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Alright, lets look at the release structure of major versions. It's around every 5 years. 2.2 came out in 2019, it has been 5 tears (give or take.) In theory, 2.3 should release this year.
 
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Alright, lets look at the release structure of major versions. It's around every 5 years. 2.2 came out in 2019, it has been 5 tears (give or take.) In theory, 2.3 should release this year.
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i geeked out and calculated the average of the time it takes for a major srb2 update to release, and the answer was 4.2 years. of course, it’s been more than 4.2 years, so i doubt 2.3 will come out for atleast another year, as i think it might be srb2’s biggest update. (or 2nd, because of 2.2)
 
You have to keep in mind that the ambition has been increasing over time. With larger content drops containing more significant changes, it's going to take more time to finish. Calculating an average in such a situation isn't going to give you a useful number because the updates aren't spaced out evenly.
 
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Remember also that there's a good portion of people shared between both Sonic Team Jr. and Kart Krew, the latter hoping to get Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers out by the next few months, and providing subsequent updates for that after its release. The combination of SRB2's overall un-old-guard-ening and devs' focus on DRRR means SRB2 v2.3 isn't going to be visible on the horizon for some time. Since the latter part of last year though, I have been getting a sense that development may have started to "pick up steam".
 
I should point out that it'll only take another 22 months (January 2026) before 2.2 breaks the "longest time a major SRB2 version was relevant" record, currently held by the Final Demo era (73 months (6 years, 1 month)). 2.1 currently takes silver as that was relevant for about... 69 months (5 years, 9 months). There is nothing funny here, that's actually how long 2.1 roughly lasted.

As long as the record isn't broken, we probably won't have to wait much longer.
 
KrazeeTobi said:
I should point out that it'll only take another 22 months (January 2026) before 2.2 breaks the "longest time a major SRB2 version was relevant" record, currently held by the Final Demo era (73 months (6 years, 1 month)). 2.1 currently takes silver as that was relevant for about... 69 months (5 years, 9 months). There is nothing funny here, that's actually how long 2.1 roughly lasted.

As long as the record isn't broken, we probably won't have to wait much longer.
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Well now, that would be cool if it became the top for longest relevant SRB2 version.
 
My take based what they shared from the last progress update is that it's been progressing slowly due to several reasons. Some of the old devs leaving the team, the physics changes, the bugs that are being introduced by the physics changes, and redesigning several of the old maps.
Egg Rock Zone in particualr is getting a massive overhaul from the screenshots they've shared. Additionally, the devs are not paid workers, so most of them only work on the game during spare time, as well as several of them also working on Ring Racers, so development was split. My guess for the update was mid to late 2027 at the earliest, but could be anywhere in 2028 depending on how things pan out.
 
xdf said:
there are no physics changes, and no bugs from those nonexistant physics changes
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Incorrect. I've even played an old testing build with (probably by now an outdated version of) the physics changes, I still have it on one of my hard drives. Last I heard they are still working on it although I don't know whether the plan is for them to release it with 2.3 or if that's going to be held off until an eventual 2.4 or something.
 
That's what I had initially thought. I had believed the main thing that was changing was how the character interacts with slopes, both in and out of rolling state.
 
time gear said:
Incorrect. I've even played an old testing build with (probably by now an outdated version of) the physics changes, I still have it on one of my hard drives. Last I heard they are still working on it although I don't know whether the plan is for them to release it with 2.3 or if that's going to be held off until an eventual 2.4 or something.
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and where did you get that "testing build" from?
 
xdf said:
and where did you get that "testing build" from?
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It's been quite a while so I might be mistaken, but I think it was probably one of the Nightly builds.

Edit: The most recently I'm aware of the physics changes being mentioned was in this post, although I don't use Discord so it's possible something more recent was said there at some point.
 
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time gear said:
It's been quite a while so I might be mistaken, but I think it was probably one of the Nightly builds.

Edit: The most recently I'm aware of the physics changes being mentioned was in this post, although I don't use Discord so it's possible something more recent was said there at some point.
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I doubt the physics changes would be ditched this late into 2.3's development.
 
Jammin' said:
I doubt the physics changes would be ditched this late into 2.3's development.
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I don't mean to imply they were. I think it's very unlikely that if they had canceled the plans to implement the new physics they would have only made that announcement in the Discord and not anywhere else. I simply just can't rule out the possibility that they have discussed the physics changes in the Discord since the last time they mentioned that they were still working on them outside of the Discord.
 
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