game dead?

[Wild_Nipples]

I do not see any updates for this game. Is it abandoned?

[Fractard]

Probably.

[Kushrenada]

Sad, but happens a lot to these type of games...

[ellacharmed]

Well it depends what you mean by "abandoned".

If by abandoned, you mean that you expect more content via patches or DLCs, then yes it is abandoned. Paradox and Iceflake never advertised that there is a roadmap or that there will be more content beyond the 3 DLCs. Or that they would support the game with bug fixes indefinitely. The fact that we would get 3 DLCs was announced pretty early as they sell it as the Ultimate Edition, as well as individually. So, to publisher and developers, this game is "feature-complete."



If by abandoned, you mean that you expect game support in terms of being present to answer questions and bug-fixes for the released content, than yes, it is abandoned. This is my biggest disappointment in this iteration of Paradox's Surviving franchise.

I don't expect indefinite support, but I do expect patches for the bugs in the base-game and DLCs that they have released. I cannot even in good conscience release my mod for the Ultimate Edition as the issues is inherent in the game design and I'd just be slapping on a band-aid.
The feature of being able to mod in a new Specialist? Yeah I got questions and nobody answered them and I cannot figure out how to make it work. And so I switched my priorities, as there's no point if I'm the only one trying to find answers.


Disclosure: I was gifted the Ultimate Edition to work on my mods.
As I don't want to encourage such practices, so I voted with my silence (no more video content, no blogs, no mods release) and thus with not promoting the DLCs.

Also, I just think part of the reason is that Iceflake is working on a new title. Going by the jobs postings on their website. However, I don't think this is a good enough excuse of no patches ever.



Perhaps it is a corporate decision as the same outcome is happening for Surviving the Abyss. This sense of abandonment. Makes me wary to continue any support for any new titles, if this is the outcome of every indie game Paradox publishes.

[lolic_lol]

Surviving Mars alse abandoned by devs, but still supported by modders, so game is not dead.
No idea why Aftermath abandoned by modders.

[ChaoticWisdom]

That really stinks for Surviving the Aftermath. I have these 3 achievements left to get and for some reason Binary World View isn't popping up even though I have -1000 favorability with 2 cities and +1000 favorability with 2 other.

[hakai]

Originally posted by lolic_lol:

Surviving Mars alse abandoned by devs, but still supported by modders, so game is not dead.
No idea why Aftermath abandoned by modders.

Mods were only popular when the game just came out, there's a lottt to do in the game, it's pretty challenging and some mods would make the game harder/more fun

[lolic_lol]

Originally posted by hikari:

Originally posted by lolic_lol:

Surviving Mars alse abandoned by devs, but still supported by modders, so game is not dead.
No idea why Aftermath abandoned by modders.

Mods were only popular when the game just came out, there's a lottt to do in the game, it's pretty challenging and some mods would make the game harder/more fun

Lol, new mods for Morrowind are still being released. The game was released in 2002.
I still have no idea why there are no mods for this game.
Even for Survivivng Mars, mods are still being released. For Stellaris, they are released by the hundreds. Why they are not here is a tricky question.
My guess is that the modding tools are not user-friendly.

[hakai]

Originally posted by lolic_lol:

Originally posted by hikari:

Mods were only popular when the game just came out, there's a lottt to do in the game, it's pretty challenging and some mods would make the game harder/more fun

Lol, new mods for Morrowind are still being released. The game was released in 2002.
I still have no idea why there are no mods for this game.
Even for Survivivng Mars, mods are still being released. For Stellaris, they are released by the hundreds. Why they are not here is a tricky question.
My guess is that the modding tools are not user-friendly.

ig the modders just don't feel like making anything anymore because they don't care about the game, and only a couple thousand people actually do. It's really unfortunate the game isn't more popular

[antoca]

Modders just have no idea what could be improved, because this game is perfect enough.

[Exxenmann]

The "people starve near full food tents" is the most annoying bug I´ve ever seen.
Any modder that solves this gets an award from me...

[Elfi Wolfe]

If you check paradoxwiki.com This game is still in the active section. Legacy wiki are the ones that doe not receive anymore support.
so it is not yet dead.

[Benchwarmer]

It's not a live service game so development stops at some point. Iceflake Studios were recruiting new people in May 2024 and job titles included working with a yet to be announced management game for pc and consoles. Maybe it's aftermath 2 but my guess is a new title. We'll see.

[Elfi Wolfe]

For Paradox.. if it is in active wiki section, they could have another studio make DLC or fixes. That is what they did with Surviving Mars. Once they go into Legacy.. then there is no more support.
I doubt there will be anymore development.

[Benchwarmer]

Originally posted by Elfi Wolfe:

For Paradox.. if it is in active wiki section, they could have another studio make DLC or fixes. That is what they did with Surviving Mars. Once they go into Legacy.. then there is no more support.
I doubt there will be anymore development.

Not a Paradox game but when Endless Space 2 started to make DLC with another developer, the result was horrible but at least some years later the DLC was fixed.