Hey Everyone,
As you might have heard we are working on a huge update 29 that brings brand new MMO like database. So we wanted to give you some updates on our progress and ETA.
First of all - we are a bit behind here. This update took us extra couple of weeks to complete, but we are finally getting close. As soon as this Friday, or latest mid of next week this update will go into open Beta. With full launch to live few days later.
On a bright side - with this delay we managed to compete a lot of other side projects while the lead and server programmer were finishing up. So this update comes with major fixes like reworked AI behavior, to new features like private property and stealing , as well as new feature support like voice chat, controller support, preparation for dedicated hosting utlity, and a lot of other good stuff.
To recap - the main part of this update is a switch to a brand new SQL MMO database. This move finally allows us to fix all issues with missing items, vehicles e.t.c. It also opens up possibility of MMO like super high population limits in the future.
Unfortunately, this update will come with a full progress wipe on all servers. This will be a necessary wipe as we are switching to a completely new database. However - this is a "wipe to end all wipes" and in the future we`ll have a lot of database porting options, so we probably won`t need to do another wipe again.
Once again we wanted to apologize for the delay, but we are almost there.
Thanks for your support, and we can`t wait to share this awesome update with you.