Wayfinder Transfer of Service Update

Wayfinders,

We have reached an agreement with Digital Extremes to begin the transfer of Wayfinder to Airship in earnest. Until this moment, Digital Extremes has remained the publisher of record on Steam and PlayStation. We now begin the process of transferring those responsibilities to Airship.

We know Wayfinder had a rocky launch, but we still believe in the game and the world we created.

When we founded Airship it was to create great games in compelling worlds, with memorable characters and adventures. With those core principles in mind, we've spent the last several months working behind the scenes, challenging some of the core ideas in Wayfinder and creating an experience that remains consistent with our standards and beliefs. We did this while keeping in mind that we want to respect our founders and excite new players - all while staying feasible as a business model for us as a new independent publisher. We plan to share these changes soon, but we aren’t quite ready.

Due to these changes, we’ve turned off new sales of the game for the time being. Those who have purchased Wayfinder can still access and play as normal with no interruptions.

Airship is committed to keeping Wayfinder active and vibrant. There will be major changes, and major improvements, but we have no plans for it to disappear like so many online-only games we’ve all played and loved. We think Wayfinder can be something special, and be around to play forever.

Thank you so much for your support. Stay tuned to our social channels for more information in the next 4-6 weeks.

Airship Syndicate

Job Board Preview

Hello Wayfinders and Happy New Year! The team is back and recharged from the holidays, and we are ready to introduce the next set of features into Wayfinder!

We discussed at the end of last year having more meaningful updates faster, and this is the first real test of that adjusted philosophy where we are releasing content a little earlier than “done” so we can solicit feedback before fully releasing it.

The goal of working alongside all of our players remains the same: Make sure things are both functioning as well as fun and rewarding. Going forward, we’ll be calling these events/features in this state “Previews.”

The Job Board

The goal of the Job Board Preview is to provide players with another source of XP for the player’s Wayfinder and Weapon, as well as their Reward Tower. It’s also a place where you can get some memory fragments, gloomstone shards, dyes, cosmetics, and more!

Do you find jobs fun? Do you have ideas for jobs? Did you find a bug associated with the board or the rewards? There will be a dedicated Feature Upvote Board specifically for answering these questions and posting whatever other feedback associated with the Job Board during this preview.

NOTE: As we have previously mentioned, this was the most efficient and direct path towards earning Reward Tower keys, and as such, we have also adjusted Reward Tower XP rates down slightly and will be monitoring them in the short and long term.

We are excited for all of you to tackle some of these jobs to help out the citizens of Skylight and share with us what you think at https://jobboardpreview.featureupvote.com !

Q1 Roadmap

As we discussed last year, we have a big year planned for 2024. We recently updated our public facing roadmap. Check out those changes here! 

We also discussed a lot of these systems on our final 2023 dev stream we had last month. If you haven’t seen that yet you can view it here. 

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 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 we?! 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!