Hello Runners!
The second beta test for Wyld Land will go live on June 27th and the game will run until July 11th!
The beta test will be available here on Steam and in your browser through our website. This is an open beta test, so everyone is welcome to join!
Thank you to everyone who joined in on our first beta test. We received a lot of positive feedback and reports for bugs. Since that previous beta test, we have been focusing on developing a new engine to reduce the amount of networking bugs alongside developing a ton of new content.
We will not be wiping data for this test, so if you played during the last beta test, you will be able to continue from where you left off with your account. This is important because the key feature we are going to be adding for this beta test is our raids!
Our first raid will be content for parties of 6 end-game players. Our raids will combine all of the mechanics we currently have in our bullet hell gameplay with MMO raid mechanics that require players to work together.
We will have at least one raid added for this beta test. We will provide more details on how to enter the raid when the test goes live. If you are looking for a group to run our new raids with, you can use the in-game chat to find party members or join the Discord and ask there!
We are excited to see groups take on this content in the next beta test! We will be listening closely to feedback to tune the difficulty and mechanics of our raids for the future, so please let us know your thoughts after you have the chance to challenge a raid!
We are also planning on adding more quests! We do not have an exact count yet but we will leave a few hints on how to start the new quests before the next test goes live.
Quests in Wyld Land will consist of finding and talking to NPCs and completing the challenges they have for unique rewards.
With new quests comes a bit of story and lore. Wyld Land is never going to be an MMO that forces you to sit through cutscenes. But we've been developing a bit more background story that we will sprinkle in through quests, NPC dialogue, and item descriptions.
We are still cooking up rewards for quests, we really want them to feel worth your time. Quests should provide a nice break from the dungeon grind but we want the reward to match the time you put in.
Fishing is one mechanic that is a bit different from what is in the game currently. It is still in development, but we want to at least test this feature for this beta test. There will not be the full amount of content for the beta test but hopefully it should give you a small taste of what is to come.
Fishing is one of those MMO features that helps fill out the world and provides things to do outside of combat.
Still, we are goin to put our own bullet hell spin on fishing, so stay tuned for more details! We will likely keep most of the fishing rewards cosmetic, as we do not want it to be something that has to be done to progress.
Crafting is another feature that might show up in the next beta test, as well as a Collections menu, where you can view and select cosmetics. These are both still a WIP so they may or may not show up in full, but we are hoping to get them in to test in some capacity.
This beta test will also serve as a way for us to test out the new engine. We have moved our game engine from Unity to Heaps to help give us more control and reduce networking bugs. A new engine means new bugs, so join the Discord and report issues you find to our feedback channel. It really will help us make the game better especially as we get closer to launching the game.
Raids, fishing, a new engine, crafting, and a collections menu is a nice bit of new content, so we will be making more development logs on YouTube as we lead up to the next beta test on June 27th to explain more about them.
To keep up with development, you can also follow us across social media:
Discord
YouTube
Twitter/X
BlueSky
TikTok
While you wait, the best way to support us right now is to Wishlist Wyld Land right here on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3387720/Wyld_Land/
Thanks for supporting the development of Wyld Land- see you in game again soon, Runner!
-The Wyld Land Team