Wayfinders,

We wanted to give a quick update on the rest of 2024!

We realize it has taken longer than anticipated to get the Xbox version of the game out and we appreciate your patience! Our goal is for the game, along with the Critical Role Supporter Pack, to be available by end of the year. We’re excited to welcome Wayfinders on the Xbox Series X|S, who will be playing with Wayfinders across the other platforms and when we have a release date, we’ll share it.

As 2024 winds down, we’re preparing another major update that brings some highly requested features from players. The 1.1 update, expected in December, will include:

• Save Slots
  
• Nightmare Difficulty & exclusive cosmetic rewards
  
• New collectible items from our previous holiday event
  
• New artifacts
  
• Bug fixes, and other improvements.

Nightmare is a new difficulty setting even tougher than Heroic, and with it introduces one of the most requested features: rewards for completing ultimate challenges at the highest difficulty level! These rewards persist across all save slots once they’re unlocked in Nightmare mode, applying to both existing and new save files.

The challenges offer rewards like dyes, personas, and housing items that grant crafting resources like Spectra and Archaic Bones, along with memory fragments and gold. Over 35 new items are available for those who complete all challenges, including a special reward for those who complete every challenge.

Nightmare Difficulty is only available when starting a New Game and cannot be changed once selected. However, it comes with enhanced drops, including empowered versions of all existing artifacts and three new artifacts exclusive to Nightmare difficulty. The ultimate min/maxer’s challenge awaits!

We’ve previously announced mods coming before the end of the year. With our timeline and focus on these other platforms and features, mods won’t be coming before the end of the year. We’ll share more details about the 1.1 update in the coming weeks! Keep an eye on our social channels for sneak peeks of these exciting new features.

Wayfinders,
We have just pushed our latest Hotfix which includes some bug fixes and updates.

We'll be sharing details on our Quality of Life Update 3 coming in December very soon, so keep an eye on this channel!

• Updated credits.
  
• Players will now correctly join games when joining from the Steam friends list before launching Wayfinder.
  
• Fixed attacks interrupting themselves after using Juggernaut's weapon ability Upheaval.
  
• Fixed the Hollowlord Vendraal echo not activating while playing an Arcanist Wayfinder (Lora, Niss, Kyros).
  
• Fixed Silo affinity perks stacking unintentionally after respawning (Deep Pockets & Strategic Charge).
  
• Fixed Senja’s Discipline perk Crowd’s Strength not granting bonus Weapon Power.
  
• Fixed an issue with Lora's affinity perks stacking unintentionally.
  
• Removed the unintended slime VFX from Azaar, Storm of Blades' jump attack.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could acquire a deprecated item “Hollow Wurm Remains” (this item can be safely sold to a vendor).
  
• Added the previously unobtainable Epic Armor set for each character to the General loot pool for Crucible chests and enemies.
  
• Fixed the following locations not being discoverable: Betrayer’s Blade, Imperial Mill, and Bitter Wind Hollow.
  
• Fixed issues causing one-time chests to fail to grant items to players.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Alchemist interaction during the quest Rats of Unusual Size.
  
• Fixed the crash caused by interacting with Omen during the quest Call of the Void.
  
• Fixed the double drops of accessories during combo mutator runs.
  
• Fixed Xbox icons showing while in the housing editing mode and using a PS5 controller.
  
• Fixed an issue causing unsaved settings to apply after exiting the settings menu.
  
• Fixed some issues that could cause an infinite load screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Find Party menu would fail to display.
  
• The Mystic Toad is now hungry...

After a long journey through Early Access, full of ups and downs, we are finally excited to release Wayfinder.

Wayfinder has been a passion project from the start, and from our entire crew at Airship, we appreciate every person who has played the game and given us positive and negative feedback.

Without that passion, Wayfinder would not be what it is today. While the game didn't start off where we finished, we're incredibly proud of the game we've made and you've told us that our decisions have resulted in a vastly superior and FUN Co-Op ARPG!

Enjoy.


Lora is the vessel of a primal spirit—a deadly force that frightens even her allies. An orphan with few memories of her past, she’s determined to master this power before she loses anyone else.

(Passive) Channeling: Lora channels the power of her Avatar by damaging enemies with attacks and abilities. Once her power has fully charged, she enters the Channeling state, empowering her abilities.

Clobber: Launch a spirit fist forward, smashing through enemies in its path. Channeled: Lunge forward, expelling a massive spirit fist, causing additional break damage and knocking enemies back. Clobber’s cooldown is reset whenever Lora enters Channeling.

Possession: The Avatar exerts its presence, granting Lora a damage shield that reflects damage back to attackers for a short duration. Lora and nearby allies also gain a protective aura that reduces incoming damage. Channeled: The Avatar manifests to pull in and smash nearby enemies, and all party members gain the reflective damage shield in addition to the damage reduction aura.

