The Fall of Avalon update brings the much awaited third chapter to Ravenswatch, taking players to a new zone populated with new enemies, events, and boss fights. Featuring a more urban setting, the city of Avalon will have players take on witches, wolves, knights, and gargoyles.

Along with the new chapter, the update also brings with it new playing modes through the addition of Challenges, a new themed quest about the Headless Horseman, the ability to gain more talents and powers by going up to level 10 and beyond, and the upgrades to Ultimate abilities, among other features. Check out the full patch notes for the Fall of Avalon update below.

Ravenswatch is currently available as an early access title on PC. The game’s next major update will be its 1.0 release, and will bring with it the game’s final boss, as well as a new playable hero. This update is slated for Q3 2024.

Ravenswatch: The Fall of Avalon patch notes:

• New Chapter – Avalon:

  + A new map in a new location! The gates of Avalon are opening, make your way into the abandoned castle and defeat the Nigthmare’s invasion!
  + After Chapter Two, continue your journey to Chapter Three, allowing you to reach level 10 (and beyond!)
  + Runs are now 60+ minutes long with the addition of Chapter Three
  + 1 new themed quest: Help Morgan defeat the Headless Horseman (Dullahan)
  + 10+ new enemies:

  • Wolves: Timber Wolf, Dire Wolf, Alpha Wolf
  • Gargoyles: Bestial Gargoyle, Fire Gargoyle, Blood Gargoyle
  • Witches: Young Witch, Crone Witch, Broom Witch
  • Knights: Sword Knight, Spear Knight, Mage Knight
  • Skeletons

  + 1 new Mini-boss challenge: Boss Coven
  + 1 new Master Nightmare: Claws Master Nightmare

• Custom Game Modes:
  + Create customizable runs with selectable positive or negative modifiers
  + Increase or decrease the difficulty of runs with modifiers
  + A score modifier is applied to reflect your choice of modifiers
  + 11 Positive modifiers: No timer mode, Play a single random Chapter, Quick Dash cooldown… and more.
  + 11 Negative modifiers: No Mini-Map, Healing Fountains are empty, No Raven feathers available… and more.
• Challenges:

  5 pre-made Challenges available
  + Untouchable
  + Black Moon
  + Power of the Sun
  + Adrenaline
  + Terra Incognita

• Rerolls:
  + Stars of Fate will let you reroll Talents, Magical Objects as well as Rewards at the Grimoires and Wishing Well
  + You get 3 Stars of Fate at the start of a run, pictured by a shooting star ☄ symbol
  + More Stars of Fate can be obtained during a run

• General:

  + Upgrade your Ultimate Abilities with final Talents, now available!
  + All four Starting Talents are now available to choose from at the start of a run
  + Reach Level 10+ in runs. Levels beyond 10 continue to scale Attack damage and Health points
  + Dash UI has been reworked to welcome the possibility of having multiple charges. When an arrow (or multiple arrows) is displayed, a Dash is available.

• Scarlet:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Fiery Maw
  • Bone Cracker

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Evisceration

  + Adjustments:

  • ‘Savagery’ timer is now frozen during the Trait passive transformation
  • ‘Fan of Spikes’ will now only trigger when Scarlet is in combat
  • Transformation with ‘Shapeshifter’ Talent now grants an Intangibility window instead of an Invincibility window
• The Pied Piper:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Jig
  • Vermin Massacre

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Sforzando

  + Adjustments:

  • Reviewed ‘Invasive Blast’ Talent, it now spawns a given amount of rats if Defense hits at least one enemy
  • ‘Ghost Notes’ now ignore scenery collisions before exploding
• Beowulf:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Immolation
  • Volcanic Rage

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Breath of Fire

  + Adjustments:

  • ‘Sparkling Shield’ reflects damage reduced to 120%/150%180%/210% (from 200%/250%/300%/350%)
  • Fixed ‘Scorched Earth’: damage is now properly scaled with power damage
• Snow Queen:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Royal Ray
  • Rending Storm

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Snowball

  + Adjustments:

  • ‘Freezing Stars’ now detonate (instead of vanish) when their lifetime expires. Reduced lifetime to 10s (from 15s)
  • Fixed Defense, it now correctly applies damage multiple times to the same target, even if the Snow Queen stays within the enemy hurtbox
  • Fixed ‘Protective Crow’ and ‘Ice Shield’ Shields that would override themselves
• Aladdin:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Wondrous Wishes
  • Dream Stride

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Shard Blades

  + Adjustments:

  • ‘Jinniya’s Gift’: changed formula for chances to get better talents, it is now more effective and accurate
  • ‘Dream Scimitars’ doesn’t proc anymore during Master Nightmare fights
  • Consumables dropped from Special Wishes now offer a choice between 2 (instead of 3)
  • Fix: ‘Air Dash’ can now properly be chained without any cooldown between two
• Melusine:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Vortex Bomb
  • Crescendo

