News Horizons Beta Delay to Monday 30th November

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Cmdr Walls

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David Braben said:
Following up on my previous post, the team are still working very hard indeed. We are not ready to go live with the beta today as we have already indicated was likely. We are very sorry about this, but it is not yet ready for a proper beta test because of some blocking issues. I will keep everyone posted over the next few days, and will check in on this thread from time to time for the next hour today, and will post more details here on those issues for those that are interested. We are confident in the Monday 30th date as we already have the key components to fix the issues we are seeing.


Once again, we are very sorry, and we thank you all for your support.

RIGHT ON CMDR!

David
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Although I am disappointed with the news because i just want to get on with the landing, racing, shooting and hunting on planets surfaces, I can wait.

I have seen far too many games released before they were ready just to hit a deadline. I would like to congratulate you and your team for doing such a great job. Not just in creating the game, but for keeping us informed of progress. This is such a different experiance from other developers (in the main) and an example of how it should be done.

I'm sure i speak for everyone when i say Great Job, keep it up
 

Hilight

Hilight
Templas said:
Hi commanders.
It's been more than one year since I frist heard about Elite: Dangerous. It was someone in a web page that posted a video of an asteroid field. Some weeks later I saw another video of somebody entering a huge cubic station. I was amazed. "Goodness me!" I thought, as I had never seen anything so impressive, and when I reached home I bought everything that I could regarding this universe - Elite: Dangerous + Lifetime explansions. 80€! Just that for an entire galaxy to explore and a lot of wonderful space stations where to land and deal with goods and weapons! And aaaaall of that just for the price of 3 or 4 meals that would last for a few hours. I couldn't beleive!
I was getting all of that by Christmas (I bought it in september 2014). Since then I have had dozens of hours of wonderful playing and have travelled thousands of lightyears in the galaxy. At the moment I am getting delighted discovering new worlds and reading about them in the descriptions (and learning a lot of astrophisics). Visiting far and exotic planet rings full of different huge floating rocks and pieces of ice. Every night, when I arrive home, I love to get in my ship and imagine I am there, alone, relaxed, enjoying the wonders of the galaxy (by the way, I can't wait to have a HMD to really get away and be there!).
So, after all this, some questions come to my minds, along with the answers right away:

1. Do I think Elite: Dangerous is expensive or would be expensive for 40 or 50 a year if I had not got the lifetime expansions?
- Absolutely not. As I said, just for the price of a few meals, or some drinks in some places, ED is a present. Have you ever had a look at the "Credits" option in the game? There is a huge amount of professionals that work hard so that we can enjoy thousands of incredible details that, usually slip away unnoticed. Imagine the number of code lines that need to be written so that all those details and all the phisics are there for us.

2. Can I wait for Horizons Beta some days more than advertised?
- Absolutely yes. I will wait whatever it takes. One day? One month? ... WHATEVER IT TAKES! I am sure that we will have the best game ever. The team will and is doing it for us. In fact I don't think there is a better game than ED at the moment, and if this keeps as it is at the moment, I doubt there will ever be another one that compares to ED.

Thanks a lot Frontier Developments team.
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Very well said Commander R+ for your words.

Thank you David for the update on Horizons beta. We all appreciate very much all the hard work you and the other Devs are doing to bring us the best game possible. :) They say great things spring late, and so it is.
 

wizz_ok

wizz_ok
I know it needs to work to a certain standard (I certainly wouldn't want to loose all my in-game credits or ships because you rushed it). But your NOT doing yourselves any favours by delaying it AGAIN (now Mon 30th and I hope that's 12.01am Monday morning UK time).

I thought I bought into the BETA, to help sort the final details (and to play it), but to also try and help with the testing for the greater good of the community. So I REALLY hope you've delayed it because of a MAJOR issue that could have caused account problems and NOT just to make it look better.
 
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CMDR Poet Starwind

CMDR Poet Starwind
This. I am disappointed as anyone, but probably not as much as the FD team, in releasing the Horizons Beta.

Ok, disappointment over - eager anticipation engaged.

Thank you for communicating the delay for us for this beta release; during 1.5 it kind of felt like communication disappeared into the void.

Cheers for holding off serving this wine before its time.
 

bitstorm

bitstorm
Frontier team, it's cool! Keep on guys!

YAY! :)

(Pssst UA Bobblehead for Xmas, I will buy multiple. ;))
 
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William J Smith

William J Smith
Good luck to the devs working this week/end.. also can we get them some healthy option snackfoods, I'd hate to get sued 20 yrs from now because we fed them on pizza and icecream and gave them all heart disease :eek:

Bill

"Anyone know a good surgeon close to Sgr A* ?" :D
 

Mephane

Mephane
Jynessa Loraeyn said:
So either the ships needs to have a 'tiptoe' mode to allow it to land with the gear extended to give more clearance, and then settles lower down on its gear once a Scarab drives out from under it - though that sounds complicated, since it needs to raise again to let the Scarab back in.
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Well the newest of David's video shows a Vulture in exactly that kind of permanent "tip toe" position; I must say I found it look rather odd, not very elegant. While big ships like Python or Cutter are already naturally on high legs, I am now very, very afraid whether they have to do something like that for the FDL, and whether it looks as bad as it does on the Vulture. The FDL is so elegant in all situations, including landet, putting it on stilts would make her look so silly. :(
 

Cosmo

Cosmo
TheOohChild said:
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Yup, I thought it would be Friday or Saturday at the latest.

David Braben said:
The transition from supercruise to orbital cruise is seamless - you just see the altimeter and flight ladder appear. When you drop from orbital cruise to normal flight there is a short transition, as with dropping from supercruise.
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What do you mean short transition? Not a hidden loading scene right? Can we go from supercruise to normal flight seamlessly?

P.S. can we please get some NPC activity on the ground at starports? Because they appear rather devoid of life. Not only security skimmers and NPC ships.
 
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Phosphora

Phosphora
A late, low bug release beats an on-time, buggy release.

Well done Frontier for your work, and thanks for keeping us involved.

Cheers, Phos.
 

2plex

2plex
bitstorm said:
Frontier team, it's cool! Keep on guys!

YAY! :)

(Pssst UA Bobblehead for Xmas, I will buy multiple. ;))
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Postponing the Horizons beta is neither cool, nor a good thing.
Actually, FDev are shortening the beta gamplay period by about a week for those silly ...err... engaged enough to buy into it.
Given the fact that Horizons has to be released on Xmas as otherwise their investors will get very uneasy, this leaves them with a beta period of only 2 weeks.
It is not hard to deduct from that fact, that the Horizons release will be pretty much a bug festival.
 
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