User blog comment:ElessarTheOnly/In case you wondered if Lost Alpha is really dead.../@comment-10507735-20190422141820

Great work on your part in documenting the weapons, armour and accessories for v1.4007 for the wiki, it must have been a nightmare.

About your latest blog.

So it's not just me then.

There's been more of this sort of criticism appearing variously on the interwebz. Watch out for kool-aid drinking trolls who castigate the slightest deviation from total acceptance of the perfect paradigm that DC is, well, perfect.

The only reason that the gamefiles were 'reworked' in this and a structural manner, might have been to make it more logical to enthusiasts to create addons to the base v1.4007 game.

Already there are addons that re-enable grenading, a better trading economy, more reasonable carry limits, cars that are able to carry a reasonable lootpile, etc., but this is all "dicking around the edges". None of these problems should have made it past a beta release.

The hardware and outfit smorgasbord is just not needed, especially the 'balancing' that messes up scope fittings; it's hard enough to get a scope - to find that it won't fit anymore... That just pisses people off.

There's practically NO additional storyline or sidemission structure. I eventually completed Commandant Grib's 'mutant thread' out of boredom. Couldn't have done it without 100%+ rupture protection. Be damned if I was going to check out the 'artifact thread' after the Supernova giveaway (I kept that) - that's just - broken...

Dez0wave can't hide from the figures:

The game is a six-part download and maybe a few people want the knackered handbook or the (broken) torrent link out of the files section - or maybe they're snagging earlier releases - who knows?

But since 20/12/2018 and 22/04/2019 the cumulative file downloads have crept up from around 1,240,000 to 1,300,000

Allowing for early adoption, that might suggest that in a full year about 120,000 downloads will take place. Hardly a rampaging success.

The game was dealt a death blow with v1.4005, with the scramble to reclaim anything morphing through three iterations of 'v1.4006', THEN getting what amounts to a full makeover for v1.4007.

For good measure, the Dwave crew then declare "mission accomplished" and exeunt stage left to work on their next project ("which must remain secret for now.")

Hopefully it 'remains secret' forever.