Welcome to the Wayfinder Echoes Preview.
We're incredibly excited to bring the Echoes Update to our Founders starting today!
During this time, we'll be looking at bugs and feedback while we work towards a day 1 patch for new players when Wayfinder returns to Steam on June 11th 2024. Please remember that we are still in Early Access and there are bound to be bugs and issues. As previously announced, no save data will carry over from last week's beta. Attempting to bring these files to the game will result in various quest and progression issues that we are unable to support.
Please visit our new Feedback Board to tell us about your experience in Echoes: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1171690/discussions/2/
What is The Echoes Update?
When online games such as Wayfinder reach the end of their service, they tend to disappear forever. This is the unfortunate reality when games lose funding, can't cover the costs of servers or staff, and face countless other challenges.
Having all played titles that have gone through this cycle, we wanted to take a different approach. We cherish the world our team has created and the characters we've introduced to our players, and we don't want them to be lost in the Gloom. Our goal is to leave players with a product they can enjoy indefinitely.
This shift enables the game to exist perpetually. Players can download it to play solo or enjoy co-op gameplay with up to two friends.
Wayfinder Echoes introduces significant changes from the previous version of Wayfinder, those changes are outlined below.
Patch Overview
Monetization & Founder’s Packs
- All Founder’s Items (excluding currencies) are now available in-game
- These items will be granted to you upon completing your first entry into the Gloom.
- Reward Tower 1 & 2 are available in-game for all players
- Completing quests and objectives grants keys, which can then be used to unlock rewards
- All monetization has been removed from the game.
- All content is now unlocked in-game via loot & rewards.
- NEW! Founder’s Coins
- Founder's Coins will be awarded to players according to the total lifetime amount of Runesilver they held in their wallet (including Runesilver from Founder’s Packs). [list]
- 500 Runesilver - 2400 Runesilver = 1 coin
- 2500 - 4400 = 2 coins
- 4500 - 6400 = 3 coins
- 6500 - 8400 = 4 coins
- 8500 - 10,400 = 5 coins
- 10,500 - 12,400 = 6 coins
- 12,500+ = 7 coins
Wayfinders
- Find and summon Kyros out of the Gloom.
- Unlock the secrets of the Deceivers to summon Senja from her mysterious confinement.
- Eradicate the Night’s Maw infestation to unleash the power of Venomess.
- Challenge the Bloodspawn to liberate Grendel from its grasp.
- Caps at 30 Ranks.
- An account wide XP bar that all Wayfinders can contribute to.
- Each Rank grants a Talent Point to be spent in the Talent tree.
- Certain Ranks will also give bonuses such as increased base stats, affinity points, echo capacity & slots, and archetype specific weapon masteries & defensive powers. [list]
- Weapon Mastery system has been removed and consolidated into the Wayfinder Rank system.
Grendel
Grendel is an engine of destruction fueled by fury. Before the Fall he was an infamous warrior of the Maze, a brutal veteran of a hundred battles. He's more vicious than anything spawned by the Gloom, but he's on our side... for now.- (Passive) Blood Rage: Grendel enters into a Blood Rage when an enemy's guard is broken. While raging, Grendel gains increased damage and movement speed, and he takes less Break damage from incoming attacks.
- Tremor: Stomp the floor, sending out a shockwave in a line, dealing high Break damage.
- Whirlwind: Rapidly spin and strike all enemies around while moving for a short time.
- Mighty Leap: Leap forward a short distance, damaging enemies around the landing point.
- (Ultimate) Berserker Frenzy: Grendel explodes with rage, dealing heavy Break damage to enemies in a large area and causing Grendel to enter a Berserker Frenzy for 15 seconds. While frenzied, Grendel gains increased Weapon Power, Ability Power, Break Power, Movement Speed, and immunity to Break damage. When this state ends, Grendel explodes, dealing damage to enemies in a large area.
Loot & Progression
- All cosmetic items and power items that we previously had are in-game drops with stats attached ala a traditional ARPG.
- Increased drop rates of all items and loot across the board.
- Added hundreds of secrets to find in each location, all with rewards for exploration.
- Affinity Cap increased to 25. [list]
- 3rd Affinity Perk unlocked at 25.
- Echoes are now uniquely equipped[list]
- You can only equip 1 echo from a certain creature.
- For example: Attack echoes can only be slotted into Attack slots.
