Pocketpair releases Palworld early access roadmap

Palworld has been seeing some insanely high levels of attention lately, selling nearly 8 million copies in just six days and being pitted at the center of controversy regarding its similarities to Pokemon. Still, Palworld is going strong despite these controversies and developer Pocketpair has released the roadmap for the game’s Early Access.

The roadmap provides an overview of planned fixes and changes that will be made to the game, as well as planned future updates. Many of the announced changes are fixes for things like the servers as well as the Pals. There are also content updates coming in the future like crossplay between the Steam and Xbox versions of the game.

We’ve listed all the provided info below:

Addressing Critical Issues

Currently numerous bugs have been identified, and we are prioritizing fixing those.

  • Sometimes, the world date may experience rollbacks.
  • The loading screen may persist when trying to load into worlds.
  • …and so on

Improvements to Implement ASAP

  • Key configuration improvements.
  • Improvements to base Pal AI and pathing.

Planned Future Updates

  • PvP
  • Raid Bosses (End-Game Content)
  • Pal Arena (PvP for Pals)
  • Steam-Xbox Crossplay
  • Various Xbox Feature Improvements
  • Server Transfers and Migrations
  • Improvements to the Building System
  • New islands, Pals, Bosses, and Technologies

Palworld has been a record-breaking hit, topping Valve’s Counter-Strike to have the second-highest concurrent player count on Steam in history, being topped only by PUBG. It additionally hit over 2 million concurrent players on Wednesday.


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