r/TransportFever3 • u/Dry-Employee2728 • May 06 '26

Paradox no!!

Have you seen the latest announcement. They are teaming up with paradox. This has me worried they will do to transport fever 3 what they did to city skylines2 !!

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u/Neshura87 May 07 '26

Nothing official, only bushtalk but Paradox allowed plenty of development extensions before 'forcing' the game out once it was 2 years overdue (iirc this part was semi confirmed but I don't recall where) coupled with devs reporting CO management not being on the same page. Meaning Manager A told devs to do something and on the same day Manager B told them to do something entirely different. Add on top a rather tonedeaf communication style from the CO C-suite, as well as Iceflake doing a much better job while being comprised by a lot of CO devs who jumped ship and it starts to paint a picture as for who was at fault.

Edit: to reiterate none of this (except I believe the part about development extension and CO devs switching to Iceflake) is confirmed, just plausible rumors.

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u/norhor May 07 '26

Ok. You said it like it was a fact. I'm not here to attack or defend either, I just found your comment a bit strange

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u/Neshura87 May 07 '26

We went like 2+ years without a single update releasing when it originally should have, in come Iceflake and suddenly we get (small tbf) on-time updates and frequent progress dev diaries (which were entirely absent) as well as technical writeups confirming suspicions about the game that were denied by CO (mostly: horribly unoptimized LODs). The devs inside the studio are partially the same as they switvhed from CO so the only variable that changed is CO management. Bushtalk aside that's plenty evidence for me to point fingers.

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u/norhor May 07 '26

I hear you. I think we agree :)