Darktide’s Xbox Launch Delayed So PC Model Can Be Mounted

Warhammer 40K: Darktide launched on PC late final 12 months, a darkish and chunky tackle Left 4 Lifeless set in Video games Workshop’s grim, distant future. It was OK! Had its issues, however was OK. These issues have endured into 2023, although, and so the builders are shelving an Xbox model of the sport whereas they get to work fixing them.

In a press release launched earlier as we speak, Fatshark say they got down to “create a extremely partaking and steady recreation with a degree of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours”, however “fell wanting assembly these expectations”.

Consequently, they’re not solely delaying “seasonal content material” for the PC model, however will likely be delaying the discharge of the sport on Xbox Collection X|S as properly.

OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS

We take huge delight in our skill at Fatshark to ship a recreation that hundreds of thousands can take pleasure in. This was what we got down to do with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to create a extremely partaking and steady recreation with a degree of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours.

We fell wanting assembly these expectations.

Over the following few months, our sole focus is to deal with the suggestions that a lot of you’ve. Particularly, we are going to concentrate on delivering an entire crafting system, a extra rewarding development loop, and proceed to work on recreation stability and efficiency optimization.

This additionally means that we are going to delay our seasonal content material rollout and the Xbox Collection XIS launch. We will even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, realizing that we have now not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation as we speak.

Thanks for enjoying and offering suggestions. We actually respect it. It has and can proceed to assist form the sport we love.

Martin Wahlund CEO & Co-Founding father of Fatshark

I didn’t suppose the PC model was that dangerous! Certain it had issues, however on-line video games from smaller groups like this typically do. Then once more smaller groups typically don’t have the assets to do every little thing directly, so if that is what they need to do with what they’ve obtained then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve obtained!