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Developer Fatshark has delayed Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s upcoming Xbox Collection X/S launch, saying it has made the choice to spend the following few months solely addressing fan suggestions after the sport “fell quick” of expectations.
When Darktide launched on PC in November, Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell applauded its “stupendous ambiance and harsh motion” in his overview, however known as its launch “scrappy [and] rickety…arriving with bugs and technical difficulties and making enormous calls for of PCs”.
Points round Darktide’s launch have coalesced to the purpose it is now accrued a damning ‘principally detrimental’ latest evaluations ranking on Steam from almost 8,500 gamers, and Fatshark has moved to acknowledge the neighborhood’s mounting frustration in a assertion shared on Twitter.
“We take monumental pleasure in our capability at Fatshark to ship a recreation that thousands and thousands can get pleasure from,” the developer wrote. “This was what we got down to do with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide – to create a extremely partaking and steady recreation with a stage of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours. We fell wanting assembly these expectations.”
In an effort to enhance Darktide’s present state, Fatshark says, “Over the following few months, our sole focus is to handle the suggestions that lots of you have got. Particularly, we’ll give attention to delivering an entire crafting system, a extra rewarding development loop, and proceed to work on recreation stability and efficiency optimisations.”
That shift in focus means Fatshark will delay Darktide’s long-promised Xbox Collection X/S launch – which was initially as a result of arrive “shortly after” the PC model – in addition to new seasonal content material. Moreover, all new premium beauty releases will likely be suspended. “We simply could not proceed down this path,” the developer defined, “realizing that we now have not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation in the present day”.
“Thanks for enjoying and offering suggestions,” Fatshark’s assertion concludes. “We actually admire it. It has and can proceed to assist form the sport we love.”
