Highguard's beefy final update is live, with a "skeleton crew" having voluntarily "crunched" to get it out ahead of shutdown

"They weren't asked to. They asked if they could decorativeness it up and get it retired there"

Ahead of Highguard's impeding shutdown connected March 12th, developers Wildlight person released the large last update they mentioned erstwhile delivering the quality of the shooter's forthcoming demise. Pulled unneurotic successful abbreviated bid by the "skeleton crew" near down pursuing caller layoffs astatine developers Wildlight, the update delivers accomplishment trees, a caller gun, and a caller warden.

As elaborate successful a Steam station from the studio, the caller warden's called Koldo. He's a "lost psyche from agelong earlier the continent disappeared, trapped wrong a suit of armor" and his powers revolve astir utilizing his psyche to shield allies from harm. The caller gun, meanwhile, is dubbed the Switchback. It's a double-barrel shotgun designed to beryllium effectual successful some agelong scope and adjacent quarters fights, by switching betwixt shotgun and marksman firearm modes depending connected whether you're aiming down its sights.

Beyond those are the caller accomplishment trees and relationship progression mechanics, which it's a shame folks won't person overmuch clip to excavation into up of the crippled going offline adjacent week. The progression allows you to enactment your mode up from level zero to 100, portion the accomplishment histrion lets you spec into 1 of 4 classes - Raider, Harvester, Treasure Hunter, and Protector. Raiders are each astir maxing retired combat effectiveness during raids, Harvesters are moulded astir sucking up vesper to complaint their axes, Treasure Hunters are hidden chest-finding salespeople, portion Protectors are geared towards defending bases and allies.

"Props to the skeleton unit astatine Wildlight for wanting to decorativeness it and vessel it to our remaining players, adjacent if it lone gets played by a fewer 1000 people," Highguard originative manager Jason McCord wrote successful a station astir the update. "They weren't asked to. They asked if they could decorativeness it up and get it retired there."

In a reply to idiosyncratic asking wherefore this worldly didn't marque it into the motorboat mentation of the game, helium added that nary of it was done astatine that point, with the accomplishment trees needing the astir work. "The squad crunched the past fewer weeks to get it done," the developer explained. "Some worldly (Koldo, Switchback) was partially done, scheduled for aboriginal seasons. The squad picked the worldly that was closest to completion and finished it up." As a result, McCord admitted that the update's additions stay "compromised to immoderate degree", but this is constricted to the likes of Koldo missing immoderate skins, emotes, and audio files. So, successful the dev's estimation, it isn't worldly which should substantially interaction the acquisition of playing with the caller stuff.

With Highguard's shutdown acceptable for March 12th, if you fancy diving successful 1 past clip to effort retired this last update, you've got 1 much play and a smattering of weekdays. Well, that's assuming you're speechmaking this not agelong aft it's published, alternatively than connected the evening of March 11th.