Coming Soon to MythForce!

It’s been just over a month since launch, and I hope you’ve been having a good time with your adventures in the Cursed Lands. While you’ve been bashing baddies, we’ve focused on your feedback, identified the biggest issues, and formulated a game plan.

Now I want to give everyone an update about where we are, where we’re going, and what to expect over the coming weeks and months for MythForce.

Your feedback largely falls into one of three major categories:

• Bugs, or anything that doesn’t work the way it’s intended to.

• Gameplay, or anything related to pacing, action fidelity, or general gameplay issues.

• Content volume, or requests for increased variety in the game overall.

Philosophically, I rank those three types of issues in that order of importance. No amount of content is going to make a game that’s not fun enough to play from moment to moment better, and no amount of solid gameplay is going to be enjoyable if there are too many bugs.

With that in mind, our paramount goal is to eliminate all of the bugs that are creating issues with core gameplay. Let’s call that a “core gameplay stability pass.”

Within those bugs, most notable are issues that make the multiplayer experience less enjoyable.

With our next patch, the goal is to ensure that—lag due to bad connection to host notwithstanding—your experience as a client is just as smooth as if you were the host or playing solo. What that means practically is that we are focusing on networking, eliminating anything that can cause an input to be lost, a hit not to register, or any inability to interact with something in the world.

Also to help with that multiplayer experience, we’re making some changes to our matchmaking. We’re working to prevent situations where you can quickplay into a game with an unplayable ping, as well as the issue of quickplay frequently dropping you into the first episode or an episode far above what you’ve unlocked.

Aside from multiplayer, we’re addressing any core gameplay that is glitching and getting into bad states, like losing the ability to block, getting stuck moving at walking speed, or enemy collision pushing you through the floor.

All of the above and more are the priorities in our 1.0.3.0 patch, which is currently in progress. If everything goes according to plan, it will be ready to roll out on PC in the coming weeks, and on consoles (Xbox, Playstation, Switch) sometime afterward, pending a little extra time spent on 8th-generation console performance and certification time.

Once we’re confident that the core gameplay is much more stable, the next step is doing a thorough pass on all of our gameplay actions. We’ve made an inventory of every single action you can perform in the dungeon and how it interacts with everything else. We’ve listed everything that doesn’t chain properly, every animation that can’t be canceled as intended, and every action that takes even a few frames too long to execute.

If it wasn’t a bug breaking the action but it still needed polish, our plan is to address it in the 1.0.4.0 patch. The same patch will also focus not only on improving the actions already there but also on fixing some other, broader issues of pacing, progression, and the experience of fighting monsters in the dungeon—maximizing the fun in the adventure itself, especially in the early parts of the dungeon where the game ramps up slowest.