier to bind your inputs. - Added deadzone slider that will control the joystick input deadzone. Rendering Optimization: - Optimized terrain rendering on the official maps. This will lead to slightly more pop-in but reduced CPU overhead when rendering. - Baked soldier smirk into the soldier material, reducing the draw call overhead for rendering a character from 2 to 1. - Soldiers behind the player will have their weapons culled. Please note that if you're experiencing low frame rates with the game, try running the game without mods and see if that helps. I also recommend reducing or disabling the vegetation rendering in the video options menu. That seems to give me quite a big increase in frames per second on many levels. Ingame map editor: - You can now tweak the ambient lights for both day and night versions of a map. - You can select a post processing preset for your map. - Added ability to tweak sun/moon positions in the sky. - Fixed fog not being applied and added daytime fog density parameter. - Added skybox atmosphere parameters. - Added water volume, allowing you to create lakes that spots that are higher than the ocean water level. - Added ability to change the ocean water level. - Changing these level detail parameters will now update the scene view in realtime, making iteration a little easier :) - Pressing the night vision button will toggle night vision inside the editor. - Added new props from the citadel level. - Night vision can be turned on in-editor by pressing the night vision input key (default N). Misc game improvements: - Moved unfinished levels (Tunnel, Twin Islands) to the bottom of the map list. - Fixed lighting on Tunnel level, although it's still pretty broken :/ - Fixed a rare bug where entering a vehicle seat would sometimes cause the screen to go black or start glowing white. - When switching seats in a vehicle, if an AI is already occupying that seat, you will switch seat with them. - You can now easily take over an AI vehicle by pressing use on it, even when it's already occupied. Entering the driver seat will automatically make the passengers join your squad. Entering a passenger seat does not modify your squad, so you can ride as a temporary passenger if you like. If there are no seats left, the bot you replace will be kicked out of the vehicle and create their own squad. - Spec Ops helicopter exfil now supports custom transport helicopters (So long as it can fit your spec ops squad, otherwise the default helicopter will be used). - All preplaced audio sources in a level will now be set to use the world mixer group. This makes them react to your sound volume setting or slow motion effect. - Added UI scaling for resolutions above 1080p for parts of the UI. This makes it way easier to select spawn points, or click the pause menu buttons on 4k screens or similar. - Minimap resolution is doubled when playing on >1080p screens. - Spec ops flare now fades in/out smoothly. - Updated post processing presets on all levels. - Updated occlusion data on most levels. - All official mounted turrets now use the new stabilized mounted turret script. - Added slight recoil to the mounted turret cameras. - Updated turret cameras and projectile impact effects. - Fixed a bug where mortars would not hit their indicated target. - Updated water material so it is influenced by ambient lighting (Previously only direct lighting would affect it). - Added High Dynamic Range (HDR) rendering option in the video options. - Fixed spec ops not starting when no primary weapon was selected - Only projectiles fired by bots will now make flyby sounds. - Fixed a bug where missiles without a target lock would never accelerate to the max travel speed. - Fixed an issue where the weapon selection UI would sometimes not list weapons. - Fixed an issue where projectiles would stop in mid air when hitting vehicle debris - Made it easier to select the correct flag when using the squad ordering map. - Made attack helicopters slightly faster when travelling forward, and overall a little more agile. - Fixed a bug where the vehicle HUD would sometimes not render after entering a vehicle. - LOD objects will no longer be baked together for ingame map maker made levels. - Various minor bugfixes to projectiles and missiles and the missile tracking indicator - Spec ops objective markers now have a distance label. - Added outline to spec ops objective markers so they are easier to see with bright backgrounds. - Fixed a bug with PlayerRecoilCamera which caused vehicles like the Tank and APC to not have recoil applied properly in first person mode. - Fixed a bug where AI Vision Occluder colliders would sometimes cause the player to be pushed - Exfil helicopter crew can no longer be ordered by the player using quick orders. Ravenscript: - Exposed parachute functionality. - Exposed AiActorController.targetFlightAltitude. - Exposed various airplane flags such as airbrake, altitude, gearsRetracted, isAirborne - Added Squad.Create() function. - Exposed various Collider classes to RS (BoxCollider, CapsuleCollider and SphereCollider) - Exposed missile tracking and lock on status to Vehicle in RS - AI.canJoinPlayerSquad value exposed to RS I hope you'll enjoy this update and all the improvements it brings to the game! I will post an news update regarding the Ravenfield 1.0 release soon, so please look forward to that! /Johan (SteelRaven7)

The Spec Ops update Pt 2 adds features such as Flares, Exfiltration and smarter patrols to the Spec Ops mode. When attacking objectives, it is good idea to strike quickly or using stealth to prevent the enemy from firing a signal flare, which attracts nearby patrols. Flares are also very bright, so they may blind on night levels when using Night Vision. The TALON spec ops team now carries C4 explosives, which can be planted on parked vehicles. You can even plant C4 without picking up the item in your loadout by walking up to the destroy target vehicle objective and pressing the use key to plant C4 with a 30 second timer. Alternatively, you can send one of your squadmates to plant an explosive using the squad command button. This should give you lots of options to completing your objective even if you forgot to bring anti-vehicle weapons!
TALON is now supported by a recon operative, EYES, who will call out nearby patrols and mark them on your minimap. This is very useful as suriving enemies on completed objectives may now leave their post and try to hunt you down. EYES is only available when playing as TALON on the Eagle team, so try playing on the Raven team for some extra challenge!
After completing all objectives, you must now make it to an exfiltration transport helicopter, and enter it with your squad to win. Alternatively, if all TALON operatives are alive and you are not being hunted by the enemy, you will exfiltrate on foot and skip the helicopter exfiltration entirely. Perfect for speedrunning :). Finally, EA23 adds much nicer post processing effects to the game. On top of improved Color Correction and Bloom, Ambient Occlusion is now available along with FXAA and SMAA anti-aliasing. You can find these options in the Video Options menu tab. Full patch notes: Spec Ops Improvments: - Added Neutralize Patrol objective type. - Improved the spawning location of the attacking team, you should now always spawn around 200 meters away from the closest objective. - You can plant C4 on the "Destroy Vehicle" target by pressing the use key when close to it. This even works if you didn't bring any C4 or other anti-vehicle weapons. - You can order your squadmates to plant C4 on the "Destroy Vehicle" target by issuing a squad order using the quick squad order key. - Added EYES to Spec Ops. EYES is a recon operator who will provide you with intelligence on enemy patrol movement, such as alerting you if a patrol is about to spot you. EYES is only available when playing on the Eagle team. - Patrolling vehicles now have a maximum of 4 passengers - The balance slider can now be used to set the number of teammates in spec ops. Each soldier in the game preview image corresponds to one teammate. - Spec ops now uses the cinematic victory/defeat screens - Major improvements to defender AI in spec ops mode - Added flares, which a squad defending a flag will fire if they spot you. There is some delay before they are able to fire the flare, so it's a good idea to take them out quickly or using stealth. - Flares attract nearby patrols to the location. They are also quite bright so they may make your Night Vision unsuable. - You can be spotted from further away when standing under an active flare - Made the spec ops teammates harder to detect when they are close to the player. There are now 2 possible endings to spec ops, either quick victory (where the game instantly ends when all objectives are completed) or helicopter exfiltration: - Quick victory will only fire if all attackers are still alive when the game ends. On large levels, you also need to be unseen by enemies when the game ends. - Helicopter exfil victory will fire otherwise, where you need to get to the exfil location and enter the helicopter. Game Improvements: - Added remote detonated C4 weapon. - Fixed a bug which would cause tracking missiles to sometimes fail to track enemies. - Removed legacy post processing effects - Added new and shiny post processing effects using the Unity Post Processing Stack. - Added Color Correction, Bloom and Ambient Occlusion post processing effects and settings to options menu - Added support for FXAA, SMAA anti-aliasing. - Removed forced MSAA anti-aliasign when running the game on the highest graphics setting. - All levels now use improved post processing, including custom levels. - Fixed a bug where stabilized mounted turrets would rotate even when no-one is using them. - Night vision can now be toggled in spectator and photo mode without the screen turning black. - The version warning dialog box is now red and has larger text to make it stand out more. - Slightly increased the size of APC hitboxes - Fixed a pathfinding issue on temple near waterfalls at the center of the map - Fixed CSG meshes on Coastline not generating properly - Multiple mods can now be loaded when running the game in content mod test mode by specifying multiple -testcontentmod arguments in the launch options. - Dialog portraits now use higher quality compression so they look even nicer, particularly at 4k resolutions! - Made timers a bit more cache-friendly so you might see some slight speedups on computers with low memory speeds - When exiting a vehicle, it will no longer immediately automatically brake. This makes it way easier to ram enemies (or planting c4 on your vehicles as a moveable IED) - Fixed seat exit offset for jeep. You will now end up beside the jeep when exiting it. - When exiting a vehicle, you will now unholster the last equipped weapon. - Fixed bugs with throwable weapons (such as grenades and the c4). It should no longer be possible to throw an extra phantom grenade by spamming fire when you throw the last ammo. Also improved resupplying/reloading behaviour and fixed soft-lock bugs. - Minor improvements to helicopter AI. They will now tilt the helicopter less than before, unless they are attacking enemies. - Fixed bug where SL-defender would shoot slightly off to the right when rapid firing while aiming. - You can now use your carried weapons when inside the transport helicopter back seat row. - Improvements to helicopter landing zone generation so the exfil/transport helicopters now choose way better landing spots - Fixed a bug where the landing zone generation would always fail if multiple connected pathfinding boxes were used. Improvements to the AI targeting system: - Bots will now prioritize targets better. - AI will now prefer to use weapons that are within the effective range, but will use weapons at up to twice their effective range if no other better weapon is available. - AI will now aim at a target faster if they were aiming at another nearby target before. For example, this makes it easier for a bot to take out a squad that is bunched together. - Fixed some issues with the attack target quick command. - Bots using target lock weapons will now lock onto targets much more reliably. - Bots will now fire as soon as they get a target lock. - Bots will now only fire one missile at a time if the target vehicle has countermeasures. - For vehicles without countermeasures, the bots will launch one missile at a time if the vehicle has less than 2000 max health. (In order to not waste ammo by launching 3 missiles towards a jeep). - AI will now take aim before firing weapons with AOE damage, reducing the risk of friendly fire and making them more deadly against vehicles: - AI will still fire quickly if the target is very close. Ravenscript: - Added Car, Boat, Helicopter, Airplane classes - Added Value Monitors to ScriptedBehaviours which can be used to automatically notify a script of value changes on a variable or function. - Added Debug Value Monitors that can be used to easily monitor values when playing in content mod test mode. - Misc API additions and bugfixes I will be taking a holiday break from development, but I have some exciting news to share when I get back regarding the Ravenfield 1.0 release. Until then. here is a little teaser image:
I hope you'll enjoy this update and that you're excited for what is yet to come! /Johan (SteelRaven7)

