Today officially begins our 10 day countdown until early access! Are you ready to join us on the Crossroads, Defiers?
As we’ve mentioned on the store and in our FAQ pages, we wanted to give you a better idea of our priorities for early access before our launch next week! To respect the possibility that our internal priorities may need to be adjusted after we’ve weighed community feedback after launch, we want to keep this initial “pre” roadmap high-level, so there’s flexibility to modify without false promises at this stage. To add more detail to the attached graphic, here is the simple outline:
Immediate Goals:
Quality of Life Improvements – Please expect our first 2-3 months after launch to be focused on improving the immediate needs of players to make the game the best it can be for long-term growth!
Roadmap Assessments – We will compare the feedback/suggestions/requests from players at launch with our internal planned feature list and the time we will be able to sustain early access to then dictate our priorities.
Improved Shrine Labors – Part of your trials on the Crossroads is to visit the shrines of the Olympians and complete their associated Labors. We aim to upgrade this existing experience with more thoughtful and challenging quests before adding the remaining shrines.
Short Term Goals:
Expand the Crossroads and advance the narrative – You’ll notice when you join our game on the 15th that part of our map is locked! We will be working to open this up to players which will include unlocking the remaining 4 Olympian shrines. With all 12 shrines on the map to complete, we will be able to progress the player on to the final arc of our narrative.
More buildables – We have a backlog of art assets nearly finished, namely buildables, that we can see being wrapped up in the short-term to expand players' options!
On the Table:
Character Creator (ultimately to include a female protagonist), more mythical enemies, and mod support– These are things the Dev team would like to see in our 1.0. Where they fall in our priority list remains to be decided!
Hopefully this information helps understand how our team will be approaching early access, and we look forward to working with the community to finalize a more comprehensive roadmap post-launch. Given part of this plan involves you and your feedback, you’re probably wondering how you will communicate with us!
At launch, we will unlock our feature up-vote board as the official method to measure player interest/need in specific changes/suggestions. We’ll promote the link at that time. In addition, if players would like a more informal discussion about game suggestions and features, we will have Discord channels available.
Now allow me to toss in some extra visuals for you to start off the week, the last couple are a cool player build we got to see thanks to friends and family who joined us in our recent playtest! We got some great feedback and loved seeing new players trying Dawn of Defiance for the first time. Check these out:
And to round out today’s update, the FAQ page should now have more details on server settings for those of you who have been waiting for that information, and lastly, we will be throwing down ideas for the community launch week activities in Discord this week, including themed build challenges, so if you enjoy that sort of thing, definitely swing on in and join the conversation! We hope you participate with us on August 15th!
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Thanks everyone for tuning in for these announcements. Remember to share our game with your friends, and we'll see you next week ;)
- Traega Monday