DEATHVERSE: LET IT DIE Dev Diary #9 

LET IT DIE 2 with a DEATHVERSE PVP mode is all I hoped for, so I'm happy :D Good luck and see you all when the new game arrives!

sad to hear Deathverse won't be re-released, but very excited to hear the LET IT DIE series will get a third entry with this re-development

Senpai has the right idea. I dropped a like solely for more single-player LET IT DIE. 🎉

I'm sad to see deathverse go since I think it was such an original idea and integration with the live matches, but I'm thrilled to see more of the Let It Die universe since I love it so much and think it is extremely charming. I will be looking forward to future updates, and I hope the new game's reach ends up overshooting and ending up in the sun. Good luck, and love all you guys do! 🖤💀

Thank you for your hard work!

Man it's suck seeing you guys go. I'm seriously going to miss this awesome game along with you uncle death and best girl queen B. I just hope you guys come back down the line. Anyway thank you for this game again and can't wait for the new edition to be announced.

I wish you guys the best of luck with the redevelopment of this game. Deathverse was very memorable, and I can't wait to hear more from you in the future!

LetItDieとDeathverseの要素を融合した3作目！楽しみです✨暑い日が続いているのでスタッフのみなさんも新さんもお体に気をつけて開発&運営がんばってください。応援しております。

Yes! ❤😊❤ Best news in a long time! Please have the new game be rated M with blood and gore

best of luck with the new game! lots of love to the LET IT DIE TEAM!

I played both Let It Die and Deathverse on their opening days, and while I haven't played Let It Die in years, I was playing Deathverse right until it kicked me out of the game on the final night. Best of luck, I continue to have faith in your team.

Let it die franchise have a lot of potential. It’s sad to see Deathverse go like this. Thank for all the hard work you put in this two game. I will be waiting for the new Let it Die !

Very happy that you guys seem very confident you'll make something great. It's nice that you guys are aiming for something in-between Deathverse and Let it Die, cause I do really think many people wanted better pvp in Let it Die, and of course more single player action stuff in Deathverse.

Still playing Let It Die on my PS5. I'm super excited to see what you guys come up with!

Good luck with the development of this new game, I know it'll be even better. I can't wait!

Personally I didn't like too much DEATHVERSE because of it's Battle royale Genre, however I liked the idea of playing with others. I hope you come back with something more like the Original LET IT DIE (Which I love and enjoy until this day) Best of luck to the Team in this Re-Development 👏🏻

We need let it die 2!!! Bigger and stronger!!! Come on!!😮😮

RIP Deathverse. hopefully like a Phoenix you come back someday.

Woo, お疲れ様です！ Very much looking forward to the updates and new game!

NEEW GAME NEW GAME NEW GAME!!!!!!

Excited for the future of this new game! Hopefully it'll have a story mode.

I hope the 3rd game doesn't make the player feel obligated to participate in both the PvP and singleplayer portions. The whole reason I passed on Deathverse is that I don't like PvP, so if I have to play the PvP side of the new game like the first game's TDM (splith just isn't obtainable in the amounts needed outside of TDM), I'll probably have to pass on it, too :( Even if I can't play the third game, I hope it has some more focus on the story and characters. Having people roleplay the characters on social media isn't really a satisfying subtitute.

AMAZING NEWS UNCLE DEATH! I can't wait to play this new game, hopefully we can get a new insight soon

I wish the team nothing but wild amounts of success. I will be waiting and looking forward too seeing/ hearing more. Thank you for your updates.❤

Looking forward to the next game. Thanks for all that you guys do.

Thank you for the great video

Guys if this is a hybrid of Let it Die 2 and death verse pvp, that sounds awesome!

