Progress Note

Hey you, we've been working a lot lately, and by 'a lot' we mean endless hours. The good news is that the career mode is currently playable. One can start and finish the game. Estimated time of the career is 8 to 16 hours of gameplay. The bad news is that we had to scrap mission 3, we found more bugs and the story is not satisfying for us. Let's start with that mission 3. No spoilers ahead. It was a very different mission from usual play and it was confusing as hell. We have implemented 2 fixes to change it, but after all, we needed to scrap it and create something else. The new mission 3 is fully playable, it's not a copy of any other mission, but it's not what was intended in the first place. The mechanism is good now, it's not confusing, but after all, we need more tests. Estimated time of the career is wide, as you can see. Why? It depends on the game difficulty, player's performance, player's decisions, and overall situation during the playthrough. We don't think that a fresh player will be able to finish the career in less than 10 hrs when a few bad decisions can make it 20 hrs or even more. Our test group (people who have some experience with the game) had results between 8 and 16 hrs, but the median is closer to 16 hrs. And the story. The story feels old in our eyes when the players will see it for the first time when the game is fully released. We are still working on it to make it clear, easy to follow and not so easy to predict the ending. There was an idea to implement more than one ending, but we are sure that there won't be any alternative endings (or hidden endings). We know what story we wanna tell, but we are still struggling how to tell it. With this Progress Note, we want you to know that the game is stable, the career is playable and now we are polishing the product (and story) to make a good impression (not first, because of early access, but kinda first, because we have not published anything about the career mode yet). We hope you are excited because we want this to be an amazing adventure, great strategy, and a unique experience.