Party / Friend System

[˗ˏˋR e n t o´ˎ˗]

Dear T17,

how is it possible that after almost 6 years now you still didn't implement a damn party system for PC?? Like seriously, its so damn annoying to have all friends sit individual in front of a damn queue and hoping that we even get in the same team.

Like thats one of the things you pronounced in your roadmaps and still didnt bring out, disappointing

[TheCrazyCanuck]

In the defense of the developers, you normally don't wholesale change out dev teams in the middle of a game's lifetime. When T17 purchased the publishing rights to the game and the IP, they assigned a new developer team. That's an abrupt change that I suspect didn't happen smoothly. I suspect they inherited some gnarly code and that's why most of the updates are cosmetic DLCs and new/tweaked maps. If the game was funded properly they would start replacing pieces of that code over time if my hunch that they inherited spaghetti code is correct.

The side of the dev team has shrunk over the years, I think the QA team was decimated which would explain a lot.

I'm not making excuses for them, that's just reality. The reality is that T17 isn't funding the developers enough to implement the changes we all want to see. T17 probably overpaid, reduced the budget, and the game became stale and a bug whack-a-mole.