11 months ago - /u/SOLIDAge - Direct link

Q1 Roadmap

As we discussed last year, we have a big year planned for 2024. We recently updated our public facing roadmap. https://trello.com/b/RgnuBh4m/wayfinder-roadmap

We also discussed a lot of these systems, as well as introduced you to faces behind the Discord names you see on our final 2023 dev stream we had last month. If you haven’t seen that yet you can view it here: https://youtu.be/yfSZa6doVGo?t=1752

While things are always subject to change since game dev is hard and always shifting, we are currently on track to deliver the following in Q1 of 2024.

Job Board

The foundation version of this system introduces daily and weekly rewards for players. Rewards include Gloomstone Shards, Memory Fragments, Reward Tower XP and in the future; exclusive items and cosmetics!

Armory Rank

Armory Ranks are a new form of progression. When you level a weapon to 30, you’ll gain an armory rank. At certain ranks you can expect to gain bonuses such as base weapon stat Increases or weapon echo capacity. You can also unlock additional tempers granting more echo sockets. The max Armory Rank for now will be 20.

Archetype System

When implemented, the Archetype Accolade track will have you earning bonuses such as increased max equipment level, affinity points, and archetype specific passives as you play with various Wayfinders. The second version of this will be the Archetype Talent Tree which will include branching paths and choices for players to really customize their Wayfinder + playstyle.

Mythic Hunts

They may be the fights you know and have memorized, but they will be designed to present an extreme challenge for players and in return have drastically increased accessory and crafting component drop rates, Mythic Rush echo variants, new accessory sets and Black Gloomstone drops to use alongside the increased Affinity Cap. Mythic Hunt Bounties will also be introduced which upon completion, guarantee an Essence or Vestige for Awakening levels 4 + 5.

Frostmarch Expansion

Our first new open world zone since launch will be 2x the size of the current Highlands. Here you’ll find POIs that contain challenges, quests, events, world bosses and even some secrets...

Mounts

We can’t introduce a massive new zone without making it a breeze to travel around can me?! Mounts will allow you to traverse Skylight and open world areas with ease with Founder’s finally getting to show off their Highlands Strider!

Grendel + New Reward Tower

Grendel as well as his associated Reward Tower will be smashing their way into Evenor. All players who purchased a founder’s pack with the FS2 Reward Tower will be getting Grendel and his tower!

All of these systems will culminate in the ultimate challenge - our 1st 6 player Raid. The Raid will launch early in Q2 to allow Wayfinders to gear up and prepare themselves and their squad. We're incredibly excited about this challenging end-game content we’re designing so stay tuned for more info as we get closer!

In between these large releases we will continue to focus on hotfixing the game to improve performance + server optimizations, balance, bug fixes and more.

2024 is the year we see our original vision for Wayfinder coming to reality. We’re incredibly excited about the future and as always thanks for playing and being a part of this growing and awesome community!

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