Warhammer 40K: Darktide launched on PC late final 12 months, 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 a press release launched earlier in the present day, Fatshark say they got down to “create a extremely participating and secure recreation with a degree of depth that retains you taking part in for weeks, not hours”, however “fell wanting assembly these expectations”.
Consequently, they’re not solely delaying “seasonal content material” for the PC model, however will probably 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 capacity 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 participating and secure recreation with a degree of depth that retains you taking part in for weeks, not hours.
We fell wanting assembly these expectations.
Over the subsequent few months, our sole focus is to deal with the suggestions that lots of you may have. Specifically, we’ll concentrate on 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 XIS launch. We will even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, understanding that we’ve not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation in the present day.
Thanks for enjoying and offering suggestions. We actually admire 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 usually do. Then once more smaller groups usually don’t have the sources to do the whole lot directly, so if that is what they wish to do with what they’ve acquired then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve acquired!
