If you didn't notice on Discord, DPC usually use a pepe or characters in his status to tell what's he working on.
Extensive playtesting is definitely in progress as he said he would start. The next Status Report might be one of the lasts.
You better get your saves games ready.
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It's possible, but very unlikely. I'm sure DPC is testing the game himself, but he still had a minimum of 40 animations to render last week, which is about 2.5 weeks of work based on our best estimation of his recent render rate. DPC won't start the proper beta test until the game is complete, and with the new save transfer system to debug he's not going to skimp on testing time. So I'd say we were still a
minimum of 4 weeks out from release last Friday, which would be November 5.
In addition, DPC said he still had to add static renders for four scenes. If we use his previous estimate of 20-150 statics per scene, that means there are 80-600 statics remaining (if we assume any other posed statics have been rendered already). That's not a ton, but our previous ballpark estimate was ~1500-2000 statics remaining on August 27 - which would have translated to DPC being done last week at his projected rate.
While highly speculative (it's weeks since we had any word on the render count), this illustrates the point that the other items on DPC's To Do list aren't freebies. The animations may render on their own, but everything else requires DPC's attention. Time spent on playtesting is time not spent on statics renders, or coding, etc. I
think DPC will have everything else ready to go by the time the last animation finishes, but he could easily miscalculate.
In short, forget about getting a release date this Friday; I'll count us lucky if DPC deigns to give us some decent numbers.
This is what i pointed out a long time ago. There is no way nick just cleaned up the damage done to his room in such a short amount of time compared to the rest of the damage done to the mansion. It's why i believe he was lying that it had been trashed. It wasn't trashed, cause whoever trashed the rest of the place, left his room alone and at the most, might have flipped around his furniture and that stuff is easily enough moved back in place. It's why i think he knows who did it or might have very well been a part of what happened.
It would depend entirely on how bad the damage to the room was; Nick said the damage was unusually light and we never saw it ourselves. Nick could be lying, but he could just as easily be telling the truth. As the saying goes, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.