If you’re one of the lucky early buyers who got in to Corepunk before preorder sales were halted, then you’ve been expecting this: Artificial Core has pulled the game offline for its next update, which means no Corepunk for the next 24 hours. And when it’s back up, it’ll return with a wiped world.
“In one hour, we will shut down the servers for a new update,” the studio announced this morning. “The servers will be offline for 24 hours and will come back online tomorrow evening, November 6th. We know you were expecting the wipe today, so we apologize for the delay and for informing you at the last minute.”
“After the wipe, we’d like you to test the quests of the first episode. Episodes two and three won’t be available immediately after the wipe but will be unlocked with subsequent updates. As we mentioned earlier, we plan to add one episode each week until the start of early access. We also want to test the updated game balance. We’ve made many changes to the overall game flow and are eager to hear your feedback.”
Corepunk shut down preorders in September, arguing that the “level of interest” in the game had outstripped its expectations – the implication being that it had too many people paying for this leg of testing already. And just a few days ago, Artificial Core said it would not delay early access in spite of its admission that it was as much as a month and a half behind on early access content and feature development.
Sales are expected to resume sales around the early access launch date of November 26th. MOP’s MMO Hype Train columnist, however, has suggested that the studio would be better off delaying again.