3作目！ LET IT DIEを遊びながら待ってます！ ぼっちサイコー！

Not gonna lie, pretty awesome! Legit felt like Deathverse was more like on par on being a PVP mode for Let it Die, and is nice to see that, even though it didn't worked out, they will bring it back to the workbench nad bring something NEW, using BOTH ideas. Hearing it will have a SIngle Player mode made me look forward to it. Now, time will tell how they will perform. Now, it makes me wonder. In the game's lore, will they play out that the universe's game show Deathverse went under and failed? COuld give an excuse to explore the collapse remains of the stages. Hell, maybe everything ended fusing together or maybe a NEW Tower of Barbs grew on the area... or Uncle Death found a new game for us to play.

Let It Die is one of my favourite games ever. I've been gaming since the 80s, I've played thousands of games, and I just dunno what it is... But, I just get cravings to play Let It Die. I played it on the PS4 up to Pale Wind, and then all of a sudden I'm humming the soundtrack a year later and redownloading it on Steam. The soundtrack, the style, learning how to "dance" with every enemy and weapon type... It just has one of the best gameplay loops I've ever come across in any game. This is a -bold- stupid personal take, but, for me, Darks Souls is one of the greatest games ever... But, I've put more time into Let It Die than ALL of the soulsborne games combined. This is infinitely more replayable. But, there is a "but"... Gacha is absolutely rife in gaming. I really hope this new game can strike the right balance with monetisation. I would have happily paid £25-40 for Let It Die instead of "Free" and bought additional content... If the game loosened up a little on the restrictions.

I really hope it will be incredible, can't wait to clear floors with friends

i believe that with better marketing the game could have been a commercial success, the only reason I knew the game even existed was because I seen an advertisement on the let it die steam page

🚀🚀FUCK YES! 🚀🚀 I LOVE YOU! THANKS FOR LISTENING TO YOUR FANS! 💖

I wish you all the best of luck. And although Deathverse had it's issues. I do not regret buying two battle passes for the seasons.

I believe in Director Shin!

Glad to hear we’ll have some Hack and Slash elements back.

This is the best news for LET IT DIE I could have hoped for! I can't wait to see what's next, good luck Director Shin & team!

Im really sad to see the game go so soon. Changed my life back last fall. I really enjoyed something.

honestly the grind and p2w aspects are what killed let it die for me. i was instantly brought on board by the awesome design choices and quickly ended up falling out of favor. hope any future projects are more player-friendly

Great! Before that, would be possible to add an elevator to floors 101, 151, 201, etc.? It's absurdly time consuming to get to the higher floors right now, clunky to use shelters to keep going and something that would drastically increase the quality of life. Pretty please with sugar on top?

Fantastic news!!

Yor sends love and blessings

I dream and imagine how beautiful the new tower of barbs highest floor will look like and how high will by also and i hope we still keep the free to play version like in LET IT DIE CLASSIC. And i hope let it die classic services will never close i will still play let it die classic it will be nostalgia ❤

The hype is real. Grinding Bloodnium in Let it die right now

Finally LID2!!!!!🎉😂❤

Let It Die: Deathverse was a Rollercoaster of emotions for me, still among one of my more favorite takes on the Battle-Royal genre, and it is saddening to see it go without hope of rework. They had a number of great ideas behind the game, mainly with Fatal Blows and Sub-Skills but, it struggled with a frustrating combat system that felt clunky and severely punishing based on the weapon faced against. Balancing was messy, with certain weapons, (Katana, Hammer, and Spear) overshadowing other weapon classes because of their innate advantages being too great. Katana had access to the infamous Twilight Blade allowing for one shots on any shield with basic attacks. Hammer had access to both projectiles and extremely hard hitting moves that quickly turned the tides of battle. The Spear had the most annoying Fatal Blows that lasted excessively long and tended to knock players off nearby edges. There were other aspects that I adored, cosmetics were ubiquitous (if we ignore the recolors) and even had a degree of justification (like carrying Elderly Folk) for what they were. The leveling system for the cosmetics, if a bit pay to unlock all stages, introduced multiple stages that added extra accessories and created a separate version of the outfits. Alongside the ability to remove headgear from outfits!

