The snow settles on Bossgard's frozen plains, Hel-O-Ween is almost over and while the Vikings are gathering for some well-deserved rest, the Devs are gathering for the weekly stream, but not before dropping an update.



Before we give the patch notes, a few words about what our plans are for pretty much the rest of the year.

The short version is that we want to push the solo mode (Bossgard) as far as possible by the end of the year. What you can play now is a very barebones version, the combat is there, enemy spawn zones are there, the boss fight is there, but they're just proof of concept, a base upon which we can start building properly.



If we were to describe our end-goal for the solo mode in a few broad strokes, we'd have to say that more than anything Bossgard has to feel a bit different every time you go through it while maintaining as much of the player's agency as possible. We want to reduce hand-holding to a minimum and try to give the player tools, rather than straight-up solutions to overcoming the cold, the enemies and the final Boss.

New enemies will keep bolstering Bossgard's fauna, new mechanics will be added to empower the player (e.g. a building system, allowing for deployment of turrets, palisades, traps etc).

The ultimate goal is to make this game mode playable in multiplayer as well, but that's still far off in development, corner stones need to be laid beforehand.



Long story short, the solo mode will be our main focus for the time being, but rest assured, multiplayer content will still be coming to Multiplayer as well. The remaining 5 Vikings will be added and more Bosses will definitely be part of the game by the time the game goes out of Early Access.

Without further ado, here's our patch log. If you're here for the stream - enjoy! If you're reading this from the future - we hope it was cool xD