Wasteland 2 - Life Beyond Release

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Chris Keenan of inXile has posted Update #58 on Kickstarter, in which he explains what the team has been up to since the release of Wasteland 2 back in September.

We’ve released three major patches since the last Kickstarter update, with over a thousand improvements to the game. The team has tackled things like major optimization passes, UI usability improvements, as well as tracking down bugs. Wasteland 2 is an incredibly large and complex game, with many moving parts, and we've been working down to the smallest details (including typos).
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He also mentions that many of the development team have moved on to Torment: Tides of Numenera, but that there's still a dedicated crew working on fixing and improving Wasteland 2.

Interestingly enough, he also writes that he and some others are beginning to work on a new RPG and that they'll release news about it in the New Year.

Along with continued tuning of Wasteland 2, myself and a few others at the studio are beginning to work on another RPG that has been passionately demanded of us for a while now! It’s still quite early in the process, but we will have more news on that in the New Year.
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More information.
 
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i think ill start playing it after this patch.
 
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Hmm it seems by these words this balance patch might not be fast. I might need to stop waiting for it and just continue my first play.
 
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I still didn't start it. Should I do it now or wait some more for at least one patch?
I don't really care about balance, I've only heard about totally buggy area (Hollywood?) - did they fix that one yet?
 
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I think a crappy product like Wasteland 2 cannot be turned into gold with patches. Wait and see. Maybe next year, but the problems were so many, its improbable they were able to improve..
 
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Now I'm confused.
A crappy product? How come?
 
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mercy said:
I think a crappy product like Wasteland 2 cannot be turned into gold with patches. Wait and see. Maybe next year, but the problems were so many, its improbable they were able to improve..
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Hmmmm you know what they say about opinions.
 
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Hastar said:
Hmmmm you know what they say about opinions.
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I share his opinion. A lot of reviews call WL2 a gem, some admit it's a flawed gem, I think it's just flawed, full stop. What I don't understand is the outpouring of love for the game in a time when we're (finally) flooded with quality turn-based RPGs. I think if the game was released without the history of WL1 and people didn't know Fargo was behind it, folks would see it as a mid-level meh sort of experience. It's not terrible, but "groundbreaking" or "a return to old school RPGs" it is definitely not.
 
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groundbreaking it is not, but it is a return to old school RPG no matter how you look at it
 
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It is heavily flawed yes I would agree; but I didn't find it to be 'crap'. I think the worse offender (beyond the quests bugs) was the mundane combat; but they could in fact improve combat with patches (both ai and options/tactics) but even fit hey don't I wouldn't call it crap and the price of entry for early adopters it was actually a good price (for those that like this type of game). for $40 I would wait for a sale; it has a lot of content but I've played more enjoyable games. There has been two recent japan games for $20 that were fantastic bang for the buck (trail in the skys and valkaryie) and shadow run (esp the director cut) was pretty good bang for the buck.
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Hum. I think I give this game around a 6.5 or 7 when I played it (which was before the first major patch); it might be better now; valkaryie was around an 8.5 (kind of linear but fun none the less); d:eek:s was around an 8 or 8.5 (lots of fun but major flaws in the story presentation) - just for comparative so you can see my grading scale.
 
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Mercy has hated this game from the time it was in Beta. I'm ten hours into the game and have yet to see a bug. I love it. My RPG of 2014 so far, just ahead of Might and Magic X.
 
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It is refreshing to see open meaningful opinions expressed about this game, avoiding the stigma against saying anything negative about an old-school RPG. I am on the fence about trying WL2, but I won't need to make any decision about it for many months since there are so many other good games for me to catch up on.
 
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it's a great game, it's everything an rpg should be. just go for it!!
much better than inquisition and I find it even better than divinity.
 
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NFLed said:
It is refreshing to see open meaningful opinions expressed about this game, avoiding the stigma against saying anything negative about an old-school RPG. I am on the fence about trying WL2, but I won't need to make any decision about it for many months since there are so many other good games for me to catch up on.
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Of course being old school does not protect a game if it has faults. It is not the long awaited real Fallout 3 that people might have expected (including me) but it is sure as hell better that crappy new RPGs like DAI or Mass Effect 2/3.
 
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