Realmente me entristece demasiado saber que se cerró el juego, yo le tenía mucho cariño y lo consideraba lo más original de los blattle Royale. Les deseo suerte y ojalá la comunidad logré ver más las obras que hacen.

You can't please everyone. I personally don't like pvp type games since I'm bad at it. I love getting new stuff like upgrades to my rank 3 machete to rank 4 etc. Climbing the Tower was kind of fun too.

まぁ思い切った決断ですよね！ でも、2年はかかるのかな～

please release it on ps4 to and also hope for the best hope the may actually be fun adn doesnt even have to be a free to play

Keep it up uncle death🫡

OMG LET IT DIE 2 IS HAPPENING 🎉🎉🎉 WITH PVP MODE LIKE DEATHVERSE ALL IN ONE THIS IS CELEBRATION TIME 🎉🎉🎉 CANT WAIT TO SEE THE NEW TOKIO DEATH METRO FLOORS OMGGGSO HYPED 😅😅😅 I HOPE UNCLE DEATH COMMING TO LID 2 I MEAN THATS THE TRADITION😅😅 I HOPE AND PREY ALSO. AND I HOPE YOU KEEP THE SAME WAY THE PVE SIDE OF THINGS FLOORS CRAFT RESOURCES AND STUFF SSAME JUST MORE NEW AND REFRESHED IN UNREAL ENGINE ⁵ IMAGINE HOW THE NEEW PLATINUM RESOURCES WILL LOOK WHEN THEY DROP THAT SWEET LOOT. THANK YOU FOR GOOD NEWS CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHATS THE TOP FLOOR IN LET IT DIE 3 ❤

I am very happy with the announcement but the question is... ¿Will the new game come out for Playstation 4? I ask because there is a very active community on PS4 and not releasing it there as well would be a big mistake.

I knew when Death Verse got announced that it was going to be niche but I felt as if it didn't get enough marketing and I was sad to hear it was shutting down. It had potential. Unfortunately when it launched it was pretty bare bones and there should have been an option for cross play right away. Whatever this next game is, I hope it feels tighter than both Death Verse or Let it Die mechanically speaking.

Omg this is awesome news

That's great news. I'm really hoping to see some kind of Let it Die 2 with PvP modes similar to Deathverse (coop would be nice also).

I like to see boss raid coop with 4-6 players limit plz?!

Yes is getting a bigger budget, og lid is money making machine . Now is smart follow it and add real time pvp

Early

LET IT DIE 2 PLEASE!!!!

I started with Let it Die on the PS4 the farthest I ever made was the 20th floor afterwards I moved to PC and it released there in 2018 I played for a bit and drifted off I came back recently this week and I’ve managed to climb up to the 85th floor I still have a long way to the top but seeing this news brings me so much joy and excitement I truly can’t wait to see what you and Director Shin come up with best of luck Senpai!!! 👍🏼👍🏼 I hope to hear great things in the future 😌

Let It Die 3!!

I would be happy to spend $$$ if they made it story driven - Let It Die 3 just like Elden Ring

I just want to play with friends

Let it die 2 would be fantastic played let it die since day 1(if it follows similar formula as first let it die), only thing needed in let it die was co-op tower climbing. (Obviously would make the tower climbing scale with co-op) wishful thinking but ya never know. Would've been able to persuade my freinds to play over the years = more money 💰 + more players.

atualizem o let it die com coisas realmente novas, acredito que o jogo tem uma vida mais longe se continuar interessante e lucrativo para todos 😊

:)

PLUSSS ULTRAAAA!!! 💜💜

Now that this is tanking can we get our elevator to floor 100 or we need to watch more bad ideas first?

We want coop climbing.

I liked the soulsborn combat style battle royale. When is deathverse coming back?

Will the Death Metals carry over to the next game?

