seniorboop

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Up to what'll likely be 6.5 months moving forward with no end to that growth in sight :HideThePain:

Excited for the update like everyone else as a long time player but yeesh.

Wonder what episode 10 and beyond will look like
 
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goldenrule91

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There should be a thread only for this kind of posts. When people comes to this kind of popular games looking only for some information about release dates have to dive into dozens of post of theories, discussions and things that are not useful information. It would be good two separated threads: one for useful information only, with posts like this one, and another one for debate and theories.
You think the theories and discussions are bad, wait until the episode actually comes out and there are hundreds of posts asking for links and saves and help with bugs related to the game and mods :KEK: If you just come here to see status updates, you have it easy. People who actually want to talk about the game can't do it in this thread for weeks after a release without getting their posts buried by the same requests over and over. So yer, there should be another thread for discussion and theories no doubt.
 

f96zonetrooper

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Updated BigTable with the recent informations.
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  • Out of 28 animations left to render, DPC managed to produce 17 (60%) with 11 left; meaning an other week.
  • Basically, seems like it still have about 2 weeks of polish and cooking before betatesting.
  • Checking the last 3 EPs, the betatest period before a release is about 7 to 10 days.
  • Seems like we are now indeed in the 3-Weeks period. And with all optimism, October window is dead.
  • 11-16 November seems to be the more valid estimate as today. 18-25 November if catastrophic.
  • We had 6 out 8 or 6 out 12 rooster preview, who steadily release about each 3-4 days. One might drop tomorrow.
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Trivia: as today EP8 ring a 6 month development time; 26 weeks.


EpisodeRendersAnimationsMusic*SizeRelease DateDevelopment Time
Episode 1130151≈1.1 GB07 Feb 2019000 days
Episode 21709 (+31%)77 (+51%)≈2.3 GB (+1.2 GB)04 May 2019087 (2 months, 28 days |≈12 weeks)
Episode 32289 (+34%)99 (+29%)≈4.1 GB (+1.8 GB)16 Aug 2019105 (3 months, 13 days |≈15 weeks)
Episode 42532 (+11%)134 (+35%)≈6.1 GB (+2.0 GB)10 Jan 2020148 (4 months, 26 days |≈21 weeks)
Episode 52456 (-3%)157 (+17%)17 (3.4K$)≈8.0 GB (+1.9 GB)29 May 2020141 (4 months, 20 days |≈20 weeks)
Episode 63336 (+35%)162 (+3%)24 (4.8K$)≈11.1 GB (+3.1 GB)13 Nov 2020169 (5 months, 16 days |≈24 weeks)
Episode 73723 (+12%)250 (+54%)18 (3.6K$)≈14.5 GB (+3.4 GB)23 Apr 2021162 (5 months, 11 days |≈23 weeks)
Episode 84065 (+9%)359 (+44%)36 (7.2K$)>18.1 GB (+3.6 GB)in development183 (6 months, 00 days |≈26 weeks)
Complete Table with the help of Holy Bacchus† previous post. — Being a DIK in development since 2 years, 8 months, 16 days (32 months / 141 weeks / 989 days / 23,736 hours)
*199$ Premium Licensed Music


> Release Date Estimate:
Growing Scenario: Mid November 2021 (29 weeks) — Technical Difficulty Scenario: Late November 2021 (30 weeks)

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Thumb up to well made Casiope's DIK Walkthrough
With an estimated size of 18 GB for episodes 1-8 and DPC already implementing a system to handover saves from coming episode 8 to next episode 9, DPC should consider to split episodes 1-8, too, e.g. into season 1 (1-4) with 6 GB and season 2 (5-8) with 12 GB. (For an even split, 1-5 and 6-8 would be better, or a split into 3 parts 1-4, 5-6, 7-8.)

Those separated episodes/seasons could share the same savegame folder and if implemented/stored could check which savegame is valid for which version and so prohibit the player from loading savegames which are not compatible with the started episode.

My system has 32 GB RAM, but I already noticed loading times when starting current version episodes 1-7 with 14 GB, so maybe ren'py has some problems when it has to deal with big size projects. We will see soon how well ren'py can deal with a 18 GB project.

Besides splitting content, DPC could also check if there is some room for more efficient graphics coding. The compressed version of episodes 1-7 only uses 3.5 GB which is ca 25% of the original size.
 

