Warhammer 40K: Darktide launched on PC late final yr, a darkish and chunky tackle Left 4 Lifeless 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 an announcement launched earlier at this time, Fatshark say they got down to “create a extremely partaking and steady sport with a stage of depth that retains you taking part in 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 shall be delaying the discharge of the sport on Xbox Collection X|S as nicely.
OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS
We take huge satisfaction in our means at Fatshark to ship a sport 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 sport with a stage of depth that retains you taking part in 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 might have. Particularly, we’ll concentrate on delivering a whole crafting system, a extra rewarding development loop, and proceed to work on sport 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 also droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, figuring out that now we have not addressed many suggestions areas within the sport at this time.
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 unhealthy! Positive 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 every thing without delay, so if that is what they wish to do with what they’ve bought then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve bought!
