The survival game Last Oasis is struggling to keep its players. Even the developers admit, “Our game is not fun.” This is supposed to drastically change with the launch of Season 5 next week.
This is Last Oasis: The survival game Last Oasis was announced in 2020 and is currently in Early Access on Steam. You dive into a post-apocalyptic world where the Earth has stopped rotating.
The focus is on survival, which is why Last Oasis offers classic survival mechanics such as hunger, thirst, crafting, and open PvP.
The concept attracted many interested players at the launch of Early Access, which led to an all-time peak of over 33,000 players on Steam. However, the numbers dropped very quickly and currently the statistics site Steamcharts.com shows about 200 concurrent players.
In a news post from July 5, Florian “chadz” Hofreither, one of the developers, discussed how their game “objectively is not fun.” But the team didn’t give up and announced a complete overhaul to change that.
Solo gameplay and small groups in focus
After determining that the survival game is not fun, the team set out to find the causes of this problem. The result will go live next week. The exact date and time will be announced on August 1.
This is the new update: The update will go live with the launch of Season 5 of Last Oasis and is called “LOverhaul,” a combination of the two initials of the game (LO) and the English word “Overhaul.”
The focus, according to the new blog post from chadz, will be on solo players and smaller groups. The game was balanced based on feedback from Season 5 testers, who all mainly played alone or in small teams.
With the LOverhaul update, the world of Last Oasis is set to become significantly more dangerous, not through open PvP, but through PvE. Originally, the world itself posed no “real” danger, but was “at most an inconvenience.” The danger came solely from other players through PvP. This will change with the update.
Players will need to be more cautious and think carefully about what risks they want to take. People who rush in unprepared and without strategy will have problems and die. They will not have fun, according to chadz.
This way, PvP should also become more strategic, as players need to consider and assess when a raid on others is worthwhile.
Should you play this version? In the blog post, chadz explains that the new direction of Last Oasis may not appeal to everyone. The team is aware of this and offers fans of the old version an alternative.
Players who prefer to play the survival game in its original state can do so on private servers, which will remain on the status of Season 4.
Are you active Last Oasis players or have you just checked it out briefly? Will you try the new update? Let us know in the comments.
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