I've been a big fan of Amplitude's games for a few years now, but I'm on the fence about buying Humankind and I just need to know one thing;

Will they ever outsource it?

EL's Symbiosis and ES2's Awakening sort of shat the bed with a whole host of bugs, glitches and... interesting mechanics, like Isyander taking over half the galaxy because you didn't pay enough taxes. It was enough to put quite a few people off the games. I'd planned to make an account on games2gether for a while to see all the cool community involvement firsthand, but the real push for me to sign up is that I'm worried I'll spend a bunch on Humankind and it'll eventually just get scuffed by the B-team/NGD. Does anyone here know if there's been an official statement on that?

Skyfus wrote:

I've been a big fan of Amplitude's games for a few years now, but I'm on the fence about buying Humankind and I just need to know one thing;

Will they ever outsource it?

EL's Symbiosis and ES2's Awakening sort of shat the bed with a whole host of bugs, glitches and... interesting mechanics, like Isyander taking over half the galaxy because you didn't pay enough taxes. It was enough to put quite a few people off the games. I'd planned to make an account on games2gether for a while to see all the cool community involvement firsthand, but the real push for me to sign up is that I'm worried I'll spend a bunch on Humankind and it'll eventually just get scuffed by the B-team/NGD. Does anyone here know if there's been an official statement on that?

I am not the MOST informed on the subject, but as far as I know will they continue to support long temr development.
They always do.
Besides, Symbiosis wasn't... THAT bad. xD it was strange, but not bad.
Awakening was shit tho, nobody can argue about that.

Tnecniw wrote:

I am not the MOST informed on the subject, but as far as I know will they continue to support long temr development.
They always do.
Besides, Symbiosis wasn't... THAT bad. xD it was strange, but not bad.
Awakening was shit tho, nobody can argue about that.

Yeah Symbiosis I think was generally more good than bad, the only iffy thing was an interaction with the Urkans that would crash the game, not sure they ever fixed it (maybe because it was a niche problem I didn't report outside the steam forum, more reason to join games2gether). Oh, and the weird thing where the revived ruins in Inferno or Symbiosis would unlock an endgame quest with the Haunt minor faction.

Awakening... ugh.

To be fair, I think that those two were outsourced precisely because all hands were on deck for Humankind. The support for the game will eventually slow down/drop altogether, but unless the release is complete catastrophe, I really doubt we're not looking at three-four years of addons. Every game has to get completed at some point. Awakening doesn't take anything away from core ES2 experience, it could be considered quite a dickmove by people that fall for it and bought it - hopefully Amplitude learnt from that, I wouldn't count it as red alert about their games, but one about their (and really, not their) DLCs.

Reading people dump on Awakening is my chicken soup for the soul.

Thanks for the replies, guys. Sounds optimistic for no future outsourcing, ima go buy Humankind!

Oh so that's why Awakening was so disappointing.