Topic: Time Frame

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February 14, 2012 at 1:29 pm #12452
FrankJ Player	Hmnn due to the latest post by the Dev team, it seems that they have not even begun to redesign anything. As it said still working on internal issues. My questions 1. Is the game going to be completed 2. When will the Beta resume? thanks
February 14, 2012 at 1:50 pm #12453
Kerbox Player	1. I’m going to make an educated guess and say yes the game will be completed, development should resume shortly. 2. It could still take a while since there has been some issues, not really sure when the beta will continue but hopeful within the next couple of months.
February 14, 2012 at 6:48 pm #12456
catnips Player	Umm Franks been around for well over a year. Kerbox I cant say I know you, have you been in the game? educated guess? Frank remember we always said mid 2012 for release? well it looks to me like that was pretty good guess. It also looks like a good guess for when game comes back up, and honestly frank. I really dont see much chance of game being very diff than when it went down. I would say we can always hope, but I think hope took a hike like a year ago. Oh and happy V day to you and yours frank
February 14, 2012 at 11:13 pm #12463
Divayith Player	Kerbox, why if someone is asking a question clearly directed towards a dev would you answer with your guesses, which I seriously doubt are educated. Frankj i’d say your absolutely right when you assume they have not even begun “developing” anything. 2 months no screenshots or any posts? Probably not much going on. I also seriously doubt if anybody would say if the game wont be completed until months of us waiting around wondering… So now might actually be a pretty good time to find out. I would also like to find out whats up, kinda confused with why we have been given such ambiguous details to what’s going on. “Internal Issues” sounds to me like a funding problem, which would be ATLEAST the second or third time i have heard of this game getting its funding pulled, not too promising of a sign. I apologize if this sounds a bit negative, I do hope to see dawntide succeed and i wish the dev’s the best of luck, but if your gonna keep people completely in the dark we’re gonna start wondering what’s going on.
February 14, 2012 at 11:48 pm #12464
catnips Player	LOL Divayith, here is what I base my guess on and it truly is a guess. Almost any date these devs have set you can basicly times it by 2 ( or more ) they said a month and a half over a month and a half ago, we are quickly coming up on 2 months. Iam willing to venture to say they have done absoulty nothing to the updated game. Wich basicly resets that quote of a month and a half to whenever they get back to work also keeping in mind that month and a half really means 3 months, and there ya have it, as to my guess of mid 2012. end of may first of june.
February 15, 2012 at 6:12 am #12465
Kerbox Player	catnips and Divayith, you don’t know me since I am fairly new to this community and have not been in game yet but my educated guess comes from watching the development of other games over the past 20 plus years and it’s not uncommon to see that there are no updates for months (anyone remember Duke Nukem Forever). It gives a positive light to see updates on the main site that state that the dev team is still alive and going. That’s how I made my educated guess. In addition, it is unlikely that the devs would come out here to answer FrankJ’s question directly, of course I could be wrong about that but that opinion also is derived from following previous game project forums. Basically what I was just trying to say is that I don’t think there is yet that much cause for concern and think everything is going to turn out alright.
February 15, 2012 at 1:35 pm #12466
FrankJ Player	hello catnips old friend, good day Divayith , Kerbox. “Kerbox, why if someone is asking a question clearly directed towards a dev would you answer with your guesses, which I seriously doubt are educated.” Well I put my question/statement in the form of a educated guess simply trying to be nice. I assure you that after a year and a half of helping to test this game my opinion is valued and more accurate than many. Also the fact that I work on existing games from time to time , (freelance, contract work) I would say I know just a little of what goes on behind the scenes.My response was in hope to poke a dev in the side just enough to get some response.Do I expect them to say its not going to be completed no, however it would be nice to see something positive from the dev team.. Not we are still working on internal issues , which would mean finance’s..So Divayith that is in response to your post. Catnips, yes old friend I guess we were correct, I am just hoping at this point that it comes back at all , with so much potential would be a shame to see it fall. I do wish WAI the best , and hope to see our game released with in the next year, sadly though I dnt think it is going to happen.
February 15, 2012 at 9:15 pm #12467
LordWiese Player	This debate is useless, any of us that have been around for a while know everything is unpredictable when its comes to development.
February 15, 2012 at 10:37 pm #12468
recon03 Player	internal issues could mean that, there could be a disagreement with in the team and there working through it causing development to stop for now, which happens with indies since they do not have true deadlines.. There is alot of talk about how many players refuse to touch this game because of the combat, because the rest of the game was pretty good, the AI nedded work, but I could still see many players, since they make comments never touching DT because of the combat, sandbox’s need better combat, the tab targetting just does not fly, I know some of the current community disagree’s but this is what I see alot on many different forums and podcasting. Again this is all speculation.
February 15, 2012 at 10:58 pm #12469
Brunodragon Player	what is happening? cant read those text wall
February 16, 2012 at 12:33 am #12471
crazyb0b Player	I have been following this game on and off for the past few years. Sadly, I doubt it will ever get finished. Pulling the servers down to “work” on them (just my guess here) means they do not have enough money to keep the servers up and running. The lack of any sign of “redesign” in the past few months leads you to the assumption that they either lost their funding, or ran out of money they had been given. If they did lose funding again I doubt they will find a new investor. Especially with the way that most indie sandbox titles go.
February 16, 2012 at 12:59 am #12472
catnips Player	I can say the tab targeting in this game was a huge fail, not because it was tab targeting but because it targeted closest npc player mob, even if it was dead, it did not cycle. And the combat system was horrable, altho for some reason we had a few folks in denial that it was horrable, and a few that for whatever reason believed it could be fixed. and now its a year later, I think its pretty much everyone now that agrees it was just horrable, so a huge waste of time there. The sad part here is the first combat system actuly worked. It had bugs and problems but not even a drop in the bucket compared to the second system. I also believe this to be a people issue not money, if its money, Iam pretty sure we are done here.
February 16, 2012 at 10:28 am #12473
eidos Player	Btw, im not sure but is this update pretty new or is it here since long time ? UPDATE: A few technical difficulties is currently holding back the new terrain, so we’ll start posting previews after those are solved. That’s the last line of the 19 Dec news. I didnt noticed it before a few days ago and since there is no date on the update….
February 16, 2012 at 2:07 pm #12474
Draconan Player	That update was added a bit over a month ago
February 26, 2012 at 5:07 pm #12556
Divayith Player	Still wondering why a dev has not even commented on this thread… Might have to do something drastic to get some answers…