[2022] Why was Owlcat hyping up Devil EE changes within the past month only to cut them?

Originally posted by GrandConqueror

I also asked regarding the weak sauce heavy armor builds, "Its designed the same way as the tabletop". Like excuse me?!?! f**king Total War Warhammer trilogy ain't a 1:1 recreation of tabletop Warhammer Fantasy yet Creative Assembly still nailed it with improvements to suit the gameplay in a video game. Also they said there was no issue with monk dipping for tank builds and working intended.

Originally posted by RegalGoat

Not to throw stones at you directly Starrok, but this was flagged as an issue all the way back in beta. And it was already an issue in Kingmaker, which didn't have Mythic features. I am beyond confused as to how there's an effort to fix this now when it should have been caught in the earliest stages of mythic progression design, then caught again pre-release, then caught again immediately postlaunch. And now its 'waiting for implementation' after the launch of 'Enhanced' Edition? I'll be honest, this feels like a supremely slow turnaround on a solution.

Originally posted by CWagner

I'm not exaggerating, within roughly the past month Starrok was on here teasing the EE and hyping everyone up for substantial changes or at the very least additional content for the Devil mythic path

Looking through his profile, the earliest thing I see is 3 days ago

Swarm and Devil received some new dialogues and decisions.

Then 2 days ago:

Devil receives new act 5 content in EE.

I must say, I feel like they have a very good point with the datamining driving the hype about devil and NOT Owlcat.

Unless some other account said more about devil or Starrok deleted comments?

Originally posted by Baroness_Ayesha

I mean, the f**k? There's zero way they didn't know a month out that they weren't going to be able to finish it without running out of money or whatever the excuse is.​

Oh yes there is. Maybe the publisher decides to not encourage this particular kind of content and tells Owlcat to cut it. Maybe something else happens in the studio and suddenly the budget for this feature is needed elsewhere. Maybe the feature just isn't working out, this quest just isn't coming together in a satisfying way at all, and you'd rather leave it unimplemented than force something mediocre or sub-standard into the game. And any of these things can happen mere days before shipping, especially for a digital update. You can pour your heart into something and try to make it work before another person has to step in and say, "enough".

Things happen during game development. They were likely working on it right up to the final days before realizing it wouldn't work out for any number of reasons. Welcome to the perils of updates to a game, and why developers never talk about things until they're nearly ready to ship anymore. All sorts of things can go wrong.

Is it a bit disappointing? Sure. Is it some kind of elaborate deception designed to Hurt The Fans? Absolutely not.

Originally posted by Steravian

Datamining is one thing but the main problem IMO is that fans simply expected much more late mythic paths content than this.

Remember all the complaining when it was discovered that Golden Dragon would not get anything? While people do not like any features being cut its the more anticipated ones being cut that hurts the most. Fans were NOT compainig about Golden Dragon being so shafted because they love the Golden Dragon far more than the other late mythic paths but because they hoped that ALL these late mythic paths would be greatly expanded.

Whether it was Swarm, Devil, Legend or Golden Dragon that was left with nothing fans would get equally angry.

And now that they learned that while other late mythic paths other than Golden Dragon will get some content...said amount of content falls quite short to what they hoped.

That is why everyone is so angry IMO.

They fear that those mythic paths might have lost their only chance to get truly polished.

Even if not all hope is lost its hardly surprising that they are so angry.

Originally posted by MrWhite3724

Look, Starrok, most people don’t blame you, it’s actually the opposite. You have been great help this year with open and clear communication.

The problem comes with the name EE mostly. People expect Enchased Edition to substantially improve the game and it didn’t. A couple mystic feats or some broken balance issues aside, act 5 for example is universally understood to lack content. We know the reason, rushed development, Larian Studios love to that too. But their Definitive Edition changed that while this … added photo mode as one of the major features.

Or take Crusade. You specifically collected feedback about it couple of month before, you know it’s a lackluster experience… and nothing is changed.

My point is damage control aside, next time don’t call major patches Enhanced Edition. Call it what it is - a patch.

Again, nothing against you, you are amazing. And I hope you can bring some of the feedback to your marketing team

Originally posted by DroningBureaucrats

I'll try to catch you while you're here, a fairly game breaking bug for me has been getting to about level 11 in the roguelike mode of midnight isles and being forced to start over because the boss didn't spawn, locking me in the island with a 'You can't leave until you find the boss and take its treasure' message, only to start a new run, get to ~lvl 11 again and get hit with the same issue.

I love this game and the roguelike mode especially but this really took the wind from my sails, no pun intended. Is this a known issue, any chance of a fix sometime soon?

Thank you for interacting with the community, we appreciate it even if some of us let our frustration run looser than others.