News One Year On - and Merry Christmas to Everyone!

TomoRosso · Dec 29, 2015

Reading through the amount of smoke blowing on this thread I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually playing the same game. One year on and the game is still a bug-o-rama bug fest, issues remain in all of the season 1 "updates". 1.5 seems to be on par with 1.3 as far as disastrous releases go. The game is rife with nonsensical poor design and completely inadequate QA by FD.

I sincerely hope that the past rushing out of "content" seen during season 1 is slowed and a concerted effort put into sorting out bugs and poor design/QA. In all the games I have bought and played this is by far the most overhyped and under delivered.

CombatTrader · Dec 29, 2015

Thanks Mr Braben and all at F.D for the incredible technical achievement this year and overall.
I especially liked the sentiment in "We should applaud when someone tries something that is hard, that hasn’t been done, not discourage them." A great thought for this new year!

Skellen · Dec 30, 2015

TomoRosso said:
Reading through the amount of smoke blowing on this thread I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually playing the same game. One year on and the game is still a bug-o-rama bug fest, issues remain in all of the season 1 "updates". 1.5 seems to be on par with 1.3 as far as disastrous releases go. The game is rife with nonsensical poor design and completely inadequate QA by FD.

I sincerely hope that the past rushing out of "content" seen during season 1 is slowed and a concerted effort put into sorting out bugs and poor design/QA. In all the games I have bought and played this is by far the most overhyped and under delivered.

I feel the same way, the game is now unplayable since the last patch.
A real shame!

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atomic7431 said:
They need to fix their existing game for once before adding more broken content.

The game also badly needs the fleshing out Mr Braben goes on about but never delivers.

A sandbox with bolted on content isnt fleshing the game out, heres hoping a good break over Xmas will help re focus the team and sort the current mess out.

So true, sometimes I don't even think the programmers play the game as if they did they would be disappointed and embarrassed in what was released as I would be if it was me.

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What really makes me laugh is in the Elite Dangerous Newsletter #105 with the Frontier: Elite II Intro. If only FD had released a modern version of this game from the start as it had depth and missions that actually worked and made sense, something that this game is lacking.
You can only be Wowed with graphics for a short while before cracks can be seen.
Hopefully 2016 will be a better year than the last and FD will listen to its full community and not just the console players!
Rant over, Happy new year to all.

Lobstris · Dec 30, 2015

Merry Christmas to all, and Happy New Year. Here's to Frontier actually remembering to add some more depth to the game, in amongst multiplayer gimmicks and game modes. Let's have proper branching mission and story arcs, rather than PowerPlay and Community Goals.

Skellen said:
What really makes me laugh is in the Elite Dangerous Newsletter #105 with the Frontier: Elite II Intro. If only FD had released a modern version of this game from the start as it had depth and missions that actually worked and made sense, something that this game is lacking.

If you'd have said Frontier: First Encounters there I'd have been with you.

TomoRosso · Dec 30, 2015

Skellen said:
I don't even think the programmers play the game as if they did they would be disappointed and embarrassed in what was released as I would be if it was me.

This is what I mean with the totally inadequate QA, the new mission system is a complete mess. I fail to see how anything was tested internally by FD with these new missions. FD seem to design stuff, bosh it into the game without any thought to whether they actually work or not. Yes I know that's what beta testing is for but come on, non functional missions shouldn't even make it into a beta release.

I couldn't give a rodents posterior about launching fighters from big ships, mutli-crew and commander creators if I can't manipulate the BGS via a functioning missions system, without the core working correctly it's pretty pointless doing anything.

When I first heard Elite was getting a reboot I was quite excited about it, but a year on from when I started it's been nothing but one disappointment after another.

rocketbmw · Dec 30, 2015

merge star citizen and elite

NordicusMaximus · Dec 31, 2015

Happy Holidays to all, and thank you for the Horizons update. But one question:

Does this mean I'm going to be punished in Star Citizen?

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Fosdyke · Dec 31, 2015

NordicusMaximus said:
Happy Holidays to all, and thank you for the Horizons update. But one question:

Does this mean I'm going to be punished in Star Citizen?

http://images.akamai.steamuserconte...089/DE5EDC3DDDCA7D4ED0828BCD7A091EE6D8C6C0D0/

For sure Man and with a whip

Stewart_ · Jan 1, 2016

Happy new year.. the first year of Elite D was great.. here's to an even better 2016!

