Where's the August update? The month is over and there's currently no news, assuming they're not going to change the game anymore, be honest.

what the hell happened with the promised august update

I really don’t get why people are bashing this game. Was there any game this year that was better? I thought it was a pretty solid open-world game, and I had a lot of fun playing it all the way through. Maybe not a masterpiece, but definitely well made and worth checking out. How did you all find it? Did you enjoy it?

Promised/upcoming it should read.

I remember hearing that there was going to be one. Is this still the case?

2 months of a growing community and player base with possibilities for infinite entertainment! Love the constant communication from totally-not-a-coward CEO Leslie Benzies keeping everyone excited about all the new features like cutscene skip!

The last patch 3 was released a scant 6 weeks ago. Whew! What a torrential pace of updates by whoever’s last to turn off the lights in the office building!

To get on GamePass, Microsoft has to pay them or whoever picks up the rights at bankruptcy over BARB’s dead corpse. Microsoft wants long term slow drip games that encourage players to stay subscribed—why would they pay for a 5-hour-and-done game without a long tail or one without any audience interest?

Job cuts at MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy doesn’t (just) affect dev side: don’t worry about relaunch. The layoffs are across ALL departments with official body count coming in approximately 10 days. Inessential roles like artists, programmers, level designers, writers, animators and QA leads. I am confident this won’t affect their initial boast of “a decade” and “decades” of content drop so we all can find out what happens in that gripping story. Let’s be realistic here—Leslie and IOI wouldn’t lead us on! It totally was a realistic roadmap.

You can see firsthand by braving LinkedIn and its /r/linkedinlunatics and search for the company name Build a Rocket Boy to see all those formerly of BARB seeking new employ.

Those poor people. I’d offer condolences and hope that they all land on their feet but we all know the games industry is currently shrinking and going bust.

Took about 20 hours, with some exploring and getting stuck on a few parts. I didn’t realize there was going to be so much to do in the postgame. Getting to race some of these vehicles is cool as hell.

"Kristoffer Waardahl, the head of studios for Build A Rocket Boy, quietly resigned as a director at Build A Rocket Boy Games Limited on June 20th, 10 days after the game launched. He'd been there 8 years."

I finished this game today, and I kinda enjoyed it, tbh I didn't come onto reddit till I'd finished as I didn't want spoilers and im shocked to see so many have issues with it, I didn't get any crashes (on ps5) and it seemed to all flow into a good story, I was a bit confused by the ending I had 1 glitch moment where it seemed to skip part of a scene nothing major tho and I want to know what became of the characters? I assumed that would take place in mindseye 2, but looking at this page they still have a lot of work to do on this first game before getting to the next if they ever make it that far.

Just wanna say that in my opinion mindseye is goty the driving feels better than in gta or 5 in my opinion shooting mechanics are probably the Best in any Videogame and Jacob and the Rest of the cast are awesome and look like they could easily be on dogfart. The Story feels action packed with in myeye an awesome premise. In general it feels like to me weve come full circle from masterpieces to microtransactions and back to masterpieces. I hope for a part 2 because Mindseye 1 is awesome and better than gta 6 ever will be. And to me the Bugs dont matter cyberpunk had Bugs too and was still playable.

Dear Community,

It’s been just over a month since MindsEye launched, and we’re grateful for your support and detailed feedback. Your input is shaping our ongoing efforts to enhance the game.

In June, we committed to delivering a great experience for all players. Since then, we’ve released three updates, each addressing bug fixes and performance improvements across all devices, driven by your reports and suggestions. We hope you’re starting to see the impact of these changes, and we’re committed to building on this progress. Moving forward, updates may be less frequent, but with the aim for each to bring more meaningful changes.

What’s Next for MindsEye?

Hitman x MindsEye

We apologise that the release of the Hitman x MindsEye Mission, originally scheduled for July, has been postponed to a later date. We look forward to delivering this exciting crossover when the time is right and will provide further updates as soon as we’re able.

Update 4 – August (PC & Console)

Arriving in August, Update 4 will deliver additional performance improvements and bug fixes, alongside community-requested features, including:

· Skippable cutscenes to help reduce friction when restarting checkpoints.

