Hello everybody! After many months more blog silence than I originally wanted to create, I’m finally back with a huge update post about Survive the Wild! From what’s been going on behind the scenes over the last few months to the list of tasks required to finish the beta to a frequently asked questions section to an important change to the end of beta plan to a link to an interview I did with the Tony Gebhard show to an update on my personal life and more, this post has it all and should insure that every player who enjoys the game finally feels communicated with again! I am truly sorry for how long it took to finally get this done, I think everyone would have agreed that it was OK for me to miss a post following the release of the beta and maybe even the one 2 weeks after that due to general post-launch hecticness, but certainly I am disappointed in myself for not being able to resume the previous blog schedule at least after a few weeks of the beta being online. There are several reasons for this from the fact that there has always been a lot to do since the beta launch to the fact that much communication has been happening on the running game as well as the discord server making this harder to prioritize in my mind over fixing bugs/brainstorming/etc so that the beta might end as fast as possible to the burnout I’d mentioned in the stw English discord server in January, however I’ve still wanted to post here since a few weeks after the beta launched at this point and am sorry for not doing so before now. Honestly, this post has been in development for months, I mean since like last July or something. I would nearly finish it, then something in my personal life or another issue coming up with the game would distract me and delay it again, this repeated a couple of times. Lately I thought of just rewriting it from scratch since I felt like the post I had been writing was a bit too stuck in the past and a bit too hopeful in the short term, and actually wrote 25kb of a new post which was too negative, before remembering just how hard I’d worked on the one you’re about to read and deciding instead to combine both posts into a giant record containing information all the way back from when the beta launched to the current state of things in late March 2024. Since this post was written over a long period of time, I apologize if while editing it I missed any incongruity with the timeline and/or tone of the writing (I have done my best to insure it flows smoothly). Another consequence of this post being written over time and my resultant wish to fix the communication gap is it’s utterly massive size, I apologize if I overdid it for some! Again I am super sorry for how bad my communication on stw has been lately, and hope that this large post will begin the process of undoing the damage caused by that. Well without further ado buckle up, and lets begin!
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