The entire game will be translated into other languages by v1.0: French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. Cattle and Crops will speak our language well Today, on the “Albergtal” map, most of the scenarios and tutorials are present. The tutorials will be separated and added as individual missions (as was the case for a short time in the tech demo). The general storyline of the game will be revised. After v1.0, we plan to fully integrate the latest version (v3.0) of the Tombstone engine, which will not only offer a lot of optimizations, but also bring some graphical improvements. “In the phase preceding the release of version 1.0, the focus will be mainly on areas such as: the total number of objects (trees and vegetation in particular), shadow optimization, multi-threading. For developers, this is a problem and there are still a lot of improvements to be made in terms of optimization. The game requires a good hardware configuration to display a high level of detail. “We plan to port to Playstation 4 as the first console version after the release of version 1.0. Here it is back, and it's the Sony console that will be the first to serve.
It was announced at the start of development, then fell, like multiplayer, into oblivion. Porting to consoles is one of the pillars of development. We can't comment on how long it will take to develop multiplayer at this time, but this feature is high on our priority list. Phew! “We're going to be devoting a lot of our time to worker AI first.
but will arrive as an update a little later. It was a surprise, we learned last week: the multiplayer mode is no longer relevant for the final version…. The exact release date of v1.0 will probably be announced in early 2020. New content and features will be added to the game after v1.0.
"We devote our time to optimizing existing content and fixing bugs" Update 0.9 is expected before Christmas. Unsurprisingly, we stay on "polishing" until the end, there are no more new features to incorporate. MasterBrain Bytes looks back on the latest announcements unveiled last week on the different phases of development until the final version.