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Game: Ravenfield (Beta Branch) Date: [Circa 2018/19 Era] Ravenfield Build 25
To understand Build 25, you have to remember Build 24. It was a mess. The framerate tanked if you had more than 20 bots on Island. The bots had “Terminator vision” through bushes, and the Tac Map was a laggy overlay that crashed more often than a bot-driven jeep. The community was getting restless. Modders were doing the heavy lifting, but the core experience was feeling stale. -- Ravenfield Community Archives, preserved for the next
If you have an old hard drive lying around with the Build 25 executable, do not delete it. Boot it up. Play one round on Dustbowl (the old version, before they added the tunnels). Fly the Stealth Chopper into the sunset. Get shot down by a bot using a DMR from across the map because the draw distance was broken. The framerate tanked if you had more than 20 bots on Island
When Build 25 hit the beta branch on a random Tuesday night, nobody slept. Here is what it fundamentally changed: