appology accepted but as a punishment of ur "misbehave" u r required continue maintain this thread until TL2 release

haha, sorry guys, you know last night was seriously Thor-flooded on my social networks, I got so pissed and this infection just got on me.

Spare me. Oh my. 

I demand 1 million gold in TL2 as compensation due to all the Thor crap.

I demand 1 million gold in TL2 as compensation due to all the Thor crap.

by travisbaldree » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:13 pm

The reason there isn't a release date is because it's hard to give one with any precision.
If we DO give one, and we miss it, people will be understandably mad.
There's a LOT of game to polish - and it is time consuming, and not always predictable. The world is also an erratic place - people have family emergencies, pre-planned trips, their kids get sick, and so on and so forth.
With a small team, those life-events have a real schedule impact that is hard to predict.

Let's say I just pick a time. If we need another week when we hit that time, should we take it? Or just boot it out the door?

Why on earth would we keep the game for longer than we had to? The ONLY reason not to release it is because it isn't quite ready yet.

My hope is that after seeing the beta you can rest assured that the quality of the game will be high, and that it was such a large chunk of content that you can also be assured that we're not pulling the wool over anybody's eyes about the scope and polish of the final product.

The reason that it is harder to make posts with concrete game information in them is because the people who provide the content for those posts are working on the game. Making those posts takes time from completing the game. In addition, we beta'd a big, big, chunk of TL2. Most of the details of how it works aren't terribly secret - most unrevealed information is content that we don't necessarily want to spoil.

Anyway, it is understandable that folks are anxious to get a release date - my wife would really, really like one too. And we will announce one, but only when we're pretty sure that there's little chance we won't meet it.

Travis

travisbaldree
Runic Staff

by travisbaldree » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:34 pm

Our target release date is still the, admittedly vague, 'summer' - that's why we didn't post a release date when the preorders went live. We didn't have a precise time.

Travis

by travisbaldree » Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:17 pm

So, today I tuned several sets of spawnclasses, tracked down an issue with easing in non-environmental sounds based on an event, set up a few minor monster skills, and found an optimization issue with non-baked collideable roompieces in an act 3 level that led me to a fix which shaved a lot of loading times down. I also fixed 3 crashes that have crept in over the past week, and debugged some issues with collision normals on scaled non-bakeable invisible meshes. Charged bolts weren't properly damaging enemy units on procs, and I fixed that too. Whee! Exciting, yes?  I am now implementing several sexier tier bonuses on some Embermage skills.


Travis

This quit interesting, got one thread at Runic forum that dev been pumping with update since last night.

http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=30100

I post some interesting reply from dev:
and for those want to roll Embermage, this may insterest you.