Game reset at release

[Kcina]

Anyone know if there will have a wipe at release? Just wondering cause i've been spending ALOT of time building......

[Medvezhak]

It's not MMO why would they do anything like that?

[Blue Hasia]

game official release i predict at min 4-6 years away XD

[Mr. Fibble]

I'd assume that if they were going to do any major changes to the current map they'd likely warn folk in advance much in the same way that coffee stain did when an update was going to revamp enough that factories might end up buried.

Existing builds are safe from the reset due to the altar zone so again its an assumption by me but that would probably take some of the sting out of map changes.

However it does look like the map will simply be getting expanded north with only a few spots standing out as having quirky terrain. There's one of the green fungal caves that has a rock pillar model which isn't quite rooting into the ground as it's just a wee bit shorter than needed.

[GOobERdOod]

A few threads are asking this question but the devs don't seem to care to answer yet. It will definitely be many months till the 1.0 release so play at your own risk I guess.

On their FAQ it says the following but this only addresses the demo saves
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17) Can I use my old saves from the demo or beta builds of the game?
As we made many improvements to our save system throughout development, older saves from the Alpha, Beta and Demo versions are incompatible with the Early Access version of Enshrouded.

[alden.monzon]

I wish they did the Valheim route where our characters are guaranteed to be usable in any future update.

[Mr. Fibble]

In video games it's a very bad idea for devs to give a guarantee of anything because they will be dragged over hot coals by an angry mob if find they have to, even if it fixes a major problem the mob will want blood.

[Kcina]

Yeah thats why im waiting to see the official answer

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Mr. Fibble:

In video games it's a very bad idea for devs to give a guarantee of anything because they will be dragged over hot coals by an angry mob if find they have to, even if it fixes a major problem the mob will want blood.

This is just stupid.

During Early Access, wipes are to be expected with major updates. If you don't like that, then wait until games are released before purchasing.

[Yinan]

In the official discord, the following was written regarding this topic:

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About Server Wipes & Character Resets...
... On the topic of "wipes", we do not have any plans to force wipes at any time. However being early access and being that a LOT will change and be added to the game over time, we can't guarantee that there might not be a major update that requires old saves to break.

Also being that so much is changing, there is always the chance that an update might break old saves, so I recommend backing up saves you really care about if this would be something that is the end of the world for you as a player.

But yeah, we're not planning on intentionally doing this, but we also can't guarantee it will "never happen" either, since there's a lot of unknown variables in the future.

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Updated: 2/6/24
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