if you are talking about the weapon insider, really compare those two things closely, both of them are modular barns, so it is normal that they share some similarities in color and shape, but that is really where the comparison of the two end. as far as I know, those assets are not the same.

those updates do not reflect the progress that has been made so far since the website hasn't really been updated in a long time, especially that link. the last update that got released on steam was January 25th(yes, in retrospect that is still a long time ago, but if you read the newsletter that is understandable).

yes, development is still ongoing.

The development still continues but its a bit slow atm. What you can get on steam right now isn’t a completed game. the choice is up to you, if you want to play a finished product i would wait.

there is no specific when yet but the swat module is being replaced with guns, character development, map expansion, police systems. I can't tell with certainty that this will all be one update, but this is the information we have so far.

that's speculation from your end. Noone said anything about money being spent on furballs that would have gone to identity. because this is not the case. no money from identity's budget was used for the development of furballs. just because paratus owns both companies doesn't mean they are the same company and it doesn't mean they are working off the same money.

Phony games has a separate development team and isn’t being developed by paratus himself. The only impact that the development of furballs can have on identity is a bigger budget for its development, which is a good thing.

the "Phony" in this case is just some wordplay, the company is focused on mobile games, hence the name.

I didnt refer to identity as a hobby project, i refered to furballs as a hobby project. however I do understand the confusion so I went ahead and edited my post

the development of identity isn't affected by furballs the same way spaceX isn't affected by tesla. Furballs started out as a hobby project that paratus worked a couple hours a week on. He can do what he wants with his free time, everyone has hobbies.

if you have the founder pack you should be able to download and play the town square. if you havent already, be sure to read this:

as we have already explained to you before, that office was a budget office, and they havent had the office for a while now because everyone is remote... they didnt "blow" their whole income on that office, and getting an office like that isn't bad business practice at all.

Paratus was in the discord two days ago answering a couple of questions.

the game Is still being worked on, nothing has been canceled/abandoned

he is merely clarifying that estimates and release dates aren't the same, and that they shouldnt be seen as the same thing. estimates can shift and change over time and shouldnt be taken as actual release windows. the project isn't done for and is still being worked on, and we dont want everyone to forge this happened.

The game was released a year ago, and in that year it received countless of updates. Sure, the updates werent huge, bur they were there.

no you weren't, the packages displayed "ESTIMATED delivery" which yes, they still didnt meet, however there is a difference between saying "estimation" and straight up saying you will release it then. second of all, kickstarter only allows one year of development time for the estimation date, so that's why it says 2016. took them 4 years, however keep in mind that they started out with 2 developers, and that they did redo the first module a couple times because of certain plugins not being supported anymore. a million dollars is nothing in the game industry... look at how much a game usually costs to be made, the scale of this game is massive, and yes it is possible to accomplish it with a million dollars, but again, a million dollars is nothing in this industry. of course they can, just because it is taking them a long time to make the game doesnt mean they cant develop some sort of security system. their development team isn't huge.

okay and from all that money raised there was also a lot of money that they didnt receive... because of invalid credit cards etc. yes and no, yes it has been 4 years since the kickstarter, but its not as simple as you are making it out to be, there are a lot of factors playing into why it took them 4 years... the first year they were with a smaller team than now, also they redid a lot of stuff because of software not being supported anymore. it also didnt take them 1 million dollars to make the module, they raised a million, that doesnt mean they spent it all... the way you are formulating everything you are making everything seem so black and white, when in reality its not, tell the whole truth, not the partial truth

I read through all of the reviews and I can say that the majority of reviewers are writing about the game as if they thought it were the finished product, and as if it wasn't mentioned ahead of time that the town square would be a very small module with very little to do. while I can agree with the animations being a bit weird, which is completely fine as they are placeholders for the time being and they will be replaced, the bug where people could walk through some walls was a bug that was in the game the first couple weeks if I am not mistaken, and this was fixed relatively fast. and yes, its a strange bug that people sometimes spawn under the map, and it is being worked on. but when it comes to lack of gameplay or "anything" that was said way ahead of time, we knew there wouldn't be much to do, and it is also stated on the steam store page that it isn't big gameplay wise yet. "The Town Square module does not contain much of Identity's full gameplay, but includes all character creation and customization, player housing (including furnishing), NPC shops, the cinema, karaoke and more social features. The Town Square allows you to get your character into the world and meet new friends." as this is literally stated on the store page I dont really see how you can negatively review a game for not having much to do.

that's not true, working on the modules is working on the backbone, a couple of the most important parts of the game are the character customization, apartment decoration, gun physics and the car mechanics. yes they will need to work on an economic system as well, which they will. after all the modules are done they will combine their mechanics into a beta... its not like working on mechanics one at a time will leave you without proper mechanics

No they didnt, if the dev blog were changed you would see it, but it wasnt edited, because it never mentioned "soon"...

as I have mentioned before, there was talk about guns being added to the town square on the roadmap, but that roadmap never mentioned anything about "soon". they mentioned it was something that was being worked on for town square. "- Guns, guns, guns! The shooting range in the basement of the police station will be opening up, giving you access to a few guns to try out (like the one pictured here).This will give you a taste of how guns will work and feel. We'll show you how awesome the gun systems are with a video when we come closer to this release. "

they might have said it a couple weeks ago, but definitely not half a year ago. which is what theezakj was saying.

as I have already said in one of your previous posts, they didnt. they mentioned that guns would be added to the town square eventually but there was never a "soon" or any other timeframe mentioned, that what was mentioned was a to-do list for town square.

yes, there was talk about guns being added to the town square on the roadmap, but that roadmap never mentioned anything about "soon". they mentioned it was something that was being worked on for town square. "- Guns, guns, guns! The shooting range in the basement of the police station will be opening up, giving you access to a few guns to try out (like the one pictured here).This will give you a taste of how guns will work and feel. We'll show you how awesome the gun systems are with a video when we come closer to this release. "