January Community News! What's Coming Next?

[p]As the first month of 2026 wraps up, we wanted to check-in with the community to give you all a heads-up on our next minor update! Watch this video to hear Game Director Tony reflect on Desert Reign and share some important news on our development plans:[/p][p][/p][h3]The TL;DR:[/h3][p]Our next update is focused solely on backend issues and updating to Unreal Engine 5.7! Reflecting on Sisters of the Deep and Desert Reign, we will be splitting major updates into separate smaller updates going forward, affecting our roadmap cadence but not our planned content![/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][h3]The Rundown:[/h3][p]Engine Update Coming Soon: Over the next couple months, we are focusing on updating to Unreal Engine 5.7. This means we are temporarily pausing content development to support our engineers and address backend issues, so it unlikely (though not impossible) that this next minor update will include new content. However, players should hopefully see some performance and QoL improvements![/p][p]Reflections on Desert Reign: We’ve been really grateful to hear all the positivity from players surrounding the last update! We’re aware of changes needed to the Temple of Poseidon raid in particular, and we’ll be making improvements to that experience in the future! With the size of our team and the scope of the major updates, it has been difficult to give many features the development time they deserve, so we will be making changes to our update cadence…..[/p][p]Roadmap Tweak: Our past two major updates have packaged a new raid experience with a biome overhaul. Moving forward, we will release biome improvements and raid content as two separate, smaller updates. Instead of the current plan to release 2-3 more major updates, for instance, you might instead see 5 updates. These are likely to be 3 biome updates and 2 raid updates, including: Mountain Biome, Locked Biome, Underworld Biome, and the Zeus and Hades raid![/p][p]We believe this will help our team package and progress on the updates more efficiently! These changes will not affect the content or features we have planned. Around the same time as we push this next upcoming engine update, we will share a modified roadmap graphic that reflects this new cadence.[/p][p]Our New Publisher: Last month we made a lowkey announcement of some very important news! To offer some additional context on our relationship with Fireshine, they will be working with us on marketing outreach and QA support, rather than changing anything about the game or the roadmap! We’re still the same team with the same vision! But with Fireshine's help, hopefully our updates will reach more players with less bugs![/p][p]Thank you as always for your ongoing support! We’re excited for this second-half of Early Access as we start preparing for 1.0! We look forward to sharing new content with you all in 2026![/p][p]Talk to you next month![/p]