T_the_ferret

Considering the release of the first scheduled patch of the year, out of 4, was announced only a few weeks before with then three release dates all delayed, its either a cruel lack of it or extremely bad communication.

The dev team themselves keep setting the expectations they keep failing. No communication and no sense of when work will be done is what gets people angsty. You can't keep saying something will be out then delay it, that just makes it look like you have no idea of what amount of work is left or how sound the product is at any given time.

The more development drags on, the more every delay feels like a student scrambling for time thirty minutes before work is due.

No, surely they'll release it today. Imagine how embarassing it would be to delay half a patch thrice over.

Isn't that so sad to say though. "We might get half of what was promised to be delivered this year! Get hyped!!!" and we don't even know how much they gutted of these two

I'd love for the devs to add gunboats and more details about the rise of stuff like QF weapons in the british navy, or just overall way more focus on the rise of sea powers in the 19th century

I'd be surprised if only a week of testing would be enough, especially as it seems they still have work to do on the campaign but they wanted to get testing done early

I'm gonna be honest, I wouldn't take a single thing the devs say as a feature being "locked in" considering how old those texts are. Anything could happen and I think the devs already have their ideas of how its gonna go, but if its more up to debate I'd suggest a poll.

What frustrates me most is the fact that this can be remedied so simply and for so little time. Take five minute each month to write a little status update for the community, 99% of people are satisfied to know that at the end of the month they'll get to know how stuff is going. At most from time to time get a little Q&A going so people can reasonably ask why game plans didn't pan out and how it looks for the future.

That is a fair point, yes. Compared to other ship building games though it is still rather slow and uninformed. In my opinion the devs are immensely lucky to have such a wide community (for such a game) be willing to spend additional funds to access the game early compared to the reduced-price steam release, and i really hope they get this and that in the future status on dev and other such things will be more frequent with much less broken promises and vague dates. Many communities are satisfied even with very short monthly status update.

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I'm sorry if i step out of bound saying this but this is extremely jarring to me. I've been following the development of both this game and RTW2 (I know, i know, nothing alike but still) and the difference is enormous. Just like pointed by other people i see a huge lack of overall communication with the community for a highly priced game on one side that took almost two years of active development for little mechanical or graphical changes and that only now in some days will introduce the ability to save your carefully made designs, with both a steam release plan extremely out of date (estimated for the 10th of August 2020) and Core Patch 1 out of 4 slated for 2021 and the actual steam release not done three months before the end of the year. In the meantime RTW2 released for a more decent price, and even went on to not only announce but also implement parts of a huge update to include periods from the ironclad to the missile cruiser age for its beta testers. My simple question is, as someone that's totally new to any engagement to the community, what is my assurance that future work will be carried on time as per the dev's words and this game is worth the high entry price currently compared to other games set to release this year?