Wayfinder Dev Tracker

Greetings Wayfinders old and new!

Today we launch 1.0 and we're excited to deliver THE game that you can play forever. From the start the goal with this conversion was to make good on delivering a complete product.

We believe that 1.0 stands on it's own and is a great value at $24.99. With no fomo, no MTX, no live service you can play at your own pace which means play it daily forever, or finish it and move onto your next favorite game - that is perfectly healthy!

With that said, we do have some plans to deliver a few updates before end of the year.
Any support past this would require game sales to hit our projections so that we're able to continue developing it while financially sustaining our studio.

Coming before end of 2024.

• Official PC Mod Support
  
• Performance patch further improving open world areas
  
• Eventide rewards and items
  
• Bug fixes and more opt...

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Originally posted by TWolfeye: Thanks for your feedback. Its very sad, because this game hits a perfect Spot in my Gamer Hearth, but a complete break from my device, in my case steamdeck, is really hard. :(

The 1.0 update brings tons of optimizations for the deck and other devices that should cut down on these issues.

We are. It’s coming before end of the year.

Originally posted by TheReayning:

Originally posted by alexfaber@999: yeah, i download it again for 1.0
well, i hope it will surprise me, more interesting content and perfect optimization
you know, most games which come recently have terrible optimization, that is strange

True - I am worried that Devs are relying on Frame Generation and FSR/DLSS to release their games quicker without much optimizations... i.e MH Wilds....... BIG WORRY there

One of our NDA testers discuss... Read more

Can't kill what was already dead.

We committed to delivering a product and so we're doing that, that is why we didn't just write it off. It's important to us people have something to play forever.

Originally posted by ShadowRap411: Hello,

i know that some players here dont have problems with FPS Drops or stuttering, but for me i get really heavy stutters in the frostlands when enemies spawn at some events or sometimes after a boss fight, when the boss dies and the loot chest spawns in. i have read something about shaders and latest nvidia drivers that are causing the issue.

My PC Hardware:
RTX3080 Ti
AMD Ryzen 7 5900X
32GB RAM
Game on SSD

Windows 10 and somewhat latest Nvidia Driver (have to check it)

Game Settings to Ultra, but even Middle or low does not help.

Maybe the game will be better optimized with 1.0 but if not i would like to hear from the player base that have that game running smooth, how they did that =)


Thanks for any tipps and tricks =)


PS to SOLIDage: Keep up the good work on that game. it is really one of the best...

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Me! and we'd love to keep working on it, so tell your friends and leave a review when you get a chance!

We're having NVIDIA investigate for us.

It'l be 10% off the current $24.99 at launch.

Originally posted by EyItsZay:

Originally posted by SOLIDAge: can you post your DXDiag?

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System Information
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Time of this report: 10/13/2024, 21:16:33
Machine name: ZAYS-PC
Machine Id: {8C46C43E-595B-4996-886A-248D727FF41E}
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19045) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
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Originally posted by Pasquale Bambino: Seriously, the devs did a wonderful thing with this game. I remember being disappointed initially, and when I checked back few months back, I was pleasantly surprised and changed my review.

It truly deserves its recent 90% positive. I wish there was a way they could erase the crappy review when it was a different "F2P" game.

We were also disappointed as it’s not what we originally set out to make but it was this or the game going away forever which would have sucked for all who owned it and for us.

It was heartbreaking to read people being mad when we announced the transition saying they wish the game would’ve gone away, cause it would be better than what we were ... Read more

Originally posted by Quagimus Decimus:

Originally posted by ItsMaam: Can i just say that in the 44 years that ive been gaming and posting to forums etc i have NEVER had a dev interact as much as Solidage has on these forums

I bought this game recently and im blown away by it.

With a dev that interacts as well? What a legend

Up until recently maybe
At one point the devs were too scared to post or say anything on the forums. Just stayed in their discord. Thankfully they're much more often posting on these forums then once a month at best. There are some other games out there with excellent devs who stick by the forums on steam, and make sure community se...

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Originally posted by storag:

Originally posted by SOLIDAge: Hey I would recommend verifying the game files as it sounds like you're missing shaders and they're loading in each time.

Found a fix to this in a nearby thread - changed frame cap from 60 to 120 and somehow those FPS drops as well as most others are gone and the game runs as smooth as I could reasonably hope with my hardware.

Interesting, thanks we'll take a look.

Thank you for the kind words.

Hey I would recommend verifying the game files as it sounds like you're missing shaders and they're loading in each time.

can you post your DXDiag?

Originally posted by ItsMaam: Found where it is, its on.
Tried turning it from borderless windowed to fullscreen

I still get stutters, i go from 120fps to freeze frames

It seems to be when enemies are spawning in

Im at a loss

See what the 1.0 release does

Specifically in what area of the game?

Originally posted by ItsMaam: Just finished the story and throughout my play through as mobs are spawning in im getting massive pauses in gaemplay where the screen will just freeze

Now its not my machine, 4090, 64g of ram etc etc

Anyone else having this?

Or wait til 21st for 1.0 to hopefully address?

There is no server, the game is local. I would make sure hardware-accelerated scheduling is turned on if you are experiencing this.

Locking this as OP has their answer.

We've done some extensive testing on the Deck and haven't run into these issues. We have seen instability when running the game from an SD card when it's a slower spec, and that's why we recommend installing it on the SSD.

We did solve a memory leak issue for deck but that was back in June? Are you sure you have the latest version of the game?