Certainly one of Steam’s most-wishlisted video games, The Day Earlier than, has formally launched into early entry after a number of delays–although judging from a number of the game-breaking bugs and points which can be at present affecting gamers, perhaps it should not have.
The Day Earlier than, as of writing, is the top-selling sport on Steam and has greater than 34,000 concurrent gamers. However that does not inform the entire story. Although the subreddit for the zombie survival sport seemed ready for a not-exactly-stable launch expertise, The Day Earlier than’s launch appears to have gone even worse than anticipated, with one main bug particularly inflicting gamers vital issues on the very begin of the sport.
As proven in varied clips shared on The Day Earlier than’s subreddit, gamers within the sport’s opening moments get up in a hospital mattress with a health care provider overlooking them. The physician then asks gamers to “attempt to get out of bed.” The one drawback is that as quickly as gamers start to take action, they immediately fall by way of the ground right into a grey void and are killed. Others, nevertheless, are unable to even speak to the physician and subsequently progress the sport. Customers have additionally reported getting stuck behind walls, or receiving fatal errors that trigger the sport to crash following The Day Earlier than’s opening moments.
But a number of gamers do not appear in a position to even get that far. The sport is at present plagued with server points, with many gamers reporting that they’re unable to attach and even discover a server that is not already full. Some on the subreddit say they have been misled by The Day Earlier than’s advertising and marketing, which bought itself as a survival MMO, however gamers are actually reporting is extra within the vein of an extraction shooter.
Mere hours after launch, The Day Earlier than is at present sitting at a “Principally Adverse” consumer evaluate rating on Steam, with gamers commenting on the sport’s lack of useful settings, servers, and its already notorious falling by way of the ground bug.
“The UI broke the second I logged in,” SirAngryStoic writes of their consumer evaluate. “Then could not connect with a server. Once I lastly acquired right into a server I fell by way of the map and died. Don’t play this sport.”
One other consumer, biffa, commented on the sport’s lack of open-world MMO components, calling The Day Earlier than “simply an extraction shooter, and a foul one at that.”
“This sport shouldn’t be an MMO, regardless of being marketed as such,” biffa writes. “It is fully deceptive, runs like ass, seems to be like ass. Simply do not buy it.”
In line with an early entry FAQ from the sport’s developer Fntastic discovered on The Day Earlier than’s Steam web page, the sport will probably be in early entry for “round 6-8 months, however this might change.” The plan, in accordance with the developer, is to deal with bug fixes and gameplay stability, alongside introducing new content material like further weapons, automobiles, and homes, over the course of early entry. In line with Fntastic, The Day Earlier than, which is at present $40, will enhance in value following its early entry interval. Regardless of participant statements on the contrary, the sport nonetheless lists itself as a MMO, with the FAQ stating The Day Earlier than permits gamers “to totally immerse themselves in a post-apocalyptic open-world MMO.”
To date, Fntastic has solely issued a single post on X (previously Twitter) with regard to The Day Earlier than’s launch points, stating “Overload on North American servers. The Servers are working. Fills up too rapidly.”
The Day Earlier than has had a rocky highway to launch. It has been delayed a number of occasions, and earlier this yr the sport was pulled from Steam following a trademark dispute. The developer, which is an all-remote studio that has by no means launched a sport previous to The Day Earlier than, has beforehand come underneath fireplace for utilizing “volunteers” to develop the sport.
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