Porquê Acesso Antecipado?

“Predestination originally launched on Early Access when we had completed the first playable vertical slice of the game and before many of the major features such as diplomacy and the 3D ship designer had been implemented. Our goal with Early Access has always been to involve players directly in the development process as we implemented each of these features so that they could help guide the process and keep us on the right track, and in that regard it's been a monumental success!

We Want Your Help to Polish Predestination

With all of the core gameplay systems now implemented, Predestination is now in a feature-complete state and we're just two updates away from the big V1.0 update. Once that happens, we'll begin a phase of dedicated polishing and iteration based on Early Access player feedback until we're happy that the game is ready for launch while also adding promised user content.

Predestination has been a community-led project from the very beginning, using comments and suggestions from our existing Kickstarter backers and Early Access adopters to drive progress and inform development. Early Access has been an amazing experience that has helped evolve the game over the past two years into something we're extremely proud of. Your support and feedback will be more critical than ever as we enter this final phase of iteration and polishing.”

Aproximadamente durante quanto tempo vai este produto estar em Acesso Antecipado?

“We plan on iterating on Predestination until we have every feature implemented in such a way that satisfies our community, and to release once we're feature-complete and the community thinks the game is ready. While we can't put an exact timeline on it, all major features are now complete and we're now about to enter a period of iteration and polishing that will lead to full release and beyond.”

Qual vai ser a diferença entre a versão final e a versão de Acesso Antecipado?

“The Early Access build has a fully playable version of Predestination's sandbox mode that lets you play against the computer on procedurally generated game maps, and has the first of our episodic singleplayer missions. All major features are now implemented, and we're now working on the final few minor features and remaining content:

Major features we'd like to get into V1.0:

• (COMPLETE) Tax and Economy gameplay
  
• (COMPLETE) Ground combat & planet capturing
  
• (COMPLETE) Empire Age options
  
• (COMPLETE) Low morale and loyalty planet events
  
• (COMPLETE) Trade Routes
  
• (COMPLETE) Diplomacy gameplay
  
• (COMPLETE) Race Stats & finished race screen
  
• (COMPLETE) 3D Ship Designer & racial ship part models
  
• (COMPLETE) Ship captains and colony leaders
  
• (COMPLETE) Fully directed tutorial for 4X newcomers
  
• (COMPLETE) Wormholes
  
• (COMPLETE) Planet specials
  
• (COMPLETE) Warp-capable missiles
  
• (COMPLETE) Temporal Rifts and Revenant attacks (random events)
  
• (COMPLETE) More technologies in Tech Era 3: First Contact
  
• (COMPLETE) Tech Era 4: Galactic Domination
  
• (COMPLETE) Tech Tree: Synergies
  
• (COMPLETE) Multiple Victory conditions
  
• (COMPLETE) Spying gameplay
  
• (COMPLETE) First episodic story mode mission
  
• (COMPLETE) Empire management tools (dropdown menus)

  Minor features and content we'd like to get into V1.0:

• Minor Feature: Fleet interception and blockade-breaking battles
  
• Minor Feature: Diplomacy AI improvements (25% complete)
  
• Minor Feature: Challenge maps (50% complete)
  
• Content: New sound effects and weapon effects
  
• Content: Final building and infrastructure models (90% complete)
  
• Content: Finished ship part models for all races (50% complete)
  
• Content: Kickstarter backer content
  
• Content: User Interface improvements

  Features we'd like to add after release:

  The following is a list of major features that we'd like to get into the final release of Predestination or to add later in free updates.
  
• Additional story episodes and challenge maps
  
• Multiplayer gameplay (online & LAN)
  
• Detailed modding support
  
• Space Monsters
  
  See our Development Update thread for the latest progress.

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Qual é o estado atual da versão de Acesso Antecipado?

“Predestination is currently in a fully playable Early Access state, and all major features have been implemented thanks to your support and feedback. The main things left to add before release are additional content such as further episodes singleplayer story campaign, some user interface elements and improvements, some 3D models, sound effects, and content designed by our Kickstarter backers. We're now working on V0.9.9.0, the second last patch before we hit the big V1.0 update, when we'll begin working heavily on adding promised user content, iterating on gameplay and balance based on your feedback and polishing the game for final release.

The game is fully playable in its current state, but it hasn't been polished significantly and will contain bugs. If you enjoy helping to shape an emerging game with your feedback, or supporting dedicated indie developers, buying into the Early Access now will definitely help us out. If you're just looking for a new game to play and the Early Access process doesn't appeal to you, we would instead suggest adding the game to your wishlist and keeping tabs on development through our regular development updates. You'll get a notification when the game is officially released and can make a decision then. Predestination is currently singleplayer-only.”

O jogo vai ter preços diferentes durante e depois do Acesso Antecipado?

“We aren't putting a premium on Early Access, and we plan for Predestination to have the same base price at release, barring any limited-time promotions. We have committed to selling Predestination at no more than a 25% discount during sales before launch in order to be fair to our Kickstarter backers and other customers.”

Como estão a planear incluir a comunidade durante o desenvolvimento?

“Feedback: Brain and Nerd has a longstanding history and proven track record of using feedback to improve Predestination, starting with our Kickstarter and Greenlight campaigns and leading all the way through our Early Access journey to where we are today. We've used community feedback to help mould Predestination into the 4X game that fans of the genre want to play, even when it has meant completely re-designing gameplay that a lot of development time was spent on but that just wasn't fun.

Forums: We publish extensive patch notes with every update in our Development Tracker thread to keep players informed of every change, and maintain a detailed Bug Reporting thread where players can report bugs they encounter and often get responses directly from us. We respond to practically everything that's posted on the forum and you'll often see us spend a great deal of effort explaining game design decisions and opening them up for public discussion and debate.

Modding: Predestination has been built from the ground-up to be highly moddable, with most game assets and information loaded from flat human-readable files. We plan to look into having Steam Workshop or other modding support, and will work closely with modders to make this happen if we can.”