Warhammer 40K: Darktide launched on PC late final 12 months, a darkish and chunky tackle Left 4 Useless 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 at this time, Fatshark say they got down to “create a extremely participating and secure recreation with a stage of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours”, however “fell in need of assembly these expectations”.
In consequence, they’re not solely delaying “seasonal content material” for the PC model, however might be delaying the discharge of the sport on Xbox Sequence X|S as effectively.
OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS
We take huge delight in our skill at Fatshark to ship a recreation that hundreds of thousands can get pleasure from. This was what we got down to do with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to create a extremely participating and secure recreation with a stage of depth that retains you enjoying for weeks, not hours.
We fell in need of assembly these expectations.
Over the following few months, our sole focus is to deal with the suggestions that lots of you might have. Specifically, we’ll concentrate on delivering a whole crafting system, a extra rewarding development loop, and proceed to work on recreation stability and efficiency optimization.
This additionally means that we’ll delay our seasonal content material rollout and the Xbox Sequence XIS launch. We may even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We simply couldn’t proceed down this path, realizing that we’ve not addressed many suggestions areas within the recreation at this time.
Thanks for taking part in and offering suggestions. We actually admire 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 unhealthy! Positive 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 wish to do with what they’ve obtained then that is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve obtained!