Hey everyone,

With 1.6.3 out the door, we thought it would be a good time for a developer AMA.

We'll be here between 4PM PT to 5PM PT to answer as many questions as we can about Dauntless.

Everything's on the table!

Important!

Please keep it to one concise question per comment. This makes it much easier for our developers to answer them one by one.

UPDATE: AMA CONCLUDED

We're done for the day! Thank you for all your questions. We did our best to answer as many as possible, and we hope we shed some light where we could.

Until next time, see you in the Shattered Isles, Slayer!

That's the official name, for sure.

A fix is coming to the wings soon. It'll make them easier to hit!

Thanks for playing and taking this journey with us. We'll continue to read your feedback and do our best to improve as we move forward.

Thanks for the support!

That's great to hear!

Yes! I have an update for Omnicells that I plan on getting in this week.

I'm also working on updates for the Weapon Work and some other items.

I think the next BIG update will be once we're midway through the Heroes of Ostia season. At that time, we'll be comfortable sharing more information on the next season of content.

The current plan for Primals/Elders is to have them live in Paradox Breaks only. I know their creator wants to polish a few things in the future when she finds time.

Portals will not be launching on June 3. We aren't comfortable with its current state at this time.

Drask is getting a full makeover, and it's looking amazing!

Yup! Not sure about the weapons, but we're working on some armour pieces now. They're like a variation of the current Drask armour

Yay!

Hello Slayers,

Welcome to another edition of State of Dauntless. This one’s big! We’ll be discussing our developer pipeline, release schedule, and how these things impact feature polish and future iterations. We want to explain how we used to look at content releases pre-Reforged and how we’ve changed post-Reforged.

Let’s get into it!

How We Used to Launch Content

Historically, we always aimed for large content drops with a ton of features all at once, but it meant they were spread far apart on the calendar. An example of this would be each Escalation launch. Let’s look at 1.3.0 for example. This patch saw a new Behemoth, Escalation environment, Hunt Pass, Slayer Journal, and the Training Grounds. It was a patch packed to the brim with content, but then we did not have another large content patch until 1.4.0. With patches like this, we would see players hungry for content between launches.This made us consider delivering content to players more f...

Thanks a ton for the thoughts and feedback! Really good post. I've passed this on (with the conversation) to our devs!

What these two said!

Hey everyone!

A lot to discuss here. I'm currently working on a State of Dauntless post that digs into our developer pipeline. Should be out later this week and has a lot of information on how the sausage gets made.

We've been seeing a lot of players assuming that the Dauntless team has shrunk, but in reality, it's the same size as it's peak. The composition is a bit different, but we're still committed to developing Dauntless for the years to come. Heck, we're still hiring for the Dauntless team!

It's true we're making new games, but our studio has grown a ton since we started that effort so we can maintain momentum on Dauntless.

Anyways, stay tuned for the next State of Dauntless post which will dig into things like cadence, polish, and the current seasonal structure.

Actually, 1.6.5!

Turns out there's a bug where these aren't being used in the recipes. This will be fixed in 1.6.4.

I'll pass on the suggestion!

Sending in the request is your best choice. They'll look into it for you :)

brb making the swap on all social channels

Also, there's a chance the perception would be "PHX is outsourcing work from its fans for free" and we really don't want to do that. It's a fun idea, but has a ton of hurdles, unfortunately.

I'm currently wondering if a live stream with a concept artist would be a fun middle ground. Players get to throw suggestions in the chat and watch us bring them to life.