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HuskyDynamics has Wreckfest

20 Mar @ 8:42am

The Future of Wreckfest?

(Before y'all jump on me in the replies for this, I'm not panicking about the devs "killing" Wreckfest or anything silly like that, and I know they're not shutting it down just because WF2 entered early access today. But, given that WF2 has now entered early access, this felt like an appropriate time to ask. I'm genuinely just curious about this.)

So, with Wreckfest 2 now in early access, what does the future look like for Wreckfest 1? Obviously some players are gonna move to WF2 and some are gonna stay with WF1 (depending on how "complete" the early access version is, that might take a while), but what about the game itself?

I know that servers are all client-hosted rather than being run by Bugbear, but do they do anything to keep supporting servers or is it just client-hosted? The Tournament, for instance, is in perpetual solo mode, but it's still evidently manually switched to and from the winter mode rather than just being entirely scripted (at least, I think it is).

Basically, what I'm asking is will there be any changes to the playable extent of WF1 at the point when Bugbear decides they will no longer support it? (Again, I know that this is still a long way off, but it feels like an appropriate time to ask.)

Say, hypothetically, Bugbear decided to just drop all support for Wreckfest tomorrow. What parts of the game would still be playable, and what parts wouldn't?

Again, I'm just curious about all of this. I'm not panicking or anything silly like that, but there are certain elements of the game that seem to me to still require Bugbear's long-term support and I'd like to know what will likely happen when that support eventually ends.

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Haxscoper

20 Mar @ 9:01am

Common sense anwsers:

ad 1.: Wf2 will slowly develop like wf1 couple of years before it will be ready so ppl will still play more complete wf1.

ad 2.:Tournament will still be supported (probably) or automated in some way.

ad 3.:wf1 won't get any huge updates anymore (unless it's security).

ad 4.:Hypothetically drop all support? Tournament goes bye bye but the rest should stay the same.

If bugbear is still the same company i remembered it back in the 2000's everything should be fine, I don't believe they're so income hungry to go the way of OW2 and CS2 and put wf1 on a wheelchair without wheels. After all wf1 and wf2(pre) are/will be fully paid products. If they'll somehow do go this way, their reputation in done. Arcade racing genre especially demolition derby isn't big of a thing like cod or fortnite, it's playerbase is very specific kind of people that I hope doesn't have room temperature iq and memory of goldfish to forgive such thing.

But after all it's up to player, buy half assed beta or wait till full fledged game is released.

Last edited by Haxscoper; 20 Mar @ 9:08am

Talon

20 Mar @ 9:08am

Originally posted by Haxscoper:

But after all it's up to player, buy half assed beta or wait till full fledged game is released.

That's what Early Access is and is meant to be. Effectively, a much more public testing branch as the devs work on the game and gather feedback from the community.

Early Access isn't 'get to play the full game early', Early Access is Early Access. Expect problems, expect bugs, and file reports the developer's way so that they can be ironed out before the full release.

I swear the people of today would have given Minecraft and Terraria crap for having 'incomplete' games when those were made public during their early development.

In short: Wreckfest 2 having not much content while in Early Access isn't 'half-assed', it's being true to the original intention of Early Access.

Last edited by Talon; 20 Mar @ 9:09am

Haxscoper

20 Mar @ 9:12am

Originally posted by Talon:
Originally posted by Haxscoper:

But after all it's up to player, buy half assed beta or wait till full fledged game is released.

That's what Early Access is and is meant to be. Effectively, a much more public testing branch as the devs work on the game and gather feedback from the community.

Early Access isn't 'get to play the full game early', Early Access is Early Access. Expect problems, expect bugs, and file reports the developer's way so that they can be ironed out before the full release.

I swear the people of today would have given Minecraft and Terraria crap for having 'incomplete' games when those were made public during their early development.

Perhaps im judging it too early, I'll wait couple of months and see how things'll evolve.

Minecraft had updates every day/week/month when it was in classic/indev/infdev/alpha/beta costed 5 dollars and managed to add plenty of new things. In the first 2 years it accomplished more than in the latter. But after all it's comparing apples to oranges.

As for the terraria, didn't follow it's development so can't say.

Last edited by Haxscoper; 20 Mar @ 9:13am