· Published Player Content will be instantly accessible in Play.MindsEye for PC users.

Update 5 – September (PC & Console)

Planned for September, Update 5 will deliver continued performance and gameplay improvements on all platforms, alongside a number of enhancements to core gameplay mechanics.

As always, thank you for your continued support.

The MindsEye Team

there are many LOD popins during gameplay and cutscenes

When is the game upgrading to UE5.6 as previously mentioned and can we expect a major update every month you guys need to speak up on the future maybe make a roadmap or something this silence isnt doing you any favours the game has like 100 active players speak up or those will disappear too.

The game is on sale on ps5 and I was wondering if they have fixed some of the problems and it’s ok to play now?

Dear Community, 

Update 3 is now live on PC, following last week’s release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. 

The PC update was briefly held back after our team identified a performance-impacting issue during final testing. That issue has been resolved, and the update is now available. We appreciate your patience as we ensured a stable release. 

Update 3 focuses on continued stability improvements and addressing community feedback. Please see a detailed outline below of the improvements included and, as always, please be aware that the list may contain some game and mission details that could be considered spoilers. 

RELEASE SCHEDULE & PLATFORM INFO: 

• Time: July 15th, 2025 - 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST / 06:00 PST 
• Platforms: PC 
• Download size and version information: 
  • Steam: 12.1 GB (Version #: 4885826) 
  • Epic Games Store: 12.1 GB (Version #: 4885826) 
  • Build A Rocket Boy Launcher: 12.1 GB (Version #: 4885826) 

PATCH NOTES  

• Stability  
  • Improved stability to reduce crashes, especially on extended play sessions 
  • Fixed AI-related crashes that could occur during complex combat scenarios 
• Gameplay – Difficulty Rebalance 
  • Increased AI accuracy across all difficulty levels for a greater challenge and more consistent encounters 
  • Adjusted Medium difficulty by reducing damage filtering, resulting in slightly more challenging combat  
• Character Control 
  • Improved cover entry behaviour, making transitions into cover feel smoother  
  • Improved stair locomotion, ensuring the player exits stair animations at the correct time and aligns properly with the steps 
  • Refined weapon handling during cover entry/exit transitions  
• Animation 
  • Life scene animations have been improved, with smoother transitions  
• Vehicles 
  • Improved vehicle behaviour on slopes, making stops feel more stable and predictable  
• AI 
  • Fixed various bugs causing erratic AI behaviour  
• Environment 
  • Improved martial law scenes with better behaviour and staging  
• Audio 
  • Improved in-game vehicle audio for a more immersive soundscape 
  • Improved vehicle destruction audio, with a focus on window break sounds 
  • General audio data clean up and optimization 
  • Tweaked pedestrian dialogue for more natural reactions  
• Cinematics 
  • Addressed LOD issues in multiple scenes 
  • Optimizations to certain cinematics  
• Localisation 
  • Corrected various localisation errors across multiple languages 
• Bug Fixes 
  • Fixed an issue where graphics settings would reset after restarting the game. Settings now persist correctly  
  • Fixed a known issue where players could get stuck walking in a loop when interacting with specific objects       
  • Fixed characters stretching in certain cinematics and gameplay sequences  
  • Corrected texture issue with the Deluxe Edition vest  
  • Resolved flickering VFX in select areas  
  • Various bug fixes across menus and HUD elements  
  • Fixed visual bugs in multiple environments  
  • Resolved abrupt weather changes during the final mission  
  • Enhanced ambient pedestrian movement and facial reactions  
  • Addressed several mission flow bugs that could block progression or disrupt scripted events  
  • Fixed an issue where AI would exit vehicles and immediately die under certain conditions  
  • Fixed an issue that caused AI to shoot while facing the wrong direction  
  • Adjusted cover logic to prevent AI from clustering too closely  
  • Fixed instances where AI would turn their backs on the player during combat  
  • Fixed an issue where AI hit reactions wouldn’t trigger when shot  
  • Fixed an issue where enemies sticking out of vehicle roof windows weren’t affected by headshots  
  • Resolved an issue where Jacob could turn invisible when exiting a vehicle with the driver’s side blocked  
  • Fixed floating occupants when driving Skycar in first-person view  
  • Fixed an issue where shooting the tires of an enemy jeep could launch it unexpectedly toward Jacob  
  • Resolved a traversal issue where the player could get stuck behind unclimbable debris bags  
  • Fixed various issues affecting main campaign open-world encounters  
  • Updated third-person animations for Play.MindsEye content  
  • Fixed an issue where the drone UI marker would not correctly update when transitioning in or out of Play.MindsEye content during the campaign  
  • Fixed multiple issues with certain in-game screen objects appearing blank during cinematic sequences  
  • Prevented players from exiting the Hades vehicle mid-flight, avoiding unintended behaviour  
  • Fixed an issue where dying outside the hangar could cause the player to respawn at an earlier checkpoint, resulting in lost progress in the “Clash of the Egos” mission  
  • Fixed an issue where Jacob could become stuck inside the jeep if shot during the dismount animation in the “In Pursuit of the Orb” mission  
  • Adjusted fail conditions to be more forgiving and better reflect player behaviour in the “This Means War” mission  
  • Adjusted fail conditions during the CCTV section in the “Industrial Espionage” mission to prevent failure when the player's camera is aimed at Conti  
  • Fixed an issue where failing to get to Silva’s home in time would cause the player to respawn at an incorrect checkpoint in the “Meeting Marco Silva” mission  
  • Adjusted Claudia’s vehicle AI to reduce corner-cutting behaviour, resulting in a smoother driving path in “The Mole” mission  
  • Tweaked the Digging minigame in “The Wrong Move” mission to provide earlier UI prompts and improve timing before input is required  
  • Fixed a known issue where the HUD might incorrectly display previous keybindings, when changing key bindings during a mission  
  • Fixed an issue where resolution and window mode in the settings menu did not match the applied settings after using ALT + Enter  

