Bienvenue, Jumpers!
The team is back in full swing after the cold, dark, and grueling Swedish holidays... We want to get you up to speed on what's happening next, at least for the coming months.
Friendly reminder to drink some water, and let's read on.
Update 3 is coming before end of March
We've had time to plan what should be added to the game during the next half year, based on all the great feedback and analytics we've seen since... well, the September launch.
For Update 3, our focus is Stability and Replayability.
We still want to make sure the game is performing consistently for all users, as crashes and connection issues are still a major buzzkill for some players. Some are crashing right when missions end, or experience stuttering even on Low settings or when interacting with items. These are all things we're super aware of and working on.
This includes the Xbox version of the game as well, which is still suffering from bigger issues (thanks for your patience). We won't stop until everyone has a more pleasant experience.
Investing time in stability and technical groundwork now will let us move faster and safer with future content later this year.
What we're working on
Here are some areas currently in progress:
Evaluating a move to Unity 6 for performance and stability boosts, across both platforms.
Connection fixes and networked physics, bringing back the football (and grenades eventually).
An Engineer Panel to the Hangar to preview your component layouts.
Various changes to exploration and Points of Interest within existing levels. New sectors with focus on optional encounters.
Loot distribution tweaks and enemy behavior/mechanics (with new variants)
Mission structure improvements to create more interesting player choices and variation.
SLIDING!!!
All of this serves to redesign and improve the content we have to make it both more replayable and a better foundation to build future content on top of.
This isn't final and should not be seen as a complete feature list of what Update 3 will include.
Because stability work has taken longer than expected, we’re adjusting the roadmap based on your feedback. More Chapter 2 content, including a new player ship, is in development but won’t be quite ready in time for Update 3.
We're excited to share more soon, the early 3D models of things to come are very promising. It's gonna be a good year!
Q&A Streams will be back soon
If you're not aware, we do Q&A streams every few weeks or so over on our YouTube and Discord, multi-stream style.
We tend to show some WIP gameplay of new features and then answer as many questions as possible, so this will be your best place to see the latest teasers! Make sure you keep an ear out for stream announcements.
(Art by H.EXE from our Discord community)
Thank you again for your support and feedback the last few months! You've all pointed out great things that we can change and polish, and we're happy to get to work on more of it this year. We only wish game dev could go faster.
Stay vigilant, and fly safe ❤️
- The Keepsake Crew