Next Patch - Roadmap

[Luk]

Hello Developers,

On 2 October you said that, next patch is going to be the "big one", with a lot of changes, including balance of the game (which is conservatively speaking, way off).

It is 21 October and meantime, you only managed to deploy a hotfix, which deals with loading time (which is nice).

Is it possible to get some information on patch roadmap? What will be included in the next one and approximately, when it will be released?

Are we talking about days/weeks/months here?

Just give us a clear message here, so we can manage our expectation.

[Nagumo]

I really hope they fix a lot of the small issues, which should never ever occur in 2020 anymore. Broken Keybinding oO --> Really.

And if they fix a few of the very misleading translation errors into german i would be very pleased. I mean "+1 Wahrnehmungsradius" for "+1 Quick Slot" is not even close. But the very best is "Gegenstand auf Regal verwenden" "for use item on self".

Already i have waited a few weeks, before i have bought Wasteland 3 but the dissapointment of the inability to release a polished game for nearly any company in the gaming industry nowadays has get another proof for me. And with polished i don't mean bugless. I'm an older gamer and i am able to live with a lot of thinks but the described two translation errors above are showing that inixile isn't able to to a serious translation Q&A.

Again, i really hope you fix the game to a better instance. But my reaction is that your next game will get a shot only with the year one edition.

Sorry and Greetz.

[khaychi]

Mattonomicon eredeti hozzászólása:

The next update is expected next month. Originally the plan was to have it in the early part of the month, but that is looking to be delayed somewhat. So far, Nov is still the target. A major theme of the update has to do with the balance of various game elements, but is also set on resolving a number of existing bugs. In total, there are currently hundreds and hundreds of updates that are going into this next patch. More info to come before too much longer, thanks for hanging in there!

Will the game finally get a working anti-aliasing feature? Current AA is horrible and does basically nothing. Only thing you can do is set your resolution higher than your native resolution. Which tanks your fps massively.

Seriously, the last time i saw such a bad AA solution was back in PS2 times. Even 720p Switch games stretched to 4k resolution have less jaggies. I hope you guys are able to fix that before a possible Directors Cut Edition.

Besides that: A fun game.

[Fernando]

Ripflex eredeti hozzászólása:

Wow, November, I'll be too busy playing Cyberpunk 2077.

Guess not anymore :p

[snuggleform]

Wait a second, why would we be playing cyberpunk? According to my google search cyberpunk is releasing in december, so won't be still be playing wl3 in november?

[Tambam]

Mattonomicon eredeti hozzászólása:

The next update is expected next month. Originally the plan was to have it in the early part of the month, but that is looking to be delayed somewhat. So far, Nov is still the target. A major theme of the update has to do with the balance of various game elements, but is also set on resolving a number of existing bugs. In total, there are currently hundreds and hundreds of updates that are going into this next patch. More info to come before too much longer, thanks for hanging in there!

An honest, straight-forward answer. Thanks so much, you guys rock! :)

[hipernemesis]

Luk eredeti hozzászólása:

Thanks for the reply, but as Ripflex said, at this time we all will be playing Cyberpunk ...

Luk mark the developer reply as the best answer.

Anyway this is good since i will likely buy the game next month. Better to play with all those bugfixes.

[3D Master]

Mattonomicon eredeti hozzászólása:

The next update is expected next month. Originally the plan was to have it in the early part of the month, but that is looking to be delayed somewhat. So far, Nov is still the target. A major theme of the update has to do with the balance of various game elements, but is also set on resolving a number of existing bugs. In total, there are currently hundreds and hundreds of updates that are going into this next patch. More info to come before too much longer, thanks for hanging in there!

Do those bugs include the vanishing animal companions?

[MeGa]

3D Master eredeti hozzászólása:

Mattonomicon eredeti hozzászólása:

The next update is expected next month. Originally the plan was to have it in the early part of the month, but that is looking to be delayed somewhat. So far, Nov is still the target. A major theme of the update has to do with the balance of various game elements, but is also set on resolving a number of existing bugs. In total, there are currently hundreds and hundreds of updates that are going into this next patch. More info to come before too much longer, thanks for hanging in there!

Do those bugs include the vanishing animal companions?

Hope so, cause I cant currently swap chars with animal companions, as they dont follow anymore, even if the animal buff icon is still present

[3D Master]

You can set the animals free, and as long as you get a new character with animal whisperer you can bring them along.

That workaround ends though, when after taking down the last child of the Patriarch and you arrive back at HQ, the game just willy nilly teleports two of the characters in your party in front of you as if they were at HQ the entire time, and remove them from your party. Your animals are now gone, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I was thinking of a workaround for this issue by changing the order of the characters as you can do, but that doesn't work, becaue the moment the game loads another location, it resets your characters order; which begs the question why you can change the order.

[[Dolt]TheWickedGerman]

Ripflex eredeti hozzászólása:

Wow, November, I'll be too busy playing Cyberpunk 2077.

No you won´t :p

[Jo]

Okay... Then I'll pass purchasing the game this Haloween sales and check again Christmas sales... By then, i will be busy playing Cyberpunk, won't I? Hehehe

[drusca]

a sound advice: play in the present, not in the future :)

[Deltium]

Just a friendly reminder to everyone to NOT buy a game at launch (or pre-order) and wait for the devs to fix these types of things. Otherwise, as consumers, we encourage this shoddy behavior of launching an unfinished and buggy game. Personally, this period ranges from 3 months to 12 months after launch, depending on the developer/publisher. For some like EA and Bethesda, it’s 24 months and highly dependent on the game being on sale. If you follow this approach, you will be a happier gamer and encourage devs to put out better games as a result. A win-win.

[[Dolt]TheWickedGerman]

Jo eredeti hozzászólása:

Okay... Then I'll pass purchasing the game this Haloween sales and check again Christmas sales... By then, i will be busy playing Cyberpunk, won't I? Hehehe

Looking forward to CP2077 myself. But I will wait for release to see how buggy it is. Maybe playing an improved W3 while waiting for CP to be patched :p.

Anyway I do think W3 is one of the best games this year, and far better than all 3d fallouts expect New Vegas. I was lucky on the bug side, my only complaint beside rare crashes are animal companions. Can´t have Major Tom, as he dissappears after reloading or channing map. Not only that but this causes also to bug our pathfinding (group movment doesn´t work, even if activated), and game will be caught in a loop next cutscene (because the chars don´t move where they are supposed to move in that cut scene. In my case either when entering the truck after the first map, should I have reloaded with Major Tom recruited. Or, the next scene when meeting the Patriarch, as the chars don´t move up to start dialog after the greeting.

Other than than that It´s fine. Load times already adressed. My only real complaint, it´s too short, and it should have more than one city that you revisit regulary (Denver could have been more fleshed out as 2nd hub for mid to late game e.g.) Seems much shorter than W2, i wonder why they made that decision. Also I would like to see easter egg random encounters like Fallout 1 + 2 did. Why no one bring those back?

[B166ER]

Glice eredeti hozzászólása:

Don't get me wrong, I love the Wasteland series, but the dev's post sounds to me like they said "balancing is cool and all that, but this next patch will be fixing hundreds of bugs we left in the game". A lot of the goodwill these guys built with me has been spent. The game has been out for a couple months now and after one and a half playthroughs, I can't bring myself to go through it again the way it is.

Joke's on you.

There's a reason frugality and patience pays off when you postpone the purchase of games at least 1 year, most likely even longer:
- The game might be fixed until then
- Removed content to be sold as DLC can most likely be bought as a single package with the base game
- Mod support and mods might be present
- Price will most likely be within an acceptable range

I might think about getting Wasteland 3 in ~1 1/2 years.