Game News Torment Kickstarter Update #56: Beta Released to All Backers, Game Delayed to Q1 2017

[Septaryeth]

So all its left is the localization?
Is it safe to say the Beta is the English-only version that can be played from the beginning to the end, if not slightly unpolished?
2017 sounds really far away and there seem to be nothing else on this year.

 

[Infinitron]

So all its left is the localization?
Is it safe to say the Beta is the English-only version that can be played from the beginning to the end, if not slightly unpolished?
2017 sounds really far away and there seem to be nothing else on this year.

It's not the full game, only the first part. And I'm sure they have more to do besides localization.

 

[Nihiliste]

So they're targeting around April 2017 based on the November comment.

Pretty damn late.

 

[Infinitron]

So they're targeting around April 2017 based on the November comment.

Pretty damn late.

early Q1 2017

That would be January, early February.

 

[Nihiliste]

So they're targeting around April 2017 based on the November comment.

Pretty damn late.

early Q1 2017

That would be January, early February.

They said they could rush it out by November but needed 6 months?

 

[Infinitron]

They said they could rush it out by November but needed 6 months?

I think that means six months from now, not six months on top of November.

 

[80Maxwell08]

So is the "Backer Edition" on the Torment pledge managing website the beta key they are talking about?
EDIT: I'm an idiot who just read the update. Never mind me. I'll be in the beg thread.

 

[CyberWhale]

No KS update shout-out for Copper Dreams and Stygian?

 

[Urthor]

The release date could easily be late March, whatever other games get pushed into the new year and what the release schedule is in the first three months.

As a mid range title, InEx will take any opportunity to get to #1 on the Steam charts it can get. They'll jiggle around to get that all important oxygen, they have to considering their sales forecasts are likely Pillars of Eternity's plus 20% at best.

Late March is on the cards, it's unlikely but if there's a big traffic jam with bigger games taking the mid January Steam oxygen, then February is a write off if say Mass Effect Andromeda happens, March would be the release date.

Ideally they'll probably go for mid February, that's the best release date before the early year AAAs start dropping March/April/May, and obviously January has Christmas hangover and Steam sale backlog fatigue so it's not super ideal.

 

[Dwarvophile]

C-can't decide if it's bad news or good news

 

[t]

So the date when from late 2014 during the KS campaign to 2017 :D

 

[Brother None]

So the date when from late 2014 during the KS campaign to 2017 :D

We already announced it wouldn't be 2014 while the Kickstarter was still ongoing.

 

[Fairfax]

So the date when from late 2014 during the KS campaign to 2017 :D

Star Citizen will be released before this game. Let that sink in.

 

[t]

So the date when from late 2014 during the KS campaign to 2017 :D

We already announced it wouldn't be 2014 while the Kickstarter was still ongoing.

I know, I know. It's only two years of the official delay. Hopefully it's going to be well spent.

 

[skyst]

Beta is kind of neat so far. They gutted the first fight thankfully. I explored the first area a bit with two characters. Lots of c&c around the first real encounter, which is pretty interesting if that level of freedom holds up for the rest of the game. The combat has options to talk to your opponents, fiddle with stuff on the battlefield, etc, most of it seems pointless when you could just be attacking the enemy - probably more valuable later in the game. I'm somewhat worried with the overexposure of crazy technology; some of the stuff seen in the first zone would be really interesting in another setting. In Numenera, it all feels so mundane that it's not very exciting to examine it. Some stuff seems 'weird for the sake of being weird', like a Sigil fan fic.

Still looking forward to checking it out further.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Well, so far...15 hours spent on the beta and I can easily say so far: This is pretty much the game I was hoping it would be. I'm kind of shocked, actually...what with how lackluster WL2 ended up being.

 

[throwaway]

Wonder what the stats of people willing to blueball themselves are going to be now that we've all gotten a chance to try the beta. I, for one, will wait until the game hits gold (usually wait for the EEs but it won't be as big a factor in a storyfag).

 

[an Administrator]

Torment has also grown to around 1 million words – bigger than the Bible

Why Fargo is too obsessed with the words count? Quantity over quality?

 

[Infinitron]

Torment has also grown to around 1 million words – bigger than the Bible

Why Fargo is to obsessed with the words count? Quantity over quality?

Because it sounds impressive to middlebrow normalfags and the man's a salesman.

 

[Excidium II]

At least he's not advertising the number of stats. You know it's bad when that happens.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Because it sounds impressive to middlebrow normalfags and the man's a salesman.

No, retards. It's because that is one of the things PS:T is legendary for.

 

[Excidium II]

I don't even know how many words PS:T has, but MCA himself said it should have had less.

 

[Athelas]

No, retards. It's because that is one of the things PS:T is legendary for.

You are aware that Baldur's Gate 2 and countless of Japanese erotic visual novels have a significantly higher word count than Torment?

 

[Jaesun]

Mass Effect has a larger word count than PST ...

 

[Roguey]

Mass Effect has a larger word count than PST ...

Torment allegedly has 75,000 lines of dialogue and 800,000 words whereas Mass Effect has 20,000 lines of dialogue and 400,000 words.