Given how a lot has occurred since, it would come as a shock that Highguard has been out for only one week. Since then, the sport has obtained just a few patches, and a wholly new sport mode that’s now going to stay round.
Over the weekend, Highguard developer Wildlight launched a 5v5 sport mode to take a seat alongside its commonplace 3v3 queues, stating that it could be a limited-time mode. Given the response by gamers, the brand new sport mode has now grow to be everlasting, letting you benefit from the sport’s mixture of looting and raiding with hopefully extra participant interactions within the giant, open map. Wildlight announced the news on X, stating that the participant break up between its two modes was comparatively even throughout the weekend.
The addition of two extra gamers on every staff has been a good change to some gamers, with the sport even rising from its unfavorable overview standing on Steam as much as “Combined” over the weekend. The impact is perhaps quick lived, nonetheless, because the elevated participant counts over the weekend has since subsided, with numbers now hovering beneath final week’s worst days.
Wildlight has acknowledged that participant numbers aren’t necessary to Highguard’s success, and the studio appears adamant to stay to its first yr of content material updates that it already has mapped out. However it’s additionally clear that the studio is keenly conscious of crucial suggestions and keen to reply, given how rapidly this new sport mode got here collectively. Maybe that horse racing mode is not as distant as you assume.