The developers of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem presented their plan against the rapidly falling number of players in their action RPG over the weekend.
During the initiative, the title Operation: Second Dawn bugs should be fixed, the balancing optimized and further improvements introduced.
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Roadmap 2020: This is how it continues with Wolcen
That should get better now
As the Wolcen Studios report in their blog entry on Steam, it was originally planned to devote themselves to the story campaign after the release of the completion of the as yet unplayable fourth act.
Due to the massive number of bugs and inconsistencies, which despite many patches still spoil the fun of many players, the next four months will only be used to improve the existing content:
- Wolcen receives quality assurance: From now on, an external company should take over the quality assurance so that future updates do not bring more errors into the game than to fix them. So far, Wolcen has not had a real QA team that only looks after it.
- The third chapter of the story is revised: New opponents and greater visual diversity should make the third act more appealing.
- Quality of Life: Various QoL improvements are planned. For example, the left mouse button should be freely assignable.
- Balancing: Skills that are currently used little are to be strengthened. The first steps are already being taken with patch 1.0.10, which is due to be released this week.
- Server improvements: The server coverage, server capacities and their efficiency should be improved.
- More communication and support: The Wolcen community has grown massively since the release, but only one person is still responsible for community tasks and customer support. The team should be strengthened in th is regard so that the developers can continue to hear the feedback and idea of the players.
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Leagues like in Path of Exile
As soon as the improvements mentioned above have been integrated into the game, Wolcen should get his first real content patch.
With update 1.1.0, Wolcen will introduce a league system, which is strongly reminiscent of Path of Exile: Each league will bring new, unique league mechanics with it and also provide new content such as skills and items.
In order to experience the new content, players have to create a new character – previous characters will then be moved to a separate standard league.
Wolcen's player numbers are falling rapidly
That Wolcen does something about the bugs and then delivers new content is sorely necessary: According to steamdb, Wolcen has lost almost 90 percent of his players within just a month. While there were almost 130,000 players on the servers on the release weekend in mid-February, there are currently a maximum of around 15,000.
The Twitch viewer numbers also indicate a sharply waning interest: At the weekend, the title watched a maximum of 600 people at the same time.
