Hello community,

We'll be deploying a new build to the Test Branch later this week.

This Test Build will include major changes to the Clothing System that we're planning to roll out in a December Sandbox Update before the holidays.

We'll share more details soon, but in the mean time, keep the following in mind:

* The Test Branch is optional; you do not have to participate.
* All tuning is placeholder; don't freak out if you see something you don't like. We'll continue refining the values leading up to the full December Update release.
* The Test Branch contains spoilers for the full Update. If you don't want to know what's coming in the full December Update, stay out of the Test Branch discussion.
* Please avoid posting Test Build spoilers in the main discussions.
* Current in-progress save games can be carried over to the Test Branch, but not the other way. This is to protect your progress from being polluted or influenced in some way by bugs or tuning issues in the Test Branch builds.

We'll update here and in the official community once the Test Branch is live.

We'll post detailed instructions on how to participate in to the Test Branch -- including how to download the build and how to post bugs/feedback -- when it is live later this week. Please don't ask for instructions in this thread or discussion.

Note that the December update will include more than the Clothing System updates, but since the changes are substantial we'd like the current Test Cycle to focus on this system. The changes to the Clothing System are very extensive and introduce multiple new layers of survival gameplay. We're excited to get this system into your hands in the full December Update. In the mean time, your contribution to the Test Branch playtest will help us ensure the December Update is as bug-free as possible.

We'll have another update on Story Mode progress to share, later in December.

Thanks in advance!

- The Hinterland Team