Im Assuming it will be on ps4?

hey. what the hell happened to all the skins i bought!?!?!?!???? >:(

I only play original let it die! Only one! That's it! No more! Thanks!

Finally some good news

I'm confused. Will the third game have single player elements? I'm more of a PvE guy than a PvP guy but I wouldn't mind doing PvP if it was an optional mode that earned you rewards in single player like TDM.

My thoughts on this: - Unreal Engine 5? That's huge! I hope you manage to put the new technology to good use, take inspiration from other games like Hellblade 2 for example - Best of both worlds could work, PvE (player vs environment or single player) and PvP. Fortnite is a *PERFECT* example of this, Save the World for single player and Battle Royale, build or no build for multiplayer - My concern with PvP is that, for melee BR (battle royale) we already have Naraka Bladepoint, which recently went free to play so it would be tough to justify PvP unless you did something unique with the formula. And please, no nonsense balance decisions like make shield breaking = damsel in distress simulator, that was horrible and at that point you might as well afk (away from keyboard) and give up, go next game. Feeling helpless in a game with 0 defense options never feels good tbh (to be honest), even Mortal Kombat X had combo breakers which required 2 bars to use out of the 3 it gave you - More collaborations or licenses would really help for monetisation, for example DBD (Dead By Daylight) they got Resident Evil, Silent Hill and other licenses to grab people's interest as well as make money. I won't lie it worked on me as someone who played Resident Evil! - I know people are SICK TO DEATH of battle passes but I'd take those and limited time cosmetic skins instead of "drop 100+ DMs (Death Metals) to maybe get powerful decals", which was not only Pay to Win* but it also has the potential to scam players; I know not everyone got UFR (Ultimate Fighter Returns) from the recent 2 mushroom stews for example. At least have bad luck protection if you're gonna go that route again, even Apex Legends has that with Heirloom cosmetics. "If a player opens 499 packs without getting any shards, 150 Heirloom Shards is guaranteed on the 500th pack". But I would take the battle pass route over DM stews tbh as long as you make the cosmetics compatible with PvE as well as PvP - I get "go big or go home" implies the company could be in trouble if this game fails but, with how awful the UFR stew drop rate was, I actually uninstalled the game on stream in front of 16 people because 800+ DMs and no UFR is just outright scamming to be honest. I felt deeply upset, betrayed and I hope you do better, *for your sake* as me and other people, we can always play other games if we're treated poorly again with Let It Die 2. Fortunately I already had 400+ DMs from January so I could write off the loss but it still hurts you know. Dead By Daylight is getting Nicolas Cage, Hellblade 2 is coming out next year, I have 300+ unplayed games on Steam...I can always play something else if Let It Die treats me like complete garbage again and never return. Ever - Using the data from the market as well as user feedback is great and you should do it more often in a benevolent manner**, like making custom games free for all players before Deathverse shut down. I hope to see more of this trend - I hope more thought is given to the game's balance this time round so we see a wide variety of weapons and armors being used. LID and Deathverse has this problem of only a few weapons being meta (most effective tactic available) instead of anything being viable, which is not only boring for players, but even as a viewer it is so dull to watch. The same 3 weapons over and over again is so uninteresting to watch, let alone play against should TDM (Tokyo Death Metro) return in this game. For those curious, Shovel main in LID (high risk high reward weapon, slow but strong, rewards patience), Katana main in Deathverse (the parry move and Deathblow were just so much fun to use imho (in my honest opinion)) - Give some thought to the new player experience too, in LID it was awful. The early game grind people didn't like too much, TDM rank 115 (level 247) can raid as low as rank 2 (level 1-25), which was astronomically unfair, it's not a fight it's an execution. It's not even skill it's just "who has better stats". Sure, the crazies like me, hhhmgame2012 will push the limits of what can be done with lower level fighters, but in TDM if they stack EVERYTHING in their favour, the rank 106+ bases will win on time, every time. They will stall us out until the TDM timer has ran out and we lose on time. Yet those powerful people are allowed to raid those weaker than them? - Also Hunters should have a cap option the player can toggle (default: set to on), so you cannot use stronger gear than the person you are sending a Hunter to. For example if someone is G3 (grade 3) fighter with T2 (tier 2) equipment, you cannot send them a G3 with T3/4/uncap equipment, has to be T2 or below. I've seen one veteran use new accounts to smurf and grief new players with equipment overpowered for where they are in the tower, and maybe you just want to do a low level/naked challenge run in peace without some moron sending you the most sweaty Hunter possible - Unless you untick the cap option and equipment on the Hunter is unrestricted, maybe you're feeling brave and want a challenge or don't mind too much if they kill you - Speaking of penalties, LID was so predatory with trying to make you spend. Up to F20s was reasonable, F30s it was obnoxious the salvage cost for new players. With a battle pass or adding new skins now and then type system you'd bypass the need to squeeze us so badly for money - Even the vendor cooldown system got very annoying in endgame. 