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Captain Spinker’s speaking!
This is our first dev update since early access launch :)
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It’s been a wild ride! I was absolutely not ready for this success. To be honest, I was extremely worried about bugs and was kinda pessimistic about the numbers (I always am). I expected ~4k concurrent players on day 1 and ~10k on the first weekend. You guys absolutely blew those numbers, with a solid 20k on day 1, wow. very wow.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PLAYING FAR FAR WEST <3 you have no idea what it means to us
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But no time to rest — the bugs were here.
You guys submitted 2k+ bug reports in 1 week, not including fatal errors, crashes and server issues. Somehow, Mylan (the second dev) and I made it through and fixed most of the critical bugs in just a few days. We worked quite a lot, but I’m very happy with the result now. We submitted 2 hotfixes in the same week, with the same level of stress: “what if our hotfix brings more bugs than it’s supposed to remove?…”.
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Also, special mention to the self-proclaimed tech helpers on Discord who helped A LOT to deal with fatal errors, crashes and PC problems. You guys are golden.
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You guys also made a lot of feedback & ideas. Arno is busy all day long reading, taking notes and finding the right balance according to your opinions. This is extremely hard to make everyone happy, to craft systems that fit all needs and to avoid “broken builds” (I think we failed at the last one ☹️). We are struggling to manage all the feedback to be honest, and to communicate properly with everyone. There’s Discord, Youtube, Reddit and Twitter(X) to look at… WE HEAR YOU <3
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While Mylan and I (Spinker) were focusing on bugs, the rest of us kept on making cool stuff 🤌
⚠️ All the things you will see here might never ship into the game. We are not taking feedback for this at the moment, let us cook first <3 ⚠️
⚠️ We are very open to show you what we are cooking right now. But if the feedback goes overboard, we might not do this again. Please don’t speculate too much on the content you might see here ⚠️