Deliveries drive progression
In Farlands, a successful delivery has value beyond the handover. You can invest the resources you earn in personal gear or base development, linking deliveries to decisions about how you progress. That leaves a practical question: what should you prioritize when those resources come in?
Your base plays a concrete role in progression. Upgrading it unlocks advanced crafting options, character skill trees and expanded cargo storage. These are different paths worth considering together, since investing in your base opens up more than extra room for cargo.
For us, the connection between deliveries and investment is the most interesting part of this setup. Alongside the delivery itself, it gives you a reason to think about what you want to develop. Planning your next investment is a natural consideration for anyone who enjoys character progression.
Encounters with other players
Farlands is a permanent multiplayer adventure built around deliveries in a PvPvE environment. If that abbreviation is unfamiliar, it means you share the game with both other players and opponents controlled by the game. Deliveries take place in an environment that combines those two types of challenge.
Global voice chat and an emote system provide ways to communicate. Players have both spoken and visual ways to get a message across, which matters when considering encounters, cooperation and rivalry in a shared space.
We’re interested in how delivery planning will fit into relationships between players. The communication tools raise the possibility of coordinating with others, but how people will use them is something we’ll need to discover through play.
Servers run on a five-day cycle
Each server operates on a five-day cycle. That is an important timeframe to keep in mind alongside deliveries, resource gathering and base development. When planning your playtime, it helps to know that servers follow this schedule.
The length of the cycle does not, however, explain what happens to progress when it ends. We cannot infer whether anything resets or carries over. For now, only the cycle’s duration is clear.
Early access and a new Lancer
Farlands is available on PC and consoles in global early access. That status matters for anyone considering jumping in: this is an early access release.
Courier, a new Lancer, was also introduced alongside Farlands. More details are needed to understand his role and abilities; his arrival is what has been confirmed here.