Hey everyone! Here are the update notes for EA22! Things didn't go exactly to plan with this update, as it turned into quite a big bug-squash rather than a full on update to new Spec Ops mode. For that reason, The Spec Ops update pt. 2 will be launced next time as EA23. Nontheless, there are still a bunch of new additions to Spec Ops ready for you to try out today, such as patrolling enemies and issuing target orders to your squad!
To issue a target order to your squad, aim down sights and hold the squad order key. Release the key when hovering over your desired target. EA22 fixes a ton of issues or bugs with the base gameplay of Ravenfield, along with a few new performance optimizations that should help keep your framerates nice and stable! There have also been a number of fixes/improvements to the Ravenfield AI, including new combat movement, and a fix to the old bug where AI would sometimes always fire at the player, even when there were other closer targets. (Oops!)
EA22 also updates the transport helicopter to a shiny new model, along with improvements to minigun aiming. It is now even possible to land the helicopter safely thanks to a new innovation on the Ravenfield: Landing gear suspension! You may also notice that all vehicle look a bit nicer thanks to the new baked occlusion maps, which make the vehicle models pop more!

Full change log

Ravenscript change log

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EA21 is the first half of the two part Spec Ops game mode overhaul - introducing improvements to stealth AI, an objective screen and ingame dialog support! Spec Ops now generates a scenario with multiple objectives, which you can tackle in any order you'd like. Objectives range from eliminating officers to destroying vehicles and ammo boxes, with more objective types being planned for the next part of this update in EA22. When playing as Eagles, you will take control of TALON, an elite spec ops branch of the Eagle military. TALON is commanded by the Eagle Advisor, who now appears with her update look, with artwork by long time community member and illustrator Starstrafe. EA21 also overhauls the night vision and squad order menu. You no longer need to carry the specific item to use these features, just hit their specific keys which can be rebound in the input options menu. Night vision has also been improved, with glowing soldiers, making it easier to see the soldiers on the battlefield.
Finally, EA21 adds a new Patriot Tactical variant, featuring a suppressor and a laser sight, making it a perfect companion for stealth operations! Full change log: Spec ops improvements: - Added 4 objective types, increase the game length value to get more objectives at once! - Spec ops defender AI now has significantly reduced sight range - Spec ops attacking AI will now only fire on enemies that have been alerted - When playing as Eagle using the default soldier models, you will play as a TALON soldier. - Added dialog chatter between the attacking team and their HQ leader. - Added detection indicator. - Added slow detection, where AI will not immediately spot you if you are far away. - Spec Ops enemies will now be alerted by sounds such as nearby unsuppressed gunfire and vehicles - Attacking team now keeps a closer formation, should make it easier to navigate levels without one of them running to weird places while following the player. - Improvements to spec ops defender pathfinding, should solve cases where all defenders are stuck in a single spot on custom levels. Game improvements: - Improvements to stealth AI and systems - Removed night vision item, night vision mode is always available by pressing the night vision (default N) - Squad order menu is now always available by pressing the squad menu key (default B) - Improvements to actor animation blending. - Actors will now glow slightly in night vision mode. - Cool fade in effect when you start a game (WOW!) - Added cool new tactical patriot version with suppressor and laser sight! Ingame map editor: - Added many new textures to the ingame map maker, including solid color textures. - Improved the ingame map maker texture search function to scroll up to the top results. Planned additions for Part 2: - More objective types. - Enemies that roam the level and look for you. - Expose new stealth/story functionality to Ravenscript. I hope you'll enjoy this update! Please look forward to the additional Spec Ops mode features coming in EA22! /SteelRaven7

