We have received word of major issues affecting many players after the latest update - Never Alone. The team here at Raw Fury, Fury Studios and StumpySquid are doing everything they can to get a fix together as soon as possible. In the coming days and weeks, we'll deliver a number of patches to the beta branch on steam, with a goal to push them live as soon as possible - beginning as early as next week. The first of these patches will focus on the "shield" issue preventing players from progressing and the subsequent fixes will address other issues as fast as we can fix them. For those of you that are affected by save games that you can't continue, our recommendation is that you start a new game in a new save slot, or try the new challenge island until it's safe to return to your old kingdom. When the fixes are rolled out, we will communicate which issues are affected and if it's possible to get back to ruling your old saves. We're truly sorry about the frustration this has caused, but hope that we can get everything up and running again as soon as physically possible. Please keep an eye out on our usual channels for more communications around the updates, as and when they happen.