Bigfoot 2,153 Posted January 22 Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve made a post here, I’d like to share with you our plans for 2019, which are extensive! First, I’d like to recap what happened in 2017/2018: In 2017 we launched the Forge, and followed it up in 2018 with the Gorge. The idea was that we could offer a new way of playing Don’t Starve Together, in a limited-time format. We were a bit burned out on creating DST core game content and this format allowed us to try something a bit different, so we made these crazy game modes and provided them to the community for free. Every time we launched these events, tons of players came to play, and in every instance we hit our highest ever DST concurrency. We’re super thrilled that so many people came to play the our weird game events! While we enjoyed the events and are happy with the result, there were some drawbacks: They took WAY longer to make than we expected, so we weren’t able to make as much content as we wanted, and it left little time to do things like bug fixes and Quality of Life updates for the base game. Because we run the servers for these events, we also incurred the cost of these servers. Those of you who have been here a while know that Don’t Starve was not architected to be a multiplayer game, so running them on our servers was extremely inefficient. In short, even though we loved that everyone came to play, the item sales were only barely covering the costs of the servers. We found that it was exceedingly difficult for us to run these events on console and as such underserved our console players. It has been a valuable experience and we think the game is better for it, however we feel that it’s time that we turn our attention back to the core Don’t Starve Together experience: surviving together. Here’s what we’re doing for 2019: Brand New Content The team is now working on brand new content for Don’t Starve Together. Survivors will be able to travel to new lands with new biomes, creatures, and more. The first drop of this new content will come in mid-April, and we will continually be adding to the content every couple months afterward. As we said before, we think it’s important that everyone can play together and we don’t segregate our audience, so all of this content will be available for free to everyone! Character Refreshes The team also felt it was high time we gave our core cast some love (yes, we heard you). Over the course of the next year, we will be bestowing every character with revamped abilities, and give a glimpse into their backstory. Our goals here are to make each character unique, interesting and valuable in their own right and we expect this to be game changing in many ways. Starting in March with Winona, we will be releasing a character refresh once a month. These character refreshes will again be free to all players, and we will be selling new skins for these characters on the month they are refreshed. In addition, the Triumphant, Guest of Honor and Survivor skin packs will be available to purchase for the character on that date. All owners of these skins prior to that date will be upgraded to an “Heirloom” rarity, with a higher unraveling value. New Characters Enter the Fray A fresh batch of four characters have been unwittingly ensnared and brought into the world. These new survivors will be released into the wild starting in Mid-March, and a new one will be released every 2 months. We are still deciding the final price of these characters, but we currently think they will be $6.99 USD each, which includes a full character skin set. You will also be able to weave the characters with spool. Since we do not want to charge players for the new world content, these new characters will be our main way to fund development of this new content. Console Development We are working hard on keeping the console versions of the game up to date. Specifically, we are investing in technology to allow us to more quickly update the game without going through lengthy certification on every small change, and we've also added more staff to work exclusively on updating the console versions. We're happy to say that the next update for the Year of the Pig King event will launch within 2 days of the PC version. Quality of Life, Twitch Drops, Etc. We will also be continually updating the game with bug fixes, QoL updates, new skins for Twitch drops, and more things that we’re not quite ready to announce yet. Speaking of which, the Year of the Pig King update is going live on Thursday! Long Live the (Pig) King! -- And that’s it folks! In short, we are significantly increasing our support of Don’t Starve Together in 2019 with new game content, character refreshes, new stories to be told, new characters, and new skins. Thanks so much for playing this crazy game, once again. I’m still amazed at how it’s evolved over the years. Please give us your feedback and thoughts! 