Hello bosses,
We're pulling an incredibly on the nose move and delaying the game launch 1 month from its original May 4th launch to the new date of Thursday, June 4th. Simply put, we've done a massive rework of internal technology and we need the additional time in order to deliver a complete, polished experience to you, our loyal bosses. More information below, as well as some updates on how you can get an early version of 1.0!
What happened?
We had a version of Pay 2 Win ready to go for 1.0, including all of the new features, QoL, and content updates - however we experienced such massive demand for a Steam Deck compatible version, that we had to go back to the drawing board.
We won't bore you with too many technicals, but the visual runtime we relied upon simply didn't support Linux in the way we needed it to. In addition, Pay 2 Win (though 2D!) is a relatively CPU reliant game, and emulating that visual runtime on top of the Unity native stack was leading to performance drops. There was a big effort made in January to alleviate these performance concerns, but ultimately we had to bite the bullet when it came to really making this work natively and smoothly for all players not on high end PCs (looking at you, Steam Deck community!)
That rework is now complete, however, and we are back on track for launch. Still, it took longer than expected, and we never want to misplace heroism for a solid end product. In order to give players a smooth, QA'd, and (we hope!) bug-free experience, we needed the extra time to do proper testing, balancing, and implementation of new QoL and other features.
Give me the good news!
Of course, we have some good news too! All players on launch will be receiving some secret skins and visual interactions for the Streamer unit, free of charge. These were initially planned exclusively for our upcoming content creator campaign, but we've decided to share that work and art with all players as our way of saying thanks for being patient with us.
Additionally, for those who want to get the new updates and see what's coming for 1.0, we're opening up a beta branch version of the game in a few weeks. If you're interested in trying the new onboarding, systems, content, and more before 1.0, we'd love to have you try. We will release additional details around that when we release the beta branch. Hop in our Discord and chat with us when you do, we'd love to see you there.
Finally, we've gone ahead and released a small hotfix to the current version of the live game addressing some pain points:
1) The Stapler's reign of terror has ENDED! It no longer flows through the output formula twice
2) Ascension talent costs are now triangular, and scale properly. No more infinity credits!
These are small changes but we want to make sure our live game isn't left out in the cold for too long while we prep the big 1.0 patch.
Oh and we re-released the trailer. It's literally the same as the last one, just with the correct date. Our lovely marketing department thought it would be really funny if we left them both up so we will.
PRODUCTIVITY HOOOOOO!