development Updates

With the next major update for Phoenix Point, which we’re calling “Danforth,” rapidly approaching, we’d like to give you the rundown on the features and changes that you can expect to see.

As we near completion, we’re focusing our development time on putting together and refining a big group of smaller tweaks and features. Our teams are focused on polishing up textures and models, nailing down the UI to ensure the best and relevant information is given the player, balancing skills, abilities and difficulty and ever importantly; hunting down those bugs.

This mid-month update is going to be one of our shorter instalments. With the release of Phoenix Point being less than 2 months ahead of us, we’re continuing to add the last of the content, bug-fix and polish ready for launch.

Those playing Backer Build 5 - we really appreciate your feedback, so please keep it coming. You can submit in-game bug reports via the F12 key. You can also leave feedback and suggestions on our forums.

It’s been three weeks since we released Backer Build 5, our most feature-packed early access build yet. Since that time, our development team has been collecting and pouring through all of the feedback, suggestions, and bug reports everyone has submitted.

Backer Build 5 is almost upon us! On September 3rd we will be releasing our most comprehensive and feature loaded build yet. There are a huge number of additions and changes, some major and some subtle. We won’t cover all of them in this update (we’ll be releasing a full set of patch notes along with the build) - but let’s jump right in with an early look at some of the things you can expect in Backer Build 5.

We want to focus this backer update not on individual pieces of content, but on the studio, our teams, and what each of our teams is working on. Our hope is that this will give backers deeper insight into where we are in terms of progress on our development goals. First, we need to break down a bit of how our dev team is structured.