Hello, Slugcats!

Welcome to the first (of two!) devlogs coming out this week for the new local co-op campaign mode coming to Rain World: Downpour! Longtime players of Rain World might notice that many of these features stem from the Jolly Co-op mod from Garrakx, whom we enlisted to help us craft the Downpour experience for you. Later this same week, there’s gonna be a third devlog coming out and let’s just say I’m excited for it! Though, I’m not gonna spoil any of the secrets for that one.

In Downpour, you’ll be able to play with your friends to travel through the dangerous environments while avoiding the deadly creatures that inhabit every different region. You no longer have to try to survive alone in the treacherous world of Rain World.



The local co-op campaign can be played with up to four players with any of the slugcats including the five new slugcats coming in Downpour! The slugcats keep their abilities from their own campaign so you can swing over your friends with Saint, share the explosives you make with Artificer, create spears with Spearmaster, quickly scout out hazards with Rivulet, and craft different items with Gourmand. Finding clever ways to combine the abilities of the different slugcats is half the fun, so experimenting is half the fun! We learned the hard way during capturing footage that the Gourmand is so massive, they can actually kill their slugcat companions with their weight. (We plan to put them on a slight diet so that they won’t be hurting their friends at launch.)

You can select any of the base game campaigns of Monk, Survivor, or Hunter to send your slugcat crew into! You can start with the higher creature reputation of Monk’s campaign, play the first campaign as Survivor, or play with the harder and more vast creature spawns of Hunter.

Wordless communication will be another feature added so slugcats can point at dangers, food, shelter, or even each other.



If one of the slugcats is having some problems getting past an obstacle, then another slugcat can pick them up and give them a piggyback ride! They can even carry Gourmand with little effort! By both slugcats laying down in front of each other, one of the slugcats can grab the other and give them a piggyback ride! The slugcat giving the piggyback ride can still use their abilities to get around the world. Artificer can still explosive jump while giving a piggyback ride or Saint can swing with their tongue while carrying a companion.

I’m excited to reveal more in the next dev log where I’ll talk more about the customization of the campaigns you can play with your friends!

Hey slugcats!

I’m super excited to announce that local co-op campaigns are joining Rain World: Downpour! No longer will you have to suffer alone in the harsh unforgiving environments of Rain World! You can now bring up to 3 friends along with you in your journey. All 8 slugcats including the 5 new slugcats coming to Downpour can be played. All slugcats keep their abilities while playing in co-op campaigns like Artificer with their explosive jumps and Saint with their grappling tongue!

Take a peek at some of co-op shenanigans in the co-op trailer!

- [AG] Riv Otter

Hello Slugcats!

We’re still hard at work on Rain World: Downpour and making sure that Gourmand is well fed so they don’t eat any more cables. We’ve upped their meal plan from 10 meals a day to 15 meals.

Rain World: Downpour brings 70 new and unique challenges that will test your skills in Challenge Mode! Master each of the slugcat’s abilities to overcome the difficult scenarios the different slugcat will face! You’ll slay powerful creatures, befriend wary lizards, swing across hazards, dodge deadly attacks, eat delicious food, and more!

Take a peek at some of the new challenges in the new Teaser!

You will start off simple with challenge 1 by playing as the survivor with plenty of spears and rocks to kill a green and pink lizard.


Things get more complicated in challenge 17 where you have to kill a vulture as the hunter with only two spears at your disposal. If you stick them in the wall or throw them off the edge, you will fail the challenge.


In challenge 22, you’ll use Gourmand's weight to your advantage to slay the new lizards in Downpour - the carmel lizards - with no weapons available.


These are just 3 of the 70 new challenges that will be waiting in Challenge Mode!

- [AG] riv otter

Hello, Slugcats!

If you were watching the Guerrilla Collective, you may have caught a glimpse of the new slugcats sliding across your screen! Rain World: Downpour adds five new slugcats each with unique abilities and playstyles to traverse the ecosystems in while avoiding the dangers they hold. The new slugcats are the speedy Rivulet, the mouthless Spearmaster, the acrobatic Saint, the wishlist eating Gourmand, and the explosive Artificer!

