Pantheon: RotF's First 2023 Developer Stream Reveals Character Wipes Are "Not Planned" For January Pre-Alpha Test

The stream also unveils roadmap updates and Visionary's agenda for 2023.

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Pantheon January 2023 Developer Update

Yesterday, Visionary Realms published their first developer stream for 2023, seeing creative director Chris "Joppa" Perkins back to discuss current initiatives for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen.

As usual, these streams touch upon improvements and roadmap updates, but we also learned their January pre-alpha test later this month is "not planned" to wipe players' characters afterward.

The creative director then talked about their goal of making traveling between zones a seamless experience without zone lines and improving social features with neat chat functions and a party grouping tool. Also, crafting and gathering are receiving improvements to their nodes, items, and animations.

Visionary's growing art team is currently focused on designing an area called the "Silent Plains." It will be a massive open zone connected to many parts of the game world, and the "wind" apparently will play a significant role in Silent Plains.

Elsewhere in the stream, Perkins announced that placeholder animations for Human models are getting replaced with newer animations. Once finished, the Dark Myr will be next. Visionary also dropped in-game footage and art for a new bit of game lore. It's a pretty extensive preview of a new faction of nomadic travelers.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: We have corrected language in this piece from its original form. The language indicated that there wouldn't be wipes between all tests this year, when the team meant no wipes after the January test... provided there were no issues.)

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Anthony Jones
Anthony Jones, News Editor
Anthony Jones is a gaming journalist and late 90s kid in love with retro games and the evolution of modern gaming. He started at Mega Visions as a news reporter covering the latest announcements, rumors, and fan-made projects. FFXIV has his heart in the MMORPGs scene, but he's always excited to analyze and lose hours to ambitious and ambiguous MMOs that gamers follow.

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