Good news, Rifters,

Our Steam Alpha Demo is available to play right now - click here and install - it’s as easy as that. The Alpha Demo contains upgrades, improvements, and additions based on community feedback from our May playtest, and we can’t wait to see you all take on Bonkey once again.

As part of the celebrations, we’ve updated our Steam Page with five new screenshots.

Spoiler Alert: We have a new trailer premiering at the PC Gamer Showcase this Sunday, and we will update this news post to embed it below once it’s public. Alternatively, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel and enable notifications to stay informed as soon as our trailer goes live.

We hope new and returning Rifters enjoy the Lost Rift Alpha Demo. Please share your thoughts in the Demo reviews, wishlist the game, and join our Discord.

Advanced notice of potential hotfix downtimes:

We may have hotfixes and short downtimes of up to 2 hours on:

• Sunday 8th June - circa 10 AM Eastern time

• Tuesday 10th June - circa 7 PM Eastern time

Playtest to Alpha Demo Patch Notes

PSA: This is an early access alpha demo; you will see placeholder assets, especially on Expeditions.

For pioneers who participated in our playtest, check out the patch notes to see what's fixed, changed, updated, and improved:

Known Issues

• Using the invite code from someone other than the original camp creator can sometimes cause an infinite loading screen

• Repeatedly inviting camps to expeditions can cause a soft lockout of expeditions (restart the camp as a workaround)

• Reloading weapons causes durability loss (reload with care)

• Arrows and bolts from enemies do not leave trails in the air

• Players in DBNO still have interaction prompts even if they cannot do so from the downed state

• "Monitor" setting does not change the monitor displaying the game.

• Sometimes loading into Camp Island will send notifications about all completed quests

• Eating from the inventory menu and trying to move during the animation can cause jitter

• Goats are jerks, even during gunfights - looking into ways to chill them out

• Using Low graphics settings breaks our sexy water - please use medium or higher 💓

Bug Fixes (and shoutouts)

• Fixed the invisible collision on the communication tower that blocked progress. (shoutout: Everyone)

• Axes no longer float in the air after being thrown at animals and enemies (shoutout: Aj)

• Ammunition no longer disappears from your weapons when going on Expedition (shoutout: MarkysOwnH, Rockan)

• Fixed the collisions on rocks in some areas where they were too big (shoutout: Reaphas)

• Trees shouldn't fall through the ground anymore (shoutout: Sparr, VehkVehk)

• Dead bodies no longer spawn where enemy AI raids originate (shoutout: sparr)

• You can no longer grab items through walls with a rifle equipped (shoutout: WarsheepGER, LALYOU)

• Fixed naming conventions in quests, e.g., Crude Bow vs Primitive Bow, Raw Hide Pouch vs Raw Hide Bag (shoutout: Kane Blackard)

• Bullets no longer travel between bunker doors (shoutout: Kovi)

• You can no longer use your feet as an anchor point for building structures (shoutout: StevenJr_)

• Fixed janky interaction with boxes, especially ammo and medical types (shoutout: Squirreless)

• Patched several holes in the ground that led to our secret development lair under the world (thankfully, nobody survived the fall, shoutout: elsabet, NAZBOZ)

• Fixed several issues around successful extraction, including inventory saving

• Fixed when quickbar items were sometimes unable to be selected

• Spectator mode should no longer spawn you inside the skull of an enemy player

• Fixed several issues with reloading

• Fixed a multitude of server crashes

• Fixed where dead bodies would float headlessly in the sky…

• Shift-clicking food items into the campfire no longer makes them disappear

General

• Expedition Screen received several fixes.

• The Settings menu has received several updates and enhancements, including improvements to brightness, ray tracing, and other options.

• Hair and Facial Hair character customization options have been updated and improved.

New Things

• We have added key remapping options for some actions

• We have added several new armor pieces and outfits

• We’ve added new quest lines

• New Furnace station is available - smelt that ore into ingots, my precious

• New Salvage station is available - may your gear serve you even in death!

Updates

• We have updated several weapons in feel and appearance

• Wade has a lot more trade options now

• More decor items for your personalized camp

• The Communication Tower got a makeover and is freakin' gorgeous now

• Sand is much more… well… sandy

Balance

• We’ve completed a full weapon, armor, and loot balancing pass

• Made balance changes to the repair system

• More zip lines, zip zip and away!

• Our PVE AI is now smarter and more reactive - wear armor 😉

• We have renamed Resin to Tree Sap, and it is now more plentiful.

UI/UX

• We’ve improved visual and audio feedback when drowning. Stealth drowning was a serious problem in our playtest. 😅

Audio

• Gunfire can now be heard from further away - 3rd parties rejoice!

• Lowered ambient sound of the ocean

• Tweaked player action sounds to be more prominent

• Added more variety to ocean sounds and fixed overlaps or missing sounds (the ocean was literally blocking the sounds of the ocean!)

Wow, you’ve read down to here? Maybe we will put a survey here when its ready 😏