What We've Been Up To - May 22-28, 2026

Design and Narrative

• Continued population work on the Caldera in Kosa Ull.

• Prep for PTR level cap increase to 20.

• Implementing Rogue and Enchanter base abilities.

• Prep work for enabling mastery system for player testing.

• Review of 1-20 NPC data for updated loadout/ability assignments.

• Initial testing and bug fix pass on underwater combat with programming team. Fed the lead programmer’s character to sharks several times to test various fixes.

• Numerous PTR bug fixes.

• Continued NPC placement work for the Port of Rulun.

• NPC Dialogue work for Detihauna and Kosa Minor.

Worldbuilding and Environment Art

• Caldera areas of Kosa Ull.

• Continued buildout for Detihauna.

• Continued refinement pass on Sea Dragon Hatchery interiors.

• Finalizing second round of structural/prop concepts for Faerthale City.

• Collision and navigation fixes for Port of Rulun.

Character Art and Animation

• Wrapping up animation work on Siren and [redacted].

• Polish work on human jogging/run animations.

• Work on color/texture variations of various NPCs to help add more diversity to Badia de Cara.

• Continuing work on ambient life VFX for Badia de Cara.

• Continued early explorations for Ashen, Lucent, and Ember Elf visual diversity.

• Finalized materials for updated player robes.

• Beginning work on updated base meshes for non-robe armor types.

Programming

• Bug fixes for mastery system, preparation for public testing.

• Final round of updates to ability system to support mastery options and new ability types.

• Participated in “shark tank” testing effort with design team to validate underwater NPC movement and combat.

• Bug fixes for water, underwater NPC movement, and underwater combat.

• Continuing work on market system.

• PTR Bug fixes and Investigations into player-reported issues.

• Working with Design team to make combat tuning adjustments based on data and feedback.

• Continuing work on itemization support features.