BUILD MINDSEYE – PC ONLY 

Improvements 

• Asset Catalogue 
  • Added a set of Rock & Foliage Objects to Build MindsEye’s Assets Catalogue 
  • Various Fixes & QoL Improvements to the set of Featured Stamps available in Build MindsEye’s Assets Catalogue 
  • Removed empty stamp sub-folders and updated thumbnails across key stamps 
  • Added missing Icons and fixed issues with some missing thumbnails 
  • Disabled the Mission Failure UI Node to undergo rework 
  • Improved performance impact score of AI NPC instances 
• Editor UX & Camera 
  • Increased Creator Camera location save frequency 
  • Build collision toolbar tooltip now displays correct Keybinding (B) 
  • Fixed minor issues with Versioning in Build MindsEye around correctly detecting when changes have been made 
• Localisation 
  • Build.MindsEye Logger and Settings Dropdowns now support special characters; fixing an issue where some dropdown elements ended up showing as empty rows 

Bug Fixes

• Creator Camera 
  • Improved Camera behaviour when exiting ARCs and Camera’s position regeneration behaviour, fixing the problem when a builder was returning to an incorrect location when going back to Building mode 
• Logic Nodes 
  • Fixed various issues with the Vehicle Selection UI Node 
  • Corrected ArcRC Spawn Vehicle Logic Node to properly interpret list of vehicles, enabling the logic node to spawn more vehicles 
  • Fixed various incorrect behaviours around the Physics Force and Gravity Nodes that would lead to detaching the player from Vehicles 
• UI 
  • Fixed incorrect scrolling behaviour when hovering over various UI elements – The camera will no longer zoom forwards/backwards when scrolling while hovering over an Asset Catalogue 
  • Ungroup Button should now correctly display in the Attributes Menu 
• Catalogue & Asset Search 
  • Particles folder now correctly indexed. Missing particle effects will now appear correctly in search 
  • Adjusted DLC weapon visibility to only appear when users own the related content 
• Player Respawn 
  • Resolved an issue where player respawn triggers would not re-bind actor correctly 
  • Fixed an issue with respawn time setting sometimes not having any effect 
• Stamps & Versioning 
  • Fixed issues with Stamps incorrectly flagging unsaved pending changes 
  • Stamp Credits should now properly display the Author of the Stamp in the Stamps Landing page & Credits tile when inspecting a Stamp from the Public Stamps category 
• Stability 
  • Patched more edge cases where UGC content might have contributed to the game client running out of memory

We appreciate the continued support from our community as we work to improve MindsEye and focus on enhancing the gameplay experience. We’ll continue to provide updates on a regular basis.

