Comments - SteamPunkProgrammer

They already received them :)

You can use the key that you where given with the game to activate it on steam just the same as the old arkdrop system, if you dont have the key anymore you can login arkdrop and get the key from your games list in there.

I'm sorry its a deal breaker for you, but as discussed on here already, its not just about the DRM, we NEED steam, steam has many of the things we where using third party software for (such as the patcher and user unique IDs, this is just an example there is far more). We are a small team and while some people dislike it, we had to adopt a 'you cant please everyone all the time' mentality just because of the amount of man power required to run both in steam and out of steam.

Well thanks for being calm and civil about it, its to easy that people quickly jump to getting angry rather then discussing things like this, and I'm glad I took the time to talk it out with you, even if we both just had to end with agreeing to disagree :)

Yea, heh I did notice the karma moving around alot :)

those are all very old versions, aka, versions before we fully integrated with steam. you wont find any past version 0.1.47E

DRM-Free copies of the game WILL be coming to pledges, but only pledges. We never promised the game would sell as a DRM-free version outside of the kickstarter pledges.

You know why as well as I know why, we dont want our game pirated, or atleast limit the amount of it, (before we made this change there was a massive amount of torrents for our game out there we knew it would only get worse) plain and simple, we promised our kickstarter backers to be free of this because they were helping us when we had no credibility at all, and we felt they should be rewarded for it. As I said even that will be pretty limited just because of the technical requirements.

Steams actual DRM is a package of encryption softwares that change the way the game installs, limiting the ability to use the game to having steam, while in the end effect blocking people from running the game without steam is not technically 'steams drm' I think we are having a semantical missunderstanding

that being said, if we didnt have steam, we'd have our own intergrated login system called 'arkdrop' still, which we've always had people required to login to and would have continued to do so had we not made this change, the only people except would have been the kickstarters, and that would have only worked for LAN play and offline play. Because the system requires these IDs for multiplayer.

I understand your frustrations, but there is a difference, the main reason we use steam solely now is two fold, one so we have a single point of contact for patching, and two, so that we have unique IDs for users, unique IDs are created by steam and are used to stamp users for a few different things, one being product keys for special edition items as well as kickstarter rewards and a few other things, and two to give an ID for the saving of server side vaulted characters this also leads down the road of simplifications in how server hosting and joining of servers will work as well as our plans for workshop features integrated into steam. I understand that some people just hate steam and don't want to use it, but it quickly became a must for us to meet our goals seeing as there is only one actual engineer working on the project.

We use as much as or as little of steam as we need to, to meet our goals

I'm sorry, to be more clear, there is a difference between using steam as DRM, and as a distributer, both require you to run the game with steam however, but the added DRM does encryption to prevent piracy, we dont do that.

I understand that you feel this is 'unfair' but without making this change it would have DRASTICALLY slowed down the progress of the project and we felt it would have been less fair to to take months longer to develop each patch.

We do not use steams integrated DRM, we only use steam as a distributer, because we are a small team and need the ability to distribute the game easily. As for the version promised in kickstarter, that was something we promised to our kickstarters after release.

I'm sorry that's how you feel but we did the things we did to accomplish our goals, and create a good game :)

Just to note, the steam keys are now all setup!

All you need to do is take the key given to you by desura and put it in steam and it will redeem the game!
(If you dont have the email anymore you can log into arkdrop to see the key)

The issue is resolved now.

"literally no information" is a pretty broad statement, there is a wiki, there is 'guides' in the launcher, as well as a tutorial in-game that teaches the buttons and basics.

We are still waiting for our new installer to be approved by desura.

So in the mean time, please download the game from Arkdrop.com after you have created your account, this will ensure no issues occur.

if you look in the players guide (in the launcher), or read the tutorial in game it will tell you the controls and the current features.

bitdefender sometimes makes quick judgement based on nothing. it is a free product, our DLL is signed and verified with Microsoft as a product from a known company, there is nothing more we can do to make it be 'fixed'

The option for offline mode wont be enabled till after beta.
However, the game does now include a single-player mode (which still requires login authorization during the beta).

Remember people, we are in beta. the game isnt done.

its actually not related to the 'hitbox' it has to do with lag between the time that you see the world and the world is on the server. these kinds of issues are being addressed right now actually :)

thats very odd; no one else is experiencing the issue you reported. but we will look into it for you. Please sign up for the forums and give us as much information as possible!

please contact our support on our forums and post a screenshot, thats a completely new one to me but we can look into it better on there. Thanks :)

Thanks MaciKekes!

Its always nice to hear that!

you also need a processor that can handle AMCII memory writes, which most 7 year old processors could not.

likely what will occur is there will be a menu inwhich you go and accept your reward items, you will be able to do it unlimited times, but they wont be drop/tradable, so when you dont want them delete them, want them back, recover them from the menu.

I would say its very much still in beta, while most of the features are in there and working, there has been zero balancing and minimum content released thus far.

Great! Please give us a rating based on that ;)

another option is to run the server in batchmode~

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Thats a known issues, in windows you can open up the mixer and turn the volume off for specific applications, as a work around.

Next patch will fix it :)

no problem :)

Rewards for pre-orders wont be given out till either at release, or near release. Other then access to the beta that is, that's immediate.