So we’ve got *reads*
The update providing far less narrative content than the launch build, minutes of additional gameplay, almost twice the on disk file size in spite of it, the same pandora system, a patchjob of zoom in leu of free camera, dickgirl robot scenes, one new character, and one model that actually has a knot for the player protagonist to watch fuck his "waifus."
So it's exactly as everyone expected, living up to it's stellar 2.5/5 rating.
I mean what else is there to say that hasn't been said. All the same mistakes doubled down on, all the same vacuous shilling already minutes after release as if somehow
another build (after this build that the shills assured us smugly was going to fix everything and prove the detractors wrong) will make them reverse the course we all knew they'd doomed themselves on.
It's not moving new copies, the people who already played it are slowly filtering in to coom to the new CGs far below it's former flash in the pan peak players (of less than half it's preorders on launch.) That means the lack of narrative forwarding here is it's death knell. I had assumed, wrongly giving them more credit than was due apparently, that they were going to slam out as much of the "game" they had on hand as possible per build to match the massive lead time. Well they did, they just don't have anything on hand.
Like I get it, viewing it through the lens of posterity. They had no more animations (first build already recycled) and dumped all their prerecorded VA frontloading that out of order "story" to hit the 2 hour (no refunds) mark on steam for the launch build. So the last 7 months they did nothing but the lowest hanging thing, open up the porn funnel by making moar short noninteractive porn loops in the "more is more" mindset even if players weren't happy with the length or quality. No rebuild of the game, no restructure to make it not liverender
everything and have to load between each button click, no change to game systems, no recut into a companion based game like marketed. Just dumping more on top of their foundation of sand as the new filesize attests to.
More porn, more character models was expected for a new build but I didn't expect them to be bottlenecked by the VA and main narrative. For some reason, mostly the kludge recut of so much being out of order in the first builds story, pulled from stuff intended for other galaxies, it seemed like they did all the VA and "story" stuff first but I guess they really did spend all their time making those cutscenes and literally nothing else.
This build shows no, it isn't another year for 2 more galaxy builds to completion. It's now firmly in neverever territory... although I wouldn't put past FOW to make a future build
technically 10-20 "chapters" long and call the game complete with the serendipitous (and unjustified) collapse of the empire via one subpar xcom bossfight.
It's probably a little disappointing but there it is.
I hope it will at least help you wait for the update
>gets ripped
>nipples never initially modeled
Well that is just fully expected at this point. People paid $2,000,000 for this. Upfront. The damage StudioFOW did to indie crowdfunding is just monumental, like damn lol.