On Monday our first ever Free Weekend ended. It has been an intense, rewarding and extremely constructive experience. Eventhough there were several shortcomings, we enjoyed all the feedback and suggestions.

We spent our Monday going through all the feedback from the Steam Discussion, Discord and Email. The biggest issues were the mandatory (and difficult) tutorial and the lack of cursor for the Vikings, which we addressed immediately. The tutorial is now skippable and the cursor has been added on Sunday.

Balancing issues and bugs were present, no surprise there, we did our best to keep them in check. The most jarring issues were related to the progression system which received extra special attention over the course of the last 2 days.

We’d like to thank each and every one of our players and we want to assure all of you that we went through every bit of feedback, both positive and negative. Your playtime made a huge difference and that difference will be deeply felt in all of our future builds.

Without further ado, here’s what’s new (ding):

The Tutorial is now skippable, automatically giving the player all the post-Tutorial loot;
Updated UI and UX for the Progression system; updated several Inventory tabs to better display the player’s Items and standing with the Gods;
Updated the whole rewards system so it better explains how Shards are spent and what you get after spending them (in God scenes);
Rearranged the Main Menu buttons for a cleaner design;
Enhanced feedback for Vikings taking damage;
Balanced Bosses for better damage output and health pools;
We updated to the latest Photon Bolt (networking) which should fix several “could not connect” errors people have been getting. Please let us know if things are better.
Tweaked Shard income.

Known issues:
AI needs improvement as it doesn’t cooperate too well with the players
The game rewards players with Viking Items for Viking Characters that are still WIP
The “Tutorial”/”Story” mode is named “Play”. This will change.
The online playerbase is small

Upcoming focus points include:
Adding the remaining 5 Vikings
UI/UX
A.I.
A full singleplayer experience, but this is still in a heavy design and debate phase

Long ways await us and we’ll definitely keep you posted regarding future updates. Also…

…We’re headed to Gamescom 2019 in Cologne, Germany! If you’re attending Gamescom drop by and say hi! Bossgard awaits!

-The Sand Sailors

P.S. remember the quickest way to get in touch with us is on our Discord server!

https://discordapp.com/invite/vgez3YH