Dead Island DLC delay due to 'polishing of the main game'
Dead Island's wave survival mode DLC 'Bloodbath Arena' has missed its planned September launch due to the time spent working on the base game post-launch, it's been explained.
Dead Island devotees may have noticed that the zombastic action-RPG's survival mode downloadable content 'Bloodbath Arena' missed its planned September launch. According to an official explanation and apology, this delay is down to time spent polishing the game post-launch.
"We are working hard to make the Bloodbath Arena DLC available as soon as possible. However, due to further polishing of the main game the finalization of the DLC code has been delayed," said an updated on the official Dead Island Facebook on Friday.
"We know that many fans are eagerly waiting for it and apologize for any inconvenience. We expect to announce a release update next week." That's this week now, of course.
Bloodbath Arena will add a wave-based survival mode which uses your campaign characters and boasts online leaderboards. There will also be a new weapon to use against those poor, innocent zombies, the delightfully-named "brain wave bomb."
Those who pre-ordered Dead Island will get the Bloodbath Arena DLC for free, while it'll cost $10 for everyone else.
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Dead Island's wave survival mode DLC 'Bloodbath Arena' has missed its planned September launch due to the time spent working on the base game post-launch, it's been explained.-
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Like Bethesda and Fallout 3/NV?
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That goes all the way back to horse armor in Oblivion.
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BioWare after Awakenings.
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Truly open world games are by their nature buggy. With all the thousands of things that can go wrong, some are bound to.
And Obsidian took good care of Fallout NV. I make no excuses for Oblivion and Fallout 3 though, Bethesda sometimes likes to shit the bed and then buy a new bed instead of cleaning the sheets.-
Um... Fallout NV launched buggy as fuck. If Bethesda hadn't done the post launch QA it probably still would be.
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They most certainly did not take care of Fallout NV. They learned they didn't have to from the response to Fo3.
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No it isn't their nature to be buggy. WTF. You're talking out your ass.
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Did you really have to stretch this out to two posts Tonto?
It is in their nature. With all the little keys and quirks that can go wrong, sometimes some shit gets out the window.
NV launched buggy as hell, some of it got fixed. It's still a great game.-
Yes I did, Pussy Galore. It's no more their nature than any other game; you're spouting nonsense.
I'm guessing you did not play Fo3. Had you played it, and it was buggy as hell, then you would have been a lot less willing to put up with the bugginess of FNV. I only paid $10 for FNV and the bugs irritated me enough that I stopped playing after about 10 hours.-
I played Fo3, and FoNV. Between the two of them I've probably plugged almost 100 hours. I guess I just have thicker skin than you.
Or you might have played them on a console, which is really your own fault.-
How is Bethesda's buggy software a console owners fault? Console software especially should be ready-to-go out the door.
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The sad thing is, is that you bought one buggy Bethesda game, and then thought "Man, let me try that again, on a platform that inherently restricts the amount of updates they can put out to fix any issues that arise."
It's dumb. Not saying they didn't need some better Q&A, but it's like that old saying, the one about "Doing the same thing and expecting new results"?
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Wtf does a console have to do with the quality of either Bethesda's or Obsidian's Q&A? Well mostly Obsidian's Q&A Fallout 3 was buggy but passably so. New Vegas on the other hand had a number of big issues early on which tends to be the usual for Obsidian.
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It was just a better game (FO:NV) that is.
And it's a consoles owner's fault because WHY would ANYONE play a FPRPG with a huge modding scene on a console? It's just dumb. And they rarely get title updates, ESPECIALLY from companies that lead with PC development...like, I don't know, Bethesda and Obsidian.
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Yeah by yourself this game can be creepy as hell. They did really good work with the ambient sounds.
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Recommend turning off the health bars and the xp popups for best effect.
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There are some good "holy shit!" moments in there as well as some of your zombie camp. I thoroughly enjoyed the game (I'm around ~28 hrs)
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I would almost argue, based on my limited experience with the feature and by seeing others comments on it, that it is one of the few co-op games that you can play with randoms online and have a fulfilling experience. It's better with friends, obviously, but compared to, say, L4D where some randoms will kick you for any little flaw in your gameplay style....
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I really like it. I was certainly nervous at buying it though but I'm glad I did.
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I have honestly encountered no issues with this game whatsoever on the Xbox and I've been playing the entire weekend. I love it, DLC on my face please. Could be the surprise GOTY in my opinion.
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Except it froze on me twice but then again a lot of games these days do.
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One of the best gaming experiences this year. I hope a lot of people buy this now or during steam sales. Awesome game
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I agree, fantastic game. I liked it so much I finished the game.
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