Hope Frontier gave the staff a good yearly bonus / christmas present for all their handwork, especially giving up their weekends to meet deadlines etc.

[VR] Frank_G · Jan 1, 2016

Happy new year everyone!

Looking forward to be seeing you in the void.

Right on! o7

Patrick_68000 · Jan 1, 2016

Stewart_ said:
Happy new year.. the first year of Elite D was great.. here's to an even better 2016!

Hope Frontier gave the staff a good yearly bonus / christmas present for all their handwork, especially giving up their weekends to meet deadlines etc.

Certainly, to motivate, even more the troops for the year 2016

Sylv3r · Jan 3, 2016

This year has been a very nice one for simers, spacegame's players and for Frontier.
E

launch + horizon, BMS 4.33, Alpha SC release, etc ...

Happy new year to all FDEVS and to all the Frontier's team.
Happy new year also to all people hiding behind the game (mods, support etc ...) to give us the pleasure to play E

.

Happy new year to all elite CMDR. We are a lot and its allways very nice to meet people ingame and chit-chat with some of them.

Without doubt, 2016 with be the space year .. 2015 has started it but i think we will have some real life astrophysics discovering and games launch that will blow us.
Thanks to all of this community to support E

because without all of it, it couldn't be possible for Frontier to create E

and so we shouldn't be able to play it now

I wish you all the best.
/cheer

ReapingPhant0m · Jan 3, 2016

I really hope you guys intend on returning the mission system to the way it was before 1.5. The long distance trading and smuggling missions especially, because since 1.5 they have become a waste of our time, with trading having that ridiculous cargo amount and smuggling becoming virtually impossible with the cop swarm and the 'fail if scanned' thing.

cmdr_Havalok · Jan 4, 2016

Its been a great with great things from Elite. Looking forward to many, many more as well as seeing what Star Citizen has to offer. Many thanks.

Oberleutnant · Jan 10, 2016

ReapingPhant0m said:
I really hope you guys intend on returning the mission system to the way it was before 1.5. The long distance trading and smuggling missions especially, because since 1.5 they have become a waste of our time, with trading having that ridiculous cargo amount and smuggling becoming virtually impossible with the cop swarm and the 'fail if scanned' thing.

I agree with you, after this update, 1.5, does not yield trade all, spoiled routes, prices and stock of goods fell a lot, there is no replacement of the same in stations ... was very poor could go back to what it was before this update the trade?

NordicusMaximus · Jan 11, 2016

ReapingPhant0m said:
I really hope you guys intend on returning the mission system to the way it was before 1.5. The long distance trading and smuggling missions especially, because since 1.5 they have become a waste of our time, with trading having that ridiculous cargo amount and smuggling becoming virtually impossible with the cop swarm and the 'fail if scanned' thing.

I agree, trading is comical now. I worked hard every night doing 3-4 hour trade runs to earn my money, along with Bounty Hunting, and Undermining. Now it's near impossible to make money for your time invested trading, yes a lot of the new Horizons features are excellent and add another dimension to the game, but you destroyed a large part of the base economic functionality, it was much better pre-1.5

WR3ND · Feb 8, 2016

Just wanted to drop back in here and say thanks David and Frontier for getting game listings and installs sorted out for us on Steam. It's much appreciated.

Cheers.

Theta Sigma · Feb 8, 2016

WR3ND said:
Just wanted to drop back in here and say thanks David and Frontier for getting game listings and installs sorted out for us on Steam. It's much appreciated.

Cheers.

Seconded WR3ND!

Also, this zombie-thread says, "Thank you to all at Frontier for your superlative braaaainzzzzzzzz!" %^]

obliviondoll · Feb 16, 2016

WR3ND said:
Just wanted to drop back in here and say thanks David and Frontier for getting game listings and installs sorted out for us on Steam. It's much appreciated.

Cheers.

It's just a shame they never got the pricing complaints competently resolved before it expired... oh well, just waiting on my refund now.

Frank · May 2, 2016

Merry Christmas Everyone!