Windrose GuidesAhoy, captains! We’re into the third week since release, and the high seas remain busy: while Windrose gathered a little less concurrent players over the last weekend compared to the first one, it’s still sailing steady (over 210,000 captains swashbucklin’ at the same time on Sunday!), and the number of daily players actually keeps growing! We’re thrilled to see such passion for our game, and thank you wholeheartedly for this. In fact, we’re preparing a little surprise for you to celebrate, but for now, let’s focus on some serious, yet important things you need to know.
Windrose.support: new platform for support, bug reports and feature suggestions
We are introducing a new tool for the community – https://windrose.support/Consider it a beta for now, but as we streamline it a bit, it will fulfill several duties:- You can troubleshoot any issues you have with the game there. It contains a growing and systematically organized database of the most common issues and solutions, and will help you to navigate to the information you need. If your problem turns out to be new, you will be able to contact our team directly as well.[/*]
- You can easily report the bugs you have found. The form on this website will allow you to do it quickly and place your report into the right category.[/*]
- You can provide your ideas for Windrose there, and vote for other players’ ideas! This is the new, transparent way for the community to share their ideas and expectations, and upvote the most popular ones so we can review and consider them.[/*]
Next update: a pack of fixes incoming
Right now we are internally testing the next game update focused on various important fixes and improvements. We will probably ask some of you to try it in advance as well before we roll it out for everyone. For now it is not 100% clear if we will manage to do it this week – but we will do our best! Here are some of the things that we’re planning to address with it:- Connectivity issues;[/*]
- CPU usage on idle clients and servers;[/*]
- Disk usage during gameplay (to reduce the load on SSD specifically);[/*]
- Performance and stability improvements;[/*]
- Over 40 new building pieces to fill some gaps and inconsistencies;[/*]
- Over 50 fixes and QoL changes;[/*]
The most popular question: next big update
Some of you have already completed the game's current story, and some of you are simply (rightfully!) curious about where and how Windrose is heading. Well, here is the current status:- After we’re done with the fixes described above, we plan to fully switch to the next big content update, which will introduce the next biome called Ashlands;[/*]
- The roadmap of this update is very high level now, we’re populating it with our own plans and some popular requests, and then, as it’s always with the game development, we will sit down and cut out some of the stuff to make it actually deliverable. Somewhere at this point we will be ready to present it to you, captains, so expect more information to come in a month or two.[/*]
- Our philosophy now is to enrich the current gameplay systems, instead of only adding new biomes with the respective content, so even before we have the full details, it’s safe to say the game will not just grow in size – it will also evolve.[/*]
- The scope of what we want to do is rather ambitious, so our best bet right now this update will take at least 6 months to deliver. This might sound like a long time, but we believe it will allow us to roll out an exciting and meaningful expansion to the game of appropriate quality. In other words, we will work very hard so it’s worth the wait.[/*]