2023 might be winding down, but Wayfinder isn't!
In fact, we're happy to announce that our largest game update ever will be hitting soon in December.
This update contains over 2,000 fixes and changes to the game and brings us from v0.1 to v0.2!.
We've said all along that we believe actions to speak louder than words so we hope that this shows our dedication to Wayfinder.
Some of these 2,000 changes include:
- Performance + UI improvements
- Weapon + stats rebalance
- Ability to earn cosmetics in-game
- New customization options
- Senja rework
- Ranged rework
and so much more!
Today we'll preview some of those changes below.
Brand new customization!
⚔️Fully Customizable Weapon Dyes
🔥Two new Wayfinder Dye Slots (including Heroic Kyros' FX!)
We're speeding up Sword & Shield + Scythes' attacks!
We also made changes to parry, and weapon abilities now scale 50/50 with ability & weapon power resulting in more interesting ways to build your Wayfinders.
All of our ranged weapons are getting adjustments.
This includes more defined subclasses; each with pros and cons and each having a unique buff when landing a perfect reload.
A trickster told us that you want more coins...
Some materials are difficult to farm, so we are standardizing some drops across Lost Zones, and guaranteeing rewards from the Trickster!
Multiselect + Echo display in UI
Have a ton of accessories? Find selling them more painful than The Reaver King?
We've revamped the sell window to display echo types as well as selling multiple items at once!
XP Resonance Caches
Those XP caches you've been gathering since Early Access launch are probably piling up by now. XP caches will be enabled in v0.2!
So why not use them?! Character and weapon caches can fast track leveling those new Wayfinders and weapons!
New Music + combat sounds 🎧
Immerse yourself in the serenity of the snow laden Highlands and Skylight.
New festive music, as well as improved real-time audio feedback when in combat so you can actually hear crits, parries and more! (Shout out @Koud3x for the rad art!
For those that may have missed it, this jump to v0.2 is not Season 2. We are pausing our Seasons as we go ahead and reassess our release calendar as we take over the publisher role. This doesn’t mean that content is drying up, in fact the opposite. We won’t be sticking to a seasonal “wrapper” for content and instead can release things faster when we believe things are ready for players vs waiting to put everything under the season banner. In case you missed it; check out this interview for more details: https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/16/interview-wayfinder-pauses-seasons-as-it-hunts-for-a-publisher-and-rebuilds-roadmap/
As you can see our team has been incredibly busy. As we transition from developer to developer + publisher there will be quite a few changes in Wayfinder. The entire team at Airship is dedicated to keeping to our original promise if shaping the game alongside our players.