The gameplay portion that was recently completed was fully reviewed this month, and special attention is needed for handling the new division between episode 3A and 4.

Previously, the amount of game related content needed to execute on the script expanded way beyond its container, and it was decided that a large part of episode 3A should be split off into a fourth episode. However problems with finding a graceful transition point persisted with no good solution. There is no satisfying or sensible end point between the episodes currently, and it is very likely the case that these two episodes (3A and 4) require being shipped together as a result.

The author has stepped back to re-evaluate the best approach.

While we labored optimistically towards providing a release date, a hard decision to err on the side of quality has been made. Keeping to an arbitrary deadline with what exists currently, would hurt the final result.

The development cycle will be prolonged by some additional months to address this entangling work between the next two episodes, and to avoid development burnout.



With previous projections having partly gone out the window, it may not be insightful to continue with the content estimations just yet. As it isn't known yet if episode 3A and its follow-up episode 4 are released at the same time, or if episode 3A can be delivered before episode 4's completion.

Once some details shake out, there might be a better picture of how this dilemma will resolve.

Additional information and consideration is needed to resume providing the graphs for how this situation is moving forward. Work still steadily continues, but the horizon has moved out of view for the time being.

The next release is going to be considerably larger than the previous two combined, and it will simply take longer to finish.

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