All Comments about Waiting for Episode Five Merged Here

[Hinterland_Studio]

Here's a megathread of comments about waiting for Episode Five (shipping in 2025).

[Reaptor]

When is Wintermute Chapter 5?

It's been over a year.

[linas.warrior]

As far as I know, it's planned to be released at the end of this year.

[WakWak]

Can't wait to see them both again, or at least one of them.

[Krassus]

I started playing again two weeks ago. Thinking, "After a three-year break, I'm sure they'll have it all done..."

[Agent_Orange]

its okay guys, the game is made without crunch though.

nah the last official mention of it was something something "we are hoping for a 2023 release"
So I'd start looking towards the end of october but Id guess maybe around nov 20-25 barring a bunch of final delays.

Yeah I kinda hope they announce it pretty early so I can schedule it out and try to go through a full play through of 1-4 and wrap up that up right when 5 drops.

[Chilkoot]

Originally posted by Krassus:

I started playing again two weeks ago. Thinking, "After a three-year break, I'm sure they'll have it all done..."

Wait a second... is there paid DLC out, but the base game *still* is not done? I'd have to check my purchase history, but I think it's going on 8 years now.

I was about to fire it up again (finally) to play through the story. Can someone confirm if the story is actually complete or if this post is just a joke?

[hinterland_community]

This is some of the most recent news on Episode Five, though we anticipate being able to share more news soon:

"Episode Five is also still firmly on our radar; I currently anticipate a 2023 release, but we won’t have much to say about that for the rest of this year. There’s a lot of story to tell, and a lot of threads to tidy up, before we close the chapter on the epic survival journey of Mackenzie, Astrid, and the other survivors of the Quiet Apocalypse."

At this time, we are likely trending toward a late 2023/early 2024 release, though we don't have a set date. Each Episode requires a substantial amount of planning and work, and this next Episode also closes out the WINTERMUTE story. We aren't postponing it due to lack of care for our WINTERMUTE community -- quite the opposite. As Raph said, there's a lot to tell, and we don't want to rush the process.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by Chilkoot:

Originally posted by Krassus:

I started playing again two weeks ago. Thinking, "After a three-year break, I'm sure they'll have it all done..."

Wait a second... is there paid DLC out, but the base game *still* is not done? I'd have to check my purchase history, but I think it's going on 8 years now.

I was about to fire it up again (finally) to play through the story. Can someone confirm if the story is actually complete or if this post is just a joke?

The post is not a joke. Wintermute is incomplete. Chapter 5 is not out yet.

[Gray Fox]

Dang. It's still not done?

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by Gray Fox:

Dang. It's still not done?

Nope, don't know if it will ever be.

[JePrendSoinDeMoi]

When a great game have a never ending story

hey, if you reading me, just put a village sourounding by the void and the winter
turn that into a survival game(like surviving one day more after the last...)
there is nowhere to go, just survive wolf, cold, bear, food, water...
the town as full of ressources, but it's running out fast...because you need to replenish the stock, otherwise you die fast

but please, finish the main story and place any DLC after that

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

In their defence though, they have been working on survival too, which wasn't originally planned remember.

If they had just done the story like they originally planned then it probably would be done by now, but it wouldn't have anywhere near the player base it does now.

So you can't be too mad at them.

I'm not mad, I'm disappointed though.
At this rate, I don't think they know where the story was going.

[JePrendSoinDeMoi]

They need to do like resident evil 2
Two story merge into one and happy ending, end of the story(we are happy) and let's them continue to a survivale or maybe a long dark 2(because money rule life and they need too to make beautyfull games)

look vampire survivor, the game master make a game so easy and playable with castelvania rethinked...(and make a masterpiece, replayable again and again...)for a verry little cheap price

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Jeronimo:

I bought this game many years back, and shelved it because it was unfinished. Today I thought I would install and finally play it. Only to see "episode 5" is not released in wintermute? Can someone give me heads up on what is this chapter 5. Is the game really still unfinished 7 years after its release?

Also I see there's a DLC? Please tell me this is not chapter 5?! Don't tell me I have to pay 20 bucks to play the full game I bought in 2017. Tks.

No, you don't have to buy anything else, you just have to wait, like the rest of us.

The Tales From The Far Territories DLC is optional, and affects Survival Mode only. You don't need it for Wintermute, and it changes nothing in Wintermute. There are no new achievements attached to the TFTFT DLC.
The latest news about Wintermute Episode 5 is in the December Dev Diary (found in the News tab here on the forums):
https://steamcommunity.com/games/305620/announcements/detail/3874849112201888524?snr=2___

[Glowstone]

I had this game early access and played along mostly since...its been great...there's plenty of game in this even without regular updates etc...always has

Hinterland have done a great job though your post makes you sound proper disappointed without giving it a chance in the first place