Chapter 2 ending vs Final Chapter release story continuation

[m4rski]

Hiya,

Did anyone on here beat the game with Chapter 2 before the Final Chapter released in June 2022? I was just curious about the flow of the story before and after they included the Final Chapter into the story.

The whole idea of playing Raft for however long someone may have played and beaten Chapter 2 before the Final Chapter was released, and naturally gone off to keep exploring the world of Raft to keep on building, surviving, etc, and then inevitably getting the Final Chapter update puzzles me.

How did the company execute the Final Chapter release? Did players have to navigate back to the area where Chapter 2 ended, or was there a shortcut back there if that makes sense? Or, did playing Chapter 3 require a brand new play-thru in order to get the added story?

I technically haven't really played the Final Chapter update much, as Steam says I last played it on June 21, 2022.

I recall seeing in June or May 2022 that the next and final chapter would finally be out, and I was pretty determined to get to the end of Chapter 2 so as to know what its possible cliffhanger ending would be. I must have just missed the mark by a few days to get to the end of Chapter 2. I was so disappointed I missed the mark, and life happened and I was busy with stuff...and (gasp) played other games too after they released the Final Chapter expansion.

I recall seeing some Chapter 2 endings online then in 2022, but not how Raft dealt with the story expansion of the newest and last chapter. Was it a seamless transition story-wise, or was there any hiccups for players continuing onward after completing Chapter 2 before the Final Chapter release?

I am quite curious how Raft players dealt with that aspect of the update, if there was any hiccup to begin with.

I plan to play the game soon to see how it all ends.


Regards,
Your friendly neighborhood Raft fan

[westrud]

The best I remember when you finished Tangoroa instead of getting the slip with the coordinates for Varuna you got a slip saying Varuna point would be upcoming or something, and when it released you got the new coordinates. I started over because there were changes to some of the previous areas but it was not necessary.

The way the game works by only adding the story island into the game world after the coordinates are added to the receiver made adding new areas to the game very seamless. Unlike other games with a static world Raft has no map so adding things in is very easy.

I always hoped that a modding community would form to add new areas to the game, especially since you get good stuff at the end and being able to continue to modded islands to put it to use would have been great, but I guess it just isn't possible with this game.

[starlight78sso]

There actually is a modding community, raftmodding.com But no new islands have been added as far as I've ever seen, but they have added a bunch of different things that can make the grind a bit easier.

[westrud]

It's probably not possible to mod in new islands or someone would have done it. The ability to do so would be huge for the game though.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by westrud:

It's probably not possible to mod in new islands or someone would have done it. The ability to do so would be huge for the game though.

There is Custom Island Mod that allegedly allows you to spawn custom islands someone has made into the game. HOWEVER as far as I can tell, only the demo island created by the developers of the mod exist (unless more can be accessed from their discord server) AND the custom island can currently only be spawned in manually using commands. Also last update to the mod was made in 2022 so the mod may no longer be in development.

https://www.raftmodding.com/mods/custom-islands