Just yesterday morning, we wondered aloud whatever happened to Nightingale, finding that there had been complete radio silence from developer Inflexion Games across social media, Discord, and Steam, while the last patch for the survivalbox of any kind whatsoever hadn’t happened since last March. This, in turn, led many fans to believe that the game was abandoned and caused them to ready for the shutdown notice.
Well, someone at Inflexion must have been paying attention, either to us or to the simmering discontent on Discord, because yesterday afternoon, the studio finally put out a dev blog and an associated dev bites video with some vague initial details about an update coming in the near future and word about what the studio has been up to over the past few months.
“A lot of our recent work has focused on long-term planning for Inflexion. That of course includes Nightingale, but also other projects we’re exploring as a studio,” the post opens. “It’s not always the most visible kind of work, but it’s important, especially now given the realities of today’s games industry. Taking the time to plan well means we can keep developing the games we love.”
The post then assures that “Nightingale [has been] at the center of many of those conversations,” which leads to the announcement of plans to let players “host a dedicated server the way [they] do with many other survival games: privately, reliably, and on [their] own terms.” This feature will be arriving sometime in the near future, with details and timing promised soon.
Looking at the broader picture, the blog also acknowledges that negative Steam reviews have been hurting the game and its prospects for wider exposure, but also admits that fixing the problems leading to those reviews are a longer tail project. “There’s no single feature or fix that will solve it. But we’re spending this summer focused on finding the right path forward, one grounded in what we’ve learned since Nightingale’s launch,” the studio states.
Ideally more information will be coming forth on a more regular basis in order to assuage fan concerns, but in the meantime, we at least have more than months of dead air.
