Deadzone: Neue Bilder und Auslieferung

Mantic Games haben neue Bilder zu Deadzone enthüllt und der Liefertermin rückt näher.

Fangen wir mit den Bildern an:

Auch von den Spielmaterialien gibt es News:

Zum Gelände hat Ronnie eine kleine Bastelsession abgehalten:

Was die Veröffentlichung angeht, so liegt man im Zeitplan. Diese Woche wird vermutlich das PDF-Regelbuch an die Backer verschickt und der Rest dürfte nicht mehr lange auf sich warten lassen.

The vast majority of the models are now on their way to us, and they’re looking fantastic. We were not happy with some of the first batch, so we reworked the mould and ran it again. We’ve seen the results and we’re very happy with them.

Und dann noch eine Nachricht für alle, die mit den letzten Mantic-Gussrahmen nicht zufrieden waren (also vermutlich so ziemlich alle…). Offensichtlich hat man die Lektion gelernt und einige Lehren daraus gezogen. Für Deadzone betrifft das zunächst die Plastik-Enforcer, die nun doch nicht Teil der ersten Wave sein werden:

A while after the Kickstarter ended we looked at converting the resin plastic Enforcers into hard plastic, yet at the moment we can’t do that to a quality I am happy with. We have been working non-stop at making hard plastic organics at a standard that can compete (and beat) the best out there. Over the summer I tooled a hard plastic set and, whilst it was a step forward in quality, it was not up to where I want it to be. We have since then been working with a new technique – and we are very optimistic, but we have been optimistic before and we fell just short!

During the Kickstarter we said the zombies were going to be on sprues, in hard plastic. We have been using them as the test case and the early progress looks really encouraging. If we’re not happy with the results, we’ve got some time to get them fixed – and we will remake the tool – so we can look at alternative methods before sending them out in wave two. That said, we’re quietly confident.

If the method works well on the zombies I will ensure everyone gets all of the Enforcers they ordered in their second shipment, along with the Forge Guard and the Asterian Cyphers in hard plastic. If it is not up to the quality we expect, I will keep all those kits in resin plastic as was originally planned in the Kickstarter, and we will put the Peacekeepers into Resin Plastic as well. If anyone has added extras because they were hard plastic we will of course offer the option of exchanging those for other items or a refund. I don’t expect any of that will be the case, but I just want to cover all the bases.

So what does that mean? Well it means I wasn’t ready to commit the finest troops in the entire Corporation to an unproven tooling method, and possibly have quality issues.

However, we don’t want to have to delay the launch for not having the basic Enforcer troops, so to replace the four models that would have come in the original promise (the three figures with heavy rifles and one of the figures with an assault blade) I am going to add a free pack of 5 resin-plastic Enforcers to every Kickstarter Enforcer Faction Starter (including the Faction Starter included with the pledge levels) allowing you to get on with playing the game immediately without having to wait for the new sprued plastic figures to arrive.

These figures include components for heavy rifles, an assault blade and a burst laser heavy weapon. They are totally free and in addition to whatever you have ordered. The hard plastic Enforcer sprues will be sent along with your second delivery when they are ready and a standard you can all be proud of.

Was bedeutet das also: Mantic werden die Enforcer nicht ausliefern, bevor die Qualität sie nicht vollständig überzeugt. Sollte es nicht möglich sein, ein zufriedenstellendes Ergebnis zu erzielen, werden die Enforcer und alle anderen Truppen, die auf Hartplastik umgestellt werden sollten, doch aus Restic kommen, wie es ursprünglich angedacht war. Um alle Optionen abzudecken, die der Gussrahmen der Enforcers geboten hätte, erhalten die Backer einen kostenlosen 5er-Trupp Enforcer aus Restic:

Auch die Orks erhalten einen Bonus: Aus Balancing-Gründen werden ihre Starter um einen Pyro erweitert.

Quelle: Deadzone Kickstarter