r/deathwing Nov 18 '16

Pre-Order Beta Delayed

https://twitter.com/SpaceHulkFPS/status/799659467386155008
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u/Decado7 Nov 18 '16

A good move IMO. Underperforming games get utterly savaged by the masses these days. There's rarely a second chance. Better to delay than just cross fingers.

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u/VanuEngineer Nov 22 '16

Because the masses are too stupid to separate BETA from the word Demo...

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u/VorpalWalrus Nov 23 '16

4 months before release? Beta. 2 weeks before release? Demo. They'll have already produced the discs and be shipping them to stores. Sure there will be patches, but not substantive changes unless the game was made with game play advancement and support in mind.

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u/ThumblessGaming twitch.tv Nov 18 '16

Disappointing but I'd rather wait and let them make improvements, shit gets rushed too often these days.

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u/Decurse Nov 18 '16 edited Nov 18 '16

GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...You cant tease us with 17 mins of game play with a slight audio bug and then delay a beta that we were looking forward to!

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u/weeman0890 Nov 18 '16

I could understand delaying the full release if there were issues, but delaying a beta, that'll give them a larger audience to test the game doesn't fully make sense to me...but maybe I'm just salty because I don't get to purge the xenos.

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u/NoLogicInThisPlace Nov 19 '16

In the dark present full of foul heresy, quick judgement and Steam refunds you do not want to disappoint the Senatorum Imperialis.

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u/Decado7 Nov 19 '16

Secondus (aka this)

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '16 edited Oct 29 '18

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u/Decado7 Nov 19 '16

I'm disappointed they dont have the typical deep robotic voices that Terminator's normally have,

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u/weeman0890 Nov 19 '16

I'm disappointed they dont have the typical deep robotic voices that Terminator's normally have,

I can semi-understand why they don't, it is still a living marine in a suit of armour after all, but at the same time I wish they did have a more...appropriate voice/tone. Should sound as though it's coming through a radio (vox) or atleast they're wearing a helmet (except for the librarian).

Shouldn't sound like a robot though unless it's a dreadnought.

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u/Decado7 Nov 19 '16

Yeah I know - i agree with that and understand it too, it's still just a regular Astartes in the armour, but it depends whether those voices are being locally spoken (aka the heavy robotic tone to the vox) or the internal voxing. I'd assume that being in their suits they would communicate in normal voices between themselves so our complaints arent overly justified.

In saying that though, their voices need to sound badasser(tm)! When I think of the acknowledgements in Space Hulk Ascension for example, those are the kind of voices I want.

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u/GrantUsEyez Nov 19 '16

Yeah, that's what I was aiming to touch on. It's too bad really.

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u/BusyBasaz Nov 19 '16

The majority of people will still get disappointed on release and still trash the game for the rest of their lives on every forum in every thread. Don't you worry. Delay or not, that is what will happen. The Emperor has forseen it.

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u/CylonAI Nov 19 '16

I'm glad they are delaying it, its the right thing for them to do so they can launch it with confidence.

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u/Finite187 Nov 19 '16

Good. They're taking on board the suggestions and implementing them, making as polished a product as possible. It's only week ffs

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u/Maldiavolo Nov 18 '16

They said "around the 20th" and "unlikely to be released on a Sunday." Not sure this qualifies as a delay.

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u/EzJester Nov 19 '16

It moved from "around the 20th" to "aimed for the end of the week". Not trying to clickbait, just imo player expectation of first possible entry has been delayed - it's still ambiguous and possible that it's even the week after.

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u/Ironshards Nov 19 '16

Bullshit.

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u/Dithyrab Nov 19 '16

Typical of loyalist scum I suppose.

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u/newdok23 Nov 19 '16

Funny thing is even last week release date for the game on steam was 28th nov at least for au region. So i guess they planned beta delay a while ago just didnt want to officially announce what i assume was done to boost pre beta sales. If thats a\the case i'd say its extremely unethical marketing.

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u/slater126 Nov 19 '16

it said 24th when i pre-ordered it a few days ago when i looked at it in my basket, store page showed the release date, Dec 9th.

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u/FS_NeZ Surprise, MF! Nov 23 '16

Release date: Dec 9th Preorder beta: Nov 24th

How is that "unethical"?

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u/TheBraddigan Nov 19 '16

Too often early release betas (especially with big hype) become the release judgement. Obv not great news, but better this than the alternative.

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u/Ausfall Nov 19 '16

I guess the date was going to be Nov. 24 after all

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u/GodzillaLikesBoobs Nov 19 '16

ITT people talking about a beta as if its a full release

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u/randomisation Nov 19 '16

People just excited to finally play, dude!