The launch of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s seasonal content material has been delayed on PC, whereas the sport’s Xbox Collection X/S launch has been pushed again once more.
In a press release launched on Tuesday, Martin Wahlund, CEO of developer and writer Fatshark, mentioned the corporate plans to spend the subsequent few months addressing fan suggestions following the sport’s PC launch final November.
“We take huge pleasure in our capability at Fatshark to ship a recreation that hundreds of thousands can take pleasure in,” he wrote. “This was what we got down to do with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide – to create a extremely partaking and secure recreation with a stage of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours.
“We fell wanting assembly these expectations.
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“Over the subsequent few months, our sole focus is to deal with the suggestions that lots of you may have. Specifically, we are going to give attention to 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 Collection X/S launch. We may also droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, realizing that we’ve got not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation as we speak.
“Thanks for enjoying and offering suggestions. We actually recognize it. It has and can proceed to assist form the sport we love.”
Darktide is co-op first-person shooter that includes a narrative written by Dan Abnett, who has penned quite a few Warhammer novels and graphic novels. It’s set to be a stay service title with an evolving plot that takes place over the course of the sport’s life.
The sport was introduced in 2020 and was initially deliberate for launch the next yr earlier than being delayed to spring 2022.
It was then pushed again once more to mid-September, earlier than a ultimate delay noticed the PC model being launched in November.
The Xbox Collection X/S model, which shall be accessible on Sport Go at launch, was beforehand scheduled to reach “shortly after” the sport’s PC launch.
