What's next for CoC 2 after the final dungeon releases?

[14RedHypnotist]

Made a whoooole account because this question was tickling my brain...and then put it in the wrong forum. Oops. Here's the right forum.

The penultimate dungeon was just completed and sent through, minus a bit of polishing, and it's mentioned that the next dungeon will be the final area for CoC 2's main story.

Will that be it for CoC2 updates? Will people be making side stories, involving arcs separate from the main quests? Will the existing quests be expanded outwards for more content? Do we sacrifice virgins to the pagan gods for a CoC3? Or is that it, and CoC2 development is finished entirely?

I hope not. The setting is fun and I love seeing what people keep adding to it, even outside of all the smut. There was a lot of love put into the characters and lore, and I recall like two twists that floored me like it was M. Night Shyamalan.

 

[Savin]

What's next for CoC 2 after the final dungeon releases?

New game.

 

[Lostname475]

Are there already plans for what this new game will be like?

 

[LeDoraggo]

New game.

Can't believe "BaLLs" is going to be real

 

[Lostname475]

Could be ASS maybe?

 

[LeDoraggo]

Maybe even "PUSSY"

 

[IraMorti]

New game.

Will updates continue for a bit after final dungeon for additional submitted content (at least for what's in backlog) to flesh out side content? One of the things with original CoC that bummed me out was once the final dungeon went out support was discontinued despite so much content just being... unfinished. I know you plan to remove a portion of it, but if there is committed writers and/or expansion content already submitted will those be finished before support ends?

 

[Gabranth]

New game.

From the creator of Coc 2, now comes:
Defilers
In
Corrupted
Kingdoms

 

[Skallabjorn]

I hope that the new game will have involvement with or at least a nod to Savarra, like Kas being from, and Calla being sent to Mareth.
A continuation of the lineage, as it were.

 

[Savin]

Are there already plans for what this new game will be like?

Extensive ones, yes.

Which we are not sharing until we're just about done with CoC2 and ready to actually work on and then present them

Will updates continue for a bit after final dungeon for additional submitted content (at least for what's in backlog) to flesh out side content?

Probably not. Ideally we want to have everything wrapped up before we push out 1.0, but if there's still stuff in the code queue for whatever reason we'll definitely try and push that out.

To be blunt I've been working on what is essentially the same game and its continuities for 13 years+ at this point -- when we're done we're done, and everyone on the team's very excited to work on new things.

Bugfix/typo correction updates will continue as long as I still have staff coders I can browbeat into doing them, or we run out of bug reports.

 

[IraMorti]

Extensive ones, yes.

Which we are not sharing until we're just about done with CoC2 and ready to actually work on and then present them

So I know from the transition from CoC1 to CoC2 you took that as a learning opportunity and created stricter rules regarding community written content. With what you experienced with CoC2, do you plan to tighten the ruleset further with the new game or do you feel what you have with CoC2 is fine as is for what comes in the future?

 

[Savin]

So I know from the transition from CoC1 to CoC2 you took that as a learning opportunity and created stricter rules regarding community written content. With what you experienced with CoC2, do you plan to tighten the ruleset further with the new game or do you feel what you have with CoC2 is fine as is for what comes in the future?

Honestly since implementing the new rules about 2 years ago I think things have gone much smoother; I don't think I'd change much from the way we do things now wrt community submissions.

Really the biggest problem right now is our logjammed-ass review queue XD