Near-term Release Schedule (Patreon)

The final iteration of the server backend still isn't ready (Will's occasionally working on it...), but the good news is that it's pretty close to a state where it'll at least be usable for accepting uploads, the minimum requirement for releasing Beta 9.

Although it would be unfortunate to not have any active leaderboards at the outset of Beta 9, sitting on Beta 9 for this long sucks, and I really want/need to finally have it out there, so I'm not going to require that there be visible leaderboards in the interim. I'll just have to put up a placeholder Coming Soon page.

I guess the other good news is that the delay gave me all of this past week to work on that Halloween event, which'll be pretty interesting and comes with like 20 new robots with various behaviors, and is pretty chaotic and challenging.

So in the interest of not releasing Beta 9 at the same time as the event, Beta 9 will be releasing next week, most likely on Tuesday (10/22). Then the Halloween event will be announced/released on the Tuesday after that (10/29). Cogmind will have the usual 10% discount throughout those two weeks.

In order to facilitate the Beta 9 release, I'll be putting out a Beta 9 X6 some time this week (finally the final one :P), with the focus on 1) testing the stat uploading and 2) testing Halloween mode! As usual there'll be a way to force the mode to activate, so anyone keen to try it out can use that.