TEK Tier Delay - Version 254

[Jat]

The introduction of TEK Tier Phase 1 has been delayed to January’s patch v254. We know a lot of you are looking forward to its introduction, and we are too, however a short while ago we came to the decision to hold back on the roll-out of this complicated new gameplay system.

The reason for this being is that we believe the TEK Tier systems will require a lot of live iteration with you. We will need be highly active, available, and rapidly iterating throughout the hours, days, and weeks after its introduction. As we enter the holiday week, we believe we aren’t able to achieve this as players and developers alike are bound to be spending time with family and friends, issues may not get as much attention as we would like and therefore to avoid this problem we want to hold out this content a little further.

However, that said - we have the goods ready to enter testing, it just needs more tweaking balance-wise, and due to the additional time before v254, we’ll be able to get in even more of TEK Tier into the upcoming release than we initially planned, including additional Items and Structures. We will be doing an early preview of what’s to come at the start of the New Year, including the very exciting Underwater Base system! So it won’t be long until you get another deep-dive into the TEK Tier -- pun intended -- and soon thereafter your first hands-on experience with it.

I know some of you are going to be a little disappointed, but we believe this is the best decision for the long term development and health of the live game. There is still a jolly good amount of content coming today in v253; we hope you enjoy the upcoming patch, and we wish you all very happy holidays!

[Kresslack]

Why wait to announce it?

The info was on other forums for days...

[jonny2772]

Well then, looks like the tek armor mod will stay installed here a little while longer.

[TomHud™]

fair enough

[M-ark]

Np , happy holidays Jat !

[Idrona]

Predicted this a few days ago already so no surprises here.

I am excited for the holiday stuff, new dinos and the camera though. :)

[VoreX]

so when you planned this for release the week of xmas weeks ago, you didnt stop to think no one is going to be in the office?
why hype it so much for a late december release when you should know full well its not coming if the reason is no one will be in the office.

[Mi]

We've known this from other sources for days.

Why announce it only now?

[Elnaser80]

Never mind .. good job so far .. you are a great team . I love your game a lot ..
but please consider fixing some of the issues of the game to be a complete game
I have faith in you guys :) GO GO GO DEVS

[HighFlyer15]

Originally posted by Mi:

We've known this from other sources for days.

Why announce it only now?

Because it's patch day :D Also, for the glory of Santa \o/ erh, I mean Satan.

[Celestial#]

No problem.

[chosen21]

Wise decision
Are there any plans for evolutuion event for this weekend?

Happy holidays to all :)

[Kresslack]

Originally posted by HighFlyer15:

Originally posted by Mi:

We've known this from other sources for days.

Why announce it only now?

Because it's patch day :D Also, for the glory of Santa \o/ erh, I mean Satan.

Was patch day originally on the 21st.

[Jat]

Originally posted by VoreX:

so when you planned this for release the week of xmas weeks ago, you didnt stop to think no one is going to be in the office?
why hype it so much for a late december release when you should know full well its not coming if the reason is no one will be in the office.

In hindsight, this would have been good, but honestly, it hadn't crossed our mind until recently. We were just working on the content and then a little while ago it dawned on us that we may not be able to iterate as much as we like :(. Some of us will probably still work throughout the break, as that's what we do, but we'd prefer if the entire team and our playerbase as a whole was around.

[REXXIT]

please dont delay the tek tier for as long as the megalosaurus

[DemitriX]

Good decision imo to hold the relase of something which may be gamebreaking.

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to the staff of Wildcard!