Seismic Launch: Quickly dash forward, damaging any enemies in front of you. Channeled: Knocks back enemies while reducing incoming damage. The dash can be held and charged for increased distance.

Unleash: Unleash your spirit, transforming into the Avatar. The Avatar regenerates health, is greatly resistant to all damage, and can pummel enemies with its fists.

Lora has 8 collectible armor sets and 2 cosmetic personas.

The final battle begins in The Crucible. The Eldren have occupied a shattered region known as The Crucible—a city-sized machine built by The Architects, reclaimed by nature and lost to time. In search of a powerful secret at The Crucible’s center, the Eldren intend to finish the war their gods started and pen the world a dark fate.

• Brand new open world area to explore
  
• Brand new traversal mechanic to use in the Crucible - The Hookshot!
  
• 2 brand new Lost Zones! The Shattered Foundry & The Aegis Vault

Combat

• Vesper-III weapon ability Null Zone: The shield now pulses damage every second, damage increases with the amount of Locked and Loaded charges consumed.
  
• Covetous weapon ability Golden Touch: Increased damage from the initial hit (2.0), Increased damage from the Deceiver Bite (5.0), Increased radius of the Deceiver Bite (500 → 750), Re-applying a mark will cause the first one to explode and apply a fresh mark.
  
• Draken Maw weapon ability Aftermath: Increased damage to 12.5 over the 4 hits (up from 9.0), Added re-orientation windows throughout, Improved responsiveness while using each level of momentum; players should feel less locked in.
  
• Queen's Pyre: Increased damage at each level of momentum (4/5/6), Increased radius.
  
• Grendel’s leap is now combo-enabled.
  
• Replaced magic defense with max health on Ransom.
  
• Leveled out all Epic Accessory drop rates to be in line with each other.
  
• Added previously unobtainable mutator accessory sets to 2x mutator combination loot pools.
  
• Adjusted multiple quests & events in Lower Skylight to take place further into the Highlands.
  
• Increased health and damage of level 38 mythic hunts.
  
• Improved hit impact visuals.
  
• Improved HUD buff tray.
  
• Added new combat feedback on all weapons.
  
• Improved handling of the dialogue system at the end of hunts.
  
• Added total owned gold along with re-roll cost to the Job & Bounty boards.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various echoes and abilities targeting Silo’s clone.
  
• Fixed a calculation error with the bonus damage on hit consumables (WP & AP) resulting in the consumables dealing excessive amounts of damage.
  
• Fixed an issue causing defensive powers from Accolades to be removed after traveling.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Prowess talent not being applied after travel.
  
• Interacting with the Gloom Wall no longer causes major FPS drops.
  
• Fixed various PS5 related memory crashes.
  
• Changed the way shaders cache to reduce stutter.
  
• Updated Steam Deck default settings for a better experience.
  
• Fixed multiple overlapping chest spawns.
  
• Fixed SO MANY toe catch and collision issues.
  
• Fixed multiple UI navigation issues.
  
• Fixed multiple localization issues.
  
• Fixed multiple item description issues.
  
• Fixed multiple objective issues with various Jobs & Bounties.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player would lose long-term buffs after traveling.
  
• Fixed not being able to put small housing items on mantels.
  
• Fixed multiple issues with host/client replication.
  
• Fixed enemies spawning in the clouds during the Seeds of Corruption event.
  
• Fixed an issue in cross play causing tracked quests to become untracked after travel.
  
• Fixed an issue where clients could not invoke the radial menu.

Performance & Tech

• Added Nvidia DLSS 3 support.
  
• Updated default settings.
  
• Various Frostmarch optimizations.
  
• Various menu optimizations.
  
• Added Ultra-Wide support for non-standard resolutions.
  
• Add support for dynamic "background" Art on non-standard monitors / standard screen resolutions.
  
• Fixed various issues with the 16:10 aspect ratio.
  
• Miscellaneous fixes.

Known Issues

• In some cases both the text and audio language settings will be blank. Resetting to default will fix this issue.
  
• Additional Performance improvements are coming soon to all Open World areas.
  
• Some users may experience excessive hitching on Nvidia drivers version 565.90. We recommend rolling back to an older driver or doing a clean install.
  
• Players on Steam Deck may experience performance issues after updating to 1.0 or loading a cloud save. Resetting the in-game graphics settings to default will correct this.
  
• Clients might be unable to complete the main story quest "Unraveling Doubt". Play as the host or solo to get around this.
  
• Loading icon will be displayed in place of an item after Awakening and character or weapon back to back.
  
• Switching characters while performing important event or quest actions will not always grant progress.
  
• UI does not update immediately after reducing Gloomstones to shards.