The Waylanders – Immersive Update Live

Gato Studio’s party-based CRPG The Waylanders has received a new early access update that enhances the game’s origin stories with a series of brief intro videos. It also adds the ubiquitous these days photo mode and fixes a number of quests. Here’s one sample intro:

And some additional information:

This new Alpha 0.30 update brings you two powerful features: origins and Photo Mode! Plus, quest improvements and minor changes.
Character origins
We’ve added new videos for the 8 available origins when you customize your adventurer in the Character Creator. Now you can enjoy a deeper background, you can better understand your character’s motivations and enjoy a bigger immersion in the story. Also, we’ve made some minor changes to dialogues, so they are adapted to the origins.
Let’s take a look to one of the origin’s videos, the Celtic Druid[…]
Available origins
Celtic Druid
Celtic Soldier
Egyptian
Dog of Ares Mercenary
Mourian Protector
Mourian Diplomat
Alpha Wolf
Slave
There are 8 different origins, each one with a different cinematic and background. What are you waiting for? Begin a new game, create your character and enjoy this new, lore-friendly cinematics!
Photo Mode
Say cheese, Photo Mode is here! Capture your favorite moments, combats, scenarios and characters with this powerful feature. Interface is available both for keyboard and controller.
Photo Mode Controls (Keyboard & mouse)
Ins – Enter/exit Photo Mode
Supr – Take photo
End – Open saved images folder
WASD – Move camera
Q/E – Up/Down
Left click – Focus
Right click (hold and move mouse) – Rotate camera
Photo Mode Controls (Xbox controller)
L3+R3 – Enter/exit Photo Mode
RB – Take photo
LB – Focus
Y – Compose
D-Pad – Change adjustment
Left stick – Modify adjustment
X – Reset adjustments
Do you want to share your favorite screenshots with us? Use #TheWaylandersPhotoMode and follow @WaylandersRPG on Twitter! Custom character self-portrait, your favorite location, using a formation in a boss fight… Countless possibilities!
Quest improvements
Multiple cinematic improvements, dialogue adjustments and minor bug fixing on multiple quests:
Main quest
Corrupted Circle
Loyalty quests
Redemption in the farm (Heraklios)
The Cave of Eternity (Amergin)
Rite of the first refusal (Khaldun)
The One That Got Away (Mal)
Secondary Quest
Slay the dragon
Task
Lost treasure
Other changes
Minor adjustments: companions AI
Minor bugs fixed
What’s next?
Next update will add one of the most anticipated updates: new languages! Stay tuned.