Hi everyone!
We hope you're as excited as we are for Successor's Early Access launch on May 29! After years of development, we can't wait for you to finally get your hands on the game and help us shape the final details, refine features, polish corners, and bring everything together for the full release.
Today, we're rolling out a significant update to the build, here is a few highlights.
Patch Notes 0.07.38.02
New Pickups on the Battle Boards
Treasure chests have started appearing across the battle boards, rewarding you with resources to upgrade your abilities, so keep an eye out, but be careful. It can be risky.
We've also added some handy new pickups:
- Spirit Barrier – Restores endurance, perfect for those longer fights.
- Wheel of Cheese – Instantly heals 80 HP.
- Deadcap Mushroom – Grants 10 HP, poison immunity, and a brief Berserker buff.
- Bear Trap – A returning classic from Wartile! Traps enemies and deals a bit of damage.
Challenge System Expanded
We've introduced a whole new set of challenges! Completing them can unlock New items for your reward pool or additional options for creating unique region and kingdom setups in Adventure Mode.
Adventure Mode Gets Deeper
Adventure Mode allows you to generate your region or kingdom, select an unlocked Faction, and apply Kickers to modify the game rules during your run.
What's a Kicker, you might ask?
A Kicker is a game modifier that changes the rules of your campaign, usually making things harder or, at the very least, different.
Kickers will challenge your strategy and force you to adapt to new conditions and unexpected events, and often unlock a powerful item for your reward pool that you'll be grateful to have in your future runs.
Here are a few examples:
- Brambles – Thorny vines grow across the battlefield, slowing and poisoning anyone who steps through them.
- Rigor Mortis – Random graves appear on the field. Disturb them at your own risk.
- Dead Moon – All Unholy faction units gain +1 damage during nighttime.
In your first Adventure mode run, you can face the Blackrock Bandits a once a proud house, renowned throughout the Kingdoms until a failed coup shattered their standing and forced them into hiding in the treacherous Black Mountains.
Now scattered but bound by the cruel leadership of Rowan Blackrock, they prey on unsuspecting travelers and trade caravans, striking swiftly and vanishing without a trace.
There is a lot more, but lets save some ammunition to our next update coming soon. Until then thank you for supporting Successor and have a wonderful weekend.
The Playwood Project Team