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I guess so yeah. I think rounding off the post instead with; "And the Android Beta has no set date yet! We'll only be talking about it when we have one!" would also be just as disappointing. It is still on our roadmap and mentioned in the January 2022 Gazette so didn't think people were too anxious. It might have been worth emphasizing in the January Gazette that it was expected in February though

The original dates given were always an estimation. Realistically, we would not have been able to give you the information you were after until we had the go-live date set. Therefore, there's not much we could have updated you on, really, other than "it's delayed" which is already fairly obvious.

Hey :) So, Android Open Beta is scheduled February 28th now. The exact line of the newspost was:
As mentioned above, our Android Open Beta is is currently scheduled for the end of January 2022. Please note that this is an estimate, and could be subject to change if further issues arise. Provided all goes well with the Open Beta, we'd like to roll out the app officially around late February 2022.

A month's delay isn't ideal for sure, but this date was given as our very best estimation at the time. If we had failed to provide an estimation in the newspost, and gave no date at all, I think people still would've been upset.

Since then, we've had some unexpected things crop up, so I apologise for the delay! :)

The Android Open Beta is now looking to go live to players for the 28th February. :) You should be receiving information in next weeks' game update post too. I believe that the blogpost gave the end of January as an estimate and did state that it was an estimate rather than an exact prediction. In all honesty, unexpected things have happened which delayed it a bit longer than we hoped.

We'll be live on Thursday 17th February on Twitch with another General Q&A! It's time to get your questions in so reply with them in this post!

I've been noticing a couple of posts recently about the questions for General Q&As feeling a bit lacklustre (the quality of the questions and the topics you want us to discuss). I wanted to give some context on it if you were interested. If you're not interested, please just skip this next bit and just ask us your questions!

The general aim of our Weekly Q&As is to connect you with the developers, provide more transparency on game changes and answer your questions where we can. Developers who agree to come on our weekly Q&As are there by choice - it's totally vo...

We also ask for team feedback on major blogs, so having 3 big blogs go out (Poll 76, PvP Arena & Raids 3 in a short timeframe) demands a lot of extra time on the devs to give their feedback, and if this is rushed it can be detrimental to the process. Also, all our blogs go through another team before posting (Editorial) so it makes sense to space them out and not increase their workload too much in one go. Thirdly we'd be looking to poll each of these things separately so it makes sense to have one poll running while we're taking feedback for another projectrather than have one poll for all of these things. Hope this helps!

It's a weird coincidence I believe, we knew about this for a while but we've had the Operators on Wilderness changes so it was pushed down on the priorities.

We mentioned on the game update changelog that we'd look into ironman-only instances if the team has time. I'll make sure that this is brought up again as I've seen lots of feedback on it. I don't have an answer for when this change would occur but I'll certainly be bringing it up to the team and voicing your frustrations and desire for this change!

We actually discussed this one! I believe the team felt that equipping fragments are necessary to have their benefits. Otherwise, you're getting the benefits of an item that you haven't really equipped which isn't consistent with the rest of the game as it's not a passive type of mechanic that works while in your inventory or bank.

I haven’t checked exactly what’s coming tomorrow other than the Bday event. But essentially the team is moving onto their other scheduled work now so we will monitor and resolve bugs or big issues, as far as tweaks go however we need to manage the time spent on those as we are 4 weeks into the League and need to be moving onto other projects as well. I hope that’s okay, just trying to bring a bit more transparency to the way we are working!

Hey there! Right so in terms of Leagues there will naturally be less updates to it as time goes on.

The team who were making the fixes for the first 4 weeks made some hotfixes and took a lot of feedback to make some changes but the team have now been moved onto their work outside of Leagues.

This isn’t to say we aren’t monitoring Leagues at all but bugs and issues are going to the bugs/issues/QoL team now which also deal with bugs and issues across the main game.

We will fix any issues impacting gameplay for Leagues, but these need to be weighed up against how much resources it will require vs how long Leagues will last for. In short we are likely not going to add more content in at this stage and only focus on immediate pressing issues that impact user experience. I hope this helps but sorry if it’s not the answer you hoped for!

It should be good to go now. Our web team would be interested in RSN's of anyone affected by this as it was to do with a measure they put in place this morning, so feel free to let me know this if you were blocked and couldn't get access, and I'll pass it on!

I have passed this onto the web team to investigate, apologies for any inconvenience casued!

Thank you Namzeh, this has been fixed. Hoping we can do some more lore streams in future! For this week I'll try and get a General Q&A going. :)

gl with ur exam!!

Yeah

If you have it unlocked on your collection log, we can track it back and restore it via Probita. But not otherwise. Basically we need a variable on your character to be able to restore it.

I'll be honest here and just say it was something the team realized only after the blog went live, and if we had run the numbers more thoroughly we wouldn't have initially proposed such a high rate. I'm really sorry about that. I hope our explanation suffices and I hope it doesn't affect your experience with the blog/polling.

The PvP Arena Blog is coming this week which has pushed back the Raids 3 Rewards blog by a week or so, I'd expect the Raids 3 blog to be next week. Sorry about the delay.