The Winterdream Festival has begun! It will be active from December 12 to January 7. Happy Holidays!
Updated to Unreal 4.21.1 which fixes some minor issues.
-Added: 35+ new Winterdream skin items. -Added: Snowbreeze is now available for ‘Fill a Pot’ in custom games and on official servers. -Added: Fiskersted is now available for ‘Fill a Pot’ in custom games. -Added: A few new props. -Added an option to disable jump scares, which replaces the Luaq with another effect. -Added a game option to show timestamps for chat messages.
-Changed: ‘Fiskersted’ and ‘Snowbreeze’ are now decorated to celebrate the Winterdream Festival. -Changed: Decreased the visibility of the ‘Possess’ skill trail to make it harder for the Hunters to see it. -Changed: We did some improvements concerning the prop layouts used in ‘Fill a Pot’. -Changed: The chat is now scrollable. -Changed: ‘Decoy’ will now only create decoys of common Props. -Changed: We removed the achievements from the Winterdream Festival 2017. The related items are now craftable. Detailed explanation: The old achievements got implemented before the crafting system existed. In theory the ‘present hunt’ were funny , but it didn’t work out in practice. It interfered too much with the actual gameplay and caused frustration. That’s why we decided to remove the achievements instead of doing the same ‘present hunt’ this year. Everyone who got the achievements will of course keep their related items.
-Fixed: Some Market Stand props had the wrong color after a Witch transformed into them. -Fixed: The new facial animations looked broken on ‘The Shifty Observer’ and ‘The Scheming Observer’ skin items. -Fixed: Props flipping to old sleep position for some frames. -Fixed: Attempt to fix disconnects at the end of ‘Fill a Pot’ rounds. -Fixed: The game only chooses from the languages visible under game options on startup. -Fixed: Glitching under the map while transforming into a prop with a falling witch. -Fixed: Result stats haven’t considered scalings of props.
We updated the Unreal Engine to version 4.21 This should fix some bugs. Let us know if you find any new ones.
We added the option to craft a Gloomkin from 30 Candies. Because of this change, the Halloween Event will be extended until December 3.
-Added: Face animations for taunts (Hunters and Witches)
-Added: Spanish localization -Added: 50+ custom recipes. This includes recipes for the Abyssal Witch set, Captain Hunter set, Reaper Witch set, Magical Painter Witch set, which makes these sets fully craftable through custom recipes.
-Changed: Win condition of ‘Fill a Pot’. When the first Witch team fills only 0 or 1 cauldrons, the 2nd team only needs to fill 1 or 2 cauldrons to win. -Changed: Reduced duration of the match result screen (‘Fill a Pot’) -Changed loading screen
-Fixed: Field of View should now apply correctly to the spectator in round 2 and onwards as a custom match host. -Fixed: Server list entries now scale in size when the text is too long. This should be especially useful for the Russian localization. -Fixed: Several skill selection fixes. -Fixed: Materials of a tower in Snowbreeze have been fixed. -Fixed: Skill descriptions of Decoy and Possess. -Fixed: Result stat of Magic blocker is working correctly again. -Fixed: Physics of the Candle Stand prop. -Fixed: Votekick (custom games only) should be working as intended now. -Fixed: There was a rare case which crashed the official servers.
We're looking for translator volunteers! You're enjoying Witch It? You would love to see it in your language? Perfect! We're looking for you!
We're constantly trying to add more languages to Witch It and we want to improve the languages that got already added. Teamwork is always the best thing, that's why we're also looking for volunteers who want to help to improve the existing languages. :)
Requested languages:
-Japanese -Korean -Traditional Chinese -Simplified Chinese -Spanish -Polish
You're enjoying Witch It, you're a native speaker of one of the languages listed above and you'd like to help?
-Added: ‘Chummy Potato’ and ‘Morgenstund’ are now selectable for ‘Fill a Pot’ in custom games -Added: It’s possible to change the amount of players and Witch lives when creating a custom game of ‘Fill a Pot’. With these options it is possible to play ‘Fill a Pot’ 1vs1 and 3vs3 in custom games. -Added: The current round is shown in the upper right corner of the player list in ‘Fill a Pot’
-Changed: Players below account level 4 won’t have the ‘Fill a Pot’ game mode selected in quick match by default. -Changed: Improvements of the Divine Orb visualization. It's now easier to see when you are close to a requested prop. -Changed: Improved Visuals for the requested prop border effect -Changed: Replaced ‘Perry Propper Book’ prop from ‘Fill a Pot’ Layout in ‘Sleeping Rose Cemetery’.
