Klei Entertainment and Capybara Games have published a content roadmap for Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked. The expansion, currently in early access on the PC, now has a path to launch that will include the ability for a player to take a character all the way through the base game, the Reign of Giants expansion, and Shipwrecked with save migration. Imagine it! A full three games’ worth of content looking to end your life in cruel ways. Exposure? Poisoning? Eaten by a shark? Stampeded by pig-men? While a marathon of survival that long seems dubious, the developers say that balance will come via user feedback.
This game takes a long time to play, and you will encounter different scenarios each time you play. Players constantly encounter situations that we never even imagined. Because of this, when we add new content to Don’t Starve the initial tuning is, for the most part, our best guess on what will play well.
What happens in Don’t Starve’s cooperative multiplayer mode when your partner dies? She or he turns into a ghost, of course! Klei Entertainment’s Seth Rosen posted some details of the upcoming Don’t Starve Together update including a video demonstrating the co-op afterlife. Rosen explains the haunting mechanic.
When I haunt something, it gives me back some life force (the blue stomach meter). As long as I have some life force, my humanity (the blue heart meter) won’t drain further, which is good because my humanity level is my maximum health if and when I get revived. If I manage to get my life force meter full (through haunting enough objects, which I was actually able to do in a dense forest – though the forest also got burned down, or by haunting a resurrection object or being given a reviver by a living player), then I will get resurrected.
Rosen noted that the final ghost implementation will be adjusted to foster less griefing. Don’t Starve Together will be a free update for all owners of the base game later this year.
Don’t Starve is getting a multiplayer update. Klei Entertainment announced the plan to bring multiplayer to their survival crafting game on their official forums. The developer plans to update the base game for free with multiplayer functionality in late Summer. Although they didn’t have many specifics, the post mentioned public and private games, 2-4 simultaneous players, multiplayer balancing, and the possibility of other new features. In the past, Klei had shut down speculation regarding multiplayer to keep the community focused on the single player game.
Over the past few months, we’ve quietly smuggled in some new people onto our team who immediately said “Heck yeah, this can be a thing!” and actually threw together a proof of concept. After a couple months and an office-wide session of multiplayer Don’t Starve, we were convinced it was worth exploring and bringing it to our community.
Although the multiplayer expansion will be free to current owners of Don’t Starve, Klei plans to increase the price of the base game to $19.99 once the update launches.
Indie survival games Don’t Starve and FTL get more stuff added to their gameplay today thanks to expansions. Don’t Starve’s Reign of Giants has been released on Steam early access, and FTL has been updated with the free Advance Edition content. More enemies! More junk to collect! More slow starvation and explosive decompression!
Reign of Giants by Klei Entertainment unsurprisingly adds giants to Don’t Starve to fight and conquer. The expansion also features Spring and Summer seasons to go with the base game’s Winter period, and a new save slot to clutter up with your doomed character. New NPC creatures and player character types come with the expansion as well. The Reign of Giants beta is available now on Steam.
The Advanced Edition update is a free expansion for FTL. Subset Games added a new playable race, a clone bay that reproduces dead crew, hacking drones, and an even harder difficulty level for masochists to enjoy. “Guest writer” Chris Avellone contributed new storylines to the update so players can get their death in space presented with flair. FTL: Advanced Edition is also available now as a complete game for Apple devices for $10.
Klei Entertainment’s dapper survival game, Don’t Starve, is getting new DLC. The Reign of Giants teaser video doesn’t give us much information other than that it’s “coming soon,” but there may be a clue in the title of the video. It’s subtitled as “Autumn Teaser.” A new in-game season perhaps? Maybe it’s the expected release period? Other than that speculation, Klei did confirm on Twitter that the DLC will be coming for both PlayStation 4 and PC versions of the game.
A version of this post appeared on the Quarter to Three forums. It has been reprinted here with the gracious permission of the author.
The currently available version of Incognita, a tactical stealth/hacking game from Don’t Starve and Shank developer Klei Entertainment, is one of those early pre-release alphas. What’s there right now is really limited. It’s essentially a procedural office building generator. You take a two man team into the office building to rescue a captured agent. That’s it.
But, after the jump, I’m really happy with the promise shown at this stage.Continue reading →
