Hey! Marcos here.
Rift Racoon is going to participate on the Steam Summer Sale with a 65% discount, so this is a great time to finally get your copy! Not only because of the price deduction, but also because of the SUMMER UPDATE that has just come out!
Check out what's new:
New Skin
A new color palette that resembles summer colors is now available for your racoon! Unlike the other skins, this one is already unlocked from the start, so you just have to select it in the Stage Select menu.
Now you can teleport, climb and jump around well dressed for the summer season! Hope you enjoy it!
New Abillity (+ major bug fix)
This one is a little hard to explain, so bear with me here and pay close attention if you really want to nail understanding this!
Take a look at this gif. It shows a problem you might have come across playing the game, but it's quite rare.
In the first four teleportations, everything works fine. I teleport, and then jump. But on the last ones, I teleport and do a weird short hop. What is happening?
Well, in the last attempts I entered impatient mode and started teleporting and then jumping almost immediately after teleporting. So what I did was press the teleport button and then, almost immediately after pressing the teleport button, pressed the jump button.
This didn't work properly. What should happen is that you would teleport and THEN jump, but you did both actions at the same time. And not only that, the teleporting cancelled your jump height, so for that reason you did this weird short hop.
This is now fixed, and not only that, I turned this bug fix into a new abillity! If you press the jump button immediately after teleporting, you can do this:
How cool is that??!
Teleporting and jumping at almost the same time (you have to press the teleport button slightly sooner) sideways will produce what I call a Teleport Jump! You will go airborne, but still being able to teleport one more time! You can teleport twice in the air, covering more space horizontally!
You can also do a High Jump by teleporting upwards and jumping at almost the same time! You'll jump really high and still have one teleport remaining!
This is definitely an advanced abillity and you're NOT required to master it in order to complete the game. Heck, trying to use this might make the game even harder! But it will be really fun for those who have already mastered the main abillities and are looking for new ways to traverse Rift Racoon's levels!
So if you're a new player warping into Rift Racoon, don't mind this new abillity for a while. You can try it later!
I'm really happy about this new addition, because it fixed a bug that was bumming me down for quite a while AND added a new advanced abillity to the game (something that I really wanted, so experienced players and speedrunners could explore more possibilities).
Level Improvements
These ones are much simpler, so I'll tell about them bullet point style.
- New checkpoint in levels 2-5 and 3-2, to make'em easier without influencing on the challenges they present
- Adjusted the height of a recharging drone in 2-10, making it less likely that you'll hit it before hitting the one under it
- Adjusted the height of the diamond in 2-13, making it a little easier to get
- Added a few blocks in the beginning of 1-4, 2-1, 2-3, 2-4, 2-10, 2-12, 2-14, 3-1, 3-2, 3-4, 3-7, 3-8, 3-13, 4-6 and 4-8 to prevent you from teleporting up to the ceiling (this change has been done because of the new High Jump abillity, that allows you to reach higher parts of levels you should'nt be able to reach)
- Added one block to 1-5 to allow for a skip if you're crafty
- Removed some blocks on 2-19 to allow for a skip if you're crafty
Game Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Moving platforms will now drag you upwards if you don't land on top of them, in order to make them easier to handle
- Fixed the collision in moving platforms so it won't look like you're floating over it
- Fixed a small glitch in which the head bonk effect would appear over your head if you teleported into a wall while in a climbing state
- Fixed a small glitch in which a blue box would spawn alongside the head bonk effect and disappear after a few seconds
- Fixed a simple bug where holding up and down on the keyboard and then teleporting would play the teleport sound and effects but keep the racoon in the same place
- Fixed a bug where the diamond would remain dark, as if it has been gotten, if you get the diamond and save it at a checkpoint and then quit the level. Saving a diamond at a checkpoint doesn't actually make you get it. You have to finish the level to really make the diamond count as collected
- Fixed a bug where very rarely, in Casual mode, you would get stuck in a wall for good
And, wow, that was a lot, but everything has been listed and explained!
If you're not yet playing Rift Racoon, make sure to get it 65% off while the Summer Sale is on!
If you already own Rift Racoon, hope you enjoy the new update!
That's all for today. Have fun!