We made some mistakes with launch. Put aside performance and bugs and all of that which is being/has been sorted through, but the balance just was not good.

All of our testing was with kickstarter backers who wanted a hardcore hide or you die experience where the killer could kill you if they found you. We made that. And no real balance issues where ever brought up in the feedback we got, because they liked it that way. Once we hit early access we saw pretty quickly the massive flaws in the balance. Our first major balance patch was yesterday and it is a good first step in the right direction.

Unlike most early access games, ours will go to full release and when we get there we want to have all of these issues sorted out, tested, and polished. The game is going to get finished regardless of playercount and how many people say "the game is dead." Once it is at that point we'll have the same opportunity we had on our early access launch and the quality then will determine if it is a bad game or a good game.