by Terraria 1.4.5 was supposed to be the game’s sixth final update in three years, until it started getting delayed. True to the spirit of all those “last update” memes, the developers at Re-Logic keep pushing back the update as they keep adding more stuff to it.
“The teams continue to work hard on adding/modifying/fixing content for Terraria 1.4.5,” Re-Logic explains in the latest State of the Game blog. “The finish line is starting to take shape, although admittedly we have some decent ideas that we want to discuss internally and decide if we need to adopt them before we can say for sure. How’s that for vague?”
Vagueness aside, it seems like the developers are starting to get a pretty good idea of how much work still needs to be done on this update. “The team has the final list in hand – as well as a few possible additional things we can add, which we’ll decide on in the coming weeks – and is hard at work getting all that content together,” they say. continue. “Terraria 1.4.5 has become quite an update, far exceeding our original intention of ‘just doing the Dead Cells content’. We know the update process has taken longer than usual (or anyone expected), but the end is in sight and we hope it won’t be too much longer before we can get an idea of the timing.”
Terraria launched way back in 2011, and Re-Logic’s dedication to over a decade of post-launch updates has become absolutely legendary in the community – especially considering how many times the studio has previously said it was done. Many of the game’s major patches have been announced with a degree of finality, but 1.4 in particular is said to be ‘Journey’s End’. Then we got 1.4.1 as ‘The True End of the Journey’, and on and on until we are now at 1.4.5.
1.4.5 was originally scheduled to release in 2023, but it seems players aren’t too unhappy about the long wait. Earlier this year, they gave their informal blessing to the delay. One day Re-Logic may leave Terraria, but it won’t this day.
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