Each slugcat has their own sets of advantages and challenges in environments where even a tiny mistake can mean death. Learn the movements of each slugcats and how to use those new found abilities to survive to the next cycle and travel to new regions and rooms.

If you would like to learn more about these new slugcats, then check out the trailer!

- [AG] Riv Otter

Hello, Slugcats!

Due to an error on Steam’s backend, you may no longer have Rain World: Downpour wishlisted.

We are still hard at work on Downpour, however in the last couple of days we had some issues with under-the-hood stuff on Steam. For those curious, it stated that some people had Rain World: Downpour in their library. This didn’t give anyone early access to Downpour, there currently isn't a build up on Steam. We have been working with Valve and have fixed the issue.

Feel free to double check that you are still wishlisting Downpour and that Gourmand didn’t eat them.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1933390/Rain_World_Downpour/

- [AG] riv otter

Hello, Slugcats!

I'm elated to see all the excitement from the community for Rain World: Downpour! The devs are hard at work on Downpour and can't wait to get the DLC in your hands! If you missed the news of Downpour, then be sure to check out the Downpour trailer! In the meantime, I wanted to answer a few common questions that I've seen from the community.

When is Rain World: Downpour releasing?
We’re still deep in development so there’s no release date yet but once we’re solid on when the game’s good to release, we’ll let you know.

How much will Downpour be?
No details on pricing just yet, mostly because we haven’t answered that question internally yet. When we announce the release date, we’ll announce the price.

What platforms will Downpour be on?
Every platform that Rain World is currently on will get the Downpour DLC. This includes consoles!

Is More Slugcats still being made by the original More Slugcats Team?
Yep. In fact, we brought AndrewFM as the lead developer of Downpour!

Is More Slugcats canon?
We like to think of More Slugcats as an expansion of Rain World lore rather than a reboot or a retcon or a sequel. There’s a lot to see in Rain World and this is just adding more Rain World.

Is the original version of Rain World going away?
Nope! Downpour is a separate, standalone experience in DLC requiring the original, while Rain World itself is still going to stand on its own two feet. Even when owning the DLC, if you want to toggle it off and get that classic Rain World experience, that’ll definitely be possible. These are two games meant to be played in parallel, one won’t be replacing the other.

Where is 1.7 for PC?
The latest version of Rain World on Steam is version 1.5 but on consoles it’s 1.7. On one platform specifically, that version is 1.8. We plan to bring all the platforms to the same version of Rain World with the Parity Patch and this will not be tied to Downpour and will instead be released alongside the DLC. Even if you don’t buy the DLC, you’ll still get the Parity Patch.

When is the Parity Patch releasing?
Right alongside the release of Downpour. This is for two reasons: First, it’s going to take a bunch of development work to get it all up and running, so there’s that. Second, we also want to make sure that the Parity Patch plays well with the Downpour DLC release itself, so we’re bundling all of that together into one release. We also want to help modders get early access to the Parity Patch just so that their mods can be adjusted for its launch. The goal is for parity to be really seamless for players.

Let me know if you have any other questions about the upcoming DLC or patch that you'd like me to tackle! I'd be happy to answer anything and everything that I can.

-[AG] Riv Otter

Hello Slugcats!

If you saw the announcement during the Videocult Stream for Rain World’s 5 year anniversary, you would have seen that Rain World is getting a new expansion called Rain World: Downpour.

Downpour adds five new slugcats each with their own story and unique abilities. Use those abilities to traverse through over 1000 new rooms and investigate the mysterious world around you while learning how to survive with the new threatening creatures of the world.

Check out the Downpour trailer!

Wishlist the DLC!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1933390/Rain_World_Downpour/

Akupara Games is now the publisher of Rain World and will be working on Downpour!
We plan on releasing Downpour on Steam later this year!

Hey Slugcats! Happy Holidays!

