It hasn’t been an awesome week for Paradox Interactive, and issues simply received a little bit worse for the writer. It has announced one other delay for Jail Architect 2, the sequel to a cult hit from 2015. The sport had been set to drop on Might 7 (which was already ) however now it will not arrive till September 3.
Although builds of Jail Architect 2 had been licensed for all platforms, the builders at Double Eleven bumped into some technical issues that can take a while to resolve. Some points regarding reminiscence utilization and minimal spec configuration failures emerged. Though the crew says its work on fixing these have been profitable to date, another technical challenges began popping up, resulting in considerably extra crashes.
Double Eleven will use the additional growth time to enhance the jail administration sim’s stability and to refine a few of its options. Paradox says it can additionally take the chance to let gamers get a glance inside the event course of by way of further developer diaries and streams. A stream is ready for April 25.
Paradox notes that console gamers who pre-ordered will routinely be refunded as a result of platform insurance policies — they’re going to want to purchase Jail Architect 2 once more to get a pre-order bonus. Steam gamers can request a refund if they want.
The Jail Architect 2 delay comes in the future after studio Colossal Order stated it could refund all gamers who purchased the primary asset pack for Cities Skylines 2, one other sport Paradox is publishing. Whereas the asset pack (which can be ) labored, there gave the impression to be a consensus amongst followers that there wasn’t sufficient in there to justify the $10 value. There are larger points at play although, as Colossal Order has extra work forward to optimize Cities Skylines 2 . The studio has additionally delayed the console launch and different DLC because it focuses on fixing the core considerations.