New Fractured Online Team Details Plans & Vision for the Game in First Dev Stream

As the new Fractured Online team at Happy Cauldron held their first big dev stream, we now know more about their overall vision for the game.

Duncan Davis (Tanahara) and community manager Will (Mortveiare) head up the stream and both have been players. Other game experience in titles like Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online, MMORPGs with social sandbox depth, are influences too.

Fractured Online’s lore and deep original vision and systems had lots of potential, much of which had to be altered, streamlined, or even went unused. Not only are they going to build upon the bones of that lore and what Dynamight had conceptualized, they are going to relaunch the game and initiate a series of improvements and flesh out some of those unused elements. “It’s a new era”.

Major changes are coming, although they do not have a timeline yet, expect an outline of milestones soon. You can still play the current version of the game on the official website and on Steam for now, but at a future point it will be taken down temporarily while they update the infrastructure and ready a relaunch. 

One thing we can expect is more communication. With the new team’s origins as Fractured Online players, they saw a lack of communication and the impact of that, including increased toxicity. We can expect Discord messages, streams, and development updates frequently and regularly. The community is a big part of the work they're doing.

Happy Cauldron has a plan, assisted by community feedback, with vets highly encouraged to weigh in, to improve the game and to bring it to success. Part of efforts to regain trust with the community lies in issuing Kickstarter rewards that are “worth it”. Rewards went unfulfilled after Dynamight’s original campaign closed. This is only one part of the work they're currently doing and we get  a peek in the stream. Other things like housing, which they currently describe as “glorified storage closets”, are going to be revamped, along with other features. Some other elements will be retired or reworked too.

As an indie team, they’re still working out some of the ideas and the process, and that’s where transparent communication comes in. Hit play on the full stream for insight into the process as Fractured Online heads toward its relaunch. 

What isn’t happening? There will be no crypto and no NFTs, Davis promises.