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Considering how much in the game was broken, the new version is a big fix. ( barring everything works in it)

Midnight the 16th. (Monday night going into Tuesday morning). Sometimes it may take a few extra minutes to show up. Yup, the reason being the original port was such a mess it couldn't be fixed. Hence they redid it from the ground up with a different developer.

Thank you, I missed that one

Great. Just out of curiosity, at what point will it be available during the day? Will it be like most games and show up at midnight Eastern time?

And that's only one of the 3 new preset control schemes!

Thank you for this. Now I can start familiarizing myself with the new layouts and figure out which would work best for me!

I do recall them saying it will be there, but it won't be as extensive as the PC version. To what extent they did not say.

I actually enjoy the in game music and sound effects. There's just something about getting into space and hearing that music kick in and enjoying the view. Listening to other music just wouldn't feel the same to me. To be honest though, I've never been one to listen to "outside" music while playing any game.

Oh I agree it's not going to happen, but from how I took what you said it seemed like you didn't think it was possible. I'll tell you, if I can get to Duna and back then anything is possible. ( I never thought It was going to be possible to do seeing how my first month of playing was going).

whats stopping them from adding a currency to the game? Why do you need a physical currency you can buy at a store? I'm just not following you here. After all isn't the only way to buy this game through online? I'm not saying it's going to happen or even likely, but it's never out of the realm of possibility.

Shadow of War is a single player game with some slight on line components, but has a loot box system imbedded in the single player game. https://kotaku.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-shadow-of-wars-controversia-1819293793 https://www.polygon.com/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-guide/2017/10/9/16434166/market-microtransactions-followers-gear-boosts-training-orders-garrison-bundles-silver-gold-mithril

Finally, it’s been a long wait. Very excite to get back to playing this game. A thank you to Squad for doing what needed to be done get this reworked game to us console folks despite the mess the first time around was.

The thing is we still don’t even have it yet. They should at least wait until they finish and get it to us. Also we’ll still be a few versions behind the PC version, and we have no indication on dlc for the console either. Just saying........

I play on PS4 and the game ran OK, the biggest issue is the save corrections. They don't happen constantly, but it seems to happens when you're deeply invested in a mission. I have had plenty of successful missions in my career mode, but after having the save corrupt dozens of times over the year I gave up to wait for this new version.

Same here. Hopefully it passes certification sooner than later so we could have it in a few weeks.

I would say the "Curser" scheme is that scheme, but with improvements. The original controls are not without there issues and hopefully this new curser mode fixes those.

Thanks for the heads up Deddly!

This sounds great, starting to get a bit excited that we're almost there. Is there a chance you'll be giving us the button layouts for these setups? It would be nice to get a feel as to how each will work in a bit more depth prior to release.

I do recall reading something along the lines of them adding a form of the debug menu for consoles in a more limited capacity. I just don’t remember where that post was. Of course it could have all just been in my head, so hopefully someone else might be able to confirm that with a bit more confidence then me.

I've played Skyrim with mods as well on PS4( despite limitations Sony put on them) and they do work fine, hence why I believe it is possible. Though Bethesda has a been doing this quite a bit longer (PC and console development) then Squad and with the difficulties they have had with the port I'd be pretty surprised to see mod support. At least right now. Look how long it took for them to get mod support after release for Fallout and that was planned. I'm just saying no one should get there hopes up at this point, after all we don't even know if we're getting the DLC ( I'm pretty hopeful we will because it's more likely then not). Not to mention with the game now in the certification process and no mention of mod support is pretty telling. At this point getting a game that runs well and works is at the top of there priority and throwing mods into that now seems like a risk to the integrity of the game they shouldn't be taking right now.

I highly doubt we will be getting mods. Not impossible, but not very likely. I’m surprised that was even mentioned in that article as the lack of mods had nothing to do with why the game was taken down from the store. It was taken down because it was broken. Not having mods isn’t even a valid complaint. When you decide to be a console player you pretty much accept games are not going to be modable. ( yeah there are a few but it’s not common practice, at least not yet).

If I had to guess it would be to differentiate from the FT port. They are essentially re-releasing the game. Plus it is being released with more content then the original console port. It’s not much different when other games are re-release with all the DLC a year or two later (I.E. GoY edition, Definitive Edtion and so on). Its my belief that if they went through the trouble of getting a new dev and redoing the console port that they will continue to support it as long as the pc version. Though I have a feeling that the future updates that add things to the game will come with a price tag on consoles where as they will probably continue to be free for pc. I wouldn’t have a problem with that either as long as the upated’s add content (priced correctly) and are not just patches to fix things(those should always be free).

Now that we know when we are getting this update and it’s not too far off, I’m curious if we will download as a patch or if we will have to delete the old version and re-download it. They said it was basicly scrapped and started over with Blitzworks. I may do it anyway just in case, I don’t want anything that FT touched with this game to come into contact with Blitzworks version. (It may create a black hole the game never returns from).

It would be a Christmas miracle!!!

To the best of my knowledge they haven’t given any specifics on that info as of yet, just that those changes are coming.