Hello Riftbreakers!
We have some unfortunate news to share with you today. Despite our best efforts, The Riftbreaker: Metal Terror World Expansion will not be ready for release on May 30th. With a heavy heart, we have made the decision to postpone the launch until July. Let us explain why.
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The Riftbreaker: Metal Terror is a very large expansion, introducing several new creature species, an entirely new resource type, dozens of research items, and weapons. Adding such an amount of new features and making sure they all interact with each other in an intended way is a complex and lengthy process. While testing the new campaign portion, we discovered several major issues. Among many others: saves would get corrupted, the game is not fully stable yet, and the game flow is not properly balanced, resulting in a bad experience on difficulties other than normal. Given the fact that we need to be absolutely sure that the Expansion is accessible from any point in the Main Campaign (as long as the conditions are met), and on any difficulty level, the amount of work required increases tenfold. While it seemed likely that we could fix most of those issues on time, we couldn’t guarantee that the game would be in the shape that it should be.
One of the new weapons that are joining the game with this update: Lightning Gun. Pictured in both Standard and Extreme versions. You figure out which is which.
We have put a lot of effort into making sure that The Riftbreaker is as enjoyable as possible. That requires a lot of testing and bug fixing, but the end result is well worth it. We do not want to rush and abandon this principle. We do not want to risk releasing an unfinished product purely on the feeling that ‘we might be able to make it’. That is not good enough. That is no way to treat the community, who have trusted and supported us since day one.
Lightning Gun's more stationary counterpart: Lightning Tower. Combine them with Energy Walls and you're good to go.
We are going to use this additional time to make sure that your adventure in the Metallic Valley is going to be as smooth as possible. The extra weeks are also going to allow us to fix some other, smaller issues that you’ve been reporting to us.
We are aware that it’s been quite a long time since the last major update for The Riftbreaker was released. We do not want to keep you waiting much longer, so on May 30th, the original release date that we have announced, we are going to publish the World Expansion Update to the experimental branch of the game. The update will contain most of the new features and will allow you to try out the Metallic Valley Survival map. More information, including a detailed changelog, will be made available on the 30th of May as well.
Please accept our most sincere apologies for the delay.
EXOR Studios