Hello Christopher. We are on track, but we can't announce any date for now. We're working on The Last Night every day, and we're still making changes to the scope of the game. Our vision is massive, and we're trimming & picking up only the best pieces to make sure the game is as great as it can be.
We know from the developer the tick rate is set to 0.5s. It means all AIs evaluate their logic twice per second, all of them at once.
And I think it's far too low: it is the source of inconsistent behaviours, leading to unpredictable outcomes, and ultimately provokes weird delays between actions, especially when you get a bit creative with AIs or rely on collisions for your strategies.
As the game simulation is offline, it doesn't need realtime sync between clients and the tick rate doesn't have to be tied to server performance & ping. Hence why I don't see a good reason to go with such a low tickrate. I'm fairly certain AIs would behave better with a faster, more responsive tick rate like 0.05s (evaluated 20 times per sec).
It's actually untrue that you can force draw on these maps.
I developed AIs to prevent this from happening, even on a map that may seem impossible like interference. It requires some creativity, but you can definitely play the game differently than just shooting & going for resources.
I agree. It's the most interesting to micro, it's not too fast, and every aspect counts: range, self-preservation, risks… I think the shotgun class break the game a lot for instance.
Hello friends. No need to vote, the game already won in 2014 actually! It's been quite some time. We are making the real game now. http://www.oddtales.net/
