Warhammer 40K: Darktide launched on PC late final yr, a darkish and chunky tackle Left 4 Dead set in Games Workshop’s grim, distant future. It was OK! Had its issues, however was OK. Those issues have endured into 2023, although, and so the builders are shelving an Xbox model of the sport whereas they get to work fixing them.
In an announcement launched earlier at present, Fatshark say they got down to “create a highly engaging and stable game with a level of depth that keeps you playing for weeks, not hours”, however “fell short of meeting those expectations”.
As a end result, they’re not solely delaying “seasonal content” for the PC model, however will probably be delaying the discharge of the sport on Xbox Series X|S as properly.
OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS
We take monumental satisfaction in our skill at Fatshark to ship a recreation that tens of millions can take pleasure in. This was what we got down to do with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to create a extremely partaking and steady recreation with a stage of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours.
We fell in need of assembly these expectations.
Over the following few months, our sole focus is to deal with the suggestions that a lot of you will have. In specific, we’ll deal with delivering an entire crafting system, a extra rewarding development loop, and proceed to work on recreation stability and efficiency optimization.
This additionally means that we are going to delay our seasonal content material rollout and the Xbox Series XIS launch. We may even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, figuring out that we’ve not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation at present.
Thank you for enjoying and offering suggestions. We actually respect it. It has and can proceed to assist form the sport we love.
Martin Wahlund CEO & Co-Founder of Fatshark
I didn’t suppose the PC model was that unhealthy! Sure it had issues, however on-line video games from smaller groups like this usually do. Then once more smaller groups usually don’t have the sources to do all the things directly, so if that is what they wish to do with what they’ve obtained then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve obtained!
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