The first two testing days of Last Oasis Season 6’s final test provided valuable lessons for the development team at Donkey Crew, and they’ve instituted several updates based on player feedback that appears to have resulted in an uptick in players. In a series of Steam blogs recapping the past few days, the team has seen some signs that the changes they’ve made are enticing players to return.
Donkey Crew has been excited to see the return of so many players, and the feedback they’ve had has largely steered the game into changing their testing playbook on the fly. The day one recap saw the early release of Canyon tiles due to an abundance of player requests. The team insisted that the cradle tile retain its importance as a starting area, offering essential early-game experiences to new players. They also outline that Xbox users experienced setbacks due to a disabled tutorial which caused initial difficulties that they believed they alleviated by the reimplementation and improvements to UI and compatability with a new update on the way.
Day two introduced Event Tiles marked by a “Quality System,” spawning higher-rarity resources and enemies to intensify PvP experiences. Ancient City tiles also appeared, featuring new mechanics and unique resources for Proxy Walkers, significantly altering tile-claiming mechanics. These Proxy Walkers reportedly introduced dynamic territorial politics and strategic depth, encouraging clans to compete for resource-rich tiles.
Last Oasis saw an uptick to a peak player high of 1785 players. This was the largest peak player count since August of 2022, where the free weekend saw more than 6 thousand players. Both numbers pale in comparison to the initial release that saw over 33 thousand players join, but at this stage of development it’s an encouraging sign to see that players are still open to returning if fun and exciting changes roll out.
