Hey Early Access folks.
Because many of you have played through the game in its current form and you're all paying customers, we wanted to be as transparent as possible with you (Ish Gilder would be mortified).
Long story shorter - as some of you know already, TMC is very talk-heavy in act 3, for the amount of game that's there. Before we recorded some of the bigger scenes, we had some ideas about how to improve the gameplay-to-chatter ratio there. But when we finally evaluated those ideas seriously as a team, we realized they had their own potential to feel like padding, and that seemed bad - so we walked away and got busy with other critical issues. That left you guys needing to be more patient with the story near the end than we're comfortable with.
As a result, we're going to make some edits to make the script on the critical path a little leaner. Some of you may not even notice; we don't want to make it out to be world-shaking. But if you're a huge fan of act 3 exactly as it is, well, we salute your superhuman patience, and now would be the time to video-capture the "rough cut", as it were. We will try to make that content available either in game or out, somewhere, if you're into the game equivalent of deleted scenes.
Thank you for playing, and for helping us to make TMC better.
- Question (Jordan, Stephen, Kain, and Pat)