I think because they split their focus between sandbox and the game they really want to make. Making an action live rpg is not easy even with veteran team and they are still a bit beginner in the game industry. They are improving in animation department but lack in game play one since it needs a lot of tweaks, and planning. You really need a veteran in the industry to pull this off. I still appreciate them for trying ,but the challenge ahead from environment , battle, narration, mathematical flow logic, and others are very very hard. They need to increase the budget by hiring some advanced programmer and that cost a lot of money.
Oh please stop giving them excuses. I've said this here before I'll say it again. I have a web developer friend irl who have never used unity or unreal engine in his life. Hypothetically speaking, if I were to provide him source of current state of wild life or even source of it from 3 years ago, I am 100% SURE he'd be able to release early access version of the game just in 6 months and fully finished version(version 1.0) in 12 months. And I am not talking about a half-assed job and him calling it finished. I am talking about a game with different quest types(main quests, side quests...), level up system, looting system, combat system, npc's(for shops, quests etc), enemy & allied ai for combat system and a dialogue system that respects player's choices and is not there just so you can select "lets have sex"... All of those systems I mentioned would be completely developed and in working order. On the other hand, we are talking about 7 YEARS and still counting here and "game" STILL doesn't exist despite the fact that it ALREADY has more than enough animations to develop 3 different sex games.
Nah I'm not trying to defend them. What I'm saying is the scope is bigger than what they anticipated, and they thought this is going to be easy but its not. You can look at the first animation they made and compare it today, it is night and day. The system they try to make is not sufficient enough, lack of optimization since they underestimate the process. That's why I said they should hire a veteran game developer. It is night and day from optimization, reusable code, etc.
This pretty much sums up how far from reality are non-devs when it comes to imagining what's behind the courtains.
I wasn't talking about some average student. I am talking about someone who is not a student, someone who is a developer not because of money but because of it is what he likes to do. And I am talking about someone who is not as lazy as me but on the complete opposite spectrum; a workohalic who doesn't stop even in most holidays.
I'm a dev myself and believe me, I've seen a lot bigger pieces of software done shorter and with less issues.
This dude gets it. And me too, I've been waiting for B42 of zomboid for YEARS, and that game is ps2 graphics isometric.
correct, these are development builds. although there actually is a lot more conten via what is in the sandbox. w're not going to get the actual game til it's done.
well when the game is eventually finished (current ETA 2025, though I have reservations about that) it will be an rpg where you play as Max and Maya on their various quests and sexual encounters. Story driven game wit hplenty of exploration.
plenty of assets and maps on the official discord, more "mods" over on Liquid's discord, you can find their info in the official discord or their tag somewhere in these threads
No no, you see, the amount of current content makes sense for a game being funded and developed since 2017! You entitled brat just don't realize the amount of time and effort it takes, give them more money on patreon...Now! I'm sure they'll finish it in 2025 if you just give them enough money.
What they should do is marry the narrative with the sandbox part, but NOT having a fully linear, tightly-structured story, but rather a series of objectives. The world could be semi-open, with new areas opening up once conditions are met.
I agree with this. This game's potential is a missed opportunity. The sandbox construction as well as character creation are already in place. Adding npcs with randomly generated slider values and some rudimentary survival like chopping trees or killing wild animals would turn this game into conan exiles but with fucking which I'm sure many people would be eager to play. This is the only way of salvaging this disaster.
So basically this:
yeah people/devs saying it will be finished by 2025 are smoking something because even sandbox aside the game is still extremely barebones, feels almost like a unreal engine demo.
wdym barebones?
The game itself is missing. It is hard to NOT call a game barebones when the game itself is almost entirely missing. Those features you describe sounds like developer work. If I wanted to "play" as a "developer" I'd "play" unreal engine.
