Full Release?

[Nats]

How is this game in terms of development, is release soonish? Sounds like they have a long way to go from some of the reviews. So what is the plan? I have always been semi-interested in this but would only buy it as a fully finished game.

[Kunming]

Features are being fleshed out on a regular basis. In its current state its a complete game, from start to finish.

You start on earth as an organisation with a certain ideology and goal, move your "agents" across the playing field (just earth in the beginning, later space as well) to gain certain resources and benefits. Slowly you go to space and build a space industry and military, fight the aliens and other organisations to achieve your end game goal.

From release some features were non-existing or poorly implemented, which got added along the way. There doesnt seem to be like a solid roadmap, afaik. The devs go with a very community oriented focus here, in other words, the game is turning into what the playerbase desires it to become. I can see it become quite different from release, along the way, in a few years.

I would advise to get it now and be part of that process, but also have to warn everyone that its a very complex and uniquely different game that might not be for everyones taste (also its a slow burner, but you can speed things up in the custom new game settings).

There are a bunch of playthroughs on youtube, but remember due to its unique nature there is no one way of doing things right either. You could even bounce back once the aliens have taken over the world with their own government and all (a la XCOM 2), there is even an achievement for that.

[Frid]

fun to play as things changes... its like your getting slightly different game all the time. Why would you wait and grow old.
give them your money!

Im already dreaming about Antarctica Expansion as another mini game or who knows what. XD

[Pawleus]

Originally posted by Nats:

So what is the plan?

You could see the roadmap here: https://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29475

[debott]

Originally posted by Pawleus:

https://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29475

That link leads to nowhere in the PI forum, though?

I don't know of any roadmap, nor a specific release date. I can image 1.0 could be a year away from now, but that is a wild guess. ETA is 'when it's done'.

The game has been pretty much feature complete since EA launch anyways. It runs quite stable, too, but can still be rough around the edges in terms of player readability/accessibility.

The past year was mostly balancing and QoL updates. In a few months there will likely be the biggest content update yet with 0.4. (https://discord.com/channels/462769550841348126/576206513148919808)
The only thing that's really "missing" in the game are the strech-goal kickstarter starting scenarios, but I image those could be added after 1.0, too. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terrainvicta/terra-invicta)

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by debott:

Originally posted by Pawleus:

https://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29475

That link leads to nowhere in the PI forum, though?

The Steam-created link screwed it up somehow, probably due to the warning redirect they use. If you copy-paste the link it goes where it should.
Test: trying with url tags: test[www.pavonisinteractive.com]
Nope, still broken.

[debott]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

If you copy-paste the link it goes where it should.

Duh. didn't think of that. Thanks.😅

[debott]

Originally posted by Pawleus:

Originally posted by Nats:

So what is the plan?

You could see the roadmap here: https://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29475

I have to say, that roadmap overview is great. I especially welcome all those big, fat DONEs that are already in place.

[Nats]

That's not a roadmap its just a to do list. A roadmap sets out an orderly progression of tasks with often likely timescales. I will revisit this page in a few months to a year because I see nothing indicating that this game is anywhere near finished.