This server continues to host the general community and mod community to this day.Įventually, the decision was made to bring the game's development over on to Steam. Because of this, much of the game's assets and AI traits were placeholders, an example of which can be found in the current game's "Box Men Models" option in the options menu.ĭuring Beta 4, Steelraven opened a Discord server to accommodate the growing playerbase. They represent an early transitional period in the game's development, where Ravenfield would eventually morph from the aforementioned "for-fun" project into the monetized version that was yet to come. The Beta Versions of the game were rudimentary in nature, and served to flesh out the basic elements of the game.
It started out as an experiment with ragdolls and AI, and will remain a slightly experimental, for-fun game project."Īmusing in hindsight, the description itself presents the game as a less-than serious hobby project akin to the developers previous output, though we now know that the game has since evolved far past its humble beginnings. Ravenfield is a singleplayer battlefield style game. "Walk upon the Ravenfield with your BLUE allies! Take down those pesky REDs using helicopters, cars, guns, and active ragdoll physics. Having attracted such a large audience with its loose promise of "singleplayer Battlefield", it was quickly picked up by letsplayers, and its name continued to spread.ĭuring its first release, the page description had little more than the following to say: When the first beta dropped in 2016, the game almost immediately garnered attention, and would slowly continue to amass a player base over the next 10 months of free updates. Extremely early footage shows the rudimentary AI Navigating unfinished environments and robotically shooting at each other. Little information is available regarding the pre-release version of Ravenfield, other than that it started as an experimental hobby project for the Developer SteelRaven7.
Customizability and mod support are ingrained to the experience, resulting in a highly flexible "pseudo-multiplayer" experience with thousands of user-created add-ons enhancing the experience. The game seeks to emulate some of the older Battlefield games by offering large open battles between AI-controlled soldiers, all in a single-player offline environment. It was first unveiled to the world on Jas a free playable beta on both Gamejolt and Itch.IO, and was later released on Steam under early access on the 16 of May 2017. Ravenfield is a single-player First Person Shooter developed by Johan Hassel "SteelRaven7".
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