Greetings Flameborn,
We know you're all waiting with bated breath to hear more about our upcoming update to Enshrouded, Wake of the Water. You want to know when, and you'd like to know more about what other changes it'll bring to the game! So just like last year, we've asked one of our devs to give us a few minutes of their time to let you know more.
Check out the video, and if you want a recap or subtitles or prefer to read than to watch, you'll find a transcript below:
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Transcript
Hey Flameborn,
I’m Christoph from Keen, and I’m Senior Game Designer for Enshrouded. I’m here to share some news about our next update, Wake of the Water.
As you know, Enshrouded has hundreds of cool items, like weapons, shields, armors, rings, ammunition, food and other consumables.
After a year and a half of piling on systems and items, we’ve taken a breather to get a good look at how our systems interact and we identified areas where we can improve Enshrouded!
Let’s dig in and talk about itemization.
Weapons Overhaul
First of all, we reviewed ALL weapons in the game.
Many weapons have names and visuals that convey a certain fantasy - a theme - but when we checked their stats, they didn’t really line up in many cases.
A good example of this are the Ice-Coated Daggers. A set of daggers whose cool name and visuals imply ice damage. Currently, however, they only deal cut and pierce damage.
After our overhaul, they’ll deal pierce and ice damage, along with gaining extra ice damage perks when upgrading them.
And this is just one example of many. Across the board, weapon stats will now better match their visual and thematic identities.
We’re also tweaking many armor and ring stats, as well as food items, so make sure to check out all of the exciting changes coming with update7!
We also had a close look at weapon durability and increased it across the board. Durability now also scales with item level and rarity.
Also note that just like with previous changes to dropped items, weapons that you already acquired in the game will retain their existing stats. The new and improved stats will only apply to equipment obtained after Update 7 releases.
Craftable Lore Weapons
We’re bringing another pretty significant change to Enshrouded’s itemization by allowing players to craft ANY Lore weapon they previously unlocked at ANY stage in the game!
We know for instance, that many of you love the light-emitting Wailing Blade that can be found in a Lore quest line in the early game.
With update 7, players can actually craft a higher-level version of the Wailing Blade once they have out-leveled their previous version of it.
There will be craftable Lore weapons for every weapon type, supporting all classes and playstyles.
This will also help those players who are forever unlucky with RNG and cannot seem to find the weapon type they’re looking for.
Enemy Weapons
We’ve also added many new awesome weapons to the drop pool of enemies.
From the Fell Thunderbrute Greatsword to the Scavenger’s fearsome Acid Cleaver, a whole host of these weapons can now be looted from defeated foes!
Enemy weapon drops will now scale with enemy level and range in rarity from common all the way up to legendary!
Removing Chest Loot Exploit
Now that there are many more options for obtaining weapons at all stages of the game, we feel like it’s a good time to finally close the loop on a long-running loot exploit.
With Update 7, loot chests will now save their looted state, which means players won’t be able to reload the game or restart the server to try their luck again.
The chest content will respawn eventually, though… just as we originally had intended.
Early Game Mage Spell
Some of the feedback we often heard revolved around players wanting to start out as mages but feeling that there is a lack of support for mages in the early game.
We hear you and agree with you. That’s why we introduced a new spell with update7, Fire Bolt, which is a single-target, quick-casting spell that can be crafted with minimal requirements, ensuring that as soon as you find bones and resin, you can craft your first staff AND your first spell.
Regeneration Balance
Currently, Enshrouded offers a lot of options to basically just shrug off many combat encounters, mainly because regeneration is very high, especially in the mid and late game. We think that this makes Enshrouded’s combat less interesting because players will often just retreat from heated combat situations, take a little break and continue fighting shortly after with full resources.
By reducing HP regeneration, we’re aiming to make health management an issue you have to prepare for ahead of time, by crafting potions, eating appropriate meals and so on. For similar reasons, we’re also slightly bringing down stamina and mana regeneration values.
This also allows us to reintroduce health, mana and stamina regeneration to other sources.
So that if you want to emphasize these attributes with your character, you will still have options to do so.
Update release date
Finally, we’d like to share some news about Enshrouded’s next update, Wake of the Water. We’ve tried as hard as we could to hold ourselves to our October deadline, however, we knew implementing water in the game at a satisfying level of quality in that time frame was going to be a challenge. Water always finds a way to get everywhere, and so do water-related issues. Making all these new features work feels like trying to shoot an arrow through your nose sometimes…
All of this is to say that in order to give Wake of the Water all the polish it needs, we’re pushing back the release date by a few weeks, to November 10th.
Some of you who joked on our Discord about the update releasing on October 42nd were actually much closer than you thought!
Conclusion
These are just some of the thrilling steps we’re taking in Update 7: Wake of the Water. Our team now has multiple developers who are dedicated to all aspects of combat and it is our goal to keep improving combat in Enshrouded together with your feedback.
We hope you enjoyed this quick dive into the upcoming changes to some of the core systems underpinning Enshrouded, and that you’re as excited for update 7 as the team here at Keen games.
That’s it for today! We thank you for your time and so now it’s not just “water, when?”, but also “new weapons, when?” Soon!