Greetings, Flameborn!
This is a pretty massive blog post so strap all the way in, or just scroll and find a headline you wanna read: it's all good stuff. Better yet: don't wanna read any of that? Just check out this short video where our Community Lead CoolUsernameBro (that's me! I write these blog posts! Hi!) and our Creative Director Antony go over the announcements!
Just click the video below, you know you want to. Or keep reading, we wrote it for you, after all...
Enshrouded is two years old!
How time flies. Where were you two years ago? I can tell you us at Keen were very, very nervous, about to push the "Release" button, hoping for the best. And then a torrent of players poured in, and the rest is gaming history.
To celebrate, we are introducing some new Twitch Drops (check out the news tomorrow morning!), which those of you who prefer will be able to find in-game (speak with the huntress!). All of this stuff available tomorrow afternoon, after Patch 13 releases. We think you'll love the set! We've tried many different things when it comes to vanity outfits and we hope you enjoy the variety.
We reached 5M players!
To us, this is an astonishing number. This is almost the entire population of the greater Frankfurt metropolitan area, where Keen Games is from. Each and every single one of you has contributed to making Enshrouded a success, and we know players love big numbers, so we thought we'd celebrate our big number with more big numbers. Here are some of our favorites:
We'd like to particularly thank Fall Damage Georg, who fell 27,000 times to his death.
Okay, so many words but the title of the news is Road to Release and you've scrolled all the way down and there's nothing yet about it? Alright, here we go.
Road to Release
Enshrouded is releasing this Autumn. Fall. We'd love to give you an exact date, but considering the last time we did that, we had to postpone things, we don't want to ask you to mark the date and then turn around in a few months and go "actually..." There's loads of things we want to get done until then, so allow us to paint a picture with a picture:
If you'd like commentary from our Creative Director Antony rather than a paraphrase here, we'd suggest you open the video we linked above in a new tab, and listen to him while you peruse this image! Click on the image to see the full version.
The short of it is: it is very important for us to stick the landing with 1.0, and everything we'll be doing until Release will be to that end. Beyond that, we have big plans for Enshrouded, and we hope you'll tag along! And as mentioned above, tomorrow, one last patch on the road to 0.8.
Thanks for spending two years with us in Embervale, everyone! Here's to many more.