Originally, the developers from KillPixel planned to release hardcore FPS Wrath: Aeon of Ruin this summer. However, as the team explains in the Steam blog post, the plans have been changed in particular due to COVID-19, and the launch of the game has been postponed to sometime in 2022.
“The team is working every single day. We’ve never seen anyone work as hard or as dedicated as these people. We are working so hard on it because we want it to be the very best game possible – that’s what you’ve been waiting for, after all. But we also don’t want our team to crunch. We all know and agree that crunch is bad, and is a problem in our industry. But we don’t have to make them crunch; these devs are working their butts off every day regardless. We know the meme is tired by now, but the whole “a delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is forever bad” thing is true. We want the best game possible, while not making our devs break their backs over it.”
One of the changes the team is introducing is giving players bi-weekly updates via social channels. These updates will tell players some of the things the developers have been working on since the previous bi-weekly update. It will be just a few lines saying, for example, “Fixed an enemy bug, changed the lighting on X map, re-worked a weapon – the team wants to do it to be as transparent as possible moving forward.
