The developer of a promising cRPG dubbed Australia’s reply to old-school Fallout has delayed the sport simply days earlier than it was due out.
Australian indie studio Drop Bear Bytes had set Broken Roads’ launch date for November 13 however introduced a delay to early 2024 “to permit for added polish time”. The delay was so last-minute that on the time of publication, Broken Roads’ Steam web page nonetheless carried the unique launch date.
Broken Roads is a standard isometric RPG during which gamers make their approach throughout a desolate future Australia. It’s due out for PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox.
Drop Bear Bytes stated the sport is “content material full”, however it’s now “coming in longer than we initially anticipated at round 30 hours of gameplay and almost 400,000 phrases of dialogue”.
“As you possibly can think about, it’s extraordinarily time-consuming to correctly take a look at all of those,” the developer added. The delay was a “troublesome determination”, Drop Bear Bytes insisted, however is greatest for the sport. Extra sources will now be supplied to high quality assurance (QA) in an effort to stamp out bugs.
Remarkably, Broken Roads had already equipped publications with overview copies of the sport. Indeed, IGN was within the strategy of reviewing the sport earlier than receiving phrase of the delay.
In a subsequent publish on X/Twitter, the developer confirmed that every one variations of the Broken Roads are delayed. The plan now could be to launch the PC and console variations on the identical time, versus a break up launch.
“Right now our QA groups ought to be capable of deal with issues since we’re delaying and giving them further time to correctly take a look at every part,” Drop Bear Bytes stated.
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