Torment: Tides of Numenera Delayed Into Q1 2017, Beta Now Open To All Backers
Fans in torment as inXile Entertainment announces a delay for RPG Torment: Tides of Numenera. The crowd-funded spiritual successor will now be coming in early 2017.
It has been a long development journey for the Kickstarter project which originally aimed for a release three years back in December 2014 before it creeped into 2015 and then 2016. Now inXile has once again pushed the RPG with Q1 2017 hopefully the final date.
Torment: Tides of Numenera did launch in Early Access on Steam back in January this year so at least fans and backers can see the real-time improvements. Now that's it's fully playable from start to finish, inXile want to test the crap out of their hopeful RPG masterpiece. Another issue is localisation as Torment is a very word-heavy single-player game. Spells and grammar errurs are the wurst.
"Torment has also grown to around 1 million words – bigger than the Bible – and we feel that getting a good quality translation of such a deep narrative experience is very important for a large percentage of our players. Therefore, we will be turning to professional localization services to achieve the best experience possible. With the game content complete, we have already begun locking down our text and breaking it into batches for localization, so progress is already being made," Brian Fargo posted.
"This localization is no small feat (not to mention costly!), but we have a secret weapon… we're partnering with a certain publisher to help out on this front. But who is this partner? We can't comment on that just yet… but you will learn more very soon."
Fargo and his inXile cohorts are looking at a 6 month timetable for all the final QA testing and localisation OCD they're going to need to bring Torment: Tides of Numenera up to a quality they feel fans and backers deserve. On the plus side, all backers will be in the beta.
"We always say it, but we couldn't have got the game this far without all of you. We also know there are many of you who have been waiting to play Torment, and we know from previous experience on Wasteland 2 there's a huge benefit to getting more feedback on the game," continued Fargo.
To claim your key if you're a backer you can follow the instructions in the latest Kickstarter update, but basically you log into the official Torment website and check your account's Rewards page and then Manage Keys.
Major Beta Update Highlights:
• Totally redone user interface art
• Design improvements and changes to many UIs, including Inventory, Character Sheet, Journal, Effort and Conversation
• Added Merchants to buy/sell items
• Reworked early game introduction (updated dialog and new Crisis)
• Added new companions and characters
• Added new areas
• New character portraits (more to come)
• Reworked character creation and progression
• Improved environment art, visual effects and sound effects
• New items and equipment, and tweaks and updates to existing ones
• Updated placement of items, containers and loot drops
• Performance and optimization improvements
• Incalculable number of quest tweaks, conversation updates, typo corrections, bug fixes and more
Torment: Tides of Numenera releases on PC in Q1 2017 - hopefully for real this time.
