Fellowship emergency maintenance fixed a progression bug, and some players got double rewards

Fellowship had a rough Friday. Early access players ran into a critical issue that messed with progression rewards, prompting developer Chief Rebel to kick off unannounced emergency maintenance shortly after a small patch went live. The studio said the shutdown was needed to avoid account data corruption.

Chief Rebel pushed out two quick follow-up patches as the situation unfolded. The first got the game back into a playable state, but it made some players’ progression trees look reset and temporarily locked, even though the underlying progress wasn’t actually wiped. The second patch tackled the mismatch between the frontend UI and the backend systems that confirm unlocks, which is what was causing rewards to not properly register.

One odd side effect: some players ended up receiving doubled rewards after the fixes. The devs opted to let that stand rather than roll it back.

After the dust settled, Chief Rebel posted a recap on Steam explaining what broke and what they changed to help prevent a repeat. According to the Steam post, the team outlined both the cause and the safeguards they’re putting in place going forward.

Chief Rebel also shipped another patch with smaller gameplay fixes. The most recent update addresses several character-specific bugs, adds a cap to curse scaling at Eternal difficulty, and includes some UI and icon tweaks, per the latest patch notes.