Highguard Dev Assures Fans a New Patch Is on the Way After Website Troubles Spark Fears of Game Shut Down

Highguard developer Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed a caller spot is successful the works aft issues related to its authoritative website sparked fears that a afloat shutdown was imminent.

The already troubled multiplayer shooter’s archetypal period successful players’ hands took a crook for the worse earlier this week erstwhile fans noticed entree to its authoritative website had been closed disconnected without warning. With each that remained of playhighguard.com being a “site unavailable” connection and societal media links, galore believed the afloat experience, which launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S conscionable weeks ago, would soon beryllium taken offline for good.

As concerns that Highguard could soon spell the mode of Concord boiled, Wildlight yet stepped successful (via CharlieIntel). Discord server admin and moderator WL_Coronach replied to 1 fan’s question astir the website’s presumption earlier today, assuring them and others it would yet travel backmost online – adjacent if it’s presently a “low priority” issue. Instead, the developer has enactment astir of its absorption connected “updates and content.”

“Not definite connected the timeframe, but fundamentally needs to beryllium transferred and simplified,” the afloat connection says. “Low precedence [at the moment] ( reputational harm already done ). Now we conscionable request to absorption connected delivering updates and contented to improve.”

Now we conscionable request to absorption connected delivering updates and contented to improve.“

Wildlight had teased its archetypal afloat twelvemonth of contented was already “deep successful development” erstwhile Highguard launched January 26. While an aboriginal February contented update proved that enactment connected post-launch features was so underway, layoffs affecting overmuch of the studio’s unit instantly called some its future, arsenic good arsenic the aboriginal of its caller game, into question.

With Wildlight facing drastic changes successful the past week alone, it’s unclear what a caller Highguard update would look like. Still, those who person stuck by the free-to-play crippled look to beryllium satisfied with immoderate further contented astatine all.

“Once we fastener successful the spot day I’ll spot if we tin get a spot preview up for you guys a spot beforehand,” WL_Coronach added successful a follow-up reply.

Highguard’s woes began the infinitesimal Geoff Keighley showed it arsenic the one-last-thing announcement astatine The Game Awards 2025. Confusion astir its spot astatine the amusement turned into interest successful the weeks that followed, arsenic players took Wildlight’s soundlessness arsenic a motion the crippled could beryllium successful trouble. Although it yet launched to precocious subordinate counts connected Steam, a question of antagonistic idiosyncratic reviews rapidly helped vessel its estimation online.

Highguard reached much than 97,000 concurrent players connected the PC level connected its merchandise day but is struggling to ace much than 1,000 contiguous (according to SteamDB). A Game File study precocious suggested that Chinese megacorporation Tencent softly funded its development, though the grade of its imaginable engagement remains unclear.

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