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I think people are more bothered about getting a "july patch update" then getting no patch halfway into august and effectivley radio silence from the devs with the exception of the occasional rather snide or ambiguous remark or meme, which means they are aware of how upset the commjnitybis and how much it wants some information and are still not obligjng.
If they either a) didnt announce anything or b) gave us a brief and candid update in timeframes and changes to them
Everyone would shut up, but currently for all we know patchie could come tommorow or it could be end of august or mid september, we dont know.
If we had either no expectations or some info managing the expectations they gave us the people wouldnt be spamming "when patchie"
Im an in house developer for a company and god would the business go nuts if we told them patchie comming in july then just went silent with nothing but "soontm" for 6 weeks and ignored all the questions and requests for info or updates.
Nothing wrong with taking time to deliver strong content but be transparent about it.
July development update - we are updating you on the progress of development in july, not that the patch will be released in july. Could have been worded better though, I'll give you that.
As for the update itself, we're looking at splitting it into a ranked update and the a map update that will come shortly after. No reason to hold up a build for the maps, as they take a long time to get ready.
Currently we've done a bit of playtesting on the ranked stuff, found a bunch of bugs that we're fixing atm. Can't really give you a timeframe because that's just not how game development works, unfortunately.