A couple of modders are currently working on an offline mod for the troubled The Day Before, which would add an offline mode.
16.12.2023 - 14:48 / gamesradar.com
After seeing a few of The Day Before’s gameplay trailers, one indie dev decided to make a ‘parody’ trailer of their own to see how quickly they could whip up a video that captured a similar degree of promise. But when that project began, they couldn't have known what would eventually happen to The Day Before, and how much it would fail to live up to that promise.
The developer, who goes by Crimson, initially set themselves the goal of creating a The Day Before parody trailer in March, streaming some of the work and posting updates on Twitter so people could see the project come together in real-time.
Some updates relate to random development thoughts, such as buying more asset packs – “Don’t accuse me of asset flipping,” they joke – whereas others are more granular changes backed up by clips, such as a recent one that shows a bevy of kicking and swinging animations.
Making 'The Day Before' parody - Day 37.5/?:I stayed up way too late (bugs galore), added kicking and more swing animations, new sounds amongst other things. I really wanted a shove animation rather than a kick but this is all I got for now.Time for rest, cheers. pic.twitter.com/OsNiZRw4nIDecember 13, 2023
“I had the idea after seeing a few of the Day Before gameplay trailers, which all had somewhat varying levels of detail, and some of them almost looking like 'movie sets,' like the environments were only fit for the purpose of creating a trailer or marketing material and that's it,” Crimson tells me in an interview.
“That probably happens quite commonly in the industry but upon seeing it for TDB, I felt like trying to tackle my own 'zombie survival' gameplay trailer and seeing how quickly I could whip one up. Originally I aimed at completing it within seven crunch days back in March but that quickly fell apart when my GPU randomly called it quits. So now I'm just trying to complete it in a timely manner whilst also showing people the development process.”
Don't accuse me of asset flipping /sDecember 13, 2023
A fried GPU was hardly the last surprise to be thrown Crimson’s way, though, as The Day Before would eventually release following some long-standing trademark disputes. Unfortunately, that launch was swiftly followed by complaints that what was billed as a survival MMO was nothing of the sort. That wasn't much of a surprise to those who had been following the game's turbulent development, but what happened next certainly was.
Following a few days of quiet, The Day Before developer Fntastic announced it was calling it quits - the game was a "financial failure" and the studio would be closing down - forcing its publisher to step in and let everyone know they’d be refunded.
With that in mind, I ask Crimson if they were surprised at
A couple of modders are currently working on an offline mod for the troubled The Day Before, which would add an offline mode.
This year’s most infamous video game, The Day Before , will see a timely and expected end on January 22nd, 2024.
The Day Before will be shutting down in January, less than two months after its disastrous launch.
The Day Before, once Steam’s most wishlisted game before experiencing a bizarre journey through multiple delays, accusations of being a scam, apparent legal disputes and a catastrophic Early Access launch, will shut down its servers in one month. The effective end to the game will accompany refunds for anyone who brought it on Steam.
Game development disaster The Day Before will go dark forever on 22nd January 2024.
The Day Before will go down as one of 2023's greatest disasters, rated as one of the worst games of the year and was so bad that developer Fntastic decided to close its doors just days after release. The Day Before can no longer be purchased on Steam after that whole saga, but you know that whenever something has limited quantities, the scalpers aren't too far behind, no matter the quality.
Update — Publisher Mytona has posted an update on The Day Before situation, pledging to work with Steam to open up refunds to any players who choose to do so.
The strange situation that is The Day Before keeps getting stranger.
The Day Before, once Steam's most wish-listed open-world survival MMO, has been delisted from Valve's platform. The game launched in early access to an almost immediate flood of negative reviews last week, with most players claiming that it wasn't really an MMO but an extraction shooter reminiscent of Escape from Tarkov, combined with the post-apocalyptic threats of The Last of Us. The misleading gameplay claims were made worse by several game-breaking glitches that caused characters to clip off from the map, an incomplete and sparse world devoid of action, and inconsistent online features. Merely five days after release, the game is no longer available to buy on Steam and Fntastic, the studio behind the game, has announced it is shutting down and working on refunds for customers who bought the game.
Update, 12/12/23:
Editor’s Note: Faster than we could publish our early access review, the developer announced it was shutting down and The Day Before was removed from sale . The servers remain up for those who have bought it and not yet refunded, but since our reviewer went to the trouble of playing it, it seems only right that you should get to read what he thought of the experience while it lasted.
Update: The Day Before is no longer available to purchase on Steam. It's currently unclear whether it was delisted by developer Fntastic or by Valve itself. We've reached out to Valve for further information and will provide additional updates as we learn more.