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[Cthulhu]

Did this not come around here? 

Still under the weather, so a short and sweet update this week:

I. All known critical bugs are squashed.

II. Josh is currently putting the beta candidate through another round of testing to make sure the fixes for the above bugs don't in turn introduce their own. So far, so good.

III. There are some minor bugs/aesthetic problems/quality-of-life issues, but these have been judged not worthy of immediate resolution, and will be addressed after the beta release.

IV. So as not to jinx himself, Josh promises no dates. But at the moment, the road looks clear ahead for proceeding onward to videos and the beta.

[gimli]

Nice! 

[Neonivek]

Holy cow! this twilight zone thread is moving out of the twilight zone and back into positivity O_O

I don't understand people's negativity to this project but it has somehow become so interesting because of it. The developer does something normal and suddenly it is a conspiracy! (I am really exaggerating so please bare with me)

But I am glad things are back on track anyhow, this game interests me and anything that gets me closer to actually seeing this game in action I am happy for.

[Zangi]

Well, the idea/concept/possible reality of an awesome sounding game like this failing... plus the very rich history of missing self-imposed deadlines tends to bring in some negativity.

Glad I always get off the hype train after the initial funding phase for kickstarter stuff.

EDIT: Oh right, missed the smilie somehow...

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Thus far, this game's development has been an emotional roller coaster.

[forsaken1111]

Mostly what I've seen is people freaking out for no good reason.

[dennislp3]

I agree...everything seems worthy of freaking out when you make it a habit in a thread...its a bandwagon effect in the ugliest way

[nenjin]

Thus far, this game's development has been an emotional roller coaster.

An emotional roller coaster traveling at about 2 MPH.

[ZeroGravitas]

Mostly what I've seen is people freaking out for no good reason.

This. Games are always delayed. The stretch goals required him to basically rewrite the game from scratch. At some point he will finish the game and we will play it. The end.

Having any emotional investment beyond what I just detailed above is... problematic.

[Xantalos]

Thus far, this game's development has been an emotional roller coaster.

An emotional roller coaster traveling at about 2 MPH.

This thread summed up

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Very accurate, well played.

[ScriptWolf]

Beta before the end of the year! I can't contain the excite. Josh has burned us before on dates but I want to believe so badly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

After an endless series of "just one more bug" we find ourselves here at the end of the year with some issues remaining.  What we're going to do is disable some of these features so that we can push forward and hopefully get the Beta into people's hands before the end of the month.  These features aren't being cut, most of them are being disabled from interaction with the AI so that you may still see them in the game and can be acted upon but the AI will not react and their effects may be muted or restricted to their own POI (they will not propagate). 

Issues and Disable Resolution:
Trade Resources - These will remain in the game but will not be acted upon by the AI - local effects will remain but government effects will be disabled.  These can still "spread" through Merchant Guilds but that will be incidental to the AI's decision.  The issue here is currently unknown but I have tracked it down to occurring when significant resources have been exploited and spread, but do not occur when the resources remain unexploited or untraded.  You'll still be able to use them for crafting.

Sisyphus and Limos Victory Paths - Both Age of Man and Unification need to be disabled - there's something occurring with the Factions flipping during these paths that is causing crashes, most noticeably after Limos' prison is opened but more rarely during the End of an Age quest line for Sispyhus.  You'll still be able to trigger the events up to a point but the results won't trigger.

AI Custom Imbues for Rituals - The AI being able to augment imbues through lore seems to be causing problems, I'm only partially sure of this cause right now as the issue isn't always associated with an imbued ritual but does only occur when a custom imbued ritual option exists "in the world."  I think it has to do with the AI appraising the custom imbue's effects but for now we'll simply disable the option for the AI to do this. 

Identity Clues for Enemies - This was a fix to solve a problem with clues for situations where you control opposing forces, specifically for influence situations and controlling multiple commanders in a battle.  This appears to cause corrupted clues when they are being deciphering but with the complexity of the clues system it's going to take a fair amount of time to work it back to the source, so we're just patching out the instant of the crash which means that these clues, while still being generated, will be "thrown out" when the heroes assess them.

Noble Houses - Noble houses spreading invisibly and overwriting influence values - the general cause is known but anything involving the many layers of influence is a burden to test and fix so we'll just lock in houses to not spread - the "spread" events will remain but nothing will happen, this should stop it from being a critical issue requiring resolution - I'd turn off houses entirely but they're written too tightly into the influence code.

I know that it may seem that these are minor issues, but the nature of the simulation allows these problems to derail the game entirely.  We're going to work through the holidays to try and get a clean release out before the end of the year, and of course once these are patched up and disabled we'll record some video.  I am sorry as always for the delays, when we originally said after the KS that we would have the Beta out in March I never would have imagined we'd be this far behind (nine long months now) but the final product will speak for itself once we get it into your hands.

[nenjin]

Just in time for my birthday. 

[Mithras]

I'm looking forward to this coming out as much as anyone else however I would like to stress that Josh said he would try to get a clean release together, getting excited now demonstrates a rather poor recollection of the last year. Consider this, the list given consists of problems that have been found so far, other problems could have to occur while dealing with those problems. Further disabling options is as likely to cause problems as adding options, these problems will then have to be dealt with.

If the game isn't released this year I wont be surprised or disappointed. Josh didn't state a hard deadline, we shouldn't treat it as such.

[Egan_BW]

I am an optimist.