Early Access Build 20 is probably the biggest update to the modding tools so far - introducing Ravenscript, a Lua based scripting language that allows you to completely change the way the game works! If you're interested in getting started with Ravenscript, you can find the documentation here: http://ravenfieldgame.com/ravenscript/. Make sure you join the discord server if you have any questions: https://discord.com/invite/ravenfield [previewyoutube=NBYiAE8wFEI;full][/previewyoutube] Thanks to EaglePancake for creating a video teaser for the update! Along with Ravenscript, build 20 also adds Mutators to the game. Mutators are small or big tweaks to the gameplay that can be downloaded directly from the Steam Workshop. There are even some built in mutators bundled with the official game which you can enable by clicking the Mutators button in the Instant Action menu. Here is the game running with the official Crosshair and Name Tag mutators:
The modding community has already been busy at work creating Mutators which you can find in the Workshop. Here are some of my favorites: Weapon Pickup by Chryses - Killed soldiers will drop their weapons, allowing you to pick them up: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2095193497 Juggernaut by EaglePancake - A random enemy becomes super powered with tons of health. Try to take them out or just run away: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2050327062 Blink by Atherline5 - Inspired by Dishonored, this mutator allows you to blink around the battlefield: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2083985675 Sized by Lordaloa - Change the size of the soldiers. Maybe set up a battle where you are attacked by giant Ravens? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2080602838 You can find more mutators on the workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=636480&requiredtags[]=Mutators The old Battalions mode has also recieved an update, with improvements to gameplay and UI. The game mode has now been renamed to Battle. Battle is now the default game mode for resource maps in Conquest mode. Finally, Reinforcements in Conquest mode now cost gold. This means that you need to carefully consider when to spawn reinforcements and when to keep your gold. Spawning reinforcements in your HQ is cheaper compared to spawning them in the field. Additionally, some tech tree entries now also cost gold.
Here is the full change log for EA20: Modding: - Added Ravenscript, a scripting language for Ravenfield based on Lua. - Added Mutators, which are prefabs that are spawned in at the start of a game. These prefabs can contain Ravenscript behaviours that alter the game. - Added Mutator Configurations, some mutators have a wrench button on the mutator selection page. Click the wrench button to show all configurable options of that mutator. - Added bindable console key. - Open the console while testing a content mod to see the mod's memory footprint. - Added Crosshair Mutator - Added Name Tags Mutator - Added Chat Feed Mutator - Added Mutator tag to the workshop browser. Conquest: - In Conquest mode, you now need to spend gold to buy reinforcements. Spawning reinforcements in your main base is cheaper than at the center of the world map. - Some tech tree items also cost gold to buy. - Fixed a Conquest AI bug where the AI would sometimes try to defend levels that the player couldn't attack. - Misc Conquest AI improvements. Game: - Reworked Battalions mode, and renamed to Battle. Holding two thirds or more flags will bleed enemy tickets. Reducing an enemy battalion's ticket count to 0 will prevent some enemy bots from spawning, giving you a slight advantage in numbers. - Improved stability on ground vehicles, in particular the quadbike. - The game will now warn you if you load so many mods that they cause performance issues. This is based on the available RAM on your computer. - Fixed the halloween quest being broken. - Fixed camera offset bugs when seated in a vehicle or climbing ladders. - Added a -modstagingpath launch parameter that can change the folder the game loads mods from. This has no effect on loading workshop mods. - Fixed a bug causing the AI to switch to their sidearm way more than they should. I hope you will enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

Hey everyone, time for a new update. I'm sorry that it took a little longer than usual but here it is! Make sure you check out the update overview video made by long-time community member EaglePancake: [previewyoutube=dYvbfZWBWq0;full][/previewyoutube] EA19 introduces the new Domination game mode. In Domination, the teams are tasked with capturing and holding a small number of flags. Holding the majority of the flags will fill the domination bar and, once filled, remove an enemy battalion from the game. Defeat all the enemy battalions to win the game. You can also duke it out on the new Rafts map. This level features wooden houses floating on rafts on top of a river cutting through the terrain, complete with a massive waterfall! Rafts is entirely focused on infantry combat, so make sure you keep your head down and your weapon ready!
EA19 also has a new world layout for Conquest mode. Road tiles now work differently, allowing a group of battalions one extra move per turn. This should make Conquest mode play faster and be a little more tactical! Full change log: - Added new engagement level: Rafts - Added Domination mode - New conquest mode world layout. I removed the duplicate placeholder levels. - Redid how road tiles work in conquest mode: Once per turn they now allow the first battalion group that land on them to move again. You have to own the tile to be able to use this extra move. - Reworked the Conquest AI entirely. It's still a work in progress, but the AI will now attack from multiple tiles and plan multiple moves ahead. - The AI team now always start with the Dagger in conquest mode (So you can't cheese them by rushing tanks) - Improved jump feel (I added an slight weapon bobbing animation when jumping/landing and some sound effects) - Flags are now faster to neutralize, but somewhat slower to capture. This means that you don't need to spend as much time worrying about enemy AI spawning on top of you while you're capturing a flag. - Skirmish mode: The plane now fires smoke rounds before dropping off a respawn wave, making the spawning soldiers harder to hit. The plane also flies a little lower than before. - Updated airdrop plane 3d model. - Slightly increased fall speed when using a parachute - Fixed a bug with animation transitions when an actor gets up from being ragdolled. - Fixed a bug where the audio would cut out if you were inside a turret while a nearby flag was captured, despawning the turret. - Improvements to vehicle <-> actor collision physics. Should prevent the player from flinging away at max speed after behing hit by a vehicle. - Actors will now take damage based on the speed at which they were hit by a vehicle. - Running over someone will count as a kill on the scoreboard. - Minor tweaks to car driving physics. - Tweaked ragdoll max forces values which hopefully should help prevent the spaghetti man bug. - Removed sniper sensitivity sniper (it didn't do anything anyway) - Reduced the physics iteration count somewhat, trading some physics accuracy for higher FPS. - Bugfix on mounted stabilized turrets that should make it easier to set up modded vehicles correctly - AI will no longer enter water when following a squadleader (unless the squadleader is in water themselves) - Projectile raycasts will now hit water volumes (instead of just the global ocean water) - Slightly reduced pathfinding penalty to underwater infantry navmesh nodes - Added launcher window that lets you choose between starting the game normally or without mods (So you can easily check if mods are causing any issue such as crashing or low frame rates) - Mod tools: Added aim sensitivity multipliers for modders. These can be used to tweak the aim sensitivity if needed (although I recommend keeping the multiplier at 1 for most cases) - Mod tools: Added walkBobMultiplier, sprintBobMultiplier and proneBobMultiplier which allows you to change the amount of weapon bob for different stances. This can be for example used to reduce the built in sprint bob to 0 and replace it with your custom sprint animation. Because so many people are at home due to the covid-19 situation, I decided to run a 50% discount over the weekend, so now is a really good time for you and your friends to pick up the game if you haven't already! I hope you'll enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

There is an unathorized clone of Ravenfield running on android phones available on multiple app services in China. I wanted to make it clear that this is not an official Ravenfield product, and it is not being developed by me. The app uses modified code stolen from Ravenfield, so I have no way of knowing if this app is safe to use. Please refrain from downloading it. If you come across the app, please report it to the app distribution service! Thank you and happy Chinese new year! /SteelRaven7

Upgrade your army with the new Tech Trees introduced in EA18. Keep an eye on the weapons and vehicles your enemy deploys and make sure you're not caught up in a nasty tank battle without an effective counter! Please note that the tech tree UI is a very early work-in-progress. It will be improved over time!
You should definitely take a test drive in the new and improved RHIB. This update adds completely new watercraft mechanics and handling to spice up those cool beach landing scenarios. Try speeding across the ocean at max speed and you will feel, see and hear the new RHIB skipping across the waves!
Finally, the improvements to the night vision goggles should really brighten up your day (or night). Nighttime friendly fire rates have plummeted after the introduction of IR flares that blink on your teammates.
Full change log (A few things were added early in the halloween mini-update): Conquest: - Added tech trees to conquest mode (Access them via the computer terminal on the right side of the command room) - AI also uses tech trees to unlock new stuff in conquest mode. - A bunch of changes to the save system. I have most likely broken any existing saves, so please start a new conquest game! - Improvements to conquest UI, it's now not possible to move around in the command room while having the battle UI or tech tree UI open. New Rhib + Water Improvements: - Added upgraded RHIB model. - Redid the sound, handling and particles for the RHIB. - Added water planing physics model. This means that the RHIB now rises out of the water at high speeds. Planing also makes high speed watercraft more stable. (This feature will not affect previously created custom boats, and needs to be added by modders through a component) - Added new water splash effects. - Added a small wave simulation which makes watercraft bob around a little in water. Gameplay Improvements: - Reworked the Greaser and Signal DMR with improvements to animations and stats. They also have reload sounds now! - Improved night vision look, everything will now light up properly regardless of color. - Added IR flares that blink on your teammates and friendly vehicles, making it easier to identify targets. - Respawn tickets now drain faster in Battalions mode, rounds now play quicker. - Respawn waves take a little longer to appear in Skirmish Mode. - If the enemy has no remaining respawn wave in skirmish mode, a friendly respawn wave will only occur when at a disadvantage. - Most vehicles now have cool new names! - Improved the loadout screen to handle unavailable weapons better (Weapons can be unavailable by not being unlocked in the tech tree in the campaign, or disabled in instant action). - Fixed a bug where weapons would sometimes end up in the wrong loadout slot. - Blocked off a weird infantry path down a steep hill on the Temple map. - Multiple improvements to AI target aquisition, making it easier to hide when prone. - Fixed a bug where AI would target enemies beyond their field of view. - Fixed a bug where fog was not taken into account for AI targeting. - Fixed a bug where the patriot grenade launcher sight did not work properly. - Night mode option now persists between ingame level editor and test play mode - Improvements to the player hitbox while prone. It is now harder to get hit while prone behind cover. - Improved the third person sidearm holding animation. - Improved the third person hold position for the Automatico. - Updated to Unity engine version 5.6.7f1. Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

