What We’ve Been Up To – May 22 – May 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.