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Earlier this year, developer Iron Gate released a pretty ambitious roadmap for Valheim<\/a> that included several major updates and a host of smaller improvements: but as the months passed, it began to seem less and less likely that Iron Gate would meet all these targets. Sure enough, the Iron Gate team has confirmed that it’s had to revise its roadmap for 2021 – and that includes a trimmed-down version of its update schedule. <\/p>\n

“As we’re sure lots of you suspected, we won’t be able to deliver four updates this year,” Iron Gate explained in an update post on Steam<\/a>. “Instead, we’re now planning to launch Hearth and Home in Q3 2021, and we’re temporarily taking down the roadmap whilst we make some changes. We are sorry it’s taken us so long to update you.”<\/p>\n

Iron Gate went on to explain that it hadn’t been prepared for “such a large influx of players”, and the game’s popularity highlighted plenty of bugs that needed urgent fixes<\/a>. “Our priority has been to make the current experience as stable as possible and this has meant new content has taken a backseat. To put it clearly; we haven’t been able to focus all of our resources on Hearth and Home until May.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, developer Iron Gate released a pretty ambitious roadmap for Valheim that included several major updates and a host of smaller improvements: but as the months passed, it began to seem less and less likely that Iron Gate would meet all these targets. Sure enough, the Iron Gate team has confirmed that it’s had to revise its roadmap for 2021 – and that includes a trimmed-down version of its update schedule. “As we’re sure lots of you suspected, we won’t be able to deliver four updates this year,” Iron Gate explained in an update post on Steam. “Instead, we’re now planning to launch Hearth and Home in Q3 2021, and we’re temporarily taking down the roadmap whilst we make some changes. We are…<\/p>\n

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