Highguard’s final update arriving soon. Thank you for playing with us.
Today we’re sharing difficult news. We have made the decision to permanently shut down Highguard on March 12. Since launch, more than 2 million players stepped into Highguard’s world. You shared feedback, created content, and many believed in what we were building. For that, we are deeply grateful. Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable playe…
New Base and New Raid Tool Patch! Coming Later This Week This patch is purely content focused, with a brand new Base and a powerful new Raid Tool added to the game, along with new offerings in the Store. We are also working on next week’s patch, which we aim to bring a new game mode focused on the Raid experience, as well as some balance adjustments to weapons, among other things. New Base - Cl…
Technical Updates · Desktop users may now enable “High Performance Mouse Input Polling” in the Settings menu Dev note: While the engine has never performed mouse input smoothing, users may have perceived latency or frame rate dips on certain machines when using a high poll-rate mouse. This setting causes the engine to poll mouse inputs on a separate worker thread at a much faster rate and may i…
Technical Updates · Desktop users may now enable “High Performance Mouse Input Polling” in the Settings menu · Dev note: While the engine has never performed mouse input smoothing, users may have perceived latency or frame rate dips on certain machines when using a high poll-rate mouse. This setting causes the engine to poll mouse inputs on a separate worker thread at a much faster rate and may…
A NEW WARDEN ARRIVES EKON A legendary monster-slayer who shapeshifts into a powerful direwolf to track and hunt his prey. Ekon is the last of a long line of ancient magic wielders known as the Wildwalkers, once thought extinct. When his mentor, and closest thing to family, goes missing in the lost land of Highguard, there is no monster or warden this great predator will allow to stand in his wa…
You've been asking, and we're happy to share—5v5 Raid Mode is here to stay! We appreciate everyone hopping in over the weekend to give the mode a try. We saw a fairly even split between 3v3 and 5v5, which helped inform our decision.
5v5 and Performance Patch! And a New Base! For our first weekend, we’re excited to drop an experimental 5v5 Raid playlist, a new Base and a bunch of performance improvements for 3v3, along with some more options in the Settings menus for people to customize their game. Read the details below! 5v5 Raid Mode - Experimental Playlist We heard the feedback! For the weekend, we are experimenting with…
Hey Wardens! We’ve just pushed out a patch with a number of improvements, including FoV sliders for consoles, toggle options for ADS and Crouch, many video settings, and more. The team is also working on optimization improvements, they just need a few more days to cook. See below to see the nitty gritty details, and we'll see you in Highguard Settings Improvements Note: in an effort to release…
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