- Cross and Rush type echo costs have been reduced further.
- All rarities can reach rank 5.
- Moved some echo slots from weapon to Wayfinder progression.
- Since weapons will be swapped out much more often, we wanted to reduce the time managing sockets when trying out a new weapon
- Simpler recipes and reduced total number of consumables.
- 30min durations that persist when traveling.
- 1 offensive, 1 defensive effect allowed at a time.
- 3% XP bonus added to each consumable effect.
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NEW! Weapons
Weapons have undergone major changes from what they were before the Echoes update. Weapons have been converted to loot drops with fixed levels and stats. They can be found as drops, bought from vendors or as quest rewards.
- Weapons no longer level up, but drop at different level ranges.[list]
- Weapon XP Resonance Caches have been removed.
- Rush and Cross type echo slots are fixed.
- Weapon Essences have been removed.
Oh, also…
- 10 New Weapons!
NEW! Armor System
- All styles & personas that were previously only available for purchase in the store have been converted to armor sets with stat bonuses.
- Armor can drop, be bought from vendors or received as quest rewards.
- Armors is collection based, so you only have to find each armor piece once. [list]
- Each Wayfinder will launch with 9 armor sets, and each set is made up of 5 individual pieces that can be mixed and matched.
- You can unlock these via progression on that Wayfinder.
- Personas are purely cosmetic and complete skins.
Expanded Main Story Quest
Wayfinder’s story has been refreshed to better accommodate players who’d prefer to jump straight into the action or dive deeper into the lore at their leisure. Significant updates to existing content have interwoven our Call of the Void and Loose Threads live events into the main story of the game, and new quest content has been added to the new Frostmarch overland area, leading to a grand finale in the Wayfinder’s fight against the Gloom.- New Hunts, Lost Zones and Quests added throughout the story line.
NEW! Frostmarch
The zone players Deepwood Holt has been massively expanded… we’re talking 3x the size of Highlands! What was Deepwood Holt is now a hub in the newly added overland Frostmarch! Players will find all the things that were previously in Deepwood Holt such as Graymourn, The Shrouded Woods, The Bone Orchard, The Hollow Heart, and Bal Duum Lost Zones.- The quests that were previously in Deepwood Holt have been overhauled to utilize the new zone.
- 3 New World Bosses
- 20+ quests and activities
- 20+ New Events
- Marks Event Reward Currency [list]
- Earn Marks by completing events in Frostmarch. Marks can be used to purchase Armor, Weapons, Cosmetics and Mounts from Warden Rust in Deepwood Holt.
- Patrol quests are repeatable content that you can find throughout the zone.
- Completion of these rewards Marks
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Housing, Jobs, Mutators
Housing
- All housing items have been converted to loot drops throughout the game.
- Now when you find a housing item, you also receive the recipe to create more.
- 20+ New housing items!
- Increased Housing item limit!
- Housing item limit raised from 125 to 550.
- 500 for decorations
- 50 for lighting items
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Jobs:
- Jobs now reward Helper Coins.[list]
- Helper Queue has been removed.
Mutators:
- The 3rd slot will now provide unique boons to players based on which imbuement was slotted.
- Shadow’s Embrace: You periodically erupt with shadow energy, launching tentacles that leech health from enemies.
- Gloom Collapse will remain as the only 3 slot mutator, which by default will always give the Shadow’s Embrace boon above.
Post Game
We’ve rebalanced the content up to and including Aturach the Deathless, and also added an Endgame system for those who want to be challenged!- NEW! Mythic Hunts & Bounty Board![list]
- Once you have completed the Story, the Huntmaster in Skylight will offer you additional challenges…
- The Huntmaster will offer Mythic Hunt Bounties to defeat certain hunts with a specific Imbuement. [list]
- Completing bounties will reward Glory. Glory can be used to purchase the most powerful version of any weapon in the game and also something a bit more Heroic…
Other Notes
- 10,000+ Bug fixes, updates, tweaks, and balance adjustments across the game.
- NEW! Difficulties [list]
- The difficulty setting can be changed at any time out of combat
- Difficulty levels are Story, Normal, Challenging, Heroic.
- You can invite your friends directly through the Steam Friends list, or when in-game, select Invite to Party
- The player’s Gloom Dagger will remain behind and can be interacted with to revive the player (with a longer timer than the gloomgrasp state).
Known Issues
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