Highguard's Final 'Farewell Tour' Patch Gives Everyone a New Warden and Skill Tree to Play Around With Until the Very End

Highguard, the free-to-play PvP raid shooter announced astatine The Game Awards past twelvemonth and acceptable to adjacent adjacent week, has released its last update.

Developer Wildlight announced that it would permanently unopen down Highguard connected March 12, but not earlier a "farewell tour," which besides just-so-happens to beryllium the sanction of the shooter's last patch.

Highguard launched connected January 26 aft astir nary connection with prospective players betwixt its December announcement and motorboat day. While Steam concurrents astir deed a precocious of 100,000, highest concurrents connected Valve's level soon plummeted (neither Sony nor Microsoft marque subordinate numbers public). And though Wildgate was speedy to code issues with the game, adjacent adding a 5v5 crippled mode to antagonistic 3v3 complaints, soon thereafter, astir of the workplace was laid off.

Now, arsenic the squad issues its last patch, it thanked everyone who has and is inactive playing Highguard, writing: "Even though we are shutting the crippled down, we are excited to springiness our remaining players 1 past large update to support you entertained implicit the weekend. Thanks again for playing with us. Enjoy!"

This last update adds a caller Warden, a caller weapon, relationship level progression, and a accomplishment histrion for those who privation to get their last matches in.

Highguard 'The Farewell Tour' Patch Notes:

For our last patch, we’d similar to convey everyone who has played and is inactive playing Highguard. Even though we are shutting the crippled down, we are excited to springiness our remaining players 1 past large update to support you entertained implicit the weekend. Thanks again for playing with us. Enjoy!

Account Progression

You’ll present level up your relationship level conscionable by playing the game. As you instrumentality to the lobby, you’ll summation XP, level up, and gain Skill Points to beryllium spent connected the caller Skill Tree!

Everyone’s relationship volition commencement astatine level 0, and goes to level 100.

Your archetypal level acquired volition reward you with 5 Skill points. Afterwards, you person 1 accomplishment constituent per level up until level 40 for a full of 44 points to spend. This allows players to take up to 2 accomplishment trees to max.

Skill Tree

The Skill Tree is designed for players to physique retired their upgrades successful 4 chiseled playstyles. Each subdivision has a assortment of options for players to take from, with 2 tiers of powerfulness connected each tiny nodes. Here is simply a database of what each subdivision focuses on, on with a fewer examples.

• Raider - for players looking to beryllium unstoppable during Raids, on with immoderate buffs and abilities focused connected wide combat efficiency.
  • Infiltration - portion raiding, zipline further into the force base
  • Juggernaut - destroying a partition provides a abbreviated duration overshield
  • Spearhead - you person a Domesplitter and a Thumper Charge erstwhile your Siege Tower rolls in
• Harvester - for players who are looking to summation their Vesper summation and the powerfulness of their Warden Axe
  • Heavy Swing - you plaything your axe with 2 hands, instantly destroying Vesper Nodes
  • Shatter Orb - destruct force psyche orbs with your Throwing Axe oregon Regular Axe Swing
  • Field Crafting - Create Armor, Equipment and Raid Tools successful the battlefield
• Treasure Hunter - for those players who emotion to loot
  • Treasure Seeker - hidden chests tin beryllium recovered and opened astatine PoIs
  • Archaeologist - Can merchantability items to Trader Flynn
  • Artifact Mastery - Amulets person a bonus magical spot erstwhile equipped
• Protector - for players who bask defending and keeping the squad together
  • Resonant Walls - reinforced walls are much durable
  • Unbreakable Armor - erstwhile each 2 minutes, armor nonaccomplishment is prevented connected death
  • Vanguard - portion defending your base, allies tin spawn connected you

You tin unequip a accomplishment easily, and you tin Reset each your points astatine nary outgo by clicking the fastener astatine the bottom.

We’ve tuned the XP summation to beryllium precise accelerated truthful players tin gain points rapidly and bask the afloat spectrum of the feature.

New Warden - Koldo

Koldo was discovered connected Highguard. A mislaid psyche from agelong earlier the continent disappeared, trapped wrong a suit of armor, helium searches for answers to his past. Koldo uses the powerfulness of his psyche to support his allies.

Passive: Guardian Angel

Protect immoderate affable orbs astir you from destruction.

Automatically deploy your shield erstwhile reviving allies.

Tactical: Soul Shield

Deploy a shield for you and your allies.

Ultimate: Battle Cry

Koldo raises a modular that creates a protective dome. He tin prime up and transportation the standard, and driblet it again astatine will.

Being wrong the dome gives allies faster wellness regeneration.

New Weapon - The Switchback

The Switchback brings unparalleled versatility, comfortably handling some adjacent scope and agelong scope encounters. When utilized successful hipfire, it’s a shotgun. Aiming down the sights volition modulation the limb into a marksman rifle.

The sanction “Switchback” originates from its unsocial double-barrel design. You’re capable to rapidly sprout doubly earlier needing a rechamber, though you besides tin gait your shots to support up a continuous watercourse of fire.

In the field, galore Wardens person sought to wield the Switchback. Only a fewer person genuinely learned to maestro it.

Gold Versions

The Switchback has 2 golden versions that tin beryllium recovered successful loot chests, oregon with Trader Flynn.

• Basebreaker
• Repeater

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