Wayfinder Q&A #2 – Developers Share More Details on Character Progression, Game Mechanics of This MMO-Lite
Airship Syndicate (Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Darksiders Genesis, Ruined King: A League of Legends Story) recently held the first Closed Beta event for Wayfinder, its MMORPG-lite free-to-play game, on PC and PlayStation 5. This is the first step towards early access, which is scheduled to be released in May for PC, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4, while a full release is planned for later in 2023 (possibly on other consoles, too).
Today, Airship Syndicate and publisher Digital Extremes have released a new gameplay trailer. They also confirmed participation in the upcoming PAX East 2023, held in Boston from Thursday, March 23rd to Sunday, March 26th. Attendants will have the chance to check out a new demo of Wayfinder and meet the developers by going to Meeting Room 153A.
The PAX schedule also includes a developer panel that will take place in the Main Theatre of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Friday, March 24 from 2 PM to 3 PM Eastern Time. The panel will also be livestreamed on Twitch for the benefit of anyone who won't be in Boston.
However, Wayfinder fans can now check out the full transcript of a roundtable interview that Wccftech participated in. In case you missed our previous exclusive interview, you can find it here.
Why did you go with premade characters instead of blank slate characters, which is the default for MMORPGs?
Joe Madureira (CEO of Airship Syndicate): In every game we make, we always try to play to our strengths as a studio. We actually did start out that way but we felt like creating characters with strong identities and visual designs and cool backstories really was more in our wheelhouse. When we started to talk about it and shared it with Digital Extremes, they were very supportive
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