Warhammer 40K: Darktide launched on PC late final 12 months, 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 endured 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 right this moment, Fatshark say they got down to “create a extremely participating and steady recreation with a stage of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours”, however “fell in need of assembly these expectations”.
In consequence, they’re not solely delaying “seasonal content material” for the PC model, however will likely be delaying the discharge of the sport on Xbox Sequence X|S as effectively.
OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS
We take huge delight in our means 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 participating 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 handle the suggestions that a lot of you’ve gotten. Specifically, we’ll concentrate on 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 Sequence XIS launch. We will even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, figuring out that we now have not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation right this moment.
Thanks for taking part in and offering suggestions. We actually recognize it. It has and can proceed to assist form the sport we love.
Martin Wahlund CEO & Co-Founding father of Fatshark
I didn’t assume the PC model was that dangerous! Certain it had issues, however on-line video games from smaller groups like this typically do. Then once more smaller groups typically don’t have the assets to do every little thing directly, so if that is what they need to do with what they’ve received then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve received!
