[2023] Which time 10.0?

See our statement on the original news and our discord here:

Unfortunately I have to deliver some bad news: The Update 10 Playtest will not start today evening as originally planned.

With the 9.7.10 test still running we're having too much of a workload to be able to support it accordingly, so we have to move it to after the 9.7.10 playtest finished and 9.7.10 has been released, which we do hope to achieve within this week, depending on feedback of that playtest, but given easter holidays are coming up might take a bit longer. It's important for us to get that parallel version out the door to be able to fully focus on the challenges presented by the new major update, which unfortunately happened later than we had anticipated when the original roadmap was made. At the same time we do not want to rush 9.7.10, given it's what you'll be playing on until Update 10 releases.

Sorry from the whole team!

The playtest once available will likely start on CEST evening, though.

Originally posted by Ryan: @SLG-Dennis thank you for the hard work your putting into the game but why on Earth have you waited till now with no official announcement via steam or social media with regards to delays and instead let us all wait till the day of release and instead reply to peoples comments informing us of the delays

Because the decision was made in today mornings production meeting, until last week we still hoped to be able to do it. The announcement was made in our main channel, Discord. We don't typically announce minor stuff like this on Steam frontpage, e.g. there has never been playtests announced on Steam either, despite them happening for every single update. Same for the livestreams every week and other info. That's just part of our content policy.

This is about a testing release, we'll update you when it's available on our discord, as stated in our announcement. We're working on hotfixes for issues that came with 9.7.10 currently to polish that up, just as noted as well.

We have _never_ and _nowhere_ stated that Update 10 is releasing in April, it was always about the public playtest. If you recheck the roadmap post on Steam, it says exactly that as well, all that happened is that we had to move the playtest a bit due to finishing off 9.7.10 - and that has been explained in the statement above. Even the statement given states clearly that "9.7.10 is the version you will play on until release of Update 10", which is why we need to get it done correctly, as it's still a few months until then. Not sure what outlets you are talking about, all the announcements made by me reflect this - be it here, on discord, on reddit, facebook or twitter. And those are the only official channels, anything anywhere else is not official.

I've checked all our Twitter posts, none of them refer to that. Given I also manage the livestreams I know that there has not been any such information there either. And the roadmap post literally states it's the public playtest, so the information has always been there.

Also please note that both OP and everyone else in this thread is actually talking about the playtest, not a final release. So people here definitely seem to have gotten the information.

I'm happy to be blamed for any mistakes we actually made, but stating we would have announced the release of Update 10 for start of April is simply wrong.