ArcherB

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You think the theories and discussions are bad,
I don´t think are bad. If people like them, great, have fun. I´m just not interested, specially when I only want to know if there are any news about a game. I would like that popular games would have a thread only with news and maybe, if the mods are able to keep it clean, helpful information about the game, like help with bugs. And another one for debate, discussion and things like that. I don´t like to waste time searching among hundreds of memes, theories and fights about the best Li, when I´m just trying to know if there are any news about the game from the dev, or if someone knows a way to fix a bug.
 

AchedCroissant

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I don´t think are bad. If people like them, great, have fun. I´m just not interested, specially when I only want to know if there are any news about a game. I would like that popular games would have a thread only with news and maybe, if the mods are able to keep it clean, helpful information about the game, like help with bugs. And another one for debate, discussion and things like that. I don´t like to waste time searching among hundreds of memes, theories and fights about the best Li, when I´m just trying to know if there are any news about the game from the dev, or if someone knows a way to fix a bug.
If you only use the search button looking for the N7 you will easily find the updates of the progress of the chapter... less crying and more learning to do things on your own

And by the way you are doing offtopic here we only talk about the game, not your problems
 
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shazba

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I don´t think are bad. If people like them, great, have fun. I´m just not interested, specially when I only want to know if there are any news about a game. I would like that popular games would have a thread only with news and maybe, if the mods are able to keep it clean, helpful information about the game, like help with bugs. And another one for debate, discussion and things like that. I don´t like to waste time searching among hundreds of memes, theories and fights about the best Li, when I´m just trying to know if there are any news about the game from the dev, or if someone knows a way to fix a bug.
Where's your community spirit? :cry:

Chatting with all these people about the game is almost as good as the game itself. :giggle:

But if you're just here to grab the game, get people to fix your bugs and then be on your way, of course, don't let us stop you. :cautious:

By the way, who do you think would be able to help you with issues with the game, if not the enthusiasts that live and breath it? :unsure:
 

always86

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I don´t think are bad. If people like them, great, have fun. I´m just not interested, specially when I only want to know if there are any news about a game. I would like that popular games would have a thread only with news and maybe, if the mods are able to keep it clean, helpful information about the game, like help with bugs. And another one for debate, discussion and things like that. I don´t like to waste time searching among hundreds of memes, theories and fights about the best Li, when I´m just trying to know if there are any news about the game from the dev, or if someone knows a way to fix a bug.
I disagree.

Where's your community spirit? :cry:

Chatting with all these people about the game is almost as good as the game itself. :giggle:

But if you're just here to grab the game, get people to fix your bugs and then be on your way, of course, don't let us stop you. :cautious:

By the way, who do you think would be able to help you with issues with the game, if not the enthusiasts that live and breath it? :unsure:
Agreed. An active community like this actually makes it easier to find the answers to you questions. Yes, release speculation might get lost in the conversation, but the People who post here regularly are pretty good at answering questions, sometimes repeatedly, because we know the search bar isn’t great.

If there was and update and help thread and a general conversation thread I wouldn’t go to the first, because I’d get the information from the latter.
 

lemonfreak

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This forum need a Sticky Post function, so mods/staff can stick them on top of all pages
An FAQ in the OP might help

Something like:

Q - Any news?
A - Weekly updates from DPC are posted by N7 every Friday

Q- Release?
A- DPC does not give a release date until a couple of days before release, see N7's posts for more information

Q - Is Jill MC's Aunt
A - MC and Jill are not related

Feel free to add your own
 

shazba

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An FAQ in the OP might help

Something like:

Q - Any news?
A - Weekly updates from DPC are posted by N7 every Friday

Q- Release?
A- DPC does not give a release date until a couple of days before release, see N7's posts for more information

Q - Is Jill MC's Aunt
A - MC and Jill are not related

Feel free to add your own
Yeah... if you head down that path, the sticky will be just as long as the entire thread! :eek:
 

lemonfreak

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Yeah... if you head down that path, the sticky will be just as long as the entire thread! :eek:
It's true that a specific value for frequent would need to be established (and kept up to date, the question about being unable to apply the update patch due to an unren'd leaked version would no longer apply) but I feel there must be 10 questions that, if covered in an FAQ, and then nuked, would reduce the size of the thread by 25% minimum
 
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Crystaldom

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An FAQ in the OP might help

Something like:

Q - Any news?
A - Weekly updates from DPC are posted by N7 every Friday

Q- Release?
A- DPC does not give a release date until a couple of days before release, see N7's posts for more information

Q - Is Jill MC's Aunt
A - MC and Jill are not related

Feel free to add your own
Q - Is Jill MC's Uncle
A - NO!

(Looking at you lemonfreak !) ;)
 
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