Hello everybody!
The weekend is quickly approaching and with it the main branch migration of the BETA build. In this announcement I will talk about this migration and what is going to happen to the 1.x legacy build. I will also briefly talk about the next development steps and focus, post migration.
BETA migration
The current BETA build residing in the public beta branch will be migrating to the main branch over this weekend. Players that currently opted to the default branch will be migrating to the 2.x build.
The 1.x legacy build will remain available for now, under a new legacy branch. To gain access to the legacy branch please follow the steps below:
1) In the Steam game library right click The Withering and select properties
2) In the properties window, switch to BETAS tab on top
3) Enter legacybranch in beta access code and click on Check Code
4) Select the Legacy branch from the drop down menu
Due to drastic differences in mechanics, the 2.x and 1.x builds are incompatible and the data will not be transfered.
Next Steps
Now that we have a solid multi character player controller and management systems, I will focus my attention on developing and expanding the playable map. There are several aspects that I would like to address, and as a first step I will be working on finilizing the city map.
Once the city map construction has been completed, I will look into expanding the gameplay to a legacy free roam open map. As I mentioned before, the goal is to transfer most, if not all legacy gameplay elements into the new 2.x version with the new mechanics in place.
Feedback
Please leave your thoughts, feedback and ideas in the following thread:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/427950/discussions/0/2741975115076574273/
Please feel free to ask questions in that thread as well.