174 74 6 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GiddyGuy 7,584 Posted January 22 2 hours ago, Bigfoot said: New Characters Enter the Fray A fresh batch of four characters have been unwittingly ensnared and brought into the world. These new survivors will be released into the wild starting in Mid-March, and a new one will be released every 2 months. Please I beg of you think them through before you release them ♥ 54 4 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DatShadowJK 2,336 Posted January 22 (edited) Thank you for posting this! A new thing to look forward too!! ily klei Edited January 22 by DatShadowJK 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deathofbarney 306 Posted January 22 Very Exciting thanks for sharing! 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kynoox_ 490 Posted January 22 Willow rework? PogChamp 29 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pab10Suarez 835 Posted January 22 AHHH THE HYPE 1 hour ago, Bigfoot said: The team is now working on brand new content for Don’t Starve Together. Survivors will be able to travel to new lands with new biomes, creatures, and more. I DIDN'T NEED MORE HYPE THX KLEI 4 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Warbucks 3,003 Posted January 22 (edited) The new characters cost money? Wes is bes Edited January 22 by SuperDavid Wes is bes 7 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Szczuku 9,006 Posted January 22 (edited) Klei...Klei! KLEI!!! HOW THE heck AM I SUPPOSE TO FOCUS ON SCHOOL WHEN YOU DROP A BOMBSHELL ON ME LIKE THAT?! Seriously though... big thank you! Edited January 22 by Szczuku 21 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geeris 3,348 Posted January 22 (edited) New characters! HYPE! Edited January 22 by Geeris 27 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B1G13L 123 Posted January 22 2 minutes ago, SuperDavid said: The new characters cost money? Wes is bes The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes characters. 2 3 15 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkylordElberich 969 Posted January 22 Aww, I wish I could get these new characters for single player. 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-Variant 4,831 Posted January 22 Praise! How exciting! This is gonna be wonderful! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_revenant 32 Posted January 22 I'm shaking right now. 6 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrimsonEclipse0 40 Posted January 22 Are the (Month of the character) skins going to be weave-able? and if so only for their specific month? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ResettePlayer 4,681 Posted January 22 Oho, it'll be very interesting to watch all this new content unfold. Give the team my thanks for working so hard! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neutral_Steve 835 Posted January 22 I'm shaking rn dude, Wortox, WORTOX. MY MAN THE LEGEND, SKIN FOR EACH REBALANCED CHARACTER, YOUNG WICKERBOTTOM HERE I COME, I'm pretty sure Wallace will be added too. Thanks a lot Klei, seriously. 17 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bugsmand 697 Posted January 22 I have no words for what i just read here. omg, my hype is... i don't even know it is so indescribably numb. You never seem to stop amazing us Klei... 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rellimarual 4,043 Posted January 22 2 hours ago, Bigfoot said: The team is now working on brand new content for Don’t Starve Together. Survivors will be able to travel to new lands with new biomes, creatures, and more. Thank you, thank you! And instead of griping about having to pay for the new characters, everyone should be ponying up to support a developer who keeps producing great content for the game we love. I’m buying them whether or not I ever intend to play with them because they fund an ever-expanding DST. 23 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jynn 607 Posted January 22 Sounds amazing! And i'm totally fine with paying for new characters considering the sheer amount of free content they're providing alongside it i'll buy the character regardless of if i actually will play them, Klei is the best developer and i'm happy to support 16 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Easonade 83 Posted January 22 It would seem 2019 is gonna be a good year for DST! 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lbphero 516 Posted January 22 inb4 charlie final dlc character 11 1 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrimsonEclipse0 40 Posted January 22 Waluigi for dont starve 11 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skrzelik 36 Posted January 22 Not sure how I feel about the new characters costing money. I get that developing new content will cost money so how about charging for a "beta" access to the new characters but having a way to unlock them, maybe like a metheus puzzle 5 2 2 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tapirus 1,725 Posted January 22 Can we have this pic as Vignette for the game, pls Klei? Looks great: 60 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrimsonEclipse0 40 Posted January 22 (edited) 1 hour ago, lbphero said: inb4 charlie final dlc character I do really hope one of these are some sort of shadow creature though Edited January 22 by CrimsonEclipse0 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
