'Please have faith in us once again' says Windrose dev, revealing its first big content update won't arrive for 'at least 6 months'
Pirate survival game Windrose is a megahit, but after two weeks of sailing the early access seas, a lot of pirates have run out of new discoveries and have fully explored the game's initial three biomes. Many players are naturally asking: what's next? And, perhaps as importantly: when?
Today developer Kraken Express outlined some of its plans for the future. That includes a host of fixes it expects to deliver over the next couple of weeks, including performance and stability improvements, solutions for connectivity issues, CPU usage on idle clients and servers, and a bunch of "quality of life" changes.
As far as new content like more biomes and boss, that's going to take considerably longer to arrive.
"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," Kraken Express said on Steam.
"The scope of what we want to do is rather ambitious, so our best bet right now [is] 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."
"Some time ago we asked you to let us cook, and you did—it is now safe to say it was worth it. Please have faith in us once again, and we will make it worth the wait," the dev said on Discord.
"Our team was hard at work to roll out this Early Access, and we are not going to slow down. However all the new content and features we want to deliver takes time, and we do believe it is much better to roll out a big, exciting expansion-like update that you will enjoy exploring than making several small ones that will have much less impact on their own."
Kraken Express expects Windrose to remain in early access from 1.5 to 2.5 years, and estimates the game currently contains only half the content the full game will, promising "more biomes, bosses, enemies, ships, loot" are coming. A proper development roadmap hasn't been released yet, though the studio says players can "expect more information to come in a month or two." The dev also announced a new way for players to submit bug reports and feature requests via a dedicated support page.
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