This was the surprise from the official discord yesterday.
"Several important fixes for missions, talents, crops and a surprise or two."
Weblink: https://discord.com/channels/715761957667602502/721300520412774450/922431434885566484
General discord link: https://discord.gg/surviveicarus
Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/4308254080132414341
Like some form of reward, they have generously brought characters back from death that they initially caused. Merry f**king Xmas.
https://c.tenor.com/zJSKhoEmKdAAAAAC/generous-god.gif
The audacity
Not that it really matters anymore. Anyone need a new level 40 character? pm me. ill tell you how. Downvotes be damned.
The characters needed to be revived because of the mistakes we made as a development team, as I said in the announcement on discord:
We've had a few concerning bugs and situations that resulted in people losing characters. We made some backend changes yesterday that had some unforeseen consequences resulting in an outage - however these changes have allowed us more flexibility with how we manage our back-end systems. We also predeployed a version of the game last night that will show more than three characters, so that when you login you may see more than three characters. I have revived 22,000 characters the database has set to abandoned (left on prospect), and 42,000 characters that were dead (on a prospect and downed). A more detailed post will follow.
There is nothing "rewarding" about it - it was deemed that the bugs and issued that had killed people were serious enough, that we needed to take drastic action. Which we did.
I actually had to make the changes live in the database myself, it was a very stressful change involving a complex query. We can't change the past the launch was what it was. But we are doing everything we can to try and help make the game what it can be.
If you have suggestions on that, post them - but sometimes I feel you're just trying to poke holes at things for the sake of it.
There is nothing "rewarding" about it - it was deemed that the bugs and issued that had killed people were serious enough, that we needed to take drastic action. Which we did.
That doesn't alter the fact that it was portrayed as some sort of gift, or favour. "Happy Christmas | Your Abandoned Characters have been Revived!"
Thanks santa!
Don't get me wrong here, I really want the game to be all it can be.
I would love to post a long list of appraisals and suggestions, but without any kind of roadmap, it makes it very hard to do so.
Poking holes for the sake of it? No. Poking holes because there are already tears in the seams.
You are absolutely correct there - I could not describe that post as anything less than tone deaf.
That's very much my fault - I was too focused on the actual changes and when asked to review the post, i did not. Going to discuss with team that maybe we should retract that - and make a post that more ... in line with the reality.
I think we got the messaging right on discord, just not on steam - sorry about that.
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