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[Number 7]

I'm going to say that while the game may be released as early as June or July, if I had to guess, the release date will be August 9. They've released several games on the 2nd Tuesday of August, and it seems like the right amount of time for them to sort out all the issues and finalize content.

August 9. You heard it here first...unless I'm wrong of course, then you heard it on gamefaqs

Content has already been finalised, look at that podcat quote where he said they couldnt put air supply in, but it was planned to be put in after release. i have a feeling they've drawn the line on exactly what a release day feature list is and are sticking to it already

 

[Caesar15]

Content has already been finalised, look at that podcat quote where he said they couldnt put air supply in, but it was planned to be put in after release. i have a feeling they've drawn the line on exactly what a release day feature list is and are sticking to it already

You're right. No way they need 6 months to finalize the game. That's outrageous.

 

[Zaku]

I'm going to say that while the game may be released as early as June or July, if I had to guess, the release date will be August 9. They've released several games on the 2nd Tuesday of August, and it seems like the right amount of time for them to sort out all the issues and finalize content.

August 9. You heard it here first...unless I'm wrong of course, then you heard it on gamefaqs

Well we can't know for sure, but we can make an educated guess about the release date and I think that August is too late.
Podcat said that air supply was not finished in time, so it will be added later in a patch. This suggests that all the features has been finalised and all that remains are the bugfixes/balancing.
The game entered in beta in February, and Johan said the beta will last 3-6 months. At worst this puts the release date to August, BUT he also said that the release date will be announced roughly 1 month before release. If they don't want to announce the release date at GDC, they wouldn't twitter about it.

I think the relase date is much closer. It won't be long boys, it's time to take out the Kar98k out of the closet and start polishing it.

 

[MGL 86]

Release date one month before release? Are we looking at April release?

 

[Aodhan_]

Release date one month before release? Are we looking at April release?

Johan said it would be at least one month notice, not it will be one month. Hope it is April though .

 

[Ultimate_Hobo]

August is Q3,and nobody likes Q3 releases.

why not?

 

[CHRIS3169]

why not?

If you wait another month or two, you get a Christmas release, a few months earlier a summer release. Paradox has never really conformed to this strategy though, they've released their most recent Clausewitz games in February and August.

 

[Bargey]

Yeah, I'd have thought the half-dozen fairly-important bugs we saw in WWW would be enough to convince people that the game needs further work.

They mentioned several times each episode that almost all the issues presented in the streams were due to it being an early alpha version, and terribly outdated. They further mentioned that most issues had been completely resolved, and many mechanics have been improved upon.

 

[Number 7]

They mentioned several times each episode that almost all the issues presented in the streams were due to it being an early alpha version, and terribly outdated. They further mentioned that most issues had been completely resolved, and many mechanics have been improved upon.

yeah the WWW version came from something like december didn't it? Its months old, and daniel really gave some high praise to the AI in the current version that we haven't seen. if the end boss of HOI is praising the AI (although taken with a grain of salt, he does WORK for paradox afterall) i can't imagine being disappointed by it