As you may have seen, there's been a flurry of new Rain World activity the past couple of weeks:

Rain World Switch

After many many many emails, DMs, requests, demands, phone calls (???) and online petitions, we teamed up with Adult Swim Games and Akupara Games to bring slugcats to the Nintendo Switch! It has been a loooooong process to make it all work and we are quite enthusiastic to finally have it in the hands of players. (Yes, even that guy who called me!)

Rain World Switch is out now in North American regions and will be launching soon in Europe and Japan. So if you like your slugcats portable, please go check it out!: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/rain-world-switch


Rain World PS4

As part of this new arrangement, Akupara Games has also taken over managing the PS4 port code as well, and we have been able to FINALLY bring current content updates to our Rain World players on PlayStation 4. It's absurd that its taken this long, it was factors totally out of our hands, but we never forgot about you. We hope you enjoy the Monk and the Hunter!


Rain World v1.7

Further, over the past year and a half of porting work, there have been plenty of minor bugfixes and such, and we were even able to sneak in a *small* (but important!) content update for these new launches: v1.7.

We're currently working through patches for issues on the Switch and PS4 versions, but when we're certain everything is fixed up and it wont corrupt everybody's save files (or make modders throw their PCs out the window), we'll be launching v1.7 for PC as well! Can't wait for you to see it.

Happy Holidays and best wishes from the Videocult team! Hope you all have a great 2019 :)

Hello friends and slugcats! After many months, we present to you: Rain World v1.5



Main new features include:

2 new playable characters, corresponding to different playstyles and difficulty:



THE MONK - “Weak of body but strong of spirit. In tune with the mysteries of the world and empathetic to its creatures, your journey will be a significantly more peaceful one.”



THE HUNTER - “Strong and quick, with a fierce metabolism requiring a steady diet of meat. But the stomach won’t be your only concern, as the path of the hunter is one of extreme peril.”


New Multiplayer arena modes:



COMPETITIVE - Up to 4 player competitive mode. Catch bats and spear creatures (and each other!) for points. Players can choose from rooms that have been unlocked from finding yellow level tokens in the single player campaigns. Increasingly diverse wildlife will populate these rooms as you discover more blue tokens.

SANDBOX - Up to 4 players, put together custom scenarios using rooms, items and creatures unlocked from the single player campaign. Creatures and items can be placed in a room as desired and then played through with a various point values, etc, attached. This mode is to experiment and learn about the behaviour of creatures players encounter in the world.

Over 30 new multiplayer levels to be unlocked!


Updated bestiary, with a host of new creatures and items available to every character. Escape from new and dangerous predators! Feast on delicious new prey! Or perhaps... bond with new friends?


Plus of course a host of new secrets to be found, new strangeness to experience, and hopefully generally a much smoother Rain World experience!


(Happy hunting!} ʕ●.●ʔ

Hello friends and slugcats! After many months, we present to you: Rain World v1.5



Main new features include:

2 new playable characters, corresponding to different playstyles and difficulty:



THE MONK - “Weak of body but strong of spirit. In tune with the mysteries of the world and empathetic to its creatures, your journey will be a significantly more peaceful one.”



THE HUNTER - “Strong and quick, with a fierce metabolism requiring a steady diet of meat. But the stomach won’t be your only concern, as the path of the hunter is one of extreme peril.”


New Multiplayer arena modes:



COMPETITIVE - Up to 4 player competitive mode. Catch bats and spear creatures (and each other!) for points. Players can choose from rooms that have been unlocked from finding yellow level tokens in the single player campaigns. Increasingly diverse wildlife will populate these rooms as you discover more blue tokens.

SANDBOX - Up to 4 players, put together custom scenarios using rooms, items and creatures unlocked from the single player campaign. Creatures and items can be placed in a room as desired and then played through with a various point values, etc, attached. This mode is to experiment and learn about the behaviour of creatures players encounter in the world.

Over 30 new multiplayer levels to be unlocked!


Updated bestiary, with a host of new creatures and items available to every character. Escape from new and dangerous predators! Feast on delicious new prey! Or perhaps... bond with new friends?


Plus of course a host of new secrets to be found, new strangeness to experience, and hopefully generally a much smoother Rain World experience!


(Happy hunting!} ʕ●.●ʔ