Pathfinder: Kingmaker – Beneath the Stolen Lands DLC Delayed

When the season pass for Owlcat Games’ isometric cRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker was unveiled, Beneath the Stolen Lands, the third DLC on the list, was supposed to go live in April of 2019. However, this Steam announcement lets us know that the release of the DLC had to be postponed for about a month due to the team’s inexperience with creating procedurally generated content coupled with a desire to spend some more time on quality assurance.

The announcement shares some fresh screenshots, so be sure to check them out, and here’s what it has to say:

Dear Pathfinders,

Not every day brings good news, and, unfortunately, today is one of those other days. We regret to inform you that, after much consideration, we’ve decided to postpone the release of our 3rd DLC, “Beneath The Stolen Lands”, by around a month.

Multiple factors have influenced this decision. We don’t have much experience with procedurally generated dungeons, and the game’s engine wasn’t originally built to support such content. Our goal – to make the DLC endlessly repeatable –demands that we hit a high standard of replayability, and that puts additional pressure on our game designers. Last but not least, we feel that we need to make more time for testing and quality assurance.

All in all, this is a rather ambitious project for us, and we want to make sure we deliver an experience that is worthy of our players’ attention. We sincerely apologize for this delay, and we hope that you understand our reasons.

To soften the blow and share our progress with you, here’s a little sneak peek inside the mysterious underground dungeon we’ve been building all this time. We hope you like what you see!

Sincerely,
Owlcats.