Stiicky 🇮🇨

Once again, I feel really lucky. But I have to be honest; We have been a bit overwhelmed with the response, and I mean it literally.. it feels like we’ve spent our whole time fighting bottom feeder cheaters and constant DDOS attacks… On top of which, with the sheer amount of physical and mental exhaustion from the last few weeks.. we decided to take a bit of a reset- not everyone but a good chunk of the team have been forced to use holiday this week. Thats why we’ve been “officially” quieter.. during said holidays, most people had to work a fair bit! I hope you don’t see this as resting on our laurels but instead see it as us finishing a sprint and taking a breather to prepare for a marathon. We feel a bit out of control with how big things have gone and how much extra security we have been forced to do. But I still believe in our plan and ask you to believe in our team. The next part of this journey is going to get spicy, we wont have fixed everything, people will begin to say we aren’t listening, you may even see people start to panic about player count! But we’re here for the long haul, we’re in a position where we can try make 1.0 and beyond exactly what we want it to be, no compromises, that’s the dream right? Thanks for all the support, we won’t always get it right and we haven’t on this first balance pass.. but we will change it every season to keep it fresh and to keep trying new things. Cheers guys. 👊

WHY ISN’T IT JUST OPEN? 🤔 On the surface, this might seem like a good idea, if you’re comparing our systems to AAA Franchises, they have very mature and proven systems that have been used on countless iterations of their franchises. Imagine there is a house fire, you’re a firefighter.. you turn up and your sole job is to put the fire out.. then after the fact when the house has burned down… it’s not until the days after that you figure out what the source of the blaze was. In this situation, what we’re doing is starting a controlled fire and seeing what burns the fastest to help us prevent and manage a blaze if one does occur in the future. Our stuff, is all new.. and whilst its subject to a lot of automated testing with fake clients… real humans are different. If we open the flood gates, very very few systems hold up to the numbers we hit in our first beta, having 100,000 players spam a queue, isn’t that useful to us.. What we want to know is really boring stuff, like “what happens when over 100k players are in the server browser, and everyone is clicking on servers..” It’s infinitely more difficult to find the cause of an issue if everything is on fire, and that’s the best analogy here. So, if you really want to give the game a go, pre-order the game and you will guarantee your access.. As always, if it’s not the game for you, please refund it, Steam’s terms of service will allow you to refund a pre-ordered game any time prior to it’s release. We will be letting in more players via The Steam beta system over the weekend, but there is no guarantee you will get in. We have had so many pre-orders at this point that we cannot simply guarantee access to everyone outside of pre-orders until we’ve battle tested our backend for launch. store.steampowered.com/app/1…