Ahoy!
We’re gearing up to move from quality of life updates to the long-awaited campaign overhaul that will improve in-game progression and offer more content to give the game even more depth. These improvements will span several updates and we’ll write about them in more detail later, but here’s a quick peek into what to look forward to in future releases.
The environment is going to get a facelift, ranging from explorable shipwrecks and caves to greater diversity in Europa’s visual appearance. The changes are not just cosmetic either, they’ll offer brand new gameplay too. The visual overhaul will probably be some time in the making, but you can take your crew out to explore sunken submarines in fairly short order!
Submarines are going to become an integral part of campaign progression: Upgrading submarines is going to be added to make your submarines progress with you.
Monsters are going to continue getting more varied in both appearance and behavior. We’ve got concepts of entirely new monsters, reworked legacy monsters and variants of the current creatures waiting to be fleshed out and implemented to make adventuring more interestingly dangerous.
Actual physical outposts will change gameplay in a lot of ways. You’ll be able to explore outposts on foot and interact with NPCs to trade, find new missions and trigger events that will affect you, for better or worse. Different outpost types will offer different trading and hiring options, so choosing your route will become more important. We’ve also got some surprises planned for the outposts, so tread carefully.
The secret of Europa, or the endgame, will be unveiled as one of the very last things we add to Barotrauma. We wouldn’t want to spoil the ending for you before the journey is complete!
You can now read a bit more about future updates on our blog too. Stay tuned as these releases get closer!
P.S. For anyone who has had troubles with the Silky Smooth update: there’s a patch in the making, and you can see what that will include in the “Coming up in the next release” list of our Trello.