Mage / sorceress / wizard class(es) -- when?

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

Will this game get any actual content into the future -- namely, a caster class? Or, is it all just patches and bug fixes from here until it inevitably "dies with COVID"...?

[Peredur]

The plan is for crossplay between steam and microsoft store soon after release, a free dlc with 3 new missions during summer, a second free dlc with 3 missions and new difficulty this fall and the paid expansion (included in the deluxe edition) with the playable mage, new missions and new foes.
We're still between the release and soon after the release on that roadmap.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

Hmm... I feel like an idiot who's being kept in suspense 😑

[Vargas78]

Well, people who bought the deluxe edition are owed an expansion still that i believe has the extra classes. So it should still be happening. If we don't get any update on the situation by early December i'd be worried. I believe they said it would be November or late 2021.

[Cat on a phone]

Just found the road map:

https://www.ign.com/articles/dnd-dark-alliance-dlc-roadmap
or directly:
https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2021/06/09/wotc1076-dlc-roadmap-16x9-1623227779341.png

It's in the top of any search engine, if you don't want to click on the link.
I might be a bit bamboozled and out of the loop here, but did we get anything from the road map yet?

[Vargas78]

Off the top of my head i don't think we've gotten any extra levels or difficulty settings but i could be wrong. I think it's just been bug fixes and some improvements to the base combat, compared to when it first came out.

*Hadn't noticed the big patch out just now, should be interesting.

[Gyrfalcon]

It's looking like, despite all the delays, they're actually following their initial roadmap of 2 Free DLC's, then a paid DLC add-on (the Deluxe edition). The latter is the one that would include a mage class. Today they just released the free DLC1. So, mage/wizard is still a ways out (months) I would think.

[Irrelevant]

Originally posted by Peredur:

and the paid expansion (included in the deluxe edition) with the playable mage

I'm suprised by this and ask myself who the hell this mage is... Rumblebelly? There was no mage part of the group arround Drizzt and I already fear they'll butcher it just for the sake of putting in a mage class for the bucks.

[Gyrfalcon]

Originally posted by Irrelevant:

Originally posted by Peredur:

and the paid expansion (included in the deluxe edition) with the playable mage

I'm suprised by this and ask myself who the hell this mage is... Rumblebelly? There was no mage part of the group arround Drizzt and I already fear they'll butcher it just for the sake of putting in a mage class for the bucks.

Yeah I wouldn't pin a whole lot of hope on that character. Combat-wise especially, I don't know how they'll fit in a purely ranged character in their combat system which is already not well-suited to ranged combat.

[Irrelevant]

Originally posted by Gyrfalcon:

Originally posted by Irrelevant:

I'm suprised by this and ask myself who the hell this mage is... Rumblebelly? There was no mage part of the group arround Drizzt and I already fear they'll butcher it just for the sake of putting in a mage class for the bucks.

Yeah I wouldn't pin a whole lot of hope on that character. Combat-wise especially, I don't know how they'll fit in a purely ranged character in their combat system which is already not well-suited to ranged combat.

On top of it if it is anything like DnD then all the mage needs is fireball to solo everything :D.

[Fatbill]

Probably never.
I doubt the on-going development budget is much more than needed to buy coffee.
In business, you spend money to make money. Spending more money on a game that has a bad reputation and will sell fewer copies as time goes on, for a lower price, is not something most companies are keen to do.
Expect a few bug fixes, and not much more.

New classes, even done as a DLC? Unlikely at this point.

[Gyrfalcon]

Originally posted by Fatbill:

Probably never.
I doubt the on-going development budget is much more than needed to buy coffee.
In business, you spend money to make money. Spending more money on a game that has a bad reputation and will sell fewer copies as time goes on, for a lower price, is not something most companies are keen to do.
Expect a few bug fixes, and not much more.

New classes, even done as a DLC? Unlikely at this point.

What you're saying is logical, and is kinda what I had come to expect.
However they *just* released the promised Free DLC #1 with additional content (3 new maps), and a lot of bug fixes. So, for some reason they seem to be still spending budget on the game. I thought they'd go straight to the paid-for DLC#3, because they've pre-sold copies of that (via Deluxe edition), so are more heavily contractually obligated to deliver that. Who knows.
The only thing I can think of is that the consoles must have a decent player base.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

Originally posted by Fatbill:

Probably never.
I doubt the on-going development budget is much more than needed to buy coffee..

A D&D game without magic, is like Ryu without a fireball, or a witch without a broomstick.

[Fatbill]

Originally posted by You Kissed a Boy and Liked It:

Originally posted by Fatbill:

Probably never.
I doubt the on-going development budget is much more than needed to buy coffee..

A D&D game without magic, is like Ryu without a fireball, or a witch without a broomstick.

I know this, and you know this, but the MAKERS OF THIS GAME did not know this while making the game.
I suspect that is why, in part, this game is rated so poorly.
It was a rushed out product to take advantage of the release of something else that WoTC was doing.

The original Gauntlet arcade game released in 1980 whatever had a magic user.
This game does not.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

Originally posted by Fatbill:

the MAKERS OF THIS GAME did not know this while making the game.

VAXXED™... It's the only, logical explanation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Unklerukus]

Originally posted by Irrelevant:

Originally posted by Peredur:

and the paid expansion (included in the deluxe edition) with the playable mage

I'm suprised by this and ask myself who the hell this mage is... Rumblebelly? There was no mage part of the group arround Drizzt and I already fear they'll butcher it just for the sake of putting in a mage class for the bucks.

In the more recent books Cattie Brie is a mage.