We have always planned on releasing Sierra Madre to early access as close to the middle of December as possible, but we haven't clearly defined this on our store page before. We want to be as transparent about the development of Sierra Madre as possible and would like to clarify when we intend to release this project to early access.
To clarify this we have updated the store page to now say mid-December, which was always the intended date. We don't want to lock it down to a specific date quite yet as we have a few things we want to polish.
We intend on releasing Sierra Madre to Early Access between December 14th and December 21st with December 14th being preferred.
Why mid-December instead of a specific day?
We want to make each release (including the first) as bug free as possible and want the flexibility to make sure that this happens. At this point we only have a few known issues that need addressing.
We also have two more features left on our list we want to get in this release: improved horse mechanics and improved weapons models and animations for the player character. These two additions are on schedule and shouldn't hold up the release, but in the event that an unforeseen problem arises we want the flexibility to solve it.
Thank you for your patience and interest.