Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Hello everyone, this is Troubleshooter development team.
Is everyone having a wonderful year-end time?
The early access of Troubleshooter, starting from December 31st 2017, is soon greeting it's first anniversary.
We would like to share our future plans with you guys as we wrap up our year. :Irene:
(* The changes mentioned below may change due to different levels of difficulty and future development plans.)
A year ago at this time of the moment, we were trying to release the official version of the game. :Sion:
We, however, weren’t capable of the many updates and some updates are even getting delayed currently. Therefore, our ‘official release’ of the game has been delayed to 2019. We are very sorry for those who are waiting for the official version of the game.
We will try to come back with better contents as we are late for the official release!
Many were curious about the updates after the official release of the game. :Albus:
After the official release, Troubleshooter is planning to both provide constant updates like now and provide episode 2 if the situation for the development team allows them to stably concentrate on the development.
However, if the development team don’t have the capability to focus on development, we will give up on providing constant updates but instead release DLCs periodically.
Current scenario is about the first episode of Troubleshooter. This episode 1 will be composed of 6 chapters for the plan now. Furthermore, the end of episode 1 would mean the official release of the game for now.
The questions that are not answered in this episode will be solved through the additional episodes after the release.
Teammates, which is the part where everyone is most interested about now, will be added consistently throughout the scenario. This part will be constantly updated even after the official release.
Next teammate is planning to be updated at the end of January.
We will do our best so that the new teammate can provide a lot of fun to the users.
Throughout the year, there were users demanding for more difficult challenges than what is provided now. Therefore, we are considering on developing a raid system in which powerful boss monsters appear. If the development on this contents become stabilized, we will introduce this content at the update preview session.
There were also suggestions on various styles of missions in the game. Due to our lack of capability, it will take some time to provide those missions shortly but we will do our best to provide a lot of fun by reflecting those ideas on our updates.
At the beginning of the early access, a number of users mentioned that it would be better for us to focus on single contents. We also think that single contents should be well organized so that various experiences could be provided through multiplayer mode and thus we are focusing on single contents now.
Hence, the multiplayer contents update is planned after the end of episode 1 of the single contents. The online content too will be developed with the feedbacks of the users.
Troubleshooter requires online network to be essential in order to provide online contents in the future. Many complaints were submitted throughout the year regarding the difficulty on having a smooth game environment on account of the players’ personal environments or the region they live in.
We development team is interested in developing the ‘offline’ mode to figure this problem out. Nonetheless, since a lot of effort and time is required for this mode to be developed, it would be hard for us to provide this mode soon. So we are trying to develop some solutions to resolve the problems for network delays. We are truly sorry regarding this part.
We are just very thankful to those who ventured ‘Early Access’ of the game with us, those who just joined the Troubleshooter, and those who are constantly supporting us for the official release of the game.
Thank you for letting us continue the development of Troubleshooter. :Irene:
We will do our best and provide with a lot of fun in return!
Sincerely, The Troubleshooter Development Team
P.S:
For more information, please visit https://steamcommunity.com/app/470310/discussions/ and add comments. We are currently answering the questions of many users through this website. If you guys have any questions or complaints, please let us know!
The details regarding the next updates will be presented in the ‘update preview’ soon.
We will make a better Troubleshooter for everyone.