Updates Taking Forever

[Manly]

My gut says the next release will be 12-21.  Just before Christmas...a gift from Tynan to all of us!

[milon]

Either way, I'm super excited about the next release!!  Temperature control = all new ways to torture raiders & tribals & unconvinced prisoners! 

EDIT - I have a feeling that we're going to need to review/update the Exploits thread when the next release comes!

[Jstank]

Maybe if he didn't have to answer to stupid threads like this. You should feel embarrassed that Tynan himself had to come and repost a sticky about his change log. Go put your nose in a corner.

[Neurotoxin]

Woah guys, put away the pitchforks, it was just a question and considering OP (probably) bought the game it's a perfectly valid question.

@OP it takes time considering it's a VERY small dev team (last I knew there were 2-3 people working on it) that works their butts off. To give you an idea, you know how it seems the consensus is that diseases are too common (at least from what I've seen). In the A7 dev builds it was a lot more frequent and (I didn't have an issue personally) much more of a death sentence.

Every new dev build fixes bugs and balance so when it comes time for the actual build release the game is as enjoyable as possible. Each new alpha extends the release testing time because the testers aren't just checking the new features and balance but making sure none of the new systems have broken or bugged any of the previous systems. For an idea you have features A, B, and C, this build adds feature D, AB and C all worked perfectly before but D has to interact with all the old systems So instead of testing just D we're testing A B C and D, when E comes along we need to test A B C D and E etc...

Sometimes previous features get tested quickly, when nothing has affected them but sometimes a new bug comes around that takes extensive hunting and VERY specific conditions to present itself and can take days to track down.

My advice, just watch the changelog, you can see something happens on MOST days and Ty works hard. I hope that helps you understand better the amount of time it takes.

[putsam]

Slightly off topic but what does OP stand for other then Over Powered

[Kagemusha]

Slightly off topic but what does OP stand for other then Over Powered

'Original Poster'.
or
'Original Poster'
Often used to refer to the starting post of a thread and can sometimes indicate the person who posted it.

As far as I know.

[Neurotoxin]

Slightly off topic but what does OP stand for other then Over Powered

'Original Poster'.
or
'Original Poster'
Often used to refer to the starting post of a thread and can sometimes indicate the person who posted it.

As far as I know.

This is correct, Can also be used to refer to the Original Poster of a top level comment on sites with multi-tiered comment sections such as reddit. In this case OP refers to slauenbach.

[ShootyFace]

I feel like not only are the updates satisfactorily frequent, they are mostly pretty significant. In my mind Tynan is doing an outstanding job, far surpassing my expectations.

[vagineer1]

I feel like not only are the updates satisfactorily frequent, they are mostly pretty significant. In my mind Tynan is doing an outstanding job, far surpassing my expectations.

I agree wholeheartedly, while they may take a month or so, they are packed full of content to satisfy us until the next Alpha. I cannot wait to see what Overlord Tynan Sylvester has in store for us in Alpha 9.

[ShootyFace]

Not just content, content that changes the game up, makes you adapt and find new ways of doing things. I feel like RimWorld is going to be one of those games I will be sad to see leave alpha, but then again modding will only keep it going indefinitely, I hope.