To answer camcanr's question in the screenshot-thread, I thought it would be best to open up a new thread and give you waiting people some insight into our work's progress, so that you all can make yourself a picture of what's going on in the depths of this forum at the backstage of the WCS-Mod
Since we have received the "when" question many times in the past, I can assure you, it won't take another two years until the first release will be made, namely our Prologue. It is meant for introducing some of the main-characters, introduce new (and old)players to the game-engine, and it opens the paths for the main-release which will come later. But the prologue is a small and for itself closed chapter of the Storyline.
To be honest, it is still very hard to tell a correct release date, since there are factors involved, which we can't control directly. One reason is that we can't control when we will be attacked by real life the next time. Currently I have some time (and mood), so there is some progress from my side, while the other guys work as hard as me when their time allows it.
Let me make a short summary of what's done and what still needs to be done:
- Three models (that are finished though) need to be polished a little more (UV-Mapping and stuff)
- The Main-Campaign-Missions are 99% finished (insider-joke : except for the bunch of hyphens in the text, that are not supposed to be there
)
- More missions are one standby, though they need some finishing touches.
- The Voice-Lines are finished (over 500 at all, except 10 that must be redone )
- The game is good balanced, and the beta-test showed up a few bugs, we have now eliminated for better game-experience
- We are currently overworking the interface completly, which is certainly a massive amount work. But it will be worth it.
- Our last problem is, that we have to wait for at least one very important codechange (@Goober5000 : *hint,hint*
)
So, while I could say we are more than 95 % done (mostly because we worked up everything that way, that we just have to insert the missing parts into the mod once they are done) it is still hard to tell, when everyone involved will be able to finish his part of the work.
We will puplish the final date shortly before the release, let's say 30 days before or so. But be assured, we are working as fast as we can.
Thanks for your patience
Starman©
