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This is more of a completed vision as opposed to iterating on the player behavior we’ve seen so far. RPGs without stories typically don’t exist. Part of being a battle royale RPG is you need to have a story to go with it. The chapter system is effectively that, because we always wanted story to be a big part of the game. For this first update, we wanted to finish the game that we launched. With all that said, it’s allowed us to be able to understand, well, these are the types of attributes our players have, which has allowed us to be more surgical about the types of features we want to build in the future. Then you have a lot of players who play a bunch at the beginning, and then come back for patches, but they’re mostly only interested in content. That’s a really good sign from my perspective, because it means that the game is interesting enough for them to not just play a couple times and drop it entirely. We also have a lot of players who come and play a few days a week. I’d say that over the course of the last few weeks, months, some players are playing every day. Before that, maybe they just played once and didn’t come back.

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The fact that you can now group up with your friend who plays on PS4 means that a player who plays maybe once a week might go to playing every day, because now they can play with their friend. I say that - it sounds weird with the amount of time we spent in alpha and beta, but adding a platform changes how players play at a fundamental level.

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Our plan is to go much wider with this update than we did for initial launch.Ībout player behavior, I’d say when we launched, we really had no good idea or model for how we thought players would play in a battle royale game across platforms. That’s what the chapter system itself is. We’re trying to remove a lot of gaps in features that we knew we wanted for launch, but we didn’t have time to build. We’re trying to fix up our game in general. But since then we’ve been just trying to fix the problems we had. That said, we were obviously surprised and delighted about the number of players we got. When we first launched, we did not plan for the influx of players we got. If you asked me eight months before September whether we would be one of those studios, I would have laughed. There aren’t too many examples of studios that have been successful doing that. We just wanted to see if we could stick the landing as far as being a simultaneous platform launch title. Kerr: I’d definitely say that - when we launched, we didn’t do very much marketing at all. GamesBeat: How has player behavior changed from launch to now? Did you have a big rush, and then players dropped off? The only figure we’ve released so far is we have more than 5 million. Kerr: We have enough, but we always want to have more. GamesBeat: How many players do you have now? This is how we want to convey story and content about the evolving world of Spellbreak to our players.

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The patches fixed a lot of issues in the month after we launched, but this is adding the full chapter system. In that sense, we knew we were in for a large amount of work in general. Our studio is made heavily from the DNA of Zynga and MMOs.

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You'll also find console performance and visual improvements including 4K support for PS5, PS4 Pro, and Xbox Series X, as well as Switch gyroscope control smoothing and more.Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry.Ĭardell Kerr: Technically, we’ve had a couple of patches beforehand, so we’ve added other features. These include the chance to resurrect players in the Battle Royale mode, tweaks to the way the final circle works, and tweaks to how gravity operates. What balance changes are coming in Spellbreak Season 2?Īs well as these two major additions, there are also a whole host of balance changes and tweaks coming in Season 2 of Spellbreak. You can read more about the new ranked modes here. You'll get Titles and Badges corresponding to your rank at the end of each season. To combat this, every five Tiers, there's a milestone below which you can't fall. Games in Gold and above will cost Crowns to take part in, and you risk losing Crowns if you don't do well. The leagues ascend as follows: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Legendary.

Completing ten Tiers advances you to the next league.

Each season, making good plays in matches will earn you Accolades, which will in turn earn Crowns to help you progress towards league Tiers.

In addition to Dominion, Spellbreak Season 2 also sees the introduction of new ranked leagues. Spellbreak Season 2 is bringing an entirely new gameplay mode in the form of Dominion, an objective control mode.

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