SheepSlaya

inject punk, indie and alt straight into my veins.

Epileptic, Dyslexic and very tired.
He/Them.

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[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

how smart to make it look terrible on purpose to appeal to their target demographic of idiots with no taste

[Simon @Simon_Hypixel]

We are delivering on our promise and releasing Hytale into Early Access on January 13, 2026, with all the consequences that come with that decision.

In just a few weeks, we merged roughly 300 branches, modernized a four-year-old code & asset base, scaled the team from 8 people to 50 core developers plus ~250 helping hands, tracked close to 1,000 bugs and fixed hundreds of them, added Mac and Linux support, and built an Exploration Mode that simply did not exist before.

When we started the mission to save Hytale, we made a clear promise: Launch without any delays, at any cost.

We are keeping that promise, even though it is a herculean task. In an alternate timeline, the most intelligent production decision would be to delay launch by 3-4 months, complete the obvious work in front of us, and avoid the overhead and distractions of maintaining a live product. The game would objectively be better on day one. That is not what we are doing.

Moving this fast also comes with very real downsides, and you have already seen them. We make visible progress every week, sometimes so much that key community members work overtime to keep up with the news - but you have also seen us drop the ball.

Some concrete examples:

1- Name reservations were intended to reward longtime fans. Still, we lacked sufficient time and information to verify the email list's integrity, and some longtime fans were missing from it.
2- The username generator produced unintended results, and our name filters failed to catch some unacceptable cases.
3- The payment system continues to report issues.
4- Communication regarding avatar customization, Steam release, modding, and pricing was insufficiently detailed, leading to misinterpretation or confusion.
5- Blog posts and technical write-ups have landed on an unpredictable schedule.
6- Game server providers, server owners, creators, and business inquiries are not receiving responses as quickly as we would like or as they deserve.

This is the tradeoff we all have to accept: You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. We wish we had more time to double-check every step and spend more time on communication, but that time comes at a steep opportunity cost. Extra polishing reduces the overall impression of Hytale on January 13. Our primary focus is the game.

The team is in a constant release cycle. Every week until launch is tightly scheduled, and we are doing this with a core team of around 50 people assembled in weeks, not a massive AAA organization. That means we are taking hundreds of calculated risks every day. Most pay off. A small fraction doesn’t - and when they don’t, the impact is very evident.

If I could ask for one thing from the community, it’s this: Please keep reminding each other what this pace implies - especially newer players who were not around for the #SaveHytale moment and may not know what the Early Access experience is meant to be for us.
Some people will not be able to get their desired username. Some will run into payment issues. Some information will arrive later than it ideally should. This is not because we don’t know better; it’s because we are choosing to keep a promise.

For us, Early Access success looks like this: you start a world, and the first impression and immersion leave you thinking, “This is much better than they said.” After more time, you also start to see the rough edges - and still end your first day thinking, “This game has a lot of potential. I’ll come back and keep up with updates,” or get you inspired to get into making maps, content, mods or a minigame server.

As you will be playing through the first week of Hytale, we will already follow up with the first patch. We will release updates rapidly in the first few weeks, with pre-releases available more frequently. You start on the 4-year-old archeology project, but within months, you will find yourself in a flow of rapid development, previously unthinkable.

We appreciate that the community has high expectations for Hytale, but please remember that we are fulfilling a promise we made early on: to release as soon as possible. That is what the core community asked for. Our biggest fear right now is not criticism - it’s that the story of #SaveHytale gets forgotten during Early Access, and the team ends up wishing we had simply delayed those extra four months instead of keeping our word.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@blurayangel I can hear David Lynch yelling from his grave, or some other plane of existence he now is in.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@DiscussingFilm

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Stay loud about your feelings on generative AI, it works.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@LegalEagle as a non us citizen the eagle team covarage of us politics and law is great. I watched Civil War (2024) on US election night. What is happening in the US, a relevant watch (presidical power). Staying topical while also analyzing a film? Wold love a video on the film.

[bubs!! @etoilepattinson]

anyways, trans rights!!!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[Oranyaa 🧡 @Oranyaa_]

My culture is not your costume!

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️🇫🇷🇮🇱BREAKING:

Greta Thunberg signed deportation papers and is set to leave Israel.

Rima Hassan, EU Parliament member, refused to sign and will be taken to Givon detention center in Ramla, central Israel.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

This will never work but @tobyfox will there be a recap op chapt. 1+2 when starting 3? It has been a minute.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@theneedledrop The drummer for honningbarna also does drums for sløtface.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@theneedledrop You should check out Sløtface and Mallgirl as well. Slightly different vibe, but so clearly inspired by the sound of honningbarna. Sløtface is punk, and Mallgirl is indie.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@theneedledrop We are many, we are legion. Do the honningbarna album soft spot and also and the album Film Buff by Sløtface. Their both great.

[Maxxy Rainbow 🌈🇪🇪 @MaxxyRainbow]

Once again, a song that is 19th in streaming does not WIN the televote by a landslide unless there is something seriously wrong with the system.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@StevenWallaby A sane list
1. Mi2 is the bottom.
Thats it, thats the requirement.
Everything else is extremely personal. They are all very equal in quality. But some are more different (like 1 and 3, i really like 3, i like the grit of it).

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@SilentDawnLB People underestimate mi:3 man. Its the odd one out. It has some grit to it as mi1 but starts scaling up to what the later films will do. I don't think people appreciate what mi3 manages to do doing after mi2.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@neonhedonics Mi 3 has that grounded edge still that 1 has while going bigger. And i have not seen dead reckoning since cinema, and i have seen the others several times. Very hard to place.

[SheepSlaya @steinbsand]

@neonhedonics 1. Rogue Nation
2. Fallout
3. MI:3 (i saw the, "no pre mcquarrie is top 3" comment, but i think mi:3 feels like a proto mcquarrie film, it has a lot of the thing in it, but not all of it. I like it.)
4. Ghost Protocol
5. Mission Impossible
6. Dead Reckoning (need rewatch
7. MI:2