Hello everyone, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
So, yes, we'll be halting the Closed Beta/Steam Playtest that was supposed to go on until December 12th.
You may have a couple of questions and be wondering why that is the case, so let me explain:
When?
If you are reading this, it's probably already done.
I wanted to put some kind of notice earlier but I got really sick again, so I wasn't able to do that.
Why?
Save System issues, a LOT of issues.
To be more specific:
- Saves could crash the game as soon as it opened.
- Saves between versions (eg. v1.0 vs 1.1) could potentially be breaking, so a save made in v1 would not work in v1.1
- Autosaves creating endless saves
- Saves sometimes just didn't work and you would lose all your data
Among other issues...
Besides that, there were the other many bugs, soft lockes and things like that.
(Which we already expected, but weren't able to handle properly due to those save problems)
Can't you just fix it?
We tried a lot of different stuff, but it seems like we'll have to create an entire new save system since nothing that we tried actually ended up being fruitful.
That was my mistake, I should have tested the save system further before making the playtest available, and for that I am sorry.
Will it return?
Yes, but we don't know when yet.
I'll be announcing a date in the future, but only after those save issues have been confirmed as fixed.
However, since we are approaching the end of the year, it's reasonable to expect that the beta will be back January or February.
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With all that said, we are sorry, and I wish to thank everyone who played the closed beta until this point.
All the feedbacks, bug reports and playthroughs of the game helped us a lot and seeing so many people playing the game made us very happy.
See you again soon!