Steam Early Access

Same as above, all I wanted was to contribute to get a game I knew I would spend years enjoying.

Real benefit here is we got a game we've been all part of (kinda), and c'mon... how many devs like Chris have you met? I'm in a couple of indie projects and none of the other guys are as involved as this dude! man I'm happy that costed me just a few extra €.

Bottom line, we've seen this project grow, helped with the testing, and had our points of view actually being listened by the team.

I must say 10/10.

Edit.- Well except I haven't had the chance to play last release... if I have to ask one more time for the Canary Islands to be there... boy someone's gonna get hurt (possibly me but it'll be worth) lol

how many devs like Chris have you met

I suppose there's also the question of how many devs you want to meet. :-)

I've never quite understood why top kickstarter tiers have things like "spend a day with our dev team!", "have lunch and paintball with our Dev team!" and "have a quiet candlelight dinner for two with our lead Dev!" Often the least appealing of the reward tiers, especially when you've seen them in the begging videos.

The Homestuck vidjagame kickstarter had a good spin on the top tiers. "your character will be canon". "your character will be canon and survive past the first panel", and so forth.

thothkins - solider #18 will be allowed to stay in the Chinook, regardless of where players want to move you.

pancakes - your soldier will be mentally unstable and kill others with no repercussions.

But yes, much prefer to see things like that.

I suppose there's also the question of how many devs you want to meet. :-)

I've never quite understood why top kickstarter tiers have things like "spend a day with our dev team!", "have lunch and paintball with our Dev team!" and "have a quiet candlelight dinner for two with our lead Dev!" Often the least appealing of the reward tiers, especially when you've seen them in the begging videos.

*Meet the composer, and have him play at your wedding dinner*

ahh, a X-Com themed Wedding... and they say there's no romance left.

*Meet the composer, and have him play at your wedding dinner*

Now THAT would be beyond awesome

Hmm got my wedding (2nd attempt) coming up in a few months...

One thing to note here - we will be discontinuing the current Premium / Standard pre-order split. All sales will be made at the $19.99 price point, which will rise to $24.99 on release. Nobody who buy the game after the changeover will get a forum badge, because I don't want to go through the forum integration process again....so if you have one, treasure it.

I finally went through the process to get my pre-order moved over for the new forums today. I chose to not put in for a refund. I have 0 regrets Chris. I'm happy to have supported the game early on and consider it $10 bucks that's already gone to a good place.

I'm going to have to figure out what stuff I missed. I can't believe it's been years already and I'm sure there's some premium goodies that'd be news to me.

Generally i think giving the soundtrack to guys that paid more is always a good idea, if that is not expansive for the game company. Don't know how it works with the law either. I would appreciate if you can buy the soundtrack also as extra if you didn't pay for the ElitePreorder. I often want to buy the soundtrack from a game but it isn't possible or ridicullus complicated which leads to the result that i have to look for alternative ways to get it, although i really want to pay something suitable directly to the developement/composition guys.

*Meet the composer, and have him play at your wedding dinner*

Night terror perhaps?

says a lot about your marriage/ potential marriage/ civil partnership/pagan binding ritual... ah forget it. PC really killed that one off

So it's this week or next week for Steam, right?

It'll also depend on how Chris feels about the builds. Getting on steam would generate some publicity, and while people expect bugs in a beta it'd be good if there's no know glaring ones that might turn people off.

what is needet to get access to the steam version? sending the steam name via PM to chris?

I imagine keys would be mailed out whenever they were ready to be (no ETA at the moment).

We're going to release a build this week, and the idea is that that will become the stable Steam release that we'll be launching with once the bugs are fixed (and we've got the Mac / Linux ports done). The exact timeline is still unknown, but the Steam launch is our main priority at the moment.

Very good news! I like Steam and I like your decision, Chris! Thank you SO MUCH for STEAM!

shuuk, having bought more than one indie bundle via Desura, Desura usually handle the Steam key issue.

We're going to release a build this week, and the idea is that that will become the stable Steam release that we'll be launching with once the bugs are fixed (and we've got the Mac / Linux ports done). The exact timeline is still unknown, but the Steam launch is our main priority at the moment.

can't wait for it!

Will the assets folder and level/sublevel editor still work the same way after Steam's release ?

Can't wait to start playing this on Steam. Don't like Desura at all, especially after all the problems I had in updating and launching the game. Also don't really mind if my premium pre-order doesn't get me anything extra. Would be nice of course, but I just wanted to support the game.

Can't wait to start playing this on Steam. Don't like Desura at all, especially after all the problems I had in updating and launching the game. Also don't really mind if my premium pre-order doesn't get me anything extra. Would be nice of course, but I just wanted to support the game.

This!

It is impossible to erode the value of "I contributed to this game being made".

This!

Seconded.