Developers from the French Amplitude Studios, which created и , have confirmed that Humankind's ambitious 4X strategy game will not be released this year. A new trailer shown at the PC Gaming Show reveals that it will be released in 2021.
Although the creators are talking about a postponement of the release, they were initially not sure that they would be able to release the game in 2020. The situation with COVID-19 prevented the completion of work within these deadlines, as said a representative of Amplitude Studios. The management transferred studio employees to remote work in advance, and Sega helped to organize the workflow more efficiently. Development is progressing well, but the change in conditions has affected the work schedule. “We thought it through and decided that we had to postpone the release to 2021 if we want to make the game of our dreams out of Humankind,” the authors explained.
The developers will not release the strategy in early access. Instead, it will be released as part of OpenDev, a similar program that allows you to collect user feedback during development. “We have always considered player participation to be an extremely important part of creating games,” said the developers. “However, we realized that we could use something more effective than the classic Early Access period.”
Through OpenDev, players will be able to evaluate three scenarios for free, each only available for four days. They showcase some of the key features of Humankind: exploration, tactical combat, and basic city management. Users will be able to complete a survey, the results of which will be used to improve the game. You can apply until June 26 (requires registration on Games2Gether and linking a Steam account). In the future, developers will add new scenarios and increase the number of invitations. The early version will be available only in English, but the release version will be translated into other languages, including Russian (interface and subtitles).
At the same time, the studio continues to work on updates for together with the Clumsy Dwarves team, formed by people from NGD Studios (authors ). Space strategy will receive a series of patches with fixes that fans have been asking for for a long time. The first of them will appear this month and will fix the most common bugs, including critical ones.
Humankind was at Gamescom 2019. Amplitude Studios calls the project the largest and boldest in its history. In this strategy, players will have to create unique civilizations by combining different cultural, historical and ideological elements. In total, the developers will offer more than 60 cultures from various historical periods - from ancient times to the present. The only victory condition is fame points, which users will receive for each difficult decision, battle won and scientific discovery.
Source: 3dnews.ru