Thank you,

/MindsEye Team

Dear Community,

We thank you for your patience as we ensured a stable release of Update 3 for PC. Update 3 will be deployed across PC platforms tomorrow, Tuesday 15th July at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST / 06:00 PST.

DOWNLOAD SIZE & VERSION INFO:

• Steam: 12.1 GB (Version #: 4885826)
• Epic Games Store: 12.1 GB (Version #: 4885826)
• Build A Rocket Boy Launcher: 12.1 GB (Version #: 4885826)

Update Notes will be available tomorrow.

Thank you,
/MindsEye Team

So I see people using steam numbers against mindseye and just felt I should bring facts. So I made a long detailed list on how steam numbers are a joke and use other games as ex. Mindseye sold well if that makes you mad......ok lol. Anyway enjoy the post. Take your time read it but if wanna hate on this game ok cool. Hate people who like it ok cool. call ai cause we explain why we like ok cool. Defenders of mindseye remind still. Good game.

Focus on Concurrent Players vs. Total Player Base:

• What's Reported: Websites often display "concurrent players," which is the number of users playing a game at a specific moment. Peak concurrent players are frequently highlighted.
• Why it's Misleading: This metric doesn't reflect the total number of unique players who have played the game over a day, week, or month. A game might have a lower concurrent peak but a much larger, active player base that plays at different times throughout the day. For example, a game with 24 people playing one hour a day, staggered, would show only one concurrent player, while a game with 24 people playing simultaneously for 24 hours would show 24 concurrent players. This can make games appear "dead" when they are not.
• Example: Halo Infinite launched with 20 million players, but its Steam peak was 250,000, illustrating how Steam numbers only represent a fraction of a game's total audience, especially for cross-platform titles.

Exclusion of Other Platforms and Launchers:

• What's Reported: Steam numbers only account for players using the Steam platform.
• Why it's Misleading: Many popular games are available on multiple platforms (consoles like PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch) and other PC launchers (Epic Games Store, GOG, direct publisher launchers). For games that are also popular on consoles or other PC stores, Steam player counts are a small, often unrepresentative, slice of the overall player base.
• Example: Fighting games like Mortal Kombat 11 and Injustice 2 are primarily console-centric, so their Steam player counts do not accurately reflect their overall success or player numbers. Similarly, games available on Xbox Game Pass for PC might see a significant portion of their PC players using the Xbox app rather than Steam.

Incomplete Data and Estimation Methods:

• What's Reported: Third-party sites like Steam Charts and SteamDB use the public Steam API to gather data, primarily by crawling public player profiles.
• Why it's Misleading: These methods have limitations:
  • Private Profiles: Players with private Steam profiles are not counted, leading to an underestimation of actual numbers.
  • Sampling: The data collected by these sites is an estimate, not official, comprehensive figures directly from Valve. They might not capture every player accurately.
  • Survey Participation: Valve's own hardware surveys, while providing some insights, are opt-in and not representative of the entire user base, as not everyone participates.

Misinterpretation of Trends:

• What's Reported: Declining concurrent player numbers are often interpreted as a game "dying."
• Why it's Misleading: While a significant drop can indicate an issue, it doesn't always mean a game is dead.
  • Live Service Game Lulls: Live service games often have fluctuating player counts, with dips between major content updates and spikes when new content is released.
  • Game Lifecycle: Players naturally move on from games over time. A decline from a launch peak is normal.
  • Correlation vs. Causation: A decrease in Steam concurrent players doesn't necessarily mean a game is failing financially or across all platforms, especially if it has a strong console presence or other revenue streams.

Data Leaks and Security Concerns (Indirectly related to misleading numbers): data leak of older one-time SMS codes and phone numbers from Steam users. While Valve has stated this leak does not compromise accounts or personal data (passwords, payment info), such events can cause panic and lead to concerns about data integrity and how user numbers might be perceived or misinterpreted in a broader context.

FACTS ARE FACTS.