Mantic Games on the DeadZone Kickstarter Update wrote:
Deadzone Demo and Pipe Networks
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Deadzone: Infestation Kickstarter shipped – the smoothest dispatch operation we’ve had for some time.

General feedback on the game and the miniatures has been overwhelmingly positive and we hope that you’ve started building and painting your strikes forces and even played a few games as well!

If you've not, here’s a video of Ronnie playing Warren at Beasts of War to show you what you're missing out on!


Pipe Network

One recurring piece of feedback we are receiving involves the pipe network set.

Each pipe network bag comes with 1 4-way junction piece and 1 T-junction piece.

This is different from the graphic on the home page and the pledge manager, which suggests you get 2 T-junctions per set.

There was a change in the tooling that meant this was reduced to 1, with the intention that for retail we’d sell 2 sets together, effectively giving you the two halves to make the complete pipe section. We’re sorry that this wasn’t communicated in advance.

Where backers only get one pipe network sprue, this means that they only get 1 of each of these pieces, meaning that they require a second to turn these into complete pipes.

Obviously this is a bit of an oddity and, whilst we’d simple love to supply everyone with an extra sprue, we unfortunately can’t.

However, we will message all of the backers this affects with the option of purchasing a sprue at a special Kickstarter price so that they can get the two halves of the 4-way junction and T-junction.

Thanks.

 judgedoug wrote:
I'm fairly certain at this point we're dealing with the utter incompetence of the unholy combination of the Royal Mail and the United States Postal Service. These two systems, with the built-in inability of its' employees to suffer negative consequences for their rampant ineptitude, are perhaps only eclipsed by the wholly corrupt Italian postal system whose employees consider stealing packages as a perk of the job.

But, hey, that postal employee at the O'Hare Sorting Facility needed a new monitor stand while he binge watches Netflix and your Deadzone box was the perfect size.

While I would appreciate a tracking number, I'm almost glad to be free of the torture of sitting and watching my money either just stay at a sorting facility for weeks on end or bounce all around the country with no apparent regard for a final destination.

Jerram wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
Still no sign of $115 pledge on East Coast, Virginia. Same with my brother, also a $115 pledge.

Put in a ticket and got a response, Mantic rep (Zak) confirmed the pledge had already shipped, and asked me to wait til the weekend just in case, and if it hasn't arrived yet, they'll send another.

Hmm also in Va and no pledge here either.

 Theophony wrote:
Yes, obviously the postal workers fault that PARTS are missing from orders and still orders have not arrived. I'm sure there some lost in the mail, but given the past I think it's much more likely that Mantic is the problem.

 Psychopomp wrote:

So, it looks like the Mars Attacks stuff is fading from the Mantic online store...again. I don't know if this means they're due for a restock, fading for good due to the license being dropped, or being diverted to the Warpath pledges.

Either way, it reminds me we haven't gotten the Mars Attacks lists for DZ 2.0, and the Martians are my biggest faction! Has anyone heard any word since, "We'll put out a PDF after the game is out,"?

 ulgurstasta wrote:
Have we heard anything about when the new Plague stuff hits retail?

 Psychopomp wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised - and this is just crystal ball speculation, I haven't heard anything - if they hold off on the Plague Deadzone boxes until the Warpath 3A sprue is available.

 NTRabbit wrote:
I think this one is going to struggle, especially since Guild Ball has taken off, and Blood Bowl, no matter how antiquated and inferior the rules, will get people on nothing other than nostalgia, and is gonna be out around the same time.

 Azazelx wrote:

Yeah, because Blood Bowl is such a terrible, unbalanced, game with such poor playtesting.

 NTRabbit wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:

Yeah, because Blood Bowl is such a terrible, unbalanced, game with such poor playtesting.

It's an antiquated rule system, buried in dated concepts and mechanics that have long since been left behind by the rest of the industry, really a lot like 40k and WHFB. Sure, it's better balanced than either of those two, but it's still very old and clunky.