As you may know, March is a very busy month for the Osiris team! Fresh from our amazing showcase at GDC (many thanks to the lovely people at Unity), we impressed a lot of people and heard some very kind words in regards to all the great new visual upgrades we’re delivering in our next major update.
And that brings us to some updated info regarding the upcoming patch; there’s no rest for the weary as we go straight from GDC to PAX East this weekend. While we’ve been squeezing as much time as possible to work on the patch, the reality is that we definitely need more. PAX East is an important convention event that we need to be at to meet with our core audience. We simply don’t have enough time to get the update to the point where we’re excited to deliver it to players. We want to make sure we deliver the quality you come to expect from us, and right now we don’t feel absolutely comfortable delivering on that quality by our original date of March 10th.
That said, we ARE confident that we’ll be delivering this next patch later in March and we believe the wait will be worth it when you feast your eyes on all the huge graphical improvements (some of which can be seen on the MadeWithUnity blog that you can read here: https://madewith.unity.com/en/stories/road-to-gdc-osiris-new-dawn-survival-on-a-planetary-scale ). Weather and lens effects, volumetric clouds, ambient occlusion, depth of field, light scatter, screen space ambient shadowing… the difference visually will be night and day for the game!
Of course, we’re working on a lot of new content as well, and the next couple of weeks should give us enough time to finalize some new features we’ve been waiting to unveil for quite some time. We’ll be showing off some of what's to come at PAX East this weekend – if you’re attending, be sure to stop by our booth to get a sneak peek at the update as well as some goodies. If you’re not, don’t worry – we’ll be on the PAX East Twitch Stage Show on Saturday, so jump on Twitch at noon EST on Saturday 3/11 to see what will be coming very soon!