Forsaken shores - an update after the weekend's Pioneer testing

@the3sheetsneate Thank you for the update!! No problem matey, good things take time! Easy for me to say as I can play pioneer sessions but it's for the best :)

@the3sheetsneate thanks for the update 👍🏽

@the3sheetsneate No problem buddy we can all wait keep up the hard work thanks for addressing this

@personalc0ffee agreed

This was the right call. I wish you and the team the best of luck in solving the identified problems.

This is the universe’s message that it’s time to cross the Devil’s Shroud and enter reality for a while. Thanks for the update, till then I’m just going to watch the world (and these forums) burn for a bit.

I hope the devs really take time to dive into all the feedback that has been posted here - there are a lot of great nuggets...

Thank you and the team for your transparency!

@personalc0ffee NDA?

@The3SheetsNeate Im happy to wait abit longer, will we be getting any update this week or is the cursed cannonball event here untill FS release?

I’m ok with this because I was just asked at work to run 12 hour shifts every day for two weeks. Win for me and as excited I am for the release of the forsaken shores as a pioneer seeing some of the bugs in the past that haven’t made it into the release of the actual game I’d rather it be as bug free as possible so waiting a week or even another month if it comes to it it’s still worth having a good gaming experience in the end.

@the3sheetsneate Well at least it doesn't stop you all hitting up EGX to ignore the past month of self inflicted game breaking bugs and issues on a weekly basis, so you can deliver a panel on Saturday talking about what it is like to develop Sea of Thieves and to keep bringing new content to it.

Have fun in Birmingham now ya hear :)

@eggamer13 Just understand that it needs the extra time and more testing. You wouldn't want it to be released broken it would just ruin your experience.

@the3sheetsneate said in Forsaken shores - an update after the weekend's Pioneer testing:

Hi everyone,

Following on from my post on Friday, I wanted to share an update with progress towards our Forsaken Shores release.

Our priority is to ensure we deliver a stable, polished and bug-free experience that all our players can enjoy. We have just had a weekend of Pioneer testing, which has highlighted a memory issue in the build, which is resulting in an unstable build where a large number of our Pioneers were experiencing crashes. From our investigations this is a complex issue that we are working through solving, but as such we do not feel in a position to release Forsaken Shores to our players with confidence this week.

Our goal this week is to resolve the memory issue and get enough Pioneer coverage so that we are confident we have resolved the issue, prior to releasing to all of our players. As such, we are moving the release of Forsaken Shores to Thursday 27th September. This will give us time to implement fixes, test, and get builds out to Pioneers to gain confidence.

We appreciate your understanding with this change in our release plans. I know this will be disappointing, but I resolutely believe this is the right decision. We are committed to giving everyone the best Forsaken Shores release experience, and this will enable that.

Thanks to all of our Pioneers for their support in providing valuable feedback and bug reports on Forsaken Shores so far. Alongside helping us gain confidence in the release from a stability perspective, we have been able to make significant tweaks to the gameplay experience as a result of the feedback we’ve received, and it is better for it.

Thanks,

Joe Neate
Executive Producer

I for one haven't had one single release or update from your team that wasn't filled with bugs. In my opinion moving the release date will only upset and make players lose interest. better option would've been to expand the event and story time to do them so that they could still explore and see all the cool things and some lucky might not experience bugs. Its very disappointing that this felt needed to be done when there were better alternatives. Such as releasing it and using the public as a test would've been far better than just the pioneers if the "bugs" and "crashes" were so frequent. Release as normal and monitor it on a larger scale.

a delay for the sake of quality is never a bad thing and i commend you for making this brave decision and all the transparency

@rainn-flutterrs said in Forsaken shores - an update after the weekend's Pioneer testing:

@eggamer13 Just understand that it needs the extra time and more testing. You wouldn't want it to be released broken it would just ruin your experience.

Every expansion thus far has been riddled with the same bugs. I mean how long did we have the cannon bug; 2 months? not to mention all the other issues. from the meg, karen, or the ships. each thing added has presented many many bugs. News flash that is 99.9% of games and there is no way to prevent all of them. They WILL slip through.