So, after you guys have been waiting for a long time for the 2.1 update, I felt like I needed to make a post about why the update is taking us so long. Here's a quick rundown of the reasons:
And just to note: base building is not the issue of this update's delay. It's been implemented and works correctly.
If the update to 1.7.6/7 continues to provide major issues for us in the upcoming week(s) and postpone the update even more, I might consider releasing 2.1 without the update to 1.7.6/7 and just release base building along with some bugfixes of the 2017 code.
- 1.7.7
We were originally planning to release 2.1 with 1.7.6, but since 1.7.7 is coming out so soon, it'd be counter-productive if we'd release 2.1 with 1.7.6, and then two days later having to update for 1.7.7.
Edit: we will not update to 1.7.7 because of it's buggy state. - Beta patch 105785
This patch has been a major pain for development of the mod. Only when Dwarden made a post about the issues with it on the BIS forums, did we know where our issues with the update come from - it's the beta patch's instability and some unfixed errors by BIS. If at 1.7.7 release, a new beta patch has not been released yet, we will provide compatibility to the older patch, 103718. - Updating from 1.7.4.4 to 1.7.6
Updating the code from 1.7.4.4 to 1.7.6 has been a major pain to myself (I am leading this update release and coding the biggest part of it). The update is so major that I decided to instead of updating the code to 1.7.6, I implemented 2017 into 1.7.6. This has also caused some issues though; a bigger time frame is necessary to test the 2.1 update, to make sure I got everything in correctly.
And just to note: base building is not the issue of this update's delay. It's been implemented and works correctly.
If the update to 1.7.6/7 continues to provide major issues for us in the upcoming week(s) and postpone the update even more, I might consider releasing 2.1 without the update to 1.7.6/7 and just release base building along with some bugfixes of the 2017 code.