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 persevered 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 as we speak, Fatshark say they got down to “create a extremely partaking and secure sport with a stage of depth that retains you taking part in for weeks, not hours”, however “fell wanting assembly these expectations”.
Because of this, 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 properly.
OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS
We take huge satisfaction in our means at Fatshark to ship a sport that tens of millions can get pleasure from. This was what we got down to do with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to create a extremely partaking and secure sport with a stage of depth that retains you taking part in for weeks, not hours.
We fell wanting assembly these expectations.
Over the following few months, our sole focus is to deal with the suggestions that lots of you’ve got. Particularly, we are going to concentrate on delivering an entire crafting system, a extra rewarding development loop, and proceed to work on sport stability and efficiency optimization.
This additionally means that we’ll delay our seasonal content material rollout and the Xbox Collection XIS launch. We can even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, understanding that we now have not addressed many suggestions areas within the sport as we speak.
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 suppose the PC model was that unhealthy! Positive 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 sources to do every little thing directly, so if that is what they need to do with what they’ve acquired then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve acquired!