Or eaten by a shark during vacation
But fortunately, all this is unlikely. And we hope for the best. DPC is not the type of person who will work in a team or share a project with someone else - he is a fanatical individualist with a control freak. He reminds me of Andrew Ryan in this way.
The main slogan of this man, which shapes his work, was heard in the credits of Acting Lessons:
"Wether the storm and follow your vision, anything else and it's no longer your vision."
Jokes are jokes, but sometimes scary or unexpected things happen. The main thing is not to get into the dry accidents stats though.
While some consider such principals and type of approaching with project as big cons, I think it's an opposite. If he would do it's job bad, than we probably wouldn't discuss this now. I prefer to work in the same way, bc I know, as example, that I will do my job alone better and faster and will enjoy the result, than would try to teach a person, then supervise it periodically only to finally find that I don't like the result. It's a real issue and a team work in large AAA studios as well as managing whole team is a hardest thing.
I've been here for a year now, sharing a bit of modern history:
Yeah, I remember what happened to him from Q/A series, but I wasn't attentive enough to realise that it happened in a row literally. So, he had really a bad time during EP9 dev cycle. It's a reasonable excuse for a 9 months release time as well. 1 month was just fucked off.
Knowing it, the Episode will be bigger for a few hundred renders. But I am sure that game doesn't allow him to make them smaller. Now game is divided into branches, more and more exclusive content for each route, this content is mutually exclusive. Plus the possible routes of girls who are not MGs are added. Everyone needs to pay attention. Do episodes as before, 3500-4000 renders each? Then one run will take 2.5 hours, no more.
Absolutely agree with each word
Of course, he can cut non-essential content that many people talk about. I would cut useless characters like Sally and Madame Rose, also not sure about Nora, another potential teacher+student drama, why is it necessary when there are already three of them? This is my little criticism, mostly I am delighted with this project.
Tbh, I find Sally hilarious. Such a unique rebelling nerd. Also each her scenes with MC are fun as hell. Madame... yeah, I still doubt the nessesity of adding such specific character, because DPC would play this off in much more reasonable way, like making similar scenes with one of Pink Rose girls (mostly MILFs of course) which we had meet before. And she doesn't occupy anything else than lewd scenes space. A couple of renders she took away when MC meet her is a drop in the sea. Later, he just called her by phone to "teleport" to Pink Rose. Will she play any other role and take some noticable or even important part in the plot? I still doubt in this too.
I will cross my fingers too, but I will keep a little pessimism in myself so as not to be disappointed. I was also looking forward to Episode 9 on Halloween, how wrong I was.
I think he'll be doing some work on vacation, plus if he's going to travel, he needs remote control of his PCs via TeamViewer or something like that. PCs running at full capacity unattended, anything can go wrong.
My first bet was on late May-early June.
I was so inspired by his reports in the first months that I expected a 5-6 month release. Then I moved to late June-mid July and now... well, we are at August at best.
I want this bet to win.
Remote control is a very common thing. I don't think it's even worth discussing. Control, the ability to add something to the queue or cancel, etc. so as not to come back to the PCs that have hung up or dropped out with an error. Just to tell in update next to vacation that "Soooorry guys, I fucked up a bit, my PCs stucked and renders fucked, see ya next week".
