Hello Hypatians! I hope your New Year has started off as well as ours has! We have some very good news to share with you, but first let's address the elephant in the room.
The last patch was 4 months ago, with the last major update being an additional 2 months before that. In that time, I can assure you that we at Timefire VR have been working diligently towards the next stage of Hypatia. We've seen new and returning players log in, and even popped in to say hello a couple of times. Our fans mean the world to us, and your continued interest is why we’re still pushing forward.
So if we’re still here, why have we not said anything? There have been two major blockers on our communication.
Due to outside financial changes, we had to downsize our development team to a more conservative size. This means content takes longer to complete, and we absolutely HATE promising things that we are not absolutely sure we can deliver on (meaning, if we don't have a realistic time estimate, we do not announce it).
Secondly, we WERE a publicly traded company. This means there was a lot of legal restrictions on what we could and could not say. This is where the good news comes in. Timefire has been bought out, but that’s a long and complicated history best told another day. The developers that are here are staying here, myself included. That means we’ll now have much greater freedom to share our development process with you.
But enough of history. What's next? We're filling in some key positions for our team, and ramping up for the next stage of Hypatia. We have a lot of awesome updates and additions which build upon the current foundation of Hypatia. Most of what needs to be done for this update is art content and bug-squashing. Currently, we’re estimating a late March release date.
I can’t spoil all of the fun details yet, but we do have two new areas, hundreds of items, significant new gameplay systems, and a large rework of some existing areas!
Stay tuned for upcoming details about Hypatia: Grand Opening, including a more in depth look at the upcoming changes!