Two days ago (January 12), the official account of "Taiwu Painted Scrolls", which has not been spoken for a long time, finally "came alive", bringing a good news: the 2-year-long return overhaul of "Taiwu Painted Scrolls" is finally almost completed, the game plot and the behavior interaction of the characters have been completed by 70%, and the content to be produced is only MAC support.
Of course, there is also bad news: the production team can't give a specific time about how fast it is.
Players who didn't buy it also chose to vote with their thumbs, and the recent rating of Taiwu Scroll in the Steam Store has dropped to "mostly bad reviews".
This is not the first time that "Taigo Painted Scroll" has been "badly evaluated" by players.
After landing steam early access in September 2018 and spending a year updating the game content, producer Eggplant found that the code he wrote was no longer enough to support subsequent development work, and many mod authors could not even add mods to Taiwu Scroll. Therefore, after releasing a long list of plans in September 2019, it was announced that Luozhou Studio would enter closed development mode. This is also the key node of the "Taiwu Painted Scroll" from an independent masterpiece praised by everyone to a condemnation of "I haven't come out yet".
From the following closed development plan, it can also be seen that the real "Taiwu Scroll" in Eggplant's expectation is not only to pile up more new gameplay on the basis of the original, his ambition is greater, starting from the details of food, clothing, housing and transportation, a richer way of playing life, removing redundant combat, practice and skill systems, can support mods, can freely edit adventures, events and characters, or that Eggplant wants to create a more realistic sandbox world.
This amount of work is no less than the development of a new "Taiwu Scroll 2", so after the last update of V0.2.7.12 in April 2020, "Taiwu Scroll" has not updated the game version for 20 months. At the beginning of the change, in order to prove to the players that the production team did not run, the official account of "Taiwu Painted Scroll" will also regularly release some VLOG.
In addition to sharing the development progress of the studio, showing the program, the music in the game, and the background story expansion of the in-game forces such as Jieqingmen and Fulongtan, and showing the reconstruction of the underlying framework of the game and the comprehensive reproduction of the gameplay and performance, the production team is also constantly improving the large and small plots and stories of the Taiwu World.
The video of the closed development story has also stopped since May 28 last year, and the text part has been stopped after July 19, which is also the second new dynamic about game development in Luozhou Studio. For the player's doubts, the reason for the production team is that there is no relevant operation team, and each time it is necessary to divide 3-5 people to make a video, which will drag down the development progress.
▲ There is also bad news, perhaps there is a deviation between our understanding of the concept of "getting closer and closer" with Luo Zhou
In September last year, producer Eggplant posted in Tieba that the game needed to be submitted for review, and the game version number had been suspended since August last year until now, making it clear that the previous promise to update the official version in 2021 was invalidated, which greatly reduced the credibility of "Taiwu Picture Scroll" and the production team.
In fact, for indie games, 4 years of preemptive testing time is really not long. The Kambala Space Program released the Alpha version in 2011 and completed the official version in 2015, Siege took 5 years (2015-2020), and more exaggerated is "Zombie Destruction Project", which was one of the first independent games to join the Steam Early Beta program, the alpha version was already online in 2011, and it has not yet ended testing, the version has been updated to 41. X, which also refurbished a wave of engines last year, has upgraded the game's graphics directly from 2D to 3D.
The problem with Taigo Scrolls is that after announcing the reversal of the remake, it is actually under development as Taigo 2, so there is no regular update content of games such as Zombie Destruction Project on the way, and players who have experience in EA games are also aware that what is widely accepted by everyone is often an EA game that can ensure regular updates.
On the other hand, the crisis of trust in Taiwu Scrolls is mainly due to too little communication with players and the inability to give an exact date, which will make players feel insecure about project management. Now the players who denounce Taiwu Scrolls actually understand that there is no direct connection between the quality of an indie game and the time it spends in the early test, but the anxiety is really a little anxious.
▲ He probably didn't expect that he would make a slur
In any case, after venting our emotions, we still have to choose to wait for "Taiwu Scroll" to come out of the closed development, and then witness its "fall to the altar", or a blockbuster.
▲ Of course, you can also go directly to the door and personally verify whether the eggplant has run away
Moreover, the "Taiwu Painted Scroll" that stopped updating 2 years ago has built a "breathing jianghu" for many martial arts fans, practicing various divine skills, exploring the ruins of the cave house to find opportunities, and NPCs to make CP, cooking douqi to build Taiwu Village, what we can do in the 0.2.7 version of "Taiwu Painted Scroll" is already much more specific than the text description in most martial arts novels, and this alone should be worth its 68 ticket price. Now, wait and have hope.