So, what's the newest estimate release? Is it still next month?
Hey Daffa, I'll take this one.
In Turnro's Youtube video the date is set for August 2018. In case you haven't seen it, I recommend viewing it.
Last year around March we've decided to review the Campaign and we came to the conclusion that we need to change a lot of things from 1.3b and go on making the rest by the end of February 2018.
However, this has proved to be a difficult lasting challenge. In every chapter we made and remade a lot of things from story to gameplay.
Unlike the previous Campaigns, we're trying to make each story feel and play differently. And that can take...more time than we thought it would. For example, we didn't think that we were going to have so many Boss Fights in Malfurion's Quest. We expected to have a few per branch but in what we're working on currently, we ended up having one boss fight per Chapter.
Revamping the story wasn't easy either and we're working hard on that still. This is an alternative universe of Warcraft III and Malfurion's Quest marks the finale no matter the ending you get. We've also tried to fill in plot holes and continuity issues while bringing some interesting characters to the table offering the player something new. Each character has its own story, plenty of dialogue and, we hope, memorable personalities. A lot of players enjoyed Malfurion in 1.3b. We're trying to add more to every character, by giving them their own scenes, lines, distinct phrases, and presence. That too is taking quite some time as we're trying to round everything up as best we can.
Unfortunately, studies and work can get in the way sometimes especially when we really wish to deliver a great Campaign. That's our main goal and we're working towards that at a steady pace.
Remember Jeopardy for the Horde's initial release? That Campaign was so much more different than it is now. The Campaign has been patched, upgraded and it received a lot of content with some chapters being entirely remade as well. We wish to avoid that for this one. We want everything to be as complete as possible in terms of story and gameplay. There will be patches and updates of course but we want to deliver something solid from the getgo.
We hoped to finish chapter 8 by the end of December, but the script took some time and to make that into solid gameplay took more than expected. We finally hope to get this done by the end of the week and immediately after start working on Chapter 9 which is also quite long and intense.
This is an amazing journey for me as well as I've never been involved so much in a Campaign and I wish you guys to experience the new changes asap. But since this will be Turnro's last War3 Campaign, I'm doing my best not to disappoint him or you by any means. And I want this to be a blast for everyone. All the twists, intense epic moments and boss fights, we really want those to be experienced in a version we're pleased with.
Overall it's tough but we'll get it done. Turnro is working hard on it every day to deliver something great. I can't predict exactly how much time will it take for the rest but we still hope to have it finalized by August.