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I understand the wait is long, both for players who’ve experienced the game recently, and for those who’ve been waiting for a conclusion to the story for a long time. That, however, is the road we went down ever since releasing the first public demo - of expanding the scenes with more player choice and NPC reactions based on your feedback. With Act 3, we wanted to avoid the common ailment of games in this genre - diminishing player choices, unanswered plot threads and patch-on endings.
Instead we tried to create many satisfying moments for many different playthroughs, addressing truly rare game states.
Furthermore, Act 3 boasts over 10 pages worth of individualized epilogues detailing the fate of the kingdom and the characters based on your choices, including a variant where the fort is saved, but the protagonist dies.
While many lines still need setting up, I'm eager to share Act 3 with you all. Thank you for your feedback, support, and patience!
With only a handful of scenes left to write to conclude the whole story, the rest of the development is now easier to predict. So we are bringing you an updated roadmap, including the final milestone: the release of version 1.0.
I understand it’s been a long wait for the conclusion to the story, but we want to make sure we release Act 3 in a state that keeps the player and character agency at the high level established in previous acts.
Moreover, multiple paths have been implemented enabling you to avoid the battle. You can act cowardly, opportunistically, and pragmatically, or look for diplomatic and peaceful resolutions.
With only a handful of scenes left to write, it’s an exciting time for us, being this close to finalizing the story. What’s a challenge, but also a joy to watch, is making sure the rest of the cast stays driven by their individual beliefs and principles as the narrative unfolds.
Maintaining this principle allows for impactful outcomes— dialogues held earlier can prevent characters from making rash decisions that could cost them their life. Conversely, it provides opportunities for manipulation, exploiting their darker instincts, and letting them risk their lives instead of you.
Please keep in mind, after the writing is done, the big task of setting up all the visuals and dice rolls begins, so it’ll take time till Act 3 is ready for testing. I’ll be back with more news in a couple of weeks during the Czech and Slovak Games Week. Thank you for your support and patience!
We sincerely appreciate all the words of encouragement. With Act 3, we remain steadfast in our determination to produce the best version of the game possible. This is the core reason why things are taking longer than expected. While being careful to not add fluff, and subsequently cutting out what doesn’t work, there are moments when I come across choices so thrilling and worth exploring, that not doing it would hurt the role-playing experience. These are the moments where I do take the extra time to write an entire branch giving the appropriate weight to the choice being added. 
As a result, I am still writing and tweaking Act 3. I’ll need another three months to finish the story by the end of November, which together with a period for community testing sets the public Act 3 release to Q1 2024. 
We've decided a long time ago to not rush the game and thanks to a patient and supporting community and partners we were able to create something unique. The Act 3 scenes I already have are definitely the best I’ve written yet, full of player choices, overwhelming odds, and heartwarming character interactions, and I’m looking forward to sharing them with you all.
With many of the in-depth character conversation scenes locked-in, it feels like the crux of writing Act 3 has been solved, and now all that’s left to do is diligently finish writing out the action scenes and tying up the loose ends for a satisfying conclusion to your journey.
The game has passed an important internal localization testing round, and we’ve received more testing reports from our translation partners, which helps us inch ever closer to the full launch in 8 languages.
The most significant focus remains on writing Act 3, and we are making steady progress day by day. True to the style of the previous acts, interacting with the characters is anything but straightforward, with each interaction carrying multiple layers of context to explore and influence the outcomes.
Drawing from the experience of community testing in Act 2, which initially featured only a handful of scenes, we are preparing a more substantial testing build this time. We will keep you updated on its availability.
We’re continuing to prepare localization, as the full launch will include support for a total of 8 languages. With almost 300,000 words in the game’s script, this is no small task! 
Most importantly, writing on Act 3 continues. The many game states that have accumulated for Act 3 (characters being alive or not, characters being allied or not, reactions to achievements or betrayals of the player character, etc.) are raising the complexity of the scenes. 
We’ll keep you informed about our progress and the availability of a community testing build, leading up to a Q3 Act 3 release. 
Thank you all for your words of encouragement, and for your continuous support and patience. If you haven't already, you can join the community on Discord
I can't wait to see which routes, self-expression choices, and endings players will favor in their playthrough, and plan to collect your experiences with the complete story in a survey afterward.
You can now fight to open the gate to bring reinforcements and directly save your brother's life. 
Besides adding 3 new risk chains to the game, this also gives the player freedom to choose how challenging the playtrough will be.
This also presents the first time your people are left without any guidance whatsoever from Wid, and thus is a direct test of the leadership goodwill you accumulated with them.
We'd like to thank our community for helping us to deliver a great Act 2 this year. Thank you for your continuous support and patience, we can’t wait to bring the final Act 3 to you next year. 
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