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Water Bubble
• Geppetto:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Bomb Reverse
  • High Voltage

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Explosive Builds

  + Adjustments:

  • ‘Lightning Rod Dummies’ now triggers lightning strikes after 2-2.5s (instead of 0.5-1s). Base damage set to 28 (from 20)
  • Magical Object drops generated from ‘Flash of Genius’ now offer choice among 2 objects (instead of no choice)
  • Slightly reduced recovery time of ‘Nailing Strike’s last attack
• Sun Wukong:

  + 2 final Talents:

  • Army of Monkeys
  • Perfect Copy

  + 1 new standard Talent:

  • Ōm

• General:

  + Super Effects: Magical Objects now have a ‘Super Effects’ that can be triggered if a collection is complete. A collection is a specific number of identical Magical Objects found in your Inventory.

  • Common: 5 identical Magical Objects for a complete collection
  • Rare: 4 identical Magical Objects for a complete collection
  • Epic: 3 identical Magical Objects for a complete collection
  • Legendary/Cursed: Don’t have a ‘Super Effect’ as they are unique

  + Meta: Magical Objects are now all unlocked by default, and are not part of the meta progression. Effects and Super Effects are hidden until equipped or discovered during a game

• New Magical Objects:
  + Leprechaun Coin (Common)
  + Green Armor (Common)
  + Queen of Hearts Card (Rare)
  + Charmstone (Epic)
  + Holy Grail (Legendary)
  + Raven Effigy (Legendary)
  + Ring of Dispel (Legendary)
  + Hungry Grass (Cursed)
  + Fast-Walker Boots (Cursed)
  + Balor’s Eye (Cursed)
• New Effects:

  + Goldilocks’ Porridge: Healing Orbs grant STRENGTH for 4 seconds
  + Fairy Dust: When taking damage, gain 15 SHIELD (Max. every 30 seconds)
  + Eternal Rose: After DASH, gain +10% Crit Chance for 2 seconds
  + Golden Egg: Each time Dream Shards are consumed, gain DMG +1
  + Oni Mask: DMG +20 for each cursed magical object, VITALITY -10 for each legendary magical object
  + Baba Yaga’s Mortar: Warns of lethal damage and restores all health instead (only works once)
  + Mad Hat: Taking damage earns 10% of their value as Dream Shards
  + Bloody Mary’s Mirror: DMG now counts as ARMOR and vice versa
  + Cauldron of Dyrnwch: VITALITY +100, all healings are reduced by 50%

• Removed Magical Object:

  + Little Thumb Pebbles

• Adjustments:

  + Voodoo Doll: Extra damage to boss reduced to 10% (from 20%)
  + Tamatebako: now also grants 3 Stars of Fate (rerolls)
  + Water of Life: now also grants +25 VITALITY
  + Witch Broom: extra damage taken reduced to 25% (from 50%)

• Rewards and Economy:

  + The Sandman:

  • ‘Consumables’ have been replaced by ‘Dreams’, a new Reward type only available at the Sandman’s Shop
  • 10 Dreams are available:
    • Star Fragment
    • Sand of oblivion
    • Dream of power
    • Dream of invulnerability
    • Rapid Shaping
    • Minor Shaping
    • Major Shaping
    • Sand of Knowledge
    • Grandiose Shaping
    • Stand of Enlightenment
  • Legendary and Cursed Magical Objects can be found at the Sandman’s Shop
  • Prices for upgrading Talents have been adjusted to match the new progression with Chapter 3 and the adjustments on the economy of the game

  +Grimoires of Monsters:

  • Grimoires now offer flat stats or rewards instead of the 3 same offers
  • Offers are still scaled with the difficulty of the Grimoire (Green, Orange or Red):
    • Health chapter: +X VITALITY
    • War chapter: +X DMG
    • Protection chapter: +X ARMOR
    • Luck chapter: +X CRIT CHANCE
    • Anatomy chapter: +X CRIT DAMAGE
    • Astronomy chapter: +X REROLLS
    • Dream chapter: +X DREAM SHARDS

  +Dream Crystals: Small and Medium Dream Crystals found in between Camps and Activities now drop more Dream Shards to increase their attractiveness
  +Enemies:

  • Gnolls: Shielded Gnolls now properly deal extra damage when corrupted or under a Strength effect
  • Mini-Boss stagger: In multiplay only, increased the stagger bar on mini-bosses so they’re not so easy to stun and a bit more resistant (no changes in solo)
  • Status: Negative statuses on enemies are now displayed above their health bars (Chilled, Weakened, Ignited…)
  • Enraged: The enraged effect on Master Nightmare is now displayed on their Health Bar.

