Frostpunk 2 is being delayed so its builders have time to deal with participant suggestions gathered throughout the beta earlier this 12 months. The survival citybuilder was initially as a result of start shovelling orphans into the furnace in July, however these pricey youngsters now have a reprieve till September twentieth.
“Based mostly on the surveys we obtained from you after taking part in, the typical ranking you gave the Beta was 8 out of 10,” says the announcement of the delay. “We’re tremendous grateful for that! On the similar time, the Beta was solely a small slice of a work-in-progress, nonetheless rising recreation. Whereas our backlog is plentiful, the Beta was a possibility for us to take heed to what you loved, and what didn’t fairly land but. This allowed us to prioritize issues higher, and produce to the entrance the options and modifications we have been already engaged on (we hope!) you’ll take pleasure in essentially the most.”
To ship these newly prioritised options and “assure the absolute best expertise at launch,” 11bit say they want extra time.
The complete announcement goes into some element concerning the modifications which can be being launched because the beta, and so they do not sound small. Temperature and heat-based programs, a core a part of the Frostpunk expertise, are being revised. A brand new useful resource is being launched to make city-building “extra strategic”. Gamers will have the ability to modify metropolis districts after they’re first constructed. Faction behaviour will extra intently align to their lore. The UI is being revamped to make the world extra readable.
11bit are additionally including a brand new function they name “Zoom Tales”, which is able to allow you to snap nearer to your metropolis as a way to “watch the day-to-day lifetime of your residents.” The goal is to make gamers really feel extra connected to these orphans as within the quick spell earlier than you shovel them into the furnace.
Matt Cox loved his time with the Frostpunk 2 beta again in April, discovering it “fairly promising” after taking part in a comparatively “small sliver” of the complete recreation. We’ll now want to attend longer earlier than we discover out whether or not that promise has been fulfilled.
