Please. It will still be a better for your experience (narrower black bars):
Understandable.
Didn't mean to brag to be honest.
That's the neat part...it has 0 new content
No new pre-tech coming out, the latest update was the last pre-tech
Next to the new UI, the game is going to be expanded to 16:9, which means most backgrounds will get added details, there'll be quite a few new locations, some new characters, new cut scenes and some old art will be replaced, too. Next to that there'll probably be minor changes all over the place, to incorporate some changes.
Just 4:3 aspect ratio -> 16:9
I'd like to bet that a fair bit of people don't actually care that much about the aspect ratio.
At least the art for the new UI has been done for quite some time, this is what it's more or less going to look like:
It's really only relevant for those on mobile, where 4:3 starts to become really uncomfortable, now that new smartphones have ratios around ~20:9. But given, that south east asia seems to be one of DC's biggest markets, the number of official downloads for android seems to be larger than those for PC. I haven't heard him talking about it for a long time though, so that may or may not have changed since I've heard it.
If it has, it would shift only more toward mobile. Gaming is moving more and more to mobile-first development because worldwide consumer spending on games (all, not just adult) shows that mobile spending is more than PC, console, and handheld spending, combined.
There is not expected to be any more pre-tech, per DC, to focus on the tech update. Pre-techs took time from and added more work to the tech update. Also, people on here bitched it wasn't enough content in pre-techs, people on here bitched it wasn't the tech update, people on here bitched it wasn't their waifu getting pre-tech content, people on here bitched the pre-techs were too few, people on here were too many, people on here pre-techs took too long... etc. So I mean, I can understand DC just saying "fuck it" to pre-tech updates.
Original goals of the tech update, plus what j4j4m already mentioned.
It's been over 2 years and no one knows (including the developer) how soon or late it will be for the release. But it's still free for you to play directly from the developer, if you wish, when it is.
Already 2 years damn I guess I haven't payed that much attention obviously lol. Then hopefully soon we can expect the update cuz for 2 years its really too long for the tech update. But let's not forget the content of the game and overall changed they had to make.
That's not being implemented in the tech update. Not unless DC has somehow changed Stray's mind. Back when he was drawing all this he wanted to add a UI overhaul alongside the tech update, then Stray had to explain to him that it'd be unfeasible to add all of that on top of everything else going into the tech update without bloating the dev time even further and so at the moment the UI update has been shelved for the time being.
