Given how much has happened since, it might come as a surprise that Highguard has been out for just one week. Since then, the game has received a few patches, and an entirely new game mode that is now going to stick around.
Over the weekend, Highguard developer Wildlight introduced a 5v5 game mode to sit alongside its standard 3v3 queues, stating that it would be a limited-time mode. Given the response by players, the new game mode has now become permanent, letting you enjoy the game’s mix of looting and raiding with hopefully more player interactions in the large, open map. Wildlight announced the news on X, stating that the player split between its two modes was relatively even across the weekend.
The addition of two more players on each team has been a favorable change to some players, with the game even emerging from its negative review status on Steam up to “Mixed” over the weekend. The effect might be short lived, however, as the increased player counts over the weekend has since subsided, with numbers now hovering below last week’s worst days.
Wildlight has stated that player numbers aren’t important to Highguard’s success, and the studio seems adamant to stick to its first year of content updates that it already has mapped out. But it’s also clear that the studio is keenly aware of critical feedback and eager to respond, given how quickly this new game mode came together. Perhaps that horse racing mode isn’t as far away as you think.