There's really no need for someone to pose the same question on a roughly weekly basis. That's what the search is for.

Short answer:
no one knows. It'll be most likely released when it's ready. For details ask your chrystal ball or favourite psychic.

When it is done. I rather have one without a ton of new bugs introduced that could have been fixed first. It takes time.

引用自 Bang Bang Feuer Frei：

When it is done. I rather have one without a ton of new bugs introduced that could have been fixed first. It takes time.

Unfortunately, with how long every patch takes and the massive amount of bugs that usually pop up after, bugs will show up regardless of how long it takes to do it.

引用自 PapaOscar：

引用自 Bang Bang Feuer Frei：

When it is done. I rather have one without a ton of new bugs introduced that could have been fixed first. It takes time.

Unfortunately, with how long every patch takes and the massive amount of bugs that usually pop up after, bugs will show up regardless of how long it takes to do it.

Yeah, so let me specify: I rather have one without a ton but only half a ton of new bugs introduced that could have been fixed first. It takes time.

There's only two people on the team.

Probably February.

引用自 Mr.Woof：

There's really no need for someone to pose the same question on a roughly weekly basis. That's what the search is for.

Short answer:
no one knows. It'll be most likely released when it's ready. For details ask your chrystal ball or favourite psychic.

I check in every few months and don't follow what others have asked. Lack of communication is responsible for 90% of the disconnect and disillusionment between devs and the people that give them money.

I imagine it will be on us before we know it, then a couple days later someone will flip out because they haven't heard any updates in the last fifteen minutes and proclaim the game is dead. It's a pretty regular cycle it would seem.

引用自 El Rushbo：

I imagine it will be on us before we know it, then a couple days later someone will flip out because they haven't heard any updates in the last fifteen minutes and proclaim the game is dead. It's a pretty regular cycle it would seem.

This update is supposedly a massive milestone. New submarine, major reworks, the kind of thing that would normally get, you know… communication.

But with zero follow-up, the small hype they created is slowly evaporating.
This should be something we’re all excited for. Instead, i'm slowly forgetting why i cared.

I don't think people are angry, just professionally unimpressed.
Literally… meh.

edit:
Who approved that sad laggy disaster of a XBOX/PS5 trailer.
Looks made by their very young nephew using tools from windows '95.

Well I can't say I disagree about the communication. In this day and age when the average attention span of a human being is about as long as a TikTok video, leaving people with no information at all for months on end isn't an ideal strategy. It's not that the development takes time. That's nor a problem since I know it's only a small team.

Also It's not as if there need to be ground braking new revelations. A few new screen shots of progress on the Typ IX and the new Pacific scenario. Maybe a few technical details every few weeks and people would know the project is progressing and would stay interested.

引用自 Mr.Woof：

Also It's not as if there need to be ground braking new revelations. A few new screen shots of progress on the Typ IX and the new Pacific scenario. Maybe a few technical details every few weeks and people would know the project is progressing and would stay interested.

Exactly.
Bannerlord announced their next DLC ages ago, and then, radical strategy.. continued talking about it. Screenshots, small updates, signs of life. You know, the bare minimum required to maintain excitement.

Meanwhile here, the plan seems to be: vanish completely, go full incommunicado, and hope hype spontaneously regenerates in the dark like a mushroom.

There’s has to be a middle ground between “daily overhype” and “witness protection program”.
I can't speak for anybody else, but that's is what it feels like to me.

tl:dr Meh is not a marketing strategy.

Well, they are submariners so it's only natural that they go subsurface for a long time ;)

引用自 chksix：

Well, they are submariners so it's only natural that they go subsurface for a long time ;)

Crushing depth.
Hope they don't play one life.

Well, when it comes it comes. I personally do not need someone telling me every other week that it is coming. I get that this is not how marketing of a product works, then again I guess I am not in the typical target group of most marketing campaigns.
I figure they will be trying to push it out before Christmas as that would make sense, so there is a chance for that. If they work hard until then on the actual DLC instead of their marketing campaign then that is fine by me. Always keeping in mind that it is a *small* team, so they might simply be busy with the game/DLC and having a bit of a life in between. If you have no marketing department then yeah I can see how that gets neglected. So, patience.

DWS has never been good at communicating updates with us. They will share news with us when there is something worthwhile to be shared. True, update on how it is going would be nice but that is not happening for various reasons already stated.

Simply put, it is what it is.

Perhaps the actual content release is the emotional resilience training.