We are running a Halloween themed mapping contest on the Ravenfield Discord server! The contest runs from today until Saturday October 26. The goal is to make a spooky but fun level using either the Ravenfield Tools for Unity or the ingame map editor. Two contest winners will be awarded 25 Steam Digital Gift Card - So get over to the Ravenfield Discord server and boot up the mapping tools today! Join the Ravenfield Discord here: http://discord.gg/ravenfield Contest rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mZDsiNsz37HYbvuaaBHL9vF7Hix_7NuFn_WE5RoEvMw/edit?usp=sharing I hope to see your submission soon! /SteelRaven7

The meat of EA17 is in the brand new Engagement Levels. They are all about fast paced battles, often focused on infantry combat. There are 4 new levels introduced in this update taking place on a wide variety of scenery. 3 of them are still works-in-progress, but Glacier is for the most part finished!
You'll notice that some maps have recieved a face lift in the form of baked lightmaps! This is an approach I'll use for some levels which benefit from having more lights than just the sun. Especially Interiors get a visual pop, just check out this before and after:

Baked lightmaps are available on Temple, Glacier and Tunnel for now.
This Early Access build comes with a first look at the Conquest Mode. You can play around in it and move your soldiers around the battlefield, attacking and defending maps. While things are still very much in their early stages, I wanted to keep the open development style of Ravenfield and show this new mode off from its' humble beginnings. Expect more things to come in future EA updates! Full change log: Conquest: - Basic world map gameplay is in place, you can move your troops around and attack/defend levels. - You can gain resources, but right now only the battalion resource does something (spawns new troops each turn) - Conquest disables some "cheaty" features like slow motion. - Conquest is still super early, so expect tons of improvements over time! Added 4 Engagement Levels: (These are smaller, typically infantry focused levels) - Glacier - Tunnel - Twin Islands - Desert Hill Game tweaks: - Added support for high quality baked lighting - Baked lightmaps are available on Temple, Glacier and Tunnel - Added support for loading a different night version scene for night maps. - Improvements to ambient lighting, Skybox ambient lights are now fully supported! - Added special footstep sound when walking on terrain - Bots now make footstep sounds - Redid the victory/defeat animation from scratch. - Added music sting volume slider, controlling the volume of the victory/defeat stings. - Added Endless Instant Action option in the options menu. This option can be disabled if you want the game to end on victory/defeat in instant action. - Skirmish mode domination victory unlocks later, but fills up faster. - Made AI tracking missiles less likely to kill teammates - Reduced APC health from 2500 to 1900 - Added support for maps to have different flag layouts depending on the game mode - Added ghost type spawn points. These can be spawned on as usual, but they do not count towards your team's score in skirmish or point match mode. The AI will not attempt to capture these points, but they can be captured. - You can no longer mark a spawn point in skirmish mode after your initial spawn, since it made no difference anyway. - AI helicopter pilots will now prioritize ground targets over other helicopters targets in the default helicopter. - Taking over a bot in skirmish mode will now ensure all weapons are reloaded. - You can now sprint while reloading. - Fixed a bug where "loaded ammo" and "no ammo" animation parameters would not be set correctly when spawning and when getting up from ragdoll. Known bugs: - Night vision doesn't light up the environment in some levels - Tunnel and Citadel maps only have daytime versions. I hope you'll enjoy both this update and all the *interesting level descriptions*! /SteelRaven7

Hey everyone! As you may know, I've been away on a summer break since releasing EA16. I'm back now and wanted to update everyone on exactly what I'll be working on. The Conquest Mode has always been the end goal for Ravenfield, and it has been teased in the main menu ever since the first Steam version. Originally I had planned to ship the Conquest Mode within one year of the first Early Access release, but that obviously didn't happen :). Instead, I spent most of my time working on modding support for the game, and general game improvements. Even though the original release target for 1.0 was missed I think it was worth it thanks to the incredible modding community creating tons of really cool mods for Ravenfield! A huge shoutout to everyone involved with creating/playing/making videos of mods!

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We're really happy to introduce the new ingame map-editor in Ravenfield. The ingame map-editor is designed to be an easy-to-use but powerful alternative to the Ravenfield mod tools for Unity.
The map in the screenshot above is made by Maffnwy, you can find it here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1765196638 There's no need to download any extra software or tool, so making a custom map in Ravenfield has never been easier! The editor comes loaded with all official Ravenfield props, so you can start designing right away. When you have a nice map, use the built-in uploader to publish your map on Steam Workshop. If you have any questions or need help getting started with Ravenfield mapping, reach other mappers and/or the Ravenfield devs on the official Ravenfield discord chat here: http://discord.gg/ravenfield If map making just isn't your thing, you will want to check out the new Jeep overhaul. The new jeep even has a windshield that will protect you from small-arms fire, at least until it breaks.
Full change log: - Added ingame map-editor - Reworked the jeep. - Added optional depth-of-field effect to photo mode, available by pressing i when in photo mode. - Spectator/photo mode now shows a list of available controls. - Fixed an AI issue that caused bots to sometimes instantly exit a player driven vehicle after entering it. - Improvements to ragdolls such as joint constraints and lower angular drag (allowing them to rotate faster) - Ragdolls now have some slight drag so they eventually come to rest which frees up work on the physics engine (so potentially higher framerates with lots of ragdolls/bodies) - Ragdolls will now get tossed when ragdolled by explosions and splash damage, making them spin in the air. - Fixed a bug where sound bank audio sources would sometimes not be affected by slowmotion effects and the in-game volume slider. - Added support for vehicle hitboxes with varying damage (so modders can create critical hit spots, heavy armor spots etc) - Added support for vehicle destructible objects, such as the windshield on the new jeep. - Added support for destructible objects in maps. - Added camera recoil to the jeep's machine gun. - Removed splash damage from the jeep's machine gun. - Improved projectile hit scan, you can no longer shoot through walls when standing very close to them. - Reordered the map list so old favorites like Archipelago are at the top and WIP maps are at the bottom. I'm going to take a summer break after some potential bugfixing on EA16, but I have some exciting updates on Conquest mode coming up when I'm back. For now, enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

