Hello everyone!
Our long-awaited 1.0 update is coming on Monday next week, so it’s time for the final sneak peek. How will Europa change?
Faction overhaul
Over the past weeks, we’ve written about the various factions of Europa: the Europa Coalition, the Jovian Separatists, and the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother. These factions bring with them some new storytelling, and they are the backbone of our faction overhaul. Other key features of the faction overhaul include:
- Outposts are controlled by the Europa Coalition or the Jovian Separatists. The Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother also have their own enclaves in outposts.
- Reworked reputation system: Faction reputation now follows you wherever you go. Expect negative consequences when sailing in hostile waters, and positive ones when docking at friendly ports.
- Two routes between biomes: one controlled by the Coalition, one by the Separatists.
- New faction-specific missions and long event chains to learn more about each faction.
- The Captain’s third talent tree, “Politician”, with talents focused on the factions of Europa.
- Faction-specific hireable NPCs with special skills and equipment.
- New faction-specific items, such as 40mm nukes, molotov cocktails and bananas (caution: slippery).
The end is nigh
The other half of the 1.0 update focuses on the campaign endgame. The placeholder ending which has greeted those brave sailors who made it to the end will be removed, and the real endgame sequence will finally be playable.
We don’t want to spoil the surprise for you, but let’s say the campaign ending will test the skills of your crew, and lead you somewhere never before seen in Barotrauma.
The update also adds many other improvements, such as a language filter for the server browser, a completely remade Japanese translation, improved projectile syncing in multiplayer, and various optimizations, to name a few highlights.
We’ve worked on the ending for a very long time behind the scenes, and we hope you will find it a fitting conclusion to your Europan adventure. Let us know how it plays – on Monday next week! Until then, you can read one more sneak peek post on our blog.