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Pocketpair teased a boss scenario at the World Tree and co-op crossplay in future Palworld updates.
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Thanks to continued support, Palworld released patches and free updates with new Pals and islands.
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Big plans for Palworld Early Access include Pal transfers, enhancements, world enhancements, and more collaborations.
Palworld Developer Pocketpair took to social media to lay out a roadmap of its future Early Access plans, which included a tease of a boss scenario on the World Tree and co-op crossplay on supported platforms. In addition to continued game improvements, Palworld stated more gaming collaborations on the side Terraria ongoing as it continues towards a full release.
On the occasion of the game's first anniversary since its launch in early access, Pocketpair gave thanks Palworld players for their continued support of the game. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, Palworld has released several patches throughout 2024 to keep players engaged. Palworld added the islands of Sakurajima and Feybreak as free updates, with each island including new friends to capture and battle. The Feybreak update proved to be a successful endeavor for Pocketpair, which PalworldThe number of players on Steam rose to over 212,000 concurrent users during the update's launch window.
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After the release of Palworld v0.4.13, which fixed some lingering bugs and changed some game mechanics, Pocketpair revealed that more Palworld early access plans were in the works. Via Palworlds official English Twitter feed, Pocketpair shared a roadmap of planned major update features coming to the game during its continued early access window. Palworld revealed that co-op crossplay on supported platforms would be coming in a future update, along with the ability for players to transfer their Pals across multiple world servers and play files. Palworld also confirmed that other game collaborations on the side Terraria were planned, but did not specify what those games would be. Finally, Pocketpair stated that the World Tree, a mysterious place, was constantly teasing Palworlds early access period, would host a final boss battle scenario.
Palworld Unveils Ambitious Early Access Roadmaps
Major updates
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CO-OP Crossplay
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World transfers for friends
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Final Boss / Final scenario
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Additional ways to strengthen and improve Pals
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Various new content such as new Pals and technologies
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Game collaborations (including Terraria)
Other improvements
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Improvements to the placement of world objects
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Improvements to base Pals
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Optimization improvements
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UX improvements
However, Pocketpair did not specify when these major updates would go live, as things may change during that time Palworlds early access period. Alongside the planned major updates, continued improvements to Palworlds Pal enhancement system will be added. While Pocketpair didn't specify what those Pal improvements might be, the developer did confirm that new Pals, technologies, and items would be included via major content updates. Other improvements of Palworlds user interface, world object placements, base Pal workflow, and performance optimizations were listed in Pocketpair's early access plans. Palworld asked players to continue supporting the game as plans for a full release continue.
Between Palworldongoing collaboration with Terraria and major update plans, Pocketpair's hit title shows no signs of slowing down. Only time will tell when Palworlds first major update for 2025 will be released.