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The Tank has received a significant overhaul in EA15, sporting both a new look and handling characteristics. The new Tank can take more damage and also has a new turret system that will prevent the barrel from getting caught in walls. Also, make sure you don't miss the new Tank sound effects!
Along with the Tank, the Quadbike has also had a facelift, along with new sound effects. There have been several AI improvements to ground vehicle combat. For example, the AI will now stand still when attempting those tricky long range shots. When taking damage, bots will now turn towards the direction of the shooter and attempt to retaliate. Full change log: - Updated Tank to new style, including improved handling, new sounds, effects and more. - Updated Quad to new style, including improved handling, new sounds, effects and more. - Added support for turret springs and max turn speed, used on the tank main cannon - Added support for throttle sounds that only play when accelerating a vehicle. - Added support for fancy geometric tank tracks - no more cheap scrolling images ;) - Increased tank health to 4000 (was 3000 before) - AI will now stop when aiming long range shots. This also applies to vehicles. - Major tweaks to AI aiming. They are now a little deadlier than before at low and medium range. - AI will now always fire their weapon after aiming at an enemy for a while. Sometimes they would just aim but never fire before this update. - When being attacked inside vehicles with anti-tank weapons, AI drivers/gunners will now turn towards their attacker. - Anyone dealing high damage to a vehicle will be marked as a high-priority target. This means that AI are more likely to attack anti-tank units if they have recently fired. - Fixed incoming damage indicator not showing up inside vehicles. - Improvements to vehicle sound mixing. The vehicle you're inside should always be at the highest volume now. - Changed the APC team color indicators - Fixed the player minimap viewcone sometimes not turning with the player view.
Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

EA14 adds a highly requested vehicle to the game - an amphibious APC! The APC is designed to safely transport infantry to the front lines, but don't underestimate its power against vehicles. The APC also introduces a more detailed vehicle style, both in its look and handling. Expect updates to the existing vehicles to bring them up to par!
EA14 also introduces Skirmish mode, a brand new game mode with limited respawns. When you die, you take the place of a bot on the battlefield. This means that you will no longer have access to the weapons you picked at the start but will have to make do with whatever the bot was carrying. Improvisation is key here! As the battle rages on, reinforcements will be airdropped onto the battlefield. Here you have a chance to pick a new loadout to bring into battle. The number of airdrops are limited though, so make sure your team doesn't run out of soldiers or you'll lose the battle. Any team can also win by capturing and holding more flags than the other through a domination victory. Full change log: - Added APC - Added Skirmish game mode with limited respawns. - Several improvements to vehicles (mainly car improvements): - Added Forward/Reverse gear that takes a brief moment to switch between. - Added tipping force when turning sharply and accelerating/braking. - The engine will struggle a little bit when the suspension is under high load - Added support for new sound such as shifting gears, suspension stress, engine ignition. - New sound mix when sitting inside an enclosed seat. - Added support for amphibious (floating) cars. - Added stable turret that doesn't rotate with whatever it's attached to. - Some various minor tweaks to levels to help AI get into/from their vehicles a little easier. - AI can now get into vehicles just after leaping off a surface, especially useful for vehicles in water. Before they had to wait until they were swimming before they could get in. - Fixed a bug that would cause AI to perodically slow down when following a path. - Added modding support for weapon parameters such as custom sight modes and weapon alt fire modes. - Added secondary fire mode to Thumper where it fires smoke rounds. This is useful for both blocking view and ranging your grenades. - Fixed a bug that would cause vehicle gibs such as wing parts to jitter when on the ground. - In the weapon picking loadout UI, weapon tags are now hidden if they contain no weapons. - Moved the Player Has All Weapons checkbox to the instant action page. - Player Has All Weapons setting will now persist between games. - Player Has All Weapons setting is now saved with your game configuration saves. By default it's set to off. - All weapons are now always visible in the Weapon Switch menu. Any weapons that can only be used by the player is highlighted grey. - Improvements to how AI pick weapons, they will now prioritize long range weapons such as snipers and assault rifles on longer engagement ranges and vice versa. - AI will now pick up two equipment items (previously they only picked one). They also have a slightly increased chance of picking an anti-tank weapon in slot 4. - Smoke grenades particles will now be lit according to the level ambient lighting conditions. For example, they will no longer appear super bright during night time. - Vehicle HUD sounds such as missile lock on will now also be heard in third person mode. - Increased grenade launcher damage when hitting a vehicle directly. This makes them more effective as anti-armor weapons (But rocket launchers are still the better choice). - Smoke grenades now have a unique 3d model Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

Rivers? Check.
Citadel? Check.
Smoke? Check.
This update introduces new maps to Ravenfield: River Delta and Citadel. This brings the total number of maps up to 9! Included in the update are numerous tweaks to the AI. Bots will now use entirely new paths to attack flags, so expect battles to be more dynamic than ever!
The official Ravenfield armory has also received some new weapons such as a smoke grenade and entirely new grenade launchers! You can try out the new sight zeroing feature on the grenade launchers, especially useful for hitting long range shots (Hold T and scroll up/down to zero the sights). You can see what sight option you're using next to the ammo counter in the bottom left corner:
Full change log: Main features: - Added River Delta map - Added Citadel map (it's still in early development, expect bugs!) - Added Smoke grenades to block sight - AI will use smoke grenades to cover their attacks. - Added support for alternate weapon fire, switch with X. (available on the Patriot GL) - Added support for alternate sights, switch by holding T and scrolling up/down (available on Patriot GL and Thumper) - Added Patriot GL, which is a Patriot with an underslung grenade launcher. - Added Thumper grenade launcher. - Improved how AI navigates the map, they will now spread out and use new paths when attacking. - Added support for objects blocking the AI's vision. This is used in smoke grenades and some trees to block their vision. - Added loading screen when starting a map. It's work in progress and silly, I think you'll like it! Other fixes: - Buffed Patriot by increasing its projectile speed and reducing the spread slightly. - Scalpel has been reworked, it now deals significantly less damage but can be resupplied and comes with spare missiles. Makes it a viable but slow anti-armor weapon at long ranges. - Reduced bounce on grenades to make it easier to land them just where you want them. - Some tweaks to audio mixing. - Added a slight speed boost to infantry if they haven't been in combat recently. This makes it a little quicker to reach the front lines on foot. - Updated weapon reflection sounds to include a firing sound. - Fixed AI not driving animation driven vehicles (such as walkers) properly. - Removed AI running away from incoming vehicles (It's much more fun to just run over them instead) - AI now runs away from grenades only if they can see them. - AI now distinguishes between different target types when looking for targets. Infantry can be spotted up to 1 km away. Vehicles up to 3 km and really large vehicles up to 10 km. These are only the theoretical maximum values, in reality AI's vision range greatly depends on the map's fog setting. - Fixed a bug where AI would not fire in vehicles. - Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause very long loading times for custom maps. - Improved how AI drives vehicles. This especially affects boats and will make them less prone to crashing into scenery. - Fixed some camera bugs with photo mode. - Misc AI tweaks Enjoy the update! /SteelRaven7

That's right - you can now go prone in Ravenfield! Being prone makes you a smaller target, but it will also let you fire weapons with reduced recoil and spread, making those long range shots easier to land!
You can now load skins from your favorite mod into any map! Skins are even saved with your game configuration. On the instant action page you can now see a preview image with a sample of what weapons/vehicles/skins each team has available:
In the example above, the Eagle team uses all official weapons, vehicles and skins while the Raven team uses items from various WW1 themed mods created by the Ravenfield modding community. Also, the main menu now has a button taking you to a list of featured mods. This is a list of community-curated mods that are worth checking out. The plan is to feature those really cool mods that might have slipped you by, so both new and old mods will be featured here. Finally, you can now enter photo mode from an ingame match. Simply press F8 at any time. This will pause the game and put you in a spectator camera which controls just like the normal spectator mode. If you want to disable the UI, you can do that with the Home and End buttons. Here's an example of a photo taken by Mason from the Ravenfield Discord server:
Full change log: Main features: - Added prone (Default key: Z) - Added skins - Added game preview image when setting up an instant action match - Added photo mode - Added featured mods list Other fixes: - Fixed a bug where AI would sometimes spawn with the wrong skins (including the box man skin) - Improved how the player transitions between stand/crouch/prone stances. It now feels more smooth and is less likely to get the player stuck. - Added FOV based mouse sensitivity. This makes the mouse sensitivity consistent on all weapons based on how zoomed in they are. - Fixed an issue with bullet hole material where it would render fog badly. - Blood and bullet hole decals are now cleaned up when exiting a level. - Fixed a bug with AI on custom maps where they would never leave their spawn - Added debug key (F9) to show all available AI orders that are assigned by the AI commander. - Fixed a bug where jeeps/quads would sometimes spawn instead of turrets. - Added charing bool value to custom weapon animators so you can play custom animations when a weapon is charging up. - Fixed various spectator camera bugs. - Fixed a bug where AI weapons would sometimes not render in the killcam. I hope you'll enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7 Quick edit: Don't forget to nominate Ravenfield for a steam award on the store page. Maybe the Most Fun with a Machine award fits best seeing as how you're playing against machine controlled bots??

