Do you think the devs will abandon the game?

[Barabas Dantioch]

I would like to see this game grow and become amazing and get past the current problems. Do any of you think the game will last or will the devs abandon?

[Chris714n]

Since there was a big update (prove of motion) after a long time of critical waiting.. - I would say this game will make it´s way and push through.. - It´s just not for players who can´t deal with early access.

[Murdock]

It released in September and had updates in November and December. It's been 10 days since the last one. I don't see any reason why anyone would think that.

[Barabas Dantioch]

Originally posted by Murdock:

It released in September and had updates in November and December. It's been 10 days since the last one. I don't see any reason why anyone would think that.

ive seen better games die hard. I think this one will last a long time though i just wanted to get other peoples thoughts on it

[Murdock]

Originally posted by Commander Kroo:

Originally posted by Murdock:

It released in September and had updates in November and December. It's been 10 days since the last one. I don't see any reason why anyone would think that.

ive seen better games die hard. I think this one will last a long time though i just wanted to get other peoples thoughts on it

Fun Dog Studios is also 30 AAA devs with a ton of experience. They'd be putting a big chunk of their career on the line. The whole studio would have to fold. Which *could* definitely happen. Happens all the time for a lot of reasons, but usually money. I hope it doesn't. I don't see any reason why it would at this point but who knows what the future holds.

[State Line Crosser]

Originally posted by Murdock:

It released in September and had updates in November and December. It's been 10 days since the last one. I don't see any reason why anyone would think that.

The updates have not been substantial. Even worse, they have introduced critical bugs or failed to address gameplay problems. Several updates like that over long spans of time? Yeah, it hurts the game.

For example, ai detection is majorly broken atm and will likely continue to be that way until February. That is assuming that this new thing isn't intended.

[Murdock]

Originally posted by State Line Crosser:

Originally posted by Murdock:

It released in September and had updates in November and December. It's been 10 days since the last one. I don't see any reason why anyone would think that.

The updates have not been substantial. Even worse, they have introduced critical bugs or failed to address gameplay problems. Several updates like that over long spans of time? Yeah, it hurts the game.

For example, ai detection is majorly broken atm and will likely continue to be that way until February. That is assuming that this new thing isn't intended.

February would be pretty quick honestly, especially if the patch addresses all the major problems. And a month is a far cry from abandoned. Welcome to EA.

[Neon]

I don't think they will abandon it but they will abandon the original vision in time. It's pretty clear they don't have the technical skill to pull off what they're attempting here. Early access is one thing but this game has some fundamental problems that I don't think can be fixed with patches.

Also if you watch the dev diaries it's clear they waffle on every answer without committing to anything. They talk a lot about what they 'want to do' and would 'like to do' and say next to nothing about what they are actually going to do or are capable of doing.

Mark my words, this game will limp into a 1.0 largely the same at it's core. Buggy, unpolished, and completely lacking anything but some incredible art direction.

[Auradiel]

Abandoning the game after two months of early access ?? hopefully FunDog is not EA

Recent AI changes seems to have completely effed up agrro/detection but i guess they are already working on fixing it, if they don't, well, won't be the first or the last studio to turn gold into poop. This game have an awesome potential but also a lot of work is still to be done to meet their (and ours) expectations.

[Arkorat]

Its definitely in a rough patch right now. Future is not looking great.
But i imagine (if anything) its more likely it will become like The Isle, or something. Just kinda forgotten and slow to update. Never really lived up to the hype, but every now and then you hear about a controversy in the discord.

Tough I hope im proven wrong on this.


At least the game is peer to peer tough. So worst comes to worst, it wont go out like Evolve did.

[State Line Crosser]

Originally posted by Murdock:

February would be pretty quick honestly, especially if the patch addresses all the major problems. And a month is a far cry from abandoned. Welcome to EA.

That's two separate arguments. With glacial dev pace and dearth of communication, we have very little to judge when they abandon the game. I agree with you but it's not like any of us would know if they did.

The problem I am talking about is gaping wounds that should be hotfixed; they will continue to ravage what is left of the playerbase. They do hotfixes but they never get all the wounds.

All of this in a game that requires you to play it or else it will attempt to delete your save.

[Murdock]

Originally posted by State Line Crosser:

Originally posted by Murdock:

February would be pretty quick honestly, especially if the patch addresses all the major problems. And a month is a far cry from abandoned. Welcome to EA.

That's two separate arguments. With glacial dev pace and dearth of communication, we have very little to judge when they abandon the game. I agree with you but it's not like any of us would know if they did.

The problem I am talking about is gaping wounds that should be hotfixed; they will continue to ravage what is left of the playerbase. They do hotfixes but they never get all the wounds.

All of this in a game that requires you to play it or else it will attempt to delete your save.

I agree it needs to get what it has fixed before they add any more content. I can't really recommend the game to anybody besides the most hardcore without the co-op at least working. Stealth would be nice too. Regardless of how much I love the game I have zero friends that are going to put up with it. I disagree it's been at a glacial pace. That's yet to be seen. And it's been the holidays too, that's going to slow communication and releases. Devs deserve to have holidays and family time too.

[JacobocaJ]

I'm sorry; but, dropping an update that essentially breaks the game for anyone new and then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ off on holiday is an absolute trash move. I'm sure the broken AI will get addressed in a future update; but, dropping a hot pile of ♥♥♥♥ on an already steaming mess and then piecing out for an undetermined amount of time screams "I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about my player base"

[State Line Crosser]

Originally posted by JacobocaJ:

I'm sorry; but, dropping an update that essentially breaks the game for anyone new and then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ off on holiday is an absolute trash move. I'm sure the broken AI will get addressed in a future update; but, dropping a hot pile of ♥♥♥♥ on an already steaming mess and then piecing out for an undetermined amount of time screams "I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about my player base"

While true, it can be worse. Try any swedish dev team. They take a month off every july and december no matter what. Game non functional? No problem, see you mid january lol.

Originally posted by Murdock:

I disagree it's been at a glacial pace. That's yet to be seen. And it's been the holidays too, that's going to slow communication and releases. Devs deserve to have holidays and family time too.

Given the size of their dev team it's not really surprising but they have not added much compared to when the game launched. Actual content is very minimal, outside of maps which are very good. The maps alone aren't enough to carry the game at the pace they are going which is easily visible in the player counts. It's only the holidays now; the game came out months ago.

Other than maps we have gunhead but characters are basically skins until they get around to doing special abilities more properly (I would hope that the head gun isn't the extent of that). We got some animations and a few new units. In my experience, EA games tend to update the most early on. The game is troubled and I'm content to wait but for most people I don't think that is the case.

[Beldarak]

I sure hope not. I'm super hyped by the game and what the final product should be, but I'm not interested in early-access, especially this one since it seems they should have waited a few months or even a year before releasing it :S

I'm never a big fan of early-access for this kind of games because they tend to attract a very small, hardcore, fanbase who then push the game in a bad direction

[Calgar]

Depends if they are getting money from a publisher to develop the game. If all their money is coming from game sales...you better pray.