3/28/2024 0 Comments Propnight ranks![]() ![]() This led to the collapse of the game’s player-led environment and economy, from the very first day. However, in The Day Before, as an online game, players about to be defeated could simply quit the game, disappearing from the opponent’s view and retain all their resources. In theory, in MMO survival games, when a player is defeated, their carried resources should drop and be available for other players to pick up, while the defeated player would need to recollect their lost resources. Gameplay-wise, since the zombies also had no climbing system, players were technically invincible when standing on something as high as a table.Īdditionally, The Day Before failed to implement the essential resource collection and management system that is crucial in survival games. Other issues included sudden enlargement of characters, players’ weapons disappearing abruptly, and a lot more. For example, after aiming down and crouching, the player’s movement lacked animation, appearing in third-person view as if the character was sliding. Players also soon found out that the game not only lacked some of the most basic required actions found in post-apocalyptic survival games, such as climbing, vaulting, closing doors, as well as missing animations for opening boxes and cabinets, avoiding zombies, and melee attacks, but it was also filled with various bugs. Many were unable to join the game, while the lucky few that could suffered performance issues. This resulted in very unstable connections for players. Source: SteamDBīut, despite being an open world game focused on massively multiplayer gameplay, The Day Before did not have adequate servers ready for its launch. ![]() On the day of its release, the peak number of online players nearly reached 40,000.Ĭhart of Steam users for The Day Before. On November 1, 2023, with only nine days left before the expected launch, despite legally gaining back their game’s name, Fntastic announced that official launch would be on December 8th. That is a safe date, given the trademark dispute.” Fntastic told IGN in an interview So to be on the safe side, to ensure there are no more transfers, we, along with the publisher, chose November 10. “We planned to move the game’s release before and plan to announce it with Mytona in a 10-minute gameplay video. Fntastic then admitted that the delay was decided long ago and that the trademark dispute was not the main issue. This confusion led to a growing concern among the gaming community, who questioned the significance of the trademark dispute and why it warranted such an extensive delay in the game’s release. Gamers were confused because multiple games and softwares were called The Day Before on Steam. Once again, they announced that the game would be delayed until November 2023.įntastic announcement on trademark dispute resulted in a launch delay. In January 2023, Fntastic was under a trademark controversy with the name The Day Before. The game was originally advertised to launch in June 2022, but a month before the release, Fntastic delayed the launch to March 2023, stating that they were upgrading the game’s engine from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5. While intermittently releasing actual gameplay footage, the studio also continuously advertised for their other game Propnight and office software Continent. Source: Fntastic on X The Controversy of The Day Beforeĭespite a successful campaign launch, The Day Before went through two game delays, two live stream delays, a trademark dispute, and a phase of recruiting volunteer developers before finally launching on Steam as an early access title on December 7. The Day Before at the top of Steam's wishlist. This led the game to secure the top spot on Steam’s wishlist ranking in less than a year. It gained a lot of attention with the realistic physics, realist picture quality, and simple user interface shown in its official launch trailer. On January 29, 2021, the open-world multiplayer survival game entered gamers’ sights. Steam's worst review list screenshot as of Dec 17th, 2023. With a positive rating of about 14%, it currently ranks 8th on Steam’s list of most negatively reviewed games. According to Steam’s data, as of the time this article is written, the zombie survival Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) The Day Before developed by the now closed Russo-Singaporean studio Fntastic has received nearly 20,000 negative reviews from users on the platform. ![]()
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