Pathogen - New Campaign

[Wweyland]

Does it show the price on Steam for you? It's showing this for me, but no price:
This game is not yet available on Steam
Planned Release Date: 30 August
This game plans to unlock in approximately 1 day

I would assume I could pre-order it, but that's not available.

[PAS Spinelli]

Preordering DLCs is not something you can do on Steam afaik

[Wweyland]

So it's a general Steam thing?

[Nelostic]

Yes!

[BlueMarsalis79]

The name of the new campaign:

"Promise of a Flower"

https://www.aliensfireteamelite.com/en/releasenotes/

[Wweyland]

I wonder how it fits with the other campaigns. It's after blowing up Katanga?

[Nelostic]

I hope they make alien coloneal marines canon for this game!

[BlueMarsalis79]

I hope they don't.

[Wweyland]

7 hours to go! (in my region at least)

[Kailem]

Pathogen's out now on the UK store for £12, which is honestly a little cheaper than I was expecting given the US price. I figured they'd just do what they usually do and change the dollar sign into a pound one, so I'm glad that's not the case here.

They've also added new "Into the Hive" and "Ultimate" editions to the digital store, the former being the game with Pathogen and the latter being the game, Pathogen and all the cosmetic DLC packs released so far.

Sadly the fact that they've put out this "Ultimate Edition" after this one expansion makes me feel like this could well be the one and only big piece of story DLC we get, which is going to be a little disappointing if true. I was hoping that, even if it took another year between them, we might end up getting more expansions like Pathogen down the line.

And who knows, maybe we will! But I'm suddenly not expecting that as much as I was before seeing this.

[Corporal Hicks]

I was hoping that, even if it took another year between them, we might end up getting more expansions like Pathogen down the line.

I don't want to say too much, but that was my understanding of the intent. But that was pre-mergers. It'll be a damn shame if that ends up being the case.

[Kailem]

Yeah Pathogen existing at all post-merger gives me hope, but it might just be that it was so far into development that they just said "fine, you can put that out but then that's it."

A year between releases is still way too long imo, but I'd still much rather have that than nothing else after Pathogen at all, and seeing this new "Ultimate Edition" in the store is suddenly making me fear that might be the case.

[Cosmic Incubation]

In this age of games constantly being added on to, and having 5 different editions to choose from all the time, I could totally see them just updating the "ultimate edition" by just adding on the new big piece of content/DLC on top of the previous ones, and updating the price, each time a new one comes out. So that new players can always just buy all the content at once. For convenience, and just to entice people more with a big bundle of content. 

But that's me hoping for the best tbh. Could just as easily be as you fear, that this is all we're going to get as far as new campaigns/big content add-ons. I certainly hope not though, of course.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Now installing!

[Yeaok]

Pathogen Queen? Man can we get something similar to Colonial Marines?