2 to 3 hours wait? Pretty sure people would either use the DMs they saved from TDM or just log out/solo shelter and play something else while they wait. You're not really gonna make money from that so I would abolish the system *entirely* if I were you - I'd love to see a variety of locations, not just "climb the tower senpai". An island level perhaps, or an underground bunker/lair, maybe Hell itself? Could even do some silly stuff like a few levels in outer space with jetpacks, or add a grappling hook for mobility in other levels. Could add a forest level to LID 2, or a volcano level. So many options, I just want to see a COLOSSAL level of diversity when it comes to locations, weapons, armor, items, enemies you fight, playstyles etc - Don't just have human enemies this time round, I was OK with the Chupacabra (wolf) enemies in Deathverse tbh. Add different shapes, sizes, strengths and weaknesses of a multitude of enemies - Make a variety of playstyles viable, not just explore and kill things. Let It Die has parkour but the limitations really frustrated what you could accomplish, the slight input delay before you could jump/roll made some moves borderline impossible to do on command instead of it being something anyone with good timing and vision can do. Feel free to study Mirror's Edge, Dying Light and even those who do parkour in real life (Storror are BRILLIANT ones to study, they're exceptionally talented parkour athletes) to get some inspiration! - Some minigames other than stamp machine would be welcomed! For example, in LID you got the motor's rage move right? You can use infinite motor rage with some race tracks you create so you can race against the AI or even other players. You could make a 2D fighting game version of LID much like the arcade room via the Waiting Room fountain, or Space Invaders but with Kamas and overhead view. So many ideas you can do! * = To those who say "DATS NOT PAY TO WIN". You're telling me you wouldn't pay 100+ DMs to get Body Double instead of spend 30+ million KC (kill coin)? You're telling me that someone with Body Double doesn't have an advantage over someone who doesn't have it? Or even those who can no hit run, Gold Gym/Special Unit Captain isn't an advantage over someone who hasn't got it? 4* you can tank the awful KC RNG of stews, but 5* are EXTREMELY obnoxious to get without paying DMs. And don't even think about being a luck elitist, white knights and say "just get lucky", we know how good PC version's RNG is, but it doesn't make it any less of an issue the drop rate on console, let alone overall. You're just gaslighting with your own experience if you say otherwise Collaborations, it was good you added no duplicates + reset the pot option later on for the DM stews, but a shame you didn't do reruns of those events, especially for those who missed out on the armors like Kat Armor, Tank Commander armor etc I was too new at the time I joined LID to realised that Kat armor was limited time armor. Adding stronger version of collaboration decals was appreciated (for example, Below the Belt replaces Garcian Smith) however reruns would've been preferred as abusing FOMO (fear of missing out) is frowned upon by players, people have bills to pay, same as you, developers. Not everyone can afford the shiny new thing you wave in front of our faces as we work through life so second chances are always appreciated while we improve upon the faulty areas in our lives At least Dustin was more reasonable, bring collector, notepad, Wiki, plan ahead and do not be greedy with mat/roid pickups. Have a vision before you start and DO NOT DEVIATE from it. I see so many just pick up everything and it's like "OK dude, and you wonder why you're stuck grinding forever" instead of being more efficient about it. Of course Express pass makes it easier and it does make it feel more Pay to Win but you have more agency here as a F2P player vs stews for powerful decals as a good TDM team will earn you 6-9 DMs a week so that's up to 9 Dustin uses a week in Tengoku. A DM stew pull is 10 DMs, so at least 2 weeks for ONE pull. Terrible. "Just do quests" they're a one time resource, once they're squandered then what? Whereas TDM is an infinite resource so better for long term earning, but it's capped to how much you can earn Storage I was fine with spending DMs on, as you can earn them from your one time or long term resource as well as pay real money to support the developers. Not a big deal (2nd and final part incoming)

