After starting early access in September and planning to launch this year, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt has delayed its full launch and is preparing to close the servers until it is done. The developers, Sharkomob said that they want to focus on improving the battle royale game after feedback, including the battle cheats. When Vampire: The Dress Up Game Everyone Really Wants mired in indeterminate development hell, I know some have found comfort in sucking drops of satisfaction from Bloodhunt — what do you say, gang?
Sharkmob says in yesterday’s announcement. “Based on key lessons from the start of this season, we’ve decided to take the time necessary to address the valuable feedback we’ve received and postpone the release until early 2022.”
Rather than postponing the entire launch, they are temporarily closing the game. They say that closing the servers will help “ensure the development teams are fully focused on implementing collected responses” during early access.
The servers will close on Monday, November 22nd at 9am, although before that they will give you a huge XP boost so you can try to finish your battle if you want. Previous players will also be invited to test further before launch. Unlocks, Tokens, purchased items, stats etc will move to full launch phase.
As for what Sharkmob thinks needs attention to fix, the issues they plan to focus on include increasing performance, expanding character customization, improving referrals for new players, and doing something about it. cheat. Cheating is a huge problem for the game, cited in numerous negative reviews on Steam (it has a ‘Mixed’ rating above all, though).
Sharkmob said: “While we have resolved most of the major mining activity reported to date and are working on some new bugs that appear to have cropped up recently, we are not satisfied. that our processes and systems are where they should be. “We are currently investigating different solutions to make it harder and more frustrating for players who are banned from creating new accounts, looking into better reporting tools, and even evaluating anti-virus providers.” other fraud. We hope to be able to share more information soon.”
Sharkmob’s announcement has more information about the various changes and plans.
If you want to try before you start, you can download Bloodhunt for free On steam. Dear reader, have you played? What was it like?
As for Bloodlines 2, the last thing we heard was Paradox seems to completely cancel it before deciding to take the game from its original developers and hand it over to another unknown team. They have yet to explain what is happening or why.
Disclosure: Cara Ellison, a former RPS columnist and old friend of mine, worked on Bloodlines 2.
