Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
"Quality is good"
The next update 2.1 Engineers (1.6 to basegame-only owners) scheduled for April release?
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Michael Brookes
Game Director
Good to know. Thanks for chiming in
Will there be a release date set for Engineers?
Not that we're talking about just yet.
Michael
Can you speak to any plans to release game-fix related patches in the interim? There are some pretty serious issues with ship AI (Scan-N-Ram, Sit-N-Spin) along with missions that can't be completed, BGS problems and the like that really need some attention before June...
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Yep, some updates get a bit delayed, some don't.
When it's ready it's ready.
Thanks for the update Mike.
OK cool. Disappointed but would rather that then a rush job.
If you'd have told us that in the last newsletter or a forum post that would be totally fine and acceptable imo, I really have no problems with that.
However, what does grind my gears is that you keep quiet and only admit it when its leaked out.
I'm sorry, but c'mon man we, your loyal fans deserve better treatment than that. Just be up front and honest, if there's going to be a delay, so be it. no big issue. Stop giving us the mushroom treatment please!
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I'm happy for them to take the time to put quality before meeting a deadline. It's a hard decision to take, especially when it will impact financials, but it's the right one, and one that many on the forum have been saying should have been taken for earlier releases. I hope nobody at FDEV will be negatively impacted by this.
I would like to point out that two additional months is not exactly "some extra time", it is serious delay and makes me wonder how it will impact rest of Horizons. As for EDH bookkeeping magic - whatever makes accountants happy
So can you Michael confirm that Engineers will come *after* May 31st? That's all we need to know.
*Puts impatient hat on*
Oh dear god! We're all doomed!!!
*Puts the "I love quality" hat back on and staples it to head.*
Thanks again Michael. Looking forward to the Engineers.
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Michael Brookes
Game Director
We have to communicate this news to the city first - it hasn't 'leaked' we announced our decision.
Michael
Since there was no official release date to this update, I don't take it as a delay. I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed with this development though. I was really looking forward to this one.
When NMS supposed to drop? All we got is PS4 preorders.
Do you get fined if you release it to them and us at the same time?
Will this mean smaller parts of the 2.1 update will come out same time as 2.1?
i.e. Class 3/4 multi-cannons, major fixes etc will release alongside 2.1 or will those sub features be released sooner?
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Legally, the market has to know first. If Frontier were to pass this info on to fans first, they would be able to sell their Frontier stock (if they anticipated any fall in the share price). Investors would not have this info (as they probably don't read the weekly newsletter) and therefore be placed at an unfair disadvantage. This is why the market has to be informed first (and insider trading laws exist).
I fully expect this week's newsletter to have addressed this, even without it being posted here.
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Michael Brookes
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