• General performance improvements
• Improved Network Stability (some issues remain and will be our next priority. Please reach out on the Steam forums or Discord if you’re encountering specific problems)

• Fixed a crash that occurred when accepting a Game invitation on Steam during the loading screen
• Fixed a crash that occurred with Beowulf and ‘Sparkling Shield” against the Faceless Master Nightmare

• Fixed an issue where a Cursed Magical Object could be collected multiple times
• Fixed the intangible Roc Birds
• Fixed an issue where the timer was not the same between players
• Fixed an issue where a Host player who died in the Altar of Heroes was not redirected to the defeat screen if another player abandoned the run
• Other minor fixes

Going by the trailer, some of the new content coming to Ravenswatch includes a new level, along with its own set of new enemies that players will have to face. The update is set to be the final chapter for the game, bringing it closer to its exit from Early Access.

Alongside releasing the trailer, Passtech Games also took the chance during the Triple-i Initiative showcase to reveal that Ravenswatch has been played by more than 450,000 players.

Ravenswatch has been getting a steady stream of content. November 2023 saw the game getting Sun Wukong as a playable character, and an update released back in February brought with it new backstories for its playable heroes, as well as unlockable talents.

More details about the upcoming update will be revealed as the Fall of Avalon update gets closer to release.

The update fills in the gaps of Ravenswatch story by providing new in-depth backstories for each of its playable heroes. The update now also allows players to expand on their heroes’ fighting styles thanks to the addition of 30 new talents that can be unlocked during the course of play.

New backstories for Ravenswatch‘s heroes will be available to check out in a new Main Menu option titled Entitled Memoirs. Backstories in this new section can be unlocked by the players just simply playing through the game with each of its 8 playable heroes.

The other major feature of the new update is allowing players to use the new Altar of Heroes location in the game’s levels to resurrect their companions, even if they might have run out of the resurrection feathers, which typically limit how many times players can die throughout the course of a run.

The studio has also announced that Ravenswatch has been quite successful, with over 400,000 unique players having bought the game and playing it.

Ravenswatch is currently available as an early access title on PC. The game is slated to see its 1.0 release in 2024, and will come to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch along with its PC release.

Sun Wukong, being an incredibly confident character, is not afraid of danger. In terms of gameplay, the character is equipped with abilities that allow him to dart from enemy to enemy swiftly. The character also has a unique parrying mechanic, as well as different stances to switch between.

In terms of story, Sun Wukong became arrogant because of his immortality, but ultimately losing his powers made things worse, turning him bitter and prone to letting his darker emotions get the better of him.

Ravenswatch was announced earlier this year, and was released back in April as an early access title. The game currently has seven playable characters, each taking inspiration from classic fairy tales and mythological stories.

Ravenswatch features four playable characters, each with their own unique gameplay mechanics. It also allows players to make use of all of them through the game’s 4-player co-op mode. The characters and their unique abilities are supposed to be based on folk tales and legends.

The game’s setting is also built on old folk tales and legends according to the game’s description on Steam. It features ideas and concepts from stories like Three Little Pigs, Norse mythology, and One Thousand and One Nights.

The studio promises high replay value for Ravenswatch, owing to its cast of playable characters, different item and equipment upgrades leading to unique builds, and a randomly-generated map that will feature new activities and enemies.

While the early access release of Ravenswatch will be on PC, the game is slated to release on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S down the line.

Perhaps the biggest release on the calendar, Daedalic Entertainment’s The Lord of the Rings: Gollum originally planned to release last September for Xbox One, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X/S. It was delayed by a “few months,” and the publisher recently confirmed it would release sometime between April and September 2023. Perhaps a release date will be announced at Nacon Connect.

RoboCop: Rogue City is the other heavy-hitter, developed by Teyon of Terminator: Resistance fame. It’s coming to Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PC and Nintendo Switch in June and could also receive new gameplay footage. Stay tuned for more updates when the digital showcase premieres next month.

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FIFA 22 and Tribes of Midgard will be available for both PS4 and PS5 players. Curse of the Dead Gods is on PS4 but PS5 players can play it via backwards compatibility. FIFA 22 is the latest in Electronic Sports’ yearly football franchise (which could be renamed EA Sports FC next year). Tribes of Midgard is an action RPG survival title that sees players exploring the world of Norse mythology and protecting the seed of Yggdrasil from forces of Helheim and the Jotunn.

Curse of the Dead Gods is an isometric rogue-lite taking place in a randomly generated temple full of traps, enemies and treasure. As players progress, they’ll accumulate different Curses which can be dangerous (but also provide some benefits). There’s a hefty amount of content and weapon variety to be had overall.

Sony hasn’t officially announced the PlayStation Plus titles coming in May so stay tuned for confirmation in the coming days