Hello! I'm currently in Germany after a full day of travel—not the ideal setup for releasing our biggest update yet :D

We've been working tirelessly to meet this deadline, and to my surprise, we succeeded without cutting much from the release. While I would've preferred another week of internal testing before going live, our alpha testers have dedicated considerable time to finding bugs. I'm hopeful we've caught most of them!

The game is now in maintenance mode, and we expect to open the server in around one hour with the new update live. Also, the new players in Wave 3 will start seeing that they have access in around 2 hours. You'll get an email of this with instructions, and you'll be able to download the game and start playing by going to https://portal.walkscape.app/account

Tomorrow I'll be at Gamescom, returning to Finland on Sunday. Now, let's dive into the release notes! Keep walking, and stay hydrated everyone!

Added

Syrenthia

• Added the realm of Syrenthia and its locations

• Syrenthia is under water! You can't just walk there! You'll need a couple of items to get there. Some of which are simple enough to get, hopefully the other one will also go swimmingly...

Job Boards

• Some cities have put up a job board

• Jobs on the job boards are refreshed daily at 00:00 UTC

• Each city has their own jobs, jobs on the job boards are not shared between cities

• Jobs require you to hand in requested items for a reward

• Handing in the items can be done from any location and can also take items from your bank

• You can have 3 accepted jobs active at a time

• You can access your active jobs and complete them from your journal tab

• Completing a job provides rewards. You can see the reward before accepting the job

• Jobs and their rewards are not randomly generated but predetermined, but which jobs appear is random

• Jobs are repeatable, meaning they could come back another day and be completed again

Faction Reputation

• You now have a reputation level for factions

• Gain reputation points to level up your reputation

• Jobs and some activities reward you reputation points

• Every level of reputation in a faction grants you rewards

Consumables

• There are three consumable types: Immediate, food, and potions

• Immediate consumables have an instant effect when used

• Food items passively grant bonuses while skilling for a certain amount of steps (Disclaimer: Don't try eating some of these at home)

• Potions are currently not available

• You can start consuming items from your inventory and from the activity tab

• You can chose to automatically stop consuming an item when changing activity

• You can chose to automatically restart consuming when restarting an activity where the consumable was used before

Social

• The friends system is now available in game in the menu under "Social"

• You can now see the characters of your friends and their levels

• You can send, cancel, accept, and deny friend requests

• You can anonymize yourself and/or hide your total step count on the leaderboards in the settings

Localization

• Finished localization system • Broke the library :(

• Unfortunately this means changing language is not possible this update, but we are actively working on it and still want to release this soon!

Miscellanious

• Added a lot of items

• Added a lot of activities

• Added a lot of recipes

Changed

Map Updates

• Location information view on the map has been improved

• Routes will be marked with red diamonds if you have unmet requirements

• Routes can be marked as such halfway, meaning you have the requirements to go one way but not the other

• Shops and job boards can be inspected from the map

Attribute Overview

• The attributes overview has been updated throughout the game

• Attributes are now grouped much better

• Attributes that are currently not in effect are dimmed

Miscellanious

• Sold and purchased items are now tracked in WalkPedia

Fixed

• Fixed achievements that granted money as their rewards

• Fixed issue with the hazmat suit

• A ton of minor bug fixes and stability improvements