Can we now safely assume that we'll have episode 10 with us some time within the next 30 to 60 days or is it still too soon for that? What do you who've been following the game's development for longer think, people?
WEEEEEELL
His animation render time for the last episode was round abot 5-6 Animations per week done.
Cause he was adding more and more animations with nearly each DEV update, the animations left were not decreasing, instead increasing. Last week it were 61 now its 68 left to do. Which leads to the question, how many were done in this timespan? We can only guess here.
On top of it, he has doubled the FPS per animation now from 30 fps to 60 fps. Which is a huge step... Of course, he did upgrade his hardware in a big way, even with 60 fps animations he is able to render faster than before with only 30 fps. So its easy to guess that he could do the animations more than twice as fast than before, instead of doing 5-6 animations a week he COULD get 10-12 done a week, or even more. BUT he decided to make them 60 fps now, which takes away most of the "speed advantage"
After considering all that, i would say, he can maybe do 7-8 animations a week... so... as for now, my guess is, round about 8-10 weeks from now until release. Not really much earlier, but not much later either. November it is. which is just more than "only" disappointing. 30 fps animations or 60 fps animations, really... just look at the animations from the past... i cant imagine that besides DPC that anybody here cares if those animations will get 60 FPS. Instead we could already play the episode in mid-october.