Friday the 13th: The Game udkom under stor bevågenhed tidligere på året, og til trods for stærke salgstal så var en god portion af de spændte fans ret skuffede over den tilstand som spillet udkom i. Der var tonsvis af tekniske fejl, og ikke bare, udviklerne bag har endnu ikke udgivet nok opdateringer, der blandt andet har gjort at Xbox One-versionen er nær uspillelig.
Udviklerne har været helt stille, men nu bryder de endelig den stilhed i et indlæg på forum. Først taler de om en singleplayer-indholdet, som de lovede ville udkomme i løbet af sommeren:
"Let's talk about single player. Currently we are behind on the Summer date. There are number of reasons why this is, but it all boils down to making sure we are not releasing new content while still having issues with the core game. There were a number of issues we needed to address with the games stability prior to committing additional resources to making Single Player happen. We now feel we have turned that corner and have doubled down on Single Player to try and catch up.
We have hired additional people, are working with contractors and even diverted others working on other tasks to help. We have also decided to take a look at Single Player and we are breaking it into a number of different experiences that can be released independent of one another. This way as soon as one thing is done we can launch it without having to wait on everything else.
I also want to address the misconception that certain content we launch affects single player. It doesn't. An artist working on outfits is not the same person that is programming AI. The designer setting up scripted events for single player is not making the new Jason models. What does impact Single Player are the bugs and stability issues; that AI programmer may have to shift to fixing a bug occasionally. The designer may have to shift to fix balance or gameplay bugs on maps. This is why we are delayed. We made the decision to fix rather than add new stuff which again, is what caused the delay."
Derudover fortæller udvikleren, at de manglende Xbox One-opdateringer skyldes Microsofts certificeringsproces:
"I know we have been pretty quiet in terms of the Xbox not getting patches or being delayed but it is really because there happens to be no good answer we can give the community that fixes the problem with delays. The reality is that, as of right now, the cert process on Xbox takes the longest of the platforms and if something happens it starts the process over again."
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