Warhammer 40K: Darktide launched on PC late final yr, a darkish and chunky tackle Left 4 Useless set in Video games Workshop’s grim, distant future. It was OK! Had its issues, however was OK. These issues have continued into 2023, although, and so the builders are shelving an Xbox model of the sport whereas they get to work fixing them.
In a press release launched earlier at the moment, Fatshark say they got down to “create a extremely partaking and steady recreation with a stage of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours”, however “fell in need of assembly these expectations”.
Because of this, they’re not solely delaying “seasonal content material” for the PC model, however will likely be delaying the discharge of the sport on Xbox Collection X|S as nicely.
OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS
We take monumental pleasure in our capability at Fatshark to ship a recreation that thousands and thousands can get pleasure from. 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 subsequent few months, our sole focus is to deal with the suggestions that lots of you have got. Specifically, we’ll deal with delivering a whole 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 Collection XIS launch. We may even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, understanding that we now have not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation at the moment.
Thanks 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-Founding father of Fatshark
I didn’t suppose the PC model was that unhealthy! Certain 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 assets to do every little thing directly, so if that is what they need to do with what they’ve bought then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve bought!
