Hi Survivors, Ivan from HypeTrain is here.
Thanks for your waiting, questions and ideas. We read, discuss inside the team and take all of them into consideration.
You will be able to begin your journey in The Wild Eight very soon. To be more specific: circle February 8 in your calendar. The Wild Eight will be launching on Steam Early Access for $19.99 USD.
This winter has become a time to rethink. The upgrade system you could have tried in Pre-Alpha Demo was completely redesigned as well as the technical side of the multiplayer. Changes affected ourselves too, but first things first.
New unscheduled features significantly improve The Wild Eight and we are finally ready to give you an opportunity to buy and play the game. We’ve decided to release in Early Access since the development continues with a big world expansion in mind. Along with tuning the game balance and fixing minor bugs it will take mere 3 months.
Multiplayer mode will work from the day one and the game will have long hours of adventures. Don't forget that The Wild Eight – unlike most of other games we all see on Steam today – is both challenging survival sandbox and a story-driven experience with quests. I really hope you’ll love it as much as we do.
What is going to be added as a part of the Early Access updates:
- Game balance and bug fixes based on your feedback
- New side-quests and objects
- A more advanced combat system including shooting
- Better user interface and map
- New languages
- Mac and Linux Support
Updates will be coming every two weeks. Also Early Access players will get some special cosmetic reward.
On another note, developers of The Wild Eight are proud to present their new name – Fntastic! During the whole development process the team has grown up – both in experience and amount of people (and previous name Eight Points was mainly about the first eight developers who started it all). To express gratitude to the ones who worked on The Wild Eight but left the team we would like to keep Eight Points as the second developer.
One and a half years ago it was even hard to imagine the possibility of developing a game here in Yakutia that will attract so much attention all over the world. It's already a big success for us and we want to thank everyone who believed in us during the Kickstarter campaign and everyone who is awaiting the release. Our new name Fntastic stands for breaking the boundaries and art of imagination. They are our main tools in making The Wild Eight you'll enjoy.
– Ed Gotovtsev, CEO Fntastic