Those weren't bugs but cleverly placed in jokes...
2.1 - stop the hype train
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we (men) don't understand women, I tried for 25 years then I just gave up, now I'm +50 and I always tell my wife (married for 35 years) I'm a man, I can only remember 7 days back in time, don't expect me to remember what I said two weeks ago. I can't read your mind, and I don't read signals for deaf people, I need beer, beef, sleep and luving, anything beoynd that is a pipe dream.
Married 35 yrs, has tried to understand women for 25. Seems about right.
I am reminded that 1) women are a mystery, 2) I am thoroughly happy with my purchase of this game and 3) expectations and speculations almost never live up to reality.
I thought FDEV knocked it out of the park when I bought this back in Dec of 14. Still do. 2.1 will be a patch. Nothing more, nothing less.
I believe it's been said that they won't be upgrades as such but rebalancing
Eg. multi-burst fire, but lower accuracy or higher power but vastly more heat generated etc
They've tried to be careful with the balance so far, they won't go intentionally throwing a massive spanner in the works.
Exactly that was stated by DB himself with "... However, it is absolutely critical for the longer-term success of the Elite franchise that we maintain our absolute commitment to quality ...".
I could not agree more with that...I used to believe it was FDev top priority when I started to play the game soon after release.
I am sad to see the direction they chose instead...
Yes, and there certainly is nothing wrong with that (although i wonder what happens with that principle if they then push 3 more updates out of the door in short succession before christmas).
That however wasn't the reasoning behind the 2.1 delay if you care to re-read the official announcement.
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This. Would give 10 rep, if possible.
Yes indeed. But they somehow always fail to catch even the most obvious of bugs and Beta's by the users are the only way to properly shake down the product.
Sometimes I think they should be paying us by the hour in Beta to test their code LOL.
Well yes, the amount of replies in the vein of " just wait for 2.1 for a fix/tweak/rewrite, it will make everything okay!" did visibly skyrocket during the last weeks.
We all heard that song before, vertical slice, gamma, the game isn't even 1/2/3 months/years/expansions old yet, 10 year plan onehundredbillionstars!
Keep your expectations in check!
Personally i'm not not interested in crafting (ironically i found Elite refreshing especially because of its lack of a crafting grind) but if people want another treadmill, more power to them.
The mission system could be a nice refinement (IF it will be functional at release).
Beyond that, better expect typical Frontier fare including many many bugs and the nagging feeling of "it's alright but they could have done so much more."
The Horizon release and the ongoing drought of updates was an absolute lowpoint for me, but now i can take it with humour again.
War, war and Frontier never changes, take what you get and decide if it's worth your time.
We all heard that song before, vertical slice, gamma, the game isn't even 1/2/3 months/years/expansions old yet, 10 year plan onehundredbillionstars!
Keep your expectations in check!
Personally i'm not not interested in crafting (ironically i found Elite refreshing especially because of its lack of a crafting grind) but if people want another treadmill, more power to them.
The mission system could be a nice refinement (IF it will be functional at release).
Beyond that, better expect typical Frontier fare including many many bugs and the nagging feeling of "it's alright but they could have done so much more."
The Horizon release and the ongoing drought of updates was an absolute lowpoint for me, but now i can take it with humour again.
War, war and Frontier never changes, take what you get and decide if it's worth your time.
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Pretty much all I'll need to be happy with 2.1 as well. Only thing I would add is to make mission payouts much bigger based on pilot's rank so we can please, please, please stop having to repetitively grind places like Robigo everytime we want to buy a ship that cost over 50mil to outfit.if all 2.1 does is given us "average" missions which work correctly and make me feel like it means something, then, you know what, i can live with that.
with this in mind, i am confident it will do more than that, so i think i will be ok
That's all the update needs to do for me. Everything else is a bonus.
Fair enough, but
is not a fact. It's an opinion - and I personally don't agree with it
BTW I also love the game. But I guess my glass is half-full
Of course it's not a fact. It's not even my opinion, if it would be my opinion I would've written the post in first person instead of second person...
Having those things are exactly what I don't want to see in the game, open will just descend into a PvP fightout between player factions and nothing else. Lone commanders or small groups will get destroyed because you are not part of the bigger faction etc, the onging storyline will just be ignored. Not what I want to see in the game personally and will make open unplayable.
2.1 is looking very nice from what I have seen, but will pass judgement after i have tried it in beta. Was very hopefull on powerplay, but IMHO it turned out to be poor, the idea was good, just the implementation wasn't. Hopefully powerplay will get a revamp soon.
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Yep... I'd much rather of had V1.5 Core Love, than V1.5 Ships...
And I fear 2.1, 2.2 etc risk being more features which will look good on paper, but risk not really adding significant depth/interest/variety (or emergent gameplay) to the backbone of the game...
This year will be an interesting ride (or not as the case may be)
Yep... I'd much rather of had V1.5 Core Love, than V1.5 Ships...
And I fear 2.1, 2.2 etc risk being more features which will look good on paper, but risk not really adding significant depth/interest/variety (or emergent gameplay) to the backbone of the game...
This year will be an interesting ride (or not as the case may be)
IMO they improved core professions with every update so far. We had improvemts to mining, explorers got some new stuff to find and remember that there are things that we haven't found yet, bounty hunters and smugglers got better payouts. Traders and pirates need some love though. The new uss and mission mechanics will improve core professions as well.
PS You could argue that this is balancing rather than improvement, but I think this wouldn't be fair.
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Thanks for letting me know what I'll think, OP. rep for you.
This is not the EvE you have been looking for.