Hi Miners,
Next week, on February 28th, it will be exactly 1 year since Deep Rock Galactic launched into Early Access (and Game Preview on Xbox). It’s been a fantastic year for us at Ghost Ship Games - and more than half a million of you have supported us by buying and playing the game! You have provided us with invaluable feedback, hilarious memes, and helped foster the best community imaginable. We remain both humbled and extremely proud of this.
As for the anniversary, we want to make a party of it. Update 21.5 will release on Monday, as outlined in our Roadmap. It’s got a bunch of celebration-related content in it, but also grew beyond our initial scope in several ways - so much so that we made an executive decision and upgraded the name of it from 21.5 to a full 22 instead! It deserves it!
While the update lands Monday (including the celebratory content), we’ll do a proper celebration outside the game as well next Thursday, the 28th of February. Most of this will be in the form of us, the devs at Ghost Ship Games, streaming from the office, and announcing various unannounced things! This will include proclaiming the winners of our Shout-Like-A-Dwarf competition, which you can still participate in here.
We are working with our friends and publishers at Coffee Stain to create buzz around the celebration, and we feel confident that it will not go unnoticed. That said - the more you, our dwarf-ambassadors, can help spread the word, the better the chance it’ll be a success.
This is roughly the plan:
Monday, February 25
- Update 22: “One Year In Orbit” goes live at 11am (CET)
Thursday, February 28
- Dev Stream playing Deep Rock Galactic during day (our time, so CET)
- Reddit AMA (in r/deeprockgalactic)
- Streams directly from the office of Ghost Ship
- New Keyart and Biome wallpapers for download
- Dev Streams during evening/night (our time, so CET)
- Devs join random player-run games
- Updated Roadmap
- Shout Competition winners
- plus lots more dwarven shenanigans
How can you help?
First of all, just do what you always do: help us with feedback when we release on Monday. Then we can hotfix so everything is perfect for Thursday.
On Thursday, simply join in by watching the streams participate in the social channels, and of course, play the game!
And finally, do what you can to spread the word, so we can celebrate this with as many fellow dwarves as possible!
From the Crew of Ghost Ship Games,
ROCK AND STONE!