Get ready for the biggest update so far: EA11 This update features 2 new maps, Mountain Range and Canyon:
Mountain range is a large map focusing on air combat, so prepare to put your dogfighting skills to the test! All air vehicles, from attack planes to transport helicopters are available on this level which makes the airspace quite chaotic. You can also fight on the ground, battling for capture points along a range of mountains.
Canyon is a very open, mid-range map with lots of room for tanks and infantry to get around. The battle takes place in a drained dam, and even features a stranded aircraft carrier! The center of the map is entirely open, so prepare for a massive battle. Alternatively, you can flank the open area using a cave system. With EA11, it's now possible to specify weapons and vehicles on a per-team basis, allowing you to recreate historical battles, zombie apocalypses or whatever you can imagine! Maybe Eagle with pistols vs Ravens with anti tank launchers? EA11 also improves how your AI buddies get around, making them move smoother around the battlefield. On top of that, several key areas of the game have been optimized, so you should get higher framerates than before! Full change log: Main features: - Added new map: Mountain Range - Added new map: Canyon - Added team-specific weapons and vehicles game configurations - You can now restrict player weapons too with a checkbox in the weapons switch. - You can also save and load your game configurations - Changed how vehicles/turrets spawn, they will only spawn on capture points owned by a team - Added priority based sound mixing. This should help make important sounds such as gunfire close to you stand out more, and generally make the game sound clearer. - You can kick dead bots to spawn a small ammo pickup. Perfect for when you're running dry! Other fixes: - Added zoom to spectator camera, hold ctrl and scroll to zoom. - Fixed spectator camera bugging out when attached to vehicles that die. - AI now avoids using weapons with splash damage if it can hurt teammates with it. In some circumstances (such as on a tank capturing a flag) they will still fire no matter what. - AI movement improvement, now way smoother than before - AI will sprint more than before, making it faster for them to reach capture points - AI defense improvements, they will now track down units who are capturing a flag. - AI now has a high chance of picking AT weapons when defending a flag that is under attack by a vehicle. - AI will now play climbing animations when climbing steep hills/obstacles - AI will no longer be able to automatically spot enemies if they are not in their viewcone. - Removed kill feed from skeletons in haunted mode. - Misc improvements and bugfixes to AI - Overall game optimization - Added draw distance option - Added v-sync option - Scalpel now only has 1 round, use it wisely! - Fixed an issue with helicopter miniguns sometimes not working correctly - A few minor tweaks to anti-tank weapon damage - M1 Garret now uses sniper sensitivity when aiming for more precise long range shots - Unlocked some previously secret weapons by default. - Sprinting while being crouched will now make you automatically stand up (only applies to toggle crouch mode) - Misc bugfixes Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

An exciting new invention has reached the Ravenfield: Parachutes!
As there is now fall damage, make sure to deploy your parachute by pressing the jump button when exiting any aircraft. Bots will also use parachute insertions from the new transport helicopter to take over capture points, so keep your eye on the sky! This update also adds several gameplay tweaks and details, such as an improved sound system, scoreboard and kill camera:
This means that you can now keep track of how well you and your teammates are performing in the heat of battle! It's also possible to use custom bot names, or even use your steam friends' nicknames! Full change log: - Added Parachutes and fall damage (Press jump in mid air to deploy the parachute) - Added Transport Helicopter - Added Scoreboard - Added Killcam - Spawning redone (Press fire to spawn at the last point, or open the loadout to change spawn point) - Improved swimming - Improved sound system with filtering based on distance, walls and surroundings. - Reworked vehicle blips on the minimap - Moved AI pathfinding to separate thread - Increased render distance from 2 to 4 km. - AI Tweaks - Misc bugfixes Hotfix 1: - Removed the joke intro with the swimmer speaking in french! (Don't ask haha) Hotfix 2: - Fixed a bug where you, or the bots would not spawn when using Steam Friend bot names while steam is offline. - Slight speed up on maps with many water volumes. Hotfix 3: - Fixed a bug where some custom maps would not start properly and get stuck on the scenery camera. Hotfix 4: - Fixed an issue where sometimes custom maps would not start on mac and linux I hope you'll enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

Hey everyone, and sorry about the radio silence lately! I've been taking some time off development, but now I'm back with regular updates again! This update adds a dialog system to the game. The dialogs will be mainly used in the conquest mode (which obviously isn't available yet), but I figured I should spend some time working on this feature and get your feedback on its first iteration. This means the gameplay changes in this update are very light, but you should look forward to some of the upcoming changes that are hinted at in this update ;)! Right now there are two dialogs available in the game. The first one will automatically pop up, but the second is hidden in the game. Make sure you check out the new roadmap page for some hints to find it!
The roadmap was added to give a more clear picture of what remains to be added into the game before it leaves Early Access. I want to keep adding features to the game after it leaves Early Access too, so don't get discouraged if your favorite game suggestion isn't on the roadmap, it might be added later down the line anyway! Full change log: - Added dialog system - Added roadmap menu page - Fixed some minor issues when loading modded maps/weapons - Added some weapon modding features allowing modders to create more realistic weapons with simulated chambered rounds and mag drops. - For sure no secrets!!! To anyone a bit sad that this update doesn't contain more gameplay updates - sorry about that! I'll make sure to update the beta branch with new gameplay elements as soon as possible, so be on the look out!!! Finally, Ravenfield has now been on steam for exactly one year, and I'd like to thank everyone for the massive support for the game! Thanks to you, I can work full time on the game without any worries which is super exciting! Thank you! Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

This update is mainly about the new map - Coastline!
Coastline is probably the most ambitious Ravenfield map to date, and focuses on close quarters engagement and verticality with the battle raging from sea level all the way up to the mountain ruins.
This update also introduces new features such as the Configure Flags option, allowing you to customize a map's flag layout before starting the game!
Full EA8 Change Log: - Added Coastline Map - Added Configure Flags option - Significant AI changes: > AI will now acquire new targets much faster, giving them a quicker reaction time and challenge > AI now has a Close Quarters mode where they automatically take cover when under fire. > Improved AI's CPU load so it's more spread out, meaning less frame drops/stutters caused by AI. > Misc AI fixes - Added ladders (Press use key to enter them) - Added water volumes, allowing maps to have lakes/etc on other heights than just the ocean water level. - Added alternate path AI hints, letting map makers hint the AI on how to spread out in a level when attacking capture points. - Added damage zones - Added speed limit zones, letting map makers hit the AI on what speed to traverse special zones in a level. - Added configurable-per-flag AI defense strategies for map makers. - Added one way level neighbors - Player only takes balance damage from getting hit by AI (still needs some tweaks, but it's better than just insta dying!) - Added cloud - Strictly no ET activities allowed Hotfix 1: - Looks like the ET activities have been contained... for now... I hope you'll enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