-Fixed: More than 4 people were able to join official ‘Fill a Pot’ servers. -Fixed: Black Street Broom is now displayed as uncommon in game. Once and for all. -Fixed: In ‘Fill a Pot’ it was possible to fill a cauldron after the round was over. In this case the round end timer was 2 minutes longer. -Fixed: Game was not responding to input after hitting ready in the second round of ‘Fill a Pot’. This fix could also potentially fix other issues with the game not responding to input. -Fixed: Team chat messages were not visible in the next round. -Fixed: Using melee attack and throwing potato at the same time when they have been bound to the same input key. -Fixed: Not all notifications on the main menu buttons were shown. -Fixed: Ingredient count caching in the event screen. -Fixed: Some languages ran wild. They are now contained.
-Changed: simplified the collision of the stairs on Sleeping Rose Cemetery and Grunewald Library. -Changed: Merge Surrender button and Exit to main menu button, it will now switch to Exit (Surrender), when you are the last one in your team. -Changed: When hitting exit in fill a pot show a warning saying "You need to play two rounds to get xp and you get no xp when you leave now". -Changed: Running games in Server Browser should be greyed out instead of invisible, because some players think nobody plays it. Changed: show wait for other players to fill a pot team selection screen.
-Fixed: A bug if only one Haunted Candy would drop, the player wouldn’t receive it. -Fixed: Skill selection will now open when the first round starts. -Fixed: All chat key binding is not saved. -Fixed: Chat freezes, if on selection screen (hunter) and trying to type. -Fixed quick match joining 75% full dedicated servers in fill a pot mode. -Fixed: Chat is not working in skill selection screen and fill a pot result screen.
The new game mode is an objective mode where the Witches have to fill 3 of the 5 cauldrons to win the round, while the Hunters must prevent them from doing so. Join a game of “Fill a Pot” and choose your team. You will get sorted randomly into the Witch team or the Hunter team. Currently, you can play 2vs2. (We’re already testing 1vs1 and 3vs3). For this game mode the Possess skill is deactivated and the Garlic and Mushroom skills have shorter effects (Garlic 6 instead of 10 seconds, Mushroom 2 instead of 4 seconds). If your team member leaves the game, you are able to surrender and still get the XP. Your selected skills for this game mode are saved separately.
-Added: Video tutorial for the new game mode -Added: 35+ new Skin Items for the Halloween Event
-Changed: Level cap got raised to 70 -Changed: Improved cloud visuals on every map -Changed: A peculiar moon appeared on ‘Grunewald Library’ and will stay there until the end of the Halloween Event -Changed: Hunter AFK timeout changed from 45 sec. to 60 sec.
-Fixed: There was a bug which prevented Witches from using transform after trying to transform when standing in the Garlic zone. -Fixed: Mushrooms don’t cause infinite confusion on the Hunter anymore.
-Changed: Key bindings for team and all chat are now configurable -Changed: Default key binding for all chat is now Backspace instead of Shift+Enter to not conflict with the default Stabilize key binding -Changed: You can switch to team chat by typing /team, /t or /p and to all chat with /all, /a and /g
-Fixed: Chat does not lose focus at round end -Fixed: Recipes are selectable when you don’t have the required materials -Fixed: Possessable Props have a blue outline again -Fixed: Skills are not selected randomly -Fixed: 3 candles on certain locations are now correctly possessable
Changed the way Hunters get XP. Hunters get 5 XP per Witch catch and 5 XP per Witch catch assist. Time XP for Hunters is reduced from 30 per min to 20 per min
-Added: Doors are now destructible to prevent door blocking. -Added Team chat: Team chat is on by default. to write in ‘All Chat’ press Shift+Enter to open the chat line.
-Changed: New clouds in ‘Sleeping Rose Cemetery’ and ‘Loakiki Paradise’
-Fixed: It is no longer possible to get under the terrain with the Paddle prop.