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Originally posted by drumstix42

Note that I was not talking about the team being slow, I was specifically talking about the deep mine drillers. They they mine very slowly. I edited my comment to reflect this.

I appreciate your response. I'm looking forward to a lot of the changes that are coming out on the newest experimental branch this week.

I will say however that it's been a bummer that it's taken as long as it has to address things like seeing in a cave. The torch slot will be a big help. But up to now players have been resorting to using Low shadow settings. Things like this that are such core gameplay components of the game, and are where my frustration towards play testing manifests.

Originally posted by thedeanhall

I have learned (at great pain) that you cannot balance a game by yo'yo'ing it. You make very cautious changes.

We are very aware of the balance issues and in many cases we might agree with the existence of a problem. But a short term focus is not always the best; sometimes the better solution for balance issues is to take out or change a mechanic entirely.

That also doesn't mean that we don't balance it in the meantime, but that does mean we have to design the changes, develop them, and test them.

I know it can be very frustraiting - but remember games are made by people! Things take time. I certainly wholeheartedly disagree that:

• things are not playtested
• the team is laughably slow

We even put together a team (myself included) who worked through the holidays.

I totally agree we have a lot more balance work to do - but I absolutely disagree that the team isn't committed and working extremely hard to fix bugs, add...

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