An cooler an weirder equipment an more different types of mushrooms items ect plz?!

I spent over $200USD of real money on Let it Die and that counts for nothing?! Only Deathverse players get rewards? That’s fucked up.

願わくば須田51さんに開発に入ってほしいな あの人の癖は真似出来ないよ

I hope you guys learn something from DEATHVERSE, battle royal games are not in high demand anymore. But hearing about new game that will have gameplay like Let it Die is exciting. One pro tip for you guys : Don't make guns.

Also more robusted sexy enemy waifu’s,besides male bystanders,an deeper customed character creation sliders options ect plz?!?bosses both gender badass enemies ect plz?!?

All I hear is that you finally have realized that death verse was nowhere near as successful as LID and you are finally going to make the game the way the die hard players asked for in the original surveys.... I can appreciate that since not everyone likes lame battle royal money hungry style games

old audience that keeps Let it die active, but is already tired of the same events. bring something new to read go die, and forget dethverse.

As someone who has not paid for a "unfair advantage" in Let it Die and gotten to the maximum highest floors, I really wished there were more things to do in the game. Ranged weapons are also way too dominant for a too long of a portion in the game. You could even play a ranged tactic until the final floors... It's too powerful. On the other hand I think it's also extremely unfair that all the popular hate videos regarding Let it Die talk about it being pay to win, they must have never played a MMORPG game. I think the biggest "problem" in the game lies more in the human psychology where we overestimate our own ability and don't respect the game's rules. Dying in Let it Die can be quite brutal, the time you lose and most importantly the incredibly boring time to get enough currency or a character leveled up can easily make people stop playing the game. Not everyone goes to the internet to find strategy and tactics to make their game less tedious. To me what ALMOST made me quit the game is when I was in the 21+ floors and had to kill 2 bosses to advance to the higher floors. It felt like a dirty trick with no warning whatsoever. In my opinion the gate should have opened after killing one of the bosses and it should have made it clear to the player that one more boss needs to be killed to advance to the next stage. Now you can suddenly have to get past 3 floors of enemies instead of 1. At the time I believed that and I still believe it. There is no harm in informing players about things like this. All of this happens DIRECTLY after killing the incredibly strong and tanky GOTO-9 boss too. So it's like putting huge amounts of salt on an open wound. It was incredibly frustrating. There were more problems like brutally strong Haters at the time and the introduction of the overpowered T4 KAMAS. I seriously hate that weapon... If I told a new player that all you do is collect materials and blueprints and climb a tower as high as you can, they would not be very interested I don't think. It's not enough.

deathverse honestly just shit on everything i liked about let it die and I have little faith that thats going to be fixed sadly

Personally, for me, pvp is a big hell no. In the original Let It Die I only play it for the singleplayer content and thats it. I dont even really like to do TDM mode but it gives a lot of kill coins and splithium so I have almost no choice

You abandonned Deathverse??? I hate you for this