This update is mainly about the new map - Coastline!
Coastline is probably the most ambitious Ravenfield map to date, and focuses on close quarters engagement and verticality with the battle raging from sea level all the way up to the mountain ruins.
This update also introduces new features such as the Configure Flags option, allowing you to customize a map's flag layout before starting the game!
Full EA8 Change Log: - Added Coastline Map - Added Configure Flags option - Significant AI changes: > AI will now acquire new targets much faster, giving them a quicker reaction time and challenge > AI now has a Close Quarters mode where they automatically take cover when under fire. > Improved AI's CPU load so it's more spread out, meaning less frame drops/stutters caused by AI. > Misc AI fixes - Added ladders (Press use key to enter them) - Added water volumes, allowing maps to have lakes/etc on other heights than just the ocean water level. - Added alternate path AI hints, letting map makers hint the AI on how to spread out in a level when attacking capture points. - Added damage zones - Added speed limit zones, letting map makers hit the AI on what speed to traverse special zones in a level. - Added configurable-per-flag AI defense strategies for map makers. - Added one way level neighbors - Player only takes balance damage from getting hit by AI (still needs some tweaks, but it's better than just insta dying!) - Added cloud - Strictly no ET activities allowed Hotfix 1: - Looks like the ET activities have been contained... for now... I hope you'll enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

You can now drive/fly/walk around in your favorite vehicle in Ravenfield - Vehicle modding is out! Why not give one of the several available jets a whirl and take out some bandits?
To try out a vehicle mod, simply find one on the Ravenfield Workshop and click subscribe. Now start the game, and choose the vehicle mod you want in the Vehicle Switch menu found in under Instant Action! Some custom maps even come with special vehicles regardless of if you have a vehicle mod installed or not. Also, the AI now carries the Scalpel weapon with lock on missiles. Don't forget to deploy flares (Default key X) when you get a lock on warning, it could save your life!
Full EA7 Change Log: Game: - Added custom vehicle support available in two flavors: - Custom vehicle mods can be downloaded to replace vehicles in all levels - Custom maps can have special vehicle spawners that spawn specific, special vehicles no matter what vehicle mod is loaded - Added Vehicle Switch menu, accessible from the Instant Action menu - Text above the vehicle switch button will show you what mod is currently loaded - Vehicle switch allows you to load specific vehicle mods, or even combine multiple ones! - By default, the latest downloaded vehicle mod will be automatically loaded into the vehicle switch menu. This behaviour can be toggled in the options menu - Some minor changes to the handling of official vehicles - Added support for new types of vehicles, including ones driven entirely by animation (can be used for walkers, turrets on arms? Drivable snakes?!) - Added support for an in-vehicle repair tool (not available in any vanilla vehicles) - Added missile lock indicator and sound (available in all vanilla aircraft) - Added support for flares and similar countermeasures to remove missile lock (available in all vanilla aircraft) - Added Vehicle Countermeasure (to pop flares) key bind to the options menu - Added support for weapons to fire from multiple muzzles at once - AI can now use lock on weapons such as the Scalpel - Minor changes to how AI drives vehicles and vehicle pathfinding - Tank now has rolling tracks texture animation - Improved sound behaviour, the 3d surround sounds should now always lign up properly with the camera - Added in-world ammo count display that can be used on custom weapons - Fixed occlusion culling issues on Dustbowl Mod Tools: - A slew of new scripts and prefabs for creating custom vehicles - Added target locking scripts and Scalpel prefab - Improved the sanity check system to detect potential problems with maps/mods - Streamlined the export system, so you can export your map or mod by just pressing ctrl+e Known issue: In very high speed vehicles such as jets, the sound will sometimes become choppy. I'm working on figuring out why this is and fixing this issue. If you are interested in creating your own custom vehicles, you should drop by the official Ravenfield discord chat where you can find links to the mod tools, and ask any questions to help you get started! The Ravenfield discord server is here: http://discord.gg/ravenfield My focus will now shift from modding support to creating more official maps and content for the game. The Conquest mode will require several more maps before it will be functional, so this is what I will be focusing on now. Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

It's time to drop bombs in the new update for Ravenfield, adding this new iron bird:
This update has also significantly improved the handling of ground vehicles, allowing you to more smoothly cruise around the map in your jeep or tank! Other vehicles such as planes and helicopters have also had their handling tweaked, but there's still some work to be done to really nail the feel, so let me know what you think about the changes so far! Full change log: - Added Bomb Plane - Added ability to have multiple, switchable weapons in vehicles (switch between them like you switch infantry weapons) - Added additional ground attack rocket weapon to the Attack Plane. - Complete overhaul of car based vehicles (Jeeps, Quads, Tanks) - Added third person camera to vehicles. Toggle it with C by default - Added Raven Control game mode parameter - this makes the Raven team start owning all neutral points - Slightly increased helicopter and attack plane speed - Rebalanced attack plane machine guns, they now deal slightly less damage so dogfights last longer - Added armor rating system to vehicles and weapon projectiles. This allows modders to specify what projectiles can damage what vehicles in a much better way. - Attack planes, Quads and RHIBs can now be damaged by small arms fire. - Added team indicator stripes on Planes and Helicopters - Scalpel and Hydra now has lock on sounds/animations - Plane wings come off when the plane is destroyed - Slight changes to Archipelago island airfield to acommodate the bomber - Added support for modded levels to use custom hand models - Nerfed SLAM-R slightly by reducing its projectile speed and damage. - Added third person weapon model to the player soldier 3d model so shadows look correct - Improved character animations when looking around while seated. - Added vehicle testing level to try out vehicles in a simple way - Added testing game mode that lets you spawn on any capture point. - Added fallback code to prevent game crashes related to physics. - Added a "-noworkshopmods" launch option that disables the loading of workshop mods/maps - Added a "-nocontentmods" launch option that disables the loading of weapon mods - Pressing F9 in the spectator camera mode will now take a super high res screenshot and save it in ravenfield_Data/screenshot.png - A bunch of smaller bug fixes Known bugs: - The Bomb Plane sometimes causes a physics-related crash. I'm still trying to figure out ways to mitigate this problem. On top of the changes to official vehicles, this update has also laid the groundwork for vehicle modding which I intend to roll out in the coming weeks. If you want to try custom vehicles out as soon as possible, make sure you keep up with the updates on the Beta branch of the game. For more information about vehicle modding, you can chat with me and other community members on the official Ravenfield discord server at https://discord.gg/ravenfield Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

While Halloween may have already passed, there's still some time to be spooky! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFSLFD3Y0mA You can now challenge your survival skills with the new Haunted game mode! Full change log: - New Haunted game mode (Will stay in the game in future updates too) - Spooky menu overhaul - Improved melee AI, they will now rush close targets with melee weapons. - Tweaked the pistol sound a bit - A few bugfixes Right now, there's a known bug that sometimes will cause enemy waves not to spawn in Haunted. This will be fixed as soon as possible, thank you for your patience. Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

Attention soldiers! You may already have noticed a surge of weapons on the Steam Workshop page, but now everyone can try them out! There are already around 100 custom weapons available to download and play, so what are you waiting for? Check them out now!
Not only the community has been making weapons, I've also added an official M1 Garret (inspired by the classic Garand) rifle, complete with that PING sound when you empty the clip! Maybe you're interested in creating your own custom weapon for Ravenfield? I'm working on a guide on custom weapon creation which will be published in a few days. In the meantime, you can always ask for directions and help on the Ravenfield Discord server at https://discord.gg/xavGMJa. Here's the full change log of the EA5 update: - Added custom weapon support! - Added M1 Garret - Added AI weapons page in the instant action menu that lets you set exactly what weapons the AI should use - Overhauled loadout UI to work better with a larger number of weapons - Added weapon tagging, weapon makers can tag their weapons to group them together in the loadout UI and AI weapons page. - Made it so that resolution and fullscreen settings only can be changed in the main menu (You could change them ingame before, but they didn't have any effect, which caused some confusion) - Fixed a bug on mac where the game would try to load non-workshop mods from the wrong directory. - Added restart button to the ingame menu. Known bug with the current build: Some custom weapon effects (such as explosions, etc) are pink on Mac/Linux. I will try to improve this as soon as possible. Enjoy this update! /SteelRaven7

Heya! It's time for a new Ravenfield update, Early Access build 4! This update focuses on AI commanding and letting you control the battle! Important: This update introduces a few new keys to the game. These will automatically be bound to default values, but you can rebind them in the input options menu. A few users have reported some issues with their inputs when starting the game for the first time. If this happens to you, fix it by simply loading an input preset or bind any weird keys.
Changelog: - Updated to Unity Engine 5.6.3p1 - Added 2 new weapons: Automatico and the Greaser - Added 1 new tool: Squad leader kit - Significantly overhauled Spec Ops mode, with improved AI and alarm feedback if you get detected! - Added a new custom map selection menu, makes it way easier to scroll through a large number of maps - If no icon is provided for a custom map, the game will now display the workshop preview image instead - Moved vehicle health bar slightly. - Significantly improved plane dogfighting AI - AI usage of grenades and rockets against infantry has been slightly reduced to prevent explosion spam. - Improved AI target filtering. For example, a guy with a rocket launcher equipped will now be more prone to target tanks and cars instead of infantry - Turrets in most vehicles now turn independently of the vehicle body - this means you'll have an easier time hitting targets while moving! - AI will now only spawn after you have accepted your loadout, which allows you to make a Battle Plan before the game starts (see below) - The input menu will now default any unbound keys to the keyboard preset. - Added bindable key to toggle nightvision if you have it equipped (default N). This also works in vehicles! - Added bindable key to bring up the Squad leader kit order map (default B). This also works in vehicles! - Game match settings are now saved between games, so it's way easier to replay that scenario you just set up - Misc bugfixes and balancing - Definitely did not add any secret weapons There are a bunch of new ways to control the battle and command your troops: - Added Battle Plan tab on loadout/deploy screen, use it to draw a plan for your team - You can optionally tick "Always follow plan" to make AI never stray from your orders (unless none of your orders are active) - In battle planner, click a point to create a defense order or click and drag to create an attack order - Added Squad commanding, aim at a teammate and press the Call Squadmember key (default G) to have them join your squad - The number of members in your squad will be displayed over the health/ammo indicator. - Press the squad key to make your squad move to a location - Aim down when pressing the squad key to have your squad regroup and follow you - Hold down the squad key to bring up other orders, aim at one and release the key to issue the order. Available squad orders include: - Commandeer vehicle (Have any passengers join your squad) - Enter/Exit vehicle - Attack/Defend flag - Goto (Aim at the ground) - Regroup (Aim at your feet)
You can also issue most of these squad orders via the Squad Leader kit ordering map, giving you more flexibility when your squad is far away from your location. The squad commanding UI still needs some fine tuning, but I think it works well enough for now! I hope you'll enjoy this update! The modding community has been aching to get custom weapons into the game, so official weapon modding support is what I will focus on for the next update. I also want to add a new official map soon. /SteelRaven7

Hi, I hope everyone is having a good time in the summer heat! Have you ever wanted to see what the Ravenfield community can do when they get access to Ravenfield's mapping tools? Then you're in luck! Check out the over 30(!) maps already available on Ravenfield's Workshop page: http://steamcommunity.com/app/636480/workshop/ The workshop already features some amazing creations, including the world famous flying turtle level by Viotech3, SkyTurtle:
Make sure you check out this map and all other cool stuff available on the workshop! If you want to make your own level, I'm currently writing a guide that I will post here on steam as soon as I can. If you want to start right away, head on over to the Discord chat server at https://discord.gg/xavGMJa and talk to other map makers! Changelog:

• Custom map making support!!!
• Steamworks integration including workshop integration.
• Added several useful ways for map makers to influcence pathfinding and AI decision making, including avoidance zones and pathfinding links.
• Updated to Unity Engine version 5.6.2
• Solved an issue where the player could sometimes clip through objects seemingly randomly.

Hi everyone! I just released the new update to Ravenfield which is centered around the new, completely reworked Archipelago level!
The level is centered around naval combat, where the Eagles are attacking a group of small islands with their aircraft carrier. To increase the chaos of battle there are now attack boats armed with autocannons and mortars, time to lay down some supressive fire for your ground troops! You can also use the new wire-guided missile launcher to take out armor from afar. Keep in mind that the missile will loose tracking after a certain distance, so don't expect to snipe that helicopter on the other side of the map out of the sky! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULuXYGRcTp8 Here's the full list of changes: Content

• Completely reworked Archipelago!
• Added Attack Boat
• Added stationary wire-guided missile launcher

• Added new difficulty level and tweaked existing ones.
• Increased tank health from 2000 to 3000 hit points.
• Increased plane machine gun clip size and added convergence to the bullets.
• Flags will now stay neutral until fully captured, which slows down attackers somewhat.

• Major AI decision making improvements to handle the multiple islands of Archipelago better.
• There are now three AI difficulties: Easy (same as old easy), Normal (slightly easier than old challenging), Hard (slightly harder than old challenging).
• Improved cover point finding, AI will now pick better spots to camp when defending a flag, and also will avoid taking cover next to (or inside) stationary turrets.
• Improved plane AI, they are way better at engaging targets now. This still needs some tweaks, but it's a major improvement.
• Sped up AI movement speed when engaging enemies, will only walk if the target enemy is very close.
• AI aiming tweaks, makes them slightly at keeping their sights roughtly on target but slightly worse at sniping.
• AI pathfinding improvements, including the ability to navigate shallow waters on foot and in some watercrafts (like the RHIBS)
• AI can no longer teamkill close teammates (especially noticable in transport vehicles)
• AI is somewhat more inclined to staying and defending a point if people are attacking it.

• Added checkbox to disable joystick binding (useful if you have a joystick plugged in that prevents other inputs from being bound)
• Fixed sniper reload animations sometimes not playing
• Capture points now uses cylindrical radius queries instead of spherical. This means that I can now make sure you can't capture flags from unexpected places (such as one floor above or below the actual flag point)
• Improved UI hiding (with home and end keys) so that the UI no longer pops up again after death. Flag capture messages are now also hidden if gameplay UI is hidden.
• Added respawn button to loadout (access it by pressing enter) while alive. You can use this instead of the suicide button (K)
• Can no longer melee or kick yourself.

• Should solve the issue of pressing spacebar causing the player character to die.

Archipelago is shaping up nicely! If you haven't checked it out yet, you can try it on the beta branch (instructions here)! This is a brand new screenshot from today's beta branch update:
I'm happy with the layout of the new map, so my plan is to finish up the overall structure of Archipelago and release it on the main steam branch as Early Access Update 2 next week. Don't worry, I will continue improving the map at a later stage, but I think it's good enough for now! This is what Archipelago looks like at the moment:
After releasing the Early Access Update 2, I will shift my focus to custom map support and workshop integration. This means that I will start rolling out the official modding tools which are used inside the Unity Editor. There are already some really cool map ideas drawn by community members, and some of you even started making levels inside the Unity Editor! This is a custom map idea from community member McDenny's09:
If you want to get access to the Map Making tools as soon as possible, make sure you join the discord chat server over on https://discord.gg/xavGMJa! Thanks!

I'm currently working on revamping Archipelago, and will be uploading new builds of the map fairly regularly on the Beta Branch.
Currently, the Beta Branch update contains:

• Archipelago level updates
• Battle Ship armed with a mortar and autocannon
• Improved AI that handles multiple islands much better than before
• Pathfinding tweaks

I just updated the game with a couple of bugfixes! The following has been fixed:

• Added slowmotion bind in input options
• Respawn time option now works
• Cannot kick inside vehicles/turrets
• Cannot lean inside vehicles/turrets
• Mouse wheel works for weapon switch (if it's bound in input menu)
• HMG remaining ammo count doesn't bug out when resupplying
• Can hide battalions UI with Home key
• Added alternative flight control preset (the default control layout from beta 5)