Less than two months after lastly launching Dirty Bomb in full, Splash Damage have introduced they’re stopping improvement on their free-to-play FPS set in merrye olde Londone tahn. The servers will keep up so long as sufficient gamers carry on taking part in, they are saying, however don’t count on any huge future updates. Splash Damage say that, regardless of an enormous effort to renovate and end it, the Enemy Territory-style shooter merely wasn’t making sufficient cash to justify persevering with dwell improvement. So it goes.
“After regaining publishing rights for DB nearly two years ago, we staffed up a load of developers and tried our best to deliver a Dirty Bomb experience that would be feature-rich with tons of new content, while maintaining its great gameplay feel & balance,” Splash Damage mentioned in Thursday’s announcement.
“Unfortunately, despite all the added time and resources, there were some challenges we couldn’t overcome, and we were not able to make DB the success that we hoped it could be. The bottom line is that we can’t financially justify continuing to work on the game we love.”
Dirty Bomb, to refresh your reminiscence, is a class-based multiplayer FPS centered on assault/defend targets together with duties like escorting autos, blowing stuff up, and different belongings you’ll bear in mind from Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Brink. It very a lot is that form of Splash Damage game. And it appears a good one among ’em? But I used to be deep into different multiplayer games when Dirty Bomb hit, so I by no means gave it a lot of an opportunity.
The game entered open beta in June 2015, after a number of years of letting folks pay to get into the alpha, then hit model 1.zero eventually in August 2018. It received’t get far past that.
Splash Damage do plan to host official servers “as long as the player count supports it” and hold rentable servers, so the game’s not taking place, however the remaining replace is predicted to be some bugfixes due “in the upcoming weeks”. People who’ve purchased the ‘All Merc Pack’ DLC will get the price refunded to their Steam account, now that Splash Damaging received’t be releasing extra characters.
Dirty Bomb is free-to-play on Steam.
Disclosure: A pal labored on Dirty Bomb, which I had half-forgotten till I loaded the game this morning and heard his voice popping out a personality’s mouth like WHAT HUH OH HEY THERE RIGHT I REMEMBER NOW.
