SO DEAD GAME ?

[V_L_4_D]

Anyone knows anything about these guyz ?
No movement this entire year with absolute no reply from the developers ?

[smashgrab0]

https://discord.gg/gSqPrxdz
official discord there alive there just reworking a ton of stuff expanding the maps,ect

[V_L_4_D]

Thanks mate, it would've been kinda sand if a game with such potential and originality would 've died.

[Nightwalker]

Yeah hope the construction layout gets fixed. I've never been able to place motor on the plane's nose, even with the body type that looks like it should have one. Placing items in the center is impossible. Love KSP... this is a new game and still needs work....

[Dead Planets and Live TV]

Yeah, honestly - when there was still a public demo, the builder UI was probably the worst part of the whole thing. Until that improves, I really don't see myself picking this up. Expanding the maps sounds like a strange priority to me at this point.

[mycale]

It's nice that they still work on it, but I also think the game didn't sell that well, or maybe they overestimated the pull that the lead dev would have. I'm going mainly by reviews here, but it seems to have sold very badly.

[axios2006]

Originally posted by smashgrab0:

https://discord.gg/gSqPrxdz
official discord there alive there just reworking a ton of stuff expanding the maps,ect

Last news on Steam 15 february 2022. 8 months ago.

Generally speaking, several Devs are active mainly on Discords and Steam community shows "Dead game?" threads where solert players bring the news "Active on Discord!".

Never understand why even a montly update on Steam sounds so strange...

[V_L_4_D]

posting updates on discord .... and selling the game on steam with no dev update in almost an year - is not a smart idea... quite the opposite

[Dead Planets and Live TV]

Originally posted by V_L_4_D:

posting updates on discord .... and selling the game on steam with no dev update in almost an year - is not a smart idea... quite the opposite

Fully agree, zero public communication is a mistake. Even in the best case, requiring people to take an extra step and join a private server on a signup-only chat platform is still a barrier for people trying to gauge how well the game is doing before they drop money on it.

In the worst case, you get something like with Trailmakers, where only people who spend a month in the devs' closed ecosystem are allowed to post in the feedback channel. It doesn't take many experiences like that for people to get burned and suspicious about every future "oh no check the discord it's all there" they hear.

In any case - I did go check, and the last update post on the Discord is still from the 15th of February 2022 as well (the invite at the top of the thread doesn't work, but the one on the Steam store page does).

For what it's worth, there's also a "developer talk" channel. Sporadically over the months, there have been some neat long-form text posts about e.g. the development workflow in there - stuff of the nature of these old development blogs:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/977920/announcements/detail/5202190708580131924
I miss those. It'd be nice to see even just those kinds of posts on here, instead of having to blindly join a chat server and then digging through months of conversation to find them.

[V_L_4_D]

" I did go check, and the last update post on the Discord is still from the 15th of February 2022 as well"

Thanks for sharing but that is quite bad news :(
I feel bad for the guys, I'm sure they have real problems, hopefully they'll get back to working on the game again .... sadly that looks kinda long shot at this point.

Maybe they can release it as is but open source so the community can mod it and add new stuff, instead of completely abandon it. Again just wishful thinking.

[Dead Planets and Live TV]

Sorry, I didn't express myself very well there - the game looks to still be actively in development, by the looks of it it's just that expanding the playable area has taken eight months now.

There's just a really dire lack of communication (and maybe some strange priorities, but that's just my opinion looking in - I'm still really hung up on how bad the builder interface was in the demo).

[2dogplc]

Its been a year. Im convinced its dead

[tford1956]

Originally posted by 2dogplc:

Its been a year. Im convinced its dead

Steam has to do something about these no updates EA titles. There's been a few I got stung with lately.

[cate]

from harvester, main dev afaik, on discord 18/02:

We are definitely still here, and yes, there is a lot we want to talk about, but we are still working on, well, everything.

Rest assured though, that there has definitely been massive progress in development. In fact, just about everything has been improved in some way or another, if not completely overhauled.

[tford1956]

Originally posted by cate:

from harvester, main dev afaik, on discord 18/02:

We are definitely still here, and yes, there is a lot we want to talk about, but we are still working on, well, everything.

Rest assured though, that there has definitely been massive progress in development. In fact, just about everything has been improved in some way or another, if not completely overhauled.

